China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 162 Formalized One Heart
  mid-may.

Life in the capital has become normal, and Jiang Liu rarely arrives at the company before eight o'clock.

Not long after I sat down at the desk, Hou Hongliang arrived.

Jiang Liu glanced at him: "The bags under your eyes are swollen, your steps are sluggish, and your energy is listless. Are you overindulging in sex?"

"I'd rather overindulge than drink too much."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Liuxiao asked.

“I was invited to participate in a film and television symposium on Hebei Provincial Television Station and drank eight times in three days.”

"The day before yesterday, a group of us working in the film and television industry were just having dinner when someone came to offer a toast as usual, saying, 'I will inspect the work in the afternoon, and I will only drink three drinks at noon.' I was relieved at that time, thinking that I could get through the last day. "

"I didn't know that the wine glass I used was only [-]-[-]-[-]. I was blinded immediately after drinking three glasses. I drank like this again in the evening."

"On the way back to the hotel after drinking, I had to pee urgently, so I unzipped my zipper on the side of the road regardless."

"I'm not afraid of making fun of you. I just took out the things and fell forward uncontrollably. Fortunately, the driver saw something was wrong with me and got out of the car. He grabbed me at the critical moment. I don't know how I got back to the hotel afterwards. , shameful, really shameful! I will drink less in the future."

Hou Hongliang sighed with a regretful expression.

Jiang Liu had many experiences of making a fool of himself because of drinking, so he quit drinking. He understood Hou Hongliang's mood at the moment.

"In our line of work, you either drink or you don't drink. There is no in-between option. If you can really quit, the company won't be afraid of losing business."

"It's hard to quit. The leader wants to yell at me. How can I refuse?"

Jiang Liu nodded and stopped trying to persuade him.

All beginnings are hard.

After he founded Yixin, he also met many leaders.

The first time he had dinner with Han Sanping, he also ordered him to drink liquor. Jiang Liu would rather die than obey.

Two or three years later, many people on local TV stations and in the industry knew that he didn't drink liquor, so no one tried to persuade him. They would even take the initiative to bring two bottles of red wine to him when they invited him to dinner.

Jiang Liu didn't let the cast and crew bring cell phones, nor did they let them sit down.

At first one made excuses and the other found fault, putting his dissatisfaction on his face.

After resolutely implementing it for more than two years, Yixin’s own actors and crew have long been accustomed to this rule.

There are also very few actors who refuse to take on Yixin's film and television dramas because of Yixin's crew rules.

Employees entered the company one after another, and Hou Hongliang got down to business:

"The company's expenses have been too high in the past two months. Even if you don't work, you will be paid. The crew will be subsidized even if they are not filming. The work is not progressing, but the expenses are too much. "Super Girl" has subsidized millions when the project was shut down. How many of us have The top management discussed it on the phone before and decided to reduce the salary to the average level in the industry in the second half of the year.”

"Forget about reducing wages, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you."

Jiang Liu sighed and said: "We want clothes, so we can't let our employees lack clothes; we want food, and we can't let our employees go without food, otherwise we will really become capitalists."

"In the past two years, there have been so many ghosts and monsters on the market. I think the boss's title is uncouth, and it has become popular to call him general manager or chairman. When we meet, we talk about corporate culture and employees' sense of belonging. I think it's all bullshit. Pay enough wages, and employees Naturally, I feel a sense of belonging, and the reason why there are so few people leaving Yixin is because the salary is higher than the average salary in the industry."

Jiang Liu knew that the company had suffered a lot of losses in the past two months.

"Super Girl", "Legend of Sword and Fairy", "The Four Famous Catchers", and "Detective Detective Detective Detective Detective" are incessantly filming.

His preparations for "Monster" were also intermittently, and the company lost tens of millions.

But it can still afford it, and it will not exploit employees and take advantage of their wages.

"Boss, the salary for your director and screenwriter has been finalized at 300 million."

Jiang Liu nodded and asked Xing Aina: "How was your chat with CJ Li Meijing? How did you go about co-production?"

His remuneration has never been fixed before.

When filming "Cell Phone", the company was still small, and the "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" he directed had a poor reputation, so he received a small token salary.

When it came to "Pirates", he should have received more pay due to the box office success of "Cell Phone".

However, the production cost of "Pirates" was only 2500 million. Special effects and large props were required. The conditions on the island were difficult and the food was better.

In the end, he only received a salary of tens of thousands of yuan.

"Pirates" has a box office of over [-] million, and the copyright has been sold overseas. He wants to make "Monster", so naturally the pay can no longer be arbitrary.

Another factor in getting a salary of 300 million is that Yi Xin has become a formalized team from the grass-roots team that has grown wildly. Of course, his salary must also be regularized.

Jiang Liu estimated that with his special experience, one day in the future, Yi Xin might not be able to afford him for filming. Another major change in the formalization of Yixin is the stricter review of scripts, which means that investment and production of drama series have become cautious and methodical.

Yi Xin used to produce investment dramas. Maybe a certain senior executive felt that a certain script was good and worth a try, and then he started to go to the finance department to ask for money and recruit people to form the crew.

Now, every script produced by Yixin, even variety show scripts, must be submitted to the screenwriting department and cross-reviewed by multiple writing groups to prevent scripts similar to stories related to "The filming of Li Zicheng in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty".

If the script is good, the film and television series produced may not necessarily be of high quality.

The production of film and television dramas is very complex and involves multiple processes, each of which determines the quality of the film and television dramas.

But the strict script at least ensures the lower limit of the quality of film and television dramas.

"Li Meijing, CJ Entertainment made three requirements. Either of the male and female protagonists in "Monster" should be a Korean actor. The executive director of the production team should add a Korean director, and they should provide their own translator."

"what?"

Jiang Liu was surprised and said: "Why do you pay so much attention to translation? Are you afraid that I will talk behind my back and scold Korean actors and assistant directors? That's not the case, right?"

Hou Hongliang joked: "Do you want to eavesdrop on the crew's secrets?"

"The crew has a secret."

Jiang Liu couldn't figure it out and was too lazy to think about it. He said to Hou Hongliang: "You go ahead and get busy. I'll go see how the special effects department is doing. Aina will go with me."

Hou Hongliang said: "I will talk to you about the design of Nancheng No. [-] later. There is a big deal there."

"I know." Jiang Liu nodded and asked Xing Aina as he walked: "How do you match the crew of "Monster"? What do the actors think?"

"Ask Ning Hao to be your executive director. Yan Yan is also idle. He will be an assistant director. Photography and lighting will be your old team. There will be one Korean and one English translator. The company does not have actors suitable for the male lead or the female lead. Qin Lan and Liu Tao are more suitable in every aspect."

"Liu Tao also played an archer in "Pirates", and Sha Yi can play the role of the male second brother."

"But he has done several comedies one after another, and his image is somewhat stereotyped. I don't know if the audience will buy it."

"How many actors are there in the company now?"

"Thirteen actors, including Lu Yi and his girlfriend, have all signed up with the company."

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy has cast new actors for the main roles, including Hu Ge and Zeng Li."

"Luo Zhenyu also said that he will sign all the first, second and third place winners of "Super Girl" in the future. Next year, the company may have more actors and singers."

"Zeng Li? What are the men and women playing in "Sword of Immortal"?"

"Playing the heroine's mother, a queen of the small country of Nanzhao."

"Is this okay?" Jiang Liu sneered and said, "You prefer the female lead role in "Monster"? Is the male lead role reserved for Korean actors?"

"Yes, domestic actresses are more popular than male actors."

"I'll think it over."

Jiang Liu walked into Hou Xiaobao's cubicle: "You were bragging on the phone how well you did the water monster in "Sword of Immortal" and that it was at the top level in the country. Why did you say it was difficult when it came to "Monster"? Is your department good at it?"

"Boss, the situation is different. The water monster is a monster on the small screen, and the mutated monster in "Monster" is a monster on the big screen. It needs to be more detailed, otherwise the grid-shaped monster will look fake at first glance."

Jiang Liu looked at the water monster that looked like a Yamata-no-Orochi snake on the computer screen and asked, "How do you make it so realistic?"

"We don't know much about CG three-dimensional animation technology, and it is relatively difficult to do. With the current network speed and computer configuration, it may take several days to complete one frame on a computer."

"How many days does it take to make one frame? Doesn't it take more than 24 days to make 100 frames per second? The profit from the movie's box office is used to pay the electricity bill? The special effects department still has to spend money?"

Jiang Liu smacked his lips and complained in his heart.

"Monster on the Han River" is a 2006 Korean film. He didn't know whether the special effects were produced by a local Korean company.

But it stands to reason that it should not be difficult for domestic special effects companies to do it.

After all, in the TV drama market in recent years, there has been a large-scale special effects drama "The Storm".

There will also be "Fairy Sword", "Shuiyue Cave" and other fairy tales and fantasy dramas that require the use of blue butt plays.

"Monster of the Han River" only has such a monster special effect, but it is so laborious.

Hou Xiaobao nodded awkwardly: "The Internet speed cannot be solved for the time being. We need a dedicated special effects computer. In addition, we will go to a European and American special effects company to hire two special effects directors to follow the team."

Speaking of this, what else could Jiang Liu do: "Just pay for it and buy a computer."

(End of this chapter)