Chapter 102 The Academy Awards and Video Sites
On March 20, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was officially completed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although this is just a TV series, this TV series is different, it carries Chen Hao's first time, the hard work of all the actors in this play, the company's more than 20 million funds, and the hope of more than 200 people in the crew.
After Chen Hao finished filming, he took the lead in editing out the part that needed to make special effects, and then sent this part to Haoran Special Effects Company for them to make it quickly.
Then he entered the company's editing room again with three assistant directors and continued to produce post-production in the dark.
After almost all the editing was completed, Chen Hao handed over the rest of the work to Ning Hao and the three of them, and he had to take Brother Hu to start recording the song.
"It's Been Quiet" was given to Ahsan, and it has been recorded and sent over, because this song is the title song of her album, so Chen Hao will start releasing it now after discussing with her company, and by the way, she will promote this TV series.
"This Life Will Not Change" and "Finally Understand" In the end, Chen Hao still confirmed that he would sing, and "Sigh" and "June Rain" were still Brother Hu, so the two of them had to record these two songs in the next time, and edit out different promotional videos to play as MVs.
After finishing editing, Chen Hao took a day off, and when Brother Hu arrived in Kyoto, the two went to the company's own top recording studio together and began to record these songs.
Of course, Chen Hao also invited Mai Zhenhong from Xiangjiang to help produce the soundtrack, the soundtrack of this TV series needs classical fairy romance, Mai Zhenhong is a little unfamiliar, so Chen Hao often discusses with Mai Zhenhong when recording songs, so as to give him inspiration.
Chen Hao found these soundtracks in his mind, but because he didn't know how to make this, he had to tell Mai Zhenhong what was in his mind and ask him to help.
After completing this, Chen Hao had to leave, because this year's Xiangjiang Academy Awards were about to be held.
The 21st Hong Kong Film Awards announced the list of nominees on February 27, 2002, in which Chen Hao learned that his "Infernal Affairs" was nominated for 13 awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Modeling, Visual Effects, Action Direction, and Original Film Music.
Best Actor Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei were nominated at the same time, but Chen Hao knew that this time there was no Andy Lau, and the Best Supporting Actor nominees were Huang Qiusheng, Zeng Zhiwei, and Deng Chao, and Chen Hao also knew that Huang Qiusheng would win the award.
No matter what, Chen Hao still took Deng Chao to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Xiangjiang.
On April 27, the awards ceremony officially began, Chen Hao and the leading actors in the movie sat below, which was also the first time Chen Hao participated in the Xiangjiang Film Awards. To be honest, Chen Hao actually doesn't have much desire for this award, because as we all know, this award can only be selected by films with the participation of Xiangjiang actors in addition to Xiangjiang movies, so Chen Hao doesn't like this award very much.
Not surprisingly, the actor was obtained by Liang Chaowei, Andy once again accompanied him, everyone could only comfort Andy, after all, they had no choice, but Liang Chaowei had better acting skills than Andy.
Huang Qiusheng won the Best Supporting Actor, which is well deserved, because the other two nominated in this play are not as good as him, not to mention the competitors.
Because the editor was not Chen Hao, Chen Hao did not get this award, but received the award from the editor of Huaqiang Company. The best screenwriter is Chen Hao, this is Chen Hao's second Best Screenplay Award, although Chen Hao doesn't pay much attention to it, he still takes the stage to accept the award with a lot of face.
However, when he read his name at the final award, Chen Hao was still very surprised, he did not hope to win this award, Best Director, Chen Hao's first director award, although it is not good for the Academy Awards, but this best director is really weighty, don't you see that Zhou Xingchi has not won it for so many years.
On stage, Chen Hao looked at the large group of people below, smiled, and waved his arms vigorously.
"To be honest, I didn't have any hope for this award, but winning this award is also an affirmation of everyone and the judges, thank you."
It was a very brief speech, but it couldn't hide the excitement in Chen Hao's heart, he smiled happily, the first best director, he was successful.
Chen Hao thought about whether he would get this at the Golden Horse Awards at the end of this year, so that he could be said to be the real best director, as for the Golden Rooster Awards in the mainland, Chen Hao didn't go to the competition, he didn't want to affect his mood.
Although Deng Chao did not win the award, he was still very excited after seeing this kind of large-scale party, after all, he also increased his knowledge.
This movie also won the final award, the Best Film Award, this trophy is everyone's, although Chen Hao is the director and screenwriter, and also an investor, but he still generously gave the trophy to Xiang Huaqiang and them, because this is also their effort.
"Infernal Affairs" has thirteen nominations and seven awards, which is the biggest winner of this year's Academy Awards, Chen Hao's name once again sounded in various places in Xiangjiang, and the media reported it greatly.
The next day, without staying long, Chen Hao returned to Kyoto with Deng Chao and continued to be busy with his TV series, of course, he couldn't help but celebrate when he returned to the company, Chen Hao was also very happy to put the two trophies in the showcase next to his bookshelf, plus the Golden Horse Award for Best Screenwriter, there are already three trophies.
At the same time, the mainland also reported on the award of the Xiangjiang Film Awards, because of the nature of the awards, the mainland media paid little attention, and this was only paid attention to after the Southern Metropolis Daily learned that Chen Hao was nominated.
However, this phenomenon will be different in a few years, Xiangjiang actors will begin to go north to the mainland, and the Xiangjiang Film Awards will also be open to mainland films, and there will be a lot of people paying attention to it at that time.
On April 30, the TV series has been edited, and Chen Hao's songs have been recorded, and the promotional video has been produced.
Chen Hao went to the United States with the edited film non-stop, and asked the special effects company to do a special effect together.
After repeated efforts by the special effects staff, Chen Hao was finally satisfied with this TV series, and a total of forty episodes of the TV series were finally produced.
Chen Hao also took this drama to the radio and television for review, because this drama has no content that is prohibited from being broadcast, so it is easy to pass the review.
Chen Hao then contacted Mango TV and asked them if they wanted their own TV series, but the other party was very interested, but he still wanted to see the effect, Chen Hao of course agreed, and entertained Wu Maochun of Mango TV in the company's old place.
After watching the TV series, Wu Maochun thought about it and called the leader, and then walked into the conference room with a confident face.
"Director Chen, we are very optimistic about this TV series, but this time we will no longer use the way of gambling, we hope to buy out the premiere rights directly."
Wu Maochun is very worried that Chen Hao will make the same bet as last time, so this TV series will definitely cost a lot of unjust money.
"So how much are you going to bid this time?"
"I just discussed with our director, and we are ready to bid 500,000 episodes for this TV series."
"Not enough, if your sincerity is only so much, then we will have a happy cooperation next time."
Just kidding, I shot so well, it cost 20 million to shoot, and millions of special effects in the back, this TV series cost Chen Hao about 27 million in total, and you want to buy 20 million for 20 million?
"How much does Director Chen think is appropriate?"
Of course, 500,000 episodes are not Wu Maochun's highest price, who doesn't want to make money, so after Chen Hao vetoed it, he immediately asked Chen Hao about the price in his heart.
"One and a half million episodes, this is my reserve price." Chen Hao said after pondering for a while.
This is not Chen Hao's intention, because last year's TV series was really not good, so it was sold to them cheaply, and the company only earned five million, but this time it was different, the price in 2002 rose a lot, relatively speaking, the advertising cost was considerable, so 1.5 million is really not high.
"This ...... Well, hopefully the ratings for this TV series will be as good as last time. Wu Maochun thought about it in his heart for a while, but still agreed.
"Then I wish us a happy cooperation."
The two signed a contract in the conference room, and Wu Maochun left with the TV series and promotional video.
Because there are more than ten episodes of Mango Channel's current TV series, which can be shown for six or seven days, Chen Hao and him agreed that these promotional videos will be put on in five times.
At first, they played "It's Been Quiet" with this Ahsan's album, which they played about five times a day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and twice in the evening.
Then two days later, "Sigh of Ease" was played, and it continued for two days, starting with "Finally Understanding", then "June Rain", and finally "This Life Will Not Change".
I believe that in the past ten days, the majority of the audience will be interested in the offensive of these five songs and promotional videos.
Of course, in addition to this, Chen Hao also discussed with Tencent, because recently Tencent is experimenting with the video upload function, and there have been results, Chen Hao took out part of the remaining 27 million money and signed a contract with Tencent, and broadcast promotional videos on the Internet every day.
As for the remaining part, Chen Hao talked to the Tianya community, and uploaded the promotional videos, various posters, and makeup photos of the actors in their post bar.
Because Tencent has already started to make online games, Chen Hao suggested that they start making a video website, but Ma Huateng had no money to do it, so Chen Hao had to ask her to contact technical personnel for herself and set up a company to do this.
After Tencent listened to this method, although it didn't make a video website, it has begun to produce this on QQ, that is, the later Tencent video, and now it has a prototype, but it is still hanging on QQ, and Chen Hao used this as well.
Chen Hao took more than 40 million yuan because of the company's dividends, and in a blink of an eye, he invested in a newly founded video website, called Haoran Video Network, which is also a coincidence, and the people Ma Huateng is looking for are Chen Shijun and his classmates.
Chen Shijun may not be familiar to everyone, but everyone should be familiar with YouTube, the world's first video website.
When Chen Shijun was introduced to Chen Hao by the technician accepted by Ma Huateng, Chen Hao hadn't recognized this person yet, because he was simply a refugee at this time, and Chen Hao only remembered him after learning this person's name.
After taking these people under their umbrella, they set up this humble video website company in a small office building rented by Chen Hao and began their research career.