Chapter 245: Something is wrong with the record company
The newly formed air project team was worrying about their future and life, but Yang Ruoqian in the president's office was smiling happily.
"The project team is in a mess now? Very good, I want this effect, and I will report back after further investigation!"
Chang Zhiqing, who was used as a messenger, was quite speechless: "You did it on purpose, I thought you didn't sleep well last night and wrote that shit today..."
"Why do you want to make things difficult for your juniors? If you were not satisfied, couldn't you just not recruit them?"
Although the salary is very good, it feels weird in every way to give someone a blank project.
Although Guidong is not Chang Zhiqing's counselor, Chang Zhiqing is not without her own counselor. At least in her eyes, the counselor does not have that much status.
Giving an admission place is a great honor.
Yang Ruoqian shook his head and said with an unfathomable expression: "Others didn't understand the hidden meaning of my project proposal. Don't you understand it either?"
Don't understand? You actually said I don't understand? Chang Zhiqing, who always guessed what Yang Ruoqian was thinking but always guessed wrong, once again burst out with the unyielding spirit in her heart.
"Huh? Who said I can't guess?" Chang Zhiqing laughed without confidence, turned on her phone, and reread the nonsense document word by word, "Let me read it for five minutes, and I can guess what you are thinking right away!"
As she spoke, she began to quickly scan the project book, her beautiful eyes fixed on this masterpiece that was the essence of all the nonsense, trying to find some useful information from it.
Five minutes passed quickly. Looking at Yang Ruoqian's playful eyes in front of the desk, Chang Zhiqing, who didn't understand anything, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and annoyed.
So he forced himself to straighten his back and chest, and said with a stern face: "What's that look in your eyes? I see it!"
Yang Ruoqian asked in amazement: "You figured it out? What did you figure out?"
Chang Zhiqing turned off her phone and began to speak freely: "Do you think that these junior students don't know much about the entertainment industry, but you can't force them to work in areas they are not good at, so you just give them funds and let them play freely? To check their creativity?"
"Not distinguishing positions and parachuting in leadership, is it because they want to see how united they are internally and analyze each person's character through their cooperation?"
"The project duration is extended so long because we want to see how motivated these fresh graduates will be in a more relaxed environment."
The more Chang Zhiqing spoke, the clearer her thoughts became, as if she had cleared the fog and followed Yang Ruoqian's train of thought.
"You can then give them different specific arrangements based on their respective performances... whether to let them really form a project team or to distribute them to different departments."
"The so-called project is actually just a cover! Right?!"
Yang Ruoqian listened to this well-reasoned analysis and was deeply impressed.
Why didn’t I think of this way to explain this nonsense project book?
The good thing about being a boss is that as long as you make a decision, there will always be someone who can help you figure out the deeper meaning behind the decision, so you don’t have to use your brain on your own.
Yang Ruoqian nodded heavily: "Yes, yes, you guessed it right, you are amazing!"
Chang Zhiqing glanced over with a suspicious look: "Did you really guess it right?"
This time it was so easy? I never guessed it right before.
"You guessed it right. Just follow your idea and secretly go to that project team to monitor it every day. Then investigate and report back. Come on!"
"If you encounter any problems, please tell me directly."
"Okay..." Even though Chang Zhiqing had some doubts in her heart, she could only suppress them and leave the office first.
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After assigning the person he trusted most as the supervisor of the new project, Yang Ruoqian felt relieved and turned his attention back to the new film project.
As for the crew, the formation process is currently slow because the new director is still handing over his previous work.
However, Yang Ruoqian had no complaints about this - as long as the crew could be formed within these three months, the later the better.
If you do it early, the payback period will come faster.
If he hadn't been worried about missing the quarterly settlement date due to the wrong timing, Yang Ruoqian would have wanted to form the crew directly at the end of the quarter.
"Well, don't worry about the crew for now. Let's see how the copyright purchase is going."
Yang Ruoqian took a sip of the icy sweet water and clicked on the report summary sent to him by the operation department.
I first looked at the final price we negotiated, which was 900,000, 100,000 less than I expected, which made me feel a little uncomfortable.
The previous offer for the film and television adaptation rights of the novel was 300,000, but Mr. Yang raised the price and directly asked for 1 million. He thought he could get it easily, but unexpectedly, a small problem occurred in the middle.
Of course, in order to make the price increase justifiable and avoid suspicion, Yang Ruoqian deliberately asked the operator to add a few minor additional requirements to the contract.
As a result, the copyright owner felt that the film and television adaptation rights of the novel "The Wandering Blue Star" were not worth such a high price, and even with those additional conditions, it was only sold for 500,000.
Mr. Yang was forced into a corner and had no choice but to raise the price again and added a few useless terms.
After several rounds of negotiation, the two parties finally reached a consensus on the price of 900,000. After signing the contract, they felt like they parted on bad terms.
The seller thought the price was too high, and the buyer thought it was too low.
Only when you manage a household do you know how expensive firewood and rice are. For Yang Ruoqian, 100,000 yuan is already a huge sum of money.
But no matter how hard you try, it will be fine after the talk.
If such an opportunity for a script comparable to "The Fortress" were to be lost due to price issues, it would be a waste of time and effort.
Yang Ruoqian has almost decided half of the casting for the leading actor of "The Wandering Blue Planet".
Deep down, Yang Ruoqian was not really willing to give the female lead role to Shang Qianyu. After all, she was now famous and it was easy for her personal influence to bring a lot of box office revenue to the movie that did not originally belong to it.
There is some overlap in the audiences of science fiction movies and superhero movies, but they are by no means completely identical.
Moreover, for a comprehensive entertainment group, the best way to make profits is to use its own actors in its own films, and then try hard to get its own actors to take on projects from other companies at other times.
Shang Qianyu came here on his own initiative, naturally wanting to use his influence and low cost to contribute to the group...
To be honest, Yang Ruoqian really wanted to reject this behavior.
However, Shang Qianyu was one of the major contributors to the group's first film after all. She took the initiative to volunteer and even offered a symbolic salary. She just wanted to contribute to the group, so Yang Ruoqian couldn't refuse.
Shang Qianyu even rejected an offer to play the leading role in another highly anticipated TV series and an offer to endorse an advertisement for a major overseas brand.
It would be a bit unreasonable to reject others.
In order to solve the problems caused by Shang Qianyu personally, Yang Ruoqian thought hard and finally came up with a good idea.
In "The Black Robe Inspection Team", Shang Qianyu's image is a girl who wears beautiful clothes, looks very girlish, and has a bright and beautiful image.
In the new movie, in order to avoid the positive impact brought by Shang Qianyu's image as much as possible, Yang Ruoqian plans to completely change Shang Qianyu's positioning.
The female lead is of course still the female lead, but her image must be drastically changed.
In the past, wearing beautiful clothes was a thing of the past, but now, don’t even think about it - doesn’t the story of "Wandering on the Blue Planet" take place in the end times, when the Blue Planet is about to be destroyed?
In such a dangerous situation, if you want to go out for adventure, it is reasonable to wear more protective clothes and a thick space suit with built-in oxygen, right? It is not excessive.
Since it is a doomsday background, it is very logical that the living standards decline, people become dirty and malnourished, right?
That's right, Mr. Yang planned to directly arrange the popular young flower merchant Qian Yu into a character who was wrapped tightly - using thick and solid clothes to cover her perfect figure, and using layer upon layer of masks to cover her beautiful and pure face.
Even when he briefly took down the equipment, Shang Qianyu's image had to fit in with the background at the time, with a dusty and dirty face, a departure from his previous glamorous image.
Do whatever it takes to offend the old audience.
As long as he can achieve the point where no one knows which actor plays the role without looking at the credits, Yang Ruoqian’s goal will be half achieved.
The reason why Mr. Yang dared to set up Shang Qianyu's image on his own initiative was because the image of the female lead in "The Fortress of the Devil City" was also criticized by many people.
The reasons are nothing more than old-fashioned, embarrassing, etc.
How difficult would it be to portray Shang Qianyu as an old and awkward character? Just as Yang Ruoqian was thinking about how to do something bad, the door of the office was knocked at an inopportune time again.
"Boss, can I come in? I'm Xiao Shang!"
After working in the group for a while and being educated several times by Cheng Fei and the previous leader of the production team, Shang Qianyu has more or less matured a little.
At least he wouldn't casually call Yang Ruoqian "landlord" in an occasion like the company.
After this girl succeeded, her self-confidence recovered a lot... I don't know whether it is good or bad.
Alas, when I think back to when I first recruited this girl into the company, her bright smile was accompanied by a nervous heart, and her cheerfulness and liveliness concealed years of accumulated grievances.
That perfect state is gone forever...Shang Qianyu is now the number one actress of Kuiguang Group and the pride of everyone.
Alas, alas! After sighing, Yang Ruoqian turned off the computer screen and said casually: "Xiao Shang, come in."
Shang Qianyu couldn't wait to push the door open before he could finish his sentence, and brought Wen Ruoxiu, who was following him, in as well.
"Boss, I've finished all the interviews and events, and turned down all the invitations. Now I can focus on the filming of the new movie!"
Amidst the laughter, Shang Qianyu reported to Yang Ruoqian a piece of mixed news.
When Shang Qianyu said that he had turned down the sponsor's endorsement invitation, Yang Ruoqian did not respond because he had a rather contradictory mentality.
Let Shang Qianyu go, for fear that she might cause some trouble, or receive some incredible endorsement advertisement or an invitation to star in a 100% hit TV series or film.
I arranged for Shang Qianyu to star in a movie produced and invested by the company, but I was afraid that she would accidentally ruin the hopes for this quarter.
But after weighing the pros and cons carefully, Yang Ruoqian still felt that the harm of the latter was slightly less than that of the former.
After all, all of Yang Ruoqian's own films are under his control and are relatively controllable, so any signs of something going wrong can be nipped in the bud in the bud.
If Shang Qianyu is allowed to take on acting jobs, endorsements and participate in events outside, it is very likely that when she goes out, she will be a popular second-tier star, but when she comes back, she will become a phenomenal first-tier actress.
However, it can also be seen from these things that Shang Qianyu has a strong sense of belonging to the group and is very grateful to Yang Ruoqian himself.
Even willing to sacrifice one's own interests for this...
How many stars have fallen out with their former employers over treatment or benefits? Being able to share the hardships but not the happiness is a common problem for many people.
After all, Shang Qianyu had just been cruelly rejected by Yuefu and stood up by Tianyue with an unsightly reason, and then he met Kui Guang, the white moonlight...
Not only giving resources, but also directly entrusting the most important position in a big-budget movie...
For example, it is equivalent to being dumped by the woman on the blind date corner who is indifferent and demands a dowry of 1 million yuan, and then meeting a beautiful and fair-skinned goddess who confesses her love to her and gives her a card with a deposit of 10 small goals and tells her to use it freely.
Who wouldn't be grateful?
Anyone with normal values will be rewarded with generous gifts after becoming rich.
After Yang Ruoqian figured it out, he felt that this was not the way to go - he could not become the white moonlight in someone else's heart, otherwise he would probably be remembered for the rest of his life, and chased for repayment... and revenge for more than ten years.
Yang Ruoqian shuddered at the thought of the terrifying future of making money with a popular female star.
No, we must break Shang Qianyu's incorrect, unhealthy and backward idea that Kuiguang Group is his white moonlight, which is not in line with the development trend of the times.
How to break this stereotype?
The easiest way is to let her meet someone better! It is a common problem for people to get tired of the old and love the new!
In the past, Shang Qianyu was a nobody and others looked down on her. But now the situation is different. There are many resources lining up to invest in her.
After she has seen the beauty of the world, she should not miss this small temple of Kuiguang, right? However, the company still has to make money by taking on roles and endorsements outside...
Well... when the financial pressure is not so tight, Shang Qianyu can take on some movies from other companies or even participate in some variety shows.
You can't catch a wolf without risking your child.
After making the decision, Yang Ruoqian coughed twice and pretended to be serious and said, "Xiao Shang, if you have any invitations in the future, as long as you think it is good for you, just accept it, understand?"
"Now that the group's business is mature, you don't need to sacrifice your own interests, understand? All decisions should be made with your own personal development as the only goal. Forget it this time, but if you do this again next time, the group will criticize you!"
"The crew has run into some minor problems. It will take two weeks to get it back together. You should stay at the group during these two weeks and don't go anywhere."
Shang Qianyu was touched and embarrassed, a look of shame suddenly appeared on his face, and he bowed his head to apologize: "Ah, Boss, I'm sorry!"
"What have you done to me? I asked you to think more about yourself and less about the group." Yang Ruoqian looked down at the computer and said casually, "You are usually too busy. You should read the company's "Employee Code of Conduct" and "Ideological Guidance" more, as well as the announcement I posted on the company's internal forum."
"It details why I ask everyone to think more about themselves and less about the company."
Shang Qianyu immediately raised his head and nodded vigorously: "Boss, I understand. I'll go check it out right away!"
Having said that, she pulled Wen Ruoxiu and ran out of the office in a hurry.
During the conversation between the two, Wen Ruoxiu tried to speak several times, but she couldn't get a word in at all, and was dragged in and out...
Yang Ruoqian shook his head in amusement, exited the WeChat interface, and planned to continue studying "The Wandering Blue Planet".
Then, he saw someone he hadn't chatted with for a long time and sent him a message.
Huang Wei.
As one of the few laggards in the group, Spark Records would never take the initiative to contact the big boss and ask for trouble.
This sudden message, what terrible thing has happened? ! (End of this chapter)
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