China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 227 Dividing Business
More projects mean more opportunities, and the pie of Youhua Entertainment has always been very popular in the industry, so agents, actors and stars of all sizes in the entertainment industry quickly took action.

Calling for dinner, asking for help from a middleman, exchanging resources, all kinds of methods were used, and He Hua was very troubled.

"If you piss me off, I'll hold an audition. Can't I do what Lu Chuan did?" He Hua said wildly at the company meeting.

For a time, the conference room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Lu Chuan was preparing for the new movie "The King's Feast" and vowed to the media that he would audition Yu Ji, which attracted a lot of attention and all the bad guys, but in the end, an N-list actress appeared out of nowhere to play the role.

This seems to be a censorship, which has angered the public. Now there is a lot of abuse on the Internet, and some people are calling for a boycott of the film.

Director Lu really made a fool of himself this time.

Huang Lan said seriously: "It makes sense. Our company's artists can't afford so many resources anyway, so it's better to use a few less important characters to promote it."

He Hua was suddenly speechless: I was joking.

After the meeting, He Hua talked to Huang Lan about artist management.

With the rapid expansion of the market, many production companies are coveting the profits of artist management, and have begun to imitate Huayi, which is engaged in production and artist management at the same time, such as Xinli, Huanrui and other newly emerging film and television companies.

But He Hua noticed that the division of labor in the film and television market has become more and more clear. Even agents are now divided into various full-time personnel, responsible for performances, public relations, business, etc.

Film and television companies should do the same. If you are engaged in content production, you should focus on the content itself. If you are an artist manager, you should strive to serve the artists themselves.

Although these two directions essentially want to make better profits and create value for the company, they can easily conflict in the process, resulting in half the effort with half the effort.

Just like when He Hua studied the decline of Hainan Zhouyi and the gradual decline of Tang Dynasty film and television, he discovered that there are often deep conflicts between film and television production and artist management.

For example, the development of artist management requires continuous investment of resources, which requires film and television content production to be biased towards it. Therefore, the protagonists of Zhouyi and Tang Dynasty dramas often have several familiar faces, which in turn is bound to have a negative impact on content production. Influence, script modification, adjustment of role proportion, character personality, etc.

Similarly, film and television productions will try to keep artists' remuneration as low as possible to reduce costs or use the funds for other investments, such as special effects. Agents always want to maximize the interests of artists, and the two of them are incompatible with each other. There is a conflict.

In the past two years, Li Ying and Huang Lan had been litigating in front of He Hua because of this.

Didn't some entertainment journalists break the news some time ago that Tang people keep their own people's pay very low when filming movies?
After finally cultivating a front-line team, do you think that artists will stop and support the company? It’s impossible. In the entertainment industry, it’s like sailing against the current or retreating if you don’t advance. The more you become successful, the more resources you need to invest. You can’t keep up. Don't blame others for job-hopping, just like Zhang Jin left Zhouyi to look for opportunities in Xiangjiang.

When people go to higher places, water flows to lower places. This is an eternal truth.

Now Huayi Brothers can’t retain talents either.

This prisoner's dilemma between film and television production and artist management is simply unsolvable.

He Hua thought for a while, and instead of waiting until the conflicts get deeper and deeper, and the two parties get into trouble in the future, it is better to separate early now, and both parties will only be responsible for their own business. "Li Ying will take the artist management department to separate from the company. You can make arrangements then."

"In the future, you will send out audition invitations for casting. If you can be selected, act. If not, hone your acting skills. Don't think about what you have and what you don't have all day long."

He Hua chose to set up another artist management company and spin off the business, just like Wang Jinghua's Shiba Culture, with Li Ying, the current director of the artist department, as the general manager.

The advantage of this is that the artist management side has become more independent, and the production side of Youhua Film and Television is very strong. They have been frustrated overtly and secretly, but now the sky is high and birds can fly, and the sea is vast and fish can leap.

The shortcomings are also obvious, that is, if the sky falls, there will be tall people to support it, but now it has to bear the responsibility for its own profits and losses, and the pressure on the management has suddenly increased.

But this is also the purpose of He Hua and Li Ying, to force these people to expand their business and channels, including performing arts, variety shows, business, and fashion.
In the afternoon, He Hua went to watch the post-production of "Defiant".

He Hua put on his headphones, stared at the computer screen, and listened carefully to the sound produced by the sound mixer.

For period films, the shooting conditions are getting more and more difficult now, especially for real-location shooting like "The Defiant One". You have to consider the larger environment and whether there are modern background sounds around the selected scene, such as the noise of airplanes. .

Moreover, He Hua and the others also used blowers during filming, including the Water Dragon King for the fight scene in the rain, and a snow machine for the snowy final battle scene. The noise from these machines is definitely unavoidable.

So basically 90% of the post-production sound effects had to be redone, and there was no way around it.

There are also actors dubbing. If the on-site control during filming is better and the radio is no problem, then it will be okay, but some noise cannot be avoided, and the actors will need to re-dub.

For example, when Ni Yan, played by Qi Xi, spoke to Liu Yifei while being sent away, her tone was weak and weak, and the signal-to-noise ratio was very poor under the influence of lighting and electrical noise. There was no way around this, and the actor had to come over and dub it again.

Basically, the actors' synchronization only included those few indoor scenes, and the rest were basically redone.

In martial arts scenes, especially martial arts scenes, although what you see seems to be dazzling with the light and shadow of swords, in fact for safety reasons, those knives are basically made of wood or plastic, because sometimes they cut very fast, and the actors don’t look like As a martial arts instructor, there may be harmful accidents. In order to avoid these things, the synchronic sound of those knives colliding together cannot be used at all.

The post-production sound production of "Defiant" took a lot of time, and He Hua was inexperienced. He didn't expect this to be so slow, so he probably wouldn't be able to complete it if he promised to complete the film by the end of March.

It won't be finished until it's finished, since it won't be released until July anyway, so there's still time, and the quality of the film always comes first.

He Hua watched carefully, one section after another slowly passing by, from 3 pm to 10 pm. He simply ate takeout in the middle, and spent the rest of the time talking to the sound mixer about his feelings.

Finally, seeing that it was getting late, He Hua rubbed his sore and swollen eyes and encouraged:

"Overall, it feels right. Now it's a matter of the few pictures I told you. Think about it again and see if there is a more matching solution."

(End of this chapter)