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Chapter 243 The Dean's Problem
Mu Bai frowned and asked: "The ranking of "Last Summer" is still not optimistic?"

Vice President Hou said in the previous meeting that Hongwen Museum released many good songs in June, and the competition in the "new list" was extremely fierce. "Last Summer" suddenly fell from No.3 to No.6.

However, according to Vice President Hou's intentions at the time, this ranking seemed to have a turning point.

It is now June 22, and the turning point that Vice President Hou expected before does not seem to appear, which makes him somewhat impatient.

"I don't know what's going on in the Hongwen Museum." Vice President Hou pulled his face and said: "They rarely release so many new songs for no reason. It seems that they are here to disrupt the market order of the song industry!"

Mu Bai came up with an idea: "Guofeng.com now has more than 60 active users. We can make use of this traffic."

Vice President Hou suddenly smiled: "How to use it?"

"Vice President Hou can approve that the film and television singles will also be sold in Guofeng.com's mall." Mu Bai said with a smile: "There was a single volume of this comic that was sold in the online mall before, and the sales were pretty good."

Vice President Hou smiled and shook his head: "I knew you kid would do something like this again."

He thought for a while before saying: "Yes, yes, but just like the paid download before, Guofeng.com can only be used as a sub-distributor of Shesheng.

"Shesheng is not responsible for postage and other costs after your sales, and can only take 27% of the profit. Prices, circulation, etc., have to follow the arrangements of Shesheng."

"No problem!" Mu Bai agreed very happily, big companies are like this, and the conditions are harsh.

The in-depth cooperation between Guofeng Studio and Lifelike is the result of Mu Bai's previous "investment in human feelings", and it doesn't mean that every big company will be as talkative as Bai Xiaoliang.

After talking about the business, Vice President Hou talked about "topping the list": "At present, June is hopeless, and July is destined to be a month full of good songs.

"However, you and Bo Ying have already accumulated a lot of popularity. We can consider releasing "Travel" in August. We can give it a try this month. If we don't get the top three this month, the plan of 'topping the list' will be in danger. .”

Mu Bai nodded: "In terms of strategy, I listen to Vice President Hou."

Vice President Hou was very satisfied with Mu Bai's statement: "Tomorrow someone will come to sign the contract, I'm rushing to work, and strive to release the film and television single the day after tomorrow!"

For Vice President Hou, time is running out now, and it is necessary to quickly turn animation shorts into popularity.

After finishing the production of the animation short film, Mu Bai can finally rest for a day.

However, the production of "My Neighbor Totoro" was also on the agenda. He did not rush to disband the animation team, but let them participate in character design.

He also asked Yang Wenjun to contact Xiao Minghui and ask him to prepare food and accommodation. The more than 20 people in the animation team will set off to the seaside resort for filming in the next two days.

Another issue is the cooperation with the school. Dean Lin Haijie has said many times that he wants to see the animation products of Guofeng Studio.

In the process of urging, Dean Lin also revealed intentionally or unintentionally that the dean of Shenghuai College also wanted to take a look.

This is to remind Mu Bai and the others that it is the dean of Shenghuai who wants to see it.

Now that the preparations for "My Neighbor Totoro" have started in full swing, most of the teachers and department chairs at the college take it for granted that the college should take the lead in this project, and Guofeng Studio will follow behind and do odd jobs.

But the dean had previously promised Mu Bai to take a look at his works before deciding on the director.

Since that meeting, there has been no news about Mu Bai's animation works, so the dean put aside the issue of leadership while urging Mu Bai.

Fortunately, Mu Bai hurried to catch up, and finally drove out the animation short film.

Sure enough, Vice President Hou started selling the film and television single of "Big Canopy" on June 24.

It is said that it was out of stock just an hour after it was released, and all major audio-visual stores and bookstores were out of stock.

This is the official statement. In fact, it is because of time constraints. Shesheng devoted all his productivity to the production of film and television singles. In one day and two nights, he only produced [-] film and television singles.

Mu Bai's Guofeng studio only got 80 tickets, and the internal staff of the studio alone bought more than [-] tickets.

However, as Vice President Hou expected, the popularity of "Big Canopy" has been heated up again, and at the same time, Gu Boying's new song "Last Summer" has also become popular.

According to the increase in the number of downloads of "Last Summer", Mu Bai estimated that it should be no problem for "Last Summer" to return to No.5 before the government pushes it.

Mu Bai doesn't have time to care about the issue of rankings, so he first sent an express email to Xiao Minghui with a film and television single of "Big Canopy", as well as the script and character design of "My Neighbor Totoro".

Then he took two more film and television singles, and went to school with two dolls of King Xiang.

Mu Bai went to the dean's office first, and waited for more than half an hour before the dean had time to meet Mu Bai.

The dean still asked him to sit in the reception area, and asked the secretary to pour tea.

Mu Bai got straight to the point and said: "This is the doll image designed by our studio, and the dean gave me some advice. There is also a film and television single produced by our studio, which was just released today, and I also brought a copy for the dean to see. look."

The dean accepted it with a smile: "I have already watched your film and television single, and it is very good. I am also relieved to let you be the director."

Then he changed the subject: "Tomorrow there will be a meeting about the movie "My Neighbor Totoro", so you should also participate. I have seen your ability, but whether you can perform the duties of the director well depends on your meeting at the meeting tomorrow." Performance."

"Thank you Dean for giving me this opportunity, I will definitely live up to the Dean's expectations." Mu Bai understood in his heart that the Dean's intention was to see if he could command the teachers of the academy tomorrow, so that the crew would not hinder each other in the future The phenomenon.

After taking his farewell from the dean, Mu Bai went to Dean Lin's office with another film and television single and doll that he had prepared.

Regardless of whether he really wanted to see the works of Guofeng Studio, or just conveyed the meaning of the dean, Mu Bai would come to inform Dean Lin.

The next day, Mu Bai brought Yang Wenjun to the school to participate in the "My Neighbor Totoro" project meeting as scheduled. Some teachers and school leaders saw the two students participating in the meeting, and then thought of the animation short film just released by Guofeng Studio, they already made a rough guess. It is understood that Guofeng Studio may be more involved in this project.

After the dean came to the conference room, the meeting officially started.

The first item on the agenda is to discuss the choice of director.

The "My Neighbor Totoro" project involves four departments in the college, namely the Department of Fine Arts, the Department of Classical Literature, the Department of Music, and the Department of Performance.

Among them, the performance department has the highest participation rate. After all, directors, dubbing and other tasks require a large number of people from the performance department to complete.

Fan Ze, the dean of the acting department, still recommended Qu Xiesheng, the deputy director of the acting department, to be the director. Apart from teaching at the school, he is also a senior director. The key is that he has directed three animation films with good grades.

While recommending, Fan Ze stared at the dean. This was the third time he suggested it. The first two times the dean didn't make a decision for some reason, and always said to wait.

"Uh, everyone may not have read the contract carefully." Mu Bai suddenly said: "It is stated in the contract with Pinghaifu that the operation of this movie is handed over to Guofeng Studio by Pinghaifu, so the director must Produced in our studio."

This sentence caused an uproar. Many people naturally saw this, but they didn't take it to heart. They thought that the senior management of Guofeng Studio was from the Holy Huai College. lead.

This is also where everyone has always disagreed. Hao Wenzhong and Zhou Yazhe knew Mu Bai's purpose, so they have been making studio-led plans.

He also persuaded the Department of Performance and Music not to intervene too much, while Fan Ze believed that they were trying to seize the dominance and never took Guofeng Studio into consideration.

And Mu Bai discovered that the dean also seemed to deliberately not reveal his thoughts to Fan Ze and others, as if deliberately creating such a situation for himself to clean up, and through this process to test the school itself.

Mu Baixin said: "The dean thinks too highly of me. The four department heads and a dozen teachers sitting here are all big figures from all walks of life. How can I have such great ability to make them obedient?"

Fan Ze, who was sitting next to the dean, was the first to say to Mu Bai: "We know that Guofeng Studio has achieved good results during this period, but making animated films is not a trivial matter, and it is not something you can handle at your age. "

Originally, Mu Bai saved Xiang Shuxuan's life before, and Fan Ze had a good impression of Mu Bai, but today Mu Bai's "outspokenness" made his impression of Mu Bai drop again and again.

Mu Bai immediately said: "We just released a short animated film, everyone should be able to see the background of our studio from there!"

Qu Jisheng frowned and said: "The animated short film is just a small work, and you have no production experience before. Even if you think you are very good, you will not be able to withstand the test of the market."

"Teacher Qu hasn't seen it, please don't comment for now." Mu Bai put away his smile: "On the contrary, our short animated film sold out as soon as it was released.

"To be honest, all the teachers and leaders let me down. This project was negotiated for our studio, but now none of you think to listen to our opinions.

"Do you think that we are students, and it doesn't matter whether our opinions are heard or not?"

Everyone in the room fell silent, except for some people like Hao Wenzhong, they all had this thought.It's just that this kind of thinking can't be admitted.

The dean of the music department, Bai Peishan, broke the awkward silence. She smiled and said, "Why didn't we listen to your opinions? We just think that you have no experience in this field and need us to help you carry out this project."

"Since everyone is willing to listen to our opinions." Mu Bai saw that he had already occupied the moral high ground, so he said bluntly: "Then, there are some things that must be clearly explained to everyone."

(End of this chapter)