"Yes." Fan Keqin nodded and said, "I slept one night on the boat and just had dinner, so let's just set up the place first."
What does it mean for people to be established? One of them is a singer and the other is a songwriter, and their background stories are that they have little money and want to come to Shanghai, the Asian financial center, to make a career. But what should I do if I have no money? I have no time to stabilize myself, so I have to start "breaking out" as soon as I get off the boat. This is in line with their conditions. But if you want to do the opposite, if you don't have much money, but you are not in a hurry, then this behavior is illogical. If it is unreasonable, it will easily attract attention.
These are all details, and Fan Keqin himself pays attention to details. There is no way that he will eventually expose himself because of these things. Then this mistake is too low-level.
How to do it? Very simple. Fan Keqin and Hua Zhang did not go to the star company introduced by the pseudo-government police officer, but went to another company, the Shanghai Film and Singing Production Company.
The strength of this company is acceptable in Shanghai at this time, but it is not the top one. It belongs to the mid-range of the second-rate, but it has also filmed a few movies and sold well. But the record has not been released. How should I put it? They have their own recording factory for vinyl discs. However, the vinyl discs they release have no songs, and most of them are reprinted songs. For example, jazz, or songs by other famous singers.
To put it bluntly, in their Shanghai Film and Singing Production Company, there are one or two movie stars, but there are really no singers. Because their company does have songwriters, but the quality of the songs they produce for singers is not good. They also released songs at first, but they really couldn't sell them.
They really envy Mingyue Company and Mingxing Company. The former has a golden voice, and every time he sings a song, it becomes popular. Among the latter, there is the movie queen Hu Die. Every movie she makes is a hit. As for themselves, they can only do dubbing, or accept recording tasks from other companies. To put it bluntly, they are a bit like a foundry.
Fan Keqin had researched this before he came, and he deliberately chose the Shanghai Film and Singing Production Company. Regardless of their name, they are in movies and singing, but they are basically OEMs. The level of independent production is not good enough.
But we cannot underestimate this company, because although their own original production level is very poor, they are in the middle and lower reaches of the industry. That is: recording studios, recording factories, and other industries, as well as film-making equipment, are relatively comprehensive.
Therefore, the company's ability to survive is not in vain. It can be regarded as a second-rate mid-level entertainment company in the colorful world of Shanghai. After all, how many movies can I make? Moreover, the equipment for making movies is very complete, so just by renting out the equipment, we will not go bankrupt.
Even so, who doesn’t want to make their company bigger and stronger? And it’s a complete seller’s market now. This does not just refer to the physical industry. The entertainment industry is similar. As long as the quality of your work is not too bad, you will definitely make money. But their company is really not good at originality, and they don’t have much talent.
It is also because of this that Zhang Shan, the boss of the Shanghai Film and Singing Production Company, is very worried about this matter. Sitting in his office, smoking one cigarette after another. Listening to reports from my subordinates, this company rented two of our cameras, and that company rented our recording studio and so on.
Although you can definitely make some money by renting out equipment and sheds, these things are not Zhang Shan's pursuit. It's just... quite disturbing.
After the manager of the rental business left, Zhang Shan sighed and was about to play a record to change his mood. There was a knock on the door, and his assistant opened the door and walked in, bringing with him Zhen Qiang, the record business manager with an excited face.
"Boss." Zhen Qiang happily strode up to him and said, "Good news, haven't you always wanted to find a songwriter who can match the quality of songs produced by Mingyue Company? Two people just came, and I just finished receiving them. The quality of the water is very high. Do you want to see it?"
"Oh?" Zhang Shan was stunned and didn't react for a while. He was also happy, but he calmed down and asked: "Really or not, can the level be compared with Mingyue Company? Do they have the ability to deal with it?"
"Really, boss." Zhen Qiang said with a smile: "At first, I just thought they were two songwriters and singers who were a little bit down. But after the reception, I read their music scores and listened to them on the equipment. They spent money to record them themselves. After three vinyl records. The three songs are absolutely beautiful, very tasteful, and the level is really very high. Boss, I strongly recommend that you go down and listen to their independently completed records for yourself. You can’t miss such a talent. ah."
"Yes." Zhang Shan nodded and stood up immediately, pinched his cigarette and said, "Let's go, take me to see him."
Zhen Qiang turned around and took Zhang Shan downstairs to the outer lounge of the underground recording studio. Zhang Shan walked inside and saw two people sitting on chairs and looking intimately together. Apparently a couple.
If you take a closer look at Zhang Shan's first sense, it's quite good and feels right. The woman on the right should be in her mid-twenties, which is actually quite young in this industry. But it does look good. And that man is even more so, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, he is very handsome. The hair is longer and combed back. The whole person has a sense of melancholy unique to the artist, which makes people want to understand the inner world of the other person. This means that I am a man. If a woman looked at this person, I am afraid that her first impression would be quite good. They are indeed a beautiful couple.
"You two, let me introduce you." Zhen Qiang said with a smile: "This is Zhang Shan, Boss Zhang of our Shanghai Film and Singing Production Company." Then he turned to Zhang Shan and said: "These two are husband and wife. The husband's name is Wan Heng, he is a songwriter, but he also sings very well. The wife's name is Zhang Qing. I have listened to the songs she sang, but they are no worse than Zhou Xuan."
Zhang Shan is quite polite, because he was really nice to Fan Keqin and Hua Zhang in the first scene. In fact, he didn't know that this was a look carefully prepared by Fan Keqin and Hua Zhang. Even the expressions and other things they were sitting there with were prepared for him. The purpose is to influence the other party's subconscious mind and make the other party feel that he is very professional and stylish after meeting him...
