Chapter 144 First visit to Xiangjiang
Chapter 144 First visit to Xiangjiang
The "light" agency model can also be called the "light platform" model, that is, the agency only takes a 10% commission and generally signs a two-year, relatively loose contract with the artist.
This model breaks away from the "dead contract" model of Japan and South Korea, and uses an approach that is closer to the Internet model, allowing people to cooperate in a more convenient and easier way. It turns the traditional patriarch into a platform and intermediary, and naturally eliminates the conflicts between brokerage companies and artists and clients.
Xingdou Culture Service Co., Ltd., newly established by Wang Hao, is an agency company that adopts the ACC model and was established based on the concept of "win-win cooperation".
The company's first batch of clients were the group of behind-the-scenes workers under Wang Hao. In addition, his own agency contract, as well as the agency contracts of Wang Zhi, Liu Cixin, Fang Baiyu, Liu Meng and others, were also signed with Xingdou Culture.
Of course, these are only temporary. This year, Galaxy Interactive Entertainment will launch three projects, which means that Xingdou Culture will soon usher in a new round of expansion.
After learning about the issues concerning the production team and knowing that the crew of "Wushuang" was being organized in an orderly manner, Wang Hao's second concern was the script, location scouting and storyboard script.
Things are different now. As a big director and the boss of a company, he naturally doesn't need to do these tasks himself like he did in "Buried" and "The Shallows".
This aspect is now handled by Li Kui and screenwriter Wen Pengcheng. After seeing the results of their work in recent times, he is very satisfied.
Compared to the new and older screenwriter Wen Pengcheng, Li Kui contributed more in this regard. At least when it came to traveling for location scouting, it was Li Kui who ran back and forth.
"Brother Wang, regarding the filming locations for "Wushuang", we have been to Yunnan, Hong Kong, Guangdong, Macau and Xiamen in China. We have not been to any foreign countries yet, but we have tentatively decided on Vancouver and Singapore."
As Li Kui spoke, he handed all the photos taken during the location scouting period to Wang Hao.
"It's not bad. The natural scenery in Yunnan is good. Guangdong and Xiamen are not so good. The old buildings don't look impressive."
While commenting on the photos, Wang Hao discussed the filming location with Li Kui.
"After all, it's a co-production and it's going to be released overseas, so we definitely have to shoot some overseas scenes. But we'll try to save on location expenses. Every day the crew goes abroad costs money, so we'll build the locations if we can and save as much money as possible."
Li Kui nodded repeatedly after hearing this. "I thought so too, but China is not very friendly to the crew in this regard. The natural scenery is okay, but some street scenes and buildings still lack atmosphere."
"That can't be helped. After all, our film and television industry is not well developed yet. When there are more movies being made in the future and more spectacles are created in various places, I think things will get much better in this regard."
Wang Hao said with a smile, and chatted with Li Kui and Wen Pengcheng for a long time before ending the topic.
After solving the problems with the script and the location, he also had to face the most important pre-production issue of this filming mission, which was the production of counterfeit money in the movie.
Regarding this issue, Wang Hao and his team really have no good solution on their own.
After all, they are not professionals in this field, and the prop masters and special effects staff of the crew don’t know much about the process of making counterfeit money.
Even if they looked up some information, this kind of thing itself involves breaking the law, and a lot of the information that could be found was vague.
For this purpose, Jian Yongchang, who was in charge of prop production at Galaxy Interactive Entertainment, took a letter of introduction and a certificate from the company to the police station to apply for technical guidance. However, the film they were shooting was made of US dollars, which was different from the technology in China. Fortunately, Wang Hao remembered the original movie plot very clearly, and according to the key information in the movie, he also provided a lot of suggestions to the props team.
However, these suggestions can only provide general guidance. When it comes to actual implementation in detail, there are still many problems.
Fortunately, Wang Hao was mentally prepared for all of this. After all, in order to truly restore the production process of counterfeit money, the original director of "Wushuang" in the previous life, Zhuang Wenqiang, led his team to spend nearly four months researching counterfeit money before successfully printing out the counterfeit money.
It is simply impossible for Wang Hao and his team to solve this problem perfectly in a short period of time.
So after listening to the report, he did not blame the props department too much, but began to consider finding external assistance.
Speaking of this, since he is looking for foreign aid, his trip to Hong Kong seems to be on the agenda.
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Hong Kong, referred to as "Hong Kong" (HK), is located in southern China, east of the Pearl River Estuary, and across the sea from Macau to the west. It is considered an important window for China to the outside world.
Due to its unique geography and politics, this small city developed at a very fast speed in the 1980s and 1990s into a highly prosperous free port and international metropolis, and is known as the "New York-London Port" together with New York and London.
It is the world's third largest financial center, an important international financial, trade, shipping center and international innovation and technology center, and one of the world's freest economies and most competitive cities.
Of course, the highly prosperous economic development naturally led to the rise of Hong Kong's fashion, art, film and television industries. At its peak, the annual output of Hong Kong films could reach as many as 300. Hong Kong stars were internationally renowned, earning Hong Kong the title of "Oriental Hollywood".
Unfortunately, with the arrival of the millennium, mainland China actively integrated into the world system, and Hong Kong's special status plummeted.
Along with this, Hong Kong's film and television industry also gradually began to decline. In 2004 alone, only 60 films were shot. A large number of film and television practitioners had to either passively or actively leave Hong Kong and head north to the mainland to make a living.
Of course, a tiger will never fall from grace even after its death. Even though the Hong Kong film and television industry has begun to decline, it still has enough foundation for these Hong Kong filmmakers to squander for a while.
And this is exactly the reason why Wang Hao went to Hong Kong. For his "Wushuang", he still needs to cooperate with these Hong Kong filmmakers.
"Mr. Wang! Mr. Wang!"
When Wang Hao, his assistant, Li Kui and other accompanying staff got off the plane and walked into the terminal of the international airport, a middle-aged woman in her early thirties with an excellent appearance and figure immediately came forward after seeing them.
"Hello, Mr. Wang. I am Huo Wenxi, the Director of Artist Management and Records of Emperor Entertainment. Mr. Yang knew that you were coming to Hong Kong, so he specially arranged for me to pick you up."
Huo Wenxi has an above-average appearance, a bright smile, and her soft voice gave Wang Hao a preliminary favorable impression of this trip to Hong Kong.
(End of this chapter)