"What happened to Director Guo?" Shang Qianyu, who had already finished warming up and was ready to get down to work, asked in astonishment, "What happened? Is it serious?"
The new movie hasn’t even started filming yet and the director is already in the hospital due to an accident?
This is a bad start.
The information Shao Yiqi had in his hand was also sent to him by Yang Ruoqian. The information was very brief, and he could only roughly analyze Director Guo Fan's current condition through a few words.
Looking at words such as "rushed to the hospital", "undergoing comprehensive examination", "vital signs are stable" and "the patient is emotionally unstable", he has already imagined a scene in his mind of a group of experts in white coats surrounding Guo Fan in the ICU ward for a consultation.
"The injury should have been brought under control." Shao Yiqi put the phone back into his pocket, "But we can't delay the filming process... Let the assistant director take over for the time being."
"Everyone, don't complain. You know the Shelter Company, right? Their latest movie is already in theaters, and we can't afford to lag behind!"
"Come on, everyone, calm down and get moving..."
It was Shao Yiqi who personally recommended the shelter company to Yang Ruoqian. It would be really embarrassing if they were to be taken down by this company now!
…
At the same time, Yang Ruoqian, who had informed the crew of Guo Fan's injuries truthfully, put down his cell phone.
He could swear to heaven that not a single word of the words he sent to Shao Yiqi was false.
Guo Fan was indeed rushed to the hospital and was undergoing a comprehensive physical examination, and there was nothing wrong with his vital signs!
Of course, his emotions were indeed a little unstable.
All of these were true, but how Shao Yiqi understood them had little to do with Yang Ruoqian.
"Alas, how chaotic would a movie be without a director in the early stages of filming? I'm looking forward to it."
A movie with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment had so many problems right at the beginning. The crew must have been in a state of panic, right? In addition, the new film review platform that was handed over to Yu Jingyu was about to be launched. With a two-pronged approach, both the reputation and quality would fail! "Well... Speaking of this, I just want to ask how this film review app is going."
Thinking about this, Yang Ruoqian took out his phone, opened the WeChat chat box with Yu Jingyu, and typed a line of words: "Xiao Yu, how is the work I asked you to do? How is the progress?"
Yu Jingyu replied almost immediately: "Yes, boss."
"The progress... is OK. I guess I can fast forward to handing in my resignation letter soon."
Yu Jingyu wasn't just telling a crosstalk - she was busy running between school and company, and it was the first time she realized that communication between people could be so difficult.
She tried her best to write down all the requirements for the app in her mind into a requirements document and sent it to the security guard of the group...
The final product was not exactly what she had imagined, but at least it was completely different from what she had imagined.
If I have to give an example, it's probably that what Yu Jingyu had in mind was a car that could move, but what security guard Zhu Qifeng finally made was a car with legs.
You say it meets the needs, it is a car with legs. You say it does not meet the needs, but it can run and is indeed a car...
Yu Jingyu was confused and wanted Zhu Qifeng to make some changes, but Zhu Qifeng was equally confused - doesn't this completely meet the needs?
I can't explain it clearly!
As a Chinese major, Yu Jingyu felt for the first time that she was so at a loss for words.
With the communication efficiency and effectiveness of both parties, the final product would probably give Boss Yang a cerebral hemorrhage...
If you offend your boss, won’t the final result be that you have to hand in your resignation and leave?
"What's wrong? Did you encounter any difficulties?" Yang Ruoqian was stunned at first when he saw Yu Jingyu's answer, and then he was overjoyed, "What difficulties did you encounter? Tell me in detail."
Difficulties are good!
If there is something wrong, then keep improving it. If there is nothing wrong, then correct it! Yu Jingyu sent a crying expression and said, "Boss Yang, I can't explain this matter clearly for a while. How about I give you an internal test qualification and you can experience it yourself?"
After saying that, Yu Jingyu sent a link and invitation code.
This girl is so honest...
If other employees were in his place, when they encountered difficulties or problems with the app, they would definitely find ways to evade them and delay time, so as to solve the problem before it completely explodes and prevent the boss from finding out.
As a result, Yu Jingyu actually showed Yang Ruoqian the app that she herself was not satisfied with.
What a silly kid with no brains... I think he can team up with Shang Qianyu and make a debut as Kui Guang Er Sha.
Yang Ruoqian sighed, comforted Yu Jingyu with a few words, clicked on the link she gave him, and downloaded the beta version of "Fishbone Movie".
When the app is opened, a streamlined community page comes into view.
At the top of the page, there are only three buttons - Follow, Hot Search, and Recommend.
The middle area, which occupies 90% of the screen, contains the posts corresponding to the three columns above.
At the bottom of the page, there are "Home", "Ratings", "My" and a big plus sign for posting to users.
Just by looking at it, Yang Ruoqian probably understood why Yu Jingyu's eyes turned dark.
Judging from the Fishbone Movie page alone, there isn't really much of a problem.
It is just a very ordinary community app page.
But what Yu Jingyu wanted was an official rating software, not to allow all users to rate the movie.
To make an analogy, just like gaming media like IGN, player ratings are one thing, and media ratings are another.
The focus is on high-quality content. Only certified bloggers and officials have the authority to post at any time. Other ordinary users can only comment on these posts and cannot post actively.
Attract a large amount of traffic through high-quality content, and then attract more high-quality bloggers through a large amount of traffic. This is the community environment that Yu Jingyu is trying his best to create.
Only in this way, by competing with other platforms in a differentiated manner, can we achieve the dual standards of "word of mouth" and "popularity" mentioned by Yang Ruoqian.
Any platform that has no threshold for speaking, no matter how it has operated in the past, will eventually be a mixed bag.
Zhihu is the best example.
From this we can see that Yu Jingyu is indeed trying very hard to meet the various outrageous demands that Yang Ruoqian had previously put forward.
"It actually looks pretty good. Yu Jingyu is a bit too picky... I think it's fine like this. We can't really make it a platform that has both good reputation and popularity."
This mentality is not difficult to understand. After all, it is the first job, and it is a job with such a high salary. Anyone would definitely want to do the project as well as possible.
With a curious mentality, Yang Ruoqian clicked the "Rating" button in the lower right corner.
Since the internal test qualifications are only distributed randomly and the number of places is very limited, Yang Ruoqian has not seen any interesting posts for the time being.
At most, there are a few meaningless posts like "Is anyone there?" or "Are you there?"
When you click on the "Rating" column, the first movie that comes into view is the Kuiguang Group's masterpiece "The Black Robe Inspection Team".
There were about a hundred people participating in the rating, and the overall score was 9.5.
"It seems to be relatively fair and objective... Well, that's how it should be, rejecting any shady dealings!"
"First, we spend money to attract customers, then reject all merchants who want to spend money to brush up their ratings, thus completing a perfect loss-making closed loop."
Of course... Yang Ruoqian also knew that even if the merchants could not find the platform to brush up the ratings, they could spend a higher cost to find water armies to register accounts and force good reviews.
In order to prevent this situation as much as possible, Yang Ruoqian’s countermeasure is also very simple - one person, one number, and each real-name authentication name can only have one account.
At the same time, we secretly monitor the background chat data, and once any transaction involving inflating ratings is discovered, the account will be directly added to a hidden blacklist.
The hidden blacklist will not affect the user's normal use of the app, nor will it affect his rating, but the user's rating will never be counted in the average score.
Of course, this trick is not very effective for users who do not conduct transactions within the app.
In order to make the ratings more objective and fair, Yang Ruoqian's current solution is to create a hidden whitelist and select users who are not water armies and are relatively objective and fair.
The ratings they give to TV series and movies will have a higher weight than those given by ordinary users.
By doing this, under the one-person-one-account mechanism, the fake reviews given by hundreds of water armies will be worse than the normal reviews of a selected user, which will greatly increase the cost and efficiency of brushing ratings.
"Well... I'll send this request to Yu Jingyu later and ask her to add these functions to the backend of the app."
"It would also take a large number of employees to select the blacklist and the whitelist, which would also increase the labor cost, which is good..."
Yang Ruoqian continued to look down and found that the rating column included not only movies but also TV series. Some funny users even threw in some e-sports competitions, sports competitions and the like, asking everyone to rate them for fun.
In short, anyone who can rate and give ratings can use this app, and everyone can participate in the ratings.
Even a sports player, an e-sports player...
Overall, Yugu Movies did meet all of Yu Jingyu's needs, but there was also an indescribable weirdness. It clearly said that it wanted to be a film review app, but it ended up making something so weird.
If the positioning and target group are not clear, promotion will be difficult and operation will be chaotic.
Yang Ruoqian nodded slightly as he scrolled down - the more he looked at the app, the more satisfied he became with it.
Zhu Qifeng is worthy of being the cleaning monk of the group. He created such an outrageous app with just one move.
Mr. Yang switched Fishbone Movie to the background, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Yu Jingyu: "I think this app is very good and has no shortcomings. Let's just release this version for the official version without making any changes."
"I want to add a few small functions to the backend. I will send you the requirements document later."
"Xiao Yu, you need to be more confident and realize your own excellence, okay? You did a great job this time, and I'll give you a bonus next month."
Yu Jingyu, who was expecting to be criticized but unexpectedly received a bonus: "???"
"Really, boss? You're not just trying to comfort me and are going to fire me later, are you?"
The scene of being deliberately made things difficult for her when she first started working was still vivid in her mind, and Yu Jingyu did not dare to be careless at all.
What's more, the app I took out was really terrible.
"Kuiguang Group has never proactively fired any employees, don't worry."
Yang Ruoqian is not arrogant and does not think that such employees who dare to joke in front of him do not respect him. On the contrary, he believes that such behavior of employees is the true recognition and trust from the heart.
He thought for a moment and added, "Also, I think the name Fishbone Movie is not very good. How about changing it to 'Leopard Pounce'?"
"Baopu", which sounds like "baopu" in Chinese, reflects Mr. Yang's earnest hope that this app will be a success as soon as it goes online.
Yu Jingyu: "Boss, you can decide the name, I have no objection!"
Yang Ruoqian thought about what the girl had said in the hotel before, and then said, "By the way, I remember you have classes in the afternoon, right? How are your studies going recently? How are you preparing for the exams? Are there any tests? How are your test scores?"
Yu Jingyu was silent for a long time before she responded: "...Mr. Yang, you heard everything I said at the hotel entrance that day, right? I apologize to you here, kneel down and kowtow, will you forgive me?"
"Please forgive me, my dear Lord. Let me go... I really know I am wrong!"
Originally, Yu Jingyu thought that she would be the biggest joker of Kuiguang Group, but now it seems that she is very likely the biggest joker of Kuiguang Group...
The generous Mr. Yang waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'll let you go. Go back to your work!"
After saying that, Yang Ruoqian switched his mobile app to Yugu Film Reviews.
He was still quite curious about what these internal test users thought of his own movies and other movies with controversial reputations.
"Dragon Son-in-law", score 8.2.
Well... after all, it's a TV series that focuses on fun, and it doesn't have enough depth, so this rating is not bad.
Yang Ruoqian nodded slightly and continued to flip through the pages.
"Titanic 2", score 2.8.
"Isn't this too low?" Yang Ruoqian looked at the eye-catching rating and complained, "Less than 3 points, right? These netizens really don't give me any face at all!"
In fact, judging from the production, plot and pictures, it is not excessive to give "Titanic 2", a terrible movie, a score of 2.8.
It may be popular, and funny, but none of these can conceal the essence of this movie.
Yang Ruoqian thought about it, gave "Titanic 2" a high score of 1, and continued to scroll down.
"Little Hours", 5.2 points...
Green Lantern, 6.1 points...
"Fortress of the Demon City", 1.7 points...
Atlantic Rim, 3.6 points...
Iron Man 2, 8.0…
Um?!
Wait, what weird thing is mixed in with this bunch of movies?
Yang Ruoqian browsed through the movies quickly and suddenly noticed a movie title that seemed a bit strange.
He quickly scrolled up the post and frowned as he muttered to himself, "Could the rating of Pacific Rim be so low? How could it be only 3.6?"
I have the impression that this is a mecha movie with good reputation and box office.
When he really saw the name clearly, his eyes dulled for a moment.
"What the hell? What is Atlantic Rim? A sequel? There are hundreds of reviews?"
Yang Ruoqian clicked on the introduction page of the movie with some curiosity, and began to search for the production company of the film among the large amount of information.
Then, his eyes locked on those five familiar words.
Shelter Company.
After three seconds of silence in the president's office, President Yang's voice of disbelief broke out.
“What the hell?!”
"Why are you here again? Didn't you just finish filming Titanic 2? Why are you here again? It's only been a few days?!"
Originally, in Yang Ruoqian's mind, the Shelter Company was just a company with low revenue that would occasionally appear in financial reports. It was disgusting and disgusting, but it was definitely not a serious threat.
It is common for a movie to take a quarter, half a year, or even several years to make.
To earn only a few million dollars in such a long period is nothing for the current Kuiguang Group.
But now it seems that the Shelter Company is not as simple as it seems.
Making millions of dollars by shooting a movie in a few months is completely different from making millions of dollars by shooting a movie in a dozen days! Although the money that Shelter Company makes from a movie is not amazing, it can't stand up to his high productivity.
Making millions in just over ten days, how much can you make in a quarter? This profitability is comparable to the most disobedient confidants in the group! Shao Yiqi, you prodigal son, what kind of monster did you recommend me to acquire? Yang Ruoqian was shocked and angry. He directly exited the deserted Fishbone Film Review, opened Station B, and searched for the ID he least wanted to see in the search box with trembling hands.
"Xiao Liu Movie".
All manuscripts, sorted by most recently published.
At the very top, an extremely eye-catching title slapped Yang Ruoqian in the face, and the small line of 301w views below the title was even more eye-catching.
"I'm complaining about Shelter's new film Atlantic Rim. What do you mean by a knockoff is released faster than the original?"
The introduction below the video manuscript is even more important.
"It's okay to complain about bad movies, but I still have to say that Kuiguang Group may have really found a sustainable way out for the majority of grassroots artists."
"Two consecutive low-budget films have achieved such results. Perhaps the ecology of the entertainment industry can really usher in a long-term change."
"At least after failure, I can still make ends meet. At least after my dreams are shattered, I can get back to my life."
"In any case, a company that has the courage to innovate and change existing rules deserves everyone's praise!"
Yang Ruoqian looked at the contents of the manuscript and almost couldn't breathe.
He also clearly remembered that Xiao Liu had said something very similar in his last review of "Titanic 2".
I was planning to give this uploader a good lesson, but when the counselor called me, Yang Ruoqian forgot about it! Who knew that the Shelter Company could produce a movie so quickly? This is the result of procrastination...
Yang Ruoqian glanced at the contact information of "Xiao Liu Movie" on his phone, gritted his teeth, and called the operation.
"Weng Ziqin! Please contact 'Xiao Liu Movie' in the name of the company!"
ps: There will be more later.
(4/7) It's just the progress that I still owe, it doesn't mean I will only add four more days. I will add more until I can't write anymore. Of the 7 chapters I owe, 6 are for monthly tickets, 1 is for leave, 3 were paid last month, and the rest will be paid this month. (End of this chapter)
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