Become Famous Another Day

"Leaving so soon?"

Yuan Hai asked in surprise.

He thought to himself that Huang Tianlin had nothing to say now.

Chen Siqi said: "There are still many jobs in the country, so I can't stay long."

"Then -" Yuan Hai suddenly realized something. Today and tomorrow, Lu Yanhe's notice list is full, and there are shooting tasks from morning to night. "How about I ask them to adjust it, Yan He, give it to me tomorrow." You take a day off and shoot other scenes first.”

Before Lu Yanhe could speak, Chen Siqi immediately said: "Producer Yuan, you don't need to give him a day off because of me, and I don't need him to accompany me. I'm too lazy to go anywhere. It's quite interesting to watch him act on the set. I haven't seen him live for a long time." He acted."

Hearing this, Yuan Hai looked at Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Yuan Hai: "Okay, if you need anything, just tell me and don't be polite to me."

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi looked at each other and nodded to Yuan Hai.

Yuan Hai helped them tear up the chicken and put it on the small table. He did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he took off his disposable plastic gloves and said to Chen Siqi: "Siqi, when I am free in the afternoon, I will I want to talk to you, is that convenient?”

Chen Siqi nodded, "Of course it's convenient. I'll be on the set all afternoon. Producer Yuan, just come to me when you have time."

As soon as Yuan Hai left, Chen Siqi immediately said to Lu Yanhe: "Mr. Yuan is very honest in his work. I came here temporarily. There are no restaurants in this wilderness, and he was able to get a local specialty with his extraordinary powers." Roast chicken for extra meals.”

Lu Yanhe laughed and said, "Generally, a powerful producer is quite capable. When it comes to dealing with people and dealing with things, the director can be willful. It's really rare for a producer to not be very good at dancing."

"What do you think he wants to talk to me about?" Chen Siqi asked curiously.

In Chen Siqi's view, Yuan Hai, as a producer in Malaysia, currently has nothing to talk to her about alone.

Lu Yanhe shook his head, "I don't know either."

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Chen Siqi never thought that Yuan Hai came to see her for the reason of jumping into the theater.

Yuan Hai himself has a production company in Malaysia, and the only director who signed the contract is Huang Tianlin.

However, the local market in Malaysia is too small. The investment Yuan Hai can obtain every year is limited, and the film projects he can produce are even more limited. Many people can only take on some small shooting projects for local TV stations locally, or simply go out to take on some private work during their idle period.

Yuan Hai wants to participate in the Jump Up project.

"I heard that you are also recruiting directors on a large scale and forming a production team." He said, "I wonder if there are any suitable projects. If so, would you like to see if there is any possibility of letting us film them? We will do it. Produced."

Chen Siqi looked at Yuan Hai in surprise and did not recover for a long time.

Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a long time, Yuan Hai thought she was in trouble, and immediately said: "It doesn't matter if you don't need it. I'm used to it. I try to take on more projects from outside. There are many people in the company, and so is the production team. It's stressful to support a team. Please forgive me."

"Ah, no." Chen Siqi shook his head, "I was just inspired. Before you told me, I had never thought that you could find a filming team from abroad to do a jump-up theater scene."

Now, one of the biggest problems facing Jump Up Theater is production pressure.

In the entertainment industry, for a period of time, there are actually only so many directors who have the talent, time, and ideas to shoot Jump Theater, including those who have been discovered, and those who have not been discovered cannot be like the crucian carp crossing the river. , take your pick.

Now that Jump Up Theater has just started, the reserve of directors and production team members can still support the filming of so many movies. However, as the good directors previously found are used up, it will become more and more difficult to find production teams to shoot suitable projects. .

After all, she can't ask those directors who have already succeeded in jumping theater to use their remuneration from the first jumping theater film to make the second and third films. The model of Jump Up Theater is also doomed. Even if the production budget will increase as advertising fees increase later, no matter what, it will not be able to increase to the point where people can pay the market price.

This is only the most basic difficulty.

The Jump Theater model must rely on the emergence of a steady stream of new directors and other creators to form an effective cycle, so that filming can continue based on this kind of production.

Chen Siqi had known before that Lu Yanhe's Linghe Company was actually looking for suitable young directors in Southeast Asian countries and regions for cooperation in film. However, probably because there is a lot of international cooperation in the film itself, in the Chinese film crew, there are actually many technical personnel from abroad, including many well-known directors, who actually carry out a lot of international cooperation. Therefore, Chen Siqi never thought However, Jump Up Theater can also find production teams from overseas.

On the one hand, this is because in the field of TV dramas, there has almost never been such a precedent. Everyone also takes it for granted that if you hire a director from abroad to shoot a TV drama, it will not work well. After all, TV dramas are better than movies. To a certain extent, it is more down-to-earth and requires a "one of our own" who truly understands Chinese culture in order to create a story that the audience will like more.

On the other hand, Chen Siqi himself also felt that even a slightly famous domestic director could not afford to hire a director from abroad for a show with such a low budget. How could he afford to hire a foreign director?

As soon as Yuan Hai opened his mouth, Chen Siqi suddenly realized that not all foreign directors are expensive.

China's film and television drama market is already the largest market in the world. This has also led to an increase in the salaries of film and television production staff. However, in places like Malaysia and Thailand, their markets are not that big, and their film and television drama production talents are not that high either.

Two to three million yuan to shoot a two- to three-episode drama may be a very low cost for the Chinese market, but it may not be a low budget for Malaysia.

The question is, can people here in Malaysia be able to film it? Good shot?

Regarding this issue, if someone else took the initiative to ask for help, Chen Siqi might have to investigate more and find out more about the other party's origins. But this person is Yuan Hai. He has a serious production company and has done many film and television projects. Moreover, the most important thing is that he is a Chinese himself and speaks Chinese very well. His own cultural background is Connected.

What Jump Theater is filming is not a historical or serious drama.

Chen Siqi said: "Mr. Yuan, I am very interested in this proposal. I want to know more about your production company. By the way, you should know that our Jump Theater production budget for each drama is basically only six months." About one hundred thousand dollars?”

Yuan Hai nodded: "I heard about it."

"That's good. To be honest, although the production costs of Jump Up Theater will increase a little later, it will definitely not increase significantly. It is impossible for one drama to be like those American dramas, British dramas and even Korean dramas we know. Tens of millions of dollars in production funding." Chen Siqi said, "If your production company is really interested in Jump Up Theater, then we can give it a try with one or two projects."

Yuan Hai nodded.

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After Lu Yanhe learned about Yuan Hai's idea of ​​​​finding Chen Siqi, he was quite surprised and did not expect it.

However, if you think about it more seriously, it is actually not difficult to understand.

Lu Yanhe, who opened a film and television drama production company, knows how stressful it is to run a company.

A company does nothing, and the labor costs plus some fixed expenses such as company rent are eight figures.

The film production company Yuan Hai runs is a high-risk industry. Not to mention that in Malaysia, the local market is too small and the competition in the Asian market is too fierce, not to mention the European and American markets. They can almost only survive in a small pool.

Investment is hard to find, and movies and TV series don’t have enough influence. Without a well-known and influential creator, Huang Tianlin has become the most representative figure in Malaysian cinema in recent years - and he has only made one movie, which was seen at the Toronto Film Festival. Face, reputation is pretty good.

One can imagine how much pressure Yuan Hai is under.

To be honest, if a Chinese-language drama with a normal scale worth tens of millions of dollars was handed over to Yuan Hai's company, not to mention whether any company would dare to hand it over to them, they themselves would not dare to take it. Because the company is not that big, it cannot handle such large projects.

Jump Up Theater happens to be a "small project" theater.

A drama, two or three episodes in size, and a production budget of about US$600,000 is exactly what Yuan Hai and his production company can afford.

Chen Siqi asked: "Having been in contact with him these past few days, do you think he is a cooperative person?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded without hesitation, "Actually, I have not only been in contact with him for the past few days. Since the beginning of this movie, Sister Ziyan and I have been in contact with him for half a year, especially Sister Ziyan, I contacted him more and more frequently, and Sister Ziyan spoke highly of him.”

Chen Siqi: "Then I have to change my contract. I want to visit his company and meet his production team."

After Chen Siqi has been the editor-in-chief of "Jump Up" for so many years, when deciding whether to cooperate with someone, it becomes more and more necessary for him to meet and chat with the person in person. Of course, if he can meet and chat with the person more often, A chat is better. When it comes to cooperation in the field of content creation like hers, most of the time it’s not how beautiful the plan is, but how reliable the person is.

Therefore, she wanted to meet other people in Yuan Hai's company and see their production team. Having been doing Jump Theater for so long, Chen Siqi also has a standard for what qualities a good producer and a good production team should have and what they should not have.

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Yes, but Mr. Yuan, does he have time to take you there? I think he has been on the set basically every day in the past two days and has never left."

"It doesn't matter. It's better if he's not here. He can let others receive me." Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"As long as you have an idea."

"Do you know what I'm thinking about? I think I'm a bit exaggerated, maybe I'm a bit crazy." Chen Siqi said suddenly.

"Ah?" Lu Yanhe asked, "What's wrong?"

"I'm thinking that if the model of Jump Up Theater can be replicated, maybe in the future our Jump Up Theater can go to all over the world to collect production talents, not only to cooperate with us and produce the novels in our "Jump Up" magazine, but also Find local scripts, shoot local stories, and dance in Malaysian theaters, Indian theaters, and Singaporean theaters..."

"After I thought about this, I suddenly thought about why the overseas version of "Jump Up" has not been effective in promoting it. In addition to the fact that physical books are already in a slump, there is another point that I also forgot. Even if "Jump Up" is The overseas edition is no longer a magazine, but a theme book, but the words on it The authors and articles are all from China. For local readers, it is too unfamiliar. I am thinking that when I make an overseas edition later, I want to invite local writers to make a themed book. Invite several influential local writers to write articles on this topic.”

Lu Yanhe was inspired by Chen Siqi's suggestion.

"This sounds like it's worth trying."

Before, they had been thinking about making "Jump Up" "go out", so they all forgot that many times, the premise of "going out" also requires them to better "go in".

This set has actually been used too many times in the film and television drama industry. Whichever overseas market you value, just find an actor from that country to participate.

Behind the so-called international lineup are actually the simplest business considerations.

However, their previous idea of ​​making the overseas version of "Jump Up" was limited by the fact that they already had a lot of good works published. They preconceptionally believed that the problem with the overseas version of "Jump Up" was that there was not enough publicity, and it was the entity. The reason why the publishing industry is in recession is because the connection between a good book and the market has not been done well.

In fact, what they think is good may not be so good to local readers.

Just like many acclaimed overseas works, they were met with indifference when they came to China.

There are differences in cultural backgrounds and differences in aesthetics.

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Whenever she talks about work, Chen Siqi's eyes are bright and shining.

Lu Yanhe felt like she wanted to fly back to China the next second to discuss the matter with her team.

When Lu Yanhe went to take a shower and came out, Chen Siqi was holding the laptop and typing furiously on the keyboard with his fingertips, typing very fast.

Lu Yanhe went over and saw that she was writing ideas for the next step of promoting the overseas version.

The page is already densely packed with words, and ideas are flowing out like spring water.

In addition to what I just said, Chen Siqi also wrote above that he could refer to the "star effect" that the domestic "Jump Up" exerted when it was first produced, and invite directors, screenwriters and actors who are very famous locally and even internationally to write columns. . Rather than inviting celebrities to shoot the cover and attract a wave of fans to buy the book, it is better to use this method to create the impression of "Jump Up" as a literary masterpiece.

Physical books, in this era, are destined to be impossible for the masses, so we should follow the niche track and maximize the attributes of "Jump Up" on this track.

There are so many people, no matter how niche the track is, as long as you walk well, you will definitely get flowers and applause.

Lu Yanhe sat down next to Chen Siqi, put his arm around her waist, and watched her typing without speaking to disturb her.

I don't know how long it took, but Chen Siqi suddenly felt a weight on his shoulders.

When she turned her head, she realized that Lu Yanhe fell asleep while watching.

Chen Siqi came to his senses, closed the laptop, put it aside, and patted Lu Yanhe's thigh.

Lu Yanhe opened his eyes, feeling a little anxious.

He saw that Chen Siqi had turned off the computer and asked, "Have you finished writing?"

"Well, I'm done." Chen Siqi nodded, "Go to bed."

Lu Yanhe yawned, "Let's go."

As a result, Lu Yanhe became more energetic as soon as he got into bed and no longer had to yawn.

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