Chapter 79, on the hype of the 29-second short film

Once ambition is inflated, it is difficult to control. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

And the source of inspiration for entrepreneurship and investment is, of course, also bursting.

Alice counts her current career, Cisco doesn't need to worry about it at all, driven by the great development of the global Internet, as long as the technology is advanced, in the early nineties, it is not a matter of going public with an annual profit of 60 million.

Just like now, the company has only been established for a few months, and the million-dollar orders from seven or eight universities have already arrived. With the current productivity of the two Posacks, these hundreds of routers are enough to keep them busy for a while. The office is now in their living room, and when the company really needs to rent a few offices to recruit employees, it's not too late for Alice to hang out from time to time.

As for Microsoft, it's even more so that it doesn't have to meddle on its own. With 35% of the shares in hand, the price of Windows 1.0 for $100 a piece, she just sat back and waited for the dividends. Including the profits of the current DOS system, Gates has to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars into her account every month.

If it ends here, the achievement is already jaw-dropping. You know, after all, Alice is only twelve or thirteen years old, and her family is originally only an upper-class middle class with a small amount of savings, and these two companies can already bring in a monthly income of nearly one million dollars. It's no exaggeration to say that becoming a multimillionaire isn't it a matter of about a year?

But when Alice suddenly opened her mind and wanted to open up the mainland clothing market, she found that she was still too young, too simple.

Even if the price of the mainland was not high at that time, the exchange rate with the US dollar was about 1:2.3, and the entire 9.6 million square kilometers was not small compared with the entire African continent......

Fortunately, Alice learned through many investigations in Chinatown that "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" has only just been released on the mainland after all, and even a quarter of the episodes have not yet been released, and it will definitely take a while before toad mirrors and bell bottoms are popular all over the country. After all, in her previous life, this TV series was broadcast as early as 1980, and it affected the entire eighties, and she still had time.

Coincidentally, if you really want to enter the mainland clothing market, there are a lot of matters related to the establishment of a company, not to mention that Ashley is still only in the drawing design stage, and all aspects need time under the premise, Alice will put her mind at ease and concentrate on the matter of brushing money and saving funds.

Money is not everything, but no money is even more impossible!

"Ghost Shadow", this is really a work that surprised and delighted her. At least, its shooting requirements are much lower than other movies, even if you are only twelve or thirteen years old as a director, people will not feel special ~ other surprises after watching it, they can only be particularly surprised.

This was originally the debut film of a rookie director, and the whole film cost only $10,000, and it was simply shot on a DV camera. Well, there weren't DV machines in the 80s, but Alice certainly wasn't so poor that she had to keep the cost down.

More than 190 million is equivalent to a box office of 200 million US dollars, and the specific plot is just a story that has to be told about the naughty camera and the nightlife of the family. Therefore, whether it is a horror movie, a thriller, or a ghost movie, if it is filmed well, it is really a product that all businesses love to death.

Alice counted back and forth with her fingers and toes, and she didn't think that the filming of this movie could drag on for half a month. The length of the film is less than 90 minutes, a house is haunted in the middle of the night, or the obscene voyeuristic perspective of the surveillance probe, which is simply the rhythm of all the shots passing through at once.

Therefore, if you really want this movie to achieve a super high box office, publicity is an indispensable link.

In fact, if you really want to talk about the typical example of relying on publicity to achieve a high box office, "Blair the Witch" is of course the first to bear the brunt, but Alice has no intention of considering it at all.

As for the reason, of course she won't say that it's because she is too lazy to go to Maryland to get up early and be greedy for darkness~

First, compared with the down-to-earth gimmick of "haunted in the middle of the night", going to the deep mountains and forests in the eastern United States to find witches is inherently inferior in terms of sense of substitution and connotation. Again...... After all, it's not the era of high development of the Internet!

In fact, according to normal historical development, since the success of "Blair the Witch", many directors who do not have a lot of financial support but want to show off their skills have started the idea of DV and documentary-style films. Therefore, they did their best to get closer to "Blair the Witch" in terms of filming methods and marketing methods.

Perhaps, the new idea of making a film shown by "Blair the Witch" is indeed a way out for ultra-low-budget films. "Ghost Shadow", produced in 2009, actually belongs to this genre, but it is better than the blue, although the former has more box office, but it is inferior in terms of profit margin.

Alice knows that the success of "Blair the Witch" is not so much based on the pseudo-documentary style as it is on the background of the big Internet that has just been fully completed. It was a beautiful summer in 1999, when the American people had not yet ushered in the impact of the real information explosion, and in the face of this marketing strategy of making up a story and then asking everyone to pay for the target product, people were of course swarming to be fooled.

For example, a 29-second short film that was spread all over the Internet in later generations and was taken in the CBD of the magic capital, reflecting the voice of shareholders and the turmoil of the stock market. When it became popular on the Internet, people all over the country cared about the stock market man's mother, the girl who screamed miserably by the double income of abundant funds, and the shaking camera illuminated the skyscrapers of the CBD, which symbolized the hesitant mood of the stockholders.

As a result, on that day, the entire stock market could be said to be in a downturn, and the entire market opened low all the way. Because that day, fund managers across the country didn't have the heart to speculate in stocks, and they were all concerned about the follow-up situation of that girl.

But at this moment, a stock that broke the bad was rising in a straight line, all the way to the up-limit stage.

Why is that?

Because in that video, the stock market woman is kneeling on a chair and suffering from the double impact of abundant funds in the morning. And the stock that broke the bad news happened to be the manufacturer of that chair.

Therefore, the truth of the matter is that this is a bureau set up by a certain company to make its own stock rise sharply~

Even if people after 2010 will be tricked and let each other succeed, then for the American people who are still in 1999, being beaten by "Blair the Witch" is not like playing?

So, Alice is also going to intervene.

UCLA's film club has a long history, after all, Hollywood is located in this city, and directors can be seen filming in West Hollywood and Santa Monica from time to time.

Born in Denver and growing up in Marin County, California, David went to Mill Valley to work for a film company during the summer vacation at the age of eighteen. In September of this year, when everyone else should graduate, he finally walked through the doors of UCLA.

Then there was no doubt that when the application form for the club was handed to him, he chose the film club without even thinking about it.

"Hey, David, you've watched my short film too, how do you feel?"

In the club classroom in the afternoon, Minister York excitedly stood in front of the projector and showed David the five-minute short film he had taken during last year's winter vacation.

"The plot is interesting, but won't it drag on too much?"

David said without hesitation: "No matter what the subject of literary and artistic works, we should strive to tell the story clearly in the shortest possible time, so the plot must be compact." But I watch you this movie...... There should be more to say, but most of the time is occupied by the nonsense of the protagonists. ”

Hearing this, York's face was a little unsightly on the spot.

Just kidding, he's also a junior in college, and he's been the head of the film club for two years! Even if no movie can be watched by the eight aces of Hollywood, and the script has been rejected by many small companies, he is also a minister!

Even if this damn David Fincher is unlucky and can work at Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic for two years, what's the big deal!?

York will not admit his envy, jealousy and hatred when he is killed!

There were other people in the classroom, seeing that York's face was not very good-looking, Jofanie who was sitting next to him smiled and said: "David, York is the director of the dialogue flow, you know, dialogue is the best way to portray the image of the character, a man and a woman sit in front of the screen and kiss me and me, isn't it reflected by dialogue?" ”

David pursed his lips, but said nothing. It's not impossible to shoot a date with a five-minute short film, but at least it has to have a complete plot, right? What the hell is it that it was some unclear small talk from the beginning?

York saw that David was still unconvinced, and smiled loudly: "By the way, David, if you really want to talk about qualifications, you can't afford it better than us." Otherwise, how about we make another short film, and you will be the director? I'd love to see how high your level is as a genius who has been working in ILM for two years! ”

As soon as these words came out, more than a dozen students from the whole club applauded in unison. After all, David's self-introduction when he joined the club was amazing, what is Lucas's concept, that is the director of "Star Wars". Don't say that David is going to work as a technician in Industrial Light & Magic, even if he is just a cleaner, he must be stronger than ordinary people, right!?

"No problem."

After thinking about it, David said: "Since you want to shoot it, let's shoot it better, the cost of filming is not low, or let's find an investor." If there is an angel who originally intended to inject money into our film, I will definitely be able to make a work on the screen! ”

This sentence was too much of a joke, and David's voice fell, and everyone, including York, was dumb for a while.

"Wow, what a spirit!"

Just then, the classroom door was pushed open, and a little girl appeared in the door without warning.

"It seems that my trip to UCLA was really in vain, young man, what's your name, I'm optimistic about you~"

As she spoke, Alice winked at David.