Chronicle of Emperor Jing

Ever since Zhou Qi heard that Jing Li was going to have dinner with Mr. Tian of Tiangong Group, he felt all kinds of entanglements and discomforts. After Li Yue and Li Director heard about this, of course they were equally entangled and uncomfortable.

Although Director Li's skills in cheating people over the years have approached the level of proficiency, but it is not so easy to find a suitable cheater, especially for his movie, all the preliminary work has been completed, and the actors' schedule is also very short. After the reservation is made, if the shooting cannot start as scheduled because the funds are not in place, the loss will be huge.

The shooting of a film is generally divided into pre-work, film shooting, and post-work.

The more adequate the pre-work preparations are, the more time and seconds the crew will be able to shoot after they enter the scene, and the more they can save filming expenses.If everything is not properly prepared in the early stage, once something happens during the filming process, the filming cannot go on smoothly, and the money will be lost if it burns.

The rental fee of the shooting location, the rental fee of the shooting equipment, the salary of the film crew, and the salary and schedule of the actors are all money. If the shooting process is delayed by one day, it is a large amount of money spent.

For this reason, the crew usually rushes to work day and night during filming. Although the crew members are as tired as dogs, it is not uncommon for the glamorous actors in front of the camera to lie down in all kinds of tiredness behind the camera. .

Moreover, another important thing is that it is impossible for Wu Mei and Wu Xiaohua not to work without an empty schedule. Give him a lot of time and wait for his funds to be in place. If Li Yue's film cannot start shooting as scheduled, Wu Xiaohua's schedule It's sure to fill up quickly.

Li Yue used the friendship of his boss and spent a lot of effort to persuade Wu Mei to star in his film, preparing to fight a beautiful turnaround, so that those who ridiculed him for not making commercial films can take a good look, he Li Yue Yue can also make good commercial films.

If all his plans were to go to waste because of the evil money, he would definitely not be reconciled.

However, if he is made to endure all kinds of unreasonable demands from investors because of the evil money, he will definitely not give in easily.

Therefore, even if Li Yue actually needed the investment, throughout the negotiation process, his performance was neither humble nor overbearing, and he only used words such as everyone to make money together to fool the other party. Such a thing was firmly resisted.

"Director Wei, you should understand that a layman directing an expert cannot produce a good work. It's not that I refuse to agree to this request, but that I really can't agree. Everyone has a different understanding of the script. There are too many people directing. In the end, Whose responsibility is it if you shoot a four-faced image, and when the time comes, who will be responsible?" Director Li talked eloquently at the negotiating table, rejecting Wei Yan's request to send someone to shoot with the crew, and to supervise the development of the film's plot in line with the existing script.

He said this quite naturally, as if his fluttering has always been someone else's responsibility.

Compared with Jing Li, this good ability of talking nonsense with open eyes is not inferior.

The so-called negotiation is actually a process in which the negotiating parties explore the bottom line of each other.

Calling prices all over the sky and paying back the money on the ground are the proper meaning of the question.

Li Yue's bottom line is to invest in place, but if he is found to be his bottom line, then he is stupid.

If he was so stupid, he would definitely not be able to fool so many people into filling his trap.

Anyway, life is like a play, all depends on acting skills.

At the negotiating table, whoever has the best acting skills can take advantage of it.

"Director Li, this is our only request." Wei Yan's acting skills are indeed not as high as Director Li's, and he is definitely not his opponent when it comes to speaking skills, but Wei Yan does not want to come with him, and his request is straightforward. It was put on the table, and Director Li disagreed, so there was nothing to talk about.

Negotiations reached a deadlock for a while.

"Junior Brother Wei, how about this, let Director Li add a lovable male lead to the film, and your studio recommend an actor to play this role. As for the direction of the plot, let Director Li master it, after all, Director Li is a professional Yes, those of us who don't understand, don't interfere." Zhou Qi and Li Yue muttered for a while, and then came forward to smooth things over.

What he said, after careful study, is also reasonable, and it can be regarded as a routine operation in the industry.

In the industry, the relationship between investors and directors is not static. In the end, who has the right to speak and who controls the power of the studio, there are actually many situations, and there are many games involved.

Some investors, in order to popularize their own artists, will specially fund and make movies for them. In this case, some directors may come to work part-time. If you want to add more drama, if you want to change people, you can change people. Everything is based on the highest criterion of satisfying the sponsor.

But some investors look down on those unknown directors who work part-time. They want to hire famous directors to do the filming. The right to speak that the director can control depends on the director's fame. The more famous the director, the more he can speak on the set. Quan, even the patron's father, can't do whatever he wants.

There are also some films where the lead work is initiated by the director, and the director himself is also one of the investors of the film. In this case, various operations and games are more complicated, because the father of the funder is obviously divided into many, generally based on the amount of investment How many people have different voices.

At this time, it's time for all kinds of fairy shows to operate. Some people will bring money into the group to reserve a role, some people will please an investor to increase the role of the show, and there are all kinds of operations that only others can't think of.

They are now in the latter situation. Li Yue and Director Li are the founders and one of the investors, and he has a great say in himself.

But investors like Wei Yan, once the investment is in place, are expected to account for a quarter of the film's shooting funds. It is a relatively routine operation to reserve a leading role for their studio, but the casting has already been finalized Zhou Qi proposed to add a male second role to the film as compensation.

"Senior Brother Zhou, Director Li, this is really our only request." Not to mention that there are no artists under their studio to promote, even if there were, Wei Yan would not agree to this condition. He made this request for Don't let his own investment go to waste. If Director Li doesn't agree, he won't agree to this investment plan at all.

He had already spoken to this point, Li Yue was unwilling to back down, and obviously there was nothing to talk about next.

"It's getting late." Tao Yibo raised his hand to look at his watch, and came out to smooth things over, "Why don't we all go to lunch first, and then come to continue the discussion after dinner."

Tao Yibo was dissatisfied with Wei Yan's operation. If they followed their original plan, they would be the first to open their mouths. If they wanted them to invest, they would have to choose the leading role. After Director Li refused, they would back off each other. I'm afraid they have already forced the other party to agree to their condition.

But Wei Yan was worried about what to do if Director Li really agreed. After all, their goal was not to praise their own artists, but to get a return on their investment. To achieve this goal, they had to stop Director Li from being During the shooting process, the difficulty of watching the movie is increased at any time for the audience, so that the audience has to do professional-level reading comprehension while watching the movie.

After all, audiences who watch commercial films mainly come to enjoy the visual feast and sensational plot, not to learn and study artistic expression techniques. If they are unwilling to serve the needs of the target group, they will end up like Director Li, who obviously has extraordinary skills, but It became a pit.

Wei Yan had such worries, and he didn't have Mr. Jing's ability to pull back even if he strayed away from the goal at the beginning, so he rejected this false negotiation plan and put their demands on the table. On the bright side, it has caused the current passive situation.

Tao Yibo has an opinion on this, but he won't tell Wei Yan, because it's really not his turn to say these things.

The attitude of his boss shows that he is spending money to help people learn and experience, and making money is not the first priority at all.

That being the case, when the negotiation is deadlocked, how to find a way to break the deadlock is also a course that Wei Yan needs to learn.

After Tao Yibo arranged for everyone to go to dinner, he called his boss and asked him to understand the difficulties encountered in the current negotiation process, so that he could have a clue when comforting others.

As for asking him why he didn't make a small report about Wei Yan in front of his boss, he is not stupid. The boss has a close relationship with Wei Yan, or a close relationship with him. As long as he is not blind, he can tell. Doing this kind of thing that harms others and does not benefit oneself, is it because you are full and have nothing to do?

Because the negotiations in the morning were not going well, everyone was not very interested in eating, so the meal ended after a casual meal.

It was just a little before 12 o'clock after dinner, and the negotiations in the afternoon would start at 2 o'clock. In addition, during the meal, Mr. Jing sent several messages, asking Wei Yan to come and see him after dinner, so Wei Yan went to Jing son.

Mr. Jing's office is on the top floor, and Wei Yan went there for the first time.

He swiped his card to enter the executive's exclusive elevator, the elevator went up smoothly, and after a while, he reached the top floor.

In addition to Mr. Jing's office on the top floor, there are assistant rooms and secretary rooms.

Zhongchen Technology is a network technology company. This is an emerging industry, which is different from traditional industries. Even the decoration style of the office is more casual.

Wei Yan was a little nervous at first. In the past, he and Mr. Jing's intersections were all in the private field, but now, he is obviously entering Mr. Jing's work field openly.

After discovering this, he became nervous for no reason.

But when he came up, he couldn't help but relax a little when he saw the flowers and plants everywhere, and all kinds of toy decorations.

"Director Wei, please come here." The secretary at the reception desk has received all kinds of news, both on the surface and on the gossip. For example, this Director Wei is an upstart in front of the boss. Forcibly occupying such a good position on the 8th floor and letting other departments directly make way for him must be very powerful.

There is also a gossip that it is said that Ms. Jing likes Director Wei very much, and sent him to study as a teacher with a lot of favors. I don't know who released this gossip.

If Ms. Jing heard the news and knew that her original intention was deliberately misinterpreted and used in such a way, she might be so angry that she would vomit blood, but so far, she doesn't know.

In fact, Zhongchen Technology and Jing's Group don't have much business relationship, but a successful group leader like Ms. Jing has long been the life idol and gossip object of many professional women. Ms. Jing's movements have always been very concerned.

The secretary who led the way was gossiping, with a very professional expression on her face. She led Wei Yan to the door of the president's office, knocked on the door, and said, "President, Director Wei is here."

"Ask him to come in, and bring in a cup of coffee." Jing Li's voice came from inside.

"Ok."

The secretary opened the door, invited Wei Yan in, and soon brought coffee.

It wasn't until she exited again that Wei Yan, who was sitting on the sofa in the rest area, felt relieved.

Before he could finish his breath, he saw Mr. Jing, who was originally sitting on the office chair, stood up and unbuttoned his coat.

"What do you want...?" Seeing his movements, Wei Yan stuttered nervously.

The thing in the office is too exciting, his little heart can't stand it.

"What do you think?" Jing Li took off his coat, draped it on the back of the chair, raised his eyebrows and asked him, and at the same time unbuttoned the cuffs of his shirt.

"I'm sleepy, I want to take a lunch break." Wei Yan lay down directly on the sofa, closed his eyes, and prepared to pretend to be an ostrich.

When you are usually happy to die, why don't you know how to be afraid?

At this time, you will be afraid.

Jing Li shook his head speechlessly, came over and sat beside him, coaxed him to take off his coat, let him rest on his lap, and covered him with a thin blanket before rubbing his head, softly Said in a low voice: "Didn't you say you want to take a nap? Are you not sleepy anymore?"

Wei Yan looked at him with his eyes open for a while, and then said: "The negotiation has not been settled yet, so I can't sleep."

He has already discovered that he was thinking too much just now.But he can't be blamed for this matter, who told Mr. Jing to scare him in the morning, and just now he acted like a romantic man again, so he would think that the crooked position is too normal.