Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 300: Electronic Incense and Candles, Worship Cyber Bodhisattva

As early as March, Pinduoduo completed its US$3.3 million Series C financing.

With his ammunition replenished, Huang Zheng became more adept at spending money.

Advertising also took two routes, one high and one low.

The low end is to place advertisements on new media platforms such as Kuaishou, Xiaovideo, and Toutiao, mainly to expand the user base.

Gao Ze sponsors various variety shows and video platforms to promote brand awareness.

Meng Bai helped introduce several platforms, which was considered as fulfilling the responsibilities of a shareholder.

By the way, I haven’t forgotten the projects that Arclight has participated in, such as the upcoming "Who’s the Detective 2".

Although the first season failed to break the circle last year, its popularity and playback volume have made it a "trump card program" for Mango TV, a newly established platform.

The most notable feature is that there is a significant increase in advertising sponsors this season.

In addition to Pinduoduo, there are three other "sponsor financial sponsors" including OPPO, Chunzhen, and Rejoice.

"Detective Chinatown 2" has been aired since early April, but Meng Bai did not put much energy into this show this year.

The biggest reason why he participated in this program was because he had some creative ideas with little scalability and lacked a suitable platform to display them, which happened to be used on the program.

As Arclight Pictures expands in size, it has more and more projects on hand, and he no longer has the extra energy to focus on these small scripts.

However, this program is still valuable. In addition to its own income, its greater role is to help ArcLight train screenwriters.

Meng Bai holds the position of "chief screenwriter" this season, and is mainly responsible for providing creative ideas.

The specific plot and detail design will be handled by other people in the Arclight screenwriting department.

After all, the "detective reasoning" of "Detective Academy" is very close to the "suspense" of Arc Light, which can serve as a practical platform.

The only script written by Meng Bai himself in the second season is a "horror thriller" style story called "Horror Nursery Rhymes".

It is also the first unit in two seasons to be divided into two parts.

This story was chosen by He Chen and others as the main unit of this season and was scheduled to be recorded in the middle part.

“Will it be scary?”

On the phone, Li Yitong said in a frightened tone: "If not, I won't participate in the recording of that unit."

"Don't worry, I've designed a lot of interesting stories." Meng Bai comforted her, "Don't worry, since the show can be broadcast, no matter how scary it is, it won't be too much."

"Okay then." Li Yitong said, "By the way, I contacted Sister Ou a few days ago, and it seems that she didn't sign a few episodes this season?"

"Oh, she's filming a movie, so she can only come when her schedule allows."

Although "Detective Chinatown" has "fixed members", in fact, except for the two main MCs He Jiong and Sa Bening, everyone else can be replaced.

Just like this season, Zhang Ruoyun and Wang Ou both have to film and cannot participate in the whole process, so the program team will naturally find other stars to replace them.

Like Da Zhangwei, Bai Yu, Guo Qilin, who participated in the first season and received good responses, and Yang Rong who replaced Wang Ou.

"By the way, I remember that your "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is about to be aired? You don't need to promote it, so will you have time to record it?" Meng Bai asked.

"Stupid Meng Bai, I'm here to record Detective Chinatown for promotion purposes." Li Yitong said with a cute smile, "This season the production team has specially arranged a 'Martial Arts' segment."

"Okay, smart Tongtong, I wish your new drama a big increase in ratings." Meng Bai said. After hanging up the phone, he used his phone to search for the broadcast time of this version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Of course, he had no intention of watching this kind of remake. His only interest was to see how Boss Li looked as Huang Rong.

If possible, you can prepare a few clothes of the same style and play some “dress-up play” or something.

Putting away his phone, Meng Bai walked out of the house and came outside the studio.

Today is the opening ceremony of "The Wandering Earth", and a large team of hundreds of people has gathered on the scene.

Standing in the front were representatives of investors such as La Peikang and Chen Zhixi, as well as the main creative actors such as Guo Fan, Gong Geer, and Zhao Jinmai, and the original author Liu Cixin who was specially invited.

"Mr. La, thank you for taking the time to come and support us." Guo Fan said enthusiastically.

"It's as it should be. After all, China Film Group has invested so much money."

La Peikang smiled, and then looked at the studio not far away and said with emotion: "I just took a look at the props and scenes on site. They are much more complete than when I came here last year. I was very shocked. I didn't expect that a project that seemed so difficult before was still pushed to this step by you."

“We have to thank China Film Group for its financial support.”

La Peikang waved his hand: "Funding is just the foundation, the key is still you people."

After that, he whispered, "Do you have any solution to the funding gap after Wanda withdraws its investment?"

Guo Fan nodded: "I think there is some clue."

"That's good. Although China Film has a large amount of funds, it also has many projects. We really can't give you more." La Peikang sighed and said, "How did you solve it?"

"This is actually mainly due to Meng Bai's contribution." Guo Fan said: "Almost all of the funding gaps were filled by him through his connections."

"Haha, indeed, Xiao Meng is a talented person."

Meng Bai just happened to come over at this time, and La Peikang asked with a smile: "Xiao Meng, Director Guo's filming has already started, when will your criminal investigation film start shooting?"

"I was just planning to report to you." Meng Bai said, "According to the plan, the filming will start in August. At that time, you are welcome to come to the crew to guide the work."

"Forget about the guidance, you guys are the professionals. But you still have to go to the opening ceremony. Contact my secretary when the filming starts, and I'll ask him to clear his schedule."

"Thank you for your support, Mr. La."

Not to mention compared with other big-budget movies, even compared with ArcLight's online drama projects, the opening ceremony of "The Wandering Earth" seems a bit shabby.

We didn’t find a special place, so we just built a lonely platform outside the studio and placed an incense burner in front of it.

Even the incense burned by the crew were plastic and electronic.

"Brother Guo, you are awesome."

Meng Bai looked at the "electronic incense" in his hand, which was just for show, and couldn't help but give it a thumbs up and said, "This is the first time I've seen such a good combination of traditional customs and modern technology."

"This is a science fiction movie, so it must have some science fiction feel." Guo Fan said cheerfully.

The reality is that electronic incense can be reused. With so many people on the set, it is much cheaper than buying real incense.

As the saying goes, burn electronic incense and candles and worship the cyber Buddha.

It’s so fucking cyberpunk!

(End of this chapter)