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Chapter 35 Preparation

Mr. Zhou had "bad intentions", so Qi Wei handed her over to Li Xiaoran to "deal with" her.

Let them pull it off.

Qi Wei has to do his own thing.

To build a career and make money is the way to go!

Women are just the spice of life. If you have a successful career and money, why worry about not having a woman?

By then it will be no problem for several women to live in harmony!

After filming the commercial and temporarily settling the matter with Mr. Zhou, Qi Wei focused on the work on the new album.

Time flies and it’s late March.

After knocking on the door, Song Bin, the company's music director, walked into Qi Wei's office and handed a document to Qi Wei.

This Song Bin was the drummer of Qi Wei Shengtian Banzi's band.

This band was originally formed temporarily for the sake of convenience.

Now Qi Wei has established his own record company to produce and release his own personal album, so he has ample funds.

There is no need for the band to exist anymore.

Now the band has also disbanded.

Of course, the disbandment of the band was not just due to Qi Wei.

Some people are very jealous when they see Qi Wei making a lot of money from the record sales. How can they remember that they asked Qi Wei to form a band for free in order to gain support?

After receiving part of the record share, Qi Wei still generously gave each of them a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, but some people still had a hard time filling their desires and felt that the charity was extremely unbalanced.

And some people become famous after their records sell well, and then they are seduced by other record companies. For their own benefit, they even help other record companies to bewitch Qi Wei.

That, of course, did not allow him to succeed.

There was also "Qian Jing" who was not optimistic about Qi Wei's own record company. Anyway, due to various reasons, in the end there were five people in the band, and only the drummer Song Bin was willing to join Qi Wei's record company.

Maybe it's because I'm older than others, so I'm not willing to bother.

Of course, there are advantages to being older, that is, Song Bin knows more and has a lot of skills in music.

So Qi Wei became the music director of his own record company.

Although there are only ten people in the record company including Qi Wei

After Qi Wei offered him a fixed salary of 5,000 yuan per month and extra dividends, he was naturally too kind to refuse.

You must know that the monthly salary of an ordinary employee at this time was only a few hundred yuan.

At the same time, Qi Wei also promised him that when his solo album is successful and the company becomes bigger and stronger, he will help him produce and distribute his solo album.

After receiving such a promise, Song Bin was completely inspired to fight. Now he takes everything in the company seriously, and he is not tired at all when he is responsible for several people.

With him, Qi Wei felt a lot more relaxed, and was able to take care of his acting studies at school.

"This is the statistical result of the VCD machine that you asked the company to investigate. Please take a look."

Except for Qi Wei, almost everyone in the company participated in the investigation under the leadership of Song Bin. In less than ten days, tens of thousands of people were interviewed and counted.

After seeing the statistical results in the survey report, Qi Wei nodded with satisfaction.

After reading it, he said: "The penetration rate of VCD machines is not very high, but it is an indisputable fact that more and more families have them. Multiplied by the number of domestic families, this is definitely a very impressive number."

Song Bin still didn't understand what Qi Wei meant when he said this, and saw that Qi Wei was silent for a while and made up his mind.

Qi Wei smiled and then asked: "I plan to make a MV for every song in an album. What do you think about this?"

"Isn't this too wasteful?" Song Bin asked hesitantly in disbelief.

In today's tape-dominated market in the Mainland, when ordinary record companies release records like Qi Wei's "Shengtian Banzi", they rarely include music videos for the songs.

Even if they produce MVs for a few hit songs, they are usually just used as a promotional tool.

"Of course it won't be wasted." Qi Wei said to Song Bin confidently: "Have you ever thought that the MV can be used as a selling point of the record?"

As he spoke, Qi Wei walked towards the TV in the office and put a CD into the VCD player to play it.

It's the MV for "A Little Sweet", which was re-edited from the footage I used to shoot a commercial with Gao Yuanyuan.

The picture is very beautiful. Listening to the song while watching the handsome men and women interact is a visual and visual enjoyment.

There is a sense of immersion, and after listening to it once, I always feel like I still have more to learn.

The effect is much better than just listening to music.

Song Bin finally figured it out.

"No wonder you want to investigate the popularity of VCD machines. You want to make VCD discs!"

"right!"

Qi Wei gave him a thumbs up and began to explain:

"It is true that the penetration rate of VCD players in the mainland is not high now, but the number of households with them is still very impressive, and it has doubled over time. At this time, many pirates, like you before, have not noticed this.

, pirated ones are still traditional video tapes, tapes, CDs and the like.

So now, VCD disc is a new track, a new track that not many people pay attention to."

Qi Wei knows very well that the piracy of VCD and DVD discs started in 1999.

Of course, the biggest impact is not on the music industry, but on the film and television industry.

It directly reduced the ten-digit box office revenue in the Mainland to nine-digit numbers, and it was not until 2004 that it slowly recovered.

Therefore, before 1999, these two years were considered a gap period. The incomplete involvement of pirates would give VCD discs a very good sales prospect.

Nowadays, even for popular albums, CD sales are generally poor in the mainland.

Huo's father, who was criticized by his ex-girlfriend, had a hit album "The Big Sedan" back then. The tapes sold for hundreds of thousands, and the CDs only cost over 10,000.

Qi Wei's album "Shengtian Banzi" has sold more than 1.3 million copies, mostly on tapes, and the CDs have never sold more than 50,000 copies.

The reason is also very simple. The price of CDs, which can easily reach forty or fifty, is too expensive compared to tapes.

Even for a ten-dollar tape, many people want to buy a cheaper pirated version, let alone a CD that is several times more expensive?

It is expensive but also worth the money. If every song can be worthy of a beautiful MV, the VCD disc can really be sold.

Compared with tapes, VCD discs have lower relative costs and higher profits.

He does have an idea, and Song Bin also thinks it is very feasible, but at this moment he still has questions:

"If you want to match each song with a MV, where will the MV script come from? And where will you find the director and crew for the MV? These are not things we are good at and will affect the publicity plan we have discussed.

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"These are just things you are not good at. Please don't include me. You must know that I am still a student at Nortel. On weekdays, when we study acting and submit sketches, we write our own scripts."

The more important reason is that Qi Wei has future reference and can easily restore it.

So Qi Wei was still full of confidence and continued: "I will handle the script of the MV. As for the director who shot the MV, what do you think of the MV for "A Little Sweet" just now?"

Song Bin was stunned for a moment, recalled it for a moment, nodded and replied honestly: "Very good."

"That's it. Let me tell you, the person who shot the MV and commercial for this song is a senior from our Nortel Directing Department who is still a student at school. He has such a relationship. When the time comes, I will invite him and he will definitely help.

Yes, I can handle all these.”

"Okay, I will take care of the other preparations."

Just when some details of the new album were still being discussed, someone from the company hurriedly knocked on the door to report the situation.

"Boss, there is a call from Hong Kong City. It's from King Liu Tianwang."

ps: Thank you to Foji Tailai for the 5,000 starting coins rewarded by 1994, and thank you to the boss of Time 1979 for your continued reward support, thank you!

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