A trainee training department must be established. This is an indispensable part of cultivating one's own stardom in the future. Considering the establishment of this new department, Haina Entertainment has to consider the issue of expanding the office area.
The two-story Guomao office area seems to be very large, but in fact it is always awkward to use it. After all, not to mention anything else, the recording studio over there in the music department occupies a lot of space.
In addition, Haina Entertainment in Yanjing is also the headquarters of Haina Company. There are quite a few office workers here. Those at the manager level must have an office, right? Big-name celebrities under the banner always have their own separate rest area when they come over, right? In this way, let alone two floors, two floors are not enough.
After all, if you want to recruit trainees and start classes, there must be a dance practice room, and there must be a classroom for training singing or acting skills, plus there are problems with the dormitories for these trainees.
Haina Entertainment, which has not expanded its office area since its establishment, had to start thinking about changing to a larger place. However, there is no need to be too anxious about this matter. It can be promoted together with the establishment of the trainee department. After all, recruiting people also takes time.
Despite the dazzling brand name of Haina, trainees are still relatively unfamiliar to domestic parents. A 15-year-old is still a child, so how to make parents feel comfortable sending their children to Haina is also a problem.
"The trainee department is now starting to be prepared. The rest will start with movies. Find a good director and I will personally select the script and we will create a big production. First, stabilize the reputation in the film market.
We can't relax as far as TV dramas are concerned, we can continue to advance steadily. After all, no matter how long the movie is, it will only be an hour or two. Apart from the fact that the male and female protagonists need to find some famous actors to attract box office, the remaining characters will have limited positions to become celebrities. .
TV dramas are different. It’s not a big problem to just film a movie that’s over 20 levels. After such a long time, even a supporting role still has time to shape up and attract popularity. "Yang Dongxu finally made the decision and settled the matter.
"I personally take care of matters in the practice department. As for the script and director issues, I will let the people below screen them first, and then compile the information for you, and then you can make your selection." Liu Zongsheng said with some excitement.
Because as long as the trainee department is taken care of, and my big boss is finally willing to invest heavily in movies in the mainland, I, as the general manager, will finally feel a little more confident. Otherwise, the annual performance would not be as good as that of the two branches. It would be frustrating to think about it.
However, although my heart is more inclined to make movies, because movies can not only make more money, but also in the industry and in the hearts of the audience, movie stars are always a higher level than TV drama stars. The most direct manifestation is the pay gap between the two.
But the main business of TV dramas cannot be let go. After all, Heiner's TV dramas are a signature piece. From the establishment of Haina to the present, more than half of the domestic phenomenon-level dramas with ratings that other entertainment companies cannot match are produced by Haina.
It hasn’t hired many big stars in recent years, and it doesn’t have its own talent ladder development department. More than 90% of the reasons why Haina still shines are due to the fact that a phenomenal TV series can help Haina cultivate a group of stars.
However, TV drama stars always feel that they are a bit lacking in success. When they were alive, they were only a few years after the TV series became popular. After that, if they want to go further, they always feel like they have encountered a bottleneck.
Then after the popularity of domestic TV series, it was clear that when the TV series was popular, it was first-tier in terms of popularity and influence. As a result, the TV series fell directly to the second-tier after being ignored, or worse.
In the past two years, the idol dramas that Haina has invested heavily in have also experienced this phenomenon of being unable to sustain their popularity. It is obvious that when idol dramas are popular, the actors in them are all phenomenally popular.
But in the subsequent operations, I tried my best to rest on my laurels based on this idol drama, without finding a way to increase my fame and influence to a higher level.
In other words, TV drama stars or idol drama stars are easily stereotyped. It's just that after a TV series became a hit, the audience's impression of you was fixed on your character in the TV series.
For example, Zhao Wei's Little Swallow, or the now popular F4. Everyone's impression of you is this fixed role. You can't do anything else unless your acting skills have been elevated to a certain level and you can create a more classic role to break this framework. Otherwise, no matter what you do, others will think you are Xiaoyanzi or F4. How can you play?
It is precisely because of this that although Haina can cultivate a group of stars through TV series every year, within a few years this group of stars will decline and the next group will need to be cultivated. Fortunately, there are popular TV series being filmed every year, and with the help of these years, there have been no gaps, otherwise Heiner would have been unable to play anymore.
"The record department must also pay close attention. Although the record market has entered a cold winter, a good record still has a great influence, and as long as it accumulates enough popularity, the singer's ability to attract money is actually no better than that of other stars." Yang Dongxu agreed. Li Zongsheng also said after that.
As a big boss, I am getting more and more lazy. I haven't written another song in a long time. And now it's the end of the record industry's glory. Seeing the cold winter beginning to rage, he, the head of the record department, feels more and more pressure.
"Have you met any good seeds?" Yang Dongxu asked.
I just asked the young people, not the big singers in the company. This is related to the fact that big singers have also encountered bottlenecks. You said you have won the throne of Queen or King, and the entire Southeast Asian market has been saturated.
Unless they can break through the European and American markets, these big singers are already at the pinnacle of what they can achieve, and it will be extremely difficult for them to go further.
So what they can do now is to maintain their fame and keep looking down from a high place. And standing at the top, they have no shortage of people who can write songs for them. Therefore, if we want to make Heiner's record department a blockbuster again and cultivate phenomenal newcomers, it will have a greater impact than writing a few classic songs for the elderly.
"The three girls from my hometown that I mentioned to you before formed a combination. I have already signed them into the company."
"Didn't you record a record before?" Yang Dongxu naturally remembered this, and he was very optimistic about this group SHE. No one in the new generation or future generations can match the influence of domestic groups. Their influence is not comparable to that of Korean male and female groups. It is a pity that their solo career collapsed later.
Of course, we can't blame them. It seems that it is the fate of all male and female groups to destroy themselves after going solo. For example, Little Tigers, Shuimunianhua, Zero Point, Black Panther... in short, there are too many.
People have different demands at different times. It is more difficult to unify these demands and maintain the stability of the team than to form a new men's or women's group to gain popularity. After all, once you are famous, you cannot impose the same requirements as you do to newcomers.
So in this regard, South Korea plays a more advanced role. They take advantage of the male and female groups when they are popular, and finally exploit them when they are about to disband.
After a solo career, I can be very popular and continue to make money. After my career collapses, I immediately launch a new group to take over. It’s so exciting to cut leeks one after another.
"It's not enough. For newcomers, their current achievements are indeed good, but if they want to go further, their records must be even better." Li Zongsheng said while looking at Yang Dongxu, the resentment in his eyes was already overflowing.
"Okay, I'll call someone to Yanjing to work on the title song myself. But you can look at the other songs and I'll just give you some suggestions at most. But you must do the record production. I don't have time to make it for anyone alone. Come out with a record." Yang Dongxu said.
Li Zongsheng, who was originally resentful, felt a little bit like love and hate at the same time. What he loved was that his big boss finally agreed to help. I hate it because my big boss is still as lazy as before and is unwilling to do more work.
However, the big boss has agreed to direct the title song and it has met his expectations. Although he still feels a little unhappy, he also knows how busy Yang Dongxu is, so he doesn't force it: "Then you are ready to start tomorrow."
"There's no need to be so anxious, right?" Yang Dongxu looked stunned.
"That's why you're so anxious." Li Zongsheng glared at him angrily.
If he didn't seize his boss's time and get things done in time, he would have known whether Yang Dongxu would be so dissolute that there would be no trace of him again in a few days.
"Okay, tomorrow is tomorrow." Since he agreed, he naturally wouldn't lie, "By the way, take out the interludes or opening and closing songs from the popular TV series we produced and record the MV. Such popular TV series and songs It’s a waste not to use it.”
"There is no problem with this. In fact, I have been doing it before. But the previous ones are basically to come out with songs after the popularity of the TV series has subsided to continue the popularity. There is no problem if you do it early, just add another hit. "Li Zongsheng nodded.
Liu Zongsheng next to him naturally had no objection. After all, this was what the company needed to do. If Yang Dongxu didn't propose it, it would just be a matter of time.
"Compile the information of all the artists in the company and give it to me. They are so menacing. Let me see how many soldiers I have first, otherwise it will be fun not knowing who can be used during the war." Yang Dongxu said.
Liu Zongsheng nodded. His indifferent boss actually started to care about the company's operations. Naturally, he agreed with both hands and feet.
In fact, Haina's CEO has always been a strange flower in the industry, not that the CEO himself is so strange. But almost all CEOs want more power to demonstrate their own value after taking office, for fear that the board of directors will restrict them too much.
Haina's CEO is just the opposite, except that when he first took office, Yang Dongxu, the big boss, kept an eye on him for a period of time to make him take over the job more smoothly.
At other times, his big boss is a completely hands-off shopkeeper, let alone restricting his power. He wanted to report his work but couldn't find anyone.
CEOs of other companies hope that the board of directors will leave them alone, but Haina's CEO hopes that his big boss will give him more guidance on his work. Isn't this weird?
