Chapter 05: Expand Your Network
Zhou Yi and Senior Sister Lu were chatting outside, and when they were talking happily, Wang Maitreya came out of the main venue, and happened to see Zhou Yi at a glance, and immediately greeted with a smile: "Senior Brother Zhou Yi is here!" Come here! ”
Zhou Yi waved his hand and said hello. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The fat man called you! Let's get over there! Lu Huaqian smiled.
"Senior sister, I'll go first." Zhou Yi said goodbye very politely.
Wang Maitreya greeted him and asked curiously, "What are the junior brothers talking about with our talented girls?" ”
Zhou Yi smiled: "Let's talk about some school allusions!" ”
He has indeed gained a lot of knowledge, and it is still very beneficial to participate in more activities.
Wang Maitreya secretly said to Zhou Yi's ear: "Our talented girls are usually very arrogant, but I didn't expect you to be so blue-eyed to your junior brother. Alas! I've always wanted to chase her, but unfortunately I can't, it's really frustrating. ”
Zhou Yi laughed: There is still such a thing?
"Senior, are you really pursuing Senior Sister Lu?"
"Actually, I'm just a little bit worse. For men, and especially for directors, this is not a disadvantage. But she said that I only have to lose weight to have hope, otherwise there is no play. She doesn't like fat people and won't marry fat people. ”
Zhou Yi is even happier, this is very interesting to the seniors.
However, Senior Wang Maitreya's figure is not "slightly" almost, it is too much worse.
"Junior brother, come with me! Let me introduce you to a few young talents from the directing department. ”
The two entered the main venue together, and the dance scene inside was almost decorated.
Wang Maitreya said that he had been setting up the scene here before.
However, the dance scene of the director department is relatively simple, and it must not be compared with the dance scene of the acting department, after all, in terms of performance programs, the students of the director department are definitely not as professional as the acting department, and they don't need such a good stage. They get together, talk, laugh, have fun, and perform some shows casually, but the main thing is to communicate with each other and make connections.
Then everyone dances together, and that's it.
Zhou Yi felt that the dance party of the acting department was more formal, and I heard Tang Yan and them say that the dance party of the acting department was held in the small theater of the department, and there was a very formal performance stage, which was definitely not as casual as the director department.
In fact, there is a small stage in the screening hall here of the directing department, where you can perform programs, but everyone has not passed, and it is estimated that not many students are willing to enjoy their programs so formally, so it is better to relax.
Since it's unprofessional, don't make it so formal.
At this time, the welcome ball is about to begin, and the two seniors in formal clothes are holding the microphone and preparing to make guest appearances. They are good-looking, although they are not as good as the students of the acting department, but they are quite passable, and it seems that the director department also has good little fresh meat. Now that all the freshmen of the directing department and the management department have arrived, I will definitely introduce myself to everyone later, after all, this is the welcome ball.
As for the freshmen from other departments who came to join in the fun, there is naturally no need to introduce them.
Zhou Yi also asked Wang Maitreya: "Will Han Shao and Xin Shao come to the dance scene?" ”
Wang Maitreya shook his head and said, "Definitely not, what if it is torn up at the orientation site?" Wouldn't it be fun for the juniors to watch the excitement, and it would lose the majesty of the seniors. Now that they are kings and don't see kings, they can't turn the welcome ball into a propaganda front for both sides! ”
Zhou Yi smiled, it seems that it is a pity that he can't see the two young men this time.
On occasions like these, the heads of the two societies are generally not present.
Next, Wang Maitreya introduced a few classmates to Zhou Yi, and it can be seen that they are a small circle.
"This is Zhou Yi's junior from Zhengdong Pictures, the top student in the Yanjing Science College Entrance Examination, everyone must know him."
Zhou Yi was embarrassed: The fat senior introduced it too high-profile.
However, several seniors were very polite, and they talked to Zhou Yi one after another, saying that they had admired Zhou Yi's junior for a long time and had been looking forward to it! As a senior student in the directing department, there must be no problem with communication skills, otherwise how to attract investment sponsorship in the future, at least eloquence is very slippery.
Everyone had a great time.
Zhou Yi also expressed his friendliness, on behalf of Zhengdong Pictures, and welcomed the seniors to intern in the future.
The relationship has been established in this way, and whether the relationship can be deepened depends on the future, and we can't be in a hurry.
At this time, the freshmen ball of the directing department and the management department officially began.
The two glamorous seniors stood on the stage to preside, and their conversation was humorous and witty.
When the freshmen start to introduce themselves, it is very simple, there is no need to talk at length, otherwise the introduction will not be finished, and it will definitely be the main dance. The freshmen of the directing department have always been extremely demanding, and there are only a dozen people, and the number of people is much smaller than that of the acting department, and the introduction was completed soon.
Then the freshmen of the management department began to introduce themselves, they have many professional directions, and naturally there are many people, more than the number of freshmen in the performance department, there are dozens of people, but Zhou Yi will not count them one by one, just take a general look.
He got together with Wang Maitreya and others and whispered and communicated in the audience.
Wang Maitreya suddenly remembered something, and asked Zhou Yidao curiously: "I heard that Senior Sister Guo Aiming in this year's college year has signed in to your east?" ”
Several seniors next to him also listened with interest.
Obviously, Guo Aiming is not unknown at school.
It is estimated that Senior Wang Maitreya has the psychology of inquiring into inside information again, but there is no need to hide this kind of thing.
Zhou Yi smiled: "Yes! We are relatives, she doesn't sign in to us due east here, where else do you want to sign in? ”
"Are you relatives?" Everyone was curious.
"Senior Sister Guo's homeroom teacher Tanya is my aunt, recently Aunt Tanya married Director Guo, who is Senior Sister Guo's stepmother, then of course I and Senior Sister Guo are relatives, Senior Sister can only take the initiative to jump into the bowl." Zhou Yi made a joke.
Everyone laughed, and felt that Zhou Yi's words had a taste of "beautiful senior sister in my house".
"I see." Wang Maitreya understood, "I heard that Senior Sister has been preparing a movie recently. ”
"We have a movie in preparation in the second half of the year, and there is a role for the senior sister, of course she has to prepare."
"It's really good to be able to act in a movie so soon." Wang Maitreya nodded in approval.
A senior named Pan Haodong next to him said with a smile: "I remember that when Senior Sister Guo was a sophomore or junior, she went out to act in a TV series, but there was no repercussion, and she couldn't become popular." In fact, the senior sister's acting skills are no problem at all, the drama performance in the school is very good, but the opportunity is poor, and the role in the TV series has no highlights and is not suitable. It's really good to be able to act in a movie now. The opportunity is really important, I hope the senior sister can be popular this time. ”
Zhou Yi nodded and said: "Actually, it's still a macho play, girls play small roles, if you want to become popular, you have to shoot a few more films." ”
Another Pang Weneru said: "It's good to have a chance. Sometimes it's easier for actors to find opportunities, but it's more difficult for directors. We're going to have to get through it slowly! I don't know when I will have the opportunity to make my first film. It's too difficult for a new director to become famous these days. ”
Wang Maitreya smiled: "It is really difficult to start, one is that it is difficult to attract investment, and it is not trusted. The last time I took the script to a company to attract investment, people asked me about my situation, and they said to me directly, the script is good, but can you find Ling Zun to direct? Or, you can shoot it, but the director has to hang your father's name. I was depressed when I heard it, I had only heard of my father making films, hanging his son's name, and he wanted to make his son popular and pave the way for his son, but I had never heard of his son making films and hanging his father's name. If this is filmed, will it be counted as me, or will it be counted as my father's film? Wouldn't it be very embarrassing to be completely unclear in the future! You're just kidding me! As a result, the matter was not negotiated, and they broke up unhappily. ”
Everyone couldn't help but laugh, and felt that this thing was really happy.
Wang Maitreya continued: "One more! It's just that it's hard to publish. Sometimes, even after we finish filming, it is difficult to find a company that is willing to distribute it. People feel that the cost of publicity and distribution may not be able to recover the cost, and it is not worth wasting time and energy. After all, there are other films waiting to be released in large companies! I'm afraid you don't believe in the distribution ability of small companies, what if you get caught? ”
Several seniors nodded one after another, all of them understanding.
Wang Maitreya said: "The third is that it is difficult for the theater to be released, the theater line sees that you are an unknown newcomer, and it is a small-budget literary film, and I don't know when to schedule the film, maybe it will be moldy in the warehouse for a year or two, and it will not be released at all." Even if it is screened, if the schedule is not suitable, the publicity is not strong, and there are not many audiences in the end, the film will still be released, and it will not be screened on a large scale at all. This is also the reason why I admire the film "Five Poisons", the screening results of small-budget films are too beautiful, directly crushing everything and winning the opportunity of large-scale release, you have to take it. ”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Zhou Yi smiled and was polite.
"In fact, sometimes, it's not that young directors love literature and art so much, and they like to make literary films, but there are really no commercial films to make. Do those investors dare to ask you, a student director who has just left school, to make a commercial film? Isn't that a money squander? Not afraid of losing all your money? ”
Zhou Yi smiled, this is indeed the truth.
He made commercial films, and he didn't dare to find young directors. Which company would dare to put a lot of money on young directors?
Let's start with music videos and commercials! Young people are so ambitious, and the most important thing is to be ambitious.
This is the conventional wisdom in the industry.
Everyone chatted casually offstage, and the show had already begun on stage.
At the beginning, a few seniors went up first and performed a few programs to warm up.
Zhou Yi originally thought that the directors couldn't perform tricks, but he didn't think it was all right, the programs performed by others were really good, although they couldn't be as professional as the acting department, but they could also do it.
Some seniors in the directing department are really versatile, which is normal, really good directors are very talented, if you don't understand music, how to choose the right soundtrack for film and television dramas in the future? If you don't know art, how to compose a picture, I'm afraid you won't even be able to do a storyboard script. With such a high quality, the directing department is naturally difficult to examine, and only a dozen people are recruited every year, and one province is not enough to assign one person.
With this kind of high-quality students, there is naturally no problem with performing programs.
The first few shows did perform well, and it can be seen that they have definitely been carefully prepared, and there is even a senior who improvised an allegro book, which is also full of amusement and won a full house.
The freshmen are inexperienced, and they are not professional performers, so I am afraid that they will not even be able to do the splitting, and the show is relatively immature, but the atmosphere on the field is very active. Zhou Yi originally thought about whether he wanted to perform a show, but now it seems that he doesn't need to, there are enough performers, and he can't perform in various programs, so he doesn't need to appear on the stage at all.
In this way, Zhou Yi is relaxed, he has nothing to do, and he chats with everyone, which is not interesting.
Wang Maitreya said with a smile: "Senior Brother Zhou Yi, I have also followed your Julang Weibo recently. ”
"Really?"
Zhou Yi was a little surprised, the other party was not a star chaser.
"The recent development of the younger brother is really good, and I made a movie "Chongxiao Tower" during the holidays, and there is also a youth TV series, I have made the best use of the vacation time, I heard that there are still films to be made in the second half of the year?"
"That's right." Zhou Yi nodded.
Several other seniors were a little surprised, and they all praised: "You Zhengdong are really fast gunners, and the filming speed is really fast." ”
Pan Haodong said with a smile: "It would be cool if the new film could have a premiere in Yanying." ”
Zhou Yi was very excited: "It would be nice if we could really do that, but unfortunately we are a low-budget action movie, I'm afraid we are not qualified." ”
Wang Maitreya waved his hand and said, "That's not what I said. Don't think too much about it, what can't you put here? As long as it's valuable. Just like your last film, you can use it to put it away, since it can succeed and achieve the effect of a dark horse counterattack, it must be very valuable for reference, why can't it be used to discuss learning, not to mention that Director Zhao is also a senior director in the industry, and our students here may not be able to compare with it in the future! It's definitely not good to have a high eye, and you can drag 2580,000 in school, so you have to go, no one is used to going out, how can you mix! ”
There is a lot of truth to that.
Zhou Yi nodded and said, "If there is a real chance, of course we are very willing." ”
Pang Wenbo suddenly asked, "What is the situation in your east now?" ”
Zhou Yi was prepared, and introduced a few words with a smile: "Our Zhengdong is a company that has just been acquired, and the acquisition was completed in March in the first half of the year, at that time, the company only had director Zhao Zhichu who could make films, and the other two TV series directors were poached, and the actresses were not left, they were all poached, but the senior management of our company was retained, the male artists were all there, and there were screenwriters. ”
"The overall framework of our company is well maintained, there are no famous directors, no female artists, it doesn't matter, at that time, we filmed small-budget macho dramas, and we could survive no matter what. At that time, it was 5 million production costs, 5 million publicity costs, and finally 363 million box office and 146 million account sharing income, and the company stabilized. During the holidays, we made TV series and new films, and we will prepare new films in the second half of the year. ”
"Wow! In this way, your Zhengdong is indeed developing very well. ”
Several seniors nodded their heads in approval.
"We should have a firm foothold in the second-tier companies in the circle, and we don't have to worry about downgrading to the third-tier."
Zhou Yi behaved modestly and confidently, but there was no arrogance, and his attitude was still cautious.
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