Chapter 41 Cooperation
Deadly silent, Wu Bing didn't expect that this person was also a good person, and then he laughed happily: "It's great, but I've met an expert. Nowadays, people don't even have a camera to open a film company. If you meet someone like you, our cooperation will be much easier." "To be honest, I am the most afraid of cooperating with an unfamiliar person. There are 30 or 40 film companies in Tonghai City, but I promise that there are definitely less than ten that can really make movies, and my company is one of them."
"Thirty or forty film companies?" Ye Bei was shocked. How many?
"It's just so many, and there will be more in the future, and it may grow to a hundred companies, but many of them are just rich, no one wants equipment, but my company is different. I personally imported the most advanced equipment from abroad, and my wife is a well-known foreign screenwriter. "The Song of the Virgin" written by her is a household name abroad. So don't you see that our company is very small now, but it's mainly because of the ancient times when I just started a business, but I have filmed two works and accumulated experience. Now that Miss Qin joins us, we immediately let her be the starring actor." Wu Bing said confidently, which also shows that the film company is named after his wife.
"Can I see your works?" Ye Bei suggested.
"sure."
Qin Ying saw her junior brother so skillfully communicating these things that he didn't understand at all, and helplessly expressed that he was used to it.
However, Lu Ruqi became more and more curious about Ye Bei's identity.
They are all silent films, and the market is not long. Each movie is less than 60 minutes long. The content is very monotonous. It just loves you, just like family filming, telling stories about young people's free love.
"How?" Wu Bing asked proudly after watching two movies.
"So this is a movie." Qin Ying watched it for the first time and felt it was too novel, completely different from the opera she watched at the temple fair.
Lu Ruqiu was still unsatisfied because he had only watched short films before, but now he was a coherent feature film, with different scenes appearing in it, and the characters were interacting more, containing a larger amount of information, which was a complete story and looked more interesting.
"This is the first time Miss Qin is watching a movie. In fact, it's even more fun to watch in the theater." Wu Bing enjoyed the beauty's surprise. He looked at Ye Bei again, hoping to get the recognition of the 'insider': "How strong is our company?"
Ye Bei nodded: "Although the shooting technique is not a problem, the theme presented is too petty. People these days definitely don't like to watch these things, that is, only the daughters of wealthy families will like them. However, they have more entertainment methods, and there is no need to watch movies when playing basketball and riding horses. I can guarantee that these two movies will not make money."
Wu Bing's face was very strange, and his smile gradually disappeared because he was said to have been right by Ye Bei. It was obviously his confident work, but few people watched it.
"It seems I'm right." Ye Bei said that although the world is different, the rules remain unchanged, so he is confident that he can make great achievements in Tonghai City: "I hope these two works are not the screenwriters of your wife. If so, I can only say that she doesn't understand the situation in Kyushu."
"These are all my own screenwriters, and my wife is still in charge of industries abroad." It seems that Wu Bing himself doesn't understand the situation, so he couldn't help asking: "Then do you know what everyone likes to watch?"
"Of course I know, but let's talk about the treatment first."
Finally, we are about to start talking about cooperation. Wu Bing gave him a treat for a movie of ten taels of silver.
Ye Bei had read a lot of newspapers before, and then took a taxi, and probably knew what income they had for different occupations now. The worker in the cigarette factory next door earned eight essays per hour, even if he had ten hours a day, it would be eighty essays a day, and two thousand four hundred es a month, which was two 200 essays a month. A new car in the newspaper was 1,200 essays, which was 1.2 million essays, which was definitely a luxury product.
In this era, cars were originally luxury goods for the rich.
Ten taels of silver, and even the wheels of the car could not be bought. Zhang San, a rich man who cheated foreigners, brought more than ten taels of silver when he went out. Ten taels of silver was just the salary of an ordinary worker for less than five months.
"So how much time do you plan to shoot a movie?" Ye Bei asked.
"If you add the preliminary preparations, it will take one month to forty days." Wu Bing estimated, it was almost the same.
Qin Ying had already wanted to agree, and it was no more than ten taels a month, and this was still her own. She originally wanted to work together in the village to earn ten taels a month, but now she has achieved her goal alone.
However, Ye Bei disagreed: "The fifth layer of profit." He was a lion, but he still looked confident, because he knew that the other party was short of profit methods now, and he had his own creativity and senior sister's appearance. He was polite to collect his five-layer profits: "Don't be surprised. I tell you what you like to watch. When you film the second part, you will get rid of us, so I have to make enough money in this first part to not suffer any losses. You have to agree, and I promise that you will make money in the next step. If you don't agree, you can continue to think about it. When you think through it, the company will make a lot of money long ago, and you will not be able to compete with them at that time."
Ye Bei said it firmly, this is the negotiation technique. First, he saw the other party’s predicament, and secondly, he showed his confidence.
Before he knew it, Wu Bing believed the other party. People with strength in this era were all arrogant. After all, most of them were miserable farmers and workers. How many people could talk big? Besides, Ye Bei hit it and knew a lot about the movies. Now the lion is definitely prepared for his words.
The profit of the fifth floor is actually not high. After all, Wu Bing has never made money before. Who knows what the new movie will do: "It's OK, but there's a word first. If the new movie's profit is not good, maybe it's not enough to have ten taels of silver. Are you sure you want to sign such an agreement?"
"Sure."
The senior sister was anxious and secretly pulled Ye Bei's corner of her clothes. Why didn't she want the ten taels of silver she got? She really didn't understand what Ye Bei was thinking.
Ye Bei patted the cold back of her senior sister, and told her to be calm because he really understood what the people like. For ordinary people, watching movies is for entertainment. It is best not to use their brains and just smile, so filming comics will definitely be popular.
Of course, the same is true for filming a bitter love scene, or if a bad rich man is sanctioned, the thing that needs to be down-to-earth is not the love, hate, and affection between the rich son and daughter, which has no resonance among the public.
The story is simple and the content is down-to-earth, so it will naturally be popular.
Qin Ying had no choice but to understand why Lu Ruqiu said that men are all big pigs, arbitrary and stubborn.
The two drafted the contract and signed and stamped it. Ye Bei had to press his handprint without the seal: "Senior sister, you don't have to press it, I'll do it." Ye Bei knew that his senior sister must be unhappy now to make a decision for her, but he could only let the facts speak.
Chapter completed!