Chapter 33: Mr.Boss

At the office of the chairman of A-Pix ’s headquarters, Wang Yang sat behind his desk and handed the A4 paper with the company ’s new name and logo on to the hands of professional white female designer Lisa Gro, She looked at it, and her face was a little puzzled. She is a full-time artist in the distribution department of A-Pix. The company's movie covers, posters, etc. are all designed by her, and also include the design and maintenance of the company's official website.
Lisa-Gro sat in the chair at the desk. She looked at the drawing paper in her hand and asked with some uncertainty: "Uh, Mr. Wang, I'm sorry, are these two penguins? The one in the middle is crown?"
Wang Yang was stunned. He wanted to feel faint. Is his painting really so abstract? Can moths and butterflies be seen as penguins? "No!" He smiled and denied, shaking his head mockingly, explaining with a smile: "Not a penguin, a crown. On the left is a moth, on the right is a butterfly, all on the side; in the middle is a flame. "
"Oh! I'm sorry." Lisa Gro smiled a little embarrassed, afraid she would anger the young boss, she joked about herself: "Maybe I should wear myopic glasses."
"It's okay, I've always been an abstract painter." Wang Yang smiled and shrugged. The gentle voice relaxed Lisa across from him. He talked about his concept: "Lisa, I hope that kind of effect , Moths and butterflies chase the flames, blooming their own beauty, understand? "
Lisa first nodded and said, "I understand." Then, she shook her head again and asked, "But what I don't understand is, what does it mean? I mean, why is it a moth?" And butterfly? "She hesitated, or said bluntly:" Mr. Wang, you know that moths often represent death, just like in "The Silent Lamb", will this have a bad effect on the company? "
Wang Yang leaned on the back of the chair and smiled slightly. Yes, the moth often represents death, but it is not all death. He laughed: "Lisa, in" The Silent Lamb, "the moth represents not death, but rebirth. Did you know? In fact, everyone is eager to transform, everyone is eager to show themselves, and eager to pursue their own Soul. But most people tend to escape from their hearts, they ca n’t break their pupa, they live inside it. "
"Moth, this is a kind of transformation; the fire moth is a self-salvation." Wang Yang took a deep breath and smiled, "I am a moth, so I love moths. The company's logo Just like that, no problem. "
Lisa was confused, but this was the boss's opinion. He said "YES" and "YES", she nodded and said, "Okay, I know." She looked at the company's name on the paper again. Then he took a pencil and added a "Flames-Films" under the flame on the drawing paper, and asked, "Mr. Wang, can I put the company name here?"
"OK, very good." Wang Yang looked at it and agreed.
Flames has the meaning of flame, light, and passion. Of course, here, its biggest meaning is flame, flame represents the dream, represents the light he pursues, represents the movie. He hopes that the film produced by the company is like a flame, illuminating the hearts of fans, burning their dreams, letting them break their pupae and show their beauty.
As a result, A-Pix officially re-registered its name and trademark, and changed its name to Flames-Films; the logo was designed by Wang Yang and painted by Lisa-Gro, with a light yellow on the left On the side of the moth, on the right is a colorful butterfly with a yellow-red cartoon-style flame in the middle of which there is a line of company names. The color of the whole logo is very soft and comfortable, partial to cartoon style, looks very energetic and very youthful.
The door of the company's headquarters, the "A-Pix" brand was removed, and the company has ordered a plastic brand with a new name and LOGO from the manufacturer. It will be hung up as soon as it arrives.
In the new week, the first management meeting of the new company, employees of all departments above the level of Flame Film Company attended. Of course it is scary to say, but there are actually less than ten people.
Wang Yang naturally also attended. He sat at the top of the conference table. He was wearing a black suit with a gray shirt and no tie. Mark Srant is sitting next to Wang Yang. He is also in a black suit, wearing a silver tie and wearing black-framed glasses. The whole person looks energetic. He is not Wang Yang ’s agent now, but Flame. The CEO of the movie.
Because of the outstanding performance of Mark Srant during the acquisition of A-Pix, and the resignation of the company's original CEO Chris Lynch, Wang Yang had an opportunity for him "If you become the company's CEO, how will the company develop ? "Then Slant convinced him.
"We want to gradually expand the company's influence. In terms of investment, we must insist on small costs, but don't expect to always have" Ghost Records ", and those below 10 million are counted as small costs ... Also, now it is pure production The company's living space is getting smaller and smaller. We need to establish our own publicity channels to get rid of the situation of being pinned by the media group ... Now the profit of the movie is not only at the box office, we must pay attention to the development of peripheral products, maybe we will There are unexpected big gains ... "
At the time, Mark Srant was more and more excited, but the words were always very organized. A set of development ideas were well-founded, including how to buy and invest in small-cost movies, how to develop peripheral income, etc., which made Wang Yang lament. ,profession.
Wang Yang knows the success model of Lions Gate Company, which is generally the same as that of Mark-Slanter ’s plan, but the great thing about Lions Gate is that they can always find "Ghost Records".
"Of course." Mark Srant shrugged: "To do these things requires a lot of money, either you will inject; or pray for God to give us a" Ghost Record "."
Wang Yang replied to him: "The Ghost Record is gone, but there is a" High School Musical. "He reached out and smiled:" I make a movie, you manage the company well. " He shook hands and said, "Yes, BOSS."
Just like this, Mark Srant became the CEO of Flame Movies, with a probation period of three months and a monthly salary of 20,000, the highest in the company. After the probation period, he will sign a formal contract and enjoy company benefits.
At this time, in the conference room, Mark Srant is announcing the company's next development policy and the focus of the work. These are the results of discussions between him and Wang Yang. Everything is paving the road around "High School Musical".
Simon Willis, the manager of the distribution department, looks attentively and listens to the task assigned to him by Mark Srant: "We are going to build a campus publicity system, and I will ask for its posters during the publicity stage of" High School Musical " It can be seen in any college, middle school, or even elementary school in North America, including cooperating with the school and holding some publicity activities. This is what we have to do; in addition, we have to establish a campus screening System, the first round of the movie is released, and the campus cinema is our key target. "
Because Wang Yang's "High School Musical" is not a TV movie, it will not be shown on TV in the future, but will aim at the big screen. So how to attract the first audience to the cinema and form an influence? This depends on publicity. The reason why "Ghost Shadow Record" can create miracles is also due to successful viral marketing; "High School Musical" wants to succeed, and publicity is naturally the top priority.
After discussion, Wang Yang and Mark-Slante preliminarily set up a "campus bombing virus marketing", and put a youthful poster on the places where schools can post it, so that students can see it, and then produce If you are interested, you just have to watch the movie theater in the school. After the first round of screenings at hundreds of campus cinemas, it aroused the repercussions of the student class. In conjunction with a new round of publicity, the second round of large-scale screenings of urban cinemas began.
If "High School Musical" can be a big success, it will follow the trend to launch many peripheral products, DVDs, soundtrack CD records, and even novels, clothes and toys. But these are all in no hurry. Their plan is that after the success of "High School Musical", a part of the surroundings will cooperate with other companies, or directly sell the copyright of that type of product, just like clothes and toys; Records, the time is right to buy a record company.
But these ideas are all based on the success of "High School Musical"; once "High School Musical" fails, let's think about how to keep the flame film company first.
"I know." After hearing the words of Mark Srant, the middle-aged white man, Simon Willis, nodded and said, "I will make a plan when the meeting is over."
"OK, I look forward to seeing your plan." Mark-Srante looked at Wang Yang with a look of "I have finished speaking."
Looked at the employees on both sides of the conference table and saw that they all looked over. Wang Yang took out a printed script and did not show them to prevent leaks. After all, he barely remembered the names of these people. He shook the script and said: "I believe everyone knows that the company will soon make a new movie, tentatively named" High-School-Musical ", this is a campus song and dance film, by me Come direct. "
The employees nodded and did not feel any surprise. They had heard of it; only the company's production department and purchasing department manager, Sandy Pikes, this white man in his early thirties had a flash of worry on his face. Watching Wang Yang stop talking. Wang Yang noticed him, then stopped and smiled and asked, "Sandy, do you have anything to say?" Sandy Pikes frowned: "Mr. Wang, I just want to say, the song and dance film is this The type of market is small, should we be more cautious? "
"Call me Yang, please, everyone call me Yang, I'm only 18 years old, I'm Mr.Young, not Mr.Wang." Wang Yang rolled his eyes and said an off-topic, he really felt a little bit off these days Enough is enough, everyone said "Mr. Wang", so that he looked in the mirror every day, he would feel how old he is.
The employees suddenly laughed, and Mark Srant shrugged and smiled: "OK, Mr. Young." Wang Yang also smiled before looking at Sandy Pikes and answering the question just now: "Sandy, I have considered the problem of the market of musicals before. But I finally decided to shoot. Why? Because a good work can break the market rules, some movies affect the market, and some movies are affected by the market."
He smiled confidently: "I believe that" High School Musical "will be a film that can affect the market, it's up to people."
"Okay." Sandy-Pax nodded silently, without continuing to persuade, he knew he could not persuade the young boss. It's no wonder that at the age of 18, he created the miracle of "Ghost Record". With tens of millions of net worth, he will naturally have confidence in everything. Sandy only sighed helplessly in her heart, hope this young boss really understand what he is doing!
Wang Yang didn't talk about this topic anymore. He never thought of letting everyone agree that he filmed "High School Musical". Just like now, he doesn't need Sandy Pikes to understand, he just needs everyone to put his own To do the job well, all you need is Sandy Pikes to help him complete the production of the crew.
"The investment in" High School Musical "is about 5 million. Of course, this is just my rough estimate. In fact, the first criterion is to make a good movie." Wang Yang looked at the employees and said that he took out a note According to the book of shooting needs, the office secretary Miss Fuona-Hasson gave Sandy Pikes. The book contains the scenes, props, crowd actors and other information needed for the movie. He told Sandy: "Sandy, the movie It was shot with 35MM film, and the entire script was about 200 minutes long. You can make a budget for me. "
Sandy Pikes took the book and nodded, "Okay."
The so-called 5 million is just an investment grade, 5 million is a small cost production, and it will definitely not invite any popular actors to appear; but it is not a mandatory requirement of 5 million, and sometimes the budget is increased to 6 million, or save money Up to 4 million is okay.
"Also, we need to find choreographers and arrangers. This is a song and dance film. But the work of setting up the crew is temporarily behind." Wang Yang knocked on the script and was a bit excited. Casting. "
Mark Srant took the conversation and laughed: "So, the publicity for" High School Musical "is about to begin." He looked to Simon Willis, the manager of the distribution department, and said: "Simon, I asked you to contact you yesterday A media interviewed us, how is it now? "
"I've already contacted the entertainment page of the Los Angeles Times." Simon Willis glanced at Wang Yang with a sigh of laughter: "As soon as they heard 'Magic Yang's company, Magic Yang's second movie ', You know, they cried out with' wow '! They can't wait to do this interview, I will arrange the interview time in the afternoon, the place is in our company, is it okay? "
"No problem." Wang Yang nodded and smiled, "I'm here."
After the meeting, Wang Yang returned to his personal small office and continued to write the split-screen script of "High School Musical" on the computer. I have been busy acquiring the company for more than a week. After the acquisition, I have to agree with Mark-Slante on the development strategy. He has no time to design a split shot, so that the script is only less than half completed.
Wang Yang now understands why Stephen Spielberg did not attend any DreamWorks financial meeting, and why he would say, "I hope that any meeting I attend will end in two minutes." The reason is simple. Spielberg prefers to be a director rather than a businessman. Wang Yang breathed out of his chair leaning on his chair for more than a week, and he felt physically and mentally tired. In addition to the freshness at the beginning, the next step is boring. Everyday wearing a suit to negotiate and meet in the conference room, sometimes it is really more tiring than sending flyers on the street.
Fortunately, now the company needs to deal with all the tasks he needs to deal with, and then to Mark-Srant, he can finally do what he likes and wants to do the most.
"GO, GO, GO!" Wang Yang cheered himself up, revitalized, looking at the screen, his hands pounding on the keyboard.
Troy, the protagonist of High School Musical, came to the selection of the musical and hid behind the mop car with the heroine Gabriella. They were all afraid that others might find themselves interested in the selection of the musical. The selection is over, only the teacher Dabus who is in charge of the selection, and the the stage who is responsible for piano accompaniment, Casey Nielsen, seeing that teacher Dabus is going away, Gabriella finally found the courage to jump out , Saying that he came for selection, but Troy hid aside.
The original version of the TV movie. In the next shooting, when Mr. Dabus said to Gabriella that "the selection is over and you have no partner", Troy jumped out and said he was the partner.
In this section, there was no shot for Troy in hiding, did not express his psychological struggle, and later came out in a jump, the rhythm is very abrupt. So Wang Yang added a set of materials, pointed the camera at Troy hiding behind the wall, and filmed his expression when he heard Teacher Buss ’s words, showing that he had to struggle and change before he found the courage to go out.
One morning, Wang Yang was writing a sub-screen script. At noon, he went to the restaurant on the second floor to eat, and then returned to the office to continue writing.
Time came in the afternoon, and the female reporter Kim Sylvie of the Los Angeles Times also came to the headquarters of the Flame Film Company. Wang Yang naturally wanted to receive her, took her around the company and took some photos. But what she wanted most was the photo of the nameplate on the company's door, but she couldn't take it because the manufacturer hadn't delivered the goods. She had to take some photos of the busy office.
The focus of this interview is "High School Musical", introducing Wang Yang's new company is only next, so in the reception room, she asked Wang Yang a few questions like "what does it feel to be a boss", and then she tried her best. The situation of the second film "High School Musical" he planned to shoot.
"Can you tell us what the story of the movie looks like?" Kim Sylvie sat on the sofa with a black camera on his neck, a ballpoint pen in one hand, and a ballpoint pen in one hand. Looking at the small paper, Wang Yang asked.
Wang Yang sat on the other side of the leather sofa and answered her: "I can only say that this is an inspirational story, a story about how young people have the courage to face themselves and get really happy." The specific content is of course unclear It's a little bit of a tone, so as to arouse everyone's curiosity and expectation, and to achieve the early publicity effect.
Kim Sylvie naturally knew this, and she did n’t ask, holding a pen to quickly record on the paper, asking:
Why would you make a school song and dance movie? What made you suddenly make this kind of movie? "
"I shouldn't be surprised to shoot campus movies? I am still a young man." Wang Yang smiled and replied: "The reason is actually very simple, I want to shoot, and I also think it is suitable for shooting, so I Feeling away. "
"You know, many people think you will continue to make horror movies. Have you ever worried that this" High School Musical "will not be accepted?" Kim Sylvie looked at Wang Yang sincerely and added another sentence: "Can you talk about your expectations for this movie?"
"I do n’t have this worry," Ghost Record "is not all of me; and" High School Musical "is a completely different new attempt for me. This is my first time shooting a film film. I will let everyone see Another me. "Suddenly, Wang Yang said confidently:" Of course, I have high expectations for this movie, it will be liked by everyone, I have this confidence. "He understood that only he showed strong Confidence will only arouse everyone's attention.
Next, Wang Yang continued to answer many questions of King-Sylvie, including some personal life, "You have become the youngest multi-millionaire, why do you still live in a small apartment?", "You Do you have a girlfriend? "," I heard that you are very popular in high school, is that true? Will this "High School Musical" be the epitome of your high school? "
These gossip problems caused Wang Yang to have a headache. He was really worried that the interview published by the Los Angeles Times tomorrow will be two-thirds of these gossip problems, leaving only one-third for "Singing and Dance Youth."
After returning home at night, Wang Yang, who took a hot bath, came to the computer, prepared to rest for a while, and then boarded his own MSN. He dragged the list of online contacts. When he saw Rachel online, he couldn't help but smile and clicked to send a line of words in the past: "Hi, Rachel." After the end of the publicity work of "Ghost Record", Rachel I went back to Toronto, but they basically contacted the Internet every one or two days, occasionally chatting on the phone. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com
"Hi, Yang." Rachel quickly replied with a line of words.
Wang Yang typed: "I think you will come to Los Angeles in two days, because" High School Musical "is about to start casting!" After the script was written, he mentioned it when he chatted with Rachel. The general content of the movie also mentioned that she is suitable for the role of "Shapei Evans" the female number two.
"Call me." Rachel typed. Wang Yang's finger quickly tapped on the keyboard a few times and said, "Why didn't you call me?" Rachel immediately replied: "Oh, shouldn't the youngest multimillionaire pay the bill? "Wang Yang couldn't help but smiled, hit an" OK "and sent it over, then picked up the phone and dialed in. When he connected, he smiled and said:" Hey, stingy. "
"Hi, rich man." Rachel's crisp laughter came over and she said: "Yang, did you find an investment?" She didn't yet know about Wang Yang's acquisition of A-Pix, thinking that it was just pulling investors Too.
Wang Yang said mysteriously: "No, I said, I invested myself. In fact, I just bought a film company." Rachel exclaimed suddenly, "Oh, my God! Really ?!" Wang Yang laughed haha ​​and enjoyed his friend ’s surprise. He kept concealing this acquisition and wanted to give his friends a
surprise
. He smiled and said,
Yes, you can call me 'Mr. Boss' now. . "
"OK, Mr. Boss, tell me, what the is going on?" Rachel smiled.
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