Chapter 1055

"Help? What do you want me to do? " Rita Mitchell asked Xiao Yao curiously.

Although Rita Mitchell has the identity of an actor and a model, she is also a member of the entertainment industry, but her main job is still a game program anchor, and her popularity and fans are mainly concentrated in the fans, which is still far behind the real entertainment stars. Xiao Yao is a serious entertainment star. A few years ago, her popularity among the American public was no lower than that of her beautiful anchor. In the last six months, two films have successively won the box office of 100 million yuan in the United States, and the limelight is even more prosperous than her. She really can't think of anything Xiao Yao needs her help.

"Well, I think what you do is sports game program. Can you introduce some professionals in sports promotion and sports event operation to me?" Xiao Yaodao.

"Promotion of sports activities and operation of sports events?" Rita Mitchell said, "do you want to go into sports?"

"Almost." Xiao Yao explained, "you know, the latest movie that I starred in was about parkour, which I started with two other friends. After the film is released, we want to continue to promote the sport, but my two friends and I are both actors, and we can't focus on it all the time, so we want to ask professionals to help us do it. "

"So you want professional promoters for sports?" Rita Mitchell nodded and asked, "what about the operation of the event? Do you want to hold a Parkour competition? "

"Yes Xiao Yao nodded and said, "to promote a sport, related events are very important. At present, there is no Parkour event with a wide range, weight and influence. We want to invite people to do it."

"It's hard to successfully launch a new event. It takes a long time for a competition to have greater influence, and it also needs a lot of capital investment in the early stage. Moreover, parkour, a new sport, has a relatively small foundation. I think it will take a longer time and need more investment. " Rita Mitchell cautioned, "generally speaking, you lose money early."

"I know." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "we are ready to lose money in the early stage. In other words, we don't care much about this, because what we lose is not our money!"

"Ah?" Rita Mitchell was a little surprised, but also a little confused, "it's not your money?"

"Well," Xiao explained, "part of the money we spent making that Parkour movie came from online crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is not an investment. Even if the movie makes money, those who participate in crowdfunding will not benefit from it. Judging from the current box office, the film is definitely profitable. The theme of this movie is Parkour. At the beginning, most of the people who participated in crowdfunding were Parkour fans. We investors didn't intend to take the benefit of crowdfunding as our own, so we planned to use it in parkour. In Chinese words, this is called "from the people, for the people."

"Crowdfunding accounts for about 25% of the production cost. We will also take 25% of the film producer's revenue and set up a fund to promote Parkour. Conservatively, this fund should be at the level of tens of millions of dollars. " Xiao Yao continued, "we want to find a suitable sports company or set up a sports company to operate the fund, so I need professionals in this field."

This is the reason why Xiao Yao insisted on crowdfunding when Mu Ying said that there were enough investors and there was no need for crowdfunding to make the film. In addition to leaving a Parkour movie, Xiao Yao also wants to leave a world-wide influential Parkour event in the world, so he deliberately left us $2 million share in the film production cost for crowdfunding, and used Parkour fans' money to promote Parkour and run Parkour events.

Two million dollars is enough to organize a competition, but it is not an easy thing to make it a long-term and fixed event. But after this movie, two million is more than two million.

When preparing to make the film, Xiao Yao predicted that the film should be profitable. The income of the film is not only the box office, but also some other income in the follow-up. Xiao Yao also plans to put all of it into the Parkour fund. In addition, after the popularity of the event, the revenue of sponsors and advertisers will increase accordingly. Normally speaking, as long as the organization or company operating the event is reliable, the event can be run all the time. However, Xiao Yao and others are neither professionals in this field nor have the energy to do it, so they want to find professionals in this field to operate.

The idea of crowdfunding came from Xiao Yao. How to use the money was originally decided by Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao to use in parkour, we are no problem. However, since the idea was made by Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao was responsible for the matter.

Parkour movie hasn't been released completely, the box office share hasn't arrived, and the project hasn't officially started. However, when it comes to sports promotion and event operation, the United States has done a very good job in this aspect, and there are more professionals. Xiao Yao wants to take this opportunity to get familiar with this aspect and contact some people in this aspect in advance."So," Rita Mitchell suddenly nodded and said with a smile, "find Parkour fans to make Parkour movies, and then use this part of the film revenue to continue to do Parkour sports promotion and Parkour events. Your idea is really interesting!"

"Well, I promise you." Rita Mitchell finally said to Xiao Yao, "when I get back, I'll get to know some friends of professionals in this field and recommend some candidates to you."

"Thank you Xiao Yao smiles and nods.

The dinner is over here. Neither Rita Mitchell nor Xiao Yao had an assistant or a car. Xiao Yao and Rita Mitchell went out of the restaurant together, beckoned for a taxi for her, and then returned to the hotel alone.

Now that she has agreed to Xiao Yao, Rita Mitchell is very serious about helping her back.

Nba2k is not only recorded during the off-season, but also during the season. When the season is going on, we can invite so many active NBA professional players as program guests. The relationship between the program group and NBA and many NBA teams is good. As the host of the show, Rita Mitchell not only knows a lot of professional players, but also has a good relationship with many team managers. Those people are also professionals in this field. Through them, Rita Mitchell also inquired about a lot of good people in this industry.

Xiao Yao actually plans to consult the relevant consulting companies in the United States about Parkour events, and then select personnel through consulting companies and headhunting companies. He doesn't plan to seek the help of non professionals in the entertainment industry. Because Rita Mitchell, the sports game anchor, is also related to sports, Xiao Yao doesn't want to compete with her to pay for it, so he takes it as a reason to say it.

Xiao Yao didn't think that Rita Mitchell could really help him, but he didn't expect that Rita Mitchell later sent him a piece of information and recommended a lot of relevant talents in this industry. For Xiao Yao, it was also a surprise.

In the next few days, Xiao Yao went to some professional consulting companies according to the original plan to do some understanding in this aspect, and also found some headhunting companies to place orders in this aspect. Finally, after a cross comparison of the information given by the consulting company, headhunting company and Rita Mitchell, he also selected a preferred alternative list.

Although the funds are not in place, but most of the box office has come out, for Xiao Yao, the money can not run. So in the next few days, Xiao Yao also met with the candidate in advance under the arrangement of headhunting company, and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

By the time Xiao Yao finished these things and returned home, the world youth forum had been over for almost half a month, and the heat of Xiao Yao's speech at the world youth forum had almost dissipated.

After Xiao Yao came back to China, he had nothing to do with him for the time being, so he began to follow the TV series.

At this time, the writers recruited by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan not only wrote the general framework of the whole TV play, but also completed the character setting of all the main characters. The specific script has also written six or seven episodes. Xiao Yao can also start to choose directors and actors.

This sitcom, Xiao Yao intends to follow the model of American drama, not only has a whole writing team, but also has several different directors. As the chief producer and future executive producer and producer, the director and actor will be decided by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan.

The first step is to choose a director. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan not only looked for students from the literature department, but also found three directors with script writing ability to join them. In shooting, the three directors who participated in the script creation are naturally among Xiao Yao's choices, but Xiao Yao does not intend to use only the three directors. The first season of this TV series plans to shoot about 24 episodes. Xiao Yao plans to use five directors, each of whom will shoot at least 3 episodes. Finally, according to the actual situation, he will decide who will shoot the following episodes.

Like Yan Dian, the director department of Shen opera is Biennial. Xiao Yao didn't have a directing department in this term, so the directing students of Shen opera either came one year earlier or one year later. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan is looking for three junior students in the director department of Shenxi opera, so the remaining two, Xiao Yao, are going to graduate from last year. Now he is looking for one of the senior brothers who are not doing very well.

The career of director needs the accumulation of experience very much. After graduating from the Directing Department, the students usually start from the field record, and few of them can start from the assistant director. There are dozens of students graduated from the director department of Shenxi opera every year, and only a few of them can be mixed up. Even fewer of them can be mixed up as directors as soon as they graduate. Therefore, Xiao Yao's project, which is all graduates and students of Shenxi opera, is very attractive to those students who have just graduated from the director department for one year, and Xiao Yao has a relatively wide range of choices.

Xiao Yao's way of choosing a director is very simple. He provides one or two episodes of scripts to all those who want to make a shooting plan. If he thinks it's OK, he makes an appointment for an interview. If it's OK, he makes a decision first. In this way, it only took Xiao Yao about a week to select the last two directors.

After the director is finalized, the next step is to choose actors.In terms of actors, Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan plan to choose all the students from their performance department. But even if you make up your mind to choose from your classmates, the audition process is still necessary. Lin Qisan didn't disclose the news of the project in advance in the school, and the students of the writing team were also required to keep the project secret. At present, most of the students are also busy with the local "Internship", so the schedule of the audition can only be determined after contacting the students first.

Xiao Yao didn't stay as long in school as Lin Qisan, and he didn't know his classmates as well as Lin Qisan. For the auditions of other actors, Xiao Yao asked Lin Qisan to inform him. Of course, Xu Liang and Qin Hao, the two appointed actors, came by Xiao Yao himself.

Xu Liang and Qin Hao are not at school recently, so Xiao Yao dials Xu Liang directly.

"Xu Liang, what are you busy with recently? Haven't seen you run to sister Xi's studio? " After the phone is connected, Xiao Yao asks with a smile.

"What else can I do? The troupe is doing chores! " Xu Liang was not angry and said, "I'm not the big star you've ever won the double best newcomer. I don't just worry about food and drink, and I don't worry about filming!"

"Oh, it's a lot of Qi!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "why, was scolded in the crew?"

"Oh, isn't it normal for us to be scolded for our little transparency without any fame?" Xu Liang laughs and does not deny it.

"In what group, what role? Is there a lot of drama? When will it be finished? " Xiao Yao does not comfort, directly into the subject asked.

"Long Tao, just three lines, three days to shoot." Xu Liang answered truthfully, then asked strangely, "why do you ask this? Can I help you? "

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "there's an audition. Do you want to have a try?"

"Of course Xu Liang immediately excited, a series of asked, "what crew? Which company invested? Who is the director? What level of production? What role? When is the audition? "

"Protagonist, shooting will start in about two or three months, and audition will be available at any time in the next month!" Xiao Yao answers two questions.

"Audition at any time in the next month, or the protagonist, really or not?" Xu Liang was surprised.

"Of course it is! Would I lie to you about this? " Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"So good? It's not your family, is it? " Xu Liang asked tentatively.

"It's not my family, it's my friend and I who invested it!" Xiao Yaodao, "I am going to open a film and television company with Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao. This TV play is our first project. I am the master planner and the producer. I has the final say."

"You and Lin Qisan, they started a company?" Xu Liang was surprised.

"Yes," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "didn't you tell Qin Hao to let me start a company?"

"But you didn't promise?" Xu Liangdao.

"I've changed my mind, no way!" Xiao Yao said, "but there's one thing that hasn't changed. We open a film and television production company, not an entertainment company. We don't sign artists! I'm just looking for you to make a film. I don't want to sign you as an artist of my company! "

"Is the director you, too?" Xu Liang asked again.

"No, the director is not me!" Xiao Yaodao.

"Oh," said Xu Liang, a little worried, "who is the director? Can you film the cast

Xiao Yao recognized Xu Liang's worry and said with a smile: "to tell you the truth, the two protagonists have been determined to be you and Qin Hao. Because the actors of other roles have to audition, so I let you and Qin Hao go through the stage. "

"It's internal? Is that all right? " Xu Liang is still a little worried, "is the role really suitable for me?"

Although it is very common for investors to appoint actors in the current TV circle, this way is disgusted by the directors and other professionals in the whole circle. Xiao Yao is a professional born in Keban. He also has a senior in the performing arts circle at home. It's not pleasant for him to say so.

"I'll fix you two for the wrong role? I'm an investor! " Xiao Yao said with a smile, "don't worry, when writing the script, these two roles are set according to the actual situation of you two, which are specially created for you two. I know the level of your business. It can't be inappropriate! "

"A character for both of us?" Xu Liang was surprised.

"Yes Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"Why?" Xu Liang asked.

"Because in recent years, you two have helped me take videos of classes, make up lessons and cope with exams." Xiao Yao said, "in order to thank you, so I prepared this graduation gift for you two!"