Chapter 262: Preparing for the concert
After Han Jin discussed with the senior management of Huaxing Records, he agreed to Mr. Zhang Yaorong's invitation to perform.
Zhang Yaorong's Yaorong Entertainment Company is simply a performance company, which specializes in holding concerts and other commercial activities to make money, so all singers with box office appeal will become the objects of his invitation.
There are small venues for small singers, such as the Lee Stage, the Great Hall, and the like; There are big venues for big-name singers, such as the Hong Kong City Hall and the Elizabeth Stadium; And the superstar is the Hung Hom Stadium, with big works, small works, big profits, and small profits.
A singer with a high popularity like Han Jin is naturally the target he wants to invite, and if he can hold eight concerts in a row in the Red Pavilion, he can also make a lot of money as a performer.
The specific operation process of the concert is like this, Zhang Yaorong first selects the right singer, and then invites the agency.
After discussion, the agency and the singer will determine the performance plan and budget cost, and then further negotiate with the performance company. If you feel that both parties feel reasonable, sign a performance contract and accept the deposit in advance. After that, the performers took the contract and began to look for sponsors, including the title of the concert, including the venue, costumes, catering, etc.
Of course, this also needs to communicate with the brokerage company, for example, Han Jin has received several advertisements now, so it is not suitable to accept the sponsorship of the same type of products from other companies.
In the 80s, concert titles were not very common, and the main reason was that the performers could earn all their money by selling tickets. The record market is booming, and celebrities hold concerts. The audience was also happy to cheer. Xu Xiaofeng held a concert in the Red Pavilion in 92, and held as many as 43 concerts in a row, and some people joked, "She is working in the Red Pavilion!" ”。
Ticket sales are usually carried out by the performers through the ticket company ten days in advance, and in addition to the regular tickets, there is usually a certain amount of free tickets for some groups and individuals. Of course, the more popular the ticket sales, the fewer the number of free tickets will be; Conversely, the number of free tickets will increase.
Because the agency needs a certain attendance rate, otherwise a large area will be vacant in the venue during the performance, and the singer will really lose face.
As for the content of the concert. It's up to the agency and the singer to decide. Including song selection and dance, modeling and choreography, etc. Because both the agency and the singer have a lot of experience in this, in order to ensure the quality of the concert, so as not to be smashed by the bad performers. Of course, this also comes at a cost. Basically, it is withdrawn from the deposit paid in advance by the performance company.
After the show is over. The brokerage company then gets the balance back. The performer also calculates all of its earnings, and then both parties file their own taxes, and the concert ends.
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After Han Jin and Huaxing Company received Zhang Yaorong's invitation to perform. First think about what kind of stage, what kind of choreography, what kind of styling, and what kind of backup dance will be needed for the concert...... After calculating the costs one by one, we will negotiate with the performers.
Because this is Han Jin's first concert, his requirements are relatively high, whether it is for the stage, the choreography, the sound, or the accompanying dance, the requirements are more detailed, and the natural cost is more comparative.
Usually the cost of this is about 800,000 Hong Kong dollars, but because Han Jin's requirements are higher, the cost alone has reached 1 million Hong Kong dollars. However, because it has to be held eight times in a row, it is evenly divided, and one game is only more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is not too expensive.
After accounting for Zhang Yaorong's performance company, he felt that although the cost was higher, he still had money to make, so he agreed and paid half of the deposit first.
Han Jin's appearance fee is set at 600,000 Hong Kong dollars per game, 8 games is 4.8 million Hong Kong dollars, and half of the deposit is 2.4 million Hong Kong dollars. This price code is already higher than Deng Lijun, Tan Yilin, Xu Xiaofeng and others.
Deng Lijun's appearance fee is 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, Xu Xiaofeng's is 450,000 Hong Kong dollars, and Alan Tam's price is 350,000 Hong Kong dollars. If there are a few more performances because the fans are too fanatical, then Han Jin's appearance fee will be higher.
After getting the deposit, Huaxing Records began to find famous artists to design the stage of the concert. The shape of the stage, lighting design, etc., have a great impact on the performance effect, so it is necessary to hire professionals to design and build.
Han Jin was busy designing performance costumes, choosing backup dances, rehearsing dances, etc., and also had to work out and exercise for the concert.
Because concerts are usually held for two and a half to three hours, the singer needs to sing nearly thirty songs, and it is impossible to do it without a certain body. In addition, most of what Han Jin sings is dance music, and he is bound to sing and dance at that time, which is much more tiring than other singers, so he must strengthen his body to pass the test.
Sister Mei, Sister Mei, Guan Zhilin, Zeng Huaqian, Zhong Chuhong, etc. all knew that he was going to hold a concert and was strengthening his body, so they all tried their best to tonify him, and stewed various nutritional products for him to drink every day, making Han Jin feel that he was not preparing for a concert, but doing confinement after giving birth.
Yaorong Entertainment Company also released the wind early, saying that Han Jin was going to hold his first concert, and called on fans to pay attention to come and cheer when the time came.
Because Han Jin is now a leading star in Hong Kong, with more than 300,000 copies of each record sold, it can be said that he has more than 400,000 fans, and now he is going to hold his first concert, which immediately makes fans all over Hong Kong rejoice, just waiting for the day when they buy tickets.
And overseas fans also received this news and wanted to watch Han Jin's concert. Fans in Japan even said they wanted to charter a flight to watch it. Such enthusiasm made Yaorong Entertainment Company and Huaxing Records very happy, but they didn't expect that before the promotion, the fans were already so enthusiastic, and the tickets really didn't have to worry about not selling.
Han Jin knew that the fans were so enthusiastic, and he couldn't help but feel that he was under a lot of pressure. This time, we must give fans the best audio-visual enjoyment, so as to live up to their enthusiasm and expectation.
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In order to ensure the quality of the concert, Huaxing Records specially hired Masaaki Akita, who had designed the retirement stage for Yamaguchi Baihui, and his team from Japan to design for Han Jin.
Japanese singers are very popular for concerts, and their performance market is much hotter than Hong Kong. Moreover, the style of the concert is similar to that of Europe and the United States, and the technology and concept are much more advanced than Hong Kong. Therefore, if Hong Kong singers want to hold concerts, they usually invite professionals from Japan to design them.
Of course, if the requirements are a little higher, you can also find better designers from Europe and the United States, but of course the remuneration is higher.
In terms of stage design, Han Jin also put forward a lot of opinions. For example, because his concerts are mostly dance music, the lighting effects must be outstanding, and the sound effects do not require high fidelity, but they must be the loudest.
Akita Masaaki adopted Han Jin's advice one by one, and finally designed an octopus-like six-claw stage for him. The stage is erected in the center of the gymnasium. The area is about 50 square meters. 360 degrees without dead ends. In the middle of the circle is the main stage, with six claws extending all the way to the auditorium, which is convenient for interaction with the audience during the performance.
Singers and backing-backs get on and off the stage, and they have to go through a guò lift. This kind of stage design. It was the first time in the history of Hong Kong concerts. Quite a novelty. It feels refreshing.
As for the lighting, fireworks, etc., they have also been carefully designed in accordance with Han Jin's requirements, so as to bring the audience immersive. It's like being in a discotheque.
After the stage design was completed, the total cost was as high as HK$700,000, which was the most expensive stage cost in Hong Kong's history.
After Yaorong Entertainment Company released the news to the media, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. Deng Lijun held a concert in December last year, and the stage design was also invited by a Japanese designer, which was extremely gorgeous, but it only cost 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.
However, in order to build a stage for Han Jin's performance, the Red Pavilion specially closed the hall and kept it strictly confidential, so that the vast number of Hong Kong media with magical powers were also at a loss, and it was difficult to get a glimpse of it. And the more you can't see it, the more itchy everyone's hearts are, and the greater their interest in the concert.
In addition to the stage design, what kind of appearance Han Jin will appear in at the concert has also become the focus of attention of the media and fans.
Since Han Jin appeared as a golden retriever at the Asian Music Festival in Japan, he has led the pop trend in Hong Kong, causing many young people to follow suit.
And his latest album is in a gothic psychedelic style, which is also eye-catching. It has changed the style of Hong Kong singers who only pay attention to singing and not focusing on styling, so that fans are not only listening to songs, but also able to enjoy the singers' styling and dancing, and truly get an unparalleled audio-visual enjoyment.
Therefore, what kind of look Han Jin will appear in this concert and what kind of clothes he will wear has also become the focus of attention of the media and fans. However, Han Jin has been very busy since he came back from Japan, hiding and not accepting any interviews, so it is difficult for the media to find him.
Many reporters stayed downstairs at his house for several days without waiting for him to return. In fact, what they didn't know was that Han Jin had been staying at Sister Mei, Guan Zhilin, and Sister Mei's house these days, and had not returned to his cottage at all.
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The styling and costumes of this concert were also designed by Han Jinlai himself, and Liu Peiji assisted in stealing the teacher by the way.
This time, because the concert was held in the Red Pavilion, the venue was huge and the audience was large, so the costumes of the performance must be distinct so that the audience from a distance could see it clearly.
Therefore, Han Jin specially chose white, red, green and other bright colors, and embellished some beads, crystals and the like on his clothes, dazzling, starlight, and the visual effect is absolutely first-class.
In addition, there is also a batch of costumes that Han Jin specially ordered from the United States, which is bound to scare fans once it is revealed, and he is full of confidence in it.
Liu Peiji was also taken aback by Han Jin's bold design, he never thought that the performance could be in this form, even light could become a tool for his performance, it was too creative.
In addition to the performance clothes he designed for himself, Han Jinhai designed two T-shirts, one for men and one for women, to sell as peripheral products for concerts.
In the Hong Kong music scene, the market for singers' concert peripheral products has not been taken seriously, but in Japan, it has formed a certain scale. For example, costumes, posters, keychains, notepads, cheering sticks, etc., singers can not only get an appearance fee at each opening meeting, but also make a lot of money from the sale of peripheral products.
But it is the Korean music scene that really takes peripheral products to the extreme and squeezes every dime out of fans' pockets.
At that time, the so-called "white support ocean" was really extraordinary, from raincoats, T-shirts, pants, shoes, socks, to balloons, glow sticks, and posters.
And the fans are also quite united, and they still wear so much on hot days, just to support their idols in a uniform manner, that kind of crazy Cheng dù can be described as "neurotic".
And the agency naturally squeezed a lot of money out of these crazy fans, and many little girls even took out all the money to buy idol support.
In comparison, the concert in Hong Kong basically has nothing except for selling light sticks and posters. And glow sticks and posters, etc., are still sold by hawkers, and have nothing to do with the brokerage company.
Han Jin is not as ignorant as them, and naturally understands the market value of peripheral products, so this time he took the lead and designed two support T-shirts for fans. (To be continued!)
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