Chapter 321: Forming the "Happy Girls Group"
Comedy is a low-cost, high-grossing genre.
There are often classics on this big theme, but ten times more than classics are bad movies. distinguishes between classic and bad movies, in addition to the director's ability and the actors' performances, what is more important is the script.
The investment scale of "Happy Ghost" is average, with neither big-name movie stars, nor big-name directors, nor extravagant movie CG special effects.
However, due to the mess of the script of "Happy Ghost", this makes "Happy Ghost" have top box office appeal!
In fact, the plot and creativity that appear in "Happy Ghost", even if they are at the beginning of the 21st century, will not be bad at the box office.
However, Huang Baiming, who created the script of "Happy Ghost" in history, flies both classic and bad movies. When his character exploded, being able to create "Happy Ghost" was regarded as a masterpiece. When the character is rotten, you can write bad scripts continuously.
Zhang Shaojie even remembered that at the beginning of the 21st century, some fans said angrily: "Actors, please respect yourself, don't pick up bad movies from Huang Baiming, Wang Jing and others." β
Zhang Shaojie took the idea of Huang Baiming's "Happy Ghost".
One is also to change the fate of the Happy Girl Group, and secondly, after Huang Baiming created "Happy Ghost" in history, he has been eating his old book, and his level has not improved.
It's better to let Huang Baiming lose "Happy Ghost", and let him lie down and keep digging out his mind to find new ideas and ideas. Maybe after Huang Baiming lost "Happy Ghost", he could come up with other classics.
Because Baolong Company is more and more aware of the importance of excellent scripts, it set up a "script editing department" soon after the release of "Happy Ghost".
The "Script Writing Department" is controlled by senior film editors and directors, and accepts film script submissions from all over the world, as well as film and television adaptation submissions for copyright.
Whether it's a script, or!
As long as it is suitable for filming, Baolong accepts submissions.
Some movie scripts in Hong Kong are only a few thousand yuan cheap, and a little more are only tens of thousands of yuan, and even the scripts of gold medal screenwriters can be sold for two or three hundred thousand yuan at most.
Once Baolong Film Company confirms the acquisition of scripts, the lowest price is 50,000 Hong Kong dollars a copy, and some high-quality scripts can get hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
After Baolong's "script editing department" published advertisements for script requests in newspapers in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places, it also quickly received responses from writers and screenwriters.
Every day, hundreds of scripts, as well as those suitable for adaptation, are submitted to Baolong. However, Baolong would rather be short than excessive, and out of hundreds of submissions, only one will be admitted at most.
Despite this, the number of scripts acquired by Baolong every month will reach more than 20, and the monthly remuneration for scripts will exceed 3 million Hong Kong dollars.
In fact, with the output of Baolong Film Company, shooting 10 movies a year is already not bad. Hundreds of scripts are acquired every year, and most of them are not actually made into films.
However, the more scripts you control, the more excellent scripts you can choose from. In essence, this is also to enhance the invisible strength of Baolong Film Company.
ββββββββββββThis is a special training classroom for Longteng Entertainment Agency.
It is specially used for the members of the "Happy Girl Group" to learn and train. After all, the girls in the Happy Girls group are generally only about 15 years old, which is the age to learn knowledge. At this time, it is more important to educate and cultivate them scientifically than packaging hype.
"Luo Mingzhu!"
"Here!"
"Yuan Jieying!"
"Here!"
"Luo Meiwei!"
"Here!"
"Li Lizhen!
"Here!"
"Today, except for the four students who participated in the performance of "Happy Ghost". Four new schools, Chen Jialing, Bai Annie, He Peier and Lin Yingmei, have joined our 'Happy Girls Group'! Today is also the official start of the first semester of the 'Happy Girls Group'. Ladies and gentlemen, please introduce yourselfNext, I will announce the school discipline! In the classroom, Du Lisa continues to serve as her "dean of education", responsible for managing a class of only 8 girls.
The 8 girls are temporary, and in the future, as the "Happy Girls Group" becomes bigger and stronger, it will attract more star seedlings to join. At that time, the entire Happy Girl Group will become more and more the cradle of girl stars.
After the 8 girls were on the podium one by one, they introduced their identities.
Du Lisha said with a serious and stereotyped look: "When you participate in the show, you will have the treatment of a star." However, back in school, it is an ordinary student. I'm the dean of education who manages you, and I don't allow you to make mistakes like puppy love, except that classroom discipline is under my control."
"Oh my God, she was in charge of the movie, but I didn't expect that the company would be confused again, so that she would continue to serve as the teaching director in the 'Happy Girl Group'!" Luo Meiwei said depressedly.
"I don't like Du Lisha very much, it's so hateful!" Li Lizhen is also whispering.
"Luo Meiwei, Li Lizhen, you stand up for me, don't think that if you become a big star, I won't dare to control you! The company gave me the authority, just to keep beating you" Du Lisha held the whip and showed a smug smile, "In this vocal class, you two stand and listen to the class!" β
The girls trembled with fear.
The group "Happy Girl Group" is defined as a school general.
The girls who participate in the "Happy Girls Group" are called "Admissions". If, in the Happy Girl group, more merits are made, you will get more and better treatment, and it is called "going to school".
And if you are expelled because you are no longer suitable for the "Happy Girl Group", or if you apply to leave due to personal problems, it is called "graduation"!
This kind of general campus management was proposed by Zhang Shaojie. Because, the special surnames of the Happy Girl Group are the two surnames of "happy" and "girl", if they are no longer girls and can no longer make fans feel happy, then they will lose their value.
In addition to the Happy Girl Group, at this time, Longteng's music group already has two "beyond" and "Girl Magazine", but these two bands are purely music groups and do not aim at the film and television industry.
The "Happy Girl Group" is a joint venture between Asia Television and Baolong Film Company, which is owned by Longteng.
The "Happy Girl Group" itself belongs to a small entertainment company. Full-time management of the development of the Happy Girl Group in music, film and television, as well as various business activities.
I have high hopes for the "Happy Girl Group".
Therefore, Zhang Shaojie's management of this team is also very strict. Not only did we hire as many as 3 agents to provide them with excellent service.
In addition, the entire "Happy Girl Group", most of the time, is like going to school, offering a lot of courses - art, music, acting, screenwriting, history, and computers
Any member of the Happy Girl Group should choose some elective courses in addition to the compulsory courses of film and television performance and music. In this way, their knowledge system and horizons have been broadened, so that they have gradually become talented women, not vases.
After having talent and knowledge, even if they are outdated in actors, singers, etc., they can still have the opportunity to show their ambitions in the fields of screenwriting, directing, cinematography, special effects, etc. with their professional knowledge.
ββββββββββ during the boom of Hong Kong's entertainment industry in the 80s, the two major industries of film and record penetrated each other, and it has become a standard collaboration model.
For example, Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie brothers, one of them made a good movie, and the other also has a high popularity on the record. So "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Modern Bodyguard" and other works were released both in the movie version and on the record of the same name. The combination of the two has created amazing fame and benefits for the Xu brothers.
And Hong Kong's TV dramas, movies and other industries often invite singers in the pop music scene to sing theme songs, interludes and so on. And singers can also make the theme songs and interludes in film and television dramas into records, and make another profit.
And in the movie "Happy Ghost", Du Lisha was invited to play the disgusting teaching director in it. However, few people know that the disgusting "old witch" in the movie is actually the singer of the Cantonese version of the theme song of "Happy Ghost".
In fact, the theme song of "Happy Ghost" sung by Du Lisha is equivalent to the finishing touch to the whole movie, rendering the atmosphere very well.
Many viewers who have watched "Happy Ghost" have even watched the movie repeatedly in order to listen to the movie episodes in "Happy Ghost" a few more times.
In Du Lisha's concert, every time she sings "Happy Ghost", she can attract a strong response from many fans.
In history, Huang Baiming, the planner of "Happy Ghost", also began to attach extreme importance to original music, and started the sequel to "Happy Ghost" - "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation", and single-handedly created the pop music combination of "Happy Girl Group".
The main members of the "Happy Girl Group" not only participated in the "Happy Ghost" series of movies, but also released a record with the same name as the movie, and in the 80s, the "Happy Girl Group" was very popular in Asia.
Zhang Shaojie's planning for the "Happy Ghost" series and the "Happy Girl Group" is also a continuation of Huang Baiming's commercial planning methods in history.
In order to let these girls soon be able to make persistent efforts, they will ride the trend of "Happy Ghost" and become first-line stars. Zhang Shaojie created the script of the movie "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation" very atmosphericly, and the director is still Wang Jing.
In "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation", there will be as many as 12 original music songs from the movie. When the time comes, movies and records will fly together, and the happy girl group will embark on the road to bright stars.
(To be continued)