The lights came on one after another, but the applause did not stop, and soon it turned into a neat "pop, plac, plac, encore"

Someone lit up their mobile phone, held it up and waved it up and down, and it did look like a bit of a live performance.

On the makeshift stage, the performers stop to pack up their instruments and stand there looking at each other.

Their average age is only 18 years old, most of them are pure newcomers who have been "electrocuted" for the first time, and they don't have much experience in public performances, so they really don't know how to deal with the audience's enthusiastic return request.

Seeing this, the host hurriedly stood up to help explain, saying that their schedule was very full, and there were two movie theaters waiting behind, and they had to take the high-speed train to Jinmen at night, so there was really no way to delay and stop, and asked the audience for understanding and understanding.

was interrupted by her like this, and the audience also reacted, understanding that the performance they watched was different from ordinary live performances, so they had to put down their hands in disagreement and watch everyone leave.

The actors left, the staff walked in and began to dismantle the small stage, which was just past seven o'clock, and there were still two or three more movies to show after removing the small stage.

The audience got up and walked out, Ran Xu sat still, and sighed deeply, "It's not easy to be an actor! After filming, I have to work hard to promote, run several movie theaters a day, and go to other places overnight, don't think about resting until the movie is released, I feel more bitter than us!"

"Correct!" Zhou Zhou raised his hand, "Not everyone is qualified to work so hard, even if those supporting roles and tricks want to help with publicity, the directors and producers are still unwilling to pay for the air ticket!"

"With so many people, running around the country, just the daily travel expenses and accommodation expenses can be calculated in 10,000 yuan, and the boss is naturally unwilling. ”

Roadshows are already the most cost-effective way to publicize, and advertising is the most cost-effective way to send a press release. Now the movie promotion fee basically starts at 10 million, and those blockbusters have to break 100 million, and they can't play at all without money. ”

Ran Xu was a little speechless, "So many?"

"The country produces seven or eight hundred movies a year, counting imported films, the national box office is only more than 40 billion, excluding those billion, two billion god films, what is the average box office of the remaining movies? ”

"Now that there is the 'Film Promotion Law', there is no license to make films, only pre-screening review is implemented, and in the future, there will only be more and more films with safe themes and similar styles, and more and more money will be spent on publicity and distribution. It is said that online store merchants use sixty percent of gross profit to buy traffic, and it should become more and more common to spend more money on publicity than production in the future. ”

Ran Xu blinked, he knew that the annual box office was more than 40 billion, and he also knew that the Film Promotion Law was officially implemented, after all, it was published in the magazine 'Current Affairs'. But the rest of the data and assertions are not clear to him, "These are your own thoughts?"

"No," Zhou Zhou shrugged, "It's all from the gecko, I think it makes sense." With the massive increase in production and homogeneous competition, there is a greater need for publicity, just like those frantically advertised drinks and laundry. ”

"What about movies that don't have money?"

"Give up theatrical distribution and sell directly to movie channels or video websites around the world. ”

Ran Xu nodded, took out his mobile phone to open the webpage content he had just collected, and handed it to his friend, "Have you been deceived?" I didn't find the name of 'Flash Girl' on the official website of the Shanghai Film Festival. I heard that scammers like to deceive us high school students the most, but it is possible that this is the latest trick, which specializes in deceiving the student party that is out of touch with society. ”

Zhou Zhou took the phone and looked at it, "It seems that you are out of touch with society, right? When is this, why are you still using the 720 of the girl four years ago? Tsk, 1G processor, 512 memory, isn't it stuck?"

"No," Ran Xu shook his head and took the bright yellow phone with scratches all over the fuselage, "I don't update the app, 512 trillion is enough." ”

"Also, the machine from four years ago runs the application from three years ago, of course there is no problem," Zhou Zhou stood up, "Let's go, look at you so pitiful, take you to get a free mobile phone." ”

Ran Xu followed in his footsteps, "Don't try to trick me into going to Yanjiao and Jinghai!

Zhou Zhou rolled his eyes, "What do you think?" It's in the movie theater, just a few steps away. ”

As for the question just now, he also explained: "The flash girl participated in the media attention unit of the movie channel. This award is co-organized by the movie channel and the Shanghai Film Festival, to be precise, it is affiliated. The movie channel is hung with the name of CCTV 6, in fact, the film satellite channel program center under the General Administration is producing and operating, and they are also doing the selection and operation of the media awards. ”

After listening to his friend's introduction, Ran Xu raised his eyebrows, "Is this award also called the Film Festival Media Award?"

"Well, that's right. ”

"I'll go! It turned out to be the spicy chicken award for the best film for 'Little Times' and the best newcomer director for Guo Xiaosi!"

"Ahem," Zhou Zhou choked on his own saliva, covering his mouth in embarrassment and coughing repeatedly.

When his breath was smooth, he said in a sullen voice: "The judges also have times when they are blinded or publicized, most of the time their vision is still very good, and the films they choose either have a good reputation or have a high box office." Besides, the best film of that year also had 'Youth School'. ”

It is a youth movie with the title of "Defeating the College Entrance Examination", and the investor is "Huanggang Secret Scroll" (actually Huanggang Radio and Television), which makes thousands of students tremble, and this movie also won the Huabiao Award on behalf of the official recognition because of the latter's operation. Because it truly reflects the atmosphere of the college entrance examination, it is often used by high schools as a promotional video to prepare for the war, and the third year of high school is organized to watch it collectively in the new semester, including Ran Xu and their school.

Thinking of the plot of that movie, Ran Xu couldn't help laughing, "As soon as your eyes open, start to compete, exhaust you to death, and make your family happy." Hehe, we're out of the sea of suffering now. ”

"It's still early, it can only be said that it is an intermission," Zhou Zhou shook his head, "No matter how good the test is, if you don't fill in the volunteers, it will be in vain in the end." I worked hard to go to college, but in the end, I practiced a game technique that I couldn't do well, and it was still useless. ”

"I don't know how the guys in the class who shouted that they want to take the e-sports major did and whether they can get in. ”

"I don't know," Zhou Zhou shook his head and stopped in front of the locker.

"Why don't you leave?"

Raising the transparent document bag in his hand, Zhou Zhou sneered at his friend who only had a mobile phone in his hand, "Don't you want your admission ticket?"

"Ahh ”

Picking up the mobile phone and approaching the NFC identification area, a cabinet door automatically popped open, Ran Xu walked over and took his plastic document bag, reached out to close the cabinet door, and said casually: "Although 720 is outdated, it has NFC and wireless charging, but many new mobile phones do not have these two functions." ”

"That's all thanks to the plastic back. ”

NFC near-field communication technology is derived from RFID radio frequency identification technology, and wireless charging mostly uses electromagnetic induction schemes, which makes both products more sensitive to metal shells and requires resources to be optimized. Most manufacturers are troublesome and directly cut these two functions of low-end models, in order to save costs and improve cost performance.

Leaving the bag storage area of the theater, Zhou Zhou raised his hand and pointed to a store in front of him, "It's here!"

Ran Xu looked up, first saw the blue bee fluttering on the white door, and then moved his eyes down through the glass door and glanced at the store, "Is this the place to send mobile phones?" I noticed it before, and I thought it was selling souvenirs around the area, so I didn't go in." ”

"Hehe, so you have to thank me for saving you a few thousand dollars. ”

Stretching out their hands to push the door, the two of them walked in one after the other.

Because it is a shop-in-shop embedded in a movie theater, this store is small, with two vending machines placed against the wall on both sides, and a lighted counter in the innermost, where the salesperson sits in the back, holding his mobile phone with both hands and fingers and clicking constantly, as if playing a game.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Zhou stopped, turned around and whispered: "Either the king or the hundred generals, do you bet or not?"

"A fool would bet with you!"

"Honor of Kings" suddenly exploded in the past half a year, helping Penguin Games overturn Bee Games and sit on the throne of the world's largest mobile game company in one fell swoop. Although the latter has such excellent works as "Hundred Generals", the gap in the user base is too large, and they can only watch the gap between revenue and profit getting bigger and bigger. Of course, Baijiangtu has been beaten by the king in a fancy way, relying on excellent programs, graphics and AI, it still sits firmly in the second place of mobile MOBA games, and its popularity and revenue can also beat other mobile games, and this little brother is indeed unlikely to play other games.

Seeing that the target was not hooked, Zhou Zhou shook his head helplessly, walked to the front of the counter and knocked on his fingers, "Little brother!"

When the latter saw the comer, he put down his mobile phone and was about to speak, but the mobile phone rang at an inopportune time: "Take the enemy's head lightly, unstoppable!"

The salesman was full of embarrassment, quickly grabbed his mobile phone and pressed it to mute, and then said, "Two classmates, are you here to participate in the 'Vitality Summer' event?"

"I've already participated," Zhou Zhou pointed at Ran Xu, "I'm bringing him this time." ”

"Oh," the salesman nodded and stretched out his hand, "Classmate, show me the admission ticket." ”

Ran Xu took out the admission ticket and handed it to him, and at the same time confirmed with some anxiety: "You won't use our information to get a loan, right?"

"Of course not!" the salesman said with a shake of his head as he spread the admission ticket on a scanner-like machine, "On the contrary, the bees are doing this activity precisely to prevent you high school graduates from being deceived into borrowing loans and doing pyramid schemes. Of course, companies can also develop you into potential users by the way. Now that the competition is getting fiercer, it has to start with the students. ”

"Oh," Ran Xu nodded, watching the other party operate, and then a plastic card was handed to him.

"This is our membership card, with a built-in RF chip, and there are three green Lai monthly cards in it, please go to the self-service equipment over there to operate and use it. ”

Ran Xu wanted to ask again, but Zhou Zhou pulled him to the self-service terminal, "Scan the card here, and then you will understand." ”

The self-service terminal adopts full touch screen operation, and you can click on the button icon if you need anything, which is really easy to use. Ran Xu finally figured out the truth about the so-called sending of mobile phones, "This thing is just a 'shared mobile phone', and you still have to return it when you run out, where do you say that you sent it?"

"If you don't pay it back when it expires, the phone won't be yours, and what can the bees do to you?"

"Remote shutdown, account closure, credit deduction, notification to the school, and credit reporting, these means are not enough?"

Complaining, Ran Xu quickly chose a mobile phone.

The grade of the mobile phone is different,The number of monthly cards that need to be consumed is also different,He didn't deliberately choose the old model,Didn't add money to the bee8,But chose a mid-range lower bee6lite,Three monthly cards can be used for free until the start of the new semester。

A carton spit out from the machine, and Zhou Zhou grabbed it, "Let me help you see what version it is?"

It's a pity that Ran Xu's luck is not very good, there is only an ordinary blue mobile phone in the box, and the appearance does not look very outstanding.

He is quite pleased with this result, and "eating dates for nothing is too big" is not his style.

Walking out of the cinema, the sun was still shining brightly in the western sky, stubbornly refusing to go down to rest.

Picking up his phone and taking a selfie with himself, Ran Xu looked down and chose the strangest-looking "starry sky mode".

Then he was shocked and opened his mouth wide: "Is it okay to do this? This is too powerful, isn't it?"

"What?" Zhou Zhou looked over and found that the phone screen was a smirking selfie of someone, and the background was a starry night in the wild.

"What's this? It's not difficult to reverse black and white, just adjust the color, trim the shadow and the sky background, and then change the brightness and contrast. The night scenes of many film and television dramas are filmed during the day, especially those big scenes that are difficult to schedule, in order to prevent accidents, they are filmed during the day, and when the post-production software is over, the audience can't see it at all. ”

"Bees just simplify the functions of professional software and put them on the phone, and then automatically cut off the sky and replace it with a starry background, what's all the fuss?"

Ran Xu nodded, "I know, but the problem is that this is too real, right? ”

Hearing this question, Zhou Zhou couldn't help laughing, "That's because the bee clicked the technology tree and spent tens of millions of dollars to make a universe simulator, and later it may feel that it is too wasteful to only use it for games and movies, so it was transferred to the mobile phone album." ”

Bee's 3D games have always attached great importance to the realism of weather and celestial phenomena, and in order to further improve the simulation effect, they first set up an earth simulation supercomputer to improve the weather system, and then collaborated with astronomers to develop a star simulator. By collecting and analyzing existing astronomical data, they packed all the visually visible objects into a specialized supercomputer.

As long as the location coordinates and time information are entered, the two sets of simulators can accurately simulate the sky seen at any point on the earth at a specified time, and the accuracy is far from comparable to traditional star maps and sky photos. There are no flaws in the background of film and television dramas, and there is no problem in lowering the requirements and placing them in the mobile phone album.

"By the way," Speaking of this, Zhou Zhou suddenly remembered something, "You'll be okay tomorrow, right?"

"It's okay, I'm going to stay home and watch TV. ”

"Watch TV later, and go to the International Exhibition Center with me tomorrow to watch the Science and Technology Expo. ”

"Okay. ”

(End of chapter)