Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 25 Two Legendary Videos
Marco thought about it and said, "But these are all post-event publicity. We still have to show part of the film before the movie starts."

Zhou Mo snapped his fingers, "That's what I'm talking about."

Turning around, he said to Jiang Wen, "Didn't I ask for a half-finished film from you some time ago?"

Jiang Wen reacted:

"You've already made a promotional video, or is it that... weird?"

"OK."

Zhou Mo clicked on the icon of a video software called Kuaibo. It was 2010, and the little red software was in its heyday.

Find a file.

Title: "Dare to Kill My Horse"

turn on.

The video starts loading.

Video, start!
……

Brothers, take office in Goose City.

……

I killed myself.

……

The song is over.

The room fell into an eerie silence.

Jiang Wen looked at the screen.

Zhou Mo looked at Jiang Wen.

Mako: ()

After a moment, Jiang Wen turned his head and asked:

"Xiao Mo, did you cut all this by yourself?"

"OK."

Jiang Wen lit a cigarette and hesitated for a long time: "Do you want to edit the video together?"

Finished in one sentence.

Before Zhou Mo could respond, Marco was stunned.

Ever since he knew Jiang Wen, he started to work with him to start a company.

Over the years, Jiang Wen may have asked many people to write scripts and shoot films.

But when it comes to editing a movie, I never let anyone else interfere.

For Marco, a "super fan" of Jiang Wen, it is such a wonderful thing to be able to make a movie with Jiang Wen.

"Hurry up and agree to him!" Marco shouted in his heart.

On the other hand, Zhou Mo was very calm.

Although he was surprised by Jiang Wen's invitation, he also felt it was reasonable.

First of all, "Dare to Kill My Horse" is quite fascinating in itself.

In the previous life, among the millions of videos on the site, "Dare to Kill My Horse" had more than 90 million views, nearly 100 million, ranking fifth in the entire site.

In the field of mixed cutting, it ranks second.

The first place is “Spring Breeze Blowing All Over the Ground” by Black Soil.

Secondly, "Dare to Kill My Horse" uses all the footage from the entire film "Let the Bullets Fly". For Jiang Wen now, this video clip simply touched his heart, and its power is comparable to when he first met Zhou Yun.

“This is exactly the shot of my dreams!”

So, he invited Zhou Mo without hesitation.

However, Zhou Mo's answer shocked Marco.

"That won't work. I'm still filming a TV series." Zhou Mo's refusal was very direct.

For him, film editing is a process of interpreting the director's ideas.

There are 100 million Hamlets in 10 million people.

The richness of "Let the Bullets Fly" is enough for any viewer to analyze it into several versions. Even if just some shots are swapped, the editing effects will be different.

Two editors, who should I listen to except for the disagreement?
"Let the Bullets Fly" is Jiang Wen's movie after all, and Zhou Mo has no interest in arguing with Zhong Deng over this matter.

Obviously, Jiang Wen also understood what Zhou Mo meant.

He didn't say much, just nodded.

Marco only felt that the two people in front of him seemed to have had a deep conversation, and they understood each other's meaning through eye contact.

He was the only one sitting there, not understanding anything.

"What's wrong? What happened? What are you talking about?"

A line from a song lyric flashed through Marco's mind: "It's obviously a movie about three people, but I still can't have a name."

The three of them discussed the publicity matter again.

Finally, under the powerful influence of "Kill My Horse", Ma Ke decided to use Mile Station as one of the main bases for film promotion, and every time a part of the movie was released, it would be played on Mile Station.

In December, after the movie is released, "Dare to Kill My Horse" will be broadcast at an appropriate time as a killer promotion for the movie.

As for what is the right time.

I don’t know, let’s see how the situation develops.

As well as the contract and fees, Zhou Mo will set the prices based on market conditions later.

The moment Marco agreed, the system gave a prompt:

【New optimization goals have been established】

[Optimized work: Dare to kill my horse]

[Optimization goal: Mile Station ranks first in the entire site]

[Reward: Features: Sticky, very close to the heart]

Zhou Mo looked at the strange reward name and clicked to view it.

[Sticky and very close: The longer users use the Mizhan, the more they will rely on it, which greatly increases the user stickiness of the Mizhan.

After reading the skill introduction, Zhou Mo exclaimed, “Oh my god!”

As long as you increase the usage time, you can increase the stickiness.

What kind of electronic succubus is this?

He was calculating the development strategy of Lizhan in his mind. After acquiring Lizhan in June, Zhou Mo tried to open source the remix, ghost animal, and secondary creation sections on Lizhan.

At the same time, a large amount of money was spent to upgrade equipment and technology.

The problems of lag and room crash have been basically solved.

With the content and facilities both blossoming.

The daily active users of the station have skyrocketed.

Xu Yi looked at the soaring number of registrations and felt both happy and sad.

Fortunately, the station is indeed thriving.

When he is sad, "steam" has nothing to do with him.

The year 2010 saw the development of the Internet enter a period of rapid growth. Whether it was the entertainment industry or technology companies, as long as they caught the trend, they would be able to soar immediately.

The market believes in "sleep on the floor today and be the boss tomorrow".

Anyone who has a dream is great.

Zhou Mo's original plan was to accumulate users in the first half of the year.

At the beginning of next year, Lizhan will first acquire the online broadcasting rights for the new version of "The Myth", which will become the first product it promotes.

After the release of "Let the Bullets Fly", the station will immediately take over its second round of broadcasting.

The two works were released in turn, bringing enough heat to the station.

If that's not enough, Zhou Mo has prepared a backup plan -

"The spring breeze of reform is blowing everywhere."

A god-level mashup video.

Zhou Mo has communicated with the CCTV through Da Tiantian's relationship, and starting from next year, previous years' Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast on the station.

Next year will be Heitu’s last time on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

After the audience found out that Heitu would no longer appear on the Spring Festival Gala, Zhou Mo took advantage of this sentiment and hyped up the popularity of "Gai Chui" and the rebroadcast of the Spring Festival Gala.

After three rounds of bombardment, Zhou Mo doesn't believe that he can't take off.
At that time, he will expand the payment attributes of Mile Station by acting as an agent for games, just like Mile Station in his previous life.

But now, there is a "sticky and thoughtful" characteristic reward.

Zhou Mo thought that he could skip the game agency step and try a new business model earlier.

Paid channels.

As long as user stickiness is high enough, paid channels are not a dream.

In its previous life, Netflix was a company that started out as a video website, but it has grown to a point where its market value exceeds that of the "copyright maniac" and has become a global film and television giant, the only one of its kind.

Zhou Mo felt that Lizhan could at least learn from some of it.

He does not think that Netflix's business model has no room for survival in China.

Before he traveled through time, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video had already begun to make profits by relying on high-quality online dramas and turned their profits and losses around.

This shows that as long as good works are produced, the audience is willing to pay.

The domestic environment is not as some people say, that people like to take advantage of small bargains, are unwilling to pay, etc.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be one box office record after another.

Tech companies need to cultivate audiences.

As long as the quality of the work can be improved, the income will soar.

"Xiao Mo, Xiao Mo?"

"Hehe...ah? Ah?"

Zhou Mo came back to his senses and found that only Ma Ke was left in front of him, "Where is Director Jiang?"

"He said that after watching your video, he felt like it, so he went back to edit the video first."

Marco finished explaining and then stopped talking.

Zhou Mo saw Ma Ke's hesitant expression and asked directly: "Brother Ma, if you have something to say, just say it."

"It's like this, Lao Jiang wants you to be interviewed on his behalf."

Ma Ke was halfway through his speech when he imitated Jiang Wen's rough tone and said, "Xiao Mo, you are the assistant director of Let the Bullets Fly. You have to come for the interview."

Perhaps because he felt that Jiang Wen's request was too outrageous, even Ma Ke couldn't say anything more. He simply said, "I know you have to film too. It doesn't matter if you don't agree. I'll urge Jiang later."

Although he said it, even Marco himself didn't know whether he could do it.

Jiang Wen has a very stubborn temper. Once he makes a decision, nothing can change it.

At the beginning, the two of them were angry for a long time because of the conflict over advertising, and they didn't even talk to each other.

Zhou Mo was very happy as he was looking for some media exposure recently.

It is too troublesome to promote it by yourself and it is easy to fail to generate popularity, so it is better to sell it in bundles.

He learned this trick from Zhang Da Huzi.

When "Tian Long" was being filmed, she was so annoyed that she almost broke down and said bluntly: "Don't contact me, I haven't contacted me at all."

The bearded man still does his own thing, looking like he's asking, "What can you do to me?"

Therefore, Zhou Mo showed an awkward look: "Brother Ma, it's not that I don't want to help, but I'm about to start filming the war scene, so I may not be able to make it in time, unless..."

When Ma Ke heard that there was a chance, he quickly asked, "Unless what?"

"Unless you allow me to promote my TV series during the interview." Zhou Mo did not hide his intentions.

There is no need to lie when talking to smart people.

In many cases, honesty is the key
Ma Ke also understood Zhou Mo's meaning immediately, and said with a smile: "As long as you are willing to help Lao Jiang accept the interview, how much you can promote "Myth" depends entirely on your performance. I fully support you, brother."

Zhou Mo smiled slightly.

"make a deal."

　When the first few martial arts novels by Big Beard were published, they were criticized a lot.

　　They are still classics now.

　　After all, the audience back then has grown up and started to have a say.

　　What is the modern version:

　　"I am not yet strong, but when I grow strong there will be changes."

　　Still asking for votes, collections, reading and comments.

　　Good or bad, all are welcome.

　　thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)