Chapter 699: Co-creation
The overseas release of "Wall-E" was completed, and the first thing Fang still did after returning to China was to help Xiao Yao establish his own studio.
In terms of registration, since the legal person Xiao Yao has not yet returned to China, it cannot be carried out for the time being, but in other matters, Fang can still prepare first.
Since it is a personal studio, it is definitely necessary to have an office space in the first place.
Regardless of whether Xiao Yao will return to Yanjing after graduation, he still has one year to graduate from Shenxi, at least in Shencheng for the next year. Xiao Yao now has a personal studio, and the location is set in Shencheng.
In Shencheng, Xiao Yao's closest cooperative relationship is Yin Xi's studio and Tong Luo's animation special effects company, and Yin Xi's studio also has an office and a recording studio that Xiao Yao often uses. The two companies are in the same creative park, and for convenience, Fang still chose Xiao Yao's personal studio location here.
The occupancy rate of this creative park is relatively high, but it is far from full. Whether you rent or buy, you can find a more suitable unit in this park. Xiao Yao didn't want to pay the rent so much, so Fang still simply chose the closest unit to Yin Xi's studio and bought it.
The buildings in the park are for businesses, not residences, so they have been renovated to a certain extent after they are completed. After buying the unit used as a studio office location, Fang still did not find Chen Beila to slowly do the decoration design like Xiao Yao did when he built the loft, but directly found a very well-known decoration design company in Shencheng to be responsible for the fine decoration and layout of the office.
In addition to the place, the most important thing to open a company is to have people. Shencheng is a super first-tier city, and talent recruitment is relatively easy. However, Fang still did not plan to personally come forward to conduct recruitment interviews one by one, but was ready to leave this matter to the headhunters and the heads of various departments to complete by themselves.
For the heads of various departments, Fang is still sure to find capable and experienced people in the industry, and she herself is not particularly professional in these aspects, so Fang is still going to directly find a headhunting company to place an order, so that the headhunting company can find some professionals who meet the conditions she prescribes and are likely to jump ship as candidates.
After Xiao Yao returns to China, Fang and Xiao Yao will interview the candidates recommended by the headhunting company together. Once the heads of each department are identified, they let the heads of departments build their own teams. As for whether to still poach people through headhunters or recruit openly, it is up to them to decide.
Although Xiao Yao's personal studio has not yet done all kinds of certificates, licenses and other things, the headhunting company still has no doubts about the list given by the other party.
The Chinese box office of "Wal-E" has reached more than 2 billion, and some media on the Internet have analyzed that Xiao Yao can get a share of the income from it has reached hundreds of millions. With such a large income, coupled with Xiao Yao's fame and the development potential he has shown, it is a matter of course for him to open his own studio.
Although it was Fang who came forward to place the order, Fang is still a star agent who has been on TV, and it is widely known that he is Xiao Yao's agent. She said that Xiao Yao wants to open a personal studio, so there will be no fake. Fang still wants a person in charge who can take charge of himself, and he has a lot of requirements, and the amount of remuneration promised when placing an order is not small, which is not a small list for a headhunting company. After receiving Fang Yi's order, the headhunting company was very active in this matter.
When Xiao Yao returned to China, the office of his personal studio had already made a mess, and several well-known headhunting companies where Fang still placed orders had also contacted some suitable candidates, waiting for the two to meet for an interview. After Xiao Yao returned to China, in addition to going to school, the most important thing was to interview and decide the heads of various departments in his personal studio.
Because Xiao Yao only took out his personal documents and materials to find an agency to help him run the company registration procedures after returning to China, when Xiao Yao and Fang were still interviewing the person in charge of the studio, the company's certificates and licenses had not yet come down. However, the headhunting company had already introduced this situation to those candidates, and those candidates did not doubt Xiao Yao's statement that the office was still being renovated and the license was being processed, and they still communicated with Xiao Yao and Fang still for interviews very seriously.
Equity in a modeling agency, equity in a two-person fashion brand, equity in a musical instrument company registered in the United States, copyright to a bunch of songs, music videos, full ownership of a short film, majority ownership of an animated film, full ownership of the copyright to the character image in that movie, and then partial ownership of a live-action film that has been filmed but has not yet been released. As soon as these things are put out, not to mention those relevant professionals in the film and television industry, even those professionals from multinational group companies and Fortune 500 companies are shocked by Xiao Yao's net worth.
All of these things are to be integrated into Xiao Yao's personal studio, and Xiao Yao also plans to invest in a film and television production company with Zhao Rui and other small partners. After revealing these two pieces of information, the relevant people found by the headhunting company were very interested in Xiao Yao's small studio.
The executive search firm is responsible for identifying and persuading candidates to be interested and participate in the interview, and does not necessarily guarantee that an agreement can be reached. The interview is a two-way selection process, the other party is more interested, and Xiao Yao has a wide range of choices.
After interviewing all the candidates recommended by headhunting companies, Xiao Yao has several candidates who feel more satisfied in all aspects of each position. After some selection of the best of the best, Xiao Yao and Fang still finally determined a very satisfactory candidate.
Headhunting company is a common name for "senior management agency recruitment agency", which is mainly a recruitment service organization that helps enterprises or organizations search for senior management talents and talents for key technical positions. The people they recommend are not necessarily incumbents, but they are basically helping to poach incumbents.
The people selected by Xiao Yao are basically incumbents. After the two sides reach an agreement, those people will have to resign from the original company and deal with some resignation procedures, and they cannot take up their posts immediately. However, although at this time, all the procedures of Xiao Yao's personal studio have been completed, and the license and certificate have been obtained, the decoration of the office has not been finally completed, and those people can't work normally when they come, so Xiao Yao and Fang still don't care about it.
Of course, not being able to work doesn't mean not working at all. Since the two sides had reached an agreement, Xiao Yao and Fang still promised to delegate authority to them to form their own departmental teams, and those people also began to look for members of the studio's own team in advance when dealing with the resignation procedures of the original company.
The decoration and materials of the office are still staring, and the person in charge of the logistics department will come to help when he is free, and after getting the main framework of the studio personnel, Xiao Yao will let it go. After that, Xiao Yao recruited Sun Tingting to Shencheng, and basically soaked in his office and recording studio with Sun Tingting in Yin Xi's studio in his spare time, making musical preparations for the debut of their music group.
The day after the Chinese premiere of "Walli", Xiao Yao proposed to Sun Tingting to form a two-person performance group. Although Xiao Yao was a whim, since Sun Tingting agreed, and the two of them said yes, they couldn't do it inappropriately. At that time, Xiao Yao also said that if there was nothing to do in the second half of the year, the two would have another concert tour together. Regardless of whether the concert will be successful in the second half of the year, it is always right to prepare some pieces first.
Sun Tingting returned to China earlier than Fang after visiting the United States. After coming back, Sun Tingting mainly dealt with some of her own things.
No matter what happens in the future, Sun Tingting will definitely not give up music. After receiving Chambers' diploma, Sun Tingting had several options to continue her studies, apply for orchestra musicians, and become a teacher at a private conservatory. After those four concerts, Sun Tingting has a little reputation in the domestic classical music circle, whether it is to go to an ordinary music art college or enter the orchestra to be an ordinary musician, it seems that it is not too suitable. And entering a private conservatory as a violin teacher, Sun Tingting is not very interested. She feels that although she learns and pulls well, she may not be able to teach well.
After thinking about it, Sun Tingting decided to continue her studies, and if she had the opportunity, she would slowly develop into the entertainment industry.
Sun Tingting's further study was not to go to Huaxia or any foreign conservatory to study, but to find two master-level musicians to apprentice. These two musicians, one is the internationally renowned violinist Lu Siyuan, that is, the neighbor of her family, the music director of her four concerts, and the other is a very famous composer in China. Sun Tingting plans to continue to hone her violin playing skills with Lu Siyuan, and at the same time continue to learn composition and arrangement with the composer.
Lu Siyuan must have no problem, in addition, the composer listened to Sun Tingting's recital on the spot, and recognized Chambers as a school very much, and his overall impression and impression of Sun Tingting was very good, and he also successfully accepted Sun Tingting as a student.
This kind of master-apprentice relationship is different from the teachers and students in the school, there is no specific curriculum, and Sun Tingting is an adult who has obtained the Chambers graduation certificate, not a child in the state of enlightenment, and does not need the same supervision and daily practice time as a tutor. So after hearing that Xiao Yao had temporarily dealt with the affairs of his personal studio and was going to start composing the music that the two of them would play, Sun Tingting immediately flew to Shencheng.
Before Sun Tingting came to Shencheng, she thought that Xiao Yao had written a song and wanted the two to practice together, but after she came, she found that Xiao Yao was going to pull her to create together.
The name of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's music group was taken by Sun Tingting, called "Secret Garden", and the English name is the same as a music group in his previous life. After Xiao Yao heard this name, he had already thought of moving some of the works of this music group in his previous life.
However, although Sun Tingting said that the division of labor between the two in the group is Xiao Yao is responsible for creation, and she herself is only responsible for the performance of the violin, Xiao Yao is indeed ready to come up with some works of the "Mystery Garden" combination in her previous life, but Xiao Yao did not plan to let Sun Tingting really do nothing in terms of creation.
When Sun Tingting was at Chambers, she also studied composition and arrangement. The song "Faded", which she rearranged herself, added very imposing brass instruments, which was not only very thoughtful, but also very good. From this point of view, Xiao Yao feels that Sun Tingting's talent in this area is quite good.
Xiao Yao felt that maybe the classic songs he took from his previous life were too good, and he seemed to be too demonic, which made Sun Tingting not very confident in this regard, so there would be such a division of labor arrangement. And it is not difficult to convince Sun Tingting, as long as he comes up with a semi-finished product, let Sun Tingting improve it with him and create it together.
Art is actually a more subjective thing, and the same is true of music. No one stipulates that a note must be followed by that note, as long as the combination is comfortable to listen to and feels good, so it does not mean that the melody and arrangement must be exactly the same as the original in the previous life is the only and the best. For example, when Xiao Yao was four years old, he played part of the melodies of the two songs "The Most Beautiful" and "The Night I Miss You" to Xiao Siqi, and in the end, the two songs written by Xiao Siqi were not exactly the same as the original versions in his previous life, but the results were the same.
With the current level of music of the two, such creative ability and discrimination ability are sufficient. Xiao Yao doesn't require the works of the two to be exactly the same as in their previous lives, as long as the works he and Sun Tingting make are good and comfortable enough.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the songs changed by the two are really not as good as the original version in their previous lives, Xiao Yao doesn't care. Anyway, their combination was made so that the two of them could work together justifiably, and the works were almost almost, and if the group was not popular, it would not be popular, and the two of them did not only rely on the works and commercial performances of this combination to make a living.
The co-creation of the two is usually that Xiao Yao first comes up with a melody, and the two expand it together, and after completing the melody of the whole piece, they arrange it together. This method is neither as simple as Xiao Yao directly copying the original version of his previous life, nor is it as difficult as completely original music, and the two have fun playing with relish.
When he signed the theatrical distribution agreement for "Wall-E" in North America and Europe, Xiao Yao agreed to participate in some promotional activities. "Wal-E" will be released in the United States in mid-October, and his promotional activities in the United States will begin in early October.
Xiao Yao returned to China in early September, and in early October, he had to go to the United States to promote the release of "Vali", so he returned to China for about a month. In the first half of the month, Xiao Yao was mainly the person who interviewed and decided on the main framework of his personal studio, and in the second half of the month, he mainly composed music with Sun Tingting.
In the past half a month, the two have created a total of four tunes, plus the four tunes from Sun Tingting's previous recital, this group can be regarded as having eight tunes.
In Xiao Yao's mind, the number of tracks on an album is at least ten, and these eight songs are obviously not enough for the number of the group's debut album, but the publicity period is coming soon, and the promotional activities negotiated on the contract cannot be absent, Xiao Yao can only put down the group's music creation and fly to the United States again.