I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 153 [Investing overseas is leek behavior]

"What exactly is the first commandment?"

In the yellow light,

inside the lens,
Zhang Yuming is no longer the handsome look he used to be. With his straight hairstyle, not only a beard has grown on his bronzed face, but there are also a little bumps and holes.

On the body, the white shirt and tie that he was wearing were even more messy.

The whole person looked decadent and hesitant. Sitting on the bench, he lowered his head and stared at the table in front of him in a trance.

The character played by Zhang Yuming is Li Guoqiang, a storyteller.

As an agent, he shouldn't appear so clean, let alone so immature.

This is a close-up shot, and the person in focus is him.

And the blurred and blurred background clearly tells other people outside the camera that this is an office, a leader's office.

"What do you say?"

A rhetorical question sounded, the camera was far away, behind the desk that was not aligned and was blurred with the background, a person was lying on an office chair, looking up at the ceiling, with his legs folded up and down on the desk in front of him on the table.

For a long time, Li Guoqiang just lowered his head and did not answer.

Behind the desk, the person who asked the question raised his head and glanced at him, and answered himself, "That's a good excuse."

And as he spoke, the camera zoomed in from the panorama.

The main focus of the character also shifted from Li Guoqiang to Huang Yaozu.

Compared with the hesitant Li Guoqiang, Huang Yaozu's "leader" is obviously more mature and more stylish.

Although, from dressing to makeup, he also gives people a decadent feeling.

But there is a clear contrast between the two, probably the difference between a person who has just discovered that he is a turkey on a farm, and a person who is used to being a turkey.

"Today's society is about logic and science."

Putting down his legs comfortably on the desk, Huang Yaozu sat helplessly and said, even with a little smile in his voice, a little crazy, "This kind of thing is just the opposite, and what we have to do in the Miscellaneous Department , is to cover up the truth.”

As he spoke, he took a sip of his wine.

The wine was filled with a valuable stainless steel jug with a lifelike stag printed on it.

Hearing Huang Yaozu's voice asking and answering himself with a smile, Li Guoqiang finally reacted, and the camera switched again.

"It's called lying."

He looked at Huang Yaozu very seriously, and did not accept this statement.

They are agents, and they are responsible for keeping people safe.

They have a responsibility and obligation to tell the public the truth.

But for Li Guoqiang's words, Huang Yaozu couldn't help but smiled brightly, "Then you can just treat me as nonsense."

"Actually, what we saw in the theater today, if it gets out and people know that there are ghosts in this world, what do you think will happen?"

"Will there still be children going to school by then? Will there be anyone speculating in stocks? The property market has collapsed, so you and I don't need to buy a house anymore."

Having said that, he paused, "So let me tell you, the first commandment is very important."

"Without the First Commandment, the world would be in chaos."

Huang Yaozu's expression gradually became serious, with a straight face.

"It's actually very simple, as long as they touch you, they can ghost you."

"Use your body to run amok everywhere. When you get tired of playing, just touch someone and turn away immediately, but when he leaves, those people who let the ghost upper body have only a shell left, just a shell, and the three souls are gone. Qipo, tell me, what can we do?"

"Of course I can only take out a gun and kill them! Kill them together with those who have been possessed by ghosts! This is not the first time for me! But there is no way!"

"Because I don't kill him, human-to-human... just like bacteria, we can only wean them off. I know it's unfair to those who are caught, they are innocent. But we can only do this, this is our miscellaneous Physical work."

Talking about ghosts, he was very emotional, and his words were no longer the smile he had when he said the first commandment.

"By the way, let me remind you of one more thing. If we kill a person who is possessed by a ghost during our mission and is seen by others, then...you will be at your own risk."

……

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This is the middle part of the whole script of the first commandment.

Available during filming, this was used as the first shot.

"It turned out to be such a story. In the story, wouldn't it be miserable to be a human being?"

After the filming was over, Xiao Wei took her little apprentice to help them touch up their makeup in the dressing room, chatting casually.

When filming, they all watched from the side.

Because there is only a short plot, they only know the general rules of the film, and they haven't felt the specific horror atmosphere yet.

"Well, very depressing."

Zhang Yuming said in a deep voice, looking at himself in the mirror, he felt a little awkward and unfamiliar, "Sister Wei, your makeup is really good, now I..."

He rubbed the bridge of his nose.

In the mirror, that person also rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"I can't tell the difference between reality and acting."

His face was always gloomy, just like Li Guoqiang in the plot.

"No, the main thing is that you acted well."

Xiao Wei paused holding the small brush, and replied modestly.

This is the truth.

No matter how well the costumes and styling fit the character, if the actor's acting skills are not in place, it's like a child wrapped in the skin of an old man, and his speech is full of innocence.

But afterward, Xiaowei's expression was a little strange.

If he was so humble as usual, Zhang Yuming would probably have to catch up with him and make a few jokes.

But this time, he didn't.

Xiao Wei looked at the young man beside her strangely through the mirror.

But upon seeing this, her brows were slightly raised.

The figure reflected in the mirror is no longer the naive and impulsive young man in the past.

Instead, there was an unspeakable gloom.

"It looks like our little Ming is going to be called Mr. Zhang too."

Next to him, Chang Zhengwei, who was also putting on his makeup, suddenly said something.

"Ok?"

Zhang Yuming turned his head blankly.

"Mr. Zhang, remember this feeling. This is acting." Chang Zhengwei looked at him with a smile, "But in addition to learning how to act, you also have to learn how to act. Acting is acting, and reality is reality. Don't get me confused."

"Enter the show?"

Zhang Yuming was in a daze, and the gloomy look on his face gradually faded because of this word.

As an actor, it's not the first time I've heard the term 'into the play'.

On the set, director Lu Zhengyi would often say that Mr. Chang had joined the play, Mr. Yu had joined the play, etc., but with him, it never happened.

"Did I just get into the show?"

Zhang Yuming's tone suddenly became higher, as if returning to himself, "I thought I had no talent, and I have been acting for so many years."

His tone was full of joy.

"Maybe you have been a group performer before, and you didn't have a relatively fixed role with more content."

Chang Zhengwei hesitated for a while, "It's actually not difficult to enter the show. In my feeling, as long as you work hard enough, you can do it. Talent can only affect the length of hard work."

"Even if it's an ordinary person, give him a perfect personality, what he likes to eat, what he doesn't like to eat, what he does every day, what kind of personality, let him study it for a period of time, and act it out for a period of time. able to play.”

"In your case, you should have started learning from filming the old corpse in the mountain village. In this way, the supporting roles of the three plays have accumulated. It is the first time in this first commandment to be the leading actor and complete the play. In fact, it is already quite impressive. Talented."

Zhang Yuming is the only actor in this crew who is not from a major.

Liu Baoning, who didn't even get a primary school diploma, like Yu Li, himself, Yu Wenxiu, Li Zhenxi... are all actors who have been taught systematically in film and drama schools.

As for Zhang Yuming, who was born in a talent show, he has no acting experience.

After he was eliminated on the draft stage, he was unwilling to give up, so he went to Hengcheng and other film and television bases to play tricks and perform in groups.

But what kind of precipitation can there be for a group performer who has only one line, two lines, and a group performer who doesn't even have a line?So he seems to have a long career in acting. In fact, the acting experience accumulated in this process is not as much as the three supporting roles after he came to Lu Zhengyi's crew.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a knock on the door, and Lu Zhengyi opened the door from the outside and walked into the dressing room, "The other supporting actors have arrived, and it's time to prepare for the next scene."

After speaking, he came to the back of Zhang Yuming's chair again, smiled and squeezed his shoulder, "Xiao Ming performed well today, and he kept up with the rhythm when playing with Mr. Chang, hey, this is entering the show, yes progress."

"These plays have always required you to write homework on character understanding and how to perform it, which is still useful."

Zhang Yuming smiled a little embarrassedly, but didn't say a word.

"We were talking about it just now."

Chang Zhengwei laughed beside him, "Teacher Zhang entered the show, but he couldn't come out."

"The one with the dark face just now was frightened by Xiao Wei."

Xiaowei waved her hand beside her, "I'm not scared at all, it's just that I'm not used to such a lively person, and suddenly became quiet."

"Hey, this won't work." Lu Zhengyi became serious, looking through the mirror, looking at Zhang Yuming who was still giggling, "Entering the play is the first step for an actor, and getting out of the play is the second step, and being able to come and go freely is considered an actor." Qualified actor."

"If you can't come out, I will play Li Guoqiang in every drama in the future, then I don't want it."

"An actor's way of acting cannot be fixed. Once fixed, you will be dead."

It's like a certain actor, who was directly fixed in the role, and the audience knew who the richest person in the film was as soon as he appeared on the stage.

So often the actor performs very well in this drama, and in the next drama, he has to quickly find a different character to divert the flavor.

This is why Lu Zhengyi was willing to let Yu Wenxiu take on other plays.

He shoots horror movies here, and the characters are generally quite... dark.

At any rate, the first commandment finally gave her a fairly positive character in the film, but there were not many scenes.

Yu Wenxiu has already had two films as a bad woman, and if the next film is still a bad woman, then this label will basically be attached to her.

Hearing that Director Lu didn't want him anymore, Zhang Yuming, who was still smirking, quickly promised, "Don't worry, Director Lu, I will definitely not play Li Guoqiang forever. Even if I have the same character as me in the next play, I will definitely think about it." It’s a different way to perform.”

"Huh."

Lu Zhengyi smiled, and looked at Chang Zhengwei next to him, "This is something that even Teacher Chang can't guarantee. Teacher Zhang is so confident."

"Hey, this isn't..."

Zhang Yuming hurried to remedy, "You are young and frivolous, Director Lu, don't step on it here."

But as soon as the words came out, he covered his mouth again.

"Oh, a fool is still a fool."

Lu Zhengyi patted him on the shoulder, a little helpless, "Even if he played Li Guoqiang, he still hasn't matured much."

But he was relieved to have these words.

People are really acting.

Just now when he was sitting behind the monitor, watching Zhang Yuming play with Chang Zhengwei, he really had the feeling that this kid had been changed.

But when talking about this person who can't make a show, Lu Zhengyi remembered Zhou Jie who was talking about when he was talking to his father the day before yesterday.

'She seems to be in a semi-retired state because she has been unable to act, right? '

……

……

"Mr. Huang and classmate Xiao Xu, who record their lives, are lovers. Besides them, many of the bloggers we have signed are also lovers and husbands and wives."

"Yes, the dog food-themed variety show is indeed quite interesting now. I paid attention to their video playback volume. In those few episodes, they appeared in the same frame and interacted with each other. The traffic was quite high. This is related. data report."

"I think we will cooperate with Bluebird Satellite TV in the future and try to hold a CP interactive session in the running show to increase their exposure as much as possible and stabilize their top [-] status on the long video platform."

"Well, some of them have been on the Top [-] in the past few years, but they have dropped out in the past two years. Now the competition in the self-media industry is very fierce, and even after my contact with it during this period, it feels more intense than the entertainment industry. .”

"Some bloggers seem to have hundreds of thousands or millions of fans, but as long as there is no update for a short period of time, everyone will forget about them, because soon new people will take their places and become the regular broadcast followers of these viewers. The target, maybe the person who was still popular in the first half of the year, will directly cut half of the data in the second half of the year."

At the light and shadow company meeting,

A middle-aged man wearing glasses is summarizing and talking eloquently about the recent changes in the company's operating direction.

But from his tone, it's not hard to hear his confidence and pride.

In fact, although it is only half a year, the new direction launched by him has achieved good returns.

"Mr. Lin's proposal is very good, and I agree with Mr. Lin's plan."

In the voting, the company executives led by Zhang Chuanxing raised their hands and agreed to his proposal.

After all, this Lin Mozhi is the vice president they hired from the Green Apple platform. They must support his decision first and see the effect.

"In addition to the proposal just now, I also hope to try out the new operation plan on a small scale."

Then, Lin Mozhi put forward a new idea, "We refer to the studio model of entertainers in the entertainment industry to provide these bloggers with high-quality operational services and help them increase exposure, fan bonding and platform celebrity status."

"But on the contrary, we have to further deepen the connection between them and the company, so I think we can set aside a department within the company to be responsible for the operation of these bloggers, and adopt a competitive model in the allocation of operating resources."

"These bloggers first need to stand out in our internal competition, and then use the high-quality resources provided by our company to compete with other bloggers on the long video platform. This solution can minimize our trial and error. avoid spending large resources on cultivating small bloggers, and wasting big bloggers with small resources.”

A very common mode of raising Gu.

In this cage, let a group of Gu insects fight to get the Gu king, and then take the Gu king out and put it in another bigger cage.

Although the rules were cruel, no one objected to them.

Because the sentence to reduce the cost of trial and error is the core content of this passage.

After Lin Mozhi, the vice president, spoke, he was the manager of each project team.

"I would like to mention the issue of overseas routes."

Zhang Xueming stood up and looked at the group of people around the conference table, "In recent years, our investment in overseas routes seems to have been getting lower and lower."

"Many projects that invest in and participate in publicity and distribution only stay in China."

"There is an old saying in the Tang Dynasty that a relationship is only when there is a back and forth, but we seem to have become more and more neglected in the operation of overseas routes in the past few years. If many relationships do not go away, they will become weaker and weaker."

At the conference table, someone raised his hand and replied, "This question is actually very simple, and there are no good works."

"As before, in fact, a lot of works were invested in overseas lines, and we were basically making a loss and sending them out, but there are really not many people in foreign countries going to theaters to support them."

"Moreover, this kind of overseas works are usually released in China first, and they will be released overseas after a long time after the end here. However, there are already a lot of pirated sources on the Internet, and people don't need to go to the cinema to support them. If you want to watch it, just watch it online."

It's not unreasonable to make money at home.

On the one hand, it is placed outside, and there are really not many people to support it.

On the other hand, it is the same as the Gu-raising model mentioned before. Domestic films must now become famous in the domestic market before they are eligible to be released abroad. .

Therefore, many films are made overseas, basically not for money, but only for fame and awards.

XXX film won an award at the XXX Film Festival and was nominated.

XX movies have so many box offices in He Kingdom, Nan Dynasty Kingdom, Yue Kingdom, Xiang Kingdom, etc., and are loved by local people. This is also a mode of operation to earn fame.

But they, Light and Shadow, are a company mainly responsible for post-publicity projects, so there is really no need to fight for their names.

"Now we have a good movie on hand."

Zhang Xueming's map of Yan Kingdom is finished, "Double Eyes is still in theaters, but the box office is already the first in the same period."

"Director Lu has collaborated with us on three films in Light and Shadow, and is now cooperating on the fourth film. The relationship is definitely deep enough."

"As for Director Lu, there is also a project that we are promoting. This is reasonable. We can arrange an overseas line to try. Whether it succeeds or not, give him a chance to try, and we can do better in the future. After all, the domestic horror film market is basically led by Director Lu Zhengyi."

These words caused many people present to fall into deep thought.

Some people nodded, as if agreeing with the words.

But there are still some people who are obviously not optimistic.

"It's said that it's now, and he may not be the leader in the future. There will be a few horror films this year." Someone said softly, "Lu Zhengyi did make a start. It cannot be denied, but he may not That pinnacle."

"You can't say that, Lu Zhengyi is still very capable."

Another person said, "We have cooperated in so many dramas and brought a lot of benefits to our company. The ability is worthy of trust."

"But the overseas line is a loss-making business, Manager Zhang, and it starts with tens of millions of dollars once invested."

"From what you mean, it's probably Director Lu's intention, right? Or you can tell him that domestic requirements can be mentioned casually. We are all old customers here at Light and Shadow, so we can basically satisfy them, but overseas ones , we are really not sure about Light and Shadow. Remember, it’s not that we won’t help, it’s that we’re not sure.”

Zhang Xueming has a good relationship with Lu Zhengyi, who doesn't know about this company?
I have come to the company so many times, and she is the one who connects every time we cooperate. It is normal to have a little friendship.

But for the sake of these friendships, it is not appropriate to spend tens of millions of the company for nothing.

"I admit that this point was indeed mentioned to me by Lu Zhengyi."

Zhang Xueming didn't deny it either, "But I'm considering this matter from the perspective of the market. His films can be released in our Dongzhou country."

"These countries are deeply influenced by the culture of our Tang Dynasty. The elements of his horror films will not be too different from those of these countries."

"Besides, I still say the same thing. If we don't leave for a long time, the relationship we managed with great difficulty will be in vain."

Speaking of which, she paused, just about to say something, but finally gave up.

In fact, apart from the gradual weakening of overseas connections, Zhang Xueming also feels that many domestic relationships are also becoming weaker.

Especially after the company slowly changed its business direction, there was a feeling of shifting from a traditional media company to an online celebrity incubation base.

But now there is something that prevents her from expressing these inner thoughts.

That is, the change of management this time really made the company start to go uphill instead of going downhill like before. This is a fact.

"How about this."

Zhang Chuanxing, who was sitting in the main seat, looked at the quiet conference room, hesitated for a moment, "As usual, let's vote."

It is said to be a vote, but in fact some decisions have had results long before the vote.

Zhang Xueming was not surprised by this result.

Just like what she said in the chat with Lu Zhengyi before, the overseas line is like a person who doesn't know how to buy a stock fund, and if he enters it, he will be a leek.

The company will not do things like spending money on fame.

After all, the reputation was bought, and it was Lu Zhengyi who earned it, not Guangying, so there was no need for them to pay so much.

Isn't it good to honestly make money in China?
With regret, Zhang Xueming walked towards his department after the company meeting.

But at the door, she saw an unexpected figure.

It's very conspicuous, this person just stands there, but everyone passing by will cast their eyes on her.

Because of beauty?
No, plain and without makeup.

And because of his age, his face is actually a bit old-fashioned.

However, she just attracts everyone's attention, whether they are men or women, whether they know her or not.

"Teacher Zhou?"

Zhang Xueming walked over quite unexpectedly.

Their company has no cooperative relationship with Zhou Jie, why did this person come here.

(End of this chapter)