New Age Artists

Chapter 443: All-round efforts! (23)

Subsequently.

Shen Santong convened a meeting of Deep Sea Culture.

The benefits of early preparation are obvious.

Shen Santong consciously cultivated talents who were good at marketing, hype and utilizing Internet media very early on.

In order to integrate the group platform and focus on idol dramas, Shen Santong needs to strengthen the management of artists and fan groups.

In 05, Hunan TV's talent show "Super Girl" made "fans" a popular fashion element that entered the public eye.

Over the years, the fan base has grown into a powerful force.

Shen Santong: "Talent shows attract fans, idol dramas attract fans, Korean dramas, and Korean idols attract fans."

"We want to make idol dramas, so naturally our artists will attract a large number of fans. Before we manage fans, we must first manage the artists well."

"Idol dramas require low acting skills, offer high returns, and are popular with Taiwanese and Koreans, so it's not easy to get a taste of them."

"We will face all-round scrutiny. For artists of Deepsea Culture, especially young actors and actresses, if anyone creates a scandal, I will discredit him in advance and there will be no place for him in the film and television industry."

"Similarly, the responsible agents and supervisors should also pack up and get out."

Shen Santong makes idol dramas to prevent the new generation of mainland actors and actresses from wasting their time in anti-Japanese war dramas and period dramas.

If you have given, of course you can demand high things from them.

When we do idol shows or talent shows in the future, we should continue this rule.

Shen Santong has high demands not only on artists, but also on artist managers.

He is willing to share money with his employees, so it is natural that he has high demands on them.

Objectively speaking.

Professional actors, especially those from the three major schools, are generally of higher quality than idols from talent shows, artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Korean idols.

Whether in terms of moral level or cultural level, we are far ahead.

However, Shen Santong naturally took the various chaos in fan circles in later generations as a warning and set down the rules from the beginning.

All the leaders and agent representatives of Deep Sea Culture felt a chill in their hearts, and then they were ecstatic.

In the early days, when the group company was not perfect in all aspects, Shen Santong was interested in training brokers, and the leaders of brokerage business could be summoned directly by him.

As the group developed, artist management gradually fell to the margins of the group company.

Compared with the high revenues from movies, games, ringtones, and online platform businesses, artist management is just a small fry.

As the company grows bigger, there are more and more levels between Deepsea Culture's subsidiaries and Shen Santong.

There are rarely opportunities for direct interviews.

Meeting Shen Santong across levels is an obvious signal.

The brokerage business has been upgraded.

Most of those who were able to participate in this meeting were the old employees who joined the company earliest.

Those who were sensitive to the news heard about Shen Santong’s meeting in the morning and their imaginations ran wild.

Great!
Finally, we come to brokerage business!

Good days are coming.

From the ringtone business, the movie business, to the online platform and the game business, every time the group focuses on it, countless people have benefited and achieved financial freedom.

The head of Deepsea Culture stated: "We will definitely implement the company's strategy well."

"Will the economic business become one of the pillar businesses of the group in the future?"

Shen Santong habitually draws the same promise: "As the economy develops and the entertainment industry prospers, actors' incomes will naturally increase."

"I once made a judgment that in the future, the revenue of big stars will be no less than that of big companies. Every star is a company."

"A company-like ecosystem will be formed around celebrities. The studios of Li Bingbing and Fan Bingbing are the prototypes."

"When the time is right, the company will build celebrity brands and help celebrities set up personal studios. By then, those of you who understand operations will be the heads of the studios."

Drawing cakes and cakes has almost become a habit of Shen Santong.

Shen Santong returned to the main point of this meeting: "In the past two years, we have introduced young actors and actresses based on the existing artists."

“We need to manage and utilize their fan base well.”

Shen Santong mainly wants to get fans for free.

If the data worker is a fan of the stick, then she must have something wrong with her brain.

But if you are a fan of one of his artists, Shen Santong has to admit that he has good taste.

You can’t do it without spending money on publicity and promotion.

But just throwing money around won’t work.

Especially with the development of the Internet, Internet marketing is becoming more and more important.

We need a lot of volunteers who are willing to like, forward, comment, rank and control comments.

The fan circle is not that complicated at the moment, but the benefits will become greater as time goes by.

Shen Santong got in early, and he doesn't care how others play the game, but the Santong Group still has to be careful about how it behaves.

Continue with the meeting.

Meeting with the TV drama department. Shen Santong: "The success of "Proud Boys" has further tightened restrictions on TV dramas involving crimes at the beginning of the year."

"In the future TV drama market, idol dramas will have great potential. I plan to launch two modern idol dramas and one ancient idol drama."

"My requirement for the male and female leads is to use a well-known actress from mainland China and pair her with an unknown actor, or a well-known actor and pair her with an unknown actress."

"If it's not our company that brings us new talent, we will give them more film resources from Locomotive Company."

Full chain, all-round efforts!

With the production of the historical blockbuster series, Shen Santong has too many chips to trade.

The cost of modern idol dramas is low, and the cost of two dramas is the same as that of one ancient idol drama.

The ancient idol was handed over to Yu Zheng.

He has the ability to organize a group, and his studio signed a contract with Deep Sea Culture. He collaborated with Fan Bingbing on a film called "Rouge Snow" and began to take control.

His series have many problems, but the current priority is to solve them, and Shen Santong does not have the energy to make a TV series.

It is a victory to promote young actors and actresses from the mainland.

Now it is directed by Jian Chuanzhi and Li Muge.

The two learned similar things from Kong Sheng in "Proud Boy" and also had experience in film crews.

It’s just that we don’t have the ability to organize an event, so Deep Sea Culture needs to step in to organize it.

Shen Santong: "We are currently imitating and learning from those who have successful experience."

At the beginning, we just imitated others, and then gradually developed our own style.

Yu Zheng agrees: "Salute, live happily."

Shen Santong recalled the various controversies he had caused in later generations and warned: "You cannot copy the original version or plagiarize."

Continue with the meeting.

Focusing on idol dramas does not mean we won’t produce high-quality dramas.

We still have to produce a high-quality drama every year to represent the brand image.

For idol dramas, Shen Santong only needs to grasp the direction, but for high-quality dramas, he needs to personally take care of the details.

"Insidious" is about to start filming, but the female lead has not been decided yet.

Shen Santong and Jiang Wei, as well as Zhang Jing, the producer of Dongyang Qingyu, the confirmed leading actor Sun Honglei, and the producer of Deep Sea Culture.

Let’s talk about the female lead in “The Hidden”.

Jiang Wei graduated from the History Department of Qufu Normal University, was admitted to the Master's program in directing at the Beijing Film Academy, and stayed at the school after graduation.

The drama "Lurking" is jointly produced by Deepsea Culture and Dongyang Qingyu.

Shen Santong bought the original novel in 06. The author is Long Yi and the original novel is less than words.

Dongyang Qingyu joined because this company has been cooperating with Jiang Wei for a long time. Shen Santong agreed to co-produce, but the copyright belongs to Shenhai Culture.

Jiang Wei spent 10 months adapting the 30-word original novel into a -episode TV drama script.

In the play "The Disguiser", Jiang Wei had a requirement at the beginning of writing, that is, there are many positive things in it, and they should not be revealed.

Young people tend to be disgusted by preaching, so try to make the preaching more subtle and highlight more entertaining elements.

In order to make the character structure richer, Jiang Wei split the original work during the adaptation process.

For example, Captain Ma in the original novel was split into three people: Ma Kui, Li Ya, and Lu Qiaoshan, who created trouble for Yu Zecheng in different ways.

The one woman in the original novel also became three women: one is the quiet revolutionary youth Zuo Lan, one is the well-educated and wealthy lady Wanqiu, and one is the straightforward rural woman Cuiping.

There are more characters, and the dramatic conflicts are stronger than in the novel.

The key to the success of "The Disguiser" lies in Jiang Wei, and Shen Santong respects him very much.

Shen Santong discovered that those who did not graduate from their alma mater but were graduate students were all quite capable in fighting.

He remembered that Qufu Normal University had a very high rate of postgraduate entrance exams, with the rate exceeding 90% in later generations.

Shen Santong had also attended Jiang Wei's class, and he went out to greet him, "Teacher Jiang, long time no see."

Said to Sun Honglei: "With you joining, this play is a sure thing."

Sun Honglei was very polite: "Director Shen, I really regretted missing out on Supermarket!"

After the greetings, Shen Santong said to Jiang Wei: "Teacher Jiang, I want to speak frankly. I don't want to interfere with your creation."

"The role of Cui Ping needs to be played by someone with a more rural feel, and preferably not one that's so pretty."

"What do you think of Song Jia, Gao Lu, Yang Rong, and Yang Yu?"

"Ke Lan is fine too. I'll find anyone you want."

"Fan Bingbing is also an option."

As for the hidden female lead, after watching a lot of movies, I think Yao Chen is the most suitable one. She can play against Sun Honglei well and there is a sense of tension in their performance.

If it weren’t for the Flower of Evil, I wouldn’t have to think so hard about who to replace it with.

It's too much effort. Obsessive compulsive disorder.

I don’t want to choose any one at random.

For a TV series to become a big hit, the male and female protagonists must have a good impression of each other, it’s inevitable.

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(End of this chapter)