Chapter 75 Shanhe Pictures and 'Family with Children'
Dongshantai's investment in Zuo Lexin Company went smoothly.
After realizing that Zuo Le had decided to leave, and understanding that forceful melons were not sweet, Chen Changshan approved the plan proposed by Zuo Le after a slight hesitation and strongly supported it.
Dongshantai invested 20 million and occupied 15% of the shares of Zuolexin Company.
In fact, Chen Changshan wanted to buy more shares, but Zuo Le refused to let go.
Dongshan Taijia is a big business and has an official background. A small shareholding will do more good than harm to the development of the new company. However, if too many shares are given, Zuo Leke alone may not be able to suppress it.
Zuo Le's original intention of working alone was not to be controlled by others. He brought Dongshantai into the game because he wanted to find a backer for himself. The two parties were in a cooperative relationship and the initiative was in his hands.
Zuo Le seriously discussed this with Chen Changshan and prepared to write it into the contract.
The shareholder Dongshantai only has the right to dividends and priority cooperation. Dongshantai has no right to interfere in the company's operations.
Chen Changshan probably understood Zuo Le's concerns. After all, he was an old subordinate. He agreed to Zuo Le's request with dignity. Later, when someone in the station raised opinions on this, he also tried his best to reject it.
"Xiao Zuo is one of our own people who came out of Taiwan. We should support young people starting their own businesses, rather than holding them back.
Also, don't be so arrogant and think that people can't get along if they leave Taili. With Xiao Zuo's current reputation, in a word, there are many people who will cooperate with him for money.
They have not forgotten their roots and are determined to work hand in hand with our station, but we cannot push the envelope. If anyone makes a fool of himself, don’t blame me, Chen Changshan, for turning his back on them."
In the past year, Dongshan Station has continued to achieve good results, and the province is very satisfied with Chen Changshan's work. It is said that he is interested in giving him a deputy position in the publicity department. Chen's prestige in Dongshan Station has become more and more prosperous.
He spoke out to support Zuo Le, and with Mo Dashan and Lao Fang, whose status in Taili had recently surged, waving flags and shouting, the matter was settled.
In late February, Zuo Le officially resigned from Dongshantai, but was given the title of honorary consultant of Dongshantai by Lao Fang, who also received monthly subsidies.
After that, Zuo Le went to go through the procedures for the new company. At this time, the benefit of having a TV station shareholder came in. All the procedures went very quickly, and they were all completed in just a few days.
The new company name is Shanhe Pictures.
Mountain is the mountain of Dongshan.
The river is the Yellow River.
It also means to create a beautiful world in the entertainment industry.
Miss Tian Yan felt that this name was a bit vulgar, not as poetic as sunshine at noon or light rain at midnight, but Zuo Le felt that Shanhe sounded domineering, so he ignored his girlfriend's suggestion and insisted on his own opinion.
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After the establishment of Shanhe Pictures, Zuo Le found an office building and rented one floor. Then, through a headhunting company, he recruited some necessary personnel such as human resources, finance, and administrative clerks to ensure the normal operation of the company.
He himself took action personally and aggressively recruited film and television professionals.
The first one is Lao Jiu Mingyan, the assistant director of "Underground Traffic Station".
This guy is a talented person. There is nothing he doesn’t know about when it comes to filming and producing movies and TV series. He is an absolute all-rounder.
More importantly, Mingyan has always been "infatuated" with Zuo Le. He has wanted to join Zuo Le since the filming of "Underground Traffic Station". This time when he heard Zuo Le set up another business, Mingyan immediately dealt with it after just one phone call.
The baggage has come to Quancheng.
When Mingyan arrived in Quancheng, he learned that Zuo Le was recruiting troops, so he came up and gave Zuo Le a big surprise.
Mingyan has been in the industry since he was seventeen years old and has been working in the industry for many years. Although he is not very successful, he is very familiar with people.
Under his leadership, Zuo Le easily recruited many film and television talents with excellent professional skills, saving a lot of trouble.
Subsequently, the film and television production department of Sunward Pictures was officially established, with Zuo Lerang Mingyan acting as the temporary head of the department.
After that, Zuo Le personally went north to Kongwen, visited the thatched cottage three times, and with his good tongue, he "borrowed" Shang Qianwu, the screenwriter who had participated with him in "The Story of the Cooking Class".
Zuo Le, who has had in-depth cooperation with Shang Qianwu, knows that this screenwriter who was trained from the grassroots level has strong creative skills and is very good at describing daily life. His writing style is relaxed and humorous. With a little practice, he will become an outstanding industry master.
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When Kong Wen was filming "The Story of the Cooking Class", Zuo Le made a "corner list", and Shang Qianwu was ranked in the top three, and he was among those who must be recruited.
Moreover, while persuading Shang Qianwu, Zuo Le also visited Jingdian and Chinese Opera, and tricked several fresh graduates majoring in screenwriting to return to Quancheng with him.
Later, Zuo Le established the editorial department of Shanhe Pictures with Shang Qianwu and several fresh graduates of the screenwriting major as the backbone, and has been recruiting fresh blood from outside for a long time.
In Zuo Le's expectation, sitcoms will be one of the important business areas of Sunward Pictures in the future, and screenwriting is a very important key point for a successful sitcom.
"The Story of the Cooking Class" has proved that Zuo Le's golden finger is not omnipotent. After all, manpower is limited alone. Zuo Le cannot continuously revise film and television scripts. He needs the help of a large number of excellent screenwriters.
Zuo Le is very ambitious about the future of the editorial department. He plans to build the editorial department of Shanhe Pictures into a first-class or even top screenwriting team in the country.
At that time, he only needs to produce a script outline and character settings, and the editorial department will create a complete script based on the outline settings, improving quality and quantity, and saving time.
Zuo Le even hoped that the editorial department would grow to the point where he would be able to create high-quality scripts without the need for him to provide an outline. At that time, even if something happened to Goldfinger, it would not have an impact on him.
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Of course, no matter how great Zuo Le imagined the future of the editorial department, in reality it was just a few big cats and a few small fish.
Shang Qianwu is the only one who is expected to become famous, but because "Story of the Cooking Class" has not yet aired, he does not have a famous masterpiece on his resume.
But Zuo Le was not discouraged. There would be bread, milk, and everything else.
When he opened Shanhe Pictures, he did not just play house. As soon as the editorial department and film and television production department were in place, Zuo Le began to develop the first drama of the company.
"Family with Children"
This drama appeared in his mind after "Traffic Stop No. 2" was broadcast. There are two dramas in total.
Zuo Le watched these two films while filming in Kongwen, and felt that they were very suitable as the first films of Shanhe Pictures. The investment was small, suitable for a large audience, and the filming was not difficult, so it could train the team.
More importantly, "Family with Children" has many episodes, and based on the experience of the original version, several episodes can be made. If it becomes popular, it will be completely turned into a long-term project to continuously provide income to Shanhe.
Zuo Le threw the prepared script for "Family with Children" to the editorial department and asked Shang Qianwu and others to outline the episodes based on the outline.
Like "Story of the Cooking Class", the original version of "Family with Children" was set in a very different era from Zuo Le's current 17 years, so many plots in the play had to be significantly changed, which required a lot of work.
Zuo Le originally intended to lead the team to write it himself, but he also had to do the post-production of "The Story of the Cooking Class".
So we could only let Shang Qianwu and the others write it first, and then come back and join in the script creation of "Family with Children" after he finished the later stage of "The Story of the Cooking Class".
The editorial department had work to do, and Zuo Le did not leave the production department idle.
He asked someone to use a computer to draw a few scenes of "A Family with Children", and then asked Mingyan to build the shooting scenes based on the drawings.
