323 [Original Song Contest]
The next day, Xia Tian returned to the company. Thinking of what he said in the car yesterday, he asked his secretary to ask Luo Dayou to come over and ask him about the record company.
Although he doesn't care whether the record company loses money or not, he cares about its contribution to the music industry. If he doesn't have any action, then he will invest so much money, which is a waste of money.
"President!" As soon as he ordered, Tang Congsheng walked in with a smile, "This is the "Panlong" written by the assistant. You can read it for a while. If you think it's good, I'll let him continue writing it."
Xia Tian nodded, took the manuscript, and read it carefully. The style of writing is still a bit more martial arts, and even names such as "Brother" and "Brother" appear, exuding a strong sense of incongruity, which makes Xia Tian thunder roll.
"This is a Western fantasy novel, not an Eastern martial arts novel. How can such a low-level mistake occur?" Xia Tian pointed out the question to him and said, "Also, the literary style is a bit more popular, so there is no need to pursue any ancient meaning."
Tang Congsheng nodded, "He used to write the novel "The Mingyue of Qin". After writing martial arts for a long time, he may have developed a habit and has not changed it for a while, but I will take special care of him."
"Well, he wrote "The Mingyue in Qin" before," Xia Tian nodded, "Let him try it again. If it doesn't work, I'll write it again. Let him write another book."
"Other!?" Tang Congsheng was stunned. "President, if you write another novel, I'm afraid our magazine doesn't have that many pages."
"If you don't have it, add it. If you add a novel, you will make more money by 50 cents." Xia Tian said with a smile.
Now "Fantasy World" has a total of six novels, which use more than 70 pages of paper. Because the sales volume of each issue exceeds 100,000, the printing cost is less than one yuan.
If you add another novel, it will only add ten pages of paper, and the cost is less than two cents. However, the price can increase by 50 cents, which is a very good deal.
Tang Congsheng nodded and agreed with a smile.
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After Tang passed away from the sage, Luo Dayou rushed over.
"Mr. Xia, are you looking for me?" he asked.
"Yes, Mr. Luo, please sit down." Xia Tian nodded, then smiled, "Sorry, I'm quite busy these days and I haven't cared about Mr. Luo's work well. I'm really sorry, please forgive me."
Seeing that Xia Tian actually apologized to him first, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Luo Dayou's face. In fact, it was because he was not good at socializing that he did not take the initiative to contact Xia Tian. The fault was that he was not someone else.
"Mr. Xia is so polite. I should take the initiative to report to you." He waved his hand.
Xia Tian smiled, "How is it, how is the record company going now?"
Luo Dayou's face turned red.
After taking over the record company, he was full of energy and thought that he could make his favorite music happily from now on. He was the leader of his family and no longer be controlled by others.
But only after I actually do it, I realized that it is really not easy. After taking the position of record company manager, I have to do everything myself. The company management alone is already full of things, which makes him very busy.
Not to mention that when releasing an album, you must communicate well with the channel dealer, promote the record well, and arrange various announcements.
Before, he always thought that the record company manager was a vampire. He only wanted to make money but ignored the singer's future and the development of the music industry. He was a fishing fishing and killing chickens to get eggs. Now he knew how difficult it was to be a manager. Not to mention that he didn't have to worry about making money, and he had lost many worries.
"It's not good. I've been busy all these days and I just found all the employees. As for the singer, I'm the only one." Luo Dayou said embarrassedly.
"Don't worry, since the company's airs have been set up, the next thing will be done." Xia Tian smiled, "It's hard at the beginning. When I opened a film company, there were only two people. Now I have become a big company with 200 people."
"Mr. Xia's ability is beyond my reach." Luo Dayou sighed sincerely. Not to mention anything else, it is not worth selling himself if he donated 250 million Hong Kong dollars.
"Mr. Luo is modest." Xia Tian smiled, and then asked in confusion, "Why is the progress in recruiting singers not going well? Mr. Luo should have some friends in Hong Kong, right?"
"There are some friends, but most of them have signed contracts with record companies. There are also some musicians who, because they were unhappy in their cooperation with record companies before, no longer want to sign contracts, but only want to cooperate as independent musicians." Luo Dayou explained.
"That's not possible. There is a long way to go to develop Chinese original music, and it's not possible to rely on your own strength." Xia Tian said.
He wanted to leave more classic songs for future generations. Although Luo Dayou was capable, he was covered in iron and could make a few nails. He also had to gather more capable musicians.
Luo Dayou nodded, "I think this is the case, it is best to be able to discover new creative talents. But I don't have an idea yet." After all, he is just a musician and has a high talent in music, but he is not very familiar with other aspects.
Xia Tian blinked and began to help him find a solution. After a moment, his eyes lit up and he thought, "OK, I have an idea!"
"So fast?" Luo Dayou was startled. He was worried for a long time but didn't think of a solution. He just started thinking about it and already had it?! Really, fake?!
Xia Tian smiled. With his own wisdom, it was naturally difficult to solve this problem. But he couldn't resist his vision that was ahead of him and gathered the wisdom of so many people. It was of course not difficult to solve this problem.
"We hold an original song competition, and all contestants must sing original songs. They cannot cover songs from other singers, and even rewrite lyrics. We can invite well-known Hong Kong musicians to serve as judges to select the best original songs and the best musicians." Xia Tian said.
"In order to attract more people to participate, we will set the prize higher. The first prize is 500,000 Hong Kong dollars; the second prize is 300,000 Hong Kong dollars; the third prize is 100,000 Hong Kong dollars." Xia Tian thought for a while, "And as long as the song is shortlisted, you can get a reward of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. How about it?"
Luo Dayou blinked his eyes and felt depressed.
The idea of summer is actually not new, it is just a talent show event, just like TVB hosting a new singer competition and the Hong Kong District 18 Amateur Singer Competition that Zhang Xueyou participated last year. The only difference is that people choose people who have good singing skills, while summer chooses people who have good singing skills.
I didn't even think of such a simple idea. I was a very shameful student at the Chinese Medical College in Taiwan.
"Very good." He said with a frustrated look on his face.
"Well, that's good." Xia Tian saw that he agreed to his idea, smiled and nodded, "We can also take the opportunity to create public opinion, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, and rush forward to make musicians in Hong Kong and even East Asia know our determination to promote originality. By the way, it would be even better if we could join forces with the TV station to broadcast our competition process and make all Hong Kong people."
The more Xia Tian thought about it, the more he became more and more certain, and he couldn't help but become excited.
When Luo Dayou heard what he said, he nodded in agreement, and admired Xia Tian's courage in his heart.
He didn't think so much about it at first, just wanted to do a good job in this competition and select the best original music and the most talented original musician. But summer has already thought about it for a longer time.
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Xia Tian then discussed the process and rules of the game with Luo Dayou.
Although Luo Dayou has heard of these talent shows, he does not understand the rules of the process.
He thought that as long as the competition was scored, everyone would end up winning.
Now after discussing with Xia Tian, I realized that I had thought of this game too simply.
At that time, there may be hundreds or thousands of singers in the competition. How can so many people arrange their time, venues, orders, what to do when there is a typhoon day, what to do when there is a power outage? Some contestants are dissatisfied with the results of the competition and make a big fuss in the competition venue, all of which must be considered.
In addition, whether to introduce audience ratings, how much audience ratings account for, and whether to give eliminated singers a chance, these also need to be considered.
From the morning to the afternoon, the entire competition rules and procedures were only in a rough draft. As for the details, it still needs to be considered in detail.
"Don't panic, this competition is very important, so we must sharpen the knife and cut wood. We would rather spend more time preparing to avoid digging wells when we are thirsty and cannot handle it." Xia Tian said to Luo Dayou.
Luo Dayou nodded, and he was already full of admiration for Xia Tian.
Although he discussed the rules of the competition today with Xia Tian, most of them were Xia Tian’s ideas, and he was beating and drumming.
Many of the creativity of others are something he has never heard of or seen. For example, when a singer comes on stage, the judges turn their backs to the singer and cannot see the singer's face, so as not to preconceive the idea and make some singers with poor appearance lose their impression points.
For example, on-site comments and suggestions for contestants. Let them know where success lies and where failure lies, and you can avoid some wrong paths in the future.
"Mr. Luo, please contact Hong Kong musicians to see who is willing to be a judge. I won't let them do it for nothing. Each judge has a commission of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars." Xia Tian said.
"Three hundred thousand?!" Luo Dayou was startled and then smiled, "I think I might be squeezing my head."
Original music in Hong Kong is not valued, and covers Japanese and Korean songs make more money, so Hong Kong musicians earn less. Even the famous Huang Zhen does not have a high income, and a song only sells 20,000 Hong Kong dollars.
If they have 300,000 yuan, they can spend at most a few days to be judges. It is probably a big deal.
Chapter completed!