Chapter 996: Haina’s Current Situation (Part 2)
The trainee training department must be established, which is an indispensable part of the ladder for cultivating its own stars in the future. Considering the establishment of this new department, we have to consider the issue of expanding the office area of Haina Entertainment.
The two-story Guomao office area seems to be large, but in fact it is always stretched to the limit. After all, the recording studio of the music department alone occupies a lot of area.
In addition, Haina Entertainment in Yanjing is also the headquarters of Haina Company. There are many office staff here. Managers must have an office, right? The big stars under the company must have their own separate rest area when they come here, right? In this way, let alone two floors, two more floors are not enough.
After all, if trainees are recruited to open classes, there must be a dance practice room, and classrooms for classes, whether it is to cultivate singing or acting skills, must also be available, plus the issue of dormitories for these trainees.
Haina Entertainment, which has not expanded its office area since its establishment, has to start considering changing to a larger place. However, there is no need to rush this matter. It can be promoted together with the establishment of the trainee department. After all, recruiting people also takes time.
Although Haina has a dazzling signboard, trainees are still relatively unfamiliar to domestic parents. At the age of 15, they are still children. How to make parents feel at ease to send their children to Haina is also a problem.
"The trainee department is now being planned. The others will start with movies. Find a good director and I will personally select the script for our sect to make a big production, and stabilize the reputation of the film market first.
The TV series cannot be relaxed and can continue to move forward steadily. After all, no matter how long a movie is, it is only one or two hours. Apart from the male and female protagonists, we need to find some famous people to attract the box office. The remaining roles can only be used to make people famous.
TV series are different. It is not a big problem to shoot more than 20 levels casually. With such a long time, even if it is a supporting role, there is time to shape it well to attract popularity." Yang Dongxu finally made the decision to arrange things.
"I will personally take care of the practice department. As for the script and director, I will let the people below screen it first, and then count the information for you, and then you can choose." Liu Zongsheng said excitedly.
Because as long as the trainee department is settled, and his boss is finally willing to invest heavily in movies in the mainland, he can finally be a general manager. Otherwise, the annual performance is not as good as the two branches. It's very frustrating to think about it.
However, although I prefer to make movies, because movies can not only make more money, but also movie stars are always a level higher than TV stars in the industry and in the hearts of the audience. The most direct manifestation is the difference in pay between the two.
But the main business of TV series cannot be let go, after all, Haina's TV series are the signature. From the establishment of Haina to the present, most of the domestic phenomenal dramas with ratings that other entertainment companies cannot reach are produced by Haina.
Not many big stars have been dug up in recent years, and there is no talent ladder training department of its own. The reason why Haina is still shining is that more than 90% of the reasons are attributed to the fact that a phenomenal TV series can cultivate a group of stars for Haina.
However, TV stars always give people a feeling of lack of successors. When they are alive, they are only a few years after the TV series are popular. After that, they always feel like they have encountered a bottleneck if they want to go further.
Then, after the popularity of domestic TV series, it was obvious that when the TV series was popular, both the popularity and influence were at the first-tier level, but after the TV series was not well-received, it directly dropped to the second-tier, or even worse.
In the past two years, the idol dramas that Haina has invested heavily in resources have also experienced this phenomenon of not being able to continue to be popular. Obviously, when the idol dramas were popular, the actors in them were phenomenally popular.
But in the future, when operating, they can only rely on the old idol dramas to make a full calculation, and there is no way to make the fame and influence go to the next level.
Or it can be said that TV stars or idol stars are easily fixed. That is, after a TV series becomes popular, the audience's impression of you is fixed on your role in the TV series.
For example, zw's Xiaoyanzi, and for example, the popular F4 now. Everyone's impression of you is this fixed role. If you do something else, unless your acting skills are sublimated to a certain level and you create a more classic role to break this framework. Otherwise, no matter what others see you play, they will feel that 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 dramas every year, these stars will decline after a few years and need to cultivate the next group. Fortunately, there are popular TV dramas shot every year, and there has been no gap in the past few years, otherwise Haina would have been unable to play.
"The record department must also hurry up. 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 not worse than other stars." After Yang Dongxu made the decision, Li Zongsheng also said.
His big boss is getting lazier and lazier. It has been a long time since he wrote a song. And now it is the end of the glory of the record industry. Seeing the cold winter begin to rage, he, the head of the record department, feels more and more stressed.
"Have you met any good seedlings?" Yang Dongxu asked.
The reason why he asked about good seedlings instead of asking the big singers in the company. This is related to the bottleneck that big singers have also encountered. You said that you have won the throne of the queen or king, and the entire Southeast Asian market is already saturated.
Unless they can break into the European and American markets, these big singers have already reached the pinnacle of their potential, and it will be extremely difficult to go further.
So what they can do now is to maintain their fame and look down from a high place. And they are standing at the top and have no shortage of people writing songs for them. So if they want to make Haina Records Department a big hit again and cultivate phenomenal newcomers, it will have a greater influence than writing a few classic songs for the old ones.
"I have signed the group of three girls from my hometown that I mentioned to you before."
"Haven't they recorded a record before?" Yang Dongxu naturally remembered this, and he was very optimistic about this group. The influence of the new generation or the domestic group that no one can reach in the future is not comparable to those of the Korean boy and girl groups, but it's a pity that they collapsed after flying solo.
Of course, this can't be blamed on them. It seems that it is the fate of all boy and girl groups to collapse after flying solo. For example, the Little Tigers, Shuimu Nianhua, Zero Band, Black Panther. In short, there are too many.
People have different demands in different periods. It is more difficult to unify these demands and maintain the stability of the team than to establish a new boy or girl group and make it popular. After all, you can't force it like you do to newcomers after it becomes famous.
So Korea is more advanced in this regard. They make money when the boy and girl groups are popular, and squeeze them again when they are about to disband.
After going solo, they continue to make money. After the collapse, they immediately launch a new group to take over. It's so cool to cut the 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, and the resentment in his eyes was about to overflow.
"Okay, call them to Yanjing and I will personally handle the main song. But you can choose to include other songs. I can only give some suggestions at most. But you must do the record production. I don't have time to make a record for anyone alone." Yang Dongxu said.
Li Zongsheng, who was originally resentful, felt a bit of love and hate at this time. He loved that his big boss finally agreed to help. He hated that his big boss was still as lazy as before and was unwilling to do more work.
However, the big boss had agreed to take charge of the main song, which had met his expectations. Although he was still a little unhappy, he also knew how busy Yang Dongxu was, so he didn't force it: "Then you should prepare to start tomorrow."
"There's no need to be so anxious, right?" Yang Dongxu looked stunned.
"That's why I'm so anxious." Li Zongsheng glared at him unhappily.
If he didn't seize his boss's time to get things done in time, he didn't know whether Yang Dongxu would be so idle again in a few days.
"Okay, tomorrow." Since he agreed, he would not cheat. "By the way, take the interludes or opening and ending songs from the popular TV series we produced and record MVs. It would be a waste if such popular TV series and songs were not used."
"That's fine. In fact, we have been doing it before. However, the previous ones were basically after the popularity of the TV series died down, and then the songs were released to continue the popularity. There is no problem in doing it earlier, just add fuel to the fire." 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 did not propose it, it would only be a matter of time.
"Sort out the information of all the artists in the company and give it to me. They are so aggressive. I will see how many soldiers I have under my command first, otherwise it would be fun not knowing who I can use under my command in the war." Yang Dongxu said.
Liu Zongsheng nodded. His boss who did not care about the affairs of the company actually began to care about the operation of the company. Naturally, he agreed with both hands and feet.
The CEO of Haina has always been a strange flower in the industry, not that the CEO himself is so strange. Almost all CEOs want more power to show their own value after taking office, fearing that the board of directors will restrict them too much.
The CEO of Haina is just the opposite. Except for the time when he first took office, Yang Dongxu, the big boss, watched him for a while to let him take over the work more smoothly.
The rest of the time, his big boss was completely a hands-off boss, not to mention restricting his power. He couldn't find anyone to report his work to.
Other CEOs hope that the board of directors will not care about them, but the CEO of Haina hopes that his big boss will give more guidance on his work. Isn't this weird?