Chapter 323 Arclight production, must be high-quality
As the largest streaming platform giant in the United States, Netflix has business in 190 countries around the world.
There are only 193 member states of the United Nations.
The three countries that are missing, in addition to Iran and North Korea, are China.
In 2015, Netflix once carried out a technical upgrade, the purpose of which was to block the use of platform services through IP proxies.
As a result, the background data surprised them.
In the Chinese market, which has almost never had any publicity and business, there are more than 20 million users who "over the wall" through VPN services to watch.
Such a huge market is a treasure for any platform. So over the years, Netflix has been trying to find a way to open up channels in the domestic market.
Unfortunately, due to the foreign investment management policy and content review restrictions in the online publishing industry, this idea has not been realized.
After hitting a wall for several years, Netflix also understood. If they want to take over the Chinese market, it is definitely impossible for them as a foreign company. It is better to cooperate with domestic video platforms.
Netflix first looked for Sohu, and at that time it also introduced the first two seasons of "House of Cards" to China. Unfortunately, the review policy became stricter, and Sohu gradually fell behind in the Internet race, so this cooperation attempt was interrupted.
After that, we contacted various platforms one after another, and the final choice of cooperation fell on Youku and Qiyi TV.
Netflix was still hesitating, and at this time, "Day and Night" broke out.
More importantly, this drama is very consistent with the consistent style of American dramas in terms of subject matter, rhythm and camera images.
Qiyi TV immediately contacted Netflix, hoping to use this drama as a "stepping stone" to try cooperation.
"We are still discussing it with our North American department, so it will probably take some time."
Dai Ying sat behind her desk in the headquarters building of Qiyi TV and looked at Meng Bai and said, "When Netflix held its Asia-Pacific operations meeting in Indonesia, I showed "Day and Night" to their vice president, who gave it a very high evaluation at the time. It just happened to coincide with this cooperation, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"That's great." Meng Bai smiled and said, "We can also contribute to the film and television overseas plan. Next time when we talk to Director Nie about censorship, we can be more assertive."
Dai Ying also laughed, obviously getting Meng Bai's subtext.
The radio and television department has just recently issued a notice to various platforms that the "new 14 articles" discussed before will be officially released in September.
Starting next year, the era of "broadcast first and then censorship" for online dramas will no longer exist. From now on, all of them will be the same as TV dramas, and they will be censored first and can only be broadcast after obtaining the filing number.
In other words, the bonus period of "wild growth" of online dramas has begun to fade, and they will gradually enter the stage of competitive development.
"By the way, Sister Ying, I haven't congratulated you yet." Meng Bai said, "You should call me President Dai from now on."
In recent years, online dramas have accounted for an increasingly large proportion of the video platform's business, and the importance of Dai Ying's position as the director of the self-made drama center has also risen.
In addition, since cooperating with Arclight Films, several blockbuster masterpieces have been released in succession, and the KPI has been full every year.
Therefore, the top management of Qiyi TV has already received news that they are preparing to promote her to vice president after the company meeting in October, and take over the entire platform's online drama content-related work.
"President Meng, you are more informed than us internally." Dai Ying waved her hand, "It hasn't been officially confirmed yet."
"Unless there is an accident like an alien invasion, it's almost certain." Meng Bai said affirmatively.
Seeing that the other party was looking at him in surprise, he explained, "I am also a shareholder of our Qiyi TV. Although I am not on the board of directors, I still know some news."
Dai Ying suddenly realized that indeed, if she didn't say it, she would forget that she is now an investor in the company.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh.
The first time I met Meng Bai, he was just a new screenwriter who was looking for investment with a script.
When we met for the second time, he was already the head of a new online drama team in the industry, and we started to talk about project cooperation.
Now, although he doesn't hold a large stake in Qiyi TV, people like him have to "work and earn money" for him.
And this process has only been four or five years.
Tsk, the encounters in life are really amazing sometimes.
"Ha."
I don't know what he thought of, Meng Bai suddenly laughed, waking Dai Ying from her sighs.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Meng Bai smiled, "I just suddenly remembered that when we came to discuss cooperation on "The Best of Us", we were attracted by the fact that you, Sister Ying, were the only woman in charge of the online drama department of several video platforms. I didn't expect that in just a few years, basically all of them have replaced them with female heads."
Dai Ying of Qiyi TV and Fang Fang of Tencent Video, these two are people Meng Bai has worked with.
In addition, Xie Ying, vice president of Youku and general manager of the drama center, Tang Fan, general manager and chief producer of Mango TV's film and television center, and Leshi.com, who took over the online drama department after Liu Jun left, are all middle-aged women.
It has to be said that from this point of view, online dramas are indeed fully integrated with TV dramas.
In fact, it makes sense when you think about it.
In recent years, the traffic economy has risen, and the most popular stars are a group of new generation traffic idols. As a result, the entire audience market is dominated by female groups.
"There are more female audiences, so naturally, they should be the main focus in content production." Dai Ying said: "Obviously, women know better what women like to watch."
Meng Bai smiled and said: "I'm afraid that in future dramas, there will be no need for female protagonists, and all male protagonists will be changed."
"That shouldn't happen." Dai Ying said: "At least we still have to add a tool person for approval."
"Haha, that makes sense."
After chatting for a few words with a smile, Dai Ying turned the topic back to business.
"For "Day and Night", we will continue to maintain the publicity and promotion efforts to keep the popularity. Also, "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" should be finished soon, right?"
"It will be in the next few days." Meng Bai said, "But it may take a little longer to produce. This movie is almost all special effects scenes, which will be more troublesome to process in the later stage."
It's not just the production needs of the movie itself, but more importantly, almost all the first-line special effects teams in China have taken over the business of "The Wandering Earth", and the remaining production capacity is a bit behind.
"It's okay, we originally planned to launch it next year, and there is still more than half a year, so there is no rush." Dai Ying said, "Don't mention it, I really want to see what the finished film is like. I just read the script before, and I think the story is very exciting."
When she first saw the script of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan", she thought Meng Bai was going to continue the style of the web drama version and take the route of "thriller and suspense".
But in fact, although this prequel movie retains the mythological background of the original work, the entire story structure is closer to the popular fairy tale ancient puppet dramas in the past two years.
Anyway, Dai Ying likes it very much, and it is estimated that the quality of the final film will not be bad.
Thinking of this, she laughed in her heart that she was really worrying too much.
This is a project of Arclight, and it is also the script created by Meng Bai, how could it be bad.
The slogan "Archlight production must be high-quality" is an undeniable truth in the field of online dramas.
——Time
enters September, and the exciting 2017 summer season has finally ended.
Although the season is over, the two most popular works in the summer still dominate the audience's attention.
"Wolf Warrior 2" was extended to mid-September due to the extension of the key.
There have been some complaints on the Internet, and it feels that the film side is eating ugly, but the overall public opinion is still good.
After all, "Wolf Warrior 2" is not the first movie to be postponed. It's just
that the box office growth rate has declined sharply now, with a single-day box office of only one or two million. Even if it is extended for a month, it will only be tens of millions more at most.
It is possible to rush for 5.6 billion, but 6 billion is obviously impossible.
In the movie market, the popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2" is far ahead of others.
In the online drama market, Qiyi TV relied on "Day and Night Chase" to suppress other platforms.
However, this is the era of the prosperity of online dramas after all, and several other websites are not made of mud, and they have launched their own new dramas.
Tencent Video launched the new drama "The Eternal Love" of Penguin Pictures, starring Liang Jie. Although it is a small production, it has gained more than 1 billion views in a short time with its imaginative setting.
Youku launched "Trembling, Abe", an adaptation of a novel, which also follows the route of imaginative ancient idols and is also very popular. Although
Sohu Video has fallen behind a bit now, it still has its roots and launched "Wu Xin: The Monster Killer 2" in cooperation with Tangren. With the fan base of the previous work, the data is still good, but the quality has obviously declined.
Even Mango TV, which has just started, has launched "Dear Prince". It is also the sister version of the sweet little drama "Dear Princess Syndrome" that exploded last year, but unfortunately it failed to replicate the success of the previous work.
Although these dramas are all suppressed by "White Night Chase" on third-party data platforms, they all have some splashes in the audience group.
Four or five dramas broadcast on different platforms at the same time actually have their own audience groups, which is indeed not common in the film and television industry.
It is no wonder that many people in the industry have expressed their feelings that now is really the best time for online dramas.
After Bailu (solar term, not Bai Mengyan), the summer heat began to dissipate and the weather slowly cooled down.
Half a month after returning to the crew, Wu Jing finally announced the completion of filming. At this point, the plots of the "space line" and the "ground line" have all been completed, and "The Wandering Earth", which has been filmed for nearly half a year, has finally ended.
However, for the entire film project, this progress has just begun. Next is the more difficult post-production part.
Guo Fan did not rest for a day. He came out of the studio and turned directly into the post-production studio.
Just over a week after the end of "The Wandering Earth", "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" was also announced to be completed.
After all, it was just a small production, and the whole process was done in the studio, so there was no need for transitions, so the progress was very fast.
At the wrap-up banquet, Meng Bai found director Bai Shan and toasted him alone.
"Director Bai, I'm sorry to bother you during this period.
" "Mr. Meng is too polite. This cooperation is also very pleasant for me." Bai Shan picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "I hope I can have the opportunity to cooperate with Hu Guang in the future."
He was really not polite.
God knows, for a director, it is a happy thing to have a professional producer who does not interfere and never delays funding.
Bai Shan had always worked with his old classmate Guo Jingyu before. In comparison, although Meng Bai was much younger, he did not feel that there were any omissions in the filming process.
Sure enough, he was less than 30 years old and could build such a large business. He really has outstanding abilities far beyond ordinary people.
After separating from Bai Shan, Meng Bai saw Bai Lu (this time) walking over with a wine glass.
"Boss, happy wrap-up!"
Bai Lu habitually grinned and said happily.
But seeing Meng Bai staring at her grinning mouth, she reflexively pursed her teeth with her lips and said with a little embarrassment: "Sorry, boss, I've changed it, but I always forget."
"It's okay, no need to change it specially, it's quite personal."
Meng Bai said: "As an artist, I'm not afraid of beauty or ugliness, I'm just afraid that the audience can't remember it. As long as you don't interfere with the performance of the role during filming, you don't have to care so much at other times."
"Really?" Bai Lu said happily.
Her agent once told her to be more like an actress and not to grin all day long.
It doesn't matter when she is not popular, but if she really becomes popular one day, it is easy for black fans to expose all kinds of "ugly photos" and affect her image.
So in the past six months, she has reminded herself to pay attention from time to time.
However, after all, it is a habit she developed since childhood. Once she relaxes a little, she will recover.
The crew has been working together for so long, everyone is familiar with each other, so she didn't care. It was not until Meng Bai looked at her just now that she suddenly realized that she had forgotten it again.
But unexpectedly, the boss didn't care much about it.
"It doesn't matter what they say in private, they look cute." Meng Bai said, "And now many fans demand that stars be so-called 'true nature'. Maintaining some personal characteristics may have a miraculous effect."
"That makes sense." Bai Lu nodded in agreement.
Sure enough, it has to be the boss. I have to write this down, so that I can refute her next time my agent talks about me.
But then again, didn't the boss just praise me for being cute?
"Oh, by the way, there's something else I want to tell you."
Meng Bai didn't pay attention to the smiling expression of the girl in front of him, and continued, "Mango TV has a project for an ancient idol drama recently. The plot is nothing new, but the setting of the heroine is a bit interesting, and it is a relatively rare 'villain' image. You can ask your agent to contact them and go for an audition."
Ancient idol! The heroine!
Bai Lu widened her eyes, her face full of surprise.
After more than a year of debut, she finally had the opportunity to audition for the heroine. Moreover, it was a satellite TV station's star drama.
Hehe's strategy was indeed correct. It really worked to make yourself familiar to the boss!
"Thank you, boss!" Bai Lu bowed deeply, with a serious expression on her face, "I will try my best and will never embarrass you!"
"It's just an audition, so I don't think it's that high." Meng Bai waved his hand, "Anyway, just be serious."
"Yes, I will!"
Bai Lu pursed her lips and said firmly.
However, this serious expression only lasted for a few seconds, and in the blink of an eye, she happily went to her bestie to tell him the good news.
Looking at the other party's happy back, Meng Bai sighed.
This girl must have lived a healthy life since she was a child.
As the big boss of the crew, Bai Lu was not the only one who came to toast.
Although there were many people, he basically just touched his lips to show his respect. Anyway, no one dared to force him to drink.
So after drinking all night, he remained sober.
The only person who made him a little concerned was Zhu Xudan.
Since that night, this girl has been staring at him for a while, with a strange light in her eyes, and no one knows what she is thinking.
Every time he asked her, she just said it was nothing.
After all, he was a grown man, and it didn't hurt to be stared at twice, so Meng Bai just let her do it.
The main reason was that he didn't have the energy, and he had other things to do next.
"The Wandering Earth" and "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" have all been completed, and Arc Light currently has no projects in progress.
The focus of the team in the future will be on the movie "Psychological Crime: City of Light".
(End of this chapter)
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