Chapter 114 Cooperation with an Agency
Although it ended with a joke, Meng Bai's speech still received applause from the juniors and juniors present.
The producer personally came on stage to talk about the audition with a group of newcomers who had not even met the crew. This kind of opportunity can only be found in school.
Meng Bai did not return to his original seat after he got off the stage. He greeted Zhang Jianing from a distance and turned to sit next to the "agent" senior brother Yang Ming who had been on the stage before.
"Hello, Mr. Meng." Seeing him coming, Yang Ming bowed and shook hands with an enthusiastic attitude.
"Senior brother, you are too polite. Since you are back in school, there is no need for us to be general or not." Meng Bai said politely.
Similar to Meng Bai, Yang Ming was also a well-known person when he was in the Central Academy of Drama. He started his own business in his freshman year and organized art exam training classes. In his junior year, he was recommended to Zhou Xun's agency team. He transformed from the directing department and became an agent.
After working for a few years, he resigned and worked in the Internet with his classmates for two years, but did not make any achievements. After that, he returned to the agent industry, joined Huayi, and became AB's agent.
"So, you are Huayi now?" Meng Bai asked curiously.
Yang Ming shook his head and said, "No, I left Huayi at the beginning of the year. Now, I am mainly responsible for AB's studio, and I am doing it myself."
The two chatted off the stage. Like Meng Bai, Yang Ming was also very interested in Arclight Film and Television, especially online dramas and video websites.
In his words, the traditional film and television industry has been divided by major old film and television companies. If you want to grow and develop, you have to seize those emerging markets.
This development plan can be regarded as coinciding with Arclight Film and Television, and Meng Bai's views on traditional artist management and pan-network promotion happened to be what Yang Ming had considered before, and they both felt a sense of agreement in their hearts.
"So, junior brother, do you also want to be an artist agent now?" Yang Ming asked.
Meng Bai said: "It's better to say that we need to do it than to say that we want to do it. Online dramas are a new market, and most of the main actors are newcomers. It's very uncomfortable for us to sign them or not."
Yang Ming nodded in agreement. Indeed, training newcomers like this is quite embarrassing for film and television production companies. If you want to train, it's time-consuming and laborious; if you don't train, it feels like a waste.
More importantly, training newcomers is like opening a blind box, and no one knows which one will be popular in the end.
It doesn't matter for old companies like Huayi. There are many projects and sufficient staff, and there are plenty of opportunities for newcomers. Just select a group of newcomers like raising a Gu. If one becomes popular, you will make a lot of money, and if it doesn't become popular, you won't lose money.
This is why many large film and television companies will sign their own artists.
But for new companies like Arclight Films, signing newcomers for training seems a bit tasteless.
"If I don't sign, I feel like I'm helping others; if I sign, there's no professional management team." Meng Bai sighed, "I can't just let them fend for themselves after signing."
"In that case, why don't you find a brokerage company to cooperate with, transfer the brokerage contract of the newcomers, and keep the film and television contract if necessary." Facing his junior brother, Yang Ming did not hide his words and gave a suggestion.
Meng Bai smiled and said, "Actually, I also thought about it, but I don't know much about artist management. I met you today, and I wanted to learn from you to see if there is a suitable choice."
Hearing this, Yang Ming's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked thoughtful. Seeing
this, Meng Bai asked, "Why, senior brother, do you have any suitable recommendations?"
"Ha, to be honest, junior brother..." Yang Ming said, "Actually, since I left Huayi, I have always had an idea, that is, I want to start my own independent brokerage company."
Meng Bai hesitated and said, "Do you mean... you want to cooperate with Arc Light Film and Television?"
"I do have this idea." Yang Ming said frankly.
"Well..."
"It's just a suggestion for now." Yang Ming said, "Today's activities are quite busy, and there are many people, so some things are not convenient to say. So, let's leave contact information, and I'll visit you another day and we can talk in detail."
"Okay, then I'll make my bed ready for you."
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Meng Bai thought that Yang Ming's "another day" meant that it would have to be after the Chinese New Year. Unexpectedly, only one day later, the other party asked him if the time was convenient.
In the courtyard of Arclight Film and Television, Yang Ming looked around and said with emotion: "Your environment is quite good!"
"It's better in summer and autumn. Now many leaves have fallen." Meng Bai said: "Half of the rent is spent on this scenery, but I can only see it a few times a year."
He led Yang Ming into the reception room. While making tea, Meng Bai said casually: "I thought it was close to the end of the year, and you should be busier. I didn't expect you to come so soon."
"It's also because I happened to have time today, so I wanted to try to ask." Yang Ming said: "And now Baby has a mature team, so she doesn't need me to follow her all the time."
After a few casual greetings, the two turned to the main topic.
After the exchange meeting that day, Meng Bai asked about Yang Ming's specific situation through his connections.
It was roughly the same as what he said. He joined Huayi in 2011 and happened to be in charge of AB, who had just confirmed his relationship with Huang Xiaoming. The two parties cooperated for more than three years until the beginning of 2014, when AB's studio became independent and he left Huayi with it.
However, although the people left, the studio still retains a thousand connections with Huayi. Not to mention the relationship between Huang Xiaoming and AB and Huayi, more than half of the managers and staff in the team also came from Huayi.
So although AB's studio is nominally independent, the right to speak is actually in the hands of "Huang Yang" and Huayi. Yang Ming is at best a senior manager.
It is for this purpose that he wants to start a new business and establish his own agency.
"Actually, Brother Xiaoming and Baby are fine. They basically don't care about the specific things of the studio. It's mainly about Huayi..." Yang Ming smiled. He was not familiar with Meng Bai yet, so he didn't say the rest.
Meng Bai understood what he didn't finish. Like himself, this senior brother was not a person who liked to always obey other people's orders.
Yang Ming then introduced that he and several classmates who started a business together before registered a company called "Taiyang Chuanhe", but it is still in its infancy.
Unlike film and television production companies, Meng Bai can rely on his own scripts as a stepping stone to build Arclight Film and Television from scratch.
But the agency does not have this kind of gameplay. If you want to develop, it is completely impossible to rely on Yang Ming to start from scratch. Popular artists and resources are the foundation.
"There is no problem with the artist. According to my idea, I will continue to cooperate with Brother Xiaoming and Baby." Yang Ming introduced.
Earlier, AB almost completely relied on the identity of "Huang Xiaoming's girlfriend" to gain a name in the domestic entertainment industry.
But now it is different. This year, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV introduced South Korea's "national variety show" "Running Man" and created a Chinese version of "Running Brothers". With Yang Ming's efforts, AB became the only female member of this variety show.
With the popularity of the show, AB became an overnight sensation. In an instant, from a second- or third-tier small artist, she became one of the new top-tier "85 flowers".
So if Yang Ming's new company can directly transfer AB over, coupled with the help of Huang Xiaoming later, it is equivalent to having a king bomb start.
(End of this chapter)
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