Chapter 38: Good Things Come Naturally
After dinner, Zheng Longshi has to return to the competition site, although he has finished the game, but there are still things to arrange in the afternoon, at least all the promoted players should take a group photo for publicity, of course he has to Щщшlā≯≥ this is the regulations of the organizing committee, must be complied with. The students will continue to go to the scene to see. Zhou Yi asked Zheng Longshi to call him after the game to discuss the next thing.
In the afternoon, he would write as many new songs as possible, and in the evening, everyone would try them.
That's fine for the time being.
Zheng Longshi naturally has no opinion, and is very much looking forward to it.
Next, Zhou Yi wants to take his sister to the company's headquarters to inspect, and also go to the studio to have a look, it is estimated that the movie is about to start, and the situation there cannot but be concerned about it, and to understand the progress in all aspects.
There are also a lot of things to do in the afternoon, so I am not in a hurry to go back to the crew, and the work is really busy.
Saying goodbye to her classmates, Xi Wei drove and sent Zhou Yi's brothers and sisters to the company's headquarters.
On Monday, it was really busy in the company.
When the Zhou Yi brothers and sisters arrived at the company, they saw a busy scene.
Although the film has reached the end of its release, the work is not easy, the last wave of publicity is still going on, and the publicity department is very busy. The sales of peripheral products are currently coming to an end, and the number of reports in this regard is being statistically checked, and the fun fox toys will continue to pass the sales numbers to the east side, and Manager Zheng will be responsible for auditing, at least not to be deceived.
He's very experienced and won't have a problem with that.
In addition, various negotiations for subsequent copyright licensing are underway, and various departments are making intensive preparations.
Some cooperation aspects are also being addressed.
At the same time, the new department also has to interview employees, and they must do their best to form combat effectiveness.
To do these things in an orderly manner, all departments of the company are naturally very busy, but they are more energetic and have a good momentum of upward development. If the company is idle, it is not a good thing, and now it is good. Usually, Zhuo Qinglian sits in the company's headquarters, coordinates in the center, and manages various affairs in an orderly manner. She is very suitable for the work of the housekeeper's eldest sister, and she does a very good job.
Zhou Yi took his sister and soon came to the chairman's office and found Sister Zhuo.
Zhuo Qinglian was still busy with work and was on the phone, when he saw Zhou Yi coming, he smiled slightly, picked up some reports on the table, handed them to him, motioned for him to sit next to him and wait, first look at the company's box office reports and various data.
The Zhou Yi brothers and sisters sat in the sand next to them, looking at the report with great interest.
Xi Wei and Teng Tiangang both sat on the side to accompany them.
Xi Wei also helped everyone add some tea.
The little secretary was upgraded to a life assistant, and he still had to do the work of serving tea and pouring water.
Seeing the statistics on the report, Zhou Yi was very happy, the top report is the sales report of the peripheral toys that the company just got, the five poisons face mask set of toys alone has sold more than 12o sets, and the company can at least get more than 42o million yuan in sales shares.
This is much higher than the original buyout fee of 2oo million yuan.
The company's earlier decision was the right one.
And Quhu has also opened some new products, such as they printed the five poisonous face images of different colors and the Zhengdong Logo logo on the Rubik's Cube toy, which is exactly six-sided, and this set of masks and Rubik's Cube is also selling well. There are also some stationery backpacks printed with the five poison faces and character images, as well as some daily necessities, such as kettles and teacups, which are also bought. Overall, these peripheral products can make a little money.
Although there is not much money, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and Zhou Yi will not be afraid of the lack of money.
Generally speaking, the peripheral products of toys and stationery will not be a problem to get more than 5oo million yuan in the end.
The purchasing power of the Chinese people cannot be underestimated.
With such benefits, Zhou Yi is very satisfied.
Nowadays, the most important resource of a film and television company is the copyright library of film and television dramas, and if there are more film and television dramas in the future, you can continue to make money by relying on copyright income alone. The most important resource of the agency is often the artist, and it can also continuously extract various endorsement fees from the artist and make long-term profits, the reason is the same. In fact, some of the high-quality films of the former Aurora Pictures still have some copyright income, and they continue to earn income, although it is very little, but it is better than nothing.
Seeing these counts, Tang Yan was also very happy, and talked and laughed with her brother.
Looking at the box office of the movie, the number of last weeks counted on Monday has come out.
The current total box office has accumulated to 322 million Chinese dollars. Affected by the publicity of the top student in the college entrance examination, the box office of the film in the second half of last week did pick up a little, and the total box office officially exceeded 300 million yuan, which is very good. Such an achievement is nothing at all for a large company, but for Zhengdong Pictures, this is a milestone achievement.
This film can be regarded as struggling on the weekend box office list for an extra week, and Zhou Yi is very satisfied.
At this time, Zhuo Qinglian finished handling the affairs at hand and came over to talk to Zhou Yi.
"Ah Yi, have you finished reading? What do you think? ”
"It's good, it's a very good result."
"We didn't dare to think about such an achievement before the film started. In fact, even if we finish filming and see the sample film, we can't even think of it! ”
"That's right!"
Zhou Yi also has this kind of sigh, who would have thought in advance? At that time, everyone thought that the box office of the film exceeded 100 million, which was very remarkable. Today's achievements are the result of the superposition of various factors and the efforts of all parties.
After chatting with Zhuo Qinglian, Zhou Yi asked about the company's current situation.
"Sister Zhuo, I think the company is very busy now, what are you busy with?"
"The company is really busy at the moment. The copyright department has just been expanded and is now responsible for registering copyrights, organizing the copyright database, and cooperating with the general manager in various negotiations related to copyright. In the future, the company will shoot more film and television dramas, and the workload in this area will be very large, and it will definitely require manpower, so we must prepare now. Zhuo Qinglian introduced.
Zhou Yi nodded.
"The surrounding departments, at present, are still looking for a candidate for supervisor, and there is already a suitable candidate. Manager Zheng is in contact and plans to poach with a high salary, and it is estimated that the negotiation will be completed soon. The other party also works for a film and television company, but the boss of that company is old, the juniors are not interested in this industry, the boss is not energetic, and he wants to sell the company recently. We recently got the news, and Manager Zheng thinks the opportunity is good and plans to poach someone to come over. ”
"Oh! That's great. ”
It is naturally a good thing to be able to dig ready-made masters who are familiar with the situation in the industry, and Zhou Yi is very happy.
"The brokerage department, at present, is spun off independently, after all, there will be more and more endorsement affairs in the future, and their manpower will also be expanded, but we will not use an independent agent to manage an artist, so easy to have an accident, some large companies have had agents with some of the evil ** parts of the supervisor artist jumping ship, and the vitality of the company is greatly damaged, so we have to learn from it, the current model of cross-management and rotation co-management is adopted, which is more safe and reliable, and it also increases the cost and difficulty of the artist to jump ship."
"That's a good thing."
For these situations, Zhou Yi is generally satisfied.
In fact, he really hasn't seen a certain agent in the company who is in charge of a certain artist.
Normally, it's everyone who does things together.
Like Takamatsu's endorsement, sometimes a few assistants are responsible for negotiating.
And these artists in their own company are currently filming their own dramas, and if they don't take on outside scenes for the time being, they can't shoot their own scenes! This reduces the workload of the brokerage department quite a bit. It is sufficient to maintain this situation for the time being.
"By the way, today you went to see the scene of the preliminary round of The Voice, I saw the photos you came back, which is very good, and it is currently transferred to the publicity department, and they are dealing with these things. What's going on over there? Zhuo Qinglian asked about the matter over there.
So Zhou Yi briefly described some of the on-site situations in the morning.
He also specifically mentioned the preparation of the behind-the-scenes team for Zheng Longshi to win the crown and provide studio training.
Zhou Yi communicated with Zhuo Qinglian about these things earlier, and the relevant departments of the company are already doing it.
Zhuo Qinglian nodded and told Zhou Yi about the situation.
She did contact the studio and arranged for someone to take care of it.
The company's main behind-the-scenes personnel have to prepare to make movies, and this matter can only be handled by the people in the music department, but the music department of Zhengdong Pictures is actually a framework, with or without it, the hardware is available, but Yan zhòng lacks people. At present, the company's music department mainly serves film soundtracks, and does not have its own independent business. Nowadays, there is only one music editor in the music department, with two small assistants, who follow the film crew and help make the soundtrack, which cannot support the main framework of the music department at all. However, things have to be done little by little, and now that the company has Zheng Longshi's hole card, it must also work hard to solve this aspect.
Zhuo Qinglian mentioned that Director Rong has been working hard recently, and wants to invite the old Mr. Su Jian to come to the company to help, it is best to be a music director, and it just so happens that the new film will also have a soundtrack.
If it can be done in the end, this thing will be easy to do.
Mr. Su Jian is also from the Central Conservatory of Music.
Zhou Yi nodded, looking forward to this matter.
He decided to go to the studio to have a look later, and now wait for Zheng Longshi's call, it is estimated that as soon as the event ends in the afternoon, Zheng Longshi will rush over immediately, and then everyone will go to the studio to see the situation in the recording studio and make formal arrangements.
Zhuo Qinglian naturally strongly agreed.
She told Zhou Yi that the Chongxiao Tower over there in the studio has been officially built, and the safety test has passed, and Director Zhao seems to be filming the interior of the Chongxiao Tower, and there is no need for actors for the time being, just simply shooting the scene and making the opening film. In fact, now the film crew has officially started filming. According to the shooting plan submitted by Director Zhao, the filming will definitely be completed in a month, and it will be over in a month and a half at the latest.
That is to say, the holiday movie will definitely be finished.
Zhou Yi is naturally satisfied, this is very good.
It is estimated that at the beginning of the day after tomorrow, the film crew will officially shoot the actors' scenes.
After learning about the company's situation, Zhou Yi used the afternoon to prepare to write some new songs, and asked Zheng Longshi to try them in the evening. These things are very simple, in order to ensure that the Voice competition achieves good results and overpower Daqin's side, Zhou Yi took out some more songs, which is not a big deal at all, so as to be a hit and a blockbuster. There are good songs, and you don't have to care at all.
If you write too many songs, the royalty income will be also amazing in the future.
The more popular Zheng Longshi is and the more popular he sings, the more he earns from the copyright of his lyrics and songs.
Generally speaking, taking a concert as an example, the copyright fee of the songwriter and the lead singer, as well as the copyright fee of the producer, are basically the same. Of course, the copyright fee of songwriters is often shared by dozens of people, for example, if you sing 2o songs, there are 2o lyricists and 2o composers, and sometimes more arrangement fees have to be added, so that at least forty or fifty people share this cake, it seems that the income is less, far less than the lead singer's share of income, but if Zhou Yi writes dozens of songs by himself, it is all his own, so if you calculate it, the income is more.
What's more, the company's share must account for the majority, so the income will be more.
In fact, Zhou Yi can write as many songs as he wants, but his usual mind is not here at all, he is too lazy to write, he doesn't have so much time and energy, he prefers to make movies and be an action superstar. For him, money can't be without, but it's not the most important thing, after all, there is a military commander, what does he care about that money? But now in order to praise his classmates, of course he has to work hard to plagiarize.
Be a hard-working porter!
So Zhou Yi began to write songs in the chairman's office.
His sister accompanied him and watched curiously how his brother "wrote" songs.
Xi Wei poured tea and water, and followed to admire.
Zhuo Qinglian went to be busy with her own work, she couldn't accompany Zhou Yi all the time, her work was really busy.
However, Zhou Yi wrote the song too quickly, and it was written in a while, just plagiarism, and he didn't have to bother with his brain. Such a fast degree of creativity shocked the two girls next to her: Brother, are you writing songs? You're clearly an assembly line job, right?
Tang Yan and Xi Wei were dumbfounded, looking at Zhou Yi, very speechless.
Teng Tiangang didn't speak next to him, but he thought in his heart: Girls are just rare and weird. This guy is not a normal person at all, and he cannot be measured by the standards of a normal person! How many songs can he write, what can he bring? There is a kind of write 1oo out!
This time, Zhou Yi wrote several songs of different styles in order to reflect Zheng Longshi's strength in an all-round way, such as the previous life letter orchestra, as well as Yang Zongwei's and Tanya Cai's, all of which were carefully selected by him.
In this way, no matter what Lang Jun thinks of, it is useless.
At least in the area of original lyrics and songs, he completely crushed his opponents.
As for whether Zheng Longshi can sing it, do you still need to worry about it?
Since you want a good voice to win the championship, of course, you have to rely on your own strength.
Without that strength, what kind of champion to be?
Besides, Zhou Yi has a reference to the original work in his previous life, and he will definitely guide him from the side.
After writing it, Zhou Yi took the lyrics to Zhuo Qinglian and asked her to take them to the copyright department first, record the lyrics, and then register the copyright after composing the song. In terms of composing music, Zhou Yi is not professional, so he can only let Zheng Longshi do it himself.
Zhou Yi can barely sing it, but he doesn't have the energy to do professional music scores.
Seeing that Zhou Yi did it so quickly, Zhuo Qinglian was very surprised, looking at the lyrics, he felt very tasteful, and he wanted to hear what Zhou Yi could sing. Tang Yan and Xi Wei also wanted to hear the singing effect, so they pestered Zhou Yi and asked him to sing again.
Zhou Yi didn't mind teasing his sister, so he sang to everyone in the office.
Pick one first, Zhou Yi sings for everyone, although his singing skills are far worse than Yang Zongwei in his previous life, but he can sing the taste and artistic conception of the original work, at least the style can be sung, and the feelings are particularly in place, so that people can understand what is going on with his singing, which is enough.
Zhuo Qinglian and the others will not use the standards of professional singers to demand him, as long as they can understand it.
Listening to Zhou Yi sing like this, everyone really thinks it's very good.
With Zheng Longshi's professional level, it is estimated that after listening to it, you can understand the connotation, and you can definitely do it out of the blue and better than the blue.
Just as Zhou Yi was singing, Manager Zheng knocked on the door outside and came in, Xi Wei went to help open the door, but Zhou Yi continued to sing and did not stop. Manager Zheng couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the situation in the office, but he didn't bother, and listened quietly for a while, until Zhou Yi finished singing, and then he couldn't help but smile: "It's so lively today?" The boss sings really well. ”
"Haha! Generally average, singing skills are not good. Manager Zheng, is there something wrong? Zhou Yi asked with a smile.
"Boss, today you wrote the banner of 'Cooking Wine on Heroes, Talented Men Win the World'! The propaganda department has spread it to your Weibo. ”
"Yes! I wrote it. Zhou Yi nodded.
"That's a good thing! Just now, there was a cooperation intention from the Caizi Group, and I want the boss to make an image endorsement for the Caizi men's wear brand under their group, and the bid is very expensive, which is definitely very sincere. Manager Zheng said.
"What?"
Manager Zheng praised: "Boss, you are a talented man who wins the world, and good things will come naturally!" ”
Zhou Yi was surprised: he was really guessed by his classmates, which was simply a wish.
Zhuo Qinglian and the others next to him were surprised: Is there really such a good thing? What a coincidence!
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