Chapter 343: Cluster Effect
In the fourth quarter, "Zhenghao Studio" conservatively estimated that it would also be able to account for a huge amount of more than 1.2 billion, although the money would have to be allocated in the future, but in case the budget of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was overrun, "Zhenghao Studio" would not have no money on hand.
When the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Country" were held, the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had actually been formed, and they went to the frontier to shoot in the Gobi Desert to shoot the scenes of Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu from their first acquaintance to knowing each other and falling in love.
The original work of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is based on Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu as the protagonists, but in the adapted movie version, the scenes of Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu are compressed a lot, and Luo Xiaohu, the male lead in the original book, has almost become a big supporting role in the movie.
Most of Luo Xiaohu's scenes are concentrated in the frontier, although there are some big scenes in it, but the difficulty of filming is not great.
After the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon", Zhao Zhenghao could not immediately devote himself to the filming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", because there was still one last stop on the itinerary of the "legendary" world tour.
When the itinerary of the "legendary" world tour is over, Zhao Zhenghao can devote himself to the filming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
And according to the weather forecast, in a few days, the border will usher in a wave of widespread cold air, which will not only cool down, but also rain and even snow.
If you can't finish filming the scenes in the frontier before this wave of cold air arrives, the next time will not be suitable for filming.
Although, Zhao Zhenghao can ask the actors and crew to overcome difficulties and rise to the occasion, but if he does that, it will be too inhumane.
The key is that Zhao Zhenghao is worried that in such a harsh environment, he will not be able to achieve the effect he wants if he barely starts filming.
Zhao Zhenghao asked Ren Lan to take the crew to the frontier in advance, shoot some less important cutscenes first, and scenes that are not too difficult, and try to hurry.
Zhao Zhenghao himself, after finishing the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", immediately flew to the frontier, joined the crew, and used the limited time to personally shoot some more important and difficult scenes.
Xie Xin and Xiang Yazhen have no problems with their acting skills, it has been three or four months since the script was handed over to them, and the lines have long been memorized, and in accordance with Zhao Zhenghao's requirements, they have carried out three or four months of special training in martial arts, and the preparation for the fighting part of the frontier scene has been quite sufficient.
This made the filming go relatively smoothly after the official start, and some cutscenes were quickly filmed, but only encountered some problems when filming the scene of horse chase.
Although Xie Xin and Xiang Yazhen had both carried out special equestrian training before this, in such a short period of time, they were able to run on a horse, which had reached the limit of their ability, and it was impossible to skillfully make the prescribed fighting actions on horseback.
In this case, in other crews, there are generally two ways to solve it, one is to use a stand-in, and the other is to use some shooting skills, more close-up shots, and less panoramic shots.
However, Zhao Zhenghao's basic requirement for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is that the martial arts scene must be played by the actor himself, and he himself leads by example and trains half a year in advance, which is to make the martial arts part of this movie produce the best effect.
If you want to shoot the best results, stand-ins, and those self-deceptive shooting techniques, you can't use them.
Xie Xin and Xiang Yazhen are also people who have the pursuit of performance, Zhao Zhenghao's requirements coincided with their own ideas, risking injury, insisting on going into battle in person, grinding little by little, trying again and again, and finally successfully filmed the scene of chasing on horseback.
Zhao Zhenghao personally directed and filmed the difficult part of the frontier scene, and flew back to the capital non-stop, and the closing station of the "legendary" World Tour, which has lasted for more than two years, is where the curtain opens.
The Beijing National Stadium held the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon" only five days ago, and now it will host three concerts in the last leg of the fifth stage of the "Legendary" World Tour.
In the past five days, although Zhao Zhenghao disappeared and rushed to the frontier alone to devote himself to the filming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he was still dominated by news related to Zhao Zhenghao in the Dragon Kingdom entertainment circle.
In the past few days, the most hotly discussed thing in the entertainment circle of Dragon Country is naturally the first season of "The Voice of Dragon Country", which has just ended perfectly.
As soon as the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" ended, "Zhenghao Studio" took advantage of its popularity and lost no time in launching the EP that had already been produced by the top ten contestants.
Originally, "Zhenghao Studio" planned to step up and gradually release ten EPs of the top ten players, hoping to extend the popularity of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" as much as possible.
However, after the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", Wang Yulan and Zhao Zhenghao urgently negotiated and decided to change the plan and release the EPs of the top ten players together as soon as possible!
In this way, although there are top 10 players in the same room, resulting in the risk that the sales of their respective EPs are not ideal, however, after some weighing, Wang Yulan still believes that the benefits of this outweigh the disadvantages.
Zhao Zhenghao has no opinion on this, although he still has the title of music director of "Zhenghao Studio", but in addition to the release of the first two solo albums and the first album of the "Heroic" band, he personally participated in the distribution work, and then completely became a big shopkeeper, only responsible for the production of the album, and the distribution matters were all handed over to Wang Yulan.
In the past few years, "Zhenghao Studio" has also recruited several talents who are well versed in the market in the circle and are handy in the distribution work.
Zhao Zhenghao actually didn't know what the distribution strategy was, and he just relied on his identity as a traverser before, and there was no one available around him, so he reluctantly gave it a try.
Now, it is natural to hand over professional matters to professional people.
The EPs of the top 10 contestants were all released digitally, and only a handful of physical CDs were produced for each album, and these physical CDs were not officially launched to the market, but were given as a kind of souvenir to lucky enthusiastic fans.
The EP of the top 10 contestants is priced quite cheaply on the Internet, with a total of three songs of the entire EP, the package price is only 1.88 dragon coins, the single price of the title song is only eight cents, and the price of two non-main songs is only six cents.
Even if you buy it according to the price of the single and buy the entire EP for the whole EP, it only costs two dollars.
In the current Dragon Kingdom, who will still look at two yuan in their eyes?
In big cities, two dollars may fall on the ground, and some people don't bother to bend down to pick them up.
Even if you buy all ten EPs, it will cost less than twenty yuan, just the money for a meal, and you can save it casually, and it will come out.
Therefore, "Zhenghao Studio" released the EPs of the top ten players together, although it did have an impact on sales, but the impact was not very large.
As the annual champion of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", Wang Zhou is the most popular, the most famous, and the EP sales are also the highest.
Her album with the same name as the title song "Bubble", 24 hours after it was launched, the cumulative sales of the album sound source exceeded 5 million, and it is expected to exceed 10 million;
With such sales, it is already comparable to some first-line singers!
Li Longyue, another player who entered the peak showdown, after the first EP was launched, the sales performance was also quite good, although the single sound source sales of the album sound source and the title song were less than Wang Zhou, but the gap was not opened, the cumulative sales of the album sound source in 24 hours reached 4.5 million, and the cumulative sales of the title song "Southern Girl" exceeded 100 million in 24 hours!
In addition, in the finals of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", the impressive iron lung singer Pi Yunlong, although the music source sales of the first EP were opened by Wang Zhou and Li Longyue, the cumulative amount of 24 hours is only more than 3 million, and there is basically no hope of hitting the 10 million mark, but the single sound source sales of the title song "I Believe" are eye-catching, and the cumulative sales of 24 hours have exceeded 100 million, even higher than Li Longyue's "Southern Girl"!
Prior to this, Wang Zhou, Li Longyue, and Pi Yunlong, the star contestants of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", although their popularity and topicality were quite high, during the broadcast of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", the audience's recognition and heated discussion were no worse than those of ordinary first-line singers, but the positioning given to them by the market was still only second-tier singers.
Now, when their debut album was launched, it was popular with fans and triggered a sales frenzy, they already have the strength to hit the first-line singer position, as long as they can maintain their current popularity for half a year, and there are new songs of the same quality launched in the future, the position of first-line singers can be confirmed.
The other seven of the top 10 players, although the market performance after the launch of the first EP is not as good as the above three, but the 24-hour sales of the single sound source of the title song are also more than 50 million, and according to the current momentum, the final sales are more than 100 million, which is not a big problem.
This kind of performance has been able to allow them to temporarily sit in the position of second-tier singers.
Although, if their follow-up performance is weak, they may be reduced to a so-called singer who eats for a lifetime with a famous song in the future, but with Zhao Zhenghao supporting them, as long as they don't die by themselves, the possibility of this situation is almost none.
Zhao Zhenghao has nothing else in his hands, just a lot of good songs!
In the past week, the top 10 singers on the Golden Song Chart of the Dragon Country Golden Song Chart were almost dominated by the ten singers packaged by "Zhenghao Studio", and the top 10 of the Hot Singles List of the Golden Song Chart were only one song that was not from the singers of "Zhenghao Studio";
The 30 songs included in the 10 EPs of the top 10 players of "The Voice of the Dragon Country" packaged by "Zhenghao Studio" are all among the top 100 hot singles on the Golden Song Chart.
In order to push them again, Zhao Zhenghao invited Wang Zhou, Li Longyue and others to the closing concert of the "legendary" World Tour, and set aside enough time for them to sing the title song of their EP one by one.
This concert, "Zhenghao Studio" conducted a global live broadcast, and more than 200 million people around the world watched the live broadcast at the same time, and then more than 200 million people watched the full video of the concert.
With Zhao Zhenghao's unsparing support, the EPs of Wang Zhou, Li Longyue and others have set off another wave of frenzy in sales.
Wang Zhou's "Bubble", the cumulative sales of the single music source in two weeks successfully exceeded 200 million!
This data, among the new generation of singers, dominates the front, and compared with those first-line backbone singers, it is not lagging behind.
Boosted by this craze, the market price of Wang Zhou's commercial performance can already be compared to a first-line singer, and some performers have made an offer of 3 million for three songs!
Next, just around the end of the year, it is the hottest time in the commercial performance market, taking advantage of this shareholder wind, the ten singers packaged and launched by "Zhenghao Studio" have become the new favorites sought after by the market, and the commercial performance quotation directly skips the stage of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and the minimum starts from 500,000, which is basically more than one million!
Zhao Zhenghao himself does not accept commercial performances, but he will not ask Wang Zhou and others to learn from him, "Zhenghao Studio" is not a good church, and it is natural to pay off for putting so much effort into them.
Zhao Zhenghao's personal reward most wanted to get from them is the idol value - now, the worst performance among the top ten players, the idol value has accumulated more than 10 million, and the best performing Wang Zhou, the idol value has exceeded 100 million.
The return that "Zhenghao Studio" wants to reap from them is naturally the commission specified in the brokerage contract.
Even if the "Zhenghao Studio" gives Wang Zhou a very generous commission conditions, only five or five open, if it is operated properly, in the four months of the year-end and New Year holidays, it is conservatively estimated that "Zhenghao Studio" can also draw a commission of 200 million from them!
In addition, there are already concert contractors who have sent cooperation intentions to "Zhenghao Studio", wanting to package and hold a platter concert for Wang Zhou and others!
This plan has actually been discussed and approved within the "Zhenghao Studio", but it has not been timed to implement it for a while.
Now, of course, it's a hit and drop!
Although Wang Zhou's popularity is not low, her popularity is still relatively empty at present, and there are 200 million fans who are willing to spend a few cents and a few dollars to buy and download her song sources, but how many of them can be willing to spend hundreds or thousands of yuan to buy tickets to watch her concert, it's not good.
One person's popularity is not enough to support a concert, and even if it does, it can only be said that it is a small concert of less than 10,000 people.
However, if all the top 10 contestants are gathered to form a cluster effect and support a concert of 50,000 people, there is no problem.