Chapter 67 News
[ByteDance] is already well-known in the Internet circle at this time.
The company was founded in March 2012, but it wasn't until the second half of 2012 that it developed its first product, Toutiao.
It has been more than half a year so far.
As early as last year, Gu Wei had thought about going to this company and finding ways to invest and get shares.
Unfortunately, Gu Wei had little money and no fame at the time. In order to play the leading role, he invested most of his first pot of gold in Lu Yang's film.
Fortunately, ByteDance has only been established for less than a year and has only completed one round of financing.
In July 2012, the company raised US$1 million in funding, with a corporate valuation of US$5 million.
This round of financing is likely due to the previous successful experience of the company's founder Zhang Yiming, and the fact that ByteDance's new product [Toutiao] is about to be launched.
During this period, ByteDance was still a completely small company, and its only product, Toutiao, was not very popular.
As for the globally popular Douyin and TikTok, they had to wait until 2016 and 2017 to be launched.
Now is the best opportunity to invest in it. The first two rounds of investment in ByteDance were purely financial investments, and the investors were just investment bank funds that frequently invest in Internet companies.
After this year, ByteDance's [Toutiao] will become a big hit. If you want to invest in it, you won't just need money. You also need resources that can help the company develop.
As for the investment money, Gu Wei does not plan to take it from the film and television company.
The company doesn’t have that much money to invest now.
[ByteDance] was valued at approximately US$50 million in its Series B funding round in 2013, when a Russian investment company, DST Global, invested US$10 million.
At this time, the market price of Bitcoin was about 600 US dollars per coin, and it was still rising. Gu Wei had 100,000 coins in his hands.
He plans to find a high point this year to sell part of it. Although Bitcoin will rise even higher in a few years, it cannot be compared with investing in ByteDance.
After hanging up the phone, I thought that I also had the hope of becoming the boss of ByteDance. Even if I was just a small shareholder, the future value would be astronomical.
Gu Wei couldn't help but smile, and he looked very happy.
"Director, what good news is going on? Why are you so happy?" Xiao Yang was packing up his things and getting ready to leave after finishing his performance. He saw Gu Wei smiling and asked curiously.
When Gu Wei heard his words, he looked around and found that no one had left yet.
"Recent filming has been going very smoothly and progress has been very fast. Everyone has been working hard these past few days. So, tell everyone I'm hosting you tonight and treat everyone to a nice dinner so you can relax."
Xiao Yang heard this and shouted loudly
"The director said he'll treat everyone to a big dinner later, and everyone will get a share!"
"Yeah!"
“That’s great!”
"Long live the director~"
Everyone on the crew cheered when they heard this. The recent busy and intense filming had indeed made everyone very tired.
"Director, do you want to go out and have some fun together after dinner?"
Xiao Yang approached Gu Wei with a lewd smile on his face and asked in a low voice.
"You should go find Chen He. Don't you two hang out together often? But be careful and don't play too late. You still have to shoot tomorrow."
Gu Wei said.
When Xiao Yang and Chen He are not filming, they often go out together to experience the local customs and special services of Thailand.
Of course, the focus is on special services, and they have invited Gu Wei before.
However, as a director, Gu Wei must appear as soon as the filming starts, and he definitely doesn't have time during the day.
He has his older sister to accompany him in the evening and has no time, which is a pity.
They also looked for Wang Baoqiang, but Baoqiang was an honest boy. He was okay with going out to see the scenery, but he wouldn't participate in anything else.
Poor Baoqiang has been in Thailand filming for so long, but his wife has never come to visit him on set.
Occasionally, we would video chat on the set, but the call would end after just a few words. Most importantly, his agent was not around. According to Baoqiang, he had cooperation to discuss in China.
Thinking of this, when they were having dinner together in the evening, Gu Wei, who was sitting at the same table, couldn't help but add a few more chopsticks of green leafy vegetables to Baoqiang, hoping that he would have a healthy body.
Bangkok is located in the tropics and has a tropical monsoon climate with an average temperature of around 30 degrees Celsius throughout the year.
And it rains often.
The crew can hold on if it's just hot, but not if it rains. After all, there are no rainy scenes in the plot of "Detective Chinatown."
The originally scheduled scenes may be changed due to sudden heavy rain.
It is not enough to just look at the weather forecast for this, because many times, an unexpected rain is not even reported in the weather forecast.
Today we were originally planning to shoot an outdoor chase scene, but it suddenly started raining heavily early in the morning, so the chase scene definitely couldn't be scheduled.
Gu Wei made a last-minute decision to move indoors and shoot another scene.
Sawadee Ka
"Brother Tai, it's me~"
"Tang Ren, are you guys going to Malaysia or South Korea?"
"I'm right at your door~"
“Ah~ah!”
Kuntai's home.
Xiao Yang covered his head with a towel and wore pajamas.
"Why don't you leave?"
"We have to prove our innocence" and "We have to solve the case"
Tang Ren and Qin Feng said together
"Do you think this is a movie? Are you coming back as the king?" Kuntai looked confused.
"You have to help me," Tang Ren pleaded.
"I've already helped you escape~
If I help you again, I will not be a police officer anymore! "Kuntai's emotions gradually became excited.
"If they knew you were taking bribes and opening a small casino." Tang Ren began to talk about Kuntai's handle.
"How dare you threaten me?"
"Your wife will know that you have a mistress." Kuntai's expression changed when he heard this.
"How can I help you?"
"We want to see Songpa's detailed information." "And his spending list for the past six months."
"We still have to go to the police station to watch the surveillance video." Qin Feng and Tang Ren each said a word and stated all their demands.
"Are you crazy?" Kuntai was very excited when he heard that they were going to the police station.
"You even messed with the director's wife..." Tang Ren pointed at Kuntai and was about to continue.
Kuntai immediately stepped forward and grabbed Tang Ren's fingers with his hands, speaking in a gentle tone.
"Let's make a plan~"
In this scene, Qin Feng, played by Gu Wei, only said a few words on the side, and the rest was mainly performed by Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang.
It mainly depends on Xiao Yang's performance, the dramatic effect of this scene all depends on him.
After taking the shot, Gu Wei hurried to the display screen to see the effect of the shot.
After replaying the entire video, Gu Wei called Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang over.
Let them watch the performance again.
"Brother Baoqiang, there's nothing wrong with you. Xiao Yang, look, the reversal should be a little bigger.
He was very excited when he heard our demands, but after hearing the last threat, his tone immediately became very gentle, which made the comedy effect even stronger.
Xiao Yang thought about it
"I understand, Director, please watch my performance."
The play was re-enacted, and this time Xiao Yang's performance was obviously more dynamic. The contrast between his expression and tone before and after he said what Gu Wei was obvious, and the comedic effect was outstanding.
"Very good, this one passed, we'll keep one."
Xiao Yang is a good actor with both acting skills and talent. From the filming of "Detective Chinatown" to now, Gu Wei can see his efforts and progress.
At the beginning, I was not very adaptable to the character's style, but later I gradually integrated into the role and discovered some things about myself.
After all, Gu Wei's script is just words. Some conceptual words written on paper, such as happiness, excitement, guilt, etc., still need to be understood by the actors themselves, and then interpret them in their own way.
By this point in the filming, Xiao Yang had already thoroughly understood the role of Kuntai, and slowly added some of his own expressions and small movements during the filming.
As a director, Gu Wei sees these things most clearly.
On the other hand, Chen He, who had similar roles to Xiao Yang, also performed very well, but it was only because the character of Huang Landeng was more in line with his image. One could not sense his ambition in acting, as he was able to do it easily because he just played himself.
(End of this chapter)
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