my crew is not human

Chapter 286 Development Planning
"Hmm! Hmm! Let's continue the preparations."

In Yisheng Media's office, Li Xianyun said on the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Li Xianyun asked Su Haili to come in: "Tell Yunyang that Yi Sheng will expand to 800 people in the later stage, and double the staff of the script studio."

"Do you want to expand so much at once?" Su Haili was surprised.

A later-stage company employs 800 people formally, and there will only be more informal workers. This is definitely a huge scale.

"Well, the ghost town crew is increasing, and the post-production business is also improving. The key is the rehearsal crew and the large-screen advertisement. The number of people there has not been enough." Li Xianyun said: "It must be further expanded."

Ghost special effects have always been limited, and many leftovers still need post-production, and the existing model has an increasing demand for pre-show preparations.

Yisheng Media's filming speed is being severely restricted by the preliminary preparations.

Now Yisheng Media is shooting a film, if you don’t follow the location, with the speed of the little ghosts, you can be in charge of three or four crews at the same time. If you relax the time, it’s no problem to add two more crews. Settle [-] or [-] crews.

There are sufficient funds and a sufficient team, but there are not enough scripts, not enough good directors, and the preview ability cannot keep up.

Yisheng Media has a strong production capacity, but it cannot realize it.

It's like a factory assembly line, which can produce 1 cans a day, but can only produce [-] cans because of frequent power outages.

Something must be done to solve this problem.

However, Yisheng's own later business is also expanding in the later stage, which makes the employees more and more busy.

In order to meet so many needs, we must constantly expand the team and increase personnel.

So at the beginning of April, Li Xianyun allocated 3000 million yuan to Yi Sheng's later stage, allowing them to fully expand.

Half a year later, the number of people in Yisheng's post-production company has exceeded 600, one-third of which are for previews of various projects, and now Li Xianyun is going to expand further, increasing the number of 200 people, and more than half of them are used for previews .

The original office building of Yisheng Media was no longer enough, so Li Xianyun simply rented another office building near the ghost town.

On the other hand, we are looking for directors everywhere. In addition to new directors, those directors who were eliminated by Chaoying finally have new opportunities.

Don't you want to prove yourself?

Work hard on the preview, as long as you can get this right, the director is yours.

Rong Dasheng said that there is really no room for improvisation at all.

Li Xianyun said: I will go to your grandma's legs to play on the spot, whether I like it or not.

Rong Dasheng immediately said: Do it!
So in the later stage of Yi Sheng, a bunch of directors are sitting and pointing at the screen every day.

But even so, Li Xianyun still felt that it was not enough.

It's only been filmed for half a year.

The reason for the suspension of work was not only because the team couldn't bear it, but also because the pre-prepared projects were used up, and the preparations in the past six months could not keep up, so we had to continue to stop.

You can add people to the team, but it is a big problem if you don’t keep up with the preparations in the early stage.

So Li Xianyun became cruel and decided to add more people, not only in the later stage, but also in the script review studio.

There will always be laggards.

Su Haili shook her head: "I think you need to think about this issue carefully."

"Huh?" Li Xianyun was puzzled.

Su Haili said directly: "A webcam that went online a few days ago didn't do well at the box office."

"I know." Li Xianyun nodded.

Because of the fast filming, Wangda is going online one after another, but after the initial hit, the follow-up box office has dropped a little.

Of course, making money is still making money, but it has declined from the five times the initial profit.

The employees didn't know, they just thought it was bad luck, but the executives had a sharper sense of smell.

Su Haili said: "I don't think this will be an occasional exception...Our productions are too similar, which is causing aesthetic fatigue in the market."

Li Xianyun shook his head: "Hundreds of movies are released every year on the Internet platform, how many are we? Are we tired so quickly?"

"The problem is that our style is relatively unified." Su Haili said.

Li Xianyun did not deny it this time.

Yes, a company must have a company's characteristics.

This is unavoidable.

The theme will not be aesthetically fatigued. After all, there are only a dozen or twenty themes in movies and TV, but the style will!

So the subsequent box office decline was not because of quality, but because of style.

The decline is not obvious now, but with the continuous rollout and slide all the way down, the employees have to clamor again.

Su Haili said: "Movies are always works of art. If they are too routine, they will definitely cause boredom. I think the current model still needs some adjustments."

"Well, do you have an idea?"

"It's time to launch the technical department to cooperate with other film and television companies. In the future, Huaguo Film and Television does not need half of the films to be produced by us, but half of the films can be co-produced by us." Su Haili replied.

The external cooperation of the technical department solved the embarrassment of insufficient scripts and insufficient directors, and also solved the problem of convergence at the artistic level, and even solved the problem of simplifying internal enterprise management-many things can be handed over to other film and television companies. up.

It also solves the problem of a large number of films being produced in a short period of time and the market being overwhelmed.

Therefore, Yisheng Media must take this step, and this is the root of their growth.

Li Xianyun shook his head: "I know this, the problem is that most of them can't accept it in the past period of time."

Although Yisheng Media was self-produced and sold internally in the early stage, it is not that it did not do external promotion.

But the fact is that the results have been minimal. Apart from Shengda's order, other cooperations have not yet been reached.

Everyone is me, just see if I don't go in.

Su Haili said: "The new operation mode of the two teams is indeed not easy to accept, but I think the more important thing is that you have the ability to produce and sell yourself, and you have never taken this matter seriously."

"It needs to change their way of thinking. Big productions are all about the star route, and only 6000 to [-] million of a film worth [-] million yuan may fall to the technical team, and even less can be obtained from a double-team production." Li Xianyun said.

The reason why the technical department is difficult to promote, apart from everyone's doubts about the new model, is the core of the use of artists.

In fact, according to the traditional model, artists accounted for the majority, and Li Xianyun's technical department worked hard to make movies for you, but the result was only 2000 million in revenue.

It's not like Yisheng Media itself, with 3000 million production, 500 million is the production budget, and the maximum 500 million is for the actors.

This is a conceptual issue, and it is also the core difference that cannot achieve great cooperation.

It is impossible for Li Xianyun to accept such an important core team as himself, which does not even account for one-tenth of it.

He wants to take at least half of it.

With such a huge difference, how is it possible to reach a cooperation?

Su Haili said: "Isn't that because of investment? Turn around, what if you don't want them to invest?"

"Huh?" Li Xianyun was startled: "You mean we pay for it?"

"They're in charge of the art, we're in charge of the money and the technology. That way we can decide on the cast."

Li Xianyun thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It's not suitable. It means that the various film and television companies can't invest a lot, and they can't get a big return. It means that they have to work part-time. They won't do their best. Art is hard to value. What may be made is not as good as ours.”

"Then ask them to contribute at least half of the funds themselves."

"The problem is they won't take it."

Su Haili smiled: "Don't you just think that the proportion of artists is too high? But you forgot, we also have famous artists now."

Li Xianyun was startled.

Artists in our family...

Su Haili said: "I know you don't like to use celebrities, but they are still yours now, you can't just exploit them and not give them a chance, can you?"

Uh, that's right.

Su Haili said: "You can exploit them, but you also have to give them opportunities. The technology department needs to expand its influence, and we have to make some concessions in the early stage. We now have Internet celebrities at the bottom, and there are Internet universities and ordinary theaters, but they are big The production couldn’t keep up. The artists didn’t have a chance to show their talents, and the grievances were heavy. Combine them with other film and television companies…”

Li Xianyun nodded: "I know, but the problem is that celebrities don't like it."

(End of this chapter)