Of course, Xiao Ran is not such a hateful person, otherwise he would not have so many friends in the industry. Therefore, after Zhou Xingchi becomes famous, his net worth will be 200,000, and the Phantom asked him to film "Happy Events in the Family"
The price was mentioned at 100,000, which was considered a concession from both parties.
Debao has already done such a business that was absolutely losing money in the early stage, which means that Pan Disheng will continue to make movies for a long time, instead of suddenly stopping the company's business completely in its heyday like in history.
Although Xiao Ran has always regarded this as the biggest mystery in the Hong Kong film industry and very much hopes to find out. But he is not here to be a tourist, but to be a changer. Some things will happen now and in the future, and some things will not happen.
It won't happen, it's different from his original understanding.
Xiao Ran doesn't care about money now. Although he holds a considerable part of Microsoft's stocks, he really doesn't care about money. However, not caring about money doesn't mean that he likes to be challenged. He hates being challenged head-on. That's right.
An insult to his authority.
"I understand what you mean. You plan to take over their power to accelerate the expansion of Hong Kong movies and save time." Lin Qingxia's smile was so interesting that Xiao Ran could swear that he had never seen Lin Qingxia behave so cutely.
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Lin Qingxia's words surprised Xiao Ran. He never expected that Lin Qingxia, who didn't know much about finance and economics before, could understand the meaning of his words. Lin Qingxia saw the surprise in Xiao Ran's eyes and restrained herself.
With an exaggerated smile, he said shyly: "Since this period of time, I have nothing to do, so I read some related books!"
Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Lin Qingxia was doing this just to help him, and a warm current flowed through his heart. He hugged Lin Qingxia tightly and whispered in her ear: "Qingxia, never leave me
, without you, my life is incomplete!" No one has too many touching words of love, and the same is true for Lin Qingxia, who suddenly blushed at Xiao Ran's words.
The bad news didn't stop. The next day, as soon as Xiao Ran arrived at the office, Wei Dongling rushed in like a whirlwind and shouted bad news: "Fang Ruohai spent 300 million to acquire ATV!"
Oops! Xiao Ran was shocked and stood up helplessly. This was definitely bad news. In this way, Fang Ruohai had a very advantageous platform. In fact, he had long wanted to join the TV industry as an artist.
The training department was preparing for this, but the pressure from Wireless was really irresistible, so they had to give up the idea for the time being. Unexpectedly, Fang Ruohai took the initiative.
After thinking about it, Xiao Ran smiled. Yesterday, he personally called Fang Yihua, hoping to strengthen close cooperation with TVB, but Fang Yihua politely refused. Xiao Ran knew that TVB planned to take a neutral route, but since Fang Ruohai acquired ATV,
He is destined to become Wireless's enemy. In this way, he will not trust Wireless to rely on him.
Wei Dongling had obviously thought of this and looked at Xiao Ran with a half-smile. Xiao Ran nodded to him and said nothing. Needless to say, if Wei Dongling couldn't even see this, there would be no need to mess around.
Of course, Fang Ruohai definitely couldn't see it, but he never imagined how vicious the methods TVB used in the entire process of monopolizing the Hong Kong TV industry. Xiao Ran secretly smiled, in this way, TVB would come to help.
By shouldering part of the pressure from Fang Ruohai, it might be possible to indirectly shake the alliance of the four major companies.
Two days later, Fang Ruohai announced the establishment of Haile Group, Xinyi City and Xinyibao, and ATV became a subsidiary of Haile Group. On the fourth day, Haile Group acquired a newspaper and a magazine. A week later, Fang Ruohai
Ruohai announced that Xinyi City will be reorganized.
The media have discovered that at some point, the famous Fang Ruohai appeared again, and even made a series of big moves, vaguely resembling Hong Kong's number one entertainment company. But things were still the same for Xiao Ran and Fang Ruoxin back then.
After being mentioned, Fang Ruohai immediately issued strict orders not to allow his newspapers and magazines to report on the matter.
But Xiao Ran is just the opposite, completely letting things go. This is perhaps the biggest difference between Xiao Ran and Fang Ruohai. Fang Ruohai always likes to strictly control everything. But Xiao Ran knows very well when to relax and where to tighten. That's right.
There is an old saying: Zhang Chi has his own way. Just like writing a novel, if there is a tense and exciting climax, there must be enough foreshadowing space and low tide.
What makes the media even more interested is that after the reorganization of New Art City, the structure is exactly the same as that of Phantom. It is simply copying the structure of Phantom Company. When New Art City's new team came out, the media almost went crazy.
Because they suddenly discovered that among the senior executives of New Art City, there were actually several senior executives who had worked for Phantom some time ago. Inferring from this, they quickly contacted everything that had happened before and concluded that Xiao Ran was responsible for this incident.
Became enemies with the Fang family.
Xiao Ran naturally sneered at this. If Fang Ruohai was someone who ignored the opportunity to make money for revenge, then he didn't need to worry about Fang Ruohai being qualified to become his enemy. However, this was good, at least Xiao Ran felt that there was a challenge
It's a good thing to allow yourself to demonstrate authority.
Just when the media were going crazy trying to dig out the inevitable or accidental relationship, Tianluo Company was also reorganized, and its structure was still almost the same as that of Phantom Company. This made Pan Disheng very confused. He didn't quite understand the two major companies.
Why does the company do this?
Because the structure of Hong Kong film companies has always been an empty shell, with no departments at all. Even a handful of large companies like Debao and Golden Harvest do not have so many departments. At most, they are divided into production and production.
Department, Distribution Department and Finance Department. A structure like that of Phantom Company undoubtedly adds considerable administrative expenses to the company.
In Pan Disheng's office, Shun Jianxun, who had extremely weird hair style, scratched his head. He showed a shrewd look that was completely opposite to the one on the screen: "Why do Tianluo and Haile both imitate Phantom Company? Is the structure of Phantom really real?"
So outstanding?"
Pan Disheng couldn't give an answer to such a question, but the current situation gave him a strange feeling. This feeling told him that he had fallen behind the three major companies. If he didn't catch up, it would be difficult to catch up in the future.
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Pan Disheng is a very cautious person, but this time he really felt in a dilemma. He had to choose to follow or maintain the status quo. He knew very well that if a company faced such a choice, it meant that the company had already
When he reached the crossroads, he finally made a bold decision: "Let's reorganize too!"
When the news of Debao's reorganization reached He Guanchang's ears, he couldn't help but jump up. He was originally surprised by Yang Qi and Fang Ruohai's reorganization, but now Debao actually followed the example of Phantom Company.
The reorganization is really ridiculous.
After discussing it with Zou Wenhuai, they all felt that these guys were crazy. Of course, this was just words. They were all confused in their hearts. Is the structure of a film company like Phantom really outstanding? At least they don't dare or don't
If you are willing to give it a try, Jiahe has a big business now, and any attempt to do so will break your muscles and bones.
What is Xiao Ran doing? He is celebrating Fa Ge, who has become the Best Actor at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. He is also celebrating that Phantom Company's "Autumn Fairy Tale" defeated the Korean "The Classic Wife" and won the Best Actor.
Film and Best Actor. Unfortunately, in Xiao Ran's impression, "A Chinese Ghost Story" could have won the Best Soundtrack in the Asia-Pacific this year, but it had to give up because it hadn't been produced yet. And New Art City's "Dragon"
"Tiger Storm" won Best Editing.
In addition, Xiao Ran was still surprised by Fang Ruohai and Yang Qi's bold study. He was not surprised that Fang Ruohai had such a vision, but if he could imitate it with dignity, it was not necessarily Fang Ruohai who could do it.
It came out. But now the fact has happened, which only shows that Fang Ruohai has become more unscrupulous than before after experiencing a fatal defeat.
Xiao Ran is not interested in this because he is busy with the post-production of "Dark Flower". The second version of the trailer has been broadcast on the wireless, and its magazines and newspapers have also leaked all the news bit by bit.
Go out. It quickly aroused the media's appetite again, and this craze lasted until the release of the third trailer.
In the entire "Dark Flower" crew, Xiao Ran was the busiest person. In the special effects department of Phantom, which is the post-production department, after Xiao Ran dragged Fa Ge to finish the narration for the film, he started busy preparing the sound source for the effects.
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The sound source of the effect is the fighting sounds in the film, and these require a skilled dubbing artist to complete. Xiao Ran is on the side, and he only needs to be responsible for telling the dubbing team leader his concept. Fortunately, after
After filming "Dark Flower", every department approached their work with an absolutely rigorous and enthusiastic attitude, which made the post-production of the film extremely perfect.
For example, the sound of gunshots in the film was definitely not an explosive or loud effect, but a relatively heavy effect, so as to increase the perfection of the film. The sound recording team worked very seriously, in order to match the sound in the film
For the few gunshots, many solutions were proposed, such as covering the subsequent gunshots with cloth to make them sound heavier.
Even in order to match the sound of footsteps, such as the sound of Yaodong walking on the street, this requires some openness, some coldness, and a very slow and unhurried sound effect. In fact, the recording team worked very seriously on this
, even Xiao Ran admired him greatly.
In terms of subtitles and dubbing in other languages, the talents Wei Dongling ordered the human resources department to find are indeed elite. Among them are not only local language experts from Hong Kong, but also language experts from the mainland are invited to facilitate the conversion into Mandarin, and even
We also invited foreign language professors as professional consultants.
Of course, language is definitely not meant to be translated literally. Xiao Ran has always felt that this is too stupid. Therefore, the translator basically does not translate it literally, but analyzes the meaning of a certain line of dialogue in the film word for word. When
They had to keep the dialogue and the atmosphere and style of the film consistent when they turned over it, which was definitely a very difficult thing.
Fortunately, Xiao Ran has been preparing for all this since he formed Phantom. Therefore, in terms of technical aspects such as pre-preparation and post-production, Phantom can be said to be the best in Hong Kong and even Asia.
Subtitles and dubbing are just tedious technical tasks, but soundtrack and editing are extremely artistic tasks. Lin Daoyun looked at the silent picture and asked: "Brother Ran, do you want the audio and video to be synchronized or the audio and video to be synchronized?"
Counterpoint?”
Xiao Ran knew that these two types were actually the technical types usually chosen for soundtracks. Lin Daoyun actually started composing when the crew encountered a certain scene that might require a soundtrack during the filming process. In the later stage, it was basically screened.
process.
Looking at the video screen, Xiao Ran tapped his fingers gently, and the rhythm gradually made him experience the inspiration of this kind of creation. This time, he would no longer rely on memory to choose the soundtrack. Suddenly he opened his eyes, Xiao Ran pointed
On the screen, Fa Ge is running around: "This section needs it, but the rhythm shouldn't be too strong!"
In fact, this time Xiao Ran chose the soundtrack technique of counterpointing sound and picture, which means that the picture and music are in opposition but also implicitly unified, so as to create a sense of hierarchy. Xiao Ran did not want to destroy the artistic conception of several semi-still shots in the film, so he chose
Score music for unimportant plot points.
Soundtracking is definitely a very artistic job. This not only requires considering whether the music style, layout and design can match the style and plot changes of the film. It also requires that each piece of music can mobilize the mood of the film from the beginning to the end.
The music and atmosphere must also match the visuals. Whether it is the director or the scorer, just one oversight may very well lead to the score not being in harmony with the film.
The work of music composers is not an easy one. They often have to understand various musical instruments and orchestration. They also need to have a considerable understanding of various music and materials. They are required to have the ability to control the length, speed and rhythm of music.
It is no exaggeration to say that the work of a composer is definitely much more difficult than that of producing a piece of pop music.
Xiao Ran chose very little music in this film because the film has a strong sense of rhythm, and almost every piece of music was inserted in every possible way. After completing this process, Xiao Ran was not satisfied, but added the film
After playing it all again, I experienced the feeling and said, "Delete this part of the soundtrack. This part can be more intense."
The remaining work is editing. In fact, several processes have been cut before. The scene when Xiao Ran and Lin Daoyun were scoring the music is the scene after re-editing. The earlier editing was mainly to match Xiao Ran's creative intention.
Unnecessary fragments.
In front of the rewinding machine and splicing machine, Xiao Ran quietly admired the film. In fact, the film without editing is simply not for people to watch. Pointing to the scene where Achen goes to see Brother Ji in the dark, Xiao Ran narrowed his eyes and said to Zhang Yaozong
: "I want to cut out here..."
Continuing to enjoy the film, Xiao Ran kept pointing out his requirements. In fact, there was no need for Xiao Ran to say it. Zhang Yaozong roughly knew what Xiao Ran wanted, because he himself had been following the crew on the creative intention and overall concept of the film, as well as the character of the characters.
I already have a very deep understanding in all aspects.
Zhang Yaozong has edited many films, but none of them seem to be more special than this one in his memory. The biggest special thing is that this film is almost eerily silent from beginning to end. Although there are occasional dialogues and the like,
That kind of silence seems to come from the bones, indifference and loneliness.
In addition, this is not the first time that he and Xiao Ran have collaborated. Looking at Phantom's works, there are always very special and novel features, which makes Zhang Yaozong very interested. This level of interest has even prompted warnings from the four major companies.
He doesn't take it to heart at all. In fact, although he hasn't signed a contract with Phantom yet, he is always working with Phantom, so it doesn't have much to do with it.
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