Chapter 754 Shortage of Talents
Wireless moves really fast.
It was announced on December 29 that the "Hong Kong Rookie Singing Contest" would begin, and a week later, registration and preliminary selection began.
They have never watched "Super Girl", so they naturally don't know that there are many gimmicks in the primary election, so they just sent a lot of reporters to interview those who signed up, as well as the judges and production staff.
TVB is still the well-deserved leader in variety shows in Hong Kong.
There has never been a variety show that can compare with "Happy Tonight". Even "Millionaire" is far inferior to it in terms of topicality and entertainment.
Therefore, Wireless launched such a singing competition, and I heard that the winner could help produce a record. Many young people who like singing went to register one after another. The registration point at the entrance of Wireless was very lively.
In just three days, more than 1,000 people signed up, and then TVB began an intense audition process.
The tastes they chose were the same as those in the previous life, there were seven or eight of them, including Luo Wen, Zhen Ni, Teddy Robin, Gu Jiahui and others.
Huang Zhan originally wanted to agree to them, but when he heard Liu Tianci called and offered him 1 million to be a judge, he immediately turned down the TVB invitation.
No matter who you are kissing, it would be better to kiss money!
Wireless didn't have Huang Zhan anymore, so they didn't care. Anyway, it wasn't difficult to select a singer. The judges' comprehensive opinions were more important.
They will not record the primaries, but for the semi-finals and finals, they will record a total of 6 programs and broadcast them in 6 weeks. This is equivalent to a Miss Hong Kong election.
If the ratings are high and the audience responds enthusiastically, it might become a grand event in the first half of the year.
In addition, it can also provide new singers to China Star Entertainment, which really kills two birds with one stone.
Faced with TVB's eagerness to launch a singing competition, Yin Jun didn't care at all.
It wasn't until "Hong Kong Idol" came out that they knew what real strength was that crushed the gap.
In the past two days, Yin Jun has been busy reviewing and watching the first part of the "Oolong Yuan" cartoon produced by Shangmei Factory.
The original agreement reached between Yin Jun and Shangmei Factory was that they would not start creating until some of the first batch of artists and animators returned in February this year.
But for some unknown reason, in July, a few days before Yin Jun came back, the director of Shangmei Factory, Yan Dingxian, made a special call to Yin Jun and said that they had started preparing to produce the "Oolong Courtyard" animation.
Comic books are ready-made, and their technicians and masters are also ready-made. If they are willing to do it, then just do it.
However, what Yin Jun didn't expect was that Shangmei Factory was so powerful.
Since the animation production of "Oolong Yuan" was handed over to them in July last year, they have completed the production of 30 episodes of the cartoon in less than half a year, with an average of 5 episodes per month. This is a very remarkable achievement. speed!
You know, Shangmei Factory currently does not have an animation studio!
All their animations are done by hand drawing. At most, they use limited frame animation to save unnecessary time when shooting.
But even so, to be able to produce five episodes of cartoons in one month, they must have mobilized the entire factory and accelerated production like crazy to produce so many finished products.
Yin Jun gathered the screenwriters and artists of "Oryūin", as well as the animators borrowed from Toei Animation, and everyone skipped and watched about 10 episodes.
After reading it, they all nodded in praise.
No matter from the perspective of picture effects, color effects, character effects, object effects, action effects... from any direction, the masters of Shanghai Art Film Studio have handled it very well, and there is no trace of this. Made in the closed and conservative mainland, the details of "Transformers" are better than those of "Transformers" that everyone is making now.
The animators of Toei Animation couldn't help but give a thumbs up. The Shangmi Factory is indeed the Shangmi Factory, and it is worthy of being the holy place that our comics god most yearns for!
Now that everyone had approved the review, Yin Jun immediately handed over the cartoon to Ding Linxiang and asked her to negotiate with major TV stations around the world for the broadcast of the cartoon.
The last time she sent "Transformers" to major TV stations around the world for free, it was Ding Linxiang who contacted her. Now that she contacted her again, she was naturally familiar with it.
There are actually some things to pay attention to when contacting a TV station.
Wherever you send "Transformers", people will need it, because children all over the world like robots.
But "Wulongyuan" is different. It expresses more of the traditional culture and jokes of China. Generally, only the people of the country in the Confucian circle will be happy to watch it.
Other countries have different cultures, so their feelings will naturally be very different.
This is an important reason why even in 2020, Hollywood musicals can sweep the box office in Europe and the United States, but basically in the mainland, they will directly end up being blocked.
Therefore, Yin Jun asked Ding Linxiang to contact the Asian market directly this time. The European and American markets would cast a wide net and earn as much as they could without accepting any advertising sharing agreement.
The Asian market is actually quite big.
First of all, the three major markets of Japan, South Korea and Baodao are enough to satisfy people.
Especially in the Baodao market, "Oolong Yuan" was originally drawn by their cartoonist, and the style and terminology are also in line with their wishes. The comic book single volume of "Oolong Yuan" is very popular in Baodao, almost exceeding the population. Four times that of Japan.
But what's a bit troublesome this time is that "Oolong Yuan" was produced by the Shanghai Art Film Studio in the Mainland. According to the current relationship between the Mainland and Baodao, I don't know if their TV stations have the courage to buy this film.
Japan and South Korea do not have such restrictions. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries are places with large traditional Chinese groups, so they will definitely be able to sell them, but they will be more expensive and less expensive. question.
Moreover, Kylin TV has long-term cooperative relationships with some TV stations in their country, which can also be promoted as an advantage.
Ding Linxiang is a woman with a fierce and bold personality, and her approach to things is similar.
Especially Yin Jun and Le Yiling, neither deliberately set up obstacles for her. She deliberately devoted herself to her work without worrying about the constraints of various relationships or intrigues. As long as she got things done, she would be successful. You can be rewarded and get generous red envelopes.
In a total of only two days, she had already inquired about the price.
Because the manga of "Oolong Yuan" sells well all over Asia, everyone buys it.
Japan and South Korea, the two major consumers of comics and animation, offer the highest price, which adds up to 300,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode, and the other countries also add up to 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Ding Linxiang was so bold that she went directly to China Television in Baodao and asked if you would buy such a cartoon produced in the mainland.
Just like in the previous life, "Oolong Court" is very popular in Baodao, and China Television also knows its status, so after muttering for a while, it gave an offer of 50,000 per episode, and asked Kirin TV to send the copyright information and distribution The information should be prepared, and no relevant information from the mainland should appear.
This is hiding one's ears and stealing the bell.
When the people above asked about it, they could also say that it was the responsibility of Kylin TV. They did not know that it was produced in the Mainland.
Yin Jun immediately agreed to their request.
Immediately afterwards, replies came from Europe and the United States. Because "Transformers" is so popular and because the comics of "Oolong Yuan" have a small market in their countries, 12 TV stations are willing to buy it. copyright.
Of course, they couldn't spend much money on the buyout fee for "Oolong Yuan", and "Transformers" was about the same.
But it’s hard to resist the fact that TV stations in Europe and the United States are rich, and their currencies are very valuable. The total buyout fees of 12 TV stations add up to another 720,000 episodes.
In addition, Kylin TV also has to pay 30,000 yuan for an episode. Based on such statistics, the price of an episode of "Oolong Court" actually reached 1.3 million Hong Kong dollars!
How much does it cost?
The production cost of one episode was quoted by Shanghai Art Film Studio as RMB 50,000!
That's all they had the courage to repay.
At this point, Sister Le called them back and only gave them RMB 40,000 per episode. However, if they guaranteed to pay 30 episodes every six months, they would be given an additional bonus of RMB 500,000.
After hearing this, the people at Shangmei Factory immediately had no complaints at all. Instead, they felt complacent and felt that they had taken a big advantage.
After all, their biggest cost is labor, and labor is not very valuable in the mainland now. The real cost is only 20,000 yuan per episode at most. After all, they make a lot of money.
As everyone knows, Le Yiling actually feels that she has made a lot of money, even if it is 50,000 yuan per episode.
It was just because she felt that it could not be as much as others said, and she had to bargain to prevent others from bullying honest people by luck, so she cut off part of it.
Moreover, she also used an incentive mechanism to make Shangmei Factory work harder for Qilin Culture.
Based on this cost calculation, excluding all costs such as copying, shipping, taxes, etc., one episode of the "Oolong Yuan" cartoon brought a net income of 900,000 Hong Kong dollars to Qilin Culture.
Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea are all accustomed to broadcasting one episode of cartoons a week. With four episodes of "Oolong Yuan" in a month, Qilin Culture made a net profit of 3.6 million yuan, which is more than 44 million yuan in one year, which is really a lot!
It's just one movie now. After March this year, the "Transformers" cartoon will have completed its one-year free broadcast period. When we continue to negotiate the price, it won't be worth 1 million per episode. At least it will be worth it. A profit of 3 million Hong Kong dollars is needed to be worthy of its global fame and popularity.
Then the remaining "Qilin Weekly" comic strips will also be included in the production process this year.
The only thing that can restrict the global domination of cartoons adapted from comics to which Qilin Culture belongs is the shortage of animators.
Even though Qilin Culture now has more than 70 animators, if you want to make a cartoon, there is no problem if you are proficient. For example, "Transformers" now produces 5 episodes a month, and there is no problem.
It would be a bit difficult to add another one, let alone animate all the comics.
The group of graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts who came to Xiangjiang last year can only do auxiliary work such as painting and so on. They want to fully mature and reach the level of their masters and Japanese animators. At least After five years, three years can only be said to be adequate.
Therefore, after the Spring Festival in February this year, Yin Jun is planning to expand the scope of recruitment again. He plans to recruit at least 200 people in the school every year, let them study in batches, and strive to gradually send more people to the school after three to five years. Great use.
If a company wants to develop, it can lack everything but talents!
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