528 deadline
"Bryant, you seem a little nervous today. Are you worried about being deceived on April Fool's Day?" Katie Currick stood in the live broadcast room in Rockefeller Square. Hundreds of viewers gathered outside the bright glass wall to watch "Today's" live broadcast. As the highest-rated morning news program in the United States, such treatment has long been accustomed to it.
Bryant Gombell's body was slightly sideways, facing the direction of the glass wall, "Oh, Katie, are you planning tomorrow's pranks now? I think it would be better to speculate than April Fool's Day, when Kelly Clayson rsn appeared in our show for the first time and will be singing live."
"I have forgotten that you have always been a fan of Kelly." Katie spread her hands and admitted her forgetfulness. "This is also a singer from a talent show. She has the first time she has appeared in today. This is a historic moment!" Katie's words spread to the stage built outside through the microphone, which immediately attracted cheers from the audience.
Looking out through the camera, you can see that there are far more than a hundred spectators at the scene, and the scale of at least six or seven hundred people makes Rockefeller Square very lively.
"Kelly will perform live today after you leave nnn." Bryant introduced, "However, the audience must wait a while if they want to hear Kelly's singing. I am indeed looking forward to Kelly's performance, but the reason why I am nervous today is not. It's because today is March 30th."
"Yes, of course we know. Tomorrow is April Fool's Day." Katie seemed a little dissatisfied with Bryant's extravagance.
But Bryant shook his finger and repeated again, "Yes, March 30th, April 1st!" Bryant raised his ending voice, "Didn't he awaken any memory?"
Katie paused for a moment, then her eyes lit up, "Oh! March 30!" Katie actually repeated today's date, making everyone confused, but Katie then gave the answer, "Yesterday is the deadline for your submission to the City of Sin. In other words, is the final list of winners going to be announced today?"
"Yes, to be precise, the answer has been revealed now." Bryant showed a bright smile at the camera. In order to prevent some viewers from not knowing about the event, although there are not many such people, Bryant still explained, "The movie "Sin City, the film directed by Lancelot Strello will be released in North America. In this movie, Lance built a false world, Sin City, and he invited all movie lovers, photography enthusiasts and comic lovers to join the creation of this world. Everyone can upload their own works, shape a character, or tell a story."
As a morning news program, "Today" will be broadcast for two hours, and on weekends, it will be broadcast for three hours. Therefore, the program includes many sections, including entertainment sections, and many film crews will perform on the show for promotion. Therefore, it is not surprising that movie information is seen on the "Today" program. However, this requires appointments by the public relations company, which itself is one of the public relations activities. If you want to play the trailer "Today", you still need to pay a certain fee.
Today, Bryant did not emphasize the release time of "Sin City". Almost no one will pay attention to this small detail, but professionals know that this means that "Sin City" did not cooperate with "Today" through public relations channels. This shows how successful the promotional activity of "Sin City" website was, which actually made "Today" take the initiative to bring up this major event that sensationalized the entertainment industry.
"Lancelot himself shot a series of example works, and the unique stylized images were impressive. Before I saw these works, I could hardly imagine that movies could still be shot like this." Katie added, "So, this also made us more curious about what kind of works those movie lovers could shoot, which is a fresh attempt."
It is not surprising that film creation competitions, documentary creation competitions, photography competitions, and painting competitions are emerging one after another. But this time the competition is very special. This is a theme competition, with a movie as the theme and a virtual world as the background, integrating one's artistic talent into it. Especially the images as examples are full of imagery styles, which inspires countless creative inspirations.
This method of competition is full of countless possibilities, and interestingly, the competition itself limits the length, such as videos cannot exceed ninety seconds, photography cannot exceed nine pictures, and comics cannot exceed three pages.
This kind of short and refined method is common after ten years. As the Internet is becoming more and more popular, the social network is being updated faster and faster, and the pace of life is also becoming faster. This requires information to become shorter and more concise, such as the 140 words on Weibo, the NSR on the photos as the information platform, etc.
However, in 2005, this kind of method of requiring compression, simplicity, and concise seems novel and rare. This also adds more uncertainty and fun to the game itself.
"In just four weeks, they received more than 5,000 entries. This is unimaginable!" Bryant said with sighing, his face clearly showing his excitement and excitement. "Even the comics with the fewest entries have received 700 works. I always thought that the comics are too far away from us. Now no one will invest their energy and time, but obviously, I was wrong."
"Wow, I can finally feel your nervousness now. Because my fingers are already numb, it is probably difficult for a competition to attract so much attention except for the reality talent show." Katie sighed repeatedly.
The official promotional event of "City of Sin" this time has attracted countless attention, especially at this time in March. The third season of "American Idol" has entered the final quarterfinals, and the war is getting more and more intense, which can almost be said to be the focus of the whole people. Corresponding to the singing talent show, the activity of "City of Sin" has become a stage for movies, photography and painting enthusiasts to show their skills, and is naturally in full swing.
Bryant showed a bright smile, "After negotiations, Chaos Pictures, a distribution company of Sin City, decided to cooperate with TV stations and will be the first to announce five winners from three departments on today's program, and then the corresponding information will be announced on the official website."
It is not that "Sin City" found a TV station, but on the contrary, the three TV stations, both of which hope to cooperate with Chaos Pictures and hold the opportunity to announce the list of awards in their hands. In addition to the TV station, the recognition of the four most top public TV stations in the United States is the most direct recognition of the great success of this publicity campaign. In the end, the laughter ended, making "Today" the award presenter of the awards announced.
"In addition, on April 4, the winning works of this event will be displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition will last for a month. If interested viewers can arrive at the scene in person." Bryant continued to throw explosive bombs, and those who were watching the show could not help but hold their breath.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is one of the most important contemporary art museums in the world today, as well as the Tate Gallery in London, England and the Pompidou National Cultural and Art Center in France. The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan has a wide range of exhibits, including photography, prints, sculptures, prints, movies, architecture, furniture and installation art, etc. Therefore, the entries of "City of Sin" are completely in line with their style.
But the problem is that the entries of "City of Sin" have actually won the favor of the Museum of Modern Art! This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. People are speculating how much financial, manpower and energy Chaos Pictures has spent to persuade the Museum of Modern Art in New York to conduct this exhibition. This may be the highest part of the entire publicity period of "City of Sin". But it is undeniable that this is undoubtedly a huge success and the impact it produces is even more immeasurable.
Bryant didn't know what others were thinking, but when he heard the news, his head was hit. As one of the highest halls of modern art, it is once a year since any artist can win the opportunity to exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art. Who knows whether there will be a big shot among the winners of the "City of Sin" this time that will affect the future direction of American modern art?
That's why Bryant was so excited. Katie, who was standing next to him, also took a deep breath, "Then let's reveal the answer. I think everyone is curious about the final answer!"
This is true. More than 6.5 million viewers across the United States are watching "Today", which is also the highest ratings of the show since 18 months. It easily beat the competitor's "Good Morning America", whose ratings are only 4.7 million, far behind.
At this moment, Tucker was also sitting in front of the TV and watching "Today". How did "City of Sin" reach its peak in just one month? Tucker still hasn't understood why a simple video promotion plus a stupid game actually achieved such a huge success. Even he couldn't help but start to wonder who would win in the end. Why!
"Tuck." A voice came from the door. Tucker immediately pressed the remote control, turned off the TV, and then turned around as if nothing had happened. "What's wrong?" Then he saw Ryan and Jason standing at the door. This made Tucker a little embarrassed. He tried to explain, but he didn't know what to say, so he simply shut up.
"Open it. We can't be out of touch with the times." Ryan said calmly. To be continued.
Chapter completed!