Chapter 336 A New Girl Group Cobbled Together
Yang Chaoyue struggled for a long time with the two choices proposed by Meng Bai.
In addition to being at a loss about the future path, she was also worried about money.
Although she had worked at Arclight for a year and her salary was not low, most of it was transferred to her father to supplement the family expenses, and she did not actually have much savings.
No matter which choice she made, she would definitely have to quit her current front desk job, and Arclight had no reason to pay her anymore.
So before she considered the future, she had to consider how to survive now.
What Yang Chaoyue did not expect was that what ultimately helped her make the decision was a "well-paid" subsidy contract.
Taiyang Chuanhe, CEO's office.
Yang Ming looked at Yang Chaoyue, who was standing behind Meng Bai with a timid look on her face, and said with a smile: "Is this the girl you told me about on the phone?"
"Yes." Meng Bai leaned casually on the sofa chair, "What do you think of her?"
"She's a pretty girl. Judging from the idol's level, there's nothing wrong with her."
Yang Ming looked at Yang Chaoyue: "Yang Chaoyue, right? President Meng has roughly told me about your situation. It just so happens that we have a group of new girls here. You can give it a try."
After that, he took a document from the side: "This is your new contract. The contract period is a total of seven years. After signing the contract, you need to participate in team training such as dance and vocal music as well as possible live performances according to the company's requirements. As for the salary, the company provides food and accommodation, and also pays 2,000 yuan per month for practice subsidies."
"As for the income sharing, during the rookie period, it's 80% to the company and 80% to the company - of course, there won't be much income in general. Because the main goal now is Tencent Video's girl group project next year, so the rookie period is limited to the program. If you fail, you will follow the same contract as other rookies. If you succeed, we can discuss the specific sharing treatment and so on."
Yang Ming pushed the contract over: "See if there are any other requirements or doubts."
Yang Chaoyue picked up the contract and flipped through it. It was a very thick contract, and she basically couldn't understand it. The only thing that could be confirmed was that "free food and accommodation" and "2,000 yuan per month" were written.
She didn't read them carefully one by one, but looked at Meng Bai who was sitting next to her.
Seeing him nod slightly, the girl was relieved. She picked up the pen on the table and signed her name without hesitation.
"OK, welcome to join Taiyang Chuanhe."
Yang Ming stood up and said to Yang Chaoyue with a smile, and then said: "Let's go, I'll take you to meet your teammates today."
After that, he looked at Meng Bai again: "What's the matter, Director Meng, do you want to see our newcomers?"
Meng Bai naturally would not refuse, and stood up and walked to the meeting room downstairs.
"By the way, when did the company have a girl group? Why didn't I hear you say it before?"
"It just came out last week." Yang Ming spread his hands, "Isn't the girl group project of Tencent Video recruiting? It just so happens that the company has signed a few new girls this year, so it's a good time to get together and try it out."
Meng Bai suddenly realized that this brother didn't even think about forming a girl group. He simply treated "Produce 101" as a variety show with an indefinite number of episodes.
It would be best if these newcomers under his company could be selected. If they are selected, they can also get more exposure and popularity, and then continue on the original path.
"By the way, don't rush to leave after seeing the people. I have something to discuss with you." Yang Ming said.
Meng Bai was puzzled: "What's the matter?"
"It's a long story, we'll talk about it later."
"Okay."
The group took the elevator downstairs and pushed open the door of the conference room. There were already quite a few people sitting in the room.
At the front of the conference room were three young girls.
This should be the new company that Yang Ming mentioned, Meng Bai thought to himself as he looked at them.
But judging from the distance between them and their unfamiliar appearance, they were indeed put together temporarily.
But it's not bad for Yang Chaoyue, at least it's better than suddenly joining a small group that is already close to each other.
Glancing at Yang Chaoyue who was a little confused on the side, it's hard to say what other abilities this girl has, but her luck is really good.
Yang Ming first introduced Meng Bai's identity to the people in the room. When they heard that he was the second shareholder of the company, everyone immediately became more respectful. When they heard that he was the boss of Arclight Films, they all exclaimed.
Yang Ming ignored their whispered discussion and pointed at the three girls in the front row and said, "These girls are the newcomers we signed recently. From left to right, Hu Linxi, Hanikzi and Zhao Xiaotang."
Meng Bai looked over as he introduced. Hu Linxi was a girl with a somewhat classical temperament and an upright posture. It was obvious that she had many years of dance skills and was also the captain of this "temporary girl group".
Next to her was a girl with a Western style. This was indeed the case. Hanikzi and the other two young actresses with similar names and styles in the circle were both XJ girls.
Unlike the other two, she was actually a newcomer signed by Chen He. It was also because of Tencent's girl group project that she was pushed over to see if she could get a debut position.
After all, her unique exotic style was quite eye-catching in the girl group.
As for the last girl named Zhao Xiaotang, her face was a little cold when she didn't make any expression, revealing a high and cold style. She was born in 1997, one year younger than the previous two.
But now with the addition of Yang Chaoyue, she is no longer the youngest.
Yang Ming asked Yang Chaoyue to stand over, and then introduced her to the other three.
Hearing that she was from Huguang, the three girls were stunned for a moment, but they didn't react too much.
Although they were all newcomers who had signed contracts not long ago, they had also heard from their agents about the division of power within the company.
Today, Taiyang Chuanhe is roughly divided into four factions.
One is first-line artists like Yang Tianbao and Zhou Dongyu who were already very popular. They basically have their own independent studios and only follow the company's orders.
The second is the newcomers signed by Yang Ming himself, as well as some second- and third-tier artists who have joined in the past two years. Like Zhang Junning who signed last year, Zhang Songwen, Zhang Xiaolong, and Yin Zheng who signed this year.
The third is Taiyang Chuanhe's unique MCN business, with the "papi sauce" internet celebrity account jointly created by Yang Ming, Jiang Yilei, and Huo Nifang as the core, mainly engaged in the "internet celebrity economy".
Finally, there is the "arc light system" of its own school, mainly Zhang Ruoyun, Bai Yu, Li Yitong and others.
Although the "arc light system" is a group of young artists, they have been popular in recent years and can be regarded as the "backbone" of Taiyang Chuanhe.
Looking at the four girls standing together, classical, exotic, cold, and cute, four people with four styles, they don't look like they are together.
Look at the name of the group again, TCG, which is simply the abbreviation of "Taiyang Chuanhe girls".
It can be said that the whole team is casual from top to bottom.
Yang Ming didn't care much about this: "I asked Tencent Video about this. The planning of "Produce 101" is learned from the Korean version of "Produce 101". The final choice is the individual members, which has nothing to do with the previous combination, so there is no need to force them to be a complete group."
"Okay, anyway, the people are handed over to you, just do it."
On the other side, Yang Chaoyue also greeted each other with her three "teammates". In the next six months, several people will work together, and she will have nothing to do with Arc Light Film and Television.
Until then, she suddenly reacted, and a sense of separation suddenly rose in her heart, and her eyes immediately became red again.
Her first job in Beijing North was in Arc Light. The company atmosphere was very good, and her colleagues took good care of her. Although it was a little busy, it was a world of difference compared to her previous job.
It was precisely because of this that she felt particularly uncomfortable emotionally.
"Why didn't I notice before that you like to cry." Meng Bai walked to her side and said.
Yang Chaoyue looked at him with tearful eyes and said softly, "Boss..."
"Okay, okay, people always have to move forward, right?" Meng Bai said, "Or if you think about it this way, you were actually sent here on a business trip by Arc Light, would that make you feel better?"
Yang Chaoyue blinked her eyes. It seems that she is indeed much more comfortable.
And then again, Meng Bai is also a shareholder of Taiyang Chuanhe, so she is still working under the boss.
Thinking about it this way, it is not so uncomfortable.
"Okay, the boss will take you here. The road ahead depends on you." Meng Bai looked at her and smiled, "Come on, Chaoyue."
"Thank you, boss, I will definitely work hard." Yang Chaoyue raised her little fist and said with full momentum.
...
After explaining a few precautions, the staff took a few girls away, and Meng Bai followed Yang Ming back to the office. After
chatting for a few words, a middle-aged man wearing glasses knocked on the door and walked in.
"Yo, Lao Wang, I've been waiting for you." Yang Ming greeted the other party to sit down.
The man called "Lao Wang" is Wang Haiping, one of the four founding executives of Taiyang Chuanhe and the chief strategy officer. He is responsible for the company's overall strategic planning and operational structure and is considered the second in command of the company.
As soon as he saw him come in, Meng Bai immediately understood that what Yang Ming wanted to discuss with him must be not simple.
The fact is indeed as he thought.
"Mr. Meng, have you heard of CAA in the United States?" Wang Haiping asked.
Meng Bai nodded: "I have heard of it. It is the world's largest entertainment and film and television industry agency."
The most unique advantage of CAA is their original "packaged" service model. Different from the "point-to-point" working relationship between agents and artists in the traditional film and television industry, it is a complete packaging, publicity and public relations team.
Speaking of which, the "artist studio" that has been popular in China in recent years is actually very similar to the "CAA model". It's just that the former are independent of each other, while the latter has a unified control center .
CAA also entered China a few years ago, and still used the American system, which was somewhat incompatible with the style of domestic entertainment.
However, this model has also brought some new ideas to the mainland film and television industry. Many newly established agencies imitate the CAA structure and add some local innovations.
The most famous of them is "Yi Xin Entertainment" founded by Yang Tianzhen, the former agent of Fan Qiaoqiao.
Taiyang Chuanhe was born out of Huayi, so when it was first established, it still maintained the traditional agency model.
However, with the rapid expansion in recent years, the traditional model has gradually become somewhat powerless. So Wang Haiping proposed to update the company's structural model and reform it in the style of CAA.
As the company's CEO, Yang Ming believes that the current model is not yet at the point where it must be changed. Adjusting the company's structure easily may cause even bigger problems. After all,
even CAA itself has suffered losses in the domestic entertainment market, proving that this model is not a universal rule.
Neither of them could convince the other, so they could only continue to expand the discussion group.
Among the company's several shareholders, Huang Xiaoming has his own company, so he is not paying much attention to Taiyang Chuanhe now. As for the several institutions involved in the financing, they are also only concerned with profit accounts, not daily operations.
So the only one who still has the right to speak is Arc Light, the "number two shareholder."
"What's the point of just guessing?" Meng Bai said, "Comrade Desheng taught us that practice is the only criterion for testing truth."
"What do you mean?"
"Open up a separate sub-label and do a pilot according to the new model." Meng Bai said, "If the performance is good, then implement it. If the effect is not good or there is no change, then study it again."
Yang Ming and Wang Haiping looked at each other, and their eyes lit up.
Indeed, the company model is always just an inference if they think about it by themselves. If they really want to see if it works, they still have to try it out.
In addition, because of the expansion of scale, there are now many artists under the company, and management is already a bit overwhelmed. Establishing a new label to divert some people out can just solve this problem.
Yang Ming also thought of one thing in his mind, that is, Taiyang Chuanhe's film and television, artist brokerage, and Internet celebrity MCN sectors are now all together, and they are interfering with each other. It is better to take advantage of this time to go out independently.
This can be said to be killing three birds with one stone.
He smiled quite complacently and said that it was useful to bring Meng Bai to discuss. When three men get together, there will always be an idea king.
Yang Ming and his team acted quickly and soon came up with a new plan.
First, Taiyang Chuanhe will set up two sub-labels, Papitubi and Taiyang Hengxing. The former will focus on the MCN-type online celebrity business, while the latter will be a pilot of the new model, and a group of new actors under its original label will also be released.
By the way, the "TCG" group that Yang Chaoyue and her friends had just formed was also managed by the newly established Taiyang Hengxing.
The changes in Taiyang Chuanhe did not have much impact on Huguang. Anyway, the people are still the same group of people, and they can just call them when they are needed.
As for Yang Chaoyue's departure, it actually played a motivating role for the employees of Huguang.
After all, everyone in the company knew that this girl had the opportunity to transform from a front desk girl to a "quasi-artist" trainee because she won the special prize of the annual meeting.
Although luck and appearance play a greater role here, it also proves with facts that Meng Bai, the big boss, is not just drawing cakes for them, but really does what he says.
In this case, there is nothing to say, just work harder. Even if you don't win any special prizes, the year-end bonus is real.
The only one who has a headache is the head of the human resources department, because she has to hire a new receptionist.
Fortunately, this time, President Meng did not require any appearance or anything, just said that it was okay as long as she was acceptable.
Yes, Arclight is a film and television company, with so many crews and directors coming and going. If you find another beautiful one, sooner or later she will become an artist like Yang Chaoyue.
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There is still more than a month left until the end of the year, and Arclight has begun to speed up the completion of the planned projects formulated at the beginning of the year.
For the movie "Detective Chinatown 2", Chen Sicheng has already taken the crew to New York to start filming. As for the online drama, Arclight has also begun to prepare for the project.
As a spin-off of the movie, the plot of the online drama "Tang Detective" is very short, with only 10 episodes in total.
The background of the story is still set in Bangkok, and the protagonist is replaced by Tang Ren's apprentice "Lin Mo". The character is an orphan with a keen sense of smell, who witnessed the murder of his parents since childhood and has an adopted sister.
As for the heroine "IVY", she is the owner of a flower shop in Bangkok and also the suspect in the first case in the play. Behind her, there is a mysterious organization hidden.
Of course, if it is an old audience of the "Green Ivy Series", it will be immediately clear that this so-called "mysterious organization" must be Q again.
Because the main function of the online drama version is to introduce the concept of "Global Detective Alliance" and the detective community "Crimaster", only two cases are arranged in the plot.
The script of this online drama is the same as the movie. Meng Bai only made a framework outline, and the rest was handed over to the screenwriter department of Arclight to perfect.
After all, his career is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things to pay attention to. He now has no time to slowly polish the script by himself.
Zhang Junning was chosen to play the female lead IVY in the web drama "Detective Chinatown". After all, she is from Taiyang Chuanhe and was recommended internally.
As for the male lead, it is an actor named Zhu Yilong. He is not a newcomer, but his popularity has not been high, but his image is very suitable.
In addition, Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran will also make cameo appearances at that time, which can be regarded as a linkage with the movie.
Basically, all the projects to be filmed have been launched, and the only thing left is the negotiation between "Peace Hotel" and the TV station.
Liu Jun has been in charge of this matter. Meng Bai was just about to ask him how the negotiation with the TV station was going, but he didn't expect this brother to come to him first.
And judging from his expression, he seemed to be in trouble.
(End of this chapter)
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