Chapter 359 Lack of Talent
Chapter 359 Lack of Talent
In the reception room of a luxury hotel, three top leaders were briefly looking through the information that Wang Hao had prepared in advance.
As the leading private enterprise in the domestic film and television industry, Galaxy Group has always been concerned about the current situation and future development of the industry, and has therefore invested a lot of money and energy in the analysis and investigation of the current situation of the industry.
So if we really talk about the understanding of the domestic film and television industry, what the top leaders know may not be as true as what Wang Hao knows.
After all, when those government agencies report data to their superiors, they will embellish the situation to make the data look better. However, the researchers from the Galaxy Group have no such obligation.
As for the disconnect between the teaching activities of domestic film and television schools and the needs of the actual film and television production process, Wang Hao had actually been vaguely aware of this when he was studying at Beijing Film Academy.
However, when he was studying in school at that time, he did not have a clear judgment on the extent of this disconnection.
It was not until he graduated and began to participate in all aspects of domestic film and television project production, and began to be at the forefront of domestic creation, and his company became the number one private film and television company in China, that he realized how serious this disconnect was.
The problems mainly arise in two aspects.
One is that the training methods for high-end domestic film and television talents have become outdated, and the other is that there is a gap in the training and education of grassroots film and television workers in China.
Let’s talk about the first one first. In today’s film and television schools, the ones that Wang Hao has come into contact with, the training of core talents in the film and television industry, such as directors, is still the same old way.
The teachers in charge of teaching in schools have not yet realized that in such an era of drastic changes in media, directors are no longer just artistic talents.
According to Wang Hao, students majoring in directing should even be awarded a degree in management.
Yes, with the development of the domestic film and television industry, the improvement of film and television technology, and the changes in the media environment, directors have evolved into a complex, cross-industry, diversified profession.
It's not just directors. Many professions are like this as society develops. "Compound talents" and "compound majors" have become new terms nowadays.
Nowadays, if you want to become a high-end talent in the film and television industry, you need more than just good artistic appreciation skills.
Galaxy Group also has its own talent reserve program for young directors. According to their training model, graduating from a film and television school is just the beginning.
After that, those young directors will not only have to rotate in various positions in the crew, but also have to learn various knowledge such as project management, financial cost, etc.
Those young directors who are being trained even joked that they will not be directors in the future, but project managers.
This is true. In the future, the requirements for directors and producers will become higher and higher for any larger film and television projects.
However, this kind of high-demand talent cannot be cultivated by major film and television schools alone.
After all, to put it bluntly, those teachers in film and television schools are losers eliminated by the market.
I have never heard of any young successful director teaching in a film and television school. If those teachers really have the ability to direct a good movie, given the current and future popularity and profitability of the film and television industry, how could they be content to stay in school?
To put it bluntly, most of the teachers in film and television schools have no actual working experience in film companies or post-production companies, and are destined to only teach theoretical things by rote.
In this era of rapid development in the film and television industry, film technology, production techniques, process models and other content are updated very quickly.
The teaching content and level of traditional film and television schools, especially those at second-tier and third-tier vocational high schools and technical colleges, are clearly unable to adapt to the rapidly changing situation.
The knowledge structure of many college teachers is basically still based on book theories, and the freshness and cutting-edge nature of the teaching content are far from practical on-the-job training.
The senior leaders couldn't help but frown when they looked at the report on this part.
These contents are not what they can see in their work reports. How can those schools in the film and television industry say that there is a problem with their education methods?
And how could those management departments care whether the quality of education on university campuses can guarantee that students can find a good job after graduation?
As long as everything is acceptable, it is fine. Solving a problem is not as easy as covering it up.
However, for people like Wang Hao who want to do practical things and promote the development of China's film and television cultural industry, this problem needs to be solved urgently.
Because the cultivation of talents is never a matter of a day or a night. It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to cultivate a person. Although the Galaxy Group is also cultivating its own talents, compared with the rapidly expanding Chinese film and television market, it is just a drop in the bucket.
As far as he knew, just the few young directors that their company was currently training had already attracted the attention of some film and television companies, who had begun to contact them secretly in an attempt to poach their talents.
“Regarding the training of high-end talents, my personal suggestion is that the higher authorities should promote the integration of industry and education in the film and television education industry.
Before 2000, the mainstream model of our domestic film and television industry was still the state-owned film studio system.
Taking the Beijing Film Academy, which I am most familiar with, as an example, it has a Youth Film Studio inside it. Every year there are many film and television project shooting and production tasks for students to learn and practice, and some teachers can also gain practical experience.
But now, with the fading of the studio model, film and television education has gradually become detached from the market. Therefore, it is believed that in the future, film and television education institutions should pragmatically connect with the film and television production end.
In this regard, our Galaxy Group is actually cooperating with the Shanghai Film Academy, trying to explore a talent training model that integrates politics, industry, academia and research.
The current preliminary plan is the '2+2' plan. In the first two years, students will mainly complete public basic theory, professional theory and professional training courses. In the next two years, they will directly enter Galaxy Pictures' creative projects for on-the-job internships. During the internship period, our company also has professional personnel to train and teach them.
The first batch of outstanding students that we trained in cooperation with Beijing Film Academy last year have begun to officially enter the major crews of Galaxy Pictures for internships to put into practice what they have learned in class.
The students are very satisfied with this because this model provides them with a good green channel for employment.”
"But this kind of cooperation model is probably not suitable for full promotion, right?"
Han Sanping raised a question at this time.
"After all, things like teaching still need to be considered carefully, and the school must be responsible for the students."
"It doesn't have to be fully promoted right away," Wang Hao said, "We can first promote the pilot work of talent internship bases."
"For example, in China, besides our Xinghe Group, there is also your Huaying Group, Mr. Han, the Magic Film Group in Magic City, as well as some existing film studios and TV stations in various places.
Since you are worried about problems, you can start with state-owned enterprises. Moreover, the three major film and television schools in China have considerable appeal and connections, and there are many outstanding alumni. These can also enable school education to obtain sufficient project resources and practical resources, providing strong support for talent training.
And the cooperating film and television companies will not suffer any loss either, as they can lock in high-quality talent resources in advance before the rapid development of the film and television industry in the future, thus achieving a win-win situation.”
Wang Hao's words made Director La and Han Sanping nod their heads. Indeed, examples of school-enterprise cooperation are not uncommon in society nowadays, and there is nothing wrong with film and television schools doing so.
“Of course, it is not enough to just train high-end talents. We also have a blank in terms of basic vocational education in the film and television industry.
Modern commercial films are no longer the art of one person.
For example, the industrialization of film and television that our Galaxy Group has been promoting requires the cooperation of various resources and positions.
However, in the actual production and shooting process, we will find that the professional quality of many basic jobs in the domestic film and television industry, such as makeup, costumes, props, lighting, etc., has long been criticized and has not been well improved.
This is not just the case with our company. Many big directors we've worked with have also expressed concerns and complaints about this.
Moreover, we can also see from the registration levels of the behind-the-scenes staff of our company's good production network that almost 80% of the behind-the-scenes staff are at level C and D, and we have not yet registered many more who have not passed the assessment.
This is the result of our group's continuous vocational skills training over the past few years.
These blue-collar workers in the film and television industry do not need or have a high level of education. Most of them are latecomers and have not received professional training. Many of them can even be said to be migrant workers in basic positions. "
"Aren't there any corresponding film and television vocational schools in the country?" Director La asked curiously at this time.
Wang Hao shook his head, "No."
"Currently, there is a complete lack of education for basic jobs in the film and television industry in China.
Let me put it this way, in the past planned economy era, each film studio had a makeup workshop, props workshop, lighting workshop, and photography workshop, and the relevant talents were trained by the film studio itself.
Since these state-owned film studios have ceased to exist, training for basic jobs has been discontinued.
It can be said that the domestic film and television industry today is still enjoying the legacy of the past state-owned film studios. Those masters of basic trades who are still active in the film and television industry are almost all old people who came out of the major state-owned film studios.
As for the current training model for young basic workers in the industry, most of them have become masters training apprentices on the set.
This kind of training model, not to mention the personal dependence between apprentices and teachers, even the teaching efficiency and quality cannot be guaranteed.
Although there are people who have taken this path and worked their way up from the bottom to become department heads, such people are still rare. Most of the technical workers behind the scenes still lack room and channels for advancement and can only get by by muddling through.
As for film and television schools, although Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama and other schools also offer courses such as photography and color grading, they are just elective courses for students, not a major.
After graduation, most students aim to become directors or producers, and it is impossible for them to engage in these seemingly low-end professions.
The solution we at Galaxy Group have now is to cooperate with Beijing Film Studio to set up short-term training courses to provide learning and training opportunities for those behind-the-scenes workers who have signed contracts with us.
Positions such as lighting technicians and sound assistants do not have much to do with the national education system and do not require a lot of systematic knowledge. You can start working as long as you understand things within the professional scope. The training period can be much shorter, and it is not necessary to obtain a bachelor's degree certificate.
But this method is only an emergency measure.
What our film and television industry really needs is a scientific and systematic process for training grassroots personnel in the industry.
Let’s put it this way, most of those who work in basic jobs and need to attend training courses do not have a good learning attitude.
Many of them entered this industry in the past decade due to the expansion of the film and television industry.
Some of these people may be satisfied with the status quo, some may just use their current job as a stepping stone, and some believe that the best way to learn is to hang out in a crew, get to know people, get popular, and build connections. Very few people really want to gain a place in the industry through learning and working hard to improve their professional skills.
How can the entire film and television industry achieve healthy development without a solid foundation? "
Wang Hao's speech was truly heartfelt, and mixed with his thoughts on the entire film and television industry over the years. It can be said to be full of practical information and quite inspiring for senior leaders.
After saying so much and laying the groundwork for so long, Wang Hao finally shifted the topic to his final direction.
“The scarcity of high-end talents and the lack of basic technical personnel fundamentally reflect the immaturity of China’s film industry.
We can refer to Hollywood in this regard. After hundreds of years of development, the American film industry has formed a very mature industrial process and business operation model.
The people working in the film industry there are all very qualified and professional.
This professionalism can help them better improve the quality of their films, and high-quality films can generate high profits, which naturally makes them pay more attention to the training of technical workers in the industry, thus forming a positive cycle.
From this point of view alone, there is still a very obvious gap between our country and Hollywood."
When Han Sanping heard this, he couldn't help but say:
"The difficulties faced by China's film industry in industrialization and talent cultivation are mainly related to the fact that our industry is developing too rapidly at this stage. This is not something that can be achieved overnight."
“But the industry will only develop faster in the future, and the market won’t wait for you.
The film industry has just emerged, but it is already in chaos, with all kinds of speculative and impetuous practices prevalent.
I am afraid that before we can form a good industry ecological environment like Hollywood, many things will have become irreversible!"
Wang Hao's voice was a little loud, and Han Sanping immediately showed dissatisfaction on his face.
However, the leader was very smart and saw that they were singing the same tune, so he waved his hand and said:
"Don't talk about these nonsense, just tell me the final plan."
"My suggestion is to further open up the mainland film market and introduce foreign film talents as assistance."
(End of this chapter)