The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 428 A Novel Desktop Movie

An office building in Beijing, West Bridge Culture.

Zhang Qisheng walked into the viewing room with a cup of coffee and sat down in the middle of the second row.

"Is it about to start?" Zhang Qisheng looked down at his watch, turned his head and told a female employee in the back row: "Hurry up and call someone in, it's about to start."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Qisheng is only 35 years old this year. He was originally a code farmer from a prestigious school. He has worked in Internet companies for many years, entered a large factory, and tried to start a business in the Internet industry, but he has not made a name for himself.

Of course, it’s not nothing. Although he didn’t become a pig on the wind, he was lucky. He sold the company to the leader in the same track and got 500 million. successful people.

However, after he sold the company, he did not listen to his parents and wife and took the money to buy a house and a car in the capital. He did not use any money and took all the "sale funds" to start a second business.

If Zhang Qisheng's current career is not booming, he will definitely regret not listening to his parents and wife. 90.00% of his business is not as profitable as buying a few houses in the capital three years ago.

But this time, he was on the right track in his desperate venture against the opposition of his loved ones.

The Internet track is too crowded, and start-up companies are like crucian carp crossing the river, but film and television companies are not so introverted.

Because the film and television industry is closer to the traditional industry, the accumulation of resources, connections, and nepotism in the industry is more important. The water is much more turbid than the vibrant Internet industry. It is not a place where geniuses can daydream by relying on creativity and luck. .

At least in theory.

But Zhang Qisheng devoted himself to this industry without hesitation. On the one hand, he grasped the pulse of the industry's development, and on the other hand, he was inspired by his "junior brother".

This junior is Chen Jingxing.

Both he and Chen Jingxing graduated from Beijing Normal University, but Chen Jingxing studied mathematics, and he was a computer.

When "The Night the Comet Came" was released on Huanshi.com, he had just resigned from Huanshi.com to start a business, because it involved his old employer, and the director was said to be only 21 years old, and he was still a junior at the same school.

So when the movie was launched, he was found by his classmate Amway in the circle of friends. After all, the fact that Beijing Normal University has an online film director spread quickly in the circle of alumni, especially the movie is also very interesting and novel.

Zhang Qisheng witnessed with his own eyes how an online movie that seemed quite cheap at first glance became popular on the Internet.

Really, except for the whimsy of the script, it gives people the feeling that I can do it myself, and I can shoot it if I do it, and the camera will not shake more than the director, and it will not shake people's eyes.

At the same time, he also paid attention to the media reports on how high the income return of this extremely cheap micro-movie was.

If this is just a seed planted in his heart, then the director of this interesting movie and the subsequent rapid rise of the DreamWorks he founded are enough to make him dumbfounded.

And the seeds began to germinate, broke out of the ground, and made him finally decide to sell the company and start a second business.

Of course, Zhang Qisheng never thought that he could be compared with a genius like Chen Jingxing. He is also a movie fan and likes movies very much, so he knows what the rise of DreamWorks is based on. He absolutely does not have this kind of amazing talent.

But not having talent doesn't mean you can't do anything.

The development experience at Huanshi.com and the industry changes he saw in the film and television industry with the rise of DreamWorks in the next two years allowed him to see the path he had to go.

West Bridge Culture has grasped the window of the new Internet forces to reshape the ecology of the film and television industry through Wangda, and has become a well-known film and television company.

Since its establishment in 2015, Zhang Qisheng has brought his Internet thinking to make Xiqiao Culture quickly become the top of the online film industry as a dark horse.

In more than two years, I have filmed more than a dozen online movies. Taking advantage of the big Internet markets such as Huanshiwang and Penguin Video and the opportunity of increasing box office revenue year by year, I have obtained unimaginable returns from many traditional film and television companies.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that he has many alumni and even classmates on Huanshi.com and Penguin Video. Otherwise, his company’s first film made by Wangda would not be so easy to be purchased by streaming media giants, and then become Huanshi.com close partners.

The thrilling jump of the product is sale.

And he attaches great importance to the movies he wants to watch in the cinema room today, and even asks the executives of the company's planning, art, production and other departments to watch them.

If it weren't for the fact that the viewing room is not that big and can only seat a dozen people, he would have liked to call all the staff to watch it together.

Although this is off-duty time, the "Black Mirror II" series of online movies broadcast exclusively on Huanshi.com is updated every Friday night at 18:[-].

But so what if it takes up two hours of your off-duty time, so what if there is no overtime pay, the "normal" off-duty time is seven or eight o'clock in the evening, no one will leave immediately when it is time to get off work, right?
Although West Bridge Culture has been established for two years and has achieved impressive results, Zhang Qisheng still does not forget his original intention and motivates himself and his employees with the mentality of a start-up.

Moreover, ordinary employees are tasked with going home to watch, and those who watch in the viewing room are all middle-level and above employees, so it is trivial to take up this little time.

Soon the small viewing room was full of people.

"DreamWorks and Huanshi.com really signed an S+ account sharing agreement?"

"Shouldn't it be, isn't the highest level on Huanshiwang.com the S+?"

"Then maybe, these standards are external, that is, the standards for companies like us, and big companies like DreamWorks may have special treatment."

"A 4.5 yuan account split is very high, and it would be outrageous if it was higher."

"The special treatment does not necessarily have to be paid at the box office. Maybe there is also an advertising split? Or is it longer? Or even a permanent split? After all, it is an online movie made by a serious big factory, and this is also the first time a big girl gets on the sedan chair Well, I heard that the theaters are also a little dissatisfied."

"It's true, the name DreamWorks alone is worth the money spent on Huanshiwang."

The reason why Zhang Qisheng attaches great importance to today's movie is mainly because DreamWorks' "Black Mirror II" is really a bolt from the blue for the industry.

For a long time, Internet majors have been products provided by companies like Xiqiao Culture that specialize in online dramas on Internet majors, and mainstream traditional film and television companies, especially major manufacturers, generally do not set foot in it.

However, with the rapid growth of this piece of cake, one day in the future there will be no way for a company like Westbridge Culture to continue to make a fortune in silence, and it will attract the coveted and intervention of large companies.

It's just that he didn't expect this day to be so fast, and it was DreamWorks who came to share the cake.

The angle of entry is also very good. It directly expands the so-called mini-series of "Black Mirror" to more than 90 minutes per episode, and transforms it into a network university, which is still a series of network universities with accumulated IP reputation.

The entrance of DreamWorks is unpredictable for Xiqiao Cultural Company, but Zhang Qisheng is not afraid of the challenge. Instead, he wants to see how DreamWorks does Internet University and what level DreamWorks Internet University is.

Online movies and theater movies are really two different things, and they are different from online dramas, because unless you are a member of the Internet University, you really have to pay for on-demand broadcasts. How to use low cost to make a texture and rhythm that exceeds that of TV dramas, and can attract It is a university question for the audience to spend real money.

This is also why Wang Da loves supernatural and strange themes so much. It does not require too much cost, and can use the attractiveness of the theme itself to attract audiences.

In this regard, Zhang Qisheng is proud. The "Baiyu Town Strange Talk" produced by Xiqiao Culture won the box office champion of the 2017 Internet University, with a box office of 4049 million, becoming the first part of the Internet University with a box office of over 4000 million. It also made Xiqiao Culture a star company in this industry.

The production cost of "Baiyu Town Strange Talk" is only 760 million. Of course, it is said that it is an investment of tens of millions. Coupled with the advertising sponsorship income, it can be said that the profit of such a large network is enough to beat 90.00% of theatrical movies.

There are hundreds of films that Huaguo gets the Dragon Label every year, and most of them have less than [-] million at the box office. Even if it is more than [-] million, less than [-]% of the [-] million box office is allocated to production and distribution. After the distributors take part, The remaining [-]% is left to the producer.

Unlike Wangda, there is no need to deal with theaters, no need to ask big companies to distribute, and the split box office is also credited to the account in real time, and it is rarely in arrears, at least platforms such as Fantasy World and Penguin Video do not arrears.

Of course, the big problem with the Internet is that it follows the trend seriously. After one becomes popular, dozens of similar works will follow up. Subject matter expectations.

For example, Zhang Qisheng originally planned to make "XX Town Strange Talk" into a series, and movie fans and audiences are also very interested in the story mode of "Baiyu Town Strange Talk".

As a result, major Internet companies are scrambling to set up projects for all kinds of "XX Ghost Story", and even rushed works have been released before the sequel of West Bridge Culture, which greatly reduces the value of the IP that "Baiyu Town Ghost Story" has finally created.

Wouldn't Dreamworks' web conference have some guidance and reference for the future development of the web conference?

Zhang Qisheng believes that not only himself is paying attention at this moment, but his peers must also be paying attention to the premiere of Dreamworks Online University.

After the familiar title of DreamWorks, Zhang Qisheng felt a little impatient with the shady scenes that lasted for about five or six seconds, and then the familiar music suddenly sounded, which made Zhang Qisheng subconsciously tremble.

Familiar conditioning.

The blue sky and prairie familiar to WindowsXP appeared on the 110-inch commercial large LCD screen.

Zhang Qisheng turned his head to look at the staff in the technical department a little annoyed, and nearly 20 management employees in the room also turned their heads or looked at each other in blank dismay.

Apparently everyone thought it was a technical glitch, which is why the computer operating system desktop appeared.

The technician was also a little shocked, and he was also a little dazed for a moment, got up and walked towards the display screen, wait, why is it an XP system?

He stopped quickly.

Because on a clean desktop with only a few icons, the mouse appeared and a series of clicks began.

"Hacker?" Some absurd thoughts rose in Zhang Qisheng's mind.

This absurd idea didn't last long, because soon everyone realized that this was the picture of the movie, the picture of the movie itself.

The mouse is operating smoothly on the computer desktop, only the sound of mouse clicks and keyboard typing characters, other than that, there is no other sound.

Then there was music.

The mouse clicked to open a video, which took up half of the desktop. In the video, the little girl was practicing the piano. In the video, there was not only the sound of the piano, but also the voice of talking. The little girl's mother also appeared in the camera.

The picture quality is quite blurry.

It can be easily judged that this is a family of three, and the father is recording the picture of his daughter playing the piano with a photograph.

Then the mouse created a folder and named it "Shanshan", and then created new folders such as the first day of kindergarten, the first day of elementary school, the first piano practice, and so on.

The computer then created a new user account.

"Shanshan"

Then the computer began to switch among the three user accounts of "Dad", "Mom" and "Shanshan", uploading photos, using search engines, creating files, playing computer games, watching TV dramas, and even watching adult videos - just a flash And pass.

The number of icons on the desktop increased, gradually becoming cluttered, and then cleaned up, rogue adware was clicked, dialog boxes filled the desktop, blue screen of death, black screen restart, and system reinstallation.

The desktop has also gradually changed from XP to Win7, and then to Win10, the "old" QQ interface and space have also been gradually upgraded, and the search engine has changed from Google to Baidu.

From time to time, the photos and videos of a family of three are clicked, uploaded and organized. The little girl grows up gradually, the wrinkles on the parents' faces appear, the dressing style in the photos and videos also changes, and the resolution changes from blurry to clear.

Accompanied by this series of quick editing and cutting screens, Zhang Qisheng gradually came out of the initial confusion.

This is obviously the growth experience of a family of three—the growth experience of operating a computer. After more than ten years, from the XP system to the win10 system, the computer has been replaced several times, and the desktop and operating system have also changed with the system upgrade.

Including websites, search engines, social software, etc. are constantly changing and updating over time.

Many of the pictures in it can bring back his memories, making Zhang Qisheng seem to have re-experienced the changes in computers and the Internet in the past ten years.

"Interesting..." It's not that Zhang Qisheng has never seen this kind of quick montage editing to let the audience experience the growth process of the characters, but he has never seen this way.

Through the computer desktop and everything that happens on the desktop, while presenting the growth and changes of a family of three, it also shows the development and changes of the Internet in Huaguo.

It's very innovative and special, especially for Zhang Qisheng, who is a computer major and has worked on the Internet in the past, this quick editing touched him very much.

The piano music that appeared when the first little girl played the piano has been accompanied by fast editing. The tune and voice are gradually becoming brighter and more proficient, and the voice is gradually rising. It can make people feel that the life of this family of three is really quite happy.

Then the piano music suddenly fell silent, and the mouse clicked on the search engine, accompanied by the sound of characters.

"How to beat lymphoma" was tapped in the search bar.

Zhang Qisheng and the staff in the viewing room began to feel depressed, but the music that had fallen to silence suddenly rose again with passionate strings.

The uploaded, opened, and sorted videos on the desktop turned into warm and encouraging images of a family running together, traveling together, mother and daughter playing the piano together, laughing and fighting in the ward, and so on.

Zhang Qisheng intuitively understood that this is a family working together to fight cancer, and the girl's mother should be the one who got sick. He could feel the hopeful and bright emotions conveyed in the video.

In a video, the husband took a mobile phone and filmed himself and his wife running in the park while the camera was bumping, and then the wife fell to the ground. With the screams of passers-by and the shouts of her husband, the screen went black in violent shaking.

Then the cutting rhythm slowed down, a selfie of the woman lying weakly on the hospital bed with her family, a video of her daughter Shanshan playing the keyboard to her mother on the hospital bed, and a hazy picture of a forever frozen woman with a gentle smile.

The atmosphere in the viewing room was heavy, and everyone could see that the girl's mother was still killed by illness.

Zhang Qisheng was more and more surprised in his heart when he was depressed.

This is a set of fast and slow montage sequence cuts, and the picture is not a lens, only the computer desktop.

This scene edited through the computer desktop not only shows the life changes of a family of three, but also shows the changes of Huaguo Internet in the past ten years. , Deep empathy with this family.

There is no lens, and there is only a computer desktop. This title is simply too novel, and it is too smooth. The cost is lower than he imagined, but the effect is amazing.

(End of this chapter)