Chapter 41 The First Remuneration
In the blink of an eye, the fifteenth arrived.
According to the statistics sent by Hu Li before, as of the 14th. Meng Wen's "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" sold a total of 520,000 copies in the first part, including 290,000 copies last month, and 230,000 copies this month because of the second and third parts. The second and third parts were published from No. 1, and 920,000 copies were sold in just half a month.
Last month, the 5 percent share received 300,000 yuan. In the past half month, because the share has doubled, the number of sales has increased fourfold, and the remuneration is eight times that of last month, and more than 2.3 million have been obtained. A total of more than 2.6 million, excluding personal income tax, more than 2.2 million were finally hit on the card.
This is not far from the requirements for registering a company. However, considering that it is estimated that it will cost a lot to buy some equipment for filming, as well as venue layout and personnel costs, so Meng Wen is not in a hurry to register the company.
Meng Wen first took out 120,000 yuan and paid the company's half-year rent, and the one-month deposit paid a few days ago was used as a deposit. After officially signing the contract, Meng Wen dragged Lu Yan and Zhang Dahai to take the rental contract to run the registration of the studio.
Then he sent 50,000 yuan to the decoration company as a decoration deposit for the new company. The decoration company had already designed the drawings a few days ago, and only waited for Meng Wen to pay the money and start the decoration. Meng Wen has been dragging it out for the past few days, and today's remuneration came down and he immediately sent it to others. Wait for the decoration to be finished, and then send the follow-up 100,000 over.
The script "Waste Wood Brothers" Meng Wen has already been written, and now the actors and some behind-the-scenes personnel are missing. The three heroines use Xun Hanlei to find the three of them. Although they are all newcomers, their appearance advantages are enough to offset the disadvantages of their acting skills. After all, this online drama is for the majority of dicks and boring people to watch, and the audience's requirements for actresses are naturally as beautiful as possible. And the requirements for the heroine's acting skills in the whole drama are not particularly high, plus her own on-site guidance is no problem at all.
The soul of the whole web drama can also be said to be the laughter, mainly focused on the three male protagonists, more precisely, on the two characters "Xu Yi" and "Zhang Xiaojiao" in the play, it can be said that if the whole web series wants to succeed, it is very important to choose these two actors.
One of the necessary conditions for playing "Xu Yi" well is to be ordinary, the more ordinary the better, and it is best to throw it into the pile of people and can't find it. At the same time, as a passionate entrepreneur, you have to be a little shy, a little nervous, and a little sullen. Ask everyone around you to find confidence in Xu Yi, and it will be perfect.
To be honest, it is difficult to play "Xu Yi" well, and there are very strict requirements for an actor's acting skills and comedy skills. In fact, it is best to find an experienced regular actor. But Meng Wenwen was originally filming online scripts, which is in the nature of playing tickets, and there are many problems when he really finds famous actors. First, the cost will increase greatly; second, there may be some difficulties in cooperating with other actors, which will bring pressure to other newcomers, and a performance with pressure is fatal to a comedy; third, Meng Wen, the director, is a fake, and it is estimated that it is not easy to control this kind of actor.
In the end, Meng Wen thought about it, so let's go to a specialized film and television school to find it, if there is something that looks similar, it will be used, but it really can't be used, and then look for it among some expired comedy stars.
In addition to the three male leads, Meng Wen also needs to find a photographer, a person in charge of makeup and costumes, a post-production zuò, and preferably an assistant director.
Meng Wen also talked about his idea with the bar owner Zhou Wei. In the end, photographer, makeup, costume, and post-production, Zhou Wei agreed to help Meng Wen find his former friends. As for the actors, Meng Wen still has to find them in person, after all, what kind of person is in line with the script and the director's overall idea, others can't tell, only Meng Wen himself understands.
In the end, Meng Wen decided to go to the major film and television schools in Beijing first.
The next day, Meng Wen and Ouyang Die drove to Beijing together, planning to live in Beijing for a few days and go around the major universities. Originally, Meng Wen planned to bring Xun Hanlei with him, but considering that Xun Hanlei still had classes to attend, he was afraid that the grandsons in the Academic Affairs Office would not be able to fix Meng Wen, and if they came to find trouble with Xun Hanlei, they could bring Xun Hanlei with him.
Meng Wen and Ouyang Die went to the Beijing Film Academy first.
Beijing Film Academy is the only film professional college in China, the largest in Asia, and a world-renowned film college, and is an art university supported by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Education. It is known as the "cradle of Chinese film talents".
Meng Wen came to the Beijing Film Academy, and in a place with a lot of people, he put up the billboard that had been made before. The billboard stated the number and requirements of the recruited actors.
Meng Wen put up the recruitment billboard there, which really attracted a large number of students to come and watch. There are also a lot of consultations, but unfortunately there are very few registrations. Often as soon as they hear that Meng Wen is the director, the students turn around and leave, and those who stay, and then they hear that they are just filming online dramas, and a large number of them go, and the rest are all crooked melons and cracked dates.
Hard work pays off. Meng Wen finally found a graduated student among the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates, this student is called Wang Qiang, and he is the last batch of graduates of the film and television performance major of the Higher Vocational College of Beijing Film Academy.
To put it bluntly, the Higher Vocational College is the junior college of the Beijing Film Academy. It is a second-level teaching unit, with a two-year teaching program and no degree certificate. The reason why Wang Qiang is the last batch of students is because since 2009, the higher vocational class of the Beijing Film Academy has stopped recruiting students, and the school explained that it is to concentrate educational resources and teachers on undergraduate education and do the elite education of national films.
The higher vocational class of Beijing Film Academy is a two-year teaching, and the last batch of students of the 08th class in 10 years have all graduated, except for a few students who have been promoted to a bachelor's degree and stayed in the school to continue their education. Most of them began to enter society, enriching the number of extras in major filming bases.
And Wang Qiang doesn't want to be just an extras like other classmates, Wang Qiang's dream is to become a household name, and this is basically the dream of every student at Beijing Film Academy. Not only is there competition in reality, but there is also competition in dreaming, and there will inevitably be dreams of being eliminated when there are more dreamers, and Wang Qiang is one of the dreamers who have been eliminated.
The only difference is that Wang Qiang always firmly believes that his dream will come true one day, so Wang Qiang continued to stay at the Beijing Film Academy as a graduate, because there is no need to spend money on accommodation here, Wang Qiang lives in the dormitory of his classmates who have been promoted, on the other hand, many directors who lack people will first come to the school to recruit people, and there are more opportunities.
Wang Qiang has lived as a graduate senior for more than two years, and he has encountered two performance opportunities at that time, but unfortunately there is basically no difference from the extras, the first time he only gave two lines, and the second time he arrived well, at least a few shots and more than a dozen lines, but unfortunately in the end, he was unlucky enough to be edited, and he didn't leave a single line.
Wang Qiang usually does odd jobs at school to deceive elementary school girls. I catch up with the professor and go to the classroom to listen when I have time. I heard that there was a crew recruiting people next to the cafeteria today, so I hurried over.
Wang Qiang came forward to learn about it, only to find out that it was a student-made online drama, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. It's okay, at least the protagonists are recruited, the key is that there is a big beauty next to her who belongs to the school flower level in the Beijing Film Academy, and it is said that she is one of the three heroines in the play.
Wang Qiang hurriedly signed up, being able to cooperate with such a big beauty, not asking to be his girlfriend, it looks eye-catching. And the pay is not low, the first and second protagonists are 1000 yuan per episode, and the third protagonist is 800 yuan per episode.
To Wang Qiang's disappointment, it was only a college student's self-made online drama, and he was all brushed down. Could it be that he really has no acting talent, thinking about Wang Qiang, he can't help but feel a little frustrated......
In the blink of an eye, Wang Qiang's strong nerves made Wang Qiang start to be positive and optimistic again, now that he has been brushed off. Wang Qiang was not afraid anymore, and began to flirt with the big beauty next to him, boasting about his great achievements......
Wang Qiang interviewed for the role of "Xu Yi", although Wang Qiang's name is very ordinary, and the person is also very ordinary, but people always have a different feeling when they look at it, how to describe it? If you have to use one word to describe it, it can only be obscene, yes, it is obscene. Wang Qiang stood there, he didn't need to speak, how could his clothes, expression, and standing posture make people look obscene......
Therefore, Meng Wen did not hesitate to brush him down. Start looking at other people's profiles. After a while, Meng Wen saw that Wang Qiang hadn't left yet, and he was a little strange. looked at Wang Qiang talking to Ouyang Die with an exaggerated expression, and Ouyang Die coped impatiently. Ouyang Die's impatient expression was already obvious, but Wang Qiang didn't know whether he really couldn't see it or pretended not to see it, he was talking to himself. Meng Wen looked at Wang Qiang's expression from afar, with a righteous face, coupled with gestures, as if he was pointing out the country...... I can't see the obscene appearance before at all......
Meng Wen looked at Wang Qiang in front of him and couldn't help but be happy. It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, isn't this the image of the original "Zhang Xiaojiao" in my mind? It's really suitable.