Chapter 277: Song Arrangement
As time goes by, the production of "Gundam seed" is gradually getting on track.
The artists were able to cooperate with each other to achieve the picture level required by Meng Huo. The speed was very slow at the beginning, but Sakura Animation recruited a group of new painters. After the number of people increased, the speed gradually increased.
However, this speedup is still very slower than other companies. The Gundam series is a newly released animation. There has been no precedent before. Each company has to explore how to make the animation scenes well.
Meng Huo had high requirements. He spent more than a month "brainwashing" the team members of the two companies, allowing them to create gorgeous and handsome Gundam combat scenes.
During this period, the scripts and storyboards were gradually improved to the details, the soundtrack work was also being carried out one after another, and the role voice actors were basically confirmed.
Gundam Seed's voice actors adopt Ninghai's voice actor lineup, which is one of the best voice actors in China. Today is different from the past. More than a year ago, Phoenix Company was not favored by others and voice actors are hard to find. However, today a year later, many voice actors have broken their heads and wanted to enter Phoenix Company's voice actor firm.
The popularity of "Pokemon" and "Fate/staynight" has gradually made the voice actors involved gradually emerge. Although the profession of voice actors is still not well-known in the entertainment industry, the voice actors of Phoenix Company have basically escaped from the predicament and have a new development path.
During this period, there are more and more animations and galgame games in various parts of China, and these new things require a lot of dubbing. The first choice is Phoenix's voice actor.
The firm is full of people coming. Voice actors basically no longer worry about work. They can live a very comfortable life through dubbing, which makes other artists who are depressed and unsuccessful envious.
"If you can't be a singer, it's better to be a voice actor!"
Artists submit resumes to Phoenix Company with this idea, and some artists with unique vision are even more eager to be excited about the potential value of the voice actor industry.
Chinese animation and galgame games have just emerged and still have a lot of potential. The government has strong support, so the demand for voice actors will only be greater in the future.
It is also because of this - now Phoenix's voice actor firm has become a separate department with hundreds of employees, which can fully provide the voice actor needs of "Gundam Seed".
In order to win the dubbing of characters in this animation, some voice actors have pushed away all their extra work and tried every means to get a chance to play.
"The fastest way to become famous is to dub Teacher He Xi's works!"
Inside the firm, this is the common idea for everyone.
The past six months have been the golden age, and many people have been equipped with animations, but the most popular are the voice actors of "Pokemon" and "Fate/staynight". These voice actors can sometimes receive interviews from TV stations. They are vaguely like real idols.
There is a saying circulating within the company that He Xi values voice actors. He once claimed during chatting that voice actors can become idols. Moreover, voice actor affairs officers faced the risk of withdrawing the department several times, and were stopped by He Xi's phone call.
This may be just a rumor, but it brings endless imaginations to the voice actors. Now that the new animation is planned, Shen Jie and Long Xue have been selected as special voice actors, which has confirmed this imagination.
"Responsible for singing, isn't this the job of a singer?"
"I heard that Teacher He Xi has prepared dozens of songs for this animation. He did not choose a singer, but chose a voice actor. It's incredible!"
"Long Xue and the others can each be assigned more than a dozen songs... and they can release singles in the future!"
The voice actors in the firm were extremely excited, and He Xi's actions were obviously continuing to expand the value of the voice actors. The rumors within the company were actually true, and they still had the opportunity to turn from voice actors into singers in the future.
Singer, this is the dream of voice actors.
However, this dream is not easy to realize, and Meng Huo has too few people to choose.
Chen Jie, Lu Xue, Xia Chuan Masako, Xia Chuan Zhen--the four women worked very hard and eliminated the opportunity for others to replace.
It took Chen Jie and Lu Xue only one month to sing a few new songs prepared by Meng Huo in the dialect of the East District, and they sang them very well. Meng Huo felt that it would be fine to assign work to them.
Everything went smoothly in animation production, with only one shortcoming.
Meng Huo has not yet assigned specific songs. There are many original songs in "Gundam Seed". Except for individual male voices and soundtracks, most of the songs can be completed by four women. They are divided evenly, and each person has more than a dozen or twenty songs.
Of course, the songs cannot be evenly matched. In order to match their respective styles, Meng Huo feels that he should be divided into two main singers, including most of the songs. Two secondary singers are responsible for the remaining part.
How to allocate in detail has become a problem. Meng Huo first called two female singers from the extreme east to the company and prepared to spend a day reviewing it.
Meng Huo and Masako Nakagawa have met, but he is busy with work. Since signing Xia Chuan Shi, he has always observed the progress from the recording. This is the first time he has seen this fourteen-year-old girl.
After meeting, Meng Huo was surprised. Xia Chuan was really cute and looked pretty like a delicate and weak loli. Of course, this is not the key, the key is that the child is very introverted.
Introvert, this is Meng Huo's first feeling when he saw her. During the short period of greeting, Xia Chuan has been hiding behind her agent (her mother), pulling the corner of her clothes, like a little girl who has never gone far away.
When Meng Huo asked her, Xia Chuan was really nervous and his stuttering reply was not like an artist at all.
"Can girls with this personality become singers?"
Meng Huo was curious. After watching the mother and daughter walk into the backstage of the audition room, he asked Takashima Eiji: "Ya Chuan has always been like that?"
"Yes, it was like that when I first met her."
Eiji Takashima replied: "She is an ordinary junior high school student. That mother used to be a singer. She never wanted to make the real lady debut until her family had an accident half a year ago."
Xia Chuan's true grandfather fell seriously ill half a year ago. In order to make money, his mother took Xia Chuan to debut. However, the girl was introverted and her debut process was not smooth until she was discovered by Meng Huo.
Introverted personality - This made Meng Huo a little embarrassed. He admired Xia Chuan's real voice, but his overly introverted personality seemed to be unable to give him a heavy responsibility.
However, after listening to the songs of the two Xia Chuans, Meng Huo had to admit that Xia Chuan was really a natural singer. Her delicate and ethereal voice with a hint of sadness is more in line with the overall style of "Gundam seed" than others.
Another, Xia Chuan, Miss Masako, also has a good singing voice. She has developed well in the entertainment industry in the Far East in the past year, but in Meng Huo's opinion, her talent is not as real as Xia Chuan.
“…”
After listening to the song for a day, Meng Huo returned home and thought for a long time, but finally decided to put Xia Chuan Shi as the main singer, and Masako Natsuki placed it in a secondary position.
Character can be cultivated after birth, but talent cannot be changed. Of course, there is another reason... Masako Natsukawa is not a voice actor at Phoenix Company.
Meng Huo could not find a suitable fourth person, so she would think of her. But she belonged to other companies. Out of selfishness, Meng Huo was of course more willing to cultivate Xia Chuan's true self.
The two extreme east singers decided that Meng Huo classified the songs and finally gave him 7 songs to Masako Nakagawa, while Nakagawa had nearly 30 songs, including "Car of the Akira", "Loneliness in the Deep Sea", "Proof of Water" and so on...
There are dozens of songs that are responsible for by Shen Jie and Long Xue. Meng Huo's idea is that Chen Jie is the main singer. She is suitable for singing the OP and ED of the animation, and some of the fighting music can also be responsible for her.
Long Xue is quite special. The other three people don’t need to dubbing, but Long Xue wants to dubbing the heroine. Lux, the heroine of "Gundam Seed", is a singer, and there are many songs in the animation.
So the songs were allocated, and the songs of Shin Kawashi and Shen Jie accounted for 70% of the entire animation. Although there were not many songs by Masako Nakagawa and Long Xue, they were all very classic.
Especially Long Xue is responsible for the dubbing of Lux, and his status is very different, so it doesn’t matter if he is the third master at one time.
"That's it..."
After Meng Huo finished this work, the final production obstacle of "Gundam Seed" disappeared, and the animation was in full swing.
Chapter completed!