Chapter 5 VAM Contracts

Yeongdeungpo-gu, where the kBs main building is located, is just across the bank from Mapo-gu, where Lee Chung-hee and his family live, just across the Han River.

The agreed time was nine o'clock in the morning, eight thirty o'clock, Lee Chung-hee and Jang Dong-guk rushed to the front of the kBs main building early, looking at the side of the entrance, the house number hanging on it, Lee Chung-hee suddenly smiled, with some inexplicable and complicated feelings, and read softly in his mouth: "Yeouido No. 18".

He had been here many times in his previous life, but almost every time he was disappointed, and today, he will take the first step after reincarnation, although he is not too excited, but his heart is not calm.

And in order to support him on the side, Zhang Dongguo, who came in a suit and leather shoes, pinched the tie knot nervously and loosened it a little, and then let out a sigh of relief.

Yesterday, after all, I was joking even in the car that came in, but when I got here, it felt unreal. However, this mood quickly put him aside, Lee Chung-hee believed in him so much, and, in his eyes, no matter how smart Lee Chung-hee was, he was a little guy who didn't know much about the world after all, and he had the responsibility to help Lee Chung-hee deal with the next things.

Thinking of this, he calmed down, then turned his head to look at Li Zhengxi, and greeted in a firm and steady voice: "Let's go!" ”

Looking at his still somewhat stiff face, Li Zhengxi relaxed, nodded with a smile, and teased him, "Brother, it seems that I should be nervous, right?" When he turned his head angrily, he ran in with a smile.

After passing through the plaza, going up the stairs, entering the lobby of the main building of kBs, then registering at the front desk, and then after the front desk contacted the department they visited to confirm it, they were given a temporary pass to enter the main building, and they were able to come to the third floor of the main building.

On the third floor is the drama department, which belongs to the content headquarters of the program system, and then, it itself is divided into three small departments. Among them, the production of zuΓ² is mainly responsible for the production of family ethics * Li dramas, such as the famous "The Man of the Bathhouse Owner's Family", "The Wife of the Dregs Club" and so on.

The three production zuΓ² are responsible for the production of historical river dramas, such as the just-broadcast "Taizu Wang Jian", the later "Empress Mingcheng" and so on, as for the production of the second part of Li Zhengxi, they are specifically responsible for the production of fashion romantic dramas, such as "First Love", such as "Winter Love Song" and so on.

"Young man, you are Lee Chung-hee!"

In the reception room of the second department, Lee Chung-hee was received by Minister Song Yong-jin and Vice Minister Park Dong-chan, who took Lee Chung-hee's hand very enthusiastically, looked at his handsome and slightly childish face, patted him on the shoulder with emotion, and said: "Sure enough, I was young and promising, I was shocked when I saw your information before, but your script is really well written, I like it so much......." ”

However, Minister Song Yongzhen frowned slightly, squinted at Lee Chung-hee, and then asked with a stern expression, "You are really eighteen years old, studying for a doctorate in economics at Harvard University!" ”

Li Zhengxi didn't know that there was his detailed information here, but in order to make himself look more talented and capable before coming, he had already made relevant preparations, and when he heard the question, he took out a large number of documents from his backpack and put them in front of Song Yongzhen and them, and then shrugged, "Here are my American documents, as well as my Harvard University student ID, student ID, library card, etc., of course, there is also my professor's phone number, you can call the confirmation ...... at any time." ”

After they looked at it a little, they smiled again and said, "I know everyone will have doubts about me being too young, but Xu Taizhi started forming a band at the age of fourteen, and I am four years older than him, four years old!" ”

In the conference room, a light smile sounded because of his playful words, he continued: "And, most importantly, my knowledge of the industry, I have taken theater, I have also read film and television drama production, not only that, I have also spent time on the set in New York, I know the basic process of making a TV series or movie, and I also have a rough understanding of lighting, props, costumes, photography, etc., ....... ”

Most of this is nonsense, except that because he was reborn and has enough knowledge about film and television production. Of course, as long as he understands, it doesn't matter if it's nonsense or not.

"Well, that's a good point," Park Dongzan clapped his hands after listening to him, looked at him appreciatively and nodded, "Then I'm more at ease!" ”

And Song Yongzhen next to him still had a straight face, staring at Lee Chung-hee with suspicion, it was obvious that he was very distrustful of this rookie who had just done screenwriting for the first time, even if he was a genius student at Harvard, no matter how much he said it.

Lee Chung-hee also saw at this time that Park Dong-chan was undoubtedly the one who was conquered by the game, and he was extremely trusting and polite to him, but the game could only do that, so Song Yongzhen would treat him with such an attitude, but this matter had already been passed through the ministerial council of the ministry and had the permission of the vice president in charge of the department, and he couldn't stop it.

can't be stopped, fait accompli, after everyone has discussed the script and has a consensus on the tone and style of the whole show, the next step is to discuss the contract, and at this time, it is Zhang Dongguo's turn to appear (the contract negotiation of the artist is handled by the agent, which is basically the rule of this industry).

"Hello Minister Song, hello Vice Minister Park, I'm Jang Dong-guk of Imperial Entertainment, Lee Chung-hee's agent, please take care of me!"

Zhang Dongguo said as he took out the business card that had not been printed for a long time, and handed it to Song Yongzhen and Park Dongzan with a little respect.

"Imperial Entertainment?" Song Yongzhen took the business card and didn't read it, and when he heard Zhang Dongguo's words, he frowned, because he had never heard of this name at all.

Lee Chung-hee smiled secretly on the side, but Zhang Dongguo, who was relaxed, nodded solemnly and replied with a smile: "Yes, the company has only been established for a long time, and it may not be famous, and I will ask Minister Song to take care of our artists in the future!" ”

Not long after it was established, it was not even an empty shell of a leather bag company, the so-called Imperial Entertainment was just Lee Chung-hee's casual nonsense, and then the business card was still yesterday afternoon, and they spent a lot of money of 100,000 won to find someone to print it, and they only got it at seven o'clock this morning.

As for the information on the business card, the address is Zhang Dongguo's address, and the phone number is still Zhang Dongguo's landline number...... It can be said that this qiΔ“ is all fake.

It's just that with the rise of Hallyu in Asia, many people, including Seoul's Taoist figures, have joined this circle, and for a while, there are many more entertainment companies and brokerage companies in Seoul.

Therefore, although Song Yongzhen was puzzled, he didn't say anything, he would never go out of his way to investigate for this.

"Three million episodes?" A few people sat down, and as the producer in charge of the production of "Blue Life and Death Love", Park Dong-chan had enough power over the screenwriter's salary.

However, when Zhang Dongguo got the contract he handed over and looked at the salary written on it as three million per episode, he frowned.

Of course, he himself is actually very satisfied, "Blue Life and Death Love" has 16 episodes, one episode is 3 million, and the total is 48 million won.

48 million, this number is definitely a huge amount of money for him, and Lee Chung-hee has already told him yesterday that he can extract 30% of it as the agent's remuneration, which means that he can get no more than 15 million won.

It's a little exciting to think about!

However, he remembered that Lee Chung-hee had told him that if it was less than 20 million episodes, let him negotiate using that method.

At first, Zhang Dongguo thought that this kid was crazy, but seeing that there were already three million in front of him, he also felt that the plan that Li Zhengxi said might not work.

Therefore, he secretly took a breath, put on a posture of negotiation, and then pretended to be calm, frowned with a little dissatisfaction, and said: "Isn't this too low, I mean, although it is the first time for us Jeong-hee to write a script, but Minister Park just said that the script is really ......well written." ”

"Three million is too low!" Before Zhang Dongguo's words were finished, Song Yongzhen answered coldly, and his expression was full of mockery, "On our side, the average junior screenwriter's salary is only about 2.5 million won, and many screenwriters who have just debuted get the salary of a screenwriter's apprentice, only 500,000 or 600,000 or even less ...... per episode." ”

What Song Yongjin said was the truth, and because of this, he was only willing to open an episode of 1 million won at that time, and the 3 million was won by Park Dong-chan from the Council of Ministers.

"Minister Song is right, of course we understand these situations, but we still feel that the price is a bit low," no matter how cold Song Yong really is, Zhang Dongguo, who has already learned about the general situation of the screenwriting industry through Li Zhengxi, still has no change in face. This is a negotiation, so naturally there is a lot of discussion.

He turned his head to look at Park Dongzan again, he now knew that it was this deputy minister who was easy to speak, "Minister Park, thank you for just affirming our Zhengxi's script, and our company also has great confidence in Zhengxi's script, but we all know that the TV drama production is basically based on the ratings, and advertisers spend money on advertising to see the ratings, so we might as well use Nielsen's national ratings jΓΉ to draw up a VAM contract ......." ”

Looking at the two guys who were a little stunned on the other side, thinking about what Lee Chung-hee had repeatedly said to him in detail yesterday, he was happy again, and put the contract on the table, looking more confident, "Generally speaking, the average rating of a TV series reaches 20%, we call it a hit drama, and the advertising of a hit drama is naturally a lot of money, of course, we don't have to worry about the hit drama will be cut halfway, then, we will use this average rating of 20% as a benchmark."

If the average ratings for "Blue Life and Death" were less than twenty percent, we would only need one million episodes; If we cut it halfway, then we don't want a penny, but if it reaches 20 percent, then we need 10 million episodes, and at the same time, after reaching 20 percent, for every 5 percent increase in the average rating, we have to add 5 million episodes ....... ”

"No way!" It's Song Yongzhen again, this guy seems to be deliberately going against Lee Chung-hee and them, and once again categorically vetoed Zhang Dongguo's suggestion, and even knocked twice on the table very rudely.

Zhang Dongguo was also a little unhappy, squinted his eyes slightly, and forcibly held back the anger in his heart, but his tone was questioning, "Why not, Minister Song, we are not unilaterally asking for something, we are also taking responsibility, isn't this the perfect way to take care of the interests of both parties?" ”

Song Yongzhen snorted coldly and didn't speak for the time being. It is not completely vexatious that he just vetoed Zhang Dongguo's suggestion, and now it is not as good as more than ten years later, although the average rating of 20% is indeed the standard for hit dramas, but it is not too difficult to achieve, as long as you are lucky.

More than 10 years later, because of the prosperity of the Internet, not to mention the average rating of 20%, it is difficult to reach the sky, and any episode with 20% is gratifying.

Therefore, Song Yongzhen is also afraid of "being careless", and the average rating of "Blue Life and Death Love" will reach 20%, so they will have to pay 10 million for one episode.

"Director Zhang!" When the situation was a little stiff, Park Dong-chan, who had never been able to speak, came out to play a round with a smile, although he was very dissatisfied with Song Yongzhen's wanton interference in the project that had been handed over to him to operate. However, when the official level crushed people to death, he could only slander in his heart.

Zhang Dongguo's business card was written as the director of Imperial Entertainment, and the conditions proposed by the other party were not rude, so he also said politely: "What Minister Song means is that there has never been such an agreement on our side, so we still need to consider carefully before we can give you a reply to ......!" ”

Seeing him say this, Zhang Dongguo didn't entangle, nodded, "Of course," he was even more relieved in his heart, what he was most afraid of, what he was most afraid of was that the other party would turn his face and say that he would not do it.

Now it seems that a qiΔ“ is in the grasp. Of course, he didn't know that this was actually a job that couldn't be run, otherwise how would Lee Chung-hee dare to make him ...... so tough.

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