To give a simple example, in all TV dramas and movies in the United States, everyone you can see on the screen is an extra, and there is no such thing as taking pictures on the street. Once someone's face is secretly photographed, well, congratulations, you have made a fortune, hurry up to the court to sue, and a lawsuit, according to the previous precedent, the maximum amount of compensation is 20 million US dollars, which is considered a violation of your portrait rights. Not to mention secretly filming an ordinary person, even if the character in it can't just hum a song that the producer has no copyright, that is also a copyright violation.

This system of strict copyright protection has created a very interesting phenomenon, and if there is a television picture in a Hollywood film, it is always the weather forecast and the news broadcast. Because according to U.S. law, only the copyright of weather forecasts and news broadcasts is in God's hands, so it is not in the hands of the judge, and when he sees God in the future, he will renegotiate with you on copyright issues.

The above is just the mode of operation of Hollywood's top film companies, that is, the 6 big. This approach seems to be rigorous and protects the interests of all parties. But if you think about it carefully, you will find a very important problem, this model is too rigid, seriously affects innovation, and in the long run, it will affect the development of the entire film and television industry. But Hollywood doesn't seem to be affected, and it's getting stronger and stronger, why is that?

Because there are not only 6 major film companies in Hollywood, there are more than a dozen first-line film companies below them that are second only to them but have great market influence. Under these first-tier film companies, there are hundreds of second-tier film companies. Further down, there are more than 5,000 small film companies. These small film companies are barely registered as companies, but often there are only three or two people in the company. Dozens of hundreds of companies are gathered in an office building, with a receptionist, a company promotion manager, and an actor screening manager, and a large number of companies have not been able to produce a movie for several years.

This is the shape of a pyramid, the top is the 6 major film companies, the following are the first-line film companies, the middle is the second-line film companies, and the most basic level is the small film companies that do not enter the stream. In this model. It is the standard rule of 28, 20% of companies get 80% of the profits, and the vast majority of companies lose money or struggle to maintain. But the more you go below. The more relaxed the rules are for them, how to shoot the film, how to invest and finance, how to choose the script and actors, many of them decide by their own heads.

By now, you should know why Hollywood's film and television industry has endured? Yes, this rule was designed at the beginning. It's about innovation and how newcomers can make their mark. The six major studios are not responsible for innovating and giving new talent a stage. They are only responsible for making movies that meet the appetite of mainstream audiences better, more refined, and more popular, and the following companies are responsible for the rest. The first-class studios also have to auction off the blockbuster films, but they can try out different styles of films, and they have to be more flexible in choosing scripts than the six major studios, which is why movies like "The Lord of the Rings" are born. If the operation process of the six major film companies is completely followed, the script of "The Lord of the Rings" will not pass the preliminary review at all.

Further down is a hundred flowers, you can use any theme, any actor, any director, and you can shoot any movie. Once you catch up with a good theme or new actors, you will immediately be favored by major film companies. Then poach and go to flesh out the top Hollywood content. And the small film company that discovers this theme and these newcomers will not lose money, because there is respect for copyright and labor, no one will plagiarize your creativity, let alone steal your contracted actors for nothing, you can get a reasonable remuneration from it, and then continue your film career, this is a virtuous circle.

Therefore, under this kind of rule, the saying that hard work will be rewarded will be true, and it is a dream that is really possible. There are also people in our country who use this sentence to educate their children, and they can't say wrong, but sooner or later the child will find out that you are lying to him, because even if he works hard, the reward he gets is probably not what he deserves. This is also the root cause of the lack of domestic innovation and the fact that no one is willing to take the initiative to engage in invention and creation, and it has fallen into a vicious circle. If you take a look at our entertainment programs, it is clear that you either bought European and American copyrights, or bought Korean copyrights.

Are we Chinese stupid? The answer is that the benevolent and the wise see the wise, this thing is not that Hong Tao dare not say it, but the author does not dare to write it.

The TV station under the Golden Throat Media Group is a second-rate film and television production company, and the rules are much more relaxed, and the copyright of the script is in Hong Tao's personal hands, allowing big financiers like Hong Tao to independently invest in the production of film and television works. And as far as TV series are concerned, the production specifications are simpler than movies, in other words, in the United States, TV series are raised by stepmothers, and the salary of TV series actors can never catch up with movie actors, and their reputation is much lower, and the grade is poor.

In the United States, TV dramas are divided into two broadcast periods, spring and autumn, and this is the reason why American dramas are always season-by-season. Because TV dramas want to give up the two prime periods of summer and Christmas, and keep them for those blockbusters to play, so as soon as the summer vacation and Christmas holidays come, major TV stations stop broadcasting all new TV series, and major theaters begin to overwhelm blockbuster movie advertisements.

And as soon as the summer and Christmas files passed, the advertisements for the hit TV series came out again, and at this time, none of the blockbusters were released, and the small production filmmakers didn't care, and they would play when they loved. Therefore, when filming TV series in the United States, according to the length of time, the number of episodes in the autumn file will be more, and the number of episodes in the spring file will be less. In this way, TV series and movies will not compete for the audience together, and there will be no vicious competition, which can generally ensure that the TV series and film industry are full.

The first-class movie actor is called MovieStar, which literally translates to movie star; second-rate movie actor and TV drama actor is called Celebrity, which probably means a famous artist; the former is the highest grade, all of them are first-line stars, you usually don't see them, neither take on commercials nor participate in messy activities, and concentrate on pondering the script. If you want to see them, except for the awards gala, you can only go to the cinema every one and a half to two years and spend money to watch them. The latter are much more casual, shooting commercials, being covers, and participating in entertainment programs are all them, so relatively speaking, they are not very valuable and can be seen at any time.

This is different from our domestic habits, we are here to brush up on exposure, for fear that the audience will forget themselves. Why? Because they have a weak heart, they don't have any good works, and they don't have an authoritative rating agency, and the only thing they can count on is to make the audience remember this face. In Hollywood, these movie stars are all holding back, maintaining their worth, and specializing in taking on movies with big productions, big investments, and excellent scripts, and then improving the audience's love for themselves through acting.

Hong Tao is not a maverick this time, he plans to let Barbara run the filming and distribution of this TV series in the usual way here in the United States, because he wants to see what the overall strength of Golden Throat Media Group looks like, and whether he can finally make this TV series like in his previous life. However, as the chief producer, chief director, chief screenwriter, and chief planner, Hong Tao still put forward his own suggestions on the use of actors and shooting methods, and finally won the approval of the crew.

After all, Hong Tao is not a layman now, his albums are selling well in the United States, and three of the top five on the charts two weeks later are his. The reality show he planned is currently one of the most watched shows in the United States, and some genres have swept everything. In addition, the overall idea of this script is his, and the copyright is also in his hands, even if the 6 major film companies come, their opinions must be respected. In addition to those rules mentioned above, there is an even more important rule in Hollywood, and that is the supremacy of copyright!

In fact, with these seemingly red tape rules, things are not only more troublesome, but simpler. Because everything will not have any big surprises, everyone will follow the same rules, and it will take less than a month for the crew of "Prison Break" to be built. In order to shoot a few episodes for broadcast before the spring file, without saying a word, it was directly started.

Hong Tao watched it with the crew for a few days at the beginning, planning to learn how to shoot TV series, but he didn't know if he didn't watch it, and he was not interested at all when he saw it. This thing is not filmed episode by episode according to the script at all, but each episode is divided into N more sub-shots, and then the background, actors, and plots are similarly filmed in one place, and then change places to shoot in another scene. So much so that the content filmed every day is not at all touched, one time it is a shot of the first episode, and then suddenly it is a shot of the third episode, which makes Hong Tao's brain unable to work according to linearity, and the jumping around is a little schizophrenic.

During the filming of the past few days, Hong Tao also discovered several interesting details by himself. For example, for each film and television work, the producer has to register a new company separately, which is usually a short-term company for 11 fiscal years, which means that after 11 years, the company will no longer exist. Why do you want to do this? Because whether it is a bank or an insurance company, they have to take your contract to mortgage, and Golden Throat Media Group can't mortgage the entire group to the bank, so this practice has become a common practice. (To be continued......)