Chapter 130: Records on the River
Cheng Xiaoyu sweated profusely and walked from the underground parking lot towards the elevator, today is his first day of internship in Shanghe.
The heat of Shanghai in July was overwhelming, and Cheng Xiaoyu only ran a few steps, and his white shirt was wet with sweat on his back.
The headquarters of Shanghe Records is located on the 66th and 67th floors of the SH Landmark World Financial Center, which is a skyscraper in the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, and is now the third tallest building in China and the fifth tallest building in the world. The building is 492 meters high and has 101 floors above ground. The building consists of a shopping mall, an office building and a Park Hyatt hotel. The 94th to 100th floors are sightseeing and viewing facilities, and are a must-stop place when visiting Shanghai.
The World Financial Center has a capacity of 100,000 people, more than 3,000 control channels, and more than 3 million control records per day. Most of the tenants in the building are Fortune 500 companies.
Shanghe Records also has its own professional recording studio in the suburbs of SH, of course, not only recording songs for its own company's artists, but also for some small record labels.
Cheng Xiaoyu wants to get involved in Su Yuxi's record production is not as easy as imagined, and no professional company will let a 17-year-old boy take charge of a project just because you are the boss's son. What's more, Su Changhe didn't listen to Cheng Xiaoyu's music.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't work hard, he recorded a sample of the three songs selected for Su Yuxi and her group, and handed Su Yuxi to the AR (artistandrepertoire) department in charge of them, but there was no news like a stone sinking into the sea. I handed my dad a sample CD, but there was still no response. Seeing that Su Yuxi and their group were about to debut next month, Cheng Xiaoyu had to save the country and first told Aunt Zhou to go to Shanghe for an internship to see how the record company operated. He knew that a strong fortress was often the easiest to break through from within.
Cheng Xiaoyu was stuffed into Shanghe Records for internship by Aunt Zhou in the name of Shanghe Opera students, and there are many such interns from major colleges and universities every year. Most of them are juniors or seniors who are about to graduate, and generally such internships are not paid, but for the internship records of the school and a little work experience in large companies, it is still very popular, especially for internships in good companies, it is difficult to get in without a little relationship.
Cheng Xiaoyu hung his tag given by Aunt Zhou around his neck, and took the elevator to the sixty-sixth floor, which was at the peak of work, and there were a lot of people. Most of the people who work in the SH landmark building are dressed like the elite of the industry, in fact, the building has a lot of high salaries, but there are even more low salaries. A lot of people aren't as glamorous as they seem.
Due to the world's fastest two-car elevator of 10 m/s in the World Financial Center, Cheng Xiaoyu did not stay long in the crowded environment. Soon arrived at the sixty-sixth floor, Cheng Xiaoyu squeezed out of the elevator, and the silver stainless steel typing full of science and technology of Shanghe Records came into view. The girl at the front desk looked good, but the girl glanced at Cheng Xiaoyu's tag printed with the internship, and she didn't look at Cheng Xiaoyu more expressionlessly. Cheng Xiaoyu walked up anxiously and asked, "May I ask where is the human resources administrative department?" "It's only a few minutes before 9 o'clock at work, and he doesn't want to be late for the first day of his internship.
The girl at the front desk didn't have a mechanical smile, there were too many people who came to Shanghe for internships every year, but most of them would not work in this company, and only a few elites could squeeze into this one of the top record companies in the country. For such a passer-by in life, the front desk girl naturally will not be very enthusiastic, casually pointing to the right side of the corridor, and said in a flat tone, "Go to the end here, turn left." ”
Cheng Xiaoyu said politely, "Thank you." He looked at his watch and walked quickly to the right. When he found the conference room of the human resources department, there were seven or eight young people like him who wore intern tags, both men and women, but most of them were girls. It seemed that he was the last to arrive, Cheng Xiaoyu bowed and apologized, "I'm sorry to be late." ”
Presiding over the meeting was an old girl in her thirties, who looked shrewd and powerful, with a pointed face, a large forehead, sharp eyebrows, hair coiled behind her head, a black one-step skirt, and a white shirt on her upper body. The old girl glanced at Cheng Xiaoyu from head to toe, and said slowly, "Although you are interns, I hope you will treat them with a rigorous attitude. Okay, you come in first. ”
Cheng Xiaoyu walked in in the pitying eyes of a crowd, he came for an internship, except for the family who knew who he was, no one knew that he was the prince of Shanghe, which was the same as he hoped, because in this way he could have a deeper understanding of the company.
Cheng Xiaoyu carefully pulled out the stool next to the oval table and sat next to a boy, who also brought a notebook and a pen, which made Cheng Xiaoyu a little embarrassed, he was coming to work in the record company for the first time, and he came without anything. The old girl on stage writes on the whiteboard with a black oil pen on the company structure of Shanghe Records.
The first is the production department: recording studio management and operation, lyrics and music copyright management, production of music and people, production of music, production of records, graphic modeling, production of MV, etc., which is also the core department of a record company.
2. Planning Department: AR, excavation, contracting, management, and training of artists (including newcomers/seniors)
3. Distribution & PR Department: PR, Publicity, Marketing. Broadly speaking, it also includes cooperating with distributors to release records (review, edition number, distribution)
4. Brokerage Department: The brokerage affairs of artists who have signed a brokerage contract or include a brokerage contract (such as the so-called full contract), endorsements, commercial performances, public welfare activities, etc. (one of the sources of income of the entire company).
5. Performance Department: Performance projects that are invested and hosted by themselves or co-hosted with other cooperative companies (one of the sources of income of the entire company)
6. Copyright Department: The music represented by the company, or the music owned by the company, cooperates with wireless music operators such as mobile and telecom, and other cooperation, and collects a share/buyout fee. (One of the sources of earnings for the entire company.) If you are good at making saliva songs and make a fire song, the income will be considerable)
7. Celebrity peripherals: the department that produces star posters, dolls, and other peripheral products.
8. The Human Resources Administration Department is mainly responsible for recruiting and evaluating employees, as well as providing human resources support to other departments.
The old girl took Cheng Xiaoyu and eight other people around Shanghe Company, introduced the location of each department, and roughly talked about the main management personnel of each department, and then took them back to the conference room.
During the visit, Cheng Xiaoyu heard many people enthusiastically shouting the old girl Manager Tao, and only then did he know what to call this strict old girl, she should have come too late, so she didn't hear the self-introduction.
The next department is to arrange everyone's internship, Cheng Xiaoyu wants to go to the manufacturing department the most, of course, and then he can go to the planning department, obviously it is just his wishful thinking, he was ruthlessly left in the human resources and administration department in charge of Manager Tao.
Manager Tao's full name is Tao Bihua, the manager of the human resources department, who has worked in Shanghe for nearly ten years and is also a very senior employee. The internship work for newcomers has always been in charge of her, because she has a vicious vision and has her own unique set of training and management for newcomers.
The reason why Cheng Xiaoyu was left in the scope of his own management was not only because Cheng Xiaoyu was late, but also because this white fat man came into the conference room, and when he glanced at him, he actually looked at him without a heart, such an intern was either a thorn in the eyes of Tao Bihua, or some related sons and brothers came to the company to meet celebrities to play. These two kinds of people are Tao Bihua's thorns in the eyes and thorns in the flesh, so she must put Cheng Xiaoyu under her nose.
If Cheng Xiaoyu is the former, she wants to smooth out his edges and corners, and if Cheng Xiaoyu is the latter, she will tell Cheng Xiaoyu to retreat and take the initiative to quit the internship.
Cheng Xiaoyu was still struggling with how to find a way to transfer to the production department or the planning department, and he didn't know that his horse boy internship life was about to begin.
(Thank you for looking up at the farthest starry sky, Suwako, Sorbet Bamboo, Suichi, and Gensheng Gly.) )