Next, Xiao Ran explained the characteristics of the outstanding scripts that he had analyzed in detail in "Dream" one by one, which made the students feel novel for a while. When it was about to end, Xiao Ran made a summary
: "Basically, in my opinion, script creation can never be separated from the following four words: novel, strange, exquisite, and clever!"
"That's all for today. I hope my words can be of benefit to everyone!" Xiao Ran smiled slightly and glanced around before saying: "If you think you are capable enough, you might as well come and work at Phantom Company after graduation. I think I am
Very welcome!”
Applause soon rang in the classroom, like thunder. Seeing the students wanting to clap their hands to pieces, we knew how successful Xiao Ran's lecture was. After all, Xiao Ran was talking about two things.
Ten years later, some strong people studied the essence and experience of the decline of Hong Kong movies. To say that it is not amazing in this era would be too modest.
After dozens of students crowded outside the classroom to listen to the lecture, Xiao Ran and the others moved forward. However, when leaving, Xiao Ran was afraid that Lin Qingxia would be hit, so he took the opportunity to hold her hand. But he did not expect this.
The students were immediately impressed by his speech and politely made way for them.
Walking among students who were surrounded by admiring eyes, Xiao Ran suddenly felt that everything he had done was not in vain. Moreover, he now had a very strange feeling. He felt that the world was in his hands. That was a realm far beyond
The feeling of elation is a kind of strong self-confidence derived from the surroundings.
From this moment on, he believed that he could turn the tide and save Hong Kong films, and he was no longer timid. Because he knew that he could handle anything and overcome any difficulty. There would be no hesitation...
After leaving the Baptist Church and watching the company's screenwriters leave, Wei Jiahui looked at the cars passing by on the road from a distance and sighed softly: "Aran, I really haven't thought about the problem you mentioned today. I always thought that
The movie is very popular, but now it seems that that may not be the case..."
The look in Lin Qingxia's eyes when she looked at Xiao Ran was very different, as if she was looking at a genius, even though Xiao Ran knew that he was just a shoddy genius. Facing Wei Jiahui's indirect compliment, Xiao Ran couldn't help but rub his nose to hide his emotions: "
In fact, in the final analysis, there is a problem with the system of local film companies. If a formal system comparable to Hollywood can be formed, there will be no big worries!"
Xiao Ran knows it, and Wei Jiahui also knows it. However, this is not that easy. At least 80% of the film companies currently make short-term investments to grab money. Only Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers can be regarded as the most dedicated in the industry.
, but both of them also have some problems in their systems.
Before 1987, there was not much short-term investment in the film industry. In a few years, Hong Kong would go crazy and invest money in movies. That would be the real madness. Even from Xiao Ran's point of view, except for Jiahe
The most powerful companies, Xinyi City and Debao, are suspected of being short-term.
Both New Arts City and Debao suddenly ceased production during their peak period, which is a huge mystery in the Hong Kong film industry. The former is understandable because of the interests of the top management. But Debao takes a high-quality route, winning the Golden Horse Awards and
Even being shortlisted for the Best Picture at the Academy Awards is a great honor. But at the height of his glory, Pan Disheng, the big boss of Debao Investment, suddenly announced that he would stop all film business. Is there any secret behind this that no one knows about?
Got it.
There are also doubts about New Arts City's suspension of production in the near future. At the time of the suspension of production, New Arts City was still holding a film contract with Zhou Yunfa. You know, at that time, with Fat Brother's box office appeal, the film was definitely
The work was a big hit. But Lei Kaitai seemed not to even want to make the last bit of money, and ended up in Xinyi City in a hurry. It was really strange.
Wei Jiahui paused, with a determined expression on his face, looking at Xiao Ran and said: "A Ran, if you don't mind, I want to join your company."
Xiao Ran didn't even show the slightest surprise. Just after giving the lecture, he knew that he had changed in some aspects. Of course it was not that he didn't want the talent of Wei Jiahui, and besides, Wei Jiahui had a talented person like Shuangyou under him.
Before doing this, he must have been ecstatic. But now his thinking is extremely clear. He knows that genius is not born as a genius, but can be cultivated under a certain environment. And Xiao Ran knows very well that Wei Jiahui's genius ability was cultivated at Wireless
If Wei Jiahui is obtained now, the genius will die prematurely.
It's just that he knows better that he can't wait anymore, and he doesn't have much time. The climax of Hong Kong movies will come in a few years. Xiao Ran must save all his strength to save everything, and Wei Jiahui is undoubtedly a very good chess piece. Thinking of it
Here, he thought, why can't he cultivate it himself?
If according to the original history, Wei Jiahui would have to wait until 1994. Although Xiao Ran was patient, he would never be stupid enough to wait until then. After thinking about all this, he nodded heavily to Wei Jiahui: "Xiaobao, on behalf of the company, I welcome
You, Ah Hai and Ah Zhi! By the way, Xiaobao, if you think there are any other talents, you might as well bring them to me!"
Seeing that Wei Jiahui and the others had left, Lin Qingxia asked Xiao Ran to get in the car. But she did not start the car immediately, but looked sideways at Xiao Ran: "Aran, to be honest, do you want to sign me?"
"Yes, Sister Lin, you know that there are not many important actors in Phantom Company now, and Phantom Company needs you!" He stared at Lin Qingxia sincerely and confessed everything.
Lin Qingxia turned away and looked out of the car window. Xiao Ran vaguely seemed to hear her saying, "Why don't you need me?". With her mind shaken, she looked at Lin Qingxia carefully, but she didn't find any trace of her words.
He could only comfort himself by treating this as an auditory hallucination, but could he really forget this sentence?
On the same day, Xiao Ran sent someone to talk to Lin Qingxia's agent. The fact that Phantom successfully signed a long-term contract with Lin Qingxia soon became the entertainment headlines of major newspapers on the third day, even though everyone knew that Xiao Ran and Lin Qingxia
The relationship was very good, but I didn’t expect it to be so good that Lin Qingxia would become one of our artists with just one sentence.
At the same time, Xiao Ran took this opportunity to announce that the filming of Phantom's venture was about to begin. Three days later, Phantom captured Chen Kexin in the palm of his hand. The next day, Yu Jiayu submitted the list of the front and backstage team of "God of Gamblers" to Xiao Ran
.And Xu Ke called and agreed to read the script first before deciding whether to direct "A Chinese Ghost Story"
A week later, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Min and Wu Junru signed long-term contracts with Phantom Company. Unfortunately, Hui Yinghong refused to sign at all, preferring to be free. Also a week later, Zhang Yuanting and Luo Qirui agreed to work for Phantom director "Autumn"
"Fairy Tale". A few days later, Xiao Ran successfully borrowed Lin Lingdong and his brother Nan Yan from Xinyi City to produce "Prison Story".
At present, the scale of Phantom Company is very small, not much different from ordinary small companies. However, its filmmakers are definitely full of talents, and Xiao Ran does his best to recruit them.
On this day, Xiao Ran, who is also the production manager, received the budget report submitted by his producer. The budget for "God of Gamblers" had been obtained a few days ago, and it was only 4.2 million. And "Autumn"
"Fairy Tale" is currently in preparation, but there is no specific figure yet. As for "Prison Story", the budget also does not exceed 5 million.
After carefully studying the budget report in his hand, Xiao Ran smiled slightly. His career was about to start, and it was inevitable that it would be a success. After thinking about it, Xiao Ran got the current funding situation from the financial department. In fact, Phantom didn't spend much money at the moment, just signed the contract.
Artists spend millions.
I have to mention here that the contract between Phantom and the filmmakers is currently mainly of two types. The first one is to sign it directly. The company will pay a certain salary every month as a guarantee, and the remuneration will be paid as usual. It can be said that the income is guaranteed despite droughts and floods. However,
There are very few people who can get this kind of contract, and those signed are the top talents in various industries.
For example, the director currently only signed Du Qifeng, Liu Zhenwei and Chen Musheng, while the cinematographer signed Huang Yongheng and Du Feng, and the art director only signed Zhang Shuping. The action director signed Cheng Xiaodong, but unfortunately he still owes some, such as the editor and
The costume stylist and dubbing composer obviously made Xiao Ran very depressed.
The second type is the most common contract method in the film industry. This is divided into long-term contracts and short-term contracts. The long contract is to make several films within two or three years, and the short contract is to produce one film in a short period of time. In short, as long as Xiao Ran
What I want by name, apart from the first type of guaranteed harvest in droughts and floods, is the long-term contract. Short-term contracts can be found anytime and anywhere, so there is no rush.
Among all the behind-the-scenes staff, the only one with a different net worth is the screenwriter. Only screenwriters enjoy the same treatment as artists and can sign a formal contract with Phantom. Of course, the salary is definitely not bad. In this era, screenwriters are generally worth only
Fluctuating below 60,000 yuan, only a gold medal screenwriter like Xiao Ran can get a salary of more than 100,000 yuan.
In Phantom, the screenwriters not only receive a basic salary every month, but also an astonishing remuneration. And this remuneration is also linked to awards and box office, and the basic remuneration is at least 60,000 yuan. Of course,
This award is naturally not a highly prestigious award like the Hundred Flowers Award in the Mainland.
Of course, Xiao Ran is not stupid. You must know that a creative profession like this cannot cultivate the laziness of the parties involved. Therefore, in order to deal with this, Xiao Ran took great pains to make restrictions. The contract stipulates that if a certain screenwriter works under a certain
If not even a single script was completed within that time, then of course he would be kicked out without mercy.
Xiao Ran also knows that this can easily lead to screenwriters working alone. But he deeply yearns for the round-table collective cooperation like New Art City, but he is not worried about this, because each script needs to be submitted to a dedicated script
Review by Wei Jiahui. If certain plots and plots of the script cannot be passed, the reviewer will need to organize other screenwriters to revise the script. Naturally, there is money to be made for such revisions, and the money is naturally provided by the original screenwriter.
Out.
But Xiao Ran didn't want Wei Jiahui to have his hands tied up by such a trivial matter, so he asked Wei Jiahui to quickly train a few reviewers with professional vision, and then free up their hands to help him. In fact, Xiao Ran really wanted to leave Wei Jiahui as a treasure.
He decided to enter the television industry, but based on what he knew, Wireless's suppression of its opponents was beyond his ability to withstand, so he had no choice but to give up.
The producer of "Prison Story" is a newcomer named Mo Tianxin. When Xiao Ran saw this name, he laughed for a while, because he remembered that there was a very sexy actress in Taiwan named Tianxin. However, he laughed, he was so excited about this
Mo Tianxin's ability is really reassuring.
Mo Tianxin is a very old-fashioned guy. To put it more exaggerated, Xiao Ran even doubted whether he didn't know how to laugh. But when Xiao Ran saw Mo Tianxin get the script of "Prison Storm" from him, he came to Nanyan to do it.
A certain degree of modification (Xiao Ran often leaves some loopholes in the scripts he writes now to allow his company's screenwriters to get ahead. Moreover, the scripts he wrote are only enough to shoot for ninety minutes, so other screenwriters need to make some modifications.
Naturally), once he found the team, came up with the budget, and arranged the filming process perfectly, he knew he had found a treasure.