What should I do if the system forces me to copy books?

"Maybe we can change our thinking..."

When a person looks at a problem, he will have a different perspective from different angles, and Lin Meng can be recruited to be the head of the department of this personal studio, which has its own advantages, except that she graduated from Tsinghua University, a top university in China. In addition to her university status, she has a good enough work experience and enough experience, which also allows her to have a broader perspective on issues.

While other people are still obsessed with the specific price of "Sword Come" film and television copyright, Lin Meng has already had another idea, a different cooperation model. When they were all focused on the meeting, they had a slight "absence", but of course it wasn't considered a desertion, and they just made some simple preparations for it.

At this time, the "food chain" of the studio can be reflected.

There is no doubt that Li Chungang is the boss, so whenever he speaks, other people will choose to shut up immediately and listen to everything the boss said before it is their turn to express their opinions and opinions. Of course, it doesn't mean that they just randomly rush into a mess, but that when they see that someone has already spoken, they will not interrupt other people's speeches, and go to express their opinions one by one.

boss > employee

Strictly speaking, this simple food chain is not complete. The real complete food chain in Wensi Quanyong Studio should be: the biggest boss (Li Chungang) > the boss (Luo Wen) > the head of the studio (Lin Meng) > Employees of all departments of the studio!

Li Chungang is like the emperor who lives behind the scenes. Generally speaking, he will not ask about the big and small affairs in the studio. Luo Wen, who is currently coordinating the overall situation, is in charge of everything; while Lin Meng is really in charge of scheduling and arranging various work arrangements in the studio. The person in charge, that is, most of Luo Wen's work was handed over to her.

Therefore, at the moment when Lin Meng spoke, no matter who was speaking or who was about to speak, they all subconsciously chose to keep silent and focus on listening to what she was going to express next.

"Senior sister, do you have any other ideas?" Li Chungang was very happy to hear that Lin Meng had other ideas. Isn't this why he organized this multi-person video conference early in the morning? The screen is divided into square tofu pieces of the same size. Sometimes he can’t find which one is speaking, so he has an idea and continues before Lin Meng speaks: “Speaking of which, this multi-person video method is too troublesome. Sister, remember, I will buy a set of video conferencing equipment for the meeting room later, one end can be connected to me, and the other end can be connected to the other side of the meeting room, it looks uncomfortable now."

"Xiaoxiao, you will complete this matter, and the expenses will be reimbursed by the financial side later."

Such an impossibly small matter naturally doesn't need Lin Meng to do it himself, and just hand it over to Xiaoxiao, who is like half an assistant in the studio, to handle it.

"Based on what you said just now, boss, I can basically tell that the people who want to buy the film and television copyright of "Sword Come" are most likely the second generation with deep pockets and no experience. The cooperation methods of film and television copyrights of all the works, including the price of film and television copyrights, are all carried out in the form of one-time price buyout. Of course, there are also reasons for shop bullying. Compared with the film and television entertainment industry, the Internet No matter in terms of attention or status, the literary circle is indeed a little bit less interesting. But..."

Chapter 352 Limitation of vision and growth

Talking is afraid of "but"!

In such a short period of time, Lin Meng has found a large amount of data, from the first online novel that sold film and television copyright, to the first online novel that was remade into an online drama and TV series, to the first online novel that was sold in 02 The highest price for online novel film and television copyright...

As long as you are not a fool, you can hear a little strangeness from this pile of data. The most important and clearest point is that the film and television copyright prices of this online novel have been soaring every year since the first year, and in 2015 Later, after the concept of "big IP era" was put forward for the first time at Longteng's annual grand ceremony, online novels, especially those popular phenomenon-level works at the top of the pyramid, have become the top-level novels that everyone is vying for. IP.

At this time, Longteng is no longer satisfied with just the film and television copyrights of online novels, but a series of copyrights including game copyrights, comic copyrights, etc., integrated into one "IP".

I especially remember that in 2015, the film and television rights of the works on the entire network were sold at the highest price. The film and television rights of "Langya", the prisoner's work "Langya" by the author of China Entertainment Chinese Network, one of the five supreme gods, was the first to sell 860 million yuan, which broke through eight figures. At that time, everyone called it a sky-high price that was difficult to break through.

At that time, the phrase "Jiangzuo Meilang, the talent of Qilin" almost dominated the entire schedule.

Then, after online novels officially entered the "big IP era" in 2016, the online dramas and TV series adapted from online literature filmed in the same year are like crucian carp crossing the river, such as "Small Smile is Alluring", "Qing Yun Zhi", "Remaining Sins" Taking turns to dominate the major video sites, occupying the attention of netizens for a whole year, and at the same time driving the VIP purchase rate of members of the major sites.

Many small and medium-sized film and television entertainment companies have gained a firm foothold in the entertainment industry in one fell swoop by relying on the small investment and big returns of adapting web texts into web dramas!

"..."

Silence... Everyone in the multi-person video fell silent at the same time.

After talking eloquently for more than ten minutes, Lin Meng himself felt a little dry, so he quietly picked up the unpretentious thermos cup placed on the right side of the desk and took a sip. At the same time, it was also a way for everyone to digest what he had just said. Time to say content.

If Li Chungang knew very well that this multi-person video conference was convened by himself, and at the same time, the issue of "Sword Come" film and television copyright cooperation was suddenly thrown out to everyone, there would be no time to prepare in advance, or else after listening After Lin Meng's long speech, she will definitely think that she has done enough work before that.

In fact, these things were just collected by her in just ten minutes!

How strong a person's business ability is does not depend on how strong his or her business ability is at ordinary times, but on how strong a person's on-the-spot coping ability is when dealing with emergencies!As long as the former is willing to spend time and work hard, he can always do well, but the latter is the only one...

There is no point of trickery, it completely reflects the strength of a person's ability!

In this regard, there is no doubt that Lin Meng is the best.In fact, when Li Chungang and Lao Luo were chatting on weekdays, they couldn't help but mention Lin Meng's excellent work ability. In the words of Lao Luo's courtyard flower: "This girl is so good that I am getting more and more in the studio." There is no sense of existence anymore!"

No matter how familiar Luo Wen is, he will not misunderstand that Lao Luo is complaining about Lin Meng's seizure of power, but is really praising Lin Meng's strong work ability from the negative side, basically handling all the big and small affairs of the studio. Everything is in order, except for important matters that require one of Luo Wen and Li Chungang to nod in agreement or sign the document, it is probably okay for Lao Luo to stay at home with his wife instead of going to the studio.

In fact, that's exactly what Rowan has been doing lately.

Of course, he didn't intentionally rely on his status as a shareholder and boss to be lazy during working hours. Although there is nothing wrong with such a low-level staff, the real reason is that his wife Lin Yimin is about to give birth. As a husband, he has to spend more time with his wife. side.

Say something!Well said!Make sense!In other words...

At this time, Li Chungang's mind is full of such idioms. With his IQ, he can roughly guess what Lin Mengmeng wants to express. Seeing that everyone is still silent, perhaps it is more appropriate to say that he dare not be the first to speak. , so I was the first to say: "Senior sister, I roughly understand what you mean. I am more confident in the quality of "Sword Come" than anyone else, and I am also more convinced than anyone else that as long as the funds are sufficient and the special effects are burnt Under the premise that it is in place, it will definitely dominate the same schedule!"

Those who know me are also students.

In the video, Lin Meng's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and his voice couldn't help but rise up: "In this case, why are we talking about the copyright price of the film and television? It's like the royalties for physical publishing. We directly use the film and television copyright of "Sword Come" as the price." According to the conditions, reach a cooperation with the other party. And as far as I know, the change of the script of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern Ⅰ Exquisite Ancient City" was still done by you, the boss. Considering that the other party is also a group of young birds who have never set foot in the entertainment industry, I believe this A little bit can further win greater benefits for us, and even if there is enough time, we can also work as a part-time producer and so on..."

While talking, she began to conceive an overall plan in her mind, including the share ratio after the cooperation between the two parties to adapt and film "Sword Come" into a TV series, the specific division of duties, and how to win more benefits for her side conditions etc.

In addition, there are some things that Lin Meng didn't say in front of everyone in the studio. He came with a mixed mouth. It's not like "two or five boys", but it's hard to guarantee that someone will give up their principles and sell the interests of the studio under the temptation of money.

Moreover, there are also some unpleasant words in these words. For example, after working in Wensiquanyong studio for a long time, the more I realize the various drawbacks in this studio, such as the system is not clear enough, the work The division is not detailed enough, the business ability needs to be improved, too much reliance on Li Chungang and He Miao, etc... Most of them are leftover problems left over from the history left by Luo Wen before he took charge of the studio. It is not difficult to change, but the difficulty lies in such drastic reforms impact.

The last point is also the most important point that Lin Meng personally thinks!

That is when she thought that the two bosses, Li Chungang and Luo Wen, were a bit too petty, and the structure was not big enough. Otherwise, when the studio underwent equity changes and reorganization, it would not continue to maintain the status of a studio, but take advantage of the trend. Become a company, and then grow bigger and stronger bit by bit.

With the influence of the words "Zhichun Zhigang" in the Internet circle at that time, and Li Chungang's financial resources, it is not a simple matter to do it. Of course, this is also understandable. After all, the two had I have no experience in this area, so I will inevitably have a little conservative thinking of small farmers.

Luo Wen is thinking about keeping the studio to develop a little bit, and seeking stability is the top priority!

Li Chungang is even simpler, he just wants to have a personal studio to deal with things for himself!

Therefore, when these two people got together, they didn't think about how much trouble they could save by setting up a company in one step.

Chapter 353 Produced by Chungang, it must be a boutique

"I made an appointment with the other party to have an interview next week. During this period of time, senior sister, you have worked hard to come up with a specific and feasible cooperation plan, just in the form you just said. As for the share ratio or something, you have it in your heart. We need to have a plan first, and the interview will depend on the investment amount of the whole drama, including if there is insufficient investment in the follow-up, the proportion of additional funds and the dilution of the share of the two parties, etc..."

Don't look at Li Chungang speaking in a logical manner, in fact, he doesn't know much about the specific contract style between the investment party and the filming party of the TV series, and he just talked about it purely based on his own personal cognition.

Although Lin Meng had zero knowledge of various affairs in the entertainment industry before this, this does not prevent a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University from learning and understanding quickly.Furthermore, it is not difficult to find this kind of contract template between the bidder and the employer as long as you spend time and effort.

"Where is the location of the interview with the other party?" Lin Meng has already figured out the time, one week later, but she still doesn't know the location. If it is in Shanghai, there is no need to prepare in advance. If it is placed in Yanjing, then the plan needs to reserve a day or so in advance to rush to Yanjing.

"Yanjing. You can bring as many people as you need, and I will go with you when the time comes."

"Row."

The "keynote" of the cooperation with Sun Moon Qiankun on the film and television copyright of "Sword Come" has been set in this way. It can be imagined that the studio will definitely be busy in the next week, and for Li Chungang, as long as he sets a general direction, The rest of the details can be left to senior sister Lin Meng to complete.

"Then today's video conference will end here, thanks to everyone."

"beep--"

Li Chungang, who just ended the multi-person video call, didn't know...

After Lin Meng heard that the interview location was in Yanjing and that he would be there, she couldn't help but become active. In addition to completing the work of the specific cooperation plan with the other party, she also added an additional task to herself. That is to come up with a plan to improve the existing shortcomings of the studio before going to Yanjing to meet the boss Li Chungang, including but not limited to the reorganization of the studio into a company, as well as personnel reorganization, system restructuring, etc. It is a "stepping stone" that restricts them from continuing to grow bigger and stronger.

Originally, she planned to take some time to discuss her thoughts with Li Chungang and Luo Wen, the two bosses, after the multi-person video conference was over. Put the whole plan in front of your boss.

Young people are always full of vigor and forge ahead!

With the salary and dividends she gets from Wensi Quanyong's studio every year, it only takes three to five years to buy a house that she likes in any city in China, but Lin Meng, who has always believed that a woman does not give up to a man, does not. She will stop moving forward at this point. Her life plan for herself is to do her best to develop her career before the age of 30. After the age of 30, the focus begins to shift to the family.

Some people may think that this is a bit too "strong woman", but Lin Meng said that she decides her life.

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Li Chungang didn't know that his subordinate and senior sister was preparing a surprise gift for him.

Thinking that if there is no accident, it is more reliable to adapt "The Sword Comes" into a script by himself. He is not worried about his theoretical knowledge in script adaptation. What I should really worry about is some experience and practice.

For this reason, he decided to watch some excellent serials adapted from online novels in recent years if he still has spare time after completing the scheduled codeword work of "Full-time Master" and "Sword Come" every day. Of course, this is to watch with the purpose of learning.

"Fuck, what the hell is this all about?"

"Wouldn't it be embarrassing to have a cancer attack in such a plot?"

"As far as this special effect is concerned, I'm really cracked. I'm afraid I spent fifty cents to hire someone to do it!"

"Wow~ Is this the highest level of the legendary superficial smile? Big brother, can you give me some expressions in acting? How did you get into the male lead like this, or is it that the management just flattered you like this?"

"..."

It's okay if you don't look at it, but it's amazing when you look at it.

Almost every night, there are always Li Chungang's crazy complaints in the study room. I don't know how these things were selected as excellent web adaptation series by netizens. Is this level and quality something people watch?

Let’s talk about it, the reason why he said this is also because he doesn’t know the inside story of these serial dramas, and there is also a similar saying that if you are not in charge, you don’t know Chai Migui.For a drama, there is only so much money invested, how to spend all this limited money wisely, this is definitely a big test for the director and producer of a crew.

Spend a lot of money to hire traffic stars, and the money spent on special effects and scene props will inevitably be greatly squeezed;

Spend a lot of money to hire people to create special effects, then the rest of the money can only be found on some cheap second- and third-tier stars or train newcomers. Naturally, there will be scenes where the acting skills are not online and it is very embarrassing to watch;

There are also soundtracks, post-editing, the cost of various personnel and props, and the very important publicity costs after completion... These are places where the available funds are further reduced.

There are also levers who may say, since the money is not enough, why not just let the investors continue to add more?

This will involve a question of investment amount and market return estimation.For example, they set an investment amount of 1000 million before the shooting, and the estimated market return is around 1200-1300 million. Under such circumstances, do you think that investors who are essentially profit and greedy will engage in loss-making business?

Impossible, little brother.

Could it be that I don't like watching TV dramas and online dramas more and more? If I judge them from his perspective, it's just a drag, the plot is empty, the lead actor's acting is not good enough, the whole process is paralyzed, and the dialogue has no point The spoken language is as flat as the tone, and the tone is even more unchanged. What else is there to see?The special effects that cost fifty cents to make.

In other words, several TV series adapted from online novels produced by several top domestic film and television entertainment companies last year and this year can barely catch the eye. This is the benefit of having large capital as a backing. With a large number of excellent actors to choose from within the company, it is unlikely to make a bad movie.

So if "Sword Comes" or "Fighting Knife in the Snow" is really made into a TV series, such a situation must not be repeated. , must be a high-quality product", otherwise he would rather keep the film and television drama copyright in his hands than sell it!

Chapter 354

Bad movies are bad movies, but no matter how bad it is, there will always be bright spots and merits.

Li Chungang, who has been watching for several days in a row, is not completely fruitless: on the one hand, when you see the mistakes made by others, you can give yourself a wake-up call to avoid similar situations when adapting it into a script; on the other hand, Indeed, I also learned a lot of veteran experience of other screenwriters when adapting online novels into scripts.

For example, how to condense long paragraphs of conversations between characters in online novels into the essence; for example, how to transform the environmental descriptions of hundreds or thousands of words into scenes in the script; for example, how to extract The character setting of a character is convenient for the director to choose actors, etc...

The good thing is that he is not only the original work of the online novel, but also the screenwriter of the adapted script. Compared with other screenwriters, he has a natural advantage of knowing the content of the novel better than everyone else!

In fact, most of the well-known big-name screenwriters in the screenwriting circle simply put up their names, and then let the gunners or screenwriter assistants in their own studios complete the details of the entire script.And those new screenwriters who are not very famous, either act as gunmen to process and polish some existing scripts slowly, or rely on luck to contribute to domestic film and television entertainment companies one by one, hoping to hit the big luck one day Which company will take a fancy to the script submitted by oneself.

The vast majority of scripts are derived from real life stories.

How to make a seemingly ordinary story look extraordinary is the job of their screenwriters.

The work of adapting an online novel into a script is relatively easier, because there are ready-made works and a large framework, and all you need to do is to fill in various contents within this large framework.

Although there are few people who choose to be screenwriters, it is far more cruel than the competition in the Internet literature world!The only similarity is that the entire income level is in the shape of a pyramid. The group of screenwriters at the top of the pyramid can earn tens of millions of dollars a year. Food and clothing cannot be solved, and a large part of them have to work part-time in other jobs to obtain a relatively stable income.

Li Chungang intends to enter the entertainment industry as a "screenwriter". It's good, but he never thought of writing scripts for others or becoming someone else's shooter to adapt some online articles into scripts. Even if he wanted to adapt, he would only do it for himself. The work is in progress, and with the entire [Literary Encyclopedia System], he doesn't need to worry about not having any stories to adapt.

He can't become a big fat man in one sitting, anyway, he is not in a hurry, even if the film and television copyright of his works can't be made into a TV series for a while, it doesn't matter, classics are always classics, good works are good works no matter where they are placed, and they will still Attract enough audiences, and it is not guaranteed that the shooting technology will be more powerful in the future, and the effect of the shooting will be better!Don't you see "Gong Suo's Scheming", which has been covered in dust for so many years, but once it was filmed as a TV series, it still managed to dominate the screen. It not only became a model of small investment with big returns, but also gained a lot of audience reputation.

When this film and television entertainment company shoots other TV series in the future...

"Is this a new TV series produced by the company that filmed "Gong Suo's Scheming"?"

"Yes yes yes!"

"That's worth seeing."

"A must see!"

"..."

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"Let's all talk about our opinions."

Her real name is Gu Wan'er, that is, Sun Moon Qiankun looked around at her friends, and said calmly.

Just as Li Chungang thought, Gu Wan'er, who proposed to buy the film and television copyright of "Sword Come" at that time, may have had some impulsive reasons, but when he proposed a one-week preparation time, she affirmed her idea, but she also did not have the slightest idea. Not idle.

Find someone to help set up the company, buy an entire floor of ready-made office space, hire the first batch of employees from the headhunting company Gaoxin, ask my father to help find someone to evaluate the market prospects of "Sword Lay" being made into a TV series, and At this time, the evaluation report was in her hand.

At this time, in the office of the company that was purchased ready-made, Gu Wan'er was sitting in the meeting room with a few friends who had previously said that they wanted to work together as a partner. With two documents.

These are two survey reports on the market prospect of "Sword Come" being made into a TV series, which were drawn up by her father looking for professionals and employees hired by his company after three days.

Among them, a young man with a shiny back hair and gold-rimmed glasses tapped the two reports on the table with his right index finger and said indifferently: "Wan'er, with just these two reports and a book with tens of thousands of words Internet novels, just want to persuade everyone to spend money to participate in this investment, isn't it a bit too childish?"

Since they are friends, it is clear that Gu Wan'er likes to read online novels very much on weekdays, especially the author of "Sword Comes". The works written by this guy are so pure, and sometimes we all come out to play together. I also gave Amway to the people present here, "Knives in the Snow", and said with certainty that they would definitely like it after reading a few chapters.

It's just that she didn't think about it at all--

Compared with empty words, the second generation of them still prefer the visible and tangible reality. If they have time to read novels, they might as well drive their own super cars and go out to flirt with young ladies, wouldn’t it be more pleasant? ?Being able to sit here at this moment has already shown that they are enough to give face to Gu Wan'er as a friend, but whose money is not blown by a strong wind, and investment projects are also this kind of empty-handed and nothing. Just plan to let them invest millions.

This is no longer called investment, but throwing money into the sea of ​​salt water!Even if you throw money into the sea, at least you can still hear it, but investing in such a project with no clear future...

The person who spoke was the one with the best background in their circle, except for Gu Wan'er - He Hua, whose family was in the import and export trade business.What he said naturally represented the opinions of the vast majority of people present, and in their hearts they were indeed not very optimistic about Gu Wan'er's project.