Chapter 132: The New Girl Joan
PS: Chapter 131 was written about opening a brokerage company. I felt that it was too streamlined, so I rewrote it, from the original three thousand words to ten thousand words.
In other words, the original chapter 131 has become the current three chapters 131-133.
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Trainer?
This was the first time Chen Ziqiang heard this term.
Yang Ye explained: "Nowadays, film companies have too few methods to discover talents. Since there are no professional performing arts schools in Hong Kong, apart from introductions from friends, everyone just goes to the street to randomly recruit people. This is definitely not the case. It is conducive to long-term development. Shaw Brothers has an artist training class, but it is relatively rough. It is held every three months. What can you learn?
That’s why I created such a trainee system, so-called trainees. , as the name suggests, they are still in the training stage and are not formal artists. My idea is to recruit some talented children from society and teach them singing, dancing, acting and other professional skills from an early age, and then select some of them when they grow up. Excellent talents make their debut."
After hearing this, Chen Long couldn't help but said: "Isn't this the same as the Chinese Drama Academy founded by my master?"
Yang Ye nodded and said: "It's almost the same, but you mainly learn Peking Opera. The content we teach is different, and the methods of operation are also different."
Our trainees are not full-time in the early days. After signing the training business, they can still go to school, but they have to use their spare time and holidays to practice.
We do not charge any fees during this period and provide free training, but we will evaluate whether the person has potential to be tapped during the process.
If you think you have talent that can be made, then you can focus on training. After graduating from middle school, you will receive systematic training for one year, and then you can basically make your debut..."
Yang Ye then added After a brief introduction to the training methods of Japanese and Korean trainees, Chen Ziqiang and Chen Longmao were immediately enlightened.
After hearing this, Chen Ziqiang flattered Yang Ye: "I see, Mr. Yang, you think so. It’s so profound, I admire it! ”
Chen Long smiled and said: "I think Young Master Yang often has some fantastic ideas, which are very interesting."
Yang Ye took a sip of tea and said: "I didn't think of all this. The first company to establish a trainee system was Japan’s Johnny & Associates. According to the Japanese terminology, they are called graduate students. I was inspired by them to come up with this idea. ”
Japan’s Johnny & Associates. Founded in 1975, it is the originator of the idol company, and the idol rules and regulations that are familiar to later generations come from it.
When Johnny was at his peak, there would be 200 Jr. newcomers every year, basically maintaining the speed of debuting a new group in two to three years, and the competition was quite fierce.
A large number of popular Japanese idols such as Kondo Masahiko, Kimura Takuya, Takizawa Hideaki, Yamashita Tomohisa, etc. were all launched by Johnny & Associates.
Later, with the rise of Hallyu, those Korean idol groups basically copied Johnny.
For example, "Johnny's Athletes" launched by Johnny in the 1990s was very popular in Japan.
Later, South Korea imitated an "Idol Games". Cheng Xiao made her debut in gymnastics and became famous in South Korea.
Later, in 2018, domestic penguins also held a "Supernova Games", which was basically a copycat, and that time Zhao Lusi got out of the circle.
The brokerage company Era Junfeng of San Xiaozhi copied it again in 2020.
All in all, all the money-making routines in the Korean Wave and domestic entertainment later were inherited and developed from Johnny's routines.
However, Johnny's was established not long ago and is still in the exploratory stage. Yang Ye copied the trainee system of later generations and is much more mature than them.
Moreover, Johnny & Associates specializes in male idols. They only launched a girl group in 1976, but they later gave up due to lack of response.
This gives Yang Ye an opportunity. Since there will be no well-known female idol management company in Japan in the next few years, Yang Ye can use his influence to go there and recruit people!
Nakamori Akina, Kudo Shizuka, Sakai Izumi, Moritaka Chisato, Sakai Noriko... all come to my bowl!
Of course, recruiting trainees mainly relies on the company's discovery and registration from the society.
Yang Ye will occasionally take the initiative to look for some future popular stars to join.
Time is the biggest cheating device. Knowing what will happen in the next few decades makes Yang Ye unfavorable.
In fact, when a butterfly flaps its wings, huge changes may occur. A person's success and fame are not only related to his personal efforts, but also related to the era, environment and other factors in which he lives.
Yang Ye recruits future red stars in advance, but maybe they won’t become talents.
Other companies lose this red star and may launch new red stars that did not originally exist.
But Yang Ye doesn't care about this. Yang Ye's logic is:
If a person can achieve great achievements in the original time and space, then he must be extraordinary.
Since there is something outstanding, it is worth recruiting.
It is better to have a targeted approach than to find a new person to forcefully change his destiny.
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After Yang Ye explained the trainee system, he began to explain to Chen Ziqiang the second function of the brokerage company, establishing the brokerage system.
Yang Ye took Chen Long as an example. Now that Chen Long is famous, it will have a great social effect.
Some people asked him to attend events, some asked him to endorse advertisements, invitations from TV stations, commercial ribbon cuttings...a lot of messy things.
Although these things are tedious, they are all money. The total sum of these things is higher than the income from making movies.
Doesn't he want to make money?
However, after all, Chen Long has limited energy alone, and he is not very educated and does not know much about literacy. Although people are smart, they will inevitably be tricked.
Now, Yang Ye asks Hu Yinmeng to take care of these trivial matters for him. Hu Yinmeng is also responsible for Yang Ye's affairs, and is often too busy to touch the ground.
Yang Ye said to Chen Ziqiang: "From now on, you will be Aaron's agent, responsible for helping him take care of all the trivial matters so that he can concentrate on making movies."
In the original time and space, it was Chen Long took the initiative to find Chen Ziqiang and asked him to help him. At that time, Chen Long was not awesome enough. His original words were, "Everyone has porridge to eat porridge, and everyone has rice to eat."
Chen Ziqiang was a good manager of the film company at that time. He hesitated when he heard this, because once he agreed, he would help Chen Long carry bags from then on.
Chen Long begged him again: "Brother Qiang, I don't know a few words and I can't speak English. I really need you to help me!"
In the end, Chen Ziqiang still Gritting his teeth and stomping his feet, he followed Chen Long.
In that case, Chen Ziqiang could resign and leave with Chen Long, let alone Yang Ye now asking him to be the manager of the brokerage company.
This situation was more than a hundred times better than that of the original time and space, so Chen Ziqiang naturally took over the position without hesitation.
The first task Yang Ye gave to Chen Ziqiang was to teach Chen Long to speak English.
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Then Yang Ye talked about the third function of the agency:
Promoting its artists, helping them to pick up dramas and make appointments everywhere Song, receiving various endorsements, in short, tearing up various resources.
In the entertainment industry, resources are everything, and the one who can seize them is the king.
It is definitely not enough to just rely on Yang Ye to make cakes by yourself, you have to go outside to grab them.
Yang Ye said: "Don't think this is easy. Just arranging the company's actors to film in-house is not enough. When other companies come to our agency to hire actors, it will be considered awesome!"
Regarding this point, Chen Ziqiang raised his own doubts. Nowadays, the common practice of film companies is to sign an artist and then squeeze him desperately to make him keep filming for him.
Going to other companies to film? Isn’t that capitalizing on the enemy?
Take Shaw Brothers as an example. If you want to hire actors from their company, it is basically impossible. Only Yang Ye has done it.
Yang Ye explained: "Since we have opened a brokerage company, we must abandon the distinction between branches and focus on the interests of the artists. Only in this way can the brokerage company develop and grow. If the artists we sign are only for Do I need to set up an agency to film my own film company? That would be superfluous!
And let me tell you, opening an agency is very promising, and now the box office of Hong Kong movies is getting higher and higher. , many small film companies have sprung up. They are unable to sign actors themselves, so they can only hire them from outside, but what should we do if the big companies don’t let them go? The agency has made its debut. As long as he can afford it, he can hire me no matter what he wants! Aaron, someone is paying you five million to film a movie, do you want to do it?" >
Chen Long smiled and said: "Of course I will do it, who would have trouble with money?"
Yang Ye said: "So, everyone comes out to do things just to make money. Whose money is not earned? Aqiang, do you understand now what the goal of the agency is?"
Chen Ziqiang said: " I understand, we want Hong Kong film companies to be inseparable from our agency as long as they make movies."
Yang Ye clapped his hands lightly and said, "That's what it means."
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Chen Ziqiang and Chen Long had just left, and it happened to be the time agreed by Yang Ye and Qiong Yao.
Yang Ye asked the waiter to clear the table and make tea. Within a few minutes, the couple Ping Xintao and Qiong Yao came down.
Yang Ye greeted them and introduced them: "This little girl is called Liu Xuehua. Hello, Sister Qiong Yao! "
When Qiong Yao saw this girl, she found that she was indeed stunning. Especially Liu Xuehua's eyes had an endearing look, which made her very satisfied.
Qiong Yao said with a smile: "Hello, Xuehua! Are you from Beijing?"
Liu Xuehua nodded and said: "I was born in BJ and moved to Hong Kong when I was five years old."
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Everyone, sit down and order something to eat. It's a rare trip for you two to come to Hong Kong." , you must try the Hong Kong-style morning tea."
Ping Xintao said with a smile: "Of course, we came here because of the reputation."
After ordering, Qiong Yao said to Yang Ye. : "You said before that it was a girl you met at Senior Lin Chuchu's house. I thought she was a girl from the Li family."
Yang Ye smiled and said: "The little girl from the Li family is only six years old now, so of course He can't act in our TV series. Xuehua's father is a good friend of senior Lin Chuchu. Xia Meng and I went to visit senior Lin that day, and Xuehua and his daughter happened to be there too.
I'm a director, and when I saw Xuehua's appearance, I thought she was suitable for filming. However, Xuehua's father was more traditional and did not agree with Xuehua's entry into the industry at first. Later, he relented after being persuaded by senior Lin Chuchu. Does Sister Chen think Xuehua is suitable to play our role? "
Qiong Yao pushed up her glasses, looked at Liu Xuehua for a while, and said, "I think you are suitable to play Yiping! "
Yang Ye let out a sigh, and Qiong Yao said: "Xuehua's appearance makes people feel pity at first sight. It is better to play Yiping, but Yiping is more miserable, which will make the audience feel more sympathetic. Hui Zhong's face is a bit rounded, which makes her suitable for playing Ru Ping, who is more expressive. "
Yang Ye nodded and said: "That's it! ”
Actually, Yang Ye is too lazy to care about who plays whom, Qiong Yao can just make her own decision.
Now that Qiong Yao is satisfied, everyone is happy, and Yang Ye has made it clear to Lin Qingxia!
(End of this chapter)