"Help, what do you want me to do?" asked Rita Mitchell curiously.

Although Rita Mitchell still has the identity of an actor and model, and she can be regarded as a person in the entertainment industry, her main job is still a game show anchor, and her popularity and fans are mainly concentrated in the fan base, and there is still a certain gap between her and the real entertainment star. And Xiao Yao is a serious entertainment star, and a few years ago, her popularity among ordinary people in the United States was not lower than that of a beautiful anchor. In the past six months, two movies have won a box office of 100 million yuan in the United States, and the limelight is much more prosperous than her, she really can't think of anything that Xiao Yao needs her help with.

"That's right, I think you're doing a sports game show, so can you introduce some professionals in sports promotion and sports event operation to me?" Xiao Yao said.

"Sports promotion and sports event operations?" says Rita Mitchell, "Do you want to go into sports?"

"That's pretty much it. Xiao Yao explained, "You know, the movie that came out recently that I starred in was about parkour, which I started with two other friends. After the release of this film, we wanted to continue to promote the sport, but my two friends and I are both actors and can't always put our minds on it, so we wanted to ask a professional to do it for us. ”

"So you're looking for a sports promoter?" Rita Mitchell nodded, then asked, "What about event operations?

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "To promote a sport, related events are very important, and there is no such thing as a widespread, weighty, and influential parkour event, and we want to invite someone to do it." ”

"It's hard to successfully launch a new event. If a competition wants to have a greater impact, it needs to be accumulated for a long time, and it also requires a lot of capital investment in the early stage, and parkour, an emerging sport, has a relatively small foundation, so I estimate that this time may be longer and the investment required will be greater. Rita Mitchell reminded, "Generally speaking, you lose money in the early stages. ”

"I know. Xiao Yao smiled, "We are ready to lose money in the early stage, or rather, we don't care much about this, because it is not our money that is lost!"

"Huh?" Rita Mitchell was a little surprised, and at the same time a little puzzled, "Not your money?"

"That's right," Xiao Yao explained, "and part of the money we spent on that parkour movie came from online crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is not an investment, and even if the film makes money, those who participate in it will not be able to benefit from it. Judging by the current box office, this movie is definitely making money. The theme of this movie is parkour, and most of the people who participated in crowdfunding were parkour enthusiasts, and a few of our investors had no intention of taking the benefits of crowdfunding as their own, so they planned to use it for the sport of parkour. In the words of Huaxia, this is called "taking from the people, using it for the people". ”

"Crowdfunding accounts for about 25 percent of the production costs, and we will also use 25 percent of the film's producers' earnings to set up a fund dedicated to promoting parkour. According to conservative estimates, this fund should be in the tens of millions of dollars. Xiao Yao continued, "We want to find a suitable sports company or set up a sports company to operate this fund, so I need professionals in this area." ”

This is the reason why Xiao Yao insisted on crowdfunding when Mu Ying said that there were enough investors and that there was no need for crowdfunding to make this movie. In addition to leaving a parkour movie, Xiao Yao also wanted to leave a world-wide influential parkour event in this world, so he deliberately left a share of two million US dollars in crowdfunding on the film production fee, and used the money of parkour enthusiasts to engage in parkour promotion and parkour events.

$2 million is certainly enough to organize a tournament, but it is not easy to make it a long-term, permanent event. But after this movie, two million is more than just two million.

When he was preparing to make this movie, Xiao Yao predicted that this movie should be profitable. The income of the movie is not only the box office, but also some other aspects of income in the future, and Xiao Yao also plans to put all of them into this parkour fund. In addition, after the event becomes well-known, the income of sponsors and advertisers in these aspects will also increase accordingly. Normally, as long as the organization or company that operates the event is reliable, the event can be held forever. It's just that Xiao Yao and the others are neither professionals in this area, nor do they have the energy to do this, so they want to find professionals in this area to operate.

The idea of crowdfunding was made by Xiao Yao, and how to use the money was originally to let Xiao Yao decide. Xiao Yao wants to use it for parkour, and everyone has no problem. However, since the idea was made by Xiao Yao, this matter was also handed over to Xiao Yao to be responsible.

The parkour movie has not yet been fully released, the box office share has not yet arrived, and the project has not yet been officially launched. However, when it comes to sports promotion and event operation, the United States has done a very good job in this regard, and there are more professionals, so Xiao Yao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the United States to understand and familiarize himself with this aspect first, and contact some people in this area in advance.

"That's it~" Rita Mitchell nodded suddenly, and said with a smile, "Find parkour enthusiasts to crowdfund parkour movies to make parkour movies, and then use this part of the movie proceeds to continue to do parkour sports promotion and parkour events, your idea is really interesting!"

"Well, I promised you. Rita Mitchell finally said to Xiao Yao, "After I go back, I will find a friend who is a professional in this field and recommend some candidates to you." ”

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

When this dinner arrives, it's all over. Neither Rita Mitchell nor Xiao Yao brought assistants with them, nor did they drive cars. Xiao Yao went out of the restaurant with Rita Mitchell, beckoned her to call a taxi, and after putting her in the car, she returned to the hotel alone.

Since she promised Xiao Yao, Rita Mitchell also helped out very seriously after she went back.

NBA2K doesn't just record in the offseason, but also in the middle of the season. was able to invite so many active professional basketball players to be guests on the show during the season, and the relationship between the program team and the American Basketball League and many professional basketball teams is good. As the host of the show, Rita Mitchell not only knows many professional players, but also has a good relationship with many team management managers. Those people are also professionals in this field, and through them, Rita Mitchell has also heard about many people in the industry.

Regarding the parkour event, Xiao Yao actually planned to find a relevant consulting company in the United States to understand and consult, and then use a consulting company and a headhunting company to select personnel, and did not plan to ask non-professionals in the entertainment industry for help. Because Rita Mitchell, a sports game anchor, is also related to sports, Xiao Yao didn't want to compete with her to pay, so he used this incident as a reason to say it.

Xiao Yao didn't think that Rita Mitchell could really help him, but he didn't expect Rita Mitchell to send him a document later, recommending a lot of relevant talents in this industry. This is also a surprise for Xiao Yao.

In the next few days, Xiao Yao still found some professional consulting companies to do some understanding of this aspect according to the original plan, and also found some headhunting companies to place orders in this regard, and finally cross-compared the information given by the consulting company, headhunting company, and Rita Mitchell, and also selected a favorite candidate list.

Although the funds are not yet in place, most of the box office has come out, and for Xiao Yao, this money can be said to be unmanageable. Therefore, in the next few days, Xiao Yao also met with the candidates in advance under the arrangement of the headhunting company, and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

By the time Xiao Yao returned to China after doing these things, the World Youth Forum had ended for almost half a month, and the popularity of Xiao Yao's speech at the World Youth Forum had almost dissipated.

After Xiao Yao returned to China, there was nothing to do with him for the time being, so he followed the TV series again.

At this time, the screenwriting team recruited by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan not only wrote the general framework of the entire TV series, completed the character settings of all the main characters, and the specific script has also been written for six or seven episodes, Xiao Yao can also start to choose directors and actors.

In this sitcom, Xiao Yao intends to follow the model of American dramas, not only has a whole team of screenwriters, but also several different directors. As the chief producer and future executive producer and producer, the director and actors will be decided by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan.

The first step is to choose a director. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan was not only looking for students from the Department of Literature, but also found three directors with script creation ability to join them. So in terms of shooting, these three directors who participated in the creation of the script were naturally among Xiao Yao's choices, but Xiao Yao did not plan to use only these three directors. The first season of this TV series is planned to shoot about 24 episodes, Xiao Yao plans to use five directors, each of whom will shoot at least 3 episodes, and finally decide who will shoot the following episodes according to the actual situation.

Shen Opera is the same as Yan Dian, and the director department is held every two years. Xiao Yao does not have a directing department this year, so the directing students of Shenju are either a year earlier or a year later than them. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan is looking for three third-year students in the Shenju Directing Department, so there are two left, Xiao Yao is ready to graduate last year, and he is not very good at the moment.

The profession of director requires the accumulation of experience, and the students who graduated from the directing department generally start from the scene after they come out, and there are few who can start from the assistant director. There are dozens of students who graduate from the directing department of Shenju each year, and there are only a few who can mix with them, and even fewer can mix with directors as soon as they graduate, so Xiao Yao's project, which is full of fresh graduates and current students of Shenju, is still very attractive to those who have just graduated from the directing department for one year, and Xiao Yao's range of choices is relatively wide.

Xiao Yao's way of choosing a director is very simple, provide one or two episodes of scripts to all willing people, let them make a shooting plan and send it over, make an appointment to meet if they think it's okay, and make a decision if they can talk about it. In this way, it only took Xiao Yao almost a week to select the last two directors.

After the director is finalized, the next step is to choose the actors.

In terms of actors, Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan plan to choose all of their acting students this year. But even if you make up your mind to choose from among your classmates, the audition process is still necessary. Lin Qisan did not leak the news of this project in the school in advance, and the students of the screenwriting team were also asked to keep the project secret, and most of the students are currently busy with local "internships", so the schedule of this audition has to be determined after contacting the students first.

Xiao Yao didn't spend as much time in school as Lin Qisan, and he didn't know as much about his classmates as Lin Qisan. The actors of other roles auditioned, Xiao Yao asked Lin Qisan to be responsible for notifying, and Xu Liang and Qin Hao, the two predetermined guys, of course, were brought by Xiao Yao himself.

Xu Liang and Qin Hao were not at school recently, so Xiao Yao directly dialed Xu Liang's phone.

"Xu Liang, what have you been busy with lately? I haven't seen you run to Sister Xi's studio?" After the phone was connected, Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

"What else can you be busy with?" Xu Liang said angrily, "I'm not a big star you have ever won the best newcomer in the double category, not only do I not worry about eating and drinking, but I also don't worry about no filming!"

"Yo, it's not small!" Xiao Yao smiled, "What, I was scolded in the crew?"

"Heh, isn't it normal for us to be scolded for being scolded, a little transparent like us, without the slightest fame?" Xu Liang smiled and did not deny it.

"In what crew, what role, are there many scenes, when will the filming be finished?" Xiao Yao was also not comforted, and asked directly to the point.

"The dragon set, just three lines, will be filmed in three days. Xu Liang answered truthfully, and then asked strangely, "Why are you asking this?

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "There's a chance to audition, do you want to try it?"

"Of course I want to!" Xu Liang immediately became excited, and asked in a series of questions, "What crew, which company invested, who is the director, what level of production, what role, when will you audition?"

"The protagonist, filming will start in about two or three months, and you can audition at any time in the next month!" Xiao Yao answered with two questions.

"Audition anytime in the next month, or the protagonist, is it really fake?" Xu Liang said in surprise.

"Of course it's true!, would I lie to you about this kind of thing?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"It's so good, it can't be your family's investment, right?" asked Xu Liang tentatively.

"It's not my family, it's me~ invested with friends!" Xiao Yao said, "I and Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao are going to partner to open a film and television production company, this TV series is our first project, I am the chief planner and chief producer, I have the final say!"

"You and Lin Qisan have started a company?" Xu Liang said in surprise.

"Yes," Xiao Yao smiled, "Didn't you tell Qin Hao to let me open a company?"

"But didn't you agree?" Xu Liang said.

"I can't change my mind!" Xiao Yao said, "but one thing hasn't changed." We run a film and television production company, not an entertainment company, and we don't sign artists! I'm just looking for you to film, not signing you to be an artist!"

"Is the director also you?" Xu Liang asked again.

"No, it's not me, the director!" Xiao Yao said.

"Oh," Xu Liang said with some concern, "who is the director?

Xiao Yao heard Xu Liang's worries, and said with a smile: "Let's be honest with you, the two protagonists have already determined that they are you and Qin Hao." Because the actors of other roles have to audition, they let you and Qin Hao go through the motions. ”

"Is this appropriate?" Xu Liang said with some concern, "Is the role really suitable for me?"

Although it is common for investors to appoint actors in the current TV industry, this method is disgusted by professionals in the entire circle, such as directors. Xiao Yao is a professional born in a professional class, and there are seniors in the entertainment industry at home, if he wants to do this, it is not very nice to say.

"If it's not a suitable role, will I set the two of you? I'm an investor!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Don't worry, when writing the script, these two roles were set according to the actual situation of the two of you, and they were specially created for the two of you." I also know the business level of the two of you, it is impossible not to be suitable!"

"A character created specifically for the two of us?" Xu Liang said in surprise.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled.

"Why?" asked Xu Liang.

"Because in the past few years, the two of you have helped me shoot videos of classes, help me make up classes, and cope with exams. Xiao Yao said, "In order to thank you, I prepared this graduation gift for the two of you!"

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