I'll be a stand-in for myself [Entertainment]

After this day, Jiang Bai never saw Gu Zhongming face to face.

Gu Zhongming no longer appeared on the set, no longer appeared in front of Jiang Bai's house, and no longer sent him messages every night.

Jiang Bai was not nervous about this. Long before Gu Zhongming stopped appearing, Gu Zhongming called An Xiaowen through someone else's mobile phone. Although he called An Xiaowen's mobile phone, he did not call An Xiaowen. smell.

An Xiaowen handed the phone to Jiang Bai with a depressed face: "Xiaobai, Mr. Gu is looking for you."

Jiang Bai was also at a loss: "He has my phone, why should he call me through you?"

With such doubts, Jiang Bai took the mobile phone handed over by An Xiaowen: "Hello... Zhong Ming?"

An Xiaowen watched as the expression on Jiang Bai's face gradually became solemn, then covered the phone, and walked to the corner as if he didn't want anyone else to hear it.

When Jiang Bai finished the call, An Xiaowen couldn't wait to go up: "Xiaobai, what happened?"

Jiang Bai's face was full of worry, but he shook his head when facing An Xiaowen's question and said, "It's okay."

An Xiaowen's eyes revealed the worry of "how could this be all right".

Jiang Bai had to say a little more: "Zhong Ming should not be able to see me for a long time, he... will be very busy recently."

An Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that something serious happened between Mr. Gu and Xiaobai, but it turned out that the couple couldn't see each other for a while, and Xiaobai was depressed and unhappy because of this.

An Xiaowen patted Jiang Bai's shoulder and comforted him: "This is normal. Before Mr. Gu came to see you every day, I wondered why he was so leisurely."

Jiang Bai's tone was sour: "You are jealous of him, live more leisurely than you, and earn more than you."

"Ahaha! I am this kind of person!" An Xiaowen's face was written all over - yes, I am this kind of person!He smiled and continued, "Besides, I also earn a lot. Apart from the dividends you gave me from acting, I was already engaged in other investments. Although there were occasional mistakes, I still made money overall." Quite a lot, enough for me.”

Speaking of this, Jiang Bai suddenly remembered: "I asked you to inquire about the crew before, has it been settled?"

An Xiaowen was also about to talk to Jiang Bai about this matter, so he took Jiang Bai to the corner and sat down: "Got it."

Jiang Bai finally knew what the difficulty of Director Mori was.

- special effects.

The current TV dramas are more or less inseparable from special effects. The "Maze of Fog" that is currently being filmed will use a lot of special effects in the later stage.

Things start with the first "Revolving Tower".

The budget of "Revolving Tower" is not very large, and it has already spent a lot of money when buying the copyright of the original work. The most important thing is that this is a friendly preferential price given by the author of the original work after he knew that Director Mori was in charge of filming the play.

Considering the budget at the time, the crew contacted a special effects company with a relatively low price in the industry, and did not plan to buy the best special effects price. They chose a medium special effect in compromise, and the price was just what the crew could afford at that time. .

After the negotiation, everything went smoothly.The crew shoots normally, and then sends the edited film to a special effects company for post-production special effects.

Coincidentally, half of the company's special effects team in charge of the show are die-hard fans of the original work. They really love this work so much, so they charged the price of mid-range special effects to make this show very detailed. Great advanced effects.They worked overtime voluntarily, and did not charge the crew any extra fees afterwards.

When the second film was preparing to start filming, Director Mori thought of this special effects company and wanted to continue to cooperate with them. Of course, this time they planned to directly purchase high-end special effects and offered a very considerable price.

What Director Mori didn't expect, but in less than a year, half of the little brothers who originally produced special effects for their first film have already moved to other companies.

Although such a incident happened, Director Mori still wants to continue to cooperate with this company, but...

Director Mori offered a higher price than the company's price for high-end special effects last time. Unexpectedly, the other party started to raise the price on the ground, and then increased it a lot. Once the price rises, it will be the same as other companies. The price given is not much different.

Director Mori was overwhelmed by the other party's behavior of raising the price, and hesitated for a while whether to continue the cooperation. He had not formally signed a contract with the other party before, and both parties were waiting to see each other's attitude.

Just recently, Director Mori contacted a special effects artist who had worked with him before. His company is willing to cooperate with Director Mori and is willing to lower their fees appropriately. Director Mori has heard a little about that company, yes A big company that is well-known in the industry suddenly became a little bit excited.

The headache for Director Mori is that even if the other party lowers the fee standard, judging from the current budget of the crew, there is still some gap. As long as a little more investment is brought in, Director Mori will dare to sign this contract. Director Li was a little afraid.

"It's just such a thing." An Xiaowen blinked and analyzed Jiang Bai, "According to the opinions I consulted with professionals, if it is to earn dividends, they don't recommend us to invest. They can only say that we will not lose money. But it doesn’t make much money.”

After Jiang Bai listened, he leaned back against the back of the chair and raised his head and sighed softly. His hands dropped casually on both sides, and he seemed to be completely immersed in a relaxed state of thinking.

After a while, Jiang Bai lowered his head and looked at An Xiaowen: "After all, this is our common money. I want to hear your personal opinion first."

An Xiaowen thought for a while, then casually raised Erlang's legs, and put his hands on his knees: "If you exclude the factor of you also participating in this drama, if I want to invest in this drama, I can do it within 500 million, just When he earns the favor of a great director like Director Murray, maybe he will think about us next time he has a good resource in his hand."

Jiang Bai listened carefully, An Xiaowen is a very reliable person in this kind of thing: "But now I am participating in this drama is an established fact."

An Xiaowen smiled and said: "So... because of you, I can do it within 1000 million, but I may add an additional condition."

Jiang Bai raised his eyebrows, apparently asking An Xiaowen: What additional conditions?

An Xiaowen replied: "Your special effects must be 100% exquisite, and you must not be lazy."

Jiang Bai lowered his head and smiled, he looked at An Xiaowen with a little helplessness: "You just changed the amount of money, but you didn't say no to the choice of not investing money, you, this is already agreed gone?"

An Xiaowen shrugged: "Why don't you agree? Although the profit is a little less, at least it is profitable. I still like the business of making a profit without losing money. Besides, your plot is so late, if they really have no money to do it The special effects, it must be that the special effects in the front are done well, and then it starts to slide down perfunctorily, I don't want to see you jumping around on the screen with two black-bone chicken wings on your back."

Black-bone chicken wings?

Jiang Bai's eyes widened suddenly, and he couldn't help retorting: "No matter how miserable it is, it won't be so miserable, no matter how bad the special effects of bat wings are, it's too different from the wings of black-bone chickens! Don't scare me like that."

An Xiaowen suddenly changed the topic and talked about the release time of Jiang Bai's current movies and TV series: ""The Lost Galaxy" is going to be released at the end of the year, and "The Maze of Fog" is going to be broadcast in the early spring of next year, which is almost the same as "The Lost Galaxy" "When it was released and brought you a little popularity, "Maze of Fog" came out immediately, and for you, a newcomer, it was a seamless connection."

Jiang Bai didn't keep up with An Xiaowen's train of thought: "Why did you say this all of a sudden?" Aren't they still discussing investment just now?

An Xiaowen continued: "We don't need to worry about the movie "The Lost Galaxy". When the time comes, the special effects will definitely be at the top level in the industry. The audience will first watch the movie's exquisite pictures before watching your next one. As soon as you come out with black-bone chicken wings on your shoulders, you will definitely laugh your teeth out."

Jiang Bai: ... Hey!Why are you so obsessed with black-bone chicken wings!

"So." An Xiaowen looked at Jiang Bai seriously, "There is no need to think about this matter anymore, we invest in the name of the studio."

An Xiaowen made a decision for him with a determined face, Jiang Bai was a little moved, and because of this, he was a little more thoughtful: "But we are investing at this time, if someone who is interested in making an article, I am afraid that I will say that I have brought capital Join the group."

An Xiaowen didn't think it mattered, he even looked at Jiang Bai with a bit of disgust: "As far as your share of the show is concerned, it's better to just pack up and leave. Besides, there is this timeline for Even if there is really someone with a heart in your mouth who is obstructing, as long as we do a good job in follow-up public relations, the behavior of the other party may not become a wave of hot searches for us with good intentions."

Jiang Bai nodded in agreement: "That's true." However, when it comes to public relations...

Jiang Bai looked at An Xiaowen: "Have you found a new public relations team? The one you found last time was too unreliable, and there was no sensitivity at all."

Speaking of this, An Xiaowen hesitated a bit: "... I can barely find it."

An Xiaowen sighed: "The PR company last time wasn't bad either. They just didn't take us seriously. You didn't have any enthusiasm before, and they didn't catch up so quickly. If it wasn't thanks to Mr. Gu..."

Jiang Bai was unhappy: "But the price we pay them is not a price that can make them careless. How much money is charged for how fine things are, this is the basic principle of commercial transactions. Anyway, their family is considered a business with me It’s on the blacklist, you change it for me quickly, isn’t the company we used to work with very good? Why don’t you continue to contact them?”

An Xiaowen sighed: "It's because it's so good that all the people inside have been dug away."

Jiang Bai was curious: "Sister Yang, the one who is often in charge of me, where did she go?"

An Xiaowen glanced at Jiang Bai, and planned to tell the truth to An Xiaowen: "I have good news for you, the new public relations team, the leader of which is the sister Yang you mentioned."

Jiang Bai was overjoyed, and then quickly frowned slightly: "Why do I feel that after you finish this sentence, the next one will continue—"I'll tell you another bad news"?"

An Xiaowen raised his head and rubbed his eyebrows: "It's not bad news, what I want to tell you next is that Sister Yang's current public relations team works for Mr. Gu."

Jiang Bai understood now.

After going round and round, he still fell into Gu Zhongming's hands, and he couldn't escape at all!