171 Film investment
After Zhang Yiming made up his mind, he was very decisive in his work. A week later, he called Zhong Yue. On the phone, Zhong Yue asked him to go directly to the company.
He held the address, not far from home. He drove the car, and after more than half an hour, he arrived at the location of Yi Entertainment Company.
He explained his purpose to the front desk. Soon, a young and capable woman came down and shook hands with him, "You are Mr. Zhang Yiming, my name is Wang Mei, and I am Mr. Zhong's assistant."
"Hello." Zhang Yiming felt a little nervous.
Wang Mei said, "Mr. Zhong is still in a meeting. He has already told me about your affairs. Please come with me. Please."
Zhang Yiming is a careful person. He noticed that the girl at the front desk was very respectful to Wang Mei. Obviously, Zhong Yue's assistant has a high status in the company.
After spending a few years in the hospital, he knew nothing about human nature and worldly affairs. It must be for Zhong Yue that she could come down to pick her up in person.
But the more this happens, the lower he will put his posture and not smear Zhong Yue's face. He said gratefully, "Please trouble Assistant Wang."
“No trouble.”
Wang Mei knew that he had a different relationship with the boss and his attitude was naturally quite friendly. He led him to an office on the second floor.
There was also a man in his thirties in the office. Wang Mei introduced him, "This is Zou Xuan, the head of the company's human resources department."
"Hello." Zhang Yiming shook hands with him.
Zou Xuan smiled and said, "I wish you to become a member of the company here first, please sit down."
"Thanks."
After the three of them sat down, Zou Xuan took out a contract and said, "This is an employment contract. You can take a look first. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Mei, who was standing beside him, said, "If you have any requirements, you can also ask, we will try our best to satisfy you."
Hearing her words, Zou Xuan couldn't help but look at her.
"good."
Zhang Yiming took the contract and browsed it quickly. Of course, what he paid the most was salary. After seeing the above figure, he felt a little relieved. This salary was one or two percent higher than when he was a doctor.
He had just joined the company and had not made any contribution. If Zhong Yue offered him a too high salary, he would not be able to accept it with peace of mind. Although the amount is too high now, he could still accept it. He thought that he had to work harder to be worthy of this salary.
There are many terms on the contract. He only looked at the contents of his working hours and did not look at the rest carefully. He believed that Zhong Yue would not cheat him.
After reading it, he raised his head and said, "I don't think there is any problem."
He didn't even dare to ask for extra salary, let alone ask for special treatment. Even if Zhong Yue arranged it to him, he would refuse.
As the saying goes, he will not receive any reward without merit. He will not rely on his friendship with Zhong Yue and will take it for granted. On the contrary, it is precisely because of his good relationship with Zhong Yue that he should pay more attention to the influence and not drag Zhong Yue down.
Zou Xuan looked at Wang Mei first, and saw that she didn't say anything. He took out a pen and said, "Since there is no problem, let's sign the contract."
Soon, Zhang Yiming signed a contract and officially became a member of Yi Entertainment Company.
Then, Wang Mei took Zhang Yiming to the company to visit, "Inside this building, this floor, and the two floors above are our company. This floor is the animation department. The top floor is the animation film department, and the top floor is the newly established special effects department. I'll take you to have a look."
Zhang Yiming followed her and found that everyone was very respectful when they saw her. Even the heads of several departments seemed very enthusiastic. I thought that what I guessed was right, her status in the company was indeed quite high.
Although he had not asked about Zhong Yue's company in detail, he only knew that there were several companies under his name. Yi Entertainment was the most inconspicuous one. He only knew that he had produced several very popular cartoons and an animated film that almost broke the record.
Now, after he came to visit in person, he realized that the company's scale was really large. In the animation production department alone, there were five projects underway, with more than a dozen people in each group. There were nearly a hundred people in total.
When we arrived at the animation and film department, there were more people.
After climbing to the upper floor, Wang Mei introduced, "There are two projects in the film department now, one is "Ice Sculpture Lord", and the other is still under preparation, which is a young children's animation."
Zhang Yiming has heard of "The Lord of Ice Sculptures". Although he does not read the novel, he will still watch the animation produced by Zhong Yue. Although the historical status of this animation is not as good as the animation of "Imperial Wu", due to the huge fan base of the original work, it is not weak at all in popularity. The number of views has even exceeded that of "Imperial Wu".
After the movie "Imperial Wu" won a terrifying box office, the adaptation of "Ice Sculpture Lord" is also imperative.
As for another project that was a young child animation project, he had some impression and asked, "Is it the one who collected the script some time ago?"
When Yi Entertainment was still a studio, it established an official website early and invested a lot in the construction of the official website. As more and more animations were released, the official website also gathered a lot of popularity.
Some time ago, Yi Entertainment released a major news through its official website, collecting scripts for animated movies in millions, with no limit on the subject matter.
Several companies under Zhong Yue spent a lot of money on publicity, and they also established their own publicity channels and quickly hyped up the news. Yi Entertainment, which became famous with the movie "Diwu", also attracted a lot of attention.
Zhang Yiming saw it at the end of the movie while watching the animation, so he had some impressions.
"That's right."
Wang Mei nodded and said, "Mr. Zhong has always attached great importance to scripts. Through this activity, two scripts have been selected and bought from the author. They will be announced to the media soon. Now one of them has been established and is being prepared."
Animated movies require more delicate and delicate pictures, so they need more life. The two project teams combined have more than 150 employees. Some of them are still on vacation in Hainan and are not there.
After visiting two departments, Zhang Yiming felt that he was really eye-opening. It turned out that an animation that lasted more than 20 minutes took so much time. I used to hear that animations were drawn one by one. After realizing it, I realized that it was much more complicated. As for animated movies, the workload had to be several times more.
This company is just Zhong Yue’s most inconspicuous industry, and it has such a large scale. What will Yiruan Company and Yizhi Mobile be like?
For the first time, he intuitively felt the power represented by Zhong Yue's billions of wealth.
Finally, he followed Wang Mei to the special effects department. As soon as he got up, he thought he had arrived at a museum with various models everywhere, including people, animals, monsters, robots, big and small, and all kinds of strange things.
The head of the special effects department is a young man who speaks poor Chinese and calls himself Pitchen. It is obviously an abc.
Just as Pete Chen introduced his team's works to him in a proud tone, Zhong Yue finally came.
"How do you feel?" Zhong Yue greeted Peter Chen and asked Zhang Yiming.
Zhang Yiming said, "It's quite novel."
"Indeed, it won't take long to find that this is a very interesting job." Zhong Yue said with a smile.
For him, other companies are doing careers, and only Yi Entertainment is what he really likes. Whether it is making animations or making movies, he is very enthusiastic about participating.
Next, Zhong Yue took Zhang Yiming to visit in person.
Twenty minutes later, Wang Mei came over to Zhong Yue and said, "Director Wen has arrived."
Zhong Yue stopped talking and said to Zhang Yiming, "Let's go, I'll take you to meet the director of the movie, Wen Wu."
Zhang Yiming is not a movie enthusiast and is not familiar with this name. He took out his mobile phone and searched it. He quickly found out that he had seen both works by this director. The first one was quite good. But when he was in the second one, he lost the box office. He had a little impression, and it was indeed quite bad.
When he saw the real person, he realized that the director who said "young" in the introduction looked like he was in his forties, with a face in his national character and a beard.
This meeting was obviously quite formal. In addition to the director, there were also real producers, a middle-aged man with a shrewd face. Chengying Group also sent representatives, plus the screenwriter, and a group of people gathered together to discuss.
Zhang Yiming didn't say anything, listening while holding the script while reading. After turning a few pages, he was attracted by the story of the script and didn't bother to listen to their discussion.
Modern people traveling to movies and changing the plot is common in online novels. However, it is still quite novel for people who have never been exposed to this type of thing.
The background of the script is "movie", which tells the story of a small tour group traveling to an unknown ancient town, encountering animal changes and falling into crisis.
When formulating this script, Zhong Yue put most of the scenes indoors in order to reduce the difficulty and also to control costs. Because it is a horror film, the radio and television stipulates that ghosts and the like cannot appear. He borrowed the background of the doomsday stream. On one day, animals around the world began to mutate, turned into monsters, and began to hunt humans. As for the source, it was naturally in this ancient town.
The protagonist is a retired special forces soldier, the heroine is a big star who experiences life for the new movie, and is surrounded by a bodyguard. In addition, the villain has several supporting actors and supporting roles.
In Zhong Yue's plan, this movie, which was the background, was also prepared to be edited and released separately, so the script was written very carefully. The atmosphere was rendered tense and exciting.
As for the infinite streaming script, the protagonist is an ordinary white-collar worker, a veteran, and a few newcomers. The story develops along the rough plot of the "movie", but the details are completely different. After all, there are a few more characters who know the plot of the movie.
After reading the script, Zhang Yiming felt impatient to make this movie.
Chapter completed!