Chapter 228: Advertis.e.m.e.nt Special
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Out of the 37 roles, the System approved 32. This was a decent ratio, especially compared to the B.S. roles from the romance mobile game.
Currently, the System had approved 89 roles, which meant he was getting closer to the goal of 100.
But to fully complete the [Studio Bug] task, he had to remain inside the recording room for 10,000 minutes. He was currently at 2000 minutes, meaning he had only recorded 33 hours.
He took off his headphones and looked toward Lou Lan, who was sprawled on the chair. Meng Fan was a bit embarra.s.sed. “Sorry to trouble you.”
Lou Lan sat up. “Everyone’s job is stressful, you’re efficient, which means I can make more money.”
At this time, Charlie entered the room. Seeing Meng Fan leave the studio, he was shocked. “Done already?”
Meng Fan nodded.
“You’re really all done!”
Director Charlie knew the number of tasks Meng Fan wanted to do, so he was really surprised.
The dubs Meng Fan did had already been edited in post-production, while some of it had already been sent to the contractor. Quality was guaranteed. This was one of the reasons why Charlie was so willing to give Meng Fan so many tasks. He was fast, and his work was good, so as a profit-driven organization, he was very willing to pour his resources into Meng Fan.
“Then take a break. Meet me at the conference room in 10 minutes.”
Director Charlie reminded Meng Fan then he turned to Lou Lan and the other a.s.sistant. “You guys come too.”
Ten minutes later, Meng Fan and the others entered the meeting room, where several others had already arrived.
They had met before, so Meng Fan was familiar. They were the main CV members of the Chocolate Factory. A few more followed after.
Director Charlie arrived with his a.s.sistant behind him. He was carrying an armful of papers that he distributed to everyone present.
“We landed a big commission.”
Charlie looked excited. “A job for Xuan Wu animations! Have you guys heard of the web novel “Nine Days”? Written by the G.o.d of online novels, Yun Hou. It’s very popular, and the manga adaptation sold great too! The TV series and the movie are both in production, so it’s a super task. Xuan Wu was tasked with the animation. Xuan Wu had finished the animation already and were in post-production. Originally, they’d already found a voice acting company, but they had already recorded some demos already, but because of certain reasons, Xuan Wu and the voice acting company had some conflict, and they were dropped, so this commission is ours now.”
“In the following days, this will be the most important task in our company. You guys are looking at the information for 12 episodes of the first season. If we successfully dub the work for season 1, then the following jobs will go to us, and if our collaboration ends in a success, Xuan Wu’s other commissions will be ours as well.”
“This is a giant project with a lot of IP. It’s very well known and has excellent potential. Please work hard! You guys should all go back and digest this information first. Tomorrow afternoon, we will a.n.a.lyze the script and distribute it accordingly.
In comparison, “Forest Exploration” is nowhere near “Nine Days”, regardless in terms of the pay or the benefits that followed.
“Director.”
Meng Fan spoke up as he raised his hand, “Uhm, I’m leaving tomorrow for Shanghai, and I’ll be there for two days, so I won’t be able to join you tomorrow afternoon.”
Charlie slightly scrunched his eyebrows. “Is it urgent?”
Meng Fan didn’t express that he was going to Shanghai to film a music video with Su Qing Cen and Bai Zhi. “I planned it a long time ago.”
“Then what requirements do you have for the roles in this animation?” Charlie asked.
Hearing this from Charlie, the expression of the CVs present collectively sunk. They knew Meng Fan had been crazily recording voice tracks in the last few days and could tell how much Charlie treasured him by the liberty he provided for him. Now, he was directly asking Meng Fan what role he wanted. It must be nice to be a lead CV.
These CVs did not care for the smaller roles Meng Fan had just completed, for these were roles that they could do without. He even took the roles that they didn’t want! But they cared a lot about such a big animation from Xuan Wu, so of course, they were going to try for a role!
“Requests?” Meng Fan shook his head. “I have no requests. You guys can separate it first, and leave me some smaller roles.”
Meng Fan wasn’t trying to be polite. He really needed the quant.i.ty for these roles.
The CVs faces all went sullen as they heard this.
Director Charlie was slightly bothered and had called this meeting specifically so Meng Fan could partake. He had wanted Meng Fan to ask for a lead task. He didn’t think Meng Fan would give up the opportunity.
If Meng Fan already declined, it wouldn’t be fair to the others if he persisted.
Charlie could only keep the disappointment in his heart. He nodded and kept his silence.
Once the emergency meeting ended, Meng Fan hailed a cab and returned home with his doc.u.ments.
At 9:00 pm, Meng Fan logged into the stream and changed the announcement to “Today is the commercial special, welcome welcome!”
“Poor you! Meng boss finally got an advertis.e.m.e.nt task!”
“Why do I feel like Meng fatty was scouted by an adult film company!”
“Hahahaha, am I following a business Weibo account?”
“Are you drawing advertis.e.m.e.nts tonight?”
“It looks pretty good!”
Not long after beginning his stream, the viewers immediately shot up to 10,000. Who was he trying to fool with his advertis.e.m.e.nt special?
Meng Fan adjusted the camera to face himself. He smiled at the camera and took out the first volume of “There’s A Spirit Underground” that he just received. He imitated Jackie Chan’s voice and began to speak, “When I first got the job to adapt “There’s A Spirit Underground” into a manga, I actually turned it down! Because I felt… Ah… You can’t tell me to draw, right away too.”
“First, I had to take a look, and I didn’t want to say… I adapted a novel into a manga and then added a bunch of extras into it, but the art style is dumb! It’s hard! It’s exhilarating! And the book fans will roast me since the novel wasn’t bad! I said I had to see it first before realizing how bada.s.s Mr.Sleepy was. The! Kind! That! Never! Misses! An! Update… I tried it for a few months… But after this month… I feel better. Now… I’m still using it… I even gave it to my friends to try! Come along, come along! Everyone try it out too!”
The stream went silent for a moment before the live comments exploded.
“Hahaha! I’m dumbstruck. He sounds just like him!”
“There was a lot of emphasis on the words ‘never miss an update’!”
“I really want to ask what he means near the end. I don’t understand anything!”
“Didn’t you say you were reading a novel? How did you come to using Mr.Sleepy?”
“I’ve already guessed you guys had some sort of interaction before!”
At this time, Meng Fan’s voice appeared once again. His tone had changed into a low, masculine voice. “After a long day of work, your legs and hips are sore, and your spirit is weak, and it feels like your body has been hollowed out.” Immediately after Meng Fan said that, he adjusted his voice to a female tone. “Is Mr.Sleepy withholding updates again?” He changed to a male voice again. “I fear I’ll never be able to read a book again.”
He then changed his voice again to a very professional commercial voice. “The individual publication for “There’s A Spirit Underground” will compensate Mr.Sleepy’s remaining work. Nourishment is important to keep up, and you should try to be consistent when taking your supplements.”
Meng Fan then began to sing, “I long for steady happiness, to touch it with both hands…” Immediately, he swapped to a female voice. “Try the single volume. It makes me happy.”
He wasn’t done here. He then immediately followed it with an imitation of Mr. Ge You. “There’s A Spirit Underground? Looks good to me!”
Then, he swapped to Tang Guo Qiang’s emperor like tone. “If you need a manga artist for the mystery genre, call Meng Fan, like Penguin Animations did!”