In the chairman's office at the headquarters of A-Pix, Wang Yang sat behind his desk and handed the A4 paper with the company's new name and logo to Lisa Gro, a professional white female designer. She is a full-time artist in the distribution department of A-Pix, and she designs the company's movie covers, promotional posters, etc., as well as the design and maintenance of the company's official website.

Lisa Gro sat in a chair at her desk, looking at the drawing paper in her hand, and asked a little uncertainly, "Uh, Mr. Wang, excuse me, are these two penguins?

Wang Yang was stunned, a little like fainting, could his paintings really be so abstract, moths and butterflies can be seen as penguins? "No!" he laughed negatively, shook his head self-deprecatingly, and explained with a smile: "It's not penguins, crowns. On the left is a moth, on the right is a butterfly, both on the side, and in the middle is a flame. ”

"Oh! I'm sorry. Lisa Groh smiled a little awkwardly, and for fear of angering the young boss, she joked to herself, "Maybe it's time for me to wear glasses for myopia." ”

"It's okay, I've always been an abstract painter. Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders with a smile, and his gentle voice relaxed Lisa on the other side, and he said about his concept: "Lisa, I hope there is that effect, moths and butterflies chase the flames and bloom their beauty, understand?"

Lisa nodded first and said, "I understand." Then, she shook her head gently and asked, "But what I don't understand is, what does this mean? I mean, why moths and butterflies?" She hesitated for a moment, but said bluntly: "Mr. Wang, do you know that moths often represent death, just like in "The Silence of the Lambs", will this have a bad effect on the company?"

Wang Yang leaned back in his chair and smiled slightly, yes, moths represent death many times, but it is not all death. He smiled: "Lisa, in "The Silence of the Lambs", the moth represents not death, but rebirth. You know what? Actually, everybody longs to be transformed, everybody wants to show themselves, everybody wants to find their soul. But most people tend to run away from their hearts, they can't break through their chrysalis, they live in the chrysalis. ”

"The moth is a metamorphosis, and the moth to the fire is a kind of self-redemption. Wang Yang took a deep breath and said with a smile: "I am a moth, so I love moths." The logo of the company is so so, no problem. ”

Lisa was confused, but this was the boss's opinion, and he said "yes" to "yes", and she nodded and said, "Okay, I see." She looked at the name of the company on the paper again, then took a pencil and added a "flames-films" under the flame on the paper, and asked, "Mr. Wang, can you put the name of the company here?"

"OK, good. Wang Yang looked at it and agreed.

flames means flame, light, and passion. Of course, here, its biggest meaning is the flame, the flame represents the dream, the light he pursues, and the movie. He hopes that the films produced by the company will be like a flame that illuminates the hearts of fans, ignites the dreams in their hearts, and allows them to break their chrysalis and show their beauty to the fullest.

A-Pix officially re-registered its name and logo as Flames-Films, with a logo designed by Wang Yang and illustrated by Lisa Gro, with a yellowish side moth on the left and a colorful butterfly on the right, with a yellow-red cartoon-style flame in the middle and a line of the company's name under the flames. The color of the whole logo is very soft and comfortable, more cartoon style, and it looks very energetic and youthful.

On the gate of the company's headquarters, the "A-PIX" sign has been removed, and the company has ordered a plastic plate with a new name and logo from the manufacturer, which will be hung as soon as it arrives.

In the new week, the first management meeting of the new company, all the employees of the Flame Film Company above the level of department heads were present, of course, it is scary, but in fact, there are less than ten people.

Wang Yang was naturally also in attendance, he sat at the top of the conference table, he was wearing a black suit with a gray shirt and no tie. Mark Snenter sat next to Wang Yang, he was also wearing a black suit, a silver tie, and black-framed glasses, and the whole person looked energetic, he is not Wang Yang's agent now, but the CEO of Flame Movies.

Because Mark Lunt performed well in the process of acquiring A-Pix, and the resignation of the company's former CEO Chris Lynch, Wang Yang had a chance to "If you were the CEO of the company, how would you grow the company?" and then Slunt persuaded him.

"We want to gradually expand the company's influence, in terms of investment, we must insist on small costs, but don't expect that there will always be "Ghost Shadows", and those below 10 million are considered small costs...... In addition, the living space of pure production companies is getting smaller and smaller, and we need to establish our own publicity channels to get rid of the situation of being held back by media groups...... Now the profitability of the movie is not only the box office, we must pay attention to the development of peripheral products, maybe there will be unexpected big gains......"

Mark Slunt became more and more excited the more he talked at the time, but his words were always very organized, and a set of development ideas were well-founded, including how to buy and invest in small-budget films, how to develop peripheral income, etc., which made Wang Yang sigh professionally.

Wang Yang knows that Lionsgate's success model is similar to Mark Slunter's plan, but the great thing about Lionsgate is that they can always find "ghost records".

"Of course. Mark Slunt shrugged his shoulders and said, "It takes a lot of money to do these things, either you will inject them, or you can ask God to give us a copy of the Ghost Record." ”

Wang Yang replied to him: ""Ghost Shadow Record" is gone, but there is a "Youth Singing and Dancing". He stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "I make movies, and you manage the company well." Mark Slunt shook his hand excitedly and said, "Yes, boss." ”

In this way, Mark Slunt became the CEO of Flame Film Company, with a probationary period of three months and a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, the highest in the company.

At this time, in the conference room, Mark Slant was announcing the company's next development policy and the focus of work, which were the result of his discussion with Wang Yang, and everything was paving the way around "Youth Musical".

Simon Willis, the manager of the distribution department, listened attentively to the task assigned to him by Mark Slenter: "We want to set up a campus publicity system, and when the promotion stage of "Youth Musical" is carried out, I want its poster to be able to be used in any college in North America. We can see it on the campus in the middle school and even in the primary school, including being able to work with the school to hold some promotional activities, and that's what we're going to do, and we're going to set up a school screening system, and the first round of screenings of the film, the campus cinema is our focus. ”

Because the "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth" that Wang Yang wants to produce is not a TV movie, it will not be shown on TV in the future, but will be aimed at the big screen. So how do you attract the first audience to the cinema and make an impact? For example, the reason why "Ghost Shadow" can create miracles is also due to successful viral marketing, and if "Youth Musical" wants to succeed, publicity is naturally the top priority.

After discussion, Wang Yang and Mark Slunt preliminarily decided on a "campus bombing viral marketing", and pasted the propaganda posters full of youthful atmosphere all over the places where the schools could be pasted, so that students could see them and then become interested, which happened to be seen in the school's cinema. After the first round of screenings in hundreds of campus cinemas, which aroused the response of the student class, and with a new round of publicity, the second round of large-scale screenings in urban cinemas began.

If "Youth Musical" can be a big success, it will take advantage of the trend to launch many peripheral products, DVDs, original CD records, and even novels, clothes and toys. But none of this can be rushed, their plan is that after the success of "Youth Musical", some of the peripheral companies will cooperate with other companies, or directly sell the rights of that type of product, like clothes and toys, and some of them will make their own, like the original CD record, and buy a record company when the time is right.

However, these assumptions are all based on the success of "Youth Musical", and once "Youth Musical" fails, let's think about how to keep Flame Film Company first.

"I see. After listening to Mark Slent's words, Simon Willis, a middle-aged white man, nodded and said, "When the meeting is over, I'll go make a plan." ”

"Ok, I'm looking forward to seeing your proposal. Mark Slant looked at Wang Yang with an expression of "I'm done."

Looking at the employees on both sides of the conference table, seeing that they all looked over, Wang Yang took out a printed script and did not show it to them in case it leaked, after all, he barely remembered the names of these people. He shook the script and said, "I'm sure everyone knows, the company will soon produce a new movie, tentatively titled "High-School-Musical", which is a campus song and dance film, directed by me." ”

The employees all nodded, not surprised, they had already heard about it, except for the company's production and buying manager, Sandy Pikes, a white man in his early thirties, who had a look of worry on his face and looked at Wang Yang and stopped. Wang Yang noticed him, so he stopped talking and asked with a smile, "Sandy, is there anything you want to say?" Sandy Pix frowned and said, "Mr. Wang, I just want to say that the market for the genre of song and dance films is very small now, should you be more cautious?"

"Call me Young, please, everyone calls me Young, I'm only 18 years old, I'm Mr.Young, not Mr.www.xstxt.orgr.www.xstxt.orgr.Young. Wang Yang also smiled, then looked at Sandy Pikes and answered the question just now: "Sandy, I have considered the problem of the song and dance film market before. But I finally decided to make it, why? Because a good film can break the laws of the market, some films affect the market, and some movies are influenced by the market. ”

He smiled confidently: "I believe that "Youth Musical" will be a movie that can affect the market, and it is man-made. ”

"Okay. Sandy Pikes nodded silently and didn't continue to persuade him, knowing he couldn't persuade the young boss anymore. It's no wonder that at the age of 18, he created the miracle of "Ghost Shadow", with a net worth of tens of millions, he is naturally full of confidence in everything. Sandy could only sigh helplessly in her heart, hoping that this young boss really understood what she was doing!

Wang Yang didn't talk about this topic anymore, he never thought about making everyone agree that he was filming "Youth Musical", just like now, he doesn't need Sandy Pikes to understand, he just needs everyone to do their job well, and he only needs Sandy Pikes to help him complete the construction of the crew.

"The investment in "Youth Musical" is about 5 million, of course, this is just my rough estimate, in fact, I will take making a good movie as the first criterion. Wang Yang looked at the employees and said, he took out a notebook with the shooting needs, and asked the office secretary Miss Foona Hassen to show it to Sandy Pikes, the book recorded the scenes, props, extras and other information needed for the movie, and he said to Sandy: "Sandy, the movie is shot on 35mm film, and the whole script is about 200 minutes after shooting, you go to make a budget for me." ”

Sandy Pikes took the notebook and nodded, "Okay." ”

The so-called 5 million is just set an investment level, 5 million is a small-cost production, and it will definitely not invite any popular actors to star; but it is not a hard and fast rule at 5 million, sometimes it is okay to increase the budget to 6 million, or save money to 4 million.

"Also, we need to look for choreographers and arrangers, and this is a song and dance film. However, the work of forming the crew is temporarily at the back. Wang Yang knocked on the script and said a little excitedly: "Let's start the casting of the movie first." ”

Mark Slant took over and said with a smile: "So, the publicity work of "Youth Musical" is about to begin. He looked at Simon Willis, the manager of the distribution department, and said, "Simon, yesterday I asked you to contact a media outlet for an exclusive interview with us, how is it now?"

"I've connected with the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times. Simon Willis glanced at Wang Yang and smiled with a sigh: "As soon as they heard 'Magic Young's company, Magic Young's second movie', you know, they screamed 'wow'! They can't wait to do this interview, I will make an appointment for the interview in the afternoon, and the location is here in our company, no problem, right?"

"No problem. Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "I'm right here." ”

After the meeting, Wang Yang returned to his small office and continued to write the script of "Youth Singing and Dancing" on the computer. After more than a week of buying the company, and after the acquisition, he had to agree on a development policy with Mark Slunter, and he didn't have time to design the storyboard, so the script was less than half completed.

Wang Yang now understands why Steven Spielberg didn't attend any of DreamWorks' financial meetings, and why he said, "I hope any meeting I attend can be over in two minutes." "The reason is simple, Spielberg prefers to be a director rather than a businessman. Wang Yang leaned back in his chair and exhaled, it was only a little more than a week, and he felt physically and mentally tired. In addition to the novelty at the beginning, the next thing is dull, and every day in a suit in a conference room to negotiate and hold meetings, sometimes it is really more tiring than handing out flyers on the street.

Thankfully, now that the company needs him to handle all the things he needs to do, it's time to leave it to Mark Slenter, and he can finally do what he loves and wants to do the most.

"go, go, go!" Wang Yang cheered himself up, his spirits lifted, looked at the screen, and his hands tapped on the keyboard.

Troy, the protagonist of "Youth Musical", came to the audition site of the musical and hid behind the mop with the heroine Gabriella, both of them for fear that others would find themselves interested in participating in the audition for the musical. The audition was over, and only Mr. Dabbs, who was in charge of the selection, and the girl who was in charge of the piano accompaniment on the stage, Kathy Nelson, saw that Mr. Dabbs was leaving, Gabriella finally mustered up the courage to jump out, saying that he was here for the selection, while Troy hid to the side.

In the original version of the TV movie, in the following filming, when Mr. Dabbs said to Gabriella, "The selection is over, and you don't have a partner", Troy jumped out and said that he was the partner.

In this paragraph, there is never a shot of Troy who is hiding, and his psychological struggle is not expressed, and then he comes out as soon as he jumps, and the rhythm is very abrupt. So Wang Yang added a set of materials, pointed the camera at Troy hiding behind the wall, and filmed his expression when he heard Mr. Dabbs's words, showing that he had the courage to go out after psychological struggles and changes.

One morning, Wang Yang was writing a storyboard script, went to the restaurant on the second floor for dinner at noon, and returned to the office to continue writing after he was done.

In the afternoon, Kim Sylvie, a female reporter from the Los Angeles Times, also came to the headquarters of Flame Films, and Wang Yang naturally wanted to receive her, took her to visit the company, and took some photos. But she most wanted the kind of photo of the name plate on the door of the company, but she couldn't take it because the manufacturer hadn't delivered the goods yet, so she had to take some photos of the busy office.

The focus of this interview is "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", and introducing Wang Yang's new company is only secondary, so in the reception room, she asked Wang Yang a few questions like "how does it feel to be a boss", and then asked him with all her strength about the second film "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth" that he planned to shoot.

"Can you tell us what the story of the movie is about?" Kim Sylvie asked, sitting on the sofa with a black camera hanging around her neck, holding a ballpoint pen in one hand and a small paper notebook in the other.

Wang Yang sat on the other side of the leather sofa and replied to her: "All I can say now is that this is an inspirational story, a story about how young people have the courage to face themselves and get real happiness." Of course, the specific content is not penetrating at all, so as to arouse everyone's curiosity and expectations, and to achieve the early publicity effect.

Kim Sylvie knew this, of course, and she didn't ask, but quickly recorded it on a piece of paper with a pen in her hand, and asked, "Why did you make a school song and dance film, and what made you suddenly make this type of movie?"

"It's not surprising that I'm shooting school films, right? Wang Yang smiled and replied: "The reason is actually very simple, I want to shoot, and I also think it is suitable for shooting, so I go by feeling." ”

"You know, many people think that you will continue to make horror movies, have you ever worried that this "Youth Musical" will not be accepted?" Kim Sylvie looked at Wang Yang sincerely, and added: "Can you tell me your expectations for this movie?"

"I don't have to worry about it, "Ghost Record" is not all of me, and "Singing and Dancing Youth" is a completely different and new attempt for me, this is my first time making a film film, and I will let everyone see another me. After a pause, Wang Yang said confidently: "Of course, I have high expectations for this movie, it will be liked by everyone, I have this confidence." He understands that only when he shows a strong sense of confidence will he be more noticeable.

Next, Wang Yang continued to answer many questions from Kim Sylvie, including some questions about his private life, "Why do you still live in a small apartment when you become the youngest multimillionaire?", "Do you have a girlfriend?", "I heard that you were very popular in high school, is that true? Will this "Youth Musical" be the epitome of your high school?"

These gossip questions gave Wang Yang a headache, and he was really worried that the interview published by the "Los Angeles Times" tomorrow would be two-thirds of these gossip questions, and only one-third would be left for "Youth Musical".

When he got home in the evening, Wang Yang, who had taken a hot shower, came to the computer, prepared to rest for a while, and boarded his own MSN. He dragged the list of online contacts, and when he saw Rachel online, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and clicked to send a line of words: "Hi, Rachel." After the post-publicity work for "Ghost Record" ended, Rachel went back to Toronto, but they would basically contact each other on the Internet every one or two days, occasionally chatting on the phone.

"Hi Jan. Rachel quickly replied with a single line.

Wang Yang typed: "I think you will come to Los Angeles in two days, because "Youth Musical" is about to start casting!" After the script was written, when he chatted with Rachel, he mentioned the general content of the movie, and also said that she was suitable to play the second female lead of "Xia Pei Evans".

"Call me. Rachel typed. Wang Yang's fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard a few times, and said, "Why didn't you call me?" Rachel immediately replied: "Oh, shouldn't the youngest multimillionaire be asked to pay for the phone bill?" Wang Yang couldn't help laughing, typed an "ok" and sent it over, then picked up his mobile phone and dialed it, and as soon as he connected, he smiled and said, "Hey, miser." ”

"Hi Monopoly. Rachel's crisp laughter came over, and she said, "Yang, have you found an investment?" She didn't know about Wang Yang's acquisition of A-Pix, thinking that she had just attracted investors.

Wang Yang said in a mysterious tone: "No, I said, I invest by myself." In fact, I just bought a film company. Rachel suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my God! really?!" Wang Yang laughed haha, enjoying his friend's surprise, he had been hiding the acquisition, just wanted to give his friends a "surprise", he smiled: "Yes, you can call me 'Mr.Boss' now." ”

"Okay, Mr. Boss, tell me, what the hell is going on?" Rachel laughed.

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