Chapter 417: Don't give in
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhao, I think you seem to have made a mistake from the beginning. ”
Li Mo looked at Zhao Baogang like an idiot, "If it weren't for some reasons that everyone knows, we Molong Media wouldn't have appeared in this room today!"
"Today's meeting, strictly speaking, is not our Molong to invest in a few people and ask for cooperation. To put it simply, with or without your participation, we will make online dramas as part of our future planning, and the reason why I am back today is just to give you a chance to develop together, that's all!"
"If there's still someone who feels the need for me to actually guarantee a yield or something, I think he can leave now. ”
"You-"
Zhao Baogang felt that he was about to explode.
Since serving as the actual director in the crew of "Desire", no one has dared to talk to him so unceremoniously for decades.
Just as he was about to get up and leave regardless of it, and then find a way to settle accounts with Li Mo, he felt Haiyan gently kick him under the table, Zhao Baogang looked up, but found that there was only one meaning in the eyes of his old friend - don't be impatient!
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Haiyan, who has always liked to hide behind the scenes, saw the scene just now very clearly.
Before Li Mo came here today, he should have investigated what happened during this time.
And it should be the kind of investigation that knows the ins and outs of things very well.
In all fairness, Li Mo's words just now did have a very strong smell of gunpowder, and almost every sentence was aimed at provoking Zhao Baogang with the purpose of angering him.
But it is precisely because of this that Haiyan feels that this is the reaction that a normal person should have at this time.
Just ask, a good company, didn't recruit anyone to provoke anyone, and was targeted inexplicably, in this case, anyone who is a little bloody will throw their faces, lose their temper or something, right?
What's more, Li Mo is just a young man in his early twenties.
Haiyan himself came from this age, and naturally knows how proud he should be at this age, and when he is proud of the spring breeze, he should be so complacent, and in the face of this inexplicable suppression, how angry he will be in his heart.
To be honest, if Li Mo was still calm and unangry at this time, Haiyan would have to remind himself: This kid named Li Mo is a very hidden wolf......
After getting Haiyan's reminder, Zhao Baogang's mind instantly cleared up a lot.
Today's meeting was to study the cooperation of several parties, and now that he had just started, he almost quarreled with Li Mo.
How can we talk about a result if we go on like this?
Thinking of this, Zhao Baogang quickly softened his tone, "You...... Director Li said very reasonably, you continue, you continue to ......"
Although Li Mo originally had the intention of digging a pit for Zhao Baogang today, with his temperament, he would not have been ridiculed like just now, but Zhao Baogang was able to suppress his anger in such a short period of time, which made Li Mo feel a little surprised.
Anyway, since Zhao Baogang chose to move from the heart, if Li Mo continued to chase and fight, it would be too deliberate, so he only coughed twice, and then turned the topic back to the issue of cooperation between several parties.
"Although the cause of this collaboration is a bit ...... It's different," after organizing the wording a little, Li Mo said, "But everyone is a professional in the film and television media industry, and the money in their hands is not blown by the wind, so even if there are differences in other places, but in terms of hoping that the project will be successful, everyone is at least the same, right?"
After listening to Li Mo's words, the Wang brothers, Zhao Baogang and the others all nodded silently.
Although the main role of the Wang brothers today is to serve as a background board, if it is implemented according to Li Mo's project plan, this background board can be a bit expensive.
Even if 20% of the investment amount, it is tens of millions of dollars.
Although Wang's Group is a listed company, the money it took out did not fall from the sky.
As for Zhao Baogang and Haiyan, this is even more so.
Although compared to ordinary people, their current net worth is enough to worry about food and clothing for a lifetime, but since they are already in this circle, unless they completely quit the circle and don't play, just the daily ushering and sending and the high consumption are enough for them to sit and eat.
"In order to ensure the success of the drama "The Promotion of the Crown Princess" to the greatest extent, and also to ensure the interests of all investors, I suggest that all funders send their own people to form a joint production team to verify the various expenses and daily work of the crew. ”
All parties have no opinion on Li Mo's suggestion.
Everyone is an old fritter who has been in the circle for many years, and everyone understands the truth of 'brothers settle accounts'.
Even Zhao Baogang and Haiyan, who look so good that they almost wear a pair of pants, as long as Xingbaoyuan and Haiyan Pictures have not merged, they will only make the choice that is most in their own interests on this issue.
"Next, does Director Li plan to tell everyone that the decision of the production team will be decided according to the proportion of investment?" Zhao Baogang squinted his eyes and spoke again, "Molong is the only one with half of the investment ratio among all investors, so what kind of production team, it is not your family that has the final say?"
"Hehe, I knew that there would definitely be someone who would spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain," Li Mo smiled, turned a page in the project plan, pointed to a place and said: "Please take a closer look, although our Molong has a 50% investment ratio, but in the co-production team, our Molong's voting ratio is only 45%. ”
"What?"
Li Mo's move shocked even Zong Shuai.
Before he came, he hadn't heard Li Mo say anything like a co-producer group, and he didn't know that Li Mo waved his hand and directly lost half of his advantage.
He hurriedly opened the plan in front of him and turned to the page that Li Mo said.
Sure enough, it was written in black and white on the plan that when the members of the co-production team disagreed, the voting proportion of all parties was: Molong -49%, Wang's Group -23%, and Xingbaoyuan/Haiyan Pictures -23%......
And the last 5% is actually the director's......
In other words, if the voting ratio designed by Li Mo is followed, at any time, any two parties other than Mo Long can add up to create a simple majority situation......
Of course, if the three forces unite, Molong will inevitably be in a weak position.
But the problem is that it is more reliable to let the Wang brothers cooperate with Zhao Baogang's side, it is better to expect them to fall to Molong's side.
Everyone knows that a person who stabs him in the back is far more hateful than an enemy who goes head-to-head
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"Hmph, who knows who the director you have chosen......" Looking at the black and white words on the plan, Zhao Baogang argued a little angrily, "In case you are looking for someone close to you, then this kind of thing is still meaningless......"
Before Zhao Baogang finished speaking, he felt that the people around him were looking at him with caring and mentally handicapped eyes.
Zhao Baogang, who realized that he had said something wrong, quickly flipped through the cast and crew part of the plan, and in the director column on it, there was a familiar name written - Lu Haojiji.
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After an eerie silence, Haiyan spoke: "Director Li, thank you very much for your love for the dog, but he has never directed any film and television works independently before, this time I handed over tens of millions of investment to him, even if I am his father, I still have to ask, is it a little ...... Too adventurous?"
Li Mo first glanced at Lu Haojiji, whose face was flushed because of his father's disapproval, and then explained: "When it comes to directing experience, Ling Lang is indeed lacking, but I have seen his photography works in the 2010 BQ Celebrity List of the Year, and his grasp of color and scene space is excellent, which is why I chose him." ”
After a slight pause, Li Mo hurried to Zhao Baogang before he spoke: "If you still have any doubts about the director's ability selected by our Mo Long, I can also provide a complete storyboard sketch......
Everyone present was well aware of what a storyboard would mean to a director.
After having that kind of thing, as long as a person has basic directing ability, he can shoot the things in the script according to the script.
In other words, in addition to being good at color composition, Lu Haojiji's influence on the crew is actually very limited.
This is not only a constraint, but also a statement to Haiyan: As long as your son shoots according to my storyboard script, he will not be blamed if something goes wrong.
Seeing that Li Mo has already guaranteed the vote to such an extent, if he speaks out against Lu Haojiji, the director candidate, then he will basically put all his distrust on the table in front of Haiyan.
In this case, even if Zhao Baogang has any opinions, he can only keep his mouth shut.
Seeing that all parties have no opinions on the distribution of power in the co-production team, Li Mo continued to subvert everyone's cognition in his own way, "Everyone knows very well how many complex reasons are there for the reason why we can sit here today, and the traditional way of film and television media cooperation may not be suitable for us to do this...... Strange partnerships, so I wanted to take this as an opportunity to take a whole new approach to marketing. ”
"In what way?" said Haiyan this time.
This middle-aged man with glasses and a seemingly polite manner, as soon as he opened his mouth, there seemed to be an invisible power that could make people think that he was a harmless person.
Of course, whether this is the case or not, Li Mo has not dealt with him much, but there is no way to judge.
However, since the other party asked for advice with kind words, Li Mo would not deliberately target it, so he also patiently replied: "I plan to hand over the broadcast rights to the website at a price of zero yuan, and then calculate the benefits according to the data of the website's broadcast volume." ”
Most of you only know the Internet on a regular basis, and you don't have to expect them to understand the formulas of streaming sites.
So, Li Mo had to sigh and began to explain to everyone present how streaming video websites calculate the number of film and television programs.
In the video playback website of the previous life, in the data released to the public, there are tens of billions of views at every turn, which is simply a fantasy in the eyes of ordinary people, and it is a video website, producers and even distributors in order to flaunt themselves and promote themselves, and they have reached the product of madness.
For example, Li Mo once read a piece of data in his previous life, saying that "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" had 42.2 billion views on all video websites on the whole network, and at that time, he also felt that in the environment where there were only 700 million netizens in the Celestial Empire, the figure of 42.2 billion was simply the result of fraud without using his brain.
But then by chance, he met a friend who worked at a video website, and after understanding, he realized that the thing was not necessarily the result of complete fakes.
The key lies in the calculation methods of major video websites for playbacks.
In the cognition of ordinary audiences, they all think that when a certain viewer clicks on a certain feature film, it will be counted as a playback, even if the audience does not finish watching it this time, the next time he opens it again and continues to watch, it should still be counted as a playback......
However, in reality, the way a website counts views is much more complicated than that.
For the website, before a 60-episode TV series is broadcast, the website will first release the feature film, trailer and tidbits, small videos and stills, related recommendations, and film and television soundtracks...... and so on a series of things packaged into an album, as long as the audience clicks on any small program in the album, even if it is just a related recommendation or trailer, then the website will treat it as a playback.
Not only that, but if this viewer is disconnected during the viewing process, then after connecting again, although in the eyes of the viewer, he still continues from the place where the last broadcast was interrupted, but for the website, the viewer who is online again has already contributed his second playback.
So, according to this standard, a drama album may contain N related content, then it is entirely possible that the above extraordinary situation is entirely possible: after a viewer clicks on all the content in a series album, he has already contributed dozens of ...... to the site.
If this viewer is more unlucky, the number of disconnections is slightly more......
Hehe, then God knows what kind of data will come out in the end.
After listening to Li Mo's explanation of the doorway, even the Zong Shuai, who had cooperated with Li Mo for the longest time, felt that the water in this thing was a bit deep, and he vaguely seemed to feel that there was something that could be manipulated in it......
As for the unprepared Zhao Baogang and Haiyan?
Their two eyes seem to have begun to turn around mosquito coils.
In the end, Haiyan reacted relatively quickly, and asked: "Director Li, since the data of the playback volume is counted by the background of the website, if the website wants to repay the debt, wouldn't we have no choice?"
"There is indeed such a possibility," Li Mo nodded first, indicating that this possibility is indeed possible, "but I think the probability of this happening should be very low." ”
"For video websites,If the episodes are highly discussed,But the playback data displayed in the background of the website is very low,Then anyone will see that there is a problem,As far as I know,The way to manually modify the data does exist,And manual modification is difficult for people to see the flaws,Because the data volume is extremely large,But there is an unavoidable problem of manual modification,That is, the cost of that kind of operation is very huge,Huge to the point that time,Manpower can't bear it;"
"Secondly, at this stage, most of the profits of video websites still come from advertisements placed by advertisers, compared with the broadcast costs of TV dramas, if advertisers are lost because of data fraud, it is really worth the loss;"
"Finally, when we sign a contract with a website, we will inevitably require the other party to place the playback data under the supervision of a third-party organization, which can also avoid the situation that Haiyan just mentioned to a certain extent......
Compared with Zhao Baogang, who wants to benefit Chiguoguo, Li Mo still has a little face for Haiyan who is coming out for his son.
Seeing that everyone was busy digesting what he had just said, Li Mo got up and said, "It seems that it is unlikely that everyone will make a decision today, let's stop here today, I hope that everyone here will consider my suggestion after going back, whether to take our Molong boat, you should have a clear judgment when you think about it......
"After all, there may not be this shop after this village......