After the creative meeting was held and filming arrangements were made for the three directors, Song Lu took Yu Chen to talk about work.

"Old Yu, we need producers. There is no shortage of directors, but there is a shortage of good producers. You have to select a group of people from the management department of the film school or film students from North America to start as production assistants. Producers

It is equivalent to being an excellent factory director. If you only know how to produce products but don't have a good factory director to control them, problems will arise, and you can't do it alone." Song Lu said earnestly.

"I have discovered it a long time ago, and I am also digging for good seedlings to cultivate, but not to a large extent. The main reason is that I cannot control our annual production of film and television dramas in the future, and how many projects we need to start a year, so that we can have goals.

How many people should we train?" Yu Chen said.

"By 2012, according to the plan to produce 20-50 film and television dramas every year, think about how many producers, production directors and production assistants we will need." Song Lu said a number.

"This, so much?" Yu Chen was dumbfounded.

"Yes, that's all. Even I think it's missing. My idea is that there are a hundred." Song Lu said.

"One, a hundred? Our market is not that big. Even if we go international, we won't be able to capture it." Yu Chen was shocked.

"Old Yu, you only focus on theater movies. Our Maoyan video can't just buy the copyright every year, right? Maoyan cannot make money by buying copyrights, or the profit cycle is too long. If Maoyan wants to continue to have long-term success,

If you are new to work, then you can make it yourself.”

Yu Chen opened his eyes wide, it turns out this was the plan.

"I plan to let you serve as the vice president of content operations for Maoyan next year. You will focus on the content creation of Maoyan. Next year, Maoyan will start filming its own TV series and movies. I call them online movies and online TV series. I will follow

Radio and television discuss the content review issue in this area, which is different from traditional theater movies, TV movies and TV series. Therefore, it has become inevitable to shoot dozens of online movies and dozens of online dramas a year.

"

"How many producers and production directors do we need? Some dramas can only be broadcast in the international version, so you have to find overseas film students from North America to train them."

"In addition to TV series, we can also do variety shows. Next year I plan to cooperate with the TV station to produce a variety show first. Doesn't this also require a producer?"

After Song Lu finished speaking, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water.

"According to what you said, it does require hundreds of producers. Then the demand for funds is huge." Yu Chen said excitedly.

"So at the end of this year, Maoyan will need to raise funds, mainly from three sources. One is to increase the funds for website construction. It is currently grabbing overseas land and needs funds. The second is to continue to buy copyright funds. This will have a fixed value every year, and it will not be available in the future.

It needs to be melted, and the profit generated by the website is enough to meet the requirements.

, but now is the time to replenish the film library. Third, there is a huge amount of funds for self-created content. This amount alone is at least one billion. Even if an online movie costs an average of 2 million, dozens of movies will cost hundreds of millions. There are also TV series to be made.

Fortunately, it’s over 30 million now, not to mention program production.”

As soon as Song Lu finished speaking, Yu Chen immediately took out the paper and pen from the side.

"Wait a minute, I'll write it down." Yu Chen's habit was good. He knew it would be his turn to make a ppt or plan again, so he had to write down Song Lu's ideas.

Yu Chen jotted it down, read it and then thought about it.

"Mr. Song, why do you want to shoot it yourself? Can't we just accept it from outside? We don't need to train people, we don't need to invest, and we don't need to take risks." Yu Chen asked.

"Yeah, you've thought about it." Song Lu nodded.

"It's true as you said. In fact, we are only a platform. We can do a better job of collecting movie shares. There are thousands of movies produced every year, but only a few hundred are actually released to theaters. If we collect these, it will be a huge amount.

But there are three reasons why these movies cannot recover their costs, so

They will not focus on custom-making for us. Secondly, these films are often of very poor quality and do not meet the market. Even if they are added to our film library, they will not attract users. Thirdly, we spent an average of 2 million per film in the early stage.

The purpose of making movies is to earn traffic without making any money."

"In the early stage, it is very likely that we will make a dozen horror movies a year, a dozen action movies, a dozen monster movies, and a dozen comedies. The types of online dramas are also the same, such as costume movies, urban movies, etc.

How many movies, how many science fiction movies, just pouring in at a constant speed." Song Lu said.

Yu Chen nodded when Song Lu finished speaking, but he immediately frowned again.

"But do we have so many good scripts? There are no scripts and no stories. The green light system has no effect now. Only the screenwriters trained by our company are useless."

Song Lu nodded. If there is no good content, everything is fake.

"So, I want to buy Shanda Literature, which is a large IP library that can produce massive amounts of content year after year. But I guess Chen is unwilling to sell unless I have enough funds to invest. Alas, I have to raise funds.

.”

"..." Yu Chen was completely speechless. If Song Lu's idea wants to succeed, it must be able to form a closed loop, story, production team, and sales platform. Only the linkage of these three can form a closed loop and good drive.

"Okay, this is a bit far away. You first make this thing into a plan. According to my vision, the plan will be formed before the end of the year. Starting from January 1 next year, I will let you go to Maoyan as the vice president of content and concurrently serve as Xihong

General Manager of City Culture.”

"Then Xihong City Culture needs a vice president to take over my work." Yu Chen said, "Li Shenghao, although he is only thirty years old, but..."

"Okay, no need to explain, just do as you say. Someone will take over Li Sheng's good job. See, he's still the producer," Song Lu said.

"I'll take care of this." Yu Chen was full of confidence. This business is getting bigger and bigger.

After discussing the basic ideas with Yu Chen, Song Lu thought for a while and called Wei Ming and Ge Hong from Maoyan to communicate with them in advance.

After hearing Song Lu's idea, Wei Ming and Ge Hong had no objections. Instead, they agreed. At first, they had been thinking about how to solve the content problem. Now that Song Lu had a plan, it would be better.

Now Maoyan's business is developing rapidly. It is in the pioneering period. There are few competitors in the world. Video websites such as YouTube, Youku, and Tudou are not as important as their business, which is video social networking.

However, after seeing the Maoyan model, these websites seem to want to rely on this aspect, but these companies have not yet fully determined the transformation.

The main reason is to find the difficulty, that is, the source of the copyright library. This is a constraint. The key is that the current copyrights have been almost swept away by Maoyan. If they want to come in, they have to buy the copyright from Maoyan, and they are restricted by others.

We are still short of money. If we really do what Song Lu envisioned, we must acquire Shanda Literature. Even if Shanda fails to acquire it, we will have to acquire Zongheng and 17k together.

Whoever is acquired is a big sum of money, not a small amount.

Song Lu wanted to acquire Shanda Literature even more, because Qidian existed. Qidian was the leader in the online literature world. Either he would be the first, or he would acquire the first. This was Song Lu's idea.

There's no need to rush this, just take your time.

Song Lu's first concert has also been confirmed. It will be the first Beijing Workers' Stadium concert on September 6th, the Nangang Hung Hom concert on September 13th, the Tokyo concert on September 20th, and the London concert on October 4th.

, New York concert on October 11th.

Why are the lines so dense and so fast?

Because Song Lu's request was to keep everything simple, with no pomp, no exquisite stage design, and no line dancing. He even asked from the beginning that the venue should not be too big, with a capacity of 5,000 to 20,000 people.

The reason for this request is because he is in a hurry and does not want to waste too much time and energy on the concert. It is a small venue, with fewer supporting facilities and a smaller team.

Song Lu directly invited Wang Hong, Xu Wei and others as members of the band, and they could also help him be guests and sing a few songs on stage.

Song Lu didn't plan to invite other guests. First, he couldn't afford the favor. If someone else invited him in the future, would he go or not?

He is not just a singer, he has no time to support others.

I have agreed with Wang Hong and Xu Wei that I may not have time to support them on stage in the future, so don’t expect Song Lu to be a guest at their concerts.

It doesn't matter to either of them, they just play music and just have fun together.

Of course, no matter how much Song Lu talks about simplicity, he still has to rehearse more or less. So the time left for him to rehearse is less than half a month. Song Lu must first practice well with the band.

So, he stayed in the recording studio every day and had fun with a group of singers.

The Olympic Games ended on the 24th. This Olympic Games was very successful. Not only did China show itself to the world, but it also achieved good results.

It was an unforgettable opening ceremony that the world will remember.

Of course, there is the Paralympic Games coming up, but that is just a snack, and the main things have been left behind.

Then some people who stopped working because of the Olympic Games also returned to normal working conditions.

School started nationwide on September 1st, and a Hollywood blockbuster was released in mainland China on September 2nd. Many Chinese movie fans went to the theater to see Jet Li's new film.

That's right, it's "The Mummy 3".

Liu Yifei asked Song Lu to go to the cinema to watch the movie in disguise. In fact, of course Song Lu had seen it, but she couldn't talk about it.

After watching it, Liu Yifei excitedly praised the film for how well shot it was, with great special effects and a fun plot.

However, she was directly criticized by Song Lu.

"Sissi, you can't accept movies like this in the future. Also, if you have a North American nationality and you can move it back to Nangang, you won't be able to move it back to China," Song Lu said.

"Ah? Why?"

"Which one did you say why?" Song Lu asked while driving.

"Ask both."

"Have you not seen this movie? It is a movie that slanders Chinese culture? It is demonizing Qin Shihuang and letting audiences around the world know that our ancestors are demons. The Mummy series is a movie that demonizes all cultures except Christian culture.

.If you say that if you accept this kind of movie, you are aiding the tyranny, and you will be pointed at the bridge of your nose and scolded."

Song Lu said.

"Is this, is this so serious?" Liu Yifei was speechless.

"Do you think it doesn't matter? Anyway, it has been written in the history books that Qin Shihuang was a tyrant and the Qin Dynasty was a tyrant, right? No matter what the Chinese history books say, foreigners don't understand it. They only know after watching the film

The ancestors of China were demons who allowed countless civilians to die unjustly in order to build the Great Wall. Then do you know why the Great Wall was built?" Song Lu asked.

"Why build the Great Wall? No, isn't it just to defend against foreign enemies?" Liu Yifei said.

"Yes, the importance of the Great Wall is to protect the continuation of China's civilization for thousands of years, instead of disappearing in the long river of history like other countries in the four ancient civilizations. So, how important is the Great Wall? Without the Great Wall, we would

Chinese civilization has long been
To be continued...