Chapter 108: Preparations
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"Wei Liang, give it, this one million check is the first installment of the record royalty, you collect it first. Zheng Donghan called Cheng Weiliang from his home today and handed him a large check with a smile.
Cheng Weiliang took the check, flicked it in his hand, and thanked him: "Mr. Zheng, thank you!" He happened to be short of money recently, and he needed money in all aspects.
For records sold, it usually takes three months, or even more than half a year, to receive settlement payments from major wholesalers and distributors. When the money arrives at the record company, it needs to go through some complicated accounting, and it will take a while for the record dividends to be distributed to the singers.
Cheng Weiliang's two records, in Xiangjiang, Taiwan Island, and all over Nanyang, have very good sales figures, and have exceeded one million sales.
Although the sales volume is very good, Cheng Weiliang started from the first fine disc, and it was only more than two months later, and the dealer only paid part of the payment to Polygram, and now Zheng Donghan actually paid part of the dividends to Cheng Weiliang in advance.
"You don't have to thank me! Just write me more good songs! Boy, it's big enough this time! The company has to give me some expression. Zheng Donghan said.
Cheng Weiliang smiled, knowing that Zheng Donghan was saying that he was bold! The amount of money invested in "Meteor Garden" was too large, from the initial 500,000 yuan, to 1 million now! Although Cheng Weiliang only needed to actually invest 300,000 yuan, the other 400,000 yuan in sponsorship fees, if he could not get sponsorship by then, he would have to advance the missing funds himself, or choose to reduce his share of income.
"That's right. For this episode of "Planetarium", I need to find a young female singer with a clear voice who can sing the feelings in the lyrics. Mr. Zheng, have you found a candidate? The female singer in the company is suitable for singing?" Cheng Weiliang remembered the question of the singer of the song. opened his mouth to ask Zheng Donghan.
This song "Planetarium" is an episode throughout the whole play in the Japanese version of "Meteor Garden", sung by the well-known Japanese female singer Ai Otsuka.
The melody of the song is beautiful, the lyrics give people a touch of sentimentality and nostalgia, once actively trying to keep smiling, and in the end, although powerless and helpless, but always remember the original beauty. This deeply emotional love song is used as an interlude to render the emotions of the characters in the play. Cheng Weiliang thinks that it is more suitable than the Taiwan version of the brisk "Love Must Be Done". This episode is quite important, so he must find a young female singer who can sing the feeling of this song.
"Okay, let's take care of the singer. You don't have to worry, we'll definitely find you the right female singer to sing at. Zheng Donghan said with a smile, thought for a while, and then said, "Wei Lin's side." It seems that there is a little girl named Chen Huixian recently. voted a sample song to the company, he thought that this girl had a very good voice, and planned to call her to audition for the company. Wei Lin said that this girl's timbre is pure, and she may be suitable for singing the song "Planetarium". ”
"Chen Huixian?" Cheng Weiliang was embarrassed, and actually caught a powerful female singer, the future Polygram first sister Chen Huixian came to sing this "Planetarium", and it was not in vain that this excellent song was not in vain!
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Cheng Weiliang and ATV. After the signing of the cooperation agreement, both parties were in an urgent mood. Each quickly got into place.
The first phase had a total of 600,000 funds, including 200,000 for ATV, 300,000 for Cheng Weiliang, and 100,000 for Polygram, which quickly entered the special financial account of the crew of "Meteor Garden".
Xu Xiaoming's side is also very efficient, and he quickly set up a project for "Meteor Garden". According to Cheng Weiliang's request, he transferred capable personnel from ATV within two days to form a crew preparation team headed by Mei Xiaoqing.
Mei Xiaoqing, Chinese New Year's Eve, has served as the director of several TV series during Li's TV period, and she served as one of the directors of the highly rated "Sunshine in the Shower" in 1980. This "Sunshine in the Shower" created a precedent for modern youth romance dramas in Xiangjiang, and the ratings once surpassed the wireless dramas of the same period, achieving excellent ratings, and it is a modern youth drama of typical significance.
Xu Xiaoming sent Mei Xiaoqing, a female director who has filmed successful youth dramas and has some qualifications in ATV, to partner with Cheng Weiliang, which means to attach importance to Cheng Weiliang, and also has the meaning of escorting the youth student drama "Meteor Garden". In case Cheng Weiliang's director ability is not good, Mei Xiaoqing can take over the crew immediately, so that the crew will not fall into a shutdown.
The members of the crew preparation team, in addition to Mei Xiaoqing, mainly include casting assistant directors, overall accounting personnel, finance, location liaison personnel, costume and props preparation and other team members.
The casting assistant director mainly selects suitable actors for some less important supporting roles in the play according to Cheng Weiliang's requirements, and at the same time selects audition actors for the male and female protagonists and important supporting roles, and then Cheng Weiliang and Mei Xiaoqing make the final decision.
The location team is mainly responsible for finding and contacting suitable locations for filming.
For example, the aristocratic school in the script, the super mansion of the Daoming Temple family, the luxurious birthday banquet banquet hall of the goddess sister Fuji Tangjing, the pastry shop where Shancai worked, the luxury cruise ship of Cinderella overnight, the seaside holiday villa, the beach concert during the F4 band's summer vacation, the F4 band's campus music practice room, piano room, taekwondo gym, fitness club, and the store where the heroine and her friends went shopping and bought clothes, etc., all kinds of scenes are contacted by the location team.
Costume props group, in addition to some common supplies can be obtained from ATV's props library, the school uniforms of the aristocratic college need to be customized, and the daily costumes and banquet evening dresses of several male and female protagonists and important supporting roles also need to be customized. All kinds of brand-name clothing, clocks, jewelry, etc. need to find sponsorship, as well as Cheng Weiliang's special racing plot in order to attract sponsorship, and also need to seek sponsors for brand enterprises such as sports cars and famous cars.
After the formation of the preparatory team for the crew of "Meteor Garden", each team performed its own duties and carried out actions.
Cheng Weiliang's task is the heaviest, he is responsible for boarding the gates of major companies to fight the autumn breeze, oh no, to pull sponsorship fees!
Cheng Weiliang believes that clothing is a more important issue, so he starts with clothing.
Before he went to Taipei, he had already acquired the design department of a bankrupt clothing company, and he handed over more than a dozen renderings of various types of clothing he had drawn to the design department, so that they could quickly get standard clothing design drawings for him, and at the same time rushed to produce several styles of clothing samples.
He took a few clothing renderings and went to the door of a large clothing company in Xiangjiang.
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"Hello, Mr. Cheng!It's a pleasure to meet again!" a man in a suit with an elegant face in his thirties stood up and extended a warm hand to Cheng Weiliang, who walked into the box.
Cheng Weiliang shook him gently and said with a smile: "I am also honored that General Manager Li can take time out of his busy schedule to meet with me. ”
Li Naixi, managing director of TAL Garment, had a hint of embarrassment on his face, and when Cheng Weiliang came to the company to meet him as a TV producer two days ago, he thought that the other party was purely pulling advertisements for TV stations, or renting their company's costumes or venues for the crew to film. So he sent a deputy head of the logistics department to talk to him.
I never thought that after talking to the deputy supervisor for a while, he left an obviously incomplete product promotion cooperation plan, as well as four renderings of animation characters with novel costumes, and said that he would come back to discuss in detail when the general manager was free.
After Li Naixi returned to the company the next day, the deputy supervisor reported the incident to him. Curious, he took a look at it and was immediately attracted by those pictures. He was not attracted by the vivid and graceful city girls and lively and cheerful bright girl anime characters depicted in the pictures, but by the clothing styles of the girls and girls in the pictures.
The four clothes in this picture belong to two series of design styles, respectively showing the mature and charming style of a woman and the delicate and beautiful of a young girl! I wonder which well-known fashion design company is a new work? The style is very different from the current popular in Hong Kong!
Looking at other people's good works, Li Naixi couldn't help but think that although his company is one of the oldest textile and garment companies in Xiangjiang, despite its strength, it has always been able to do OEM production for international brands. When others eat meat, they can only drink a little soup, and the profit is very meager.
It has been 10 years since the crisis of the family company in 73 and he was asked to come back from abroad to help his uncle manage the garment company!
Now that the company has just undergone a reorganization, he has officially assumed the position of managing director of TAL Apparel, and it is at the time of his ambition to look at these clothing pictures, which suddenly arouses his mind to create his own well-known clothing brand.
Therefore, he took the initiative to meet Cheng Weiliang who left a clothing picture the next day. (To be continued.) )