January 11th, Friday …
Fei Huang Workspace, animation production team …
Huang Sibo and Wu Chuan were busy with matters related to the screening of Executor Academy.
That was basically the same situation for Successor. It would all be broadcasted this weekend. However, the ratings and views of this series were hard to describe.
Based on the current situation, Successor's flop was almost certain. If they were to divide it based on the number of views and ratings, they would not be able to recoup their initial investment.
Of course, not every episode of Successor was especially bad. When Lu Zhiyao and a few other cameos appeared later on, as well as a few big scenes, the number of views and bullet screen comments increased.
However, overall, it did not have much impact on the ratings of the entire series.
Even if there were fluctuations in the ratings, they were basically fluctuations of 0.1 or 0.2. The ratings always hovered around six points.
This could not be helped. At this stage, the ratings of Successor were no longer fair or objective. It had completely become a battlefield for two groups of people.
Some people brainlessly gave high ratings, while others brainlessly gave low ratings.
The more fans of the original work wanted to give high ratings to pull the ratings back, the more the haters wanted to give low ratings to pull the ratings back down.
Thus, Successor became a C-shaped rating with many one-star and five-star ratings. It was also commonly known as the standard ratings for bad marketing films.
Usually, bad movies would have an L-shaped rating, which meant that they would have a large number of one-star reviews. However, because of the existence of fake reviewers, there were many five-star reviews. However, this still did not change the fact that it was bad.
Thus, this C-shaped rating was also mocked for a long time.
Huang Sibo no longer cared about Successor. Recently, he had been helping Wu Chuan to arrange things for Executor Academy.
This was because he already had an idea after looking for Meng Chang previously.
Whether Successor would become popular or not had nothing to do with the publicity. It all depended on the election results in Eucratia.
Thus, there was no point in worrying. He just had to wait.
Instead of being conflicted over such things, he might as well think about how to do Executor Academy well.
Even if "Successor" failed, as long as "Executor Academy" succeeded, then Zhongdian Chinese Network's inspiration class would have two successes and one failure. That would be considered a pretty good outcome.
After all, copyright adaptation itself was a high-risk thing, and a success rate of more than 60% was already very good.
However, if Executor Academy failed as well and only had a 30% success rate, it wouldn't make sense.
Being able to adapt their novels was already something that the authors could not wish for. The Inspiration Class still had a strong attraction to them even if the adaptation failed. However, this was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Spiritual Perception Class and Fei Huang Workspace in the eyes of the outside world.
The collaboration with Aili Island had already been settled. The first episode would be broadcasted tonight.
Clearly, Huang Sibo was still a little worried. "There shouldn't be any problems with the broadcasting strategy we've decided on, right? You've confirmed it with Boss Pei, right? "
Wu Chuan nodded. "Brother Huang, don't worry. Boss Pei has been very clear."
"Boss Pei said that the quality of the video is good enough. We have to broadcast it as soon as possible. Speed is the key."
"Boss Pei also said that if we were to collaborate with Alice Island, we would have to pay them based on the total number of views and hours played.
"Doesn't that mean that Boss Pei had already planned this from the moment he decided on this production method?"
"What's more, this production method would be slow at the beginning, but once the materials are more or less done, the speed would be very fast. Obviously, we have a huge amount of content, which is obviously our unique advantage.
"One episode a day, and we'll use diarrhea to update and kill our way out!"
Huang Sibo nodded. "Yes, as long as Boss Pei agrees."
When they first started planning this project, Wu Chuan inspected many animation companies and then reported to Boss Pei.
In the end, Boss Pei was not satisfied with all of them. He suggested that they use game modeling, motion capture, and real-time calculation to produce it.
Wu Chuan did not understand, but he still strictly followed Boss Pei's instructions to form a team, poach people, and start the production of Executor Academy.
He had to admit that it was very difficult to get started.
That was because GOG's game modeling was very detailed, but it was difficult to directly use it in animation production. After forming a team, Wu Chuan asked the scriptwriter team to spend time on revising the script. He also organized people to make major changes to the models and various art resources needed in the animation.
Of course, the games department and GOG's project team helped a little as well.
After getting most of these resources, Wu Chuan began to work on the animation.
It was much simpler with these resources. In any case, it was all real-time calculation. They would use action actors to do motion capture, and each episode would only take ten minutes. In a day, including motion capture and post-production, they would be able to produce more than one episode if they were fast or at least one episode if they were slow.
That way, they would be able to produce seven episodes in five days. As long as everyone was more efficient, it should not be a problem.
It was also because of this that Wu Chuan decided to follow Boss Pei's instructions and do diarrhea to update the animation!
Boss Pei's positioning of Executor Academy was very accurate. It was just a mealtime video. There was no need to be so meticulous. The most important thing was to have a huge amount of content.
One episode a week, constantly improving, or seven episodes a week, ensuring the basic quality. Obviously, the latter should be chosen.
While discussing the collaboration with Alice Island's website and carrying out the early stages of publicity, filming was also in progress. So far, three episodes had been filmed.
Wu Chuan decided that starting from the premiere of Executor Academy, he would produce one episode a day and max out the number of updates!
Didn't web novel authors usually update daily?
As a web novel adaptation, of course, he had to promote this style as well!
At a time when many dramas were released weekly or even monthly, an anime that could maintain daily updates would definitely surprise the audience!
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January 13th, late at night on Sunday …
Pei Qian had two dark circles under his eyes. He scrolled through his cell phone and yawned.
"I'll wait until midnight on the 14th! I don't believe it. Young Master Tian said that something would happen on the 13th. It's almost the 13th. How could anything happen? "
"I think there's something wrong with Young Master Tian's words as if his account had been hacked. How could anything happen on the 13th? I've been waiting for the whole day."
"Forget it. The netizens will scold him for me."
Pei Qian scrolled through Alice Island's website and saw that Successor's rating was still hovering around 6. Then, he relaxed.
Yesterday, on Saturday, the last two episodes of "Successor" had been broadcasted.
The amount of information in these two episodes could be said to be very large. The penultimate episode ended the public safety incident that Phil had created previously, and the penultimate episode described in detail the scene of Phil ascending to the peak of the superhero's power.
The entire public safety incident took about two and a half episodes to describe. It took up a considerable amount of space in the entire episode.
This was the most insane thing that Phil had ever done. This public safety incident had caused a large number of civilian casualties. Phil had used this opportunity to pull down the superheroes who had been at the top previously and successfully ascended.
In the previous episode, the audience had just seen Phil create a large number of civilian casualties through a conspiracy. He had used dishonorable methods to get rid of many superheroes who were in the way. His hands were stained with blood.
In the next episode, Phil had already announced his victory with a large number of supporters and people surrounding him. He had sworn to all the people that he would fulfill his duties in a dignified manner and ascend to the throne that symbolized the highest power of superheroes.
This contrast had successfully continued the 'discomfort' that Successor had brought to the audience. It could also be said to be the highest emotional peak in the entire Successor story.
Had Phil won? Yes, and he had won quite thoroughly.
If one were to look at the problem from Phil's point of view, he would have eliminated his dissidents, deceived the people, and successfully seized the power that belonged to superheroes.
However, if one were to look at the problem from a bystander's point of view and put aside the purely utilitarian point of view, Phil would be a complete piece of trash. He did not have any virtues that people liked or appreciated.
All in all, there was no lousy ending. This ending could be said to be consistent and in line with the expectations of most viewers.
However, it was precisely because of this that the polarized evaluation of Successor had not changed at all. Those who accepted the core of the story had high praise for it, while those who did not still wanted to give it a negative score.
Now that the entire episode had been broadcasted and it had been fermenting for an entire day on Sunday, Pei Qian felt that the ratings should be settled and sealed, right?
Even if there was still a bit of discussion when the last episode was released and the audience argued a little, the popularity had obviously died down now. The promotional resources for "Successor" on Alice Island's website would definitely be taken down. There should not be a large number of new viewers coming in in the future.
Under such circumstances, would Successor's reputation be able to turn the tables?
It should be impossible, right?
The only variable was Young Master Tian's worrisome, charlatan-like prophecy.
Thus, Pei Qian forced himself to wait for the entire 13th until midnight on the 14th.
He then refreshed the ratings of Successor, as well as the online reviews and news, but he did not find any changes.
Young Master Tian's prophecy was still up on Alice Island's website. Many people went to dig graves after midnight and mocked Young Master Tian. However, Young Master Tian did not respond at all, perhaps because he was asleep or pretending not to see it.
He seemed to be pretending to be dead.
"Phew, it was a false alarm."
"I knew it. How could he turn the tables in one day with such a huge advantage? That's impossible."
"I might have been on tenterhooks the entire day, but it was worth it to see Young Master Tian fail!"
Pei Qian went to bed, satisfied.
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