Chapter 153: [Investing in overseas lines is leek's behavior]
"What exactly is the First Commandment?"
Under the yellowing light,
In the lens,
Zhang Yuming is no longer the handsome he used to be, and under the plank hairstyle, his bronzed face not only has a beard, but also has a little trace of potholes.
On the body, the white shirt and tie he was wearing were a little messy.
The whole person looked decadent and hesitant, sitting on the bench, he lowered his head and stared at the table in front of him in a trance.
Zhang Yuming's character is Li Guoqiang, a storyteller.
As an agent, he shouldn't seem so clean, and he shouldn't be so immature.
This is a close-up shot, and the person in focus is him.
And the blurred background clearly tells others outside the camera that this is an office place, inside a leader's office.
"What do you say?"
A rhetorical question sounds, and in the distance, behind the desk, which is not aimed and blurred along with the background, a man is lying in an office chair, looking up at the ceiling, his legs stacked up and down on the desk in front of him.
For a long time, Li Guoqiang just lowered his head and did not answer.
Behind the desk, the rhetorical questioner looked up at him, asking himself, "It's a good excuse." β
And as he speaks, the camera zooms in from the panorama.
The main focus of the figure has also shifted from Li Guoqiang to Huang Yaozu.
Compared with the hesitant Li Guoqiang, Huang Yaozu's 'leader' is obviously more mature and more stylish.
Although, from the dress to the makeup, he also gives people a sense of decadence.
But there is a stark contrast between the two, probably the difference between a man who has just discovered that he is a turkey on the farm, and a man who has become accustomed to being a turkey.
"Today's society is about logic and science."
Putting down his legs comfortably on the desk, Huang Yaozu sat helplessly and said, even with a little smile in his voice, a little crazy, "This kind of thing is just the opposite, and what our miscellaneous department has to do is to cover up this truth." β
As he spoke, he took a sip of wine.
The wine is filled with a valuable stainless steel flask with a lifelike stag printed on the body.
Hearing Huang Yaozu's voice of smiling and answering himself, Li Guoqiang finally reacted, and the camera switched again.
"It's called lying."
He looked at Huang Yaozu very seriously and did not accept this statement.
They're agents, they're responsible for keeping people safe.
They have a responsibility and an obligation to tell the public the truth.
But for Li Guoqiang's words, Huang Yaozu couldn't help but laugh, and smiled brightly, "Then you can treat me as nonsense." β
"Actually, what we saw in the theater today, if it spreads and lets people know that there are really ghosts in this world, what do you think it will do?"
"Will there be any children going to school then? Is there anyone else speculating in stocks? The property market is collapsing, and you and I don't have to buy a house. β
At this point, he paused, "That's why I'm telling you, the first commandment is very important. β
"Without the First Commandment, the world would be in chaos."
Huang Yaozu's expression gradually became serious, and his face was straight.
"It's actually very simple, they just need to touch you, and they can get on the ghost."
"Use your body to do nonsense everywhere, and when you get tired of playing, you touch someone else, and you immediately turn around, but when he leaves, those people who let the ghost go up will only have a shell, just a shell, three souls and no seven spirits, you say, what can we do?"
"Of course, I can only take the gun out and kill them! Kill them along with those who have been ghosted! It's not the first time I've been! But there is no way! β
"For I will not kill him, but from man to man...... Just like bacteria, we have to cut them off. I know it's unfair to those who get taken up, they're innocent. But that's all we can do, and that's what we do in the Miscellaneous Section. β
When he talked about ghosts, he was so emotional that he lost the smile he had when he said the first commandment.
"By the way, one more thing to remind you, if we kill the person who is succumbed to the ghost during the mission, and it is seen by others, then ...... At one's own risk. β
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This is the middle part of the whole script of the First Commandment.
This can be used as the first shot during shooting.
"It turned out to be such a story, so in the story, isn't it very miserable to be a human being."
At the end of the shooting, Xiaowei took the little apprentice to help the two of them touch up their makeup in the dressing room, and talked casually.
They were all watching from the sidelines while they were shooting.
Because there is only a short plot segment, they only know the general rules of the film, the specific horror atmosphere, and they haven't felt it yet.
"Well, it's depressing."
Zhang Yuming said in a deep voice, looking at himself in the mirror, a little awkward and a little strange in his heart, "Sister Wei, your makeup is too good, I ...... it now."
He rubbed the bridge of his nose.
And in the mirror, the man also rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"I'm a little confused about reality and acting."
His face is always gloomy, just like Li Guoqiang in the plot.
"Where, the main thing is that you act well."
Xiaowei's hand holding the small brush paused, and replied modestly.
It's the truth.
The costumes and styling are in line with the role, if the actor's acting skills are not in place, it will be like a child wrapped in the skin of an old man, and he speaks with a smell of innocence.
But then, Xiaowei's face was a little strange.
If he was so modest as usual, Zhang Yuming would probably have to take a few words and say a few jokes.
But this time, he didn't.
Xiaowei looked strangely through the mirror at the young man beside her.
But at this glance, her eyebrows were slightly raised.
The figure reflected in the mirror is no longer the innocent and impulsive young man of the past.
In its place was an indescribable gloom.
"It seems that our Xiao Ming is also starting to be called Teacher Zhang."
Next to him, Chang Zhengwei, who was also touching up his makeup, suddenly accosted.
"Huh?"
Zhang Yuming turned his head blankly.
"Teacher Zhang, remember this feeling, this is the play." Chang Zhengwei looked at him with a smile, "But in addition to learning to enter the play, you also have to learn to play, acting is acting, reality is reality, don't get confused." β
"Into the play?"
Zhang Yuming was in a trance, and the gloomy look on his face gradually faded because of this word.
As an actor, this is not the first time I've heard the word 'into the play'.
On the set, Director Lu Zhengyi often said that Teacher Chang was in the play, Teacher Yu was in the play, and so on, but in his case, there has never been.
"Did I just get into the play?"
Zhang Yuming's tone suddenly became higher, as if he had returned to himself, "I thought I didn't have talent, I've been acting for so many years." β
His tone was full of joy.
"Maybe you've been a group actor before, and you don't have a relatively fixed and contented role."
Chang Zhengwei hesitated for a moment, "It's not difficult to get into the play, in my feeling, as long as you work hard enough, you can do it, and talent can only affect the length of hard work." β
"Even if it is an ordinary person, give him a perfect personality, what he likes to eat, what he doesn't like to eat, what he wants to do every day, what kind of personality, let him devote himself to studying for a period of time, playing for a period of time, and he can also be able to enter the play."
"If you say it, you should have to start learning from filming the old corpse in the mountain village, so calculated, the supporting roles of the three dramas have precipitated, and in this first commandment, he is the first time to be the leading actor and complete the play, which is actually quite talented."
Zhang Yuming is the only actor in this crew who is not from a professional class.
Liu Baoning, who didn't get a primary school diploma, is like Yu Li, himself, Yu Wenxiu, and Li Zhenxi...... They are all actors who have been systematically taught in film schools and drama schools.
And Zhang Yuming is a person from the draft, and he has no experience in interpretation.
After he was eliminated on the draft stage, he was unwilling to give up, and went to a film and television base such as Hengcheng to play tricks and mixed group performances.
But what precipitation can there be for a group performance that only has one line, two lines, and a group performance that doesn't even have lines? So he seems to have a long acting experience, but in fact, the acting experience accumulated in this process is not as much as the three supporting roles after coming to Lu Zhengyi's crew.
"Knock knock."
There was a knock on the door, and Lu Zhengyi opened the door from the outside and walked into the dressing room, "The other supporting characters have arrived, it's time to prepare for the next shot." β
As he spoke, he came to the back of Zhang Yuming's chair again, smiled and pinched his shoulder, "Xiao Ming is doing well today, he has actually kept up with the rhythm with Teacher Chang, this is a play, there is progress." β
"These plays have always required you to write assignments on character understanding and how to interpret them, which is still useful."
Zhang Yuming smiled a little embarrassedly, but he didn't say a word.
"We just said that."
Chang Zhengwei smiled beside him, "Teacher Zhang entered the play, but he couldn't get out." β
"The black face just now made Xiaowei frown in fright."
Xiaowei waved her hand beside her, "I wasn't scared, but some people who were not used to being so lively suddenly quieted down." β
"Hey, that's not going to work." Lu Zhengyi became serious, looked through the mirror, and looked at Zhang Yuming, who was still smirking, "Entering the play is the first step for actors, and going out of the play is the second step, and only being able to enter and exit freely can be regarded as a qualified actor." β
"If you can't come out, every drama will be there for me to play Li Guoqiang in the future, then I don't want it."
"An actor's acting path cannot be fixed, once it is fixed, you will die."
It's like an actor who has been directly fixed in the play, and as soon as he appears, the audience knows who the richest person in this film is.
So often this actor performs well in this play, and in the next play, he has to quickly find a different role to disperse.
This is also the reason why Lu Zhengyi is willing to let Yu Wenxiu take on other dramas.
He is making horror movies here, and his character design is generally quite ...... Dark.
Anyway, the first commandment finally has a role for her with a positive image, but there are not many scenes.
Yu Wenxiu now has two films that are bad women, and if she is still a bad woman in the next play, then this label will basically be attached to her.
As soon as he heard that Director Lu didn't want to be himself, Zhang Yuming, who was still smirking, hurriedly promised, "Don't worry, Director Lu, I will definitely not play Li Guoqiang all the time, even if I am given the same character design in the next play, I will definitely find a way to perform a different feeling." β
"Huh."
Lu Zhengyi smiled and looked at Chang Zhengwei next to him, "This is something that Teacher Chang may not be able to guarantee, Teacher Zhang is so confident." β
"Hey, it's not ......"
Zhang Yuming hurriedly remedied, "Young and frivolous, Director Lu, don't step on one here." β
But as soon as the words came out, he covered his mouth again.
"Alas, silly boys are still silly boys."
Lu Zhengyi patted him on the shoulder, a little helpless, "Even if you play Li Guoqiang, you still haven't matured much." β
But he was relieved to have these words.
People are really out of the play.
Just now he was sitting behind the monitor, watching Zhang Yuming play against Chang Zhengwei, and there was really a feeling that this kid had been replaced.
However, speaking of this person who can't play, Lu Zhengyi remembered Zhou Jie when he talked to his father the day before yesterday.
She seems to be in a semi-retired state because she hasn't been able to play, right? β
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"Mr. Huang and Xiao Xu, who record life, are lovers, and in addition to them, many of the bloggers we signed under us are lovers and husbands and wives."
"Yes, now the variety show on the theme of dog food is indeed quite interesting, I paid attention to their video playback, and the links where they appeared in the same frame for interaction in those episodes are quite high, this is a relevant data report."
"I think we will cooperate with Blue Bird Satellite TV in the future, try to do a CP interactive session in the running program, try to increase their exposure as much as possible, and stabilize their top 100 status on the long video platform."
"Well, some of them have been in the top 100 in the past few years, but in the past two years, the competition in the self-media industry is very fierce, and even, after my contact during this time, I feel more fierce than the entertainment industry."
"Some bloggers look at hundreds of thousands of fans or millions of fans, but as long as there is no update for a short period of time, everyone will forget about them, because soon there will be new people to take their place and become the object of these audiences' frequent broadcast attention.
At the company meeting of light and shadow,
A middle-aged man wearing glasses is summarizing and talking about the recent changes in the company's operational direction.
But from the tone, it is not difficult to hear his confidence and pride.
In fact, although it has only been half a year, the new direction launched by him has already achieved good results.
"Mr. Lin's proposal is very good, and I agree with Mr. Lin's plan."
In the vote, the company's senior management led by Zhang Chuanxing raised their hands to agree to the plan he proposed.
After all, this Lin Mozhi is the vice president they dug from the Green Apple platform, and their decision must be supported first to see the effect.
"In addition to the proposal just now, I also hope to be able to pilot the new operation plan on a small scale."
Then, Lin Mozhi put forward a new idea, "We refer to the studio model of artists in the entertainment industry to provide high-quality operation services for these bloggers to help them improve their exposure, fan adhesion and platform coffee position." β
"But on the other hand, we also have to further deepen the connection between them and the company, so I think we can set aside a department within the company to be responsible for the operation of these bloggers, and adopt a competitive model in the allocation of operational resources."
"These bloggers,First need to get ahead in the competition within our light and shadow,And then take the high-quality resources given by our company to the long video platform to fight with other bloggers,This solution can minimize the cost of our trial and error,Avoid spending a lot of resources to cultivate small bloggers,Waste big bloggers with small resourcesγ
Very common Gu cultivation mode.
Let a group of Gu worms fight out the Gu King in this cage, and then take the Gu King out and put it in another bigger cage.
Although the rules were cruel, there was no objection to it.
Because the sentence reducing the cost of trial and error is the core content of this passage.
After Lin Mozhi, as the vice president, spoke, he was the manager of each project team.
"I'd like to mention the issue of overseas flights."
Zhang Xueming stood up and looked at the group of people at the conference table, "In recent years, our investment in overseas lines seems to be getting lower and lower. β
"Many of the projects that we invest in and participate in publicity and distribution only stay in China."
"There is an old saying in the Tang Kingdom, there is a back and forth before it is called a relationship, but in recent years, we seem to have become more and more negligent about the operation of overseas lines, and many relationships will become weaker and weaker if they do not leave."
At the conference table, someone raised his hand and replied, "This question is actually very simple, there is no good work." β
"Like before, in fact, many works are invested in overseas lines, and we are basically doing loss-making transactions and sending them out, but there are really not many people in foreign countries who go to the theater to support it."
"And this kind of overseas line works are generally released in China first, and they will premiere on the overseas line after a long period of time after the end here, but there are already a bunch of pirated sources on the Internet, and people don't need to go to the cinema to support it, if you want to watch it, just watch it directly on the Internet."
It's not unreasonable to make money in the country.
On the one hand, it is put outside, and there are really not many people to support it.
On the other hand, just like the Gu raising model mentioned before, domestic films must now be famous in the domestic market before they are eligible to be released abroad, but at that time, there were already pirated sources outside, so they still needed to go to the cinema to watch it.
Therefore, many movies do overseas flights, basically not for money, but only for fame and awards.
The XXX film won an award at the XXX Film Festival and was nominated.
XX movies are in Heguo, Southern Dynasties, Yue, and Xiangguo...... How many box offices there are, and how many people love them, this is also a mode of operation to earn fame.
But they are a company mainly responsible for post-publicity projects, so there is really no need to fight for any fame.
"Don't we have a good movie on hand now?"
Zhang Xueming's map of Yan Country is finished, "Double pupils, it is still being released, but the box office is already the first in the same period." β
"Director Lu Xiao has collaborated with us on three films, and is now collaborating on the fourth, and the relationship is definitely deep enough."
"And Director Lu Da, now there is also a project that we are doing to publicize, which is reasonable, can't we arrange an overseas line to try, whether it succeeds or not, give people a chance to try, we can cooperate better in the future, after all, in the domestic horror film market, now it is basically Director Lu Zhengyi who is leading the way."
These words made many people present fall into deep thought.
Some nodded, as if in agreement.
But there are still some people who are obviously not optimistic.
"It's said that it's now, and it won't necessarily be him leading the way in the future, there will be a few horror movies this year." Someone whispered, "Lu Zhengyi has indeed made a start, which is undeniable, but he is not necessarily the peak." β
"I can't say that, Lu Zhengyi is still very capable."
Someone else said, "We have cooperated in so many dramas, which has brought a lot of benefits to our company, and our ability is trustworthy." β
"But the overseas line, that's a loss-making business, Manager Zhang, and it starts with tens of millions of dollars as soon as you invest."
"Listen to what you mean, most of the director Lu Xiao has this meaning, right? Otherwise, just tell him, the domestic requirements are mentioned casually, our light and shadow here are all old customers, and they can basically be satisfied, but overseas, our light and shadow are really not sure. Remember, it's not that you don't help, it's that you don't know. β
Zhang Xueming has a good relationship with Lu Zhengyi, who doesn't know up and down this company?
She has been to the company so many times, and every time she cooperates, she is docking, and it is normal to have a little friendship.
But for the sake of these friendships, it is not appropriate to take out tens of millions of dollars of the company to play in the water.
"I admit that this point was indeed mentioned to me by Lu Zhengyi."
Zhang Xueming does not deny it, "But I consider this matter from the perspective of the market, and the direction of his film can be the country of our Dongzhou." β
"These countries are deeply influenced by our Tang culture, and his horror films will not be too far apart from these countries in terms of elements."
"Besides, I still say the same thing, the relationship we managed with great difficulty, if we don't leave for a long time, then the previous business will be in vain."
At this, she paused, and was about to say something, but eventually gave up.
In fact, in addition to the gradual fading of the relationship between overseas lines, Zhang Xueming also feels that many domestic relationships are also getting weaker and weaker.
Especially after the company slowly changed its business direction, there is a feeling of shifting from a traditional media company to an Internet celebrity incubation base.
But now there is one thing that she can't say from her heart.
That is, this change of management is indeed to make the company start to go uphill, not to go downhill like before, which is a fact.
"So be it."
Zhang Chuanxing, who was sitting on the main seat, looked at the quiet conference room and hesitated for a moment, "It's the same old thing, let's vote." β
It's a vote, but in fact, some decisions have been decided long before the vote.
Zhang Xueming was not surprised by this result.
Just like before, when she talked to Lu Zhengyi alone, the overseas line is like an ignorant person who buys a stock fund, and when he enters, he is a leek.
The company will not do anything that costs money to buy a name.
After all, this reputation was bought, and it was Lu Zhengyi who earned, not light and shadow, so there was no need for them to pay so much.
Isn't it good to make money in China honestly?
With a feeling of regret, after the end of the company meeting, Zhang Xueming walked towards her own department.
But at the door, she saw an unexpected figure.
It's eye-catching, the person is just standing there, but everyone who passes by will cast a look at her.
Because is it pretty?
No, it's plain, no makeup.
And because of his age, his face is actually a little old.
However, she just attracts everyone's attention, whether they are men or women, whether they recognize her or not.
"Teacher Zhou?"
Zhang Xueming walked over quite unexpectedly.
Their company doesn't have any cooperative relationship with Zhou Jie, why did this person come.
(End of chapter)