Chapter 889 [Strangling competitors by raising the threshold]
In addition to presenting the audience with a more reasonable, more logical, and different perspective to interpret historical figures and historical events such as Yuan Shao, there is also a point that cannot be ignored is the big scene and the wonderful performances of the actors.
Its success is multifaceted, such as the costumes and props hired authoritative historians as consultants, and there was no capital to enter the group, and there were four kings with one bronze.
And most importantly, the producer Yixing Media is really willing to spend money for this project, and the budget of the whole drama has reached an astonishing 970 million yuan, with 97 episodes in the whole drama, and an average cost of about 10 million yuan per episode.
With such a large budget, the actors' salaries only account for 15% of the total budget cost, and the rest of the funds are all used for scene construction, special effects production and large-scale war performance.
Like the Eighteenth Route Princes' Alliance, the Battle of Guandu, its grand war scenes are displayed in a bird's-eye view of the long shots, often tens of seconds or even minutes by the long shots, and the audience is addicted.
This is the case with scenes such as the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Hanzhong, which have not yet been broadcast in the future.
Prior to this, there were few directors and few dramas who dared to present grand war scenes with bird's-eye shots, and they often showed it for such a long time, and it was very good to give you dozens of people charging from a local perspective.
This kind of bird's-eye view long shot of a large scene can't be supported without that fund, and forcibly pulling such a shot to show it will only make a bunch of five-cent special effects that can be seen at a glance.
The war scenes of Yixing Media's version of "Three Kingdoms" are really blessed by top special effects, you must know that the production cost of those top Hollywood special effects blockbusters is about 100 million to 150 million US dollars, and the production cost budget of this version of "Three Kingdoms" is also about this volume.
The literary drama is amazing, the martial arts war scenes are magnificent, the actors' wonderful performances, and the acting skills are all online, making this drama a hit historical drama this year and receiving rave reviews.
However, it is worth mentioning that this historical script was originally going to be broadcast on Yangshi for the first time, but because the 97 episodes of this drama are too long, the TV station asked to cut it to less than 80 episodes, otherwise it will not be allowed to be released.
This is not only strongly opposed by the director's creative team, but also to the top management of Yixing Media Group.
In the end, the senior management of Yixing Media Group made a decision not to go to the TV station, anyway, it is impossible to recover the huge production cost of 970 million, and there is no hope that it will be able to recover the cost at all.
Spending so much money to lose money and make money is more about implementing Fang Hong's strategic requirements for the cultural construction of Yixing Media Group.
In the end, the senior management of Yixing Media decided to give up the premiere on TV and instead put this costly historical drama on the online streaming platform Yixing Video for exclusive premiere on the whole network.
The whole drama 97 episodes have not been cut,After the premiere, you don't need members to watch the latest episodes,You only need to register an account of Yixing Video to watch1080P HD version,Some members can watch4K ultra-clear picture quality。
And the 1080P picture quality is already very high-definition,This makes other pirated platforms have no traffic,The picture quality of the pirated platform is not as good as 1080P,And there are a lot of advertisements,You can watch it directly by registering an account on the official genuine channel of the art star video website,No money,So even the white prostitution party chooses to go to the art star video with their feet。
This is also the consistent operation of Yixing Video, piracy must be played, but it is also clear that the fight is incomplete, so you can watch the official genuine video directly for free, and the advantage of piracy will disappear directly in situ.
Yixing Video is backed by the father of the gold owner and can afford to play.
On the contrary, this has attracted a large number of loyal users, these users are afraid that Yixing Media will play so much and continue to lose money, in case it goes bankrupt that day, there will be no such good dramas to watch, and everyone is still counting on the "Three-Body Problem" series.
Moreover, with the word-of-mouth support of Fang Hong and the blessing of many factors, users have taken the initiative to support members, and they can also do public welfare by the way, and they can also give their WeChat payment credit increase points.
The premiere progress of this version of the historical drama "Three Kingdoms" has only advanced to the Guandu War, but the number of views on Yixing Video has reached an astonishing 4.7 billion, which can be called unparalleled.
The quality of the follow-up episodes does not say that it surpasses the content that has been broadcast so far, as long as the current quality is guaranteed, it is ironclad that this drama will exceed 15 billion after it is broadcast.
After it was broadcast, it became a phenomenal hit drama, and Yang Shi still regretted it a little, knowing that it would become like this.
Now Yixing Video updates three episodes every day at 8 o'clock in the evening prime time, and everyone is watching Yixing Video to catch up on the episodes at this point in time, and social media platforms such as Weibo also have a lot of topics to discuss the plot or discuss war scenes.
Now countless viewers are not only looking forward to the follow-up plots of "Three Kingdoms" such as the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Hanzhong, but also looking forward to the third part of the "Great Qin Empire" series being filmed by Yixing Media Group.
The audience is now very assured of the quality of Yixing Media, the first and second parts of the previous "Great Qin Empire" series, as well as the popular "Three Kingdoms", have gradually planted in the hearts of the audience that if you want to see high-quality, big-scenes, and big-scale productions, you have to look at the works produced by Yixing Media, quality assurance, and the expectation is over.
In addition, the audience is also looking forward to the sci-fi masterpiece "Three-Body Problem" series of movies that have been in preparation for several years but has been jumping tickets, and this year there is no surprise to skip tickets.
In fact, the current technical level and special effects level are actually not inferior to Hollywood's top blockbusters, as long as the money is in place, the special effects will definitely be in place.
The reason why the ticket bounced is because the genre of sci-fi blockbusters is very special, and to succeed, both software and hardware are in place.
At the hardware level, the market size must be able to bear a box office of five or six billion, and if it can't reach this market scale, it will be difficult to even return to the cost, let alone make money; At the software level, that is the country's comprehensive national strength, sci-fi blockbusters are often the theme of saving the world and really human civilization, your comprehensive national strength is not at a certain level, and no one believes it when you shoot it, which is why sci-fi blockbusters are dominant.
Because Lao Mei is the current big brother of the Blue Star overlord, it seems reasonable for him to save the world, and it seems reasonable for him to let a small African country save the world, and others will feel ridiculous when they look at it.
Therefore, "The Three-Body Problem" will definitely skip the ticket, and will continue to find reasons to skip the ticket, until the right time comes.
Yixing Media has imperceptibly established its own reputation and brand status in the hearts of the audience, in addition to the blessing of the banknote ability, in addition to the overall situation of Fang Hong's cultural construction strategy, this way of thinking has actually produced another miraculous effect.
That is to raise the standard madly, making peers feel desperate, the cost of filming a TV series is at the same level as Hollywood's top special effects blockbusters, and it can be frenzied to spend more than 800 million, this kind of thing is looking at the whole country, except for Yixing Media, who dares to do this and has the ability to do this, there is no second producer.
Even if Yixing Media messes up, it doesn't hurt, and you can make persistent efforts when you look back, but if other producers dare to play like this, it's okay, once it fails, it's not as simple as going bankrupt, and you have to bear heavy debts.
Therefore, no producer dares to follow suit, which actually makes Yixing Media Group a monopolist of a certain type, such as such a historical drama, in the future, there will never be a second producer who will set up a project to shoot, and investors will not dare to give him money.
Because once you can't keep up with the quality of Yixing Media Group, the audience who is raised with Diao taste will not buy it, and the risk of losing money will be doubled, and no one will dare to get involved, and then it will become the exclusive type of Yixing Media Group, except for Yixing Media, there will be no second producer involved.
This is similar to the logic of those game development giants who raised triple-A masterpieces to a height of 100 million or 200 million US dollars, forcing many industry peers to fail to even meet the threshold, thereby reducing competitors to share this piece of the cake.
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