Metaphysics save the entertainment industry

"How to do?"

Someone asked, but the room was silent when he answered.

It took a long time before someone said: "It's not a solution to procrastinate, we have to find a solution."

"Do you have any ideas?"

"Is there anyone among us who has a better relationship with the TV station, why not..."

Go through the back door.

These three words flashed through everyone's mind.

It's not that they haven't done similar things before, and they are familiar with it, it's just...

"I found a friend from the TV station, and when he heard that the male and female protagonists of this TV series were two newcomers, he directly rejected me." Someone said, obviously after this proposal was put forward, he had already thought of this plan.

After all, they are all in the entertainment circle, and the "hidden rules" incident is no stranger to them. Go through the back door and find the director of the TV station's film purchasing department. If you are lucky, you may be able to get a good schedule.

"These two can only be newcomers." Someone said with emotion.

As soon as he said this, the rest of the people nodded, obviously feeling the same way.

"It can't be helped. TV dramas these days are either aimed at big IPs, directors, or actors. We..." Someone said unconfidently.

It's just that as soon as his voice fell, it immediately caused everyone's strong discomfort.

"Nonsense, isn't Wu Zetian's IP big enough?"

"That's right, we are clearly the big IP!"

"And it's a big investment!"

"A real big investment, not a penny wasted!"

"...Don't you dare to waste it?"

"Yeah... that's right."

There was a lot of discussion among the crowd, and someone sighed again: "It's because of the big investment, and the TV station has a lot of money to buy the drama, so my friend refused it outright. These days, the big investment seems to have become synonymous with bad movies."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

In the past few years, the TV industry has been booming. If it costs tens of millions, it is a small investment. If it is small and broad, [-] million is considered a normal investment, and [-] billion can be a big investment.

An investment of [-] or [-] million for a TV series?

Bad movie, it must be bad movie, big bad movie!

This is the current state of the TV market today.

As for "The Legend of Zetian", from the beginning of filming, this TV series was aimed at big investment. The original producer's intention was to build a real prosperous Tang Dynasty and tell the history of Wu Zetian's struggle.

But this was just an idea at the beginning. After the two bigwigs joined the group, the opinions of investors were floating clouds.

Have a problem with the scene?Change change change!

Problem with the script?Change change change!

Problems with props?Change change change!

Problems with actors?Change, change, change, change!

Of course, these opinions have nothing to do with the investors or the producers. All the crew members obey only those two, and only those two can make them obey.

Later, basically as long as it was the opinions of those two, the crew could make changes little by little.

With the "joint efforts" of everyone, the filming of the eternal legend "The Legend of Zetian" has finally been completed, and the staff members of the crew immediately burst into joy, waiting for the TV series to become a hit after it is broadcast, so as to live up to their commitment during this period of time. Persevere and work hard.

Now the question is, what should they do if they are blocked in the first step of the "Ze Tian Zhuan" that they expected to be popular?

A large investment means that if the TV station wants to buy a drama, it has to pay a high price. Otherwise, how will the investor's investment be recovered?

But under the current background of "big investment is big bad movie", few TV stations are willing to spend big money to buy TV dramas with big investment.

Domestic TV stations are also divided into three, six, and nine grades, and those that are often praised by the public as first-line TV stations are relatively rich and powerful, such as Apple TV, which planned "Detective" in the first place.

And the [-]th-line TV stations are also relatively stingy, they will budget every fund of the TV station, and use all these funds for practical purposes.

For example, Strawberry TV before the broadcast of "Love · Love".

For this program, Strawberry Satellite TV has put in a lot of effort, such as spending a lot of money to invite Yan Ruyu, and then save money on other guests, such as Lu Xuan, Qiao Youyou, and Du Lin were invited because of saving money of.

But that was in the past. Now Strawberry Satellite TV has made a lot of money because of "Love · Love", and has successively purchased several life dramas that the production team has passed. The ratings are steadily increasing and gradually entering a virtuous circle.

But this is only when you are still stingy and you can go slowly.

The production cost of life dramas is not high, so the cost of purchasing dramas is not high, but compared with costume dramas, life dramas, that is, have acceptable ratings, and it is difficult to stir up popularity on the Internet, and many sponsors want The most important thing is the popularity on the Internet, and I also like to buy commercials of popular costume TV dramas.

There are tens of millions of life dramas, and tens of millions of ordinary costume dramas. The higher the investment, the higher the cost of purchasing dramas. After all, the producers will not make losses.

For example, a TV series with a cost of [-] to [-] million yuan may cost [-] to [-] million yuan for a TV station, which is equivalent to the cost of purchasing a dozen or so life dramas.

It is definitely not worthwhile for third- and fourth-tier TV stations, that is, first-tier TV stations are willing to spend a lot of money to buy expensive and big-investment TV dramas.

However, in the past few years, the first-line TV stations have repeatedly suffered setbacks in large-investment TV series, so that they have lost confidence in large-investment TV series. This is also one of the reasons why "The Legend of Zetian" hit a wall.

The taste of being rejected by the first-line TV station is bitter.

Even more bitter...

How to explain to those two big guys.

"Don't get too far away from the topic, the point is what should we do now, we can't run over and say that the two leading actors of our TV series are me?" Someone said casually.

His words seemed to awaken something, and everyone's eyes swept over.

The person who spoke before was stunned: "Is there anything wrong with what I said?"

"No, no, you're right."

"Simply a wise saying!"

"The enlightenment!"

Everyone chatted and talked, and they suddenly felt happy.

"So you found me?" Lu Xuan sat in the upper seat of the conference room and asked in shock.

He was called by someone from the film crew, and he was invited to the upper seat as soon as he entered the meeting room.

The seats are very comfortable, but they don't match the facilities of the meeting room, and I don't know where the boss chair was brought from.

After he was seated, someone brought him the best Biluochun and made him a cup of tea.

Someone brought pastry nuts.

……

In the end, someone even brought a cup of bird's nest and put it in front of Lu Xuan with a smile.

Everyone's politeness made Lu Xuan's scalp tingle, and he couldn't help but patted the table.

Then I heard the ins and outs of the whole thing.

And Lu Xuan's rhetorical question made everyone shyly smile.

"We are also desperate, so we invite you here."

"Besides you, we really can't think of anyone else who can solve our problems."

"If this TV series doesn't sell, will something happen to us?"

……

Lu Xuan rubbed his temples: "If you really reveal the identities of those two, you will really be close to an accident."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"How dare you, give us a hundred more guts, and we won't dare to reveal the identities of those two."

"Then I'm different... I wouldn't dare to lend me a thousand or ten thousand guts."

"Is it time for Pi?"

"...I'm telling the truth."

"Don't talk, just listen to what Lu Xuan has to say."

Lu Xuan sat in the main seat, took an orange silently while everyone was discussing, put it under the table and peeled it, only thinking that when everyone's attention was not on him, it would satisfy their hunger.

Unexpectedly, everyone's eyes focused on him in an instant.

His hands were still on the table, holding the freshly peeled oranges in his palms.

Lu Xuan was miraculous but very calm, pretending that there was nothing in his hand, and looked straight at everyone: "If it is a normal operation, what would you do?"

Everyone looked at each other.

It took a while for someone to speak, but the answer was ridiculous.

"Normally, I wouldn't spend so much money investing in a TV series."

"It's only fools who spend so much money on TV dramas. Anyway, ratings are something like that, isn't it?"

"Roughly estimated, there are about 120 episodes of "The Legend of Zetian" edited, and the total investment has reached [-] million. Normally... I would not spend money on investment. Maybe it is a bad movie."

"The money in my pocket didn't come from the strong wind. If it wasn't for... I wouldn't dare to spend so much money."

Investors are different from ordinary behind-the-scenes personnel related to TV dramas. People related to TV dramas are familiar with the process of TV dramas and the general situation of the TV drama market, but investors are different.

Investors are looking at the return on investment of TV dramas. They will care about who is the leading actor, who is the screenwriter, whether the script has an eye-catching plot, whether there are popular character settings, and those who play show will compete with themselves people into the group.

But this is a general situation, and the drama "Zetian Biography" is obviously not a general situation.

Those sitting at the scene were all investors who knew the inside story, but there were still many relevant staff members of "Ze Tian Biography" who didn't know the inside story.

And those who talk about the follow-up of "Ze Tian Zhuan" can only be some people who know the inside story.

However, among these people, there are no professionals who understand the situation related to TV dramas.

Chang Chunhua, the producer of the TV series and one of the investors, was also sitting in the middle, looking at Lu Xuan eagerly, waiting for Lu Xuan's answer.

Lu Xuan was also very helpless, it was easy for him to catch ghosts, but he really didn't know what to do in terms of promotion and production of TV dramas, fortunately he was not working alone.

Thinking about it, Lu Xuan immediately looked at the crowd: "You guys should think about it and leave this matter to me. If that's the case, I can take over."

Everyone looked at each other, which proved that they didn't fully trust Lu Xuan deep in their hearts, but at this time they were really desperate, so they found Lu Xuan.

At this moment, Lu Xuan took the initiative to take this matter over, and everyone nodded after looking at each other.

"Please Mr. Lu Xuan."

"Teacher Lu is working hard."

"Teacher Chenglu said auspiciously, I hope "The Legend of Zetian" will become a hit."

Apparently some of these people still remembered the hexagrams in "Zetian Biography" that Lu Xuan said at that time.

Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows and looked over: "Don't believe me? Then I..."

With that said, Lu Xuan was about to push out the information in front of him.

With just this one movement, everyone stood up one after another, this time their posture was much neater than before.

"Let's go first, let's say goodbye."

"goodbye!"

"Waiting for good news!"

After finishing speaking, a group of people ran away one after another, fearing that someone would be chasing them.