Entertaining Children

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

Although Rita Mitchell still has the status of an actress and a model, and is also considered a person in the entertainment circle, her main job is still a game show anchor, and her popularity and fans are mainly concentrated in the fan group. There is a certain gap. And Xiao Yao is a serious entertainment star. A few years ago, her popularity among ordinary people in the United States was no lower than that of her beautiful anchor. In the past six months, two films have won a box office of 100 million yuan in the United States, and the limelight is much stronger than hers. She really can't think of anything that Xiao Yao needs her help.

"That's right. I think you are doing a sports game show, so can you introduce me to some professionals in sports event promotion and sports event operation?" Xiao Yao said.

"Sports event promotion and sports event operation?" Rita Mitchell said, "Do you want to develop in the sports world?"

"It's almost like this." Xiao Yao explained, "You know, the movie I starred in recently was released about parkour. This sport was started by me and two other friends. Under this movie After the screening, we still want to continue to promote this sport, but my two friends and I are both actors, so we can’t always devote our attention to this, so we want to ask professionals to help us do it.”

"So you want to find professional promoters of sports activities?" Rita Mitchell nodded and asked again, "What about the event management? Do you still want to hold parkour competitions?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "To promote a sport, related events are very important, but currently there is no parkour event with a relatively wide scope, weight and influence. We would like to invite People do it."

"It is very difficult to successfully launch a new event. If a competition wants to have a greater influence, it needs to accumulate for a long time, and it also needs a lot of capital investment in the early stage. It is relatively small, and I estimate that the time may be longer and the investment required will be greater." Rita Mitchell reminded, "Generally speaking, you will lose money in the early stage."

"I know." Xiao Yao smiled, "We are already prepared to lose money in the early stage, or we don't really care about this, because it is not our money that is being lost!"

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

"That's right," Xiao Yao explained, "Part of the funds for our parkour movie came from online crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is not investment. Even if the movie makes money, those who participated in the crowdfunding will not be able to benefit from it." Benefits. Judging from the current box office of the movie, this movie must be profitable. The theme of this movie is parkour, and the people who participated in the crowdfunding at the beginning were basically parkour enthusiasts. own the benefit of the fundraising,

I plan to use it in the sport of parkour. In the words of Huaxia, this is called "taking from the people and using it for the people". "

"Crowdfunding accounts for about 25% of the production cost, and we will also use 25% of the film producer's income to set up a fund dedicated to the promotion of parkour. Conservative It is estimated that this fund should be in the tens of millions of dollars." Xiao Yao continued, "We want to find a suitable sports company or set up a sports company to operate this fund, so I need professionals in this field."

This is why Xiao Yao insisted on crowdfunding when Mu Ying said that there were enough investors and crowdfunding was no longer needed to make this movie. In addition to leaving a parkour movie, Xiao Yao also wanted to leave a world-wide influential parkour event in this world, so he deliberately left a share of two million dollars in the film production fee for crowdfunding , using the money of parkour enthusiasts to engage in parkour promotion and parkour competitions.

Two million dollars is definitely enough to organize a competition, but it is not an easy task to make it a long-term and regular event. But after this movie, two million is not just two million.

When preparing to make this movie, Xiao Yao predicted that this movie should be able to make money. 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 in this parkour fund. In addition, after the event becomes well-known, the income of sponsors and advertisers in these aspects will also increase accordingly. Normally, as long as the organization or company that operates the event is reliable, the event can continue to run. It's just that Xiao Yao and others are neither professionals in this field nor have the energy to do this, so they want to find professionals in this field to operate.

Xiao Yao came up with the idea of ​​crowdfunding, and it was up to Xiao Yao to decide how to use the money. Xiao Yao wants to use it in parkour, and everyone has no problem. But since Xiao Yao came up with the idea, then this matter was handed over to Xiao Yao to be responsible.

The parkour movie has not yet been fully released, and the box office share has not yet been credited. This project has not yet officially started. But when it comes to sports promotion and event operation, the United States has done a very good job in this area, and there are more professionals. Xiao Yao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the United States to get familiar with the situation in this area and get in touch with some in advance. People in this area.

"That's it~" Rita Mitchell nodded suddenly, and said with a smile, "Look for crowdfunding from parkour enthusiasts to make a parkour movie, and then use this part of the movie proceeds to continue to promote parkour sports , to engage in parkour competitions, your idea is really interesting!"

"Okay, I promise you." Rita Mitchell finally said to Xiao Yao, "After I go back, I will ask friends who are professionals in this field to find out and recommend some candidates for you."

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

This dinner is here, and it's all over. Neither Rita Mitchell nor Xiao Yao had an assistant with them, nor did they drive. Xiao Yao left the restaurant with Rita Mitchell, beckoned her a taxi, and sent her to the car before returning to the hotel alone.

Now that she agreed to Xiao Yao, Rita Mitchell helped him very seriously after returning home.

NBA2K doesn't just record during the offseason, it also records during the season. Being able to invite so many active NBA professional players to be program guests during the season, the program team has a good relationship with the NBA and many NBA teams. As the host of this program, Rita Mitchell not only met many professional players, but also had a good relationship with many team management personnel. Those people are also professionals in this field, and through them, Rita Mitchell also inquired about many great people in this industry.

Regarding the parkour event, Xiao Yao actually planned to consult with relevant consulting companies in the United States, and then use the consulting companies and headhunting companies to conduct personnel selection operations, and did not intend to seek help from non-professionals in the entertainment industry. Because Rita Mitchell, a sports game anchor, is also related to sports, Xiao Yao didn't want to compete with her for paying the bill, so he used this as a reason.

Xiao Yao didn't think that Rita Mitchell could really help him, but he didn't expect that Rita Mitchell would send him a document later, recommending many relevant talents in this industry. For Xiao Yao, this was a surprise.

In the next few days, Xiao Yao still found some professional consulting companies according to the original plan to do some understanding of this aspect, and also found some headhunting companies to place orders in this aspect, and finally sent the consulting companies, headhunting companies, and Li After a cross-comparison of the information given by Ta Mitchell, he also selected a favorite candidate list.

Although the funds are not yet in place, most of the box office has already come out. For Xiao Yao, this money can be said to be impossible to escape. So in the next few days, Xiao Yao also met with the candidates in advance under the arrangement of the headhunting company, and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

By the time Xiao Yao finished these things and returned to China, the World Youth Forum had been over for almost half a month, and the enthusiasm for Xiao Yao's speech at the World Youth Forum had almost dissipated.

After Xiao Yao returned to China, he had nothing to do with him for the time being, so he followed up with the TV series again.

At this time, the screenwriting team recruited by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan not only wrote the general framework of the entire TV series, but also completed the character settings of all the main characters. The specific script has also written six or seven episodes, and Xiao Yao can also start to choose The director casts an actor.

For this sitcom, Xiao Yao intends to follow the model of American dramas. Not only does he have a whole team of screenwriters, but he also has several different directors. As the chief producer and future executive producer and producer, director and actors will be decided by Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan.

The first step is to choose a director. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan didn't find all the literature students, but also found three directors with script creation ability to join. So in terms of shooting, these three directors who participated in the script creation are naturally among Xiao Yao's choices, but Xiao Yao does not intend to use only these 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, and finally decide who will shoot the next episodes according to the actual situation.

Shen Xi is the same as Yan Dian, the director department is held every two years. Xiao Yao didn't have a directing department this year, so the directing students who applied for opera were either a year earlier or a year later than them. In the screenwriting team, Lin Qisan was looking for three third-year students from the Shen Opera Directing Department, and for the remaining two, Xiao Yao was about to graduate from last year, and he was looking for it among the senior brothers who are currently not doing very well.

The profession of directing requires a lot of experience. Students who graduate from the directing department usually start as a scene recorder, and few can start as an assistant director. There are dozens of students graduating from the directing department of Shenxi each year, and those who can get mixed up are only a few, and even fewer can become directors as soon as they graduate, so Xiao Yao is all recent graduates and current students of Shenxi. The project is still very attractive to those directing students who have just graduated for a year, and Xiao Yao has a relatively wide range of choices.

Xiao Yao’s method of choosing a director is very simple. He provides one or two episodes of scripts to anyone who is willing to make a shooting plan and sends them over. In this way, it took Xiao Yao almost 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 planned to select all of them from the acting students of their current class. But even if you have made up your mind to choose from among your classmates, the audition process is still necessary. Lin Qisan did not disclose the news of this project in school in advance, and the students of the screenwriting team were also required to keep this project a secret. At present, most of the students are also busy with local "internships", so the audition schedule must be arranged first. Make sure to contact your classmates first.

Xiao Yao didn't spend as long in school as Lin Qisan, and he didn't understand his classmates as well as Lin Qisan. Xiao Yao asked Lin Qisan to be in charge of the auditions for actors of other roles, and of course Xiao Yao himself came for the two pre-appointed guys, Xu Liang and Qin Hao.

Both Xu Liang and Qin Hao were not at school recently, so Xiao Yao directly called Xu Liang.

"Xu Liang, what have you been up to lately? I haven't seen you running to Sister Xi's studio?" After the call was connected, Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

"What else can I do? I'm doing chores on the set!" Xu Liang said angrily, "I'm not the big star you won the double best newcomer. Not only do I have to worry about eating and drinking, but I also don't have to worry about not having a movie!"

"Yo, you're quite temperamental!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Why, you got scolded in the crew?"

"Heh, isn't it normal for a little transparent like us to be scolded?" Xu Liang chuckled without denying it.

"What crew, what role? Are there many scenes? When will the filming be over?" Xiao Yao didn't feel comforted, and asked straight to the point.

"A little bit, just three lines, and the filming will be finished in three days." Xu Liang answered truthfully, and then asked strangely, "Why are you asking this? Do you need me?"

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "I have an audition opportunity, do you want to try it?"

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

"Protagonist, the filming will start in about two or three months, and you can audition at any time in the next month!" Xiao Yao answered two questions.

"In the next month, audition at any time, is it still the protagonist, is it true or not?" Xu Liang asked in surprise.

"Of course it's true! Would I lie to you about this kind of thing?" Xiao Yao laughed.

"So awesome? Could it be your family investing?" Xu Liang asked tentatively.

"It's not my family, it's me~ and my friends who invested!" Xiao Yao said, "Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan, and Zhou Zhihao and I are planning to start a film and television production company together. This TV series is our first project. I am the president. The planner and chief producer, I have the final say!"

"You and Lin Qisan started a company?" Xu Liang asked in surprise.

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

"But didn't you agree?" Xu Liang said.

"I can't change my mind!" Xiao Yao said, "But there is one thing that hasn't changed. We run a film and television production company, not an entertainment company, and we don't sign artists! I'm just looking for you to film, and I don't sign you as an artist under our banner." oh!"

"Is the director also you?" Xu Liang asked again.

"No, the director is not me!" Xiao Yao said.

"Oh," Xu Liang said worriedly, "Who is the director? Can you, the producer, decide on the actors?"

Xiao Yao heard Xu Liang's worry, and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, the two protagonists have already been confirmed to be you and Qin Hao. Because the actors of other roles have to audition, that's why I let you and Qin Hao come and go. Transitions."

"Non-determined? Is this suitable?" Xu Liang was 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 industry, this method is disgusted by directors and other professionals in the entire circle. Xiao Yao is a professional born in a major, and there are seniors in the entertainment industry at home. If he wants to do this, it will not be nice to say it.

"Inappropriate roles, will I choose the two of you? 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 the two of you. It is a role specially created for the two of you. I also know the professional level of the two of you, so it is impossible for you to be inappropriate!"

"A character specially created for the two of us?" Xu Liang asked in surprise.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao laughed.

"Why?" Xu Liang asked.

"Because the two of you have helped me take videos of my classes, make up lessons, and cope with exams in the past few years." Xiao Yao said, "To thank you, I prepared this graduation gift for you two!"

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