Through this lecture, the actors in the crew have a deeper understanding of the drama "The Condor". In this way, after the filming starts in the future, they can work together to get twice the result with half the effort.
And the actors here are basically all good at acting. Including the few actors who were given away by Chen Feng as a favor, their acting skills are quite good, after all, they have basically had acting experience before.
This is equivalent to multiple companies helping Chen Feng to film the film. If he alone or a company like Summit Entertainment chooses people to film this film, it will definitely be difficult. Because this is a large-scale martial arts drama and there are many actors alone.
There are dozens of people. It takes a lot of energy to choose them one by one.
Thinking of the situation now, Chen Feng gave away some quotas as a favor. After the entertainment companies in the same industry got the quotas, Chen Feng did not need to choose them personally, but those companies themselves.
Of course, those companies can't fool around and send people who can't act to participate. Instead, they will choose the actors in their companies who are most suitable for the role. This saves Chen Feng a lot of trouble.
Another advantage is also very obvious, that is, the salaries of these invited actors are generally relatively low. Chen Feng's initial budget for the movie "The Condor" was 50 million, and it was destined to take a cut in the salary.
The final total salary for these seventy or eighty actors was only over 20 million. Among them, the male lead Jiang Xiaobai only had 1 million, and the female lead Li Yixue and Chen Feng originally planned to pay 2 million, but she knew that Jiang Xiaobai
After Bai only had one million, he took the initiative to lower the price to only one million.
The two heavyweights Liu Qinfei and Hu Fei were also paid very friendly prices. Liu Qinfei only got 800,000 yuan, and Hu Fei also only got 800,000 yuan.
As a result, with their salary standards, other supporting actors whose roles are more minor will of course be paid even lower.
So this left a lot of money for the crew of "The Condor". However, the remaining 20 million yuan is obviously not enough to successfully shoot this series. Because the crew is not only actors, but also directors and photographers.
, lighting, make-up, props and other technical work, the total compensation of these people is tens of millions.
In addition, miscellaneous expenses such as props, film, venue rental, food and accommodation, etc., cost at least several million. The remaining cost is only about 10 million, and post-production is also quite expensive. Not to mention other things, the post-production special effects require
To do it well, it would cost at least several million or even tens of millions to invest in it.
Therefore, until the end of filming of "The Condor", additional investment will definitely be required.
After the mobilization meeting and lectures before the start of filming, the actors of the crew can go to the film and television base in Hengcheng spontaneously or in groups. Of course, the travel expenses will be reimbursed by Dingfeng.
Chen Feng also plans to go to Hengcheng in two days to host the opening ceremony of "The Condor".
However, before that, she had to preside over the ceremony for Chang Lingyu and Li Yixue to sign with their Peak Entertainment.
In fact, Chang Lingyu and Li Yixue have already signed a contract with Summit Entertainment privately, but it has not been officially made public. Even Chang Lingyu has completed the recording of her first album "Perseverance" in the recording studio here at Summit.
Post-production of the recording is currently underway.
At this time, Li Yixue had even signed a cooperation agreement with the crew of "The Condor" as a contracted artist of Summit Entertainment.
Chen Feng originally planned to hold the signing ceremony for the two of them together, but Su Qian and Jia Yong objected. The reason is very simple. Not to mention Chang Lingyu, the first lady in the singing world, and only Li Yixue, the little singing queen.
As one of the Four Little Actresses, one cannot share the stage with others. In that case, it would appear less dignified and even disrespectful to them.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Feng agreed to hold a separate signing ceremony for them and invited major media to come and watch the ceremony.
According to the order of first come, first served, the first person to hold the signing ceremony was of course Chang Lingyu, the first lady in the music industry.
Although the outside world has basically known for a long time that Chang Lingyu changed jobs with Tianhe and reached the peak, it has not been announced before. Now it will be officially announced to the outside world. This is huge news for the domestic entertainment industry. After all, Chang Lingyu is still
She can still be regarded as one of the top sisters in the music industry. Even though she is now being strongly challenged by Meng Tingting, she has already formed a deep-rooted concept in the minds of the public in the past few years. Meng Tingting still lacks a little enthusiasm to defeat her with just one best-selling album.
Therefore, many media reporters got wind of the news and came uninvited. The large conference room of Summit Entertainment Company was full. There were at least a hundred people. But Summit actually only invited a dozen domestic media before.
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The signing ceremony was actually very simple. Under the auspices of temporary guest host Su Qian, Chang Lingyu and Chen Feng spoke one after another.
Chang Lingyu's speech was quite candid and emotional. She said that Chen Feng is the musical talent that she admires, appreciates, and even worships the most in her life. The main reason why she chose to sign a contract with Summit Entertainment was because of this. Another point is that
She gained the greatest degree of freedom at Summit Entertainment, and both Summit and Chen Feng respected her very much and gave her a contract that was hard to refuse. She is very grateful to Chen Feng and Summit Entertainment. If nothing unexpected happens, she will
Always stay at Summit Entertainment.
Chen Feng's speech was relatively simple. He said that Chang Lingyu's voice quality is the most comfortable voice he has ever heard in China. Like many people, he himself is very fascinated by Chang Lingyu's singing, so he is actually very willing to give it to Chang Lingyu.
Lingyu writes songs and hopes to take her singing career to the next level and become a real first sister in China and a diva in Asia.
If others said this, they would definitely be scolded as arrogant, but now that Chen Feng has even praised world-class pop divas, praising another Asian diva is really nothing.
After the two men finished speaking, they signed an agreement on the long table of the rostrum, shook hands with each other, and allowed reporters in the audience to take photos, leaving this historic moment. Of course, this agreement document was fake. It had been true for a long time.
It's signed. It's just a show.
Finally, the two interacted with the media in the audience and accepted questions from reporters.
A reporter asked Chen Feng if he would consider taking Chang Lingyu out of the country to sing foreign songs and conquer the world music scene.
Chen Feng answered frankly that he would not consider it until Chang Lingyu learned English well.
In fact, this is equivalent to giving a definite answer in disguise. If Chang Lingyu can learn English, then Chen Feng will take her to compete in the world music scene.
Chen Feng's answer immediately made many reporters at the scene feel a little proud. The national pride of the Tang Dynasty was very strong. Before this, there had not been a truly world-class singer. At most, it had been more than ten years.
There was a female singer who sang an English song, and luckily it made it to the top 20 of the Billboard charts, with her best result being 15th.
Even so, this female singer was so popular in the Tang Dynasty that year that she urgently released an English album, which set a sales record that year.
But this female singer was destined to have limited talent, and within a year she rose and fell like a meteor.
Since then, there has never been a similar singer in Datang. Of course, there are many singers who have tried, but they all ended in failure. Compared with the various music rankings in Datang, the Billboard rankings are relatively
To be fair, even if you pay money, it is difficult to buy it on the list.
Now it is recognized that Chen Feng has the creative ability to hit the top ten or even the first place on the Billboard charts. Tina, Tiffany, and Blainey are successful examples.
Therefore, as long as Chen Feng writes an English song for Chang Lingyu, it is very likely that he will help Chang Lingyu occupy the top ten positions in the US Billboard music rankings and help the people of the Tang Dynasty satisfy their national pride.
Chang Lingyu herself had not thought much about going abroad before, because the first thing she had to defeat was Meng Tingting, the challenger, and completely consolidate her position as the number one singer in the domestic music scene.
And she didn't understand English at all, how could she speak? However, Chen Feng's answer immediately made her heart beat.
Of course she is also very ambitious. When she was in Tianhe, someone had encouraged her to go abroad to sing English songs. But she thought about it and refused. The reason is very simple. No one in China has done this before.
They have tried, but without exception they all ended in failure.
Secondly, it is hard to find good songs, especially good English songs. And her English is very poor. Even if she memorizes the lyrics of a song, she will not have any emotions after singing it because she can't follow her heart. For her,
For someone who pursues musical perfection, this is certainly unacceptable.
In the past, she was too lazy to learn English. But now because of Chen Feng and the dream of competing in the world music scene in the future, Chang Lingyu secretly made up her mind to work hard to learn English in the future. She started today.
A reporter immediately asked Chang Lingyu: "If Chen Feng takes you out of the country to compete in the world music scene in the future, will you have the confidence to achieve good results?"
Chang Lingyu smiled confidently and said: "I don't have a lot of confidence in myself. After all, many singers in Datang have tried it before. To be honest, they have not achieved very good results. However, I
My current boss is Chen Feng. He is a talented music composer. He can not only write songs of our Tang Dynasty that are known to the whole people, but also English songs that are known to the world. So, if I can learn English well in the future, I can
When it is easy to sing English songs, if he can write an English song for me, I believe he will be able to achieve good results."
Chang Lingyu's answer was tantamount to flattering Chen Feng, but everyone felt that she was right. Chen Feng indeed has the strength and ability.
However, a disappointed reporter then asked Chang Lingyu a more pointed question: "Why did you terminate your contract with Tianhe Media? Can you tell us the specific reasons?"
It is really embarrassing for this reporter to ask this question at this time. Chen Feng has already reconciled with Tianhe Media, and even became good friends with Dong Jianyue, the boss of Tianhe Media. This is not a secret. Last time Chen Feng’s movie director
When the box office exceeded 10 billion at the celebration banquet, Dong Jianyue came to congratulate him in person. Photos of the two shaking hands were published on major news websites and media.
Of course Chang Lingyu's face was a little ugly when she was asked this question on the spot, but she still answered: "It is a normal behavior to terminate the contract with Tianhe. My contract there has expired, and then in the music style
There were differences with Tianhe in terms of creative concepts, and Summit Entertainment was very attractive to me. I naturally chose Summit."
Chang Lingyu's answer was quite satisfactory and not lying, and it was hard for people to find fault with it.
Later, a reporter asked Chen Feng about his next movie, but Chen Feng refused to answer, saying that this was a signing meeting between Dingfeng and Chang Lingyu, and he refused to answer irrelevant questions.
The next reporter finally asked the question: "I heard that Sister Lingyu's new album is already in production. Is it true? How many songs are in it written by Mr. Chen? Thank you."
Chen Feng stretched out his hand to signal Chang Lingyu to answer, and the latter smiled and said: "That's the case. My new album "Persistence" is already in intensive preparation, including two songs that Mr. Chen personally composed for me.
, it is expected to meet with you in October at the latest. Of course, it may also be earlier. Please wait and see."
After that, the two people answered a few more questions one after another, and the signing ceremony ended.
Returning to a small conference room in the company, Chang Lingyu drank some water, calmed down, and then said: "I heard from Wenxiu that you have already composed the theme song and episode of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
Really?"
Chang Lingyu's communication skills are very strong. During this period of time, she has basically gotten to know everyone inside and outside the Summit Entertainment Company, including the security guards at the door. She is very polite and very popular.
Chen Feng's cousin Zhao Wenxiu was originally a fan of Chang Lingyu, and they had a good relationship with her on weekdays.
Therefore, if Chang Lingyu wants her to help get some information from Chen Feng, it is really easy.
Chen Feng finally understood the reason why his cousin suddenly asked him about this matter yesterday. It turned out to be Chang Lingyu's instigation. However, this matter was not a big deal, and Chen Feng didn't want to argue with her. However, his cousin
I need to warn you not to reveal things about your cousin to outsiders casually.
"Yes." Chen Feng admitted directly, and then took the initiative to say without waiting for her to say, "I have agreed to sing the theme song with Liu Qinfei. If you want to sing, you can only sing the interlude. But you can only sing one. There are other things.
There are several interludes for which I have already chosen."
Chen Feng's version of the song "Shooting the Condor" plans to completely borrow from the original 83 version of Time and Space. Of course, it is not the Cantonese version, but the Mandarin version.
There are several songs in the whole play, and Chen Feng plans to use them mainly to send favors. Among them, Liu Qinfei sang the theme song with him. The purpose is to compensate her.
In addition, Li Yixue, the little queen of the music industry at the time, of course also had to have a song. In addition, Meng Tingting solemnly apologized to him last time and worked hard to sell it. Chen Feng couldn't turn a blind eye and had to give her a song.
There are also songs to be decided. Chen Feng has not yet thought of who will sing them, so they can only be decided.
Chang Lingyu knew about the relationship between Liu Qinfei and Chen Feng. Seeing that Liu Qinfei had already snatched the theme song, she couldn't help but feel very disappointed. She could only console herself that she finally got one.