Afternoon.

Cheng Mengyao came to the company to clock in and go to work, her college roommate came to Beijing to do business, and there was no place to live for the time being, and the relationship between the two in college was very good, so Cheng Mengyao temporarily asked for leave to pick up at the station in the morning, and arranged her roommate in her own home by the way.

"Xiao Cheng, here!"

"Meng Yao!"

The way the colleagues she met along the way greeted her were all inexplicably abnormal, and she couldn't say it clearly if it was too specific, but her intuition was not the same as usual.

"They don't think I'm taking a morning off to go on a blind date, right? I seem to have mentioned to someone to pick up my classmates, and it seems that I didn't mention whether my classmates were male or female, could it be misunderstood? ”

After the personnel of the department were almost all assembled, the leader coughed lightly, and then spoke:

"Xiao Cheng, your big data model needs to be improved, and it almost delayed!"

Cheng Mengyao was stunned, is it a matter of big data? But what can big data delay? Of course, her data model needs to be improved, after all, it is still just a prototype, but what does it mean to lead? Is the data of "Exquisite Ancient City" that I expected according to the model that day too outrageous?

At that time, it was the highest data she predicted, could it be that the data she predicted was the most outrageously wrong, so it was deliberately brought up in front of everyone?

It's not right, even roommates who don't follow dramas much say that many people on the train are chasing "Exquisite Ancient City", and it stands to reason that the data shouldn't be too low.

At this time, the leader continued to speak:

"I remember that you predicted that "Exquisite Ancient City" would probably bring 2.5 million to 3 million new VIP members to our Tencent Video, and this number seems to be slightly less accurate at present, is it that which variables are not taken into account?!"

Cheng Mengyao said: "The model is still improving, maybe some data makes me overestimate the potential of "Exquisite Ancient City"! ”

"Overrated?"

The leader suddenly laughed when he heard this, and then his colleagues also laughed, and Cheng Mengyao suddenly had an idea in his mind: "Could it be?" ”

The leader quickly confirmed her conjecture.

"You are very capable of doing specific work, but sometimes you are sloppy in your speech, how can this be an overestimate? "Exquisite Ancient City" has only been online for less than 19 hours, and the number of VIP members of our Tencent Video has broken through the 5 million mark, more than 18 hours, 400,000 new VIP members, how can the total of 2.5 million to 3 million new additions predicted by Ling be blocked? Your data model is valuable, but it's still underestimating the power of Ancient City. ”

Cheng Mengyao raised her eyelids, and also showed a very surprised look, she has always been the most optimistic person in the entire department about this "Exquisite Ancient City", which may indeed have the influence of her being a fan of Li Mu, so when others said that they overestimated "Exquisite Ancient City", in fact, she somewhat agreed in her heart.

Therefore, she felt weak about the number of 3 million new VIP members, and she only had a little hope, but she didn't expect that this time "Exquisite Ancient City" would put a depth bomb silently!

18 hours, 400,000 new VIP members, this number may not be eye-catching for people who are not familiar with the video website industry, but for employees like her who are rooted in the front line of Tencent Video Data Center, this number is simply a bolt from the blue!

Cheng Mengyao couldn't help but look down at Li Mu's screensaver on his computer, and suddenly had an urge to bend down and kiss him, why do you say his Huashang is so powerful?

Fortunately, she finally succeeded in suppressing the idea of social death, otherwise she would definitely be the laughing stock of the entire department in the future.

The leader attached great importance to the data model that Cheng Mengyao was still testing, so he also specially told her about other data of "Exquisite Ancient City".

It was online for 18 hours, with an average broadcast volume of 50 million episodes, a total of 210 million views, the first daily broadcast volume on the whole platform, the first in popularity, the first in Baidu's hot search list, and the first in Weibo's hot search list.

Listening to the series of explosive data in the leader's mouth, Cheng Mengyao was even more excited than winning the lottery, and the reputation of Huashang's production after "Exquisite Ancient City" was even louder!

……

Huashang Media.

Pan Yueming came to the company to communicate about the promotion of "Looking for the Dragon", during which he heard that the data of "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City" was very good, and everyone's faces were full of excitement, and Pan Yueming was also excited.

Since "Detective Chinatown", his situation has changed a lot, not only the role of "Li" made him popular in a desperate situation, but more importantly, the fact that Huashang Media invited him to film.

As an actor, he really has almost no scenes to shoot since that incident, and even the director who has a good relationship with him doesn't dare to use him, for fear of being scolded by netizens, and then in this case, Huashang Media invited him to star in the movie, and it is said that the role was set by Chairman Li Mu himself.

What is the status of Huashang Media in the circle?

What is Li Mu's influence in the circle?

Even Hua Shang and Li Mu used him Pan Yueming, what else did those who were originally worried have to worry about?

Since then, his situation has changed greatly, but he originally thought that this would be the case at most, but then Li Mu threw him a "Superb Ancient City" and a "Dragon Quest", both of which are the protagonists! In addition, there are a total of 10 long-term drama appointments.

To be honest, Pan Yueming couldn't imagine why Li Mu was so optimistic about him, and he didn't say anything, he would definitely do his best to play every role Li Mu gave him.

At present, it seems that he has not held Huashang back, "Exquisite Ancient City" is very popular, and the data is very powerful!

Pan Yueming, who was relieved, logged in to Douban to browse the comments of "Exquisite Ancient City":

"In line with the original work, it's very good-looking, fast broadcast, fast broadcast, fast broadcast!"

"I originally knew that it was Pan Yueming starring, but I refused, but I didn't expect that the more I watched it, the more fragrant it became!"

"Good looking, the casting was very successful."

Pan Yueming slides the middle mouse button to continue to look down:

"I really can't figure out why some people keep scolding Pan Yueming after the truth is revealed, obviously he is the victim."

"I can't imagine how many grievances Lao Pan has suffered over the years."

"I used to hear that when Huashang was looking for Lao Pan to film, I thought there was a problem with Huashang's three views, but now I know that I have a problem with my brain!"

"Break up and see character!"

"It's out!"

"Lao Pan's powerful faction!"

"Like Lao Pan, come on Lao Pan!"

""Exquisite Ancient City" is very good, I hope it will not collapse in the later stage, and I am looking forward to Lao Pan's "Looking for the Dragon"!"

Pan Yueming suddenly had some tears, he had been scolded for so many years, and his career was once completely wasted, at that time there were people scolding him everywhere, so that he was a little afraid to look at the comments of netizens on him, he didn't expect that he would also be supported by so many netizens one day, it was really not easy!

……

Kyo City.

Aiqiyi Innovation Building.

"Chairman, our current number of VIP members is 4.9 million, I think it will directly issue a notice to iQiyi VIP member users to break through the 5 million mark, and now the popularity of "Exquisite Ancient City" is very high, don't be the first to break through by them."

iQiyi has always been slightly ahead of Tencent Video, and netizens have also defaulted to iQiyi being stronger, NO1 in the field of long video! In most people's opinion, it is very normal for iQiyi to take the lead in reaching 5 million VIP members, if the original backward Tengxun video is the first to break through, then the media should over-interpret, similar to iQiyi's weak growth and Tengxun video is catching up and the like!

That's why the vice president just now thought about directly announcing that the number of VIPs in his house exceeded 5 million.

"Mr. Zhang, no matter how popular "Exquisite Ancient City" is, it is impossible to attract 500,000 people to open Tencent Video VIP members in one day, on the contrary, we have a great discount recently, and the number of VIP members has grown rapidly, I think we will be able to break through the 5 million mark in these two days, just two or three days in advance, is it really necessary?"

"Mr. Li, after we finish publishing the media report, maybe the data has already been reached, so is there a difference between announcing it now or waiting for two or three days to be announced?"

Chairman Gong Yu has already made a decision in his heart at this time, since the data is very close to 5 million, let's announce it in advance, and it's not too much difference, 4.9 million to 5 million is nothing if it is exposed, this is the same as saying that you are a billionaire even if you only have more than 90 million in your hand, in fact, there is nothing wrong!

"That's it, let's make a press release to the media, iQiyi VIP member users have officially exceeded the 5 million mark, and may break through the 10 million mark within the year!"

"Chairman!"

"Okay, let's study the issue of Huashang's other to-be-broadcast drama "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky".

"Chairman, I just saw the news, Tencent Video has just issued a press release, and its VIP members have officially exceeded the 5 million mark, and "Exquisite Ancient City" has brought it more than 500,000 new VIP users in less than 18 hours, more than one-tenth of its total VIP number!"

In an instant, the whole conference room was quiet, and everyone looked at the vice president who had just spoken, and after seeing his affirmative nod, the conference room was directly fried.

"18 hours, 500,000, a tenth of the total?"

"I don't know how much water is in here!"

"Impossible, I'm playing hype this time when I watch Tengxun video!"

"It's really a pioneering initiative for members to take a sneak peek, and "Exquisite Ancient City" is indeed very suitable for a sneak peek, but to say that it can have such great power, I still think it's impossible!"

"! If "Exquisite Ancient City" is really so powerful, it will not be until the end of the year, or even the end of July, and the number of VIP members of Tencent Video will exceed 10 million! ”

The conference room fell silent again, and the words of the end of July and the 10 million mark just said by a vice president alerted everyone.

That's right, the data just released by Tencent Video is indeed very likely to contain great moisture, but what if it's true?

You must know that iQiyi's goal this year is to reach 10 million VIP members by the end of the year, and before today, almost all senior executives thought that it was not easy to achieve this goal, but now there is a sudden possibility, that is, if the data released by Tencent Video is true, then it means that Tencent Video is very likely to reach the key node of VIP members breaking 10 million 5 months earlier than iQiyi, and this is unbearable to do what you say.

After a long silence, Chairman Gong Yu suddenly broke the silence and said: "Time is running out, this time we can't say anything to miss Huashang's "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" again." ”

He added: "At all costs!" ”

……

Magic City.

Huashang Studio.

The scene to be filmed today is the first appearance of the heroine Mullan in the film.

The war is about to begin, and a warrior in a mecha comes to the training ground to find the heroine Mu Lan and tells her that it is time.

Mu Lan was doing a difficult yoga pose at this time, and when he heard this, he stopped his movements and put on his mecha, his weapon was loaded, and the metal collided, making a dull sound. He pulled out the cold-weapon giant sword from the ground, walked out of the room surrounded by his companions, who were also wearing mechas, and gave the male soldier a punch.

The crew has two sets of mecha systems, one is 20 pounds, made of latex and plastic, and the other is completely made of metal, equipped with real weapons, and the total weight is as high as 90 pounds.

The shot to be taken today is the first close-up of the mecha, and according to the shooting plan, the "real" mecha will be used here.

It's just that before the official start of filming, Li Mu and the crew had different opinions on the photography.

Of course, Li Mu has absolute control over the crew, but he doesn't make a statement, as long as your opinion is reasonable, Li Mu will still listen.

"Director, this series of shots will definitely be very cool, if you think about it, it is not a cold face to equip this set of things, and then followed by several subordinates who are also wearing mechas, everyone acts together, the momentum is extraordinary, as if the earth is shaking, what kind of heroine is this? How domineering! But the director, you asked for the lighting......"

The voice didn't continue, the lighting designed by Li Mu here is very dark, and almost the whole time is completely backlit, and the heroine's whole person is hidden in the dark side, and she can't even see her appearance clearly.

is where the heroine walks out of the room in the end, because the camera is designed to shoot from behind, so the heroine's face is still not photographed.

Obviously, there will be a news and publicity shot of the heroine wearing a mecha at the beginning of the movie, and it is clear that the identity of the heroine is not mysterious, so why is it necessary to only leak an outline in such a handsome place without letting the heroine show her face?

The photographer couldn't figure it out, but he knew that if Liu Yifei was allowed to show his face here, when the movie was released, when this scene was played, fans would be boiling.

Because it's really handsome.

Li Mu thought about it seriously.

In fact, the reason why he didn't let Liu Yifei show his face here was entirely because he was copying the lighting layout of the original version, as for the purpose of shooting like this, he could vaguely guess the original director's thoughts, but whether the remake should still be filmed like this, to be honest, Li Mu is not sure.

"What do you think?"

Li Mu turned his head and asked Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei said without thinking about it: "I think it's good to keep a little mystery." ”

Li Mu nodded, thinking of this, Liu Yifei had to put on equipment weighing 90 pounds to film, of course the process was very tiring, and after paying so much hard work, he really should show his face.

And the photographer is right, the audience will boil when they see this, and why is this shot rarely mentioned in the original? Li Mu thinks that there may be very few people who have an impression of this scene, and most of them will not even remember that the heroine has an appearance here, because she did not show her face, she failed to attract the attention of the audience.

"Zhang Wei's photography is right, there should really be a different kind of light here, at least to show the heroine's face."

The photographer was overjoyed when she heard this, Liu Yifei's face was also full of joy, in fact, she wanted to show her face more than the photographer, one of the few shots that had to wear 90 pounds of armor to shoot, and she was so handsome, what a pity it would be if she didn't show her face!

And the reason why she just said that it's good to retain a little mystery, isn't it because Li Muding did the backlit and faceless shooting?

She is Li Mu's daughter-in-law, of course, she must unconditionally support Li Mu's point of view when she is outside, even if what the photographer says is more in line with her heart!

(End of chapter)