After Li Tianyi finished speaking, he announced the adjournment of the meeting and left.
Ling Yongzhi's crew is still filming normally, but apart from filming, many people are privately discussing whether to invest.
Seeing this situation, Ling Yongzhi had no choice but to let nature take its course.
At noon the next day, after the morning shooting ended, the cast and crew gathered together automatically and found Ling Yongzhi. Ling Yongzhi was a little surprised when he saw this posture and asked: "You... what do you mean?"
At this time, Yuan Wanru, the most beautiful female lead in the crew, suddenly said: "Director Ling, we have all decided. Each of us has contributed part of the money according to our own financial strength, and now we have raised 1.9 million yuan."
With that said, Yuan Wanru took out a list of names and a bank card and said, "Director Ling, the money and everyone's money are in it."
Ling Yongzhi was stunned, and stupidly took the list and looked at it. His heart suddenly felt warm and his eyes became moist.
Ling Yongzhi could see from the list that everyone had tried their best. Some actors directly invested 100,000 yuan, while others only invested 18,000 yuan. From the 18,000 yuan figure, which was a mixed number, he could tell that the actor's family
She may not be rich, but in this case, she still spent 18,000 yuan. What does this mean? It means that she has feelings for this crew and hopes to continue.
Even many lighting engineers, photographers, and prop masters have invested in it!
Ling Yongzhi took the list and bank card, his expression became serious, he looked at everyone very solemnly and said: "Please rest assured, I, Ling Yongzhi, will definitely direct and film this drama well, and strive not to let everyone in the crew
My friends are suffering. However, I still want to carefully remind everyone that online dramas are risky and investment needs to be cautious. If you regret it now, it is still too late to withdraw funds. Even in the later stages of filming, you can withdraw funds at any time, but there are
One thing I have to tell you is that although I am very optimistic about my own drama, I cannot guarantee that this drama will be 100% popular!"
"Director Ling, you don't need to say anything. Since everyone has pooled money to maintain the filming, everyone knows this very well. We are willing to work together with the entire crew because we recognize you, Director Ling, and we recognize Li Tianyi County.
Chief! As an executive deputy county magistrate, there is absolutely no need for him to explain these things to us so clearly, especially before filming this TV series, we have all seen the forced demolition incident in Daheishan Town on the Internet. Li
County Magistrate Tianyi not only personally stopped the forced demolition of Daheishan Town, but even thought of promoting the development of tourism through a TV series in order to facilitate the demolition. We admire his character and courage very much, and we all volunteered!" among the crowd, a supporting actor
shouted loudly.
He is a senior student at the School of Drama. He is neither handsome nor tall. Therefore, while many of his college classmates have already starred in several TV series and movies, he has not starred in any dramas.
After receiving the call, he was one of the few people in his class who had no shooting experience. For this reason, he had already decided to switch careers to other industries after graduation.
However, at this time, Ling Yongzhi found him and invited him to play an important supporting role in the movie. Although the role was not much, he was very excited after reading the script, because he knew that every line he said was very classic, and
Judging from the complete script, the screenwriter's portrayal of his supporting role is very accurate and successful. He believes that as long as this online TV series can be broadcast, the character he plays will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience.
He can also fully demonstrate his acting talents through this drama and this character.
Therefore, he was very grateful to Ling Yongzhi and Li Tianyi from the bottom of his heart.
As everyone expressed their opinions, Ling Yongzhi excitedly accepted the funds raised by everyone.
At this time, Li Tianyi received a call from the fat man Liu Zhuang: "Boss, I heard that Lingjiao said that your side has begun to absorb external funds? I am so happy. Why didn't you tell me earlier? I have already prepared the money.
I'm waiting for you to let go of the investment button. The savings I've made over the past few years while working, plus some money I earned from running my own online store, add up to about 100,000! I've already called Lingjiao. Don't forget to give me a call when you make money.
I'll pay the dividends. I'm very poor right now, so I'm just waiting for your TV series to become popular and I'll pay the dividends."
Li Tianyi smiled. This is Fatty. This is Liu Zhuang. When you are in trouble, he will try his best to help you, and he will not think that he is helping you, but you are helping him.
In fact, Li Tianyi knew very well that although Fatty recognized Ling Yongzhi's ability, Ling Yongzhi was a novice after all and had never really directed a work independently. The risks of this kind of investment were very high, and Fatty was usually a very cautious person, and he was very cautious about risks.
The degree of emphasis is very high. Under normal circumstances, with the character of the fat man, he would never make this kind of investment. But he did it anyway.
This is Liu Zhuang's friendship, and this is Liu Zhuang's support for Li Tianyi, the boss. Because he knows that if the crew is disbanded, then the boss will definitely be in trouble.
Li Tianyi didn't say anything more, he just said: "Liu Zhuang, you're a smart guy, you've made a lot of money from this investment! Just wait and see!"
However, Li Tianyi never expected that the funding problem was solved, the TV series was finally completed with the concerted efforts of Ling Yongzhi and all the cast and crew, and the post-production was completed. However, when they planned to use this TV series to compete with those
When negotiating cooperation with the video website platform, they encountered difficulties.
Because although the production level of Ling Yongzhi's TV series is good, after watching the sample, he directly said: "I'm sorry, although your sample is good, but it is a low-cost production, and there is no famous director, well-known
Screenwriters and well-known actors, so it is impossible for our website to invest many resources to promote your film. In addition, if you want to promote it, it is not impossible, you can pay us promotion fees. In this case, we can do it for you
Commercial promotion. As for the various incomes after the film is put on the platform, I think it will be divided into 60 and 40, we will get 6 and you will get 4!"
After Ling Yongzhi heard this, he immediately became angry. However, in order to cooperate, he could only endure it and kept negotiating with the other party, but in the end the other party still insisted on a 55:45 ratio and refused to give in anymore!
Ling Yongzhi is completely popular!
He directly slapped the table on the spot and shouted: "Mr. Cheng, you are going too far. Although we are all newcomers to the film, you can't give such harsh conditions for cooperation. What's more, I don't think our film will matter.
The shooting and production standards have already met the conditions for broadcasting on stars, so why should we agree to your cooperation conditions?"
Mr. Cheng just laughed: "Ling Yongzhi, you should know that no matter which platform your film is presented to, the conditions given by the other party are similar to ours."
"Damn it, at worst I won't broadcast it on the video website platform, that's okay!" After saying that, Ling Yongzhi turned and left.
Mr. Cheng sneered and said, "Ling Yongzhi, once you leave this door, it will be too late for you to regret."
Ling Yongzhi left without hesitation.
After Ling Yongzhi left, Mr. Cheng's assistant Li Weiwei said: "Mr. Cheng, I saw that the sample of this is pretty good. Both the production level and the opening plot are quite good. Why do you give him such harsh conditions for cooperation?"
Mr. Cheng chuckled: "Weiwei, remember, this is how business negotiations work. Don't offer good cooperation conditions to the other party at the beginning, especially for a small company and small production team like theirs, even if their products are no good.
Sophisticated, they will eventually need to be played on video website platforms like ours. Therefore, we must strive for conditions that are favorable to us as much as possible to ensure that the website’s interests are maximized. This is the advantageous position of our platform monopoly! You see
Well, sooner or later Ling Yongzhi will find our platform, and by then, it will be difficult for them not to give in!"
Li Weiwei nodded vigorously after hearing this, saying that she had benefited a lot.
When Ling Yongzhi told Li Tianyi the results of the negotiations with several video website platforms, Li Tianyi immediately became angry.
This newcomer’s new film is too underappreciated.
At Li Tianyi's home, Ling Yongzhi looked at Li Tianyi and said with a wry smile: "Boss, I have fallen out with the heads of several websites. I'm afraid this film we put a lot of effort into sending is in danger."
Li Tianyi smiled and shook his head: "There is no perfect path! When Guanyin closes one window for you, it will open another window for you! Since we cannot cooperate fairly with video websites, then we will directly engage in self-media marketing
Go ahead! I believe that as long as we can make our movie popular through self-media marketing, many people will come to us for cooperation."
"Self-media marketing? How to market?" Ling Yongzhi looked at Li Tianyi with some surprise.
Ling Yongzhi has always focused his energy on creation and directing, so he doesn't know much about marketing.
Li Tianyi smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about this aspect, just look at me! However, you need to cooperate with me and make a streamlined version of about 10 minutes first, and add some things that can quickly attract the audience.
Put the plot inside, and you don’t have to worry about the rest.”
Ling Yongzhi smiled and said: "This is simple, leave it to me, and I will give you the film in 2 hours."
Afterwards, Ling Yongzhi went directly to his room and started editing.
Li Tianyi also became busy here. He first logged into his WeChat official account "Dream into the Ancient World", then created a material in the WeChat official account and released the first three episodes!
Currently, there are 150,000 people on Li Tianyi’s WeChat public account Dreaming into the Ancient World! Many of these were searched by Li Tianyi himself through his Weibo account Dreaming into the Ancient World. At the end of each film, Li Tianyi asked Ling Yongzhi to let him know in advance.
I added, if you like this movie, can you help share it with your circle of friends?
Later, Li Tianyi started to log in to his Weibo. On Weibo, he shared the first episode. At the same time, he also made a link to the second episode on his WeChat public account Dreaming into the Ancient World.
, In this way, when the audience has finished watching the first episode and wants to watch the second episode, they can directly enter the WeChat official account through the link to watch.
After Li Tianyi finished all this, Ling Yongzhi had already taken the sample and handed the USB flash drive to Li Tianyi: "The sample is ready, take a look."
After Li Tianyi read the sample, he was very satisfied, but he asked Ling Yongzhi to write a sentence with a very eye-catching title at the end of the sample. If you want to see more complete content, please log in to the WeChat public account to watch. At the same time, Li Tianyi
Ling Yongzhi also asked Ling Yongzhi to write down the process of how to log in to the official account: open WeChat, click the plus sign in the upper right corner, click to add friends, click on the official account, then enter Meng into the Great Wilderness in the search bar, follow it and you can watch it.
Ling Yongzhi acted very quickly and finished it in less than ten minutes. Afterwards, Li Tianyi directly started to log in to various video websites, news websites and many other clients to publish the sample video on the web page!
Li Tianyi sat here for 3 hours. He didn't even remember how many platforms he posted on. In short, he posted on every place he could search, and then posted on Moments!
After everything was done, Li Tianyi lay down on the bed and fell asleep!
He was too tired. As for the outcome, we can only wait until Li Tianyi wakes up.
He was asleep, but Ling Yongzhi couldn't sleep. He was walking around the room, restless all the time. Because he knew very well that if Li Tianyi's marketing failed, it would mean that it would be his first time directing.