Chapter 18: Two New Dramas and the Kick-off Ceremony (Ask for Recommendation Votes)
Not long after coming out of Fang Weimin's office, Zuo Le and Chen Fatzi inquired about the general content of this morning's meeting of senior leaders in Taiwan.
In fact, there is no need to deliberately inquire, but after a lunch, the news of "Purchasing Department Dasheng Production Center" spread throughout most of Dongshantai.
Only then did Zuo Le understand why the old party was unusual, and would take the initiative to increase the budget for "Underground Transportation Station", and the number of millions would be approved, as if the center would not live in the future.
Now looking at the current situation in the center, isn't it that life is almost unbearable.
Zuo Le has figured out a little bit of Lao Fang's crazy idea of increasing the budget for "Underground Transportation Station".
Anyway, now the center is in a precarious situation, and it is not good to be dismantled and merged one day, and the funds in the center's account are better than cheap others, so it is better to smash them in their own hands.
Spell it out, and everyone is happy!
It didn't work out, the center ran out of money, and he gave up and stopped tossing around.
"Lao Fang is fighting against the water, and he is in ruin. ”
Zuo Le was under a lot of pressure in his heart, how could his small-budget sitcom debut be inexplicably linked to the life and death of the entire TV production center.
If the results of "Underground Traffic Station" were mediocre, wouldn't he have become a sinner in the center through the ages.
Zuo Le was a little uneasy.
But soon, Fang Weimin proved that Zuo Le overestimated the importance of himself and "Underground Traffic Station".
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It is true that Director Fang is very optimistic about the prospects of "Underground Traffic Station", otherwise he would not have acted in person again after many years.
But being optimistic and optimistic does not mean that Fang Weimin will put all the weight of the production center on a TV series that has not yet officially started.
Director Fang Da, who is well versed in the truth that eggs can't be put in one basket, not only added a budget to Zuo Le, but also added another 5 million capital budget to Zuo Le, another "Kind Grass" that is being filmed in the center.
In addition, Fang Wenmin is also preparing to launch two new TV series.
The first is called "Living Alone", which is a realistic TV series based on a novel, mainly about empty nesters, and the plot is very deep.
In fact, the center has already obtained the adapted script of this drama, but it has not been officially approved, because it feels that the theme of this drama is too unpopular, and the ratings of filming are not guaranteed, so it has been shelved.
Now that Director Fang has restarted the "Living Alone" project, he didn't think about the ratings, and he was actually rushing to win the award.
He wanted to give it a try, with the depth of the story of "Living Alone", whether he could be nominated for an award or something, no matter what the award, it was also an achievement of the center.
However, Fang Wenming himself also knows that this probability is very low, and TV series are different from movies.
Movies are divided into commercial and artistic, and the judges of major awards are more fond of some works with artistic depth, and there are even theories in the industry that literary films win awards and commercial films earn box office.
The TV series is different, it has no threshold, it is more for the public, you put the plot into depth, the artistry may be there, but the audience may not like to watch it.
If there is no audience, it means that there is no attention and influence, even if the judges like it, they will not nominate an unpopular TV series that not many people have watched.
Of course, the main theme is another story............
Therefore, even those award-winning word-of-mouth boutique TV series will not have too bad ratings, and they are even popular dramas with double word-of-mouth ratings.
Word-of-mouth, word-of-mouth, you don't have anyone to read, how to talk about word-of-mouth!
Fang Weimin has been working in TV for many years, so naturally he won't understand this truth, but he is also right, anyway, the investment in "Living Alone" is not high, so he thinks he is willful.
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In Fang Weimin's heart, "Living Alone" is an idle move, and he himself doesn't know if it can come in handy at a critical moment.
But the second drama of the new project has a different status in Director Fang's heart, and it is even far beyond "Underground Transportation Station".
"Purple Face King Kong" is the first martial arts drama in China, a masterpiece of Dongshan Production Center, and one of the best TV series in the production center.
Fang Weimin, who had not retreated into the background back then, even played a jade-faced boy type male number two in it.
Whether in the hearts of Fang Weimin or in the glorious history of the entire Dongshan Production Center, "Purple Face King Kong" has a pivotal position.
At a time when the production center is in such a critical situation, Fang Weimin plans to remake this classic TV series of the center, not only to save the situation of the center, but also to have a hidden selfishness.
If the Dongshan Production Center finally can't escape the end of being laid off, then the remake of "Purple Face King Kong" will send the center for the last time.
Since the prosperity of "Purple Mask King Kong", and now it has ended with the remake of "Purple Mask King Kong", it has been going around for decades, which can be regarded as a complete cycle of cause and effect.
With the grief and indignation of almost being martyred for the center, Fang Weimin increased the capital budget for the remake of "Purple Face King Kong" to 50 million, breaking the filming funding record since the establishment of the center.
However, no one in the center raised objections, and other departments did have some objections, but they were strongly suppressed by Deputy Director Mo Dashan.
Even Director Chen Changshan, who was aware of Fang Weimin's thoughts, and Deputy Director Wu Mao, who was opposed to the center, sighed when they heard the news, and then vaguely expressed their support for this.
Fang Weimin and the production center have been working hard for Dongshantai for decades, with both merit and hard work, and now they want to choose a decent ending, and this face has to be given.
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With the acquiescence of the Taiwan leaders, the remake of "Purple Face King Kong" was successfully approved, and the 50 million budget prepared for it was removed, and there was very little money on the center's books.
At the end of August, Fang Weimin held a meeting of all colleagues in the production center, and he handed over the bottom to everyone without any disguise.
After "Purple Face King Kong", the production center has no spare energy to set up new dramas, and the current project of these six dramas is the last chance for the center.
By next summer at the latest, if the results of self-made dramas do not improve, the production center will probably be abandoned by the station, and some of the people who work in the center will be merged into other departments, and some may leave the TV station.
Therefore, whether it is for the sake of the production of the center, or for their own future, all colleagues in the center must unite and do their best for the collective and individual interests.
At the end of the meeting, the colleagues of the center were in a heavy mood, but Zuo Le and Chen Fatzi, who were the backbone of the center, did not have time to think too much.
Because "Underground Transportation Station" is about to start shooting at Changqing Film and Television Base!
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 is the right time to start school and start school.
With a continuous burst of firecrackers, Zuo Le, Chen Fatzi and several leading actors, holding long incense, reverently visited Guan Gong on the red cloth table.
Although I don't understand why the second master is still in charge of the crew's start-up business, Zuo Le still sincerely prays for the blessing of the second master.
"The filming went smoothly, the broadcast ratings were Changhong, the word of mouth exploded, I was promoted and raised, and the center survived the crisis safely........."