Chapter 376 The Principal Exploded with Gold Coins!

The so-called Dragon King's smile.

It is actually an advertisement for online novels.

The elements of online novels that pretend to be cool and slap people in the face are put in, and the identity of the protagonist is finally revealed.

Let the audience look forward to how the protagonist will slap people in the face next, and how to retaliate against those who humiliate the protagonist.

Thus attracting readers to read the novel.

Although it is a bit silly, the effect is very obvious.

The students want to shoot this kind of thing.

It is indeed interesting.

I have to say that my students are smart.

Seeing that his principal understood, Teacher Zhou quickly sent the students' original script: "Principal, this is the script sent to me by the students. One hundred episodes have been made."

Ye Chen took it and glanced at it. The name alone is quite interesting "Black Lotus Ascension Manual"!

And looking at the content, it is basically a template for female palace fighting dramas.

It's just that the plot is extremely simple, and the script of one episode is only a few hundred words.

It's said to be a condensed version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "Palace Lock Heart Jade".

It's just that the TV series may be frustrating for one or two episodes, and the heroine may be misunderstood and framed for one or two episodes before the audience can wait for the exciting plot.

And the student's script is to be humiliated for one minute and pretend to be cool for two minutes.

The frustration will not last overnight.

After three minutes of being full, you will get revenge.

It is indeed well versed in the routines of online novels, and it is full of exciting moments.

"The students in the screenwriting class are really talented!"

"The name of the Black Lotus Promotion Manual is also very good. It shows the characteristics of the protagonist and also marks the core of the upgrade of this drama."

"So Teacher Zhou hopes that the college will help students shoot this drama, right?"

Ye Chen looked at Teacher Zhou.

Teacher Zhou nodded and said: "Students raised 200,000 yuan through crowdfunding to shoot this short play."

"I thought about it and it can be shot with this money, but the finished product will probably look shoddy."

"I don't want students to compromise on the quality of their work because of funding issues."

"Because compromise will become a habit, if students always compromise when they officially start filming, they will never be able to touch the ceiling of the industry, which is not good for future development."

"What the film and television industry lacks today is the spirit of excellence."

"So I hope that students can show their ideas and talents in the short play as much as possible without being bothered by funds."

"But although the students' family backgrounds don't seem to be bad, unlike our time. But after all, they don't have their own source of income, and it's not a good thing to rely on love all the time."

"So why don't the college provide funds for the students."

"After the finished product is shot in the future, the college will register a video account to release it. If it becomes popular, it can also make a profit from advertising fees."

Teacher Zhou obviously hopes that students can focus on the work itself.

To show themselves.

Instead of fooling around and wasting their talents because of money issues.

Ye Chen was immediately happy when he heard this.

As long as the price is not too outrageous, Ye Chen is never stingy when it comes to spending money to help his students grow.

So he said directly: "It's a small matter. How much do you think it will cost to shoot it well, Teacher Zhou?"

After hearing this, Teacher Zhou thought for a while: "Because the short drama is a mobile phone performance, it does not pay much attention to details. The palace fighting drama does not need any big scenes. The main thing is the costumes and props and the right scenes."

"As for shooting and editing equipment, students can buy them from the academy."

"In fact, the main cost of shooting a drama now is the cost of actors and labor, but we don't have this."

"So about one to two million is enough."

Ye Chen nodded: "Then two million, but you have to supervise the use of funds."

Two million, to be honest, is really little.

Many MVs cost two million to shoot.

And TV dramas and the like, the shooting funds basically start at tens of millions.

In this case, the short drama only costs two million at most.

This is really a small enough cost.

It is indeed a small amount of money for Xingchen Academy.

But supervision is still required.

Not supervising is equivalent to condoning students' mistakes.

Especially when it comes to money.

Indulgence will harm students instead.

Teacher Zhou nodded, understanding what his principal meant.

"The principal is generous!"

Teacher Zhou smiled and sighed.

Although two million is not a lot of money compared to the film and television industry.

But even so, it is still money, and ordinary people will not casually take out so much money for students to try to create.

Ye Chen smiled when he heard this: "Short dramas are new things. In fact, I think if they can be filmed well, the market prospects will not be bad, and there is a lot of room for profit."

"Short dramas don't even need to make profits in the form of interstitial ads like TV dramas."

"Because short dramas have their own unique advantages, that is, they are emotionally intense and fast-paced."

"As we all know, most consumption is impulse consumption."

"Short dramas have strong feedback and fast pace. If they are charged, the conversion rate may be very high."

"After all, one thing leads to another. The audience is watching it happily, and the protagonist will show off and slap his face in the next minute, and then the next episode will start charging."

"The audience will definitely be eager to know how the protagonist will show off and slap his face."

"Then pay to watch the next episode, and once there is the first payment, it will be natural to pay in the future."

"This is also why the game industry always has to do six yuan for the first charge."

"It's hard to get stingy players to pay a lot of money directly."

"But let the other party spend some insignificant money first, get numerical improvements, and enjoy the happiness of krypton gold, and then pay, it is natural and logical."

"Many players have turned from prostitution parties into krypton gold parties, and they were led astray by the first charge."

Pay to watch?

Teacher Zhou raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and soon his eyes lit up.

What the principal said actually makes sense after thinking about it carefully.

The short drama is short and refreshing, and the paid conversion rate is definitely not low.

If it succeeds, wouldn't it mean that our students have opened up a new field for the film and television industry?

Moreover, the market size of long-form video film and television dramas has shrunk due to the impact of short videos.

Since you can't beat it, you might as well join in.

"Interesting, do we at Xingchen Academy want to create our own website specifically to sell short plays?"

Teacher Zhou became interested.

Ye Chen shook his head when he heard this: "Forget it, if you don't have the energy and ability, let's leave professional matters to professionals."

"I plan to have someone talk to Douyin at that time to see if they are interested in doing this."

“If Douyin is not interested, then go find Kuaishou.”

Ye Chen prefers to cooperate with the outside world on many things.

Leave professional matters to professional platforms.

Doing everything yourself will only waste a lot of energy.

It may also be that the supporting platform is not well developed, resulting in the original advantages being lost.

With the influence of Xingchen Academy, it would definitely not be a big problem to proactively negotiate cooperation with companies like DouKuai.

Unless they're not interested, then let's talk about other things.

Teacher Zhou naturally has no objection to this.

After the serious talk, Teacher Zhou started to chat: "The short play mode is indeed quite interesting. Even my hands are a little itchy..."

"When I get back, I'll ask other teachers if they have time and come up with a script to join in the fun."

Hearing this, Ye Chen also became interested.

The quality of what Teacher Zhou took is definitely not bad.

So when I asked with great interest: "Does Teacher Zhou have any ideas? What type of film do you plan to shoot?"

Teacher Zhou blurted out without thinking: "Of course it's a comedy!"

"I even thought of a name."

"Just call it Jin Zhu Yu Ye..."

…

Send away the satisfied Teacher Zhou.

Ye Chen stretched leisurely.

The students came up with the short play format, which was indeed an unexpected surprise for Ye Chen.

If successful, short plays, which are very fast to shoot, are very suitable for students who are still in the learning stage to practice and apply what they have learned.

As for the specific profits, Ye Chen didn't care too much.

It’s great if you can get your money back, but it doesn’t matter if you can’t.

As long as the students pay attention.

Naturally, the specific cooperation negotiations do not need to be discussed personally by the principal Ye Chen.

Once you explain it, professionals will take care of it.

But Ye Chen originally thought.

Given the size of Douyin, you may be interested in so-called short dramas, but you won’t pay special attention to them.

But what Ye Chen didn't expect was.

Douyin actually pays special attention to short dramas.

The vice president even came to Star Academy in person.

This shows attention.

He also promised that when the short plays of Star Students are filmed, as long as the quality is good.

They will provide tens of millions of platform push traffic for free.

Let as many people as possible watch the short plays of Star Students.

As for the reason?

In addition to Douyin, it has always hoped to obtain the right to sell Xingchen weight loss pills to attract traffic to its own e-commerce.

Douyin itself has been in the exploratory stage for paid videos.

Although free is now the mainstream.

But if it can supplement the ecological niche of paid videos and cultivate users’ paying habits.

That will once again raise the ceiling of Douyin’s income.

Moreover, Douyin’s film and television commentary has always been a gray area of ​​copyright.

Whether film and television commentary counts as infringement has always been controversial.

If Douyin can have original short dramas suitable for its own short video platform, it will also be good for attracting new users.

In short, the two sides hit it off.

Douyin generates traffic and platform.

Star Academy produces original content.

The income is split 50-50 by both parties.

When an agreement is reached.

Everything is ready.

Next, we have to wait for the students’ works to come out.

…

In the group of freshmen majoring in Xingchen Film and Television.

At this moment, the students are crowdfunding enthusiastically.

"I'll pay five hundred!"

"I don't have any new year's money when I go to college. It's miserable. I'll just raise a hundred."

"I'll give you a thousand."

"As long as you give me the role of eunuch, I will eat pickles and white porridge for two months and squeeze out 5,000 from my living expenses..."

"Today happens to be Crazy Thursday, please rich brother v me fifty!"

"I have a method. The seniors in the college are quite rich. Let's go to them and tell them that as long as they pay two hundred, they can get a supporting role in a short play starring a big star."

"If you're willing to pay five hundred, you can have a line."

"If you are willing to pay one thousand, give him a supporting role that lasts more than ten seconds."

"Nowadays, people seem to be very interested in acting. I heard that there are so many tourists in Hengdian who want to experience acting that they even pay the group leaders just to be an extra. The group leaders can also get money from the crew. The money, and the money that can be collected from extras, are just crazy.”

"Good guy, buddy, you really know how to make money. I have to give you money when I work as a sidekick, right?"

"I think although the seniors are rich, they are not stupid!"

“…”

Most students donated generously, but they could not give much.

After all, they were all students who still relied on their families and had no income.

However, there were also some smart people who set their sights on the wealthy seniors.

After all, many students in many majors had income while they were in school, and there were even many who earned more than 10,000 yuan a month.

It would be great if we could get some gold coins from them.

Zhao Maimai looked at the discussions of his classmates and couldn't help laughing.

During the Chinese New Year.

The students in the screenwriting class had brainstormed and came up with the script for the entire play.

Although the casting was not completely finalized.

But the main roles were almost finalized.

After all, there were only so many students in the acting class.

They specialized in this, so naturally they had to play roles with more scenes.

As for other supporting roles and group performances, students from other classes could just guest star.

Now, the only thing missing is money and equipment.

As for money, we will crowdfund after school starts.

As for equipment, the class committee has already contacted the teacher.

At this moment, someone asked: "Class committee, what did the teacher say? Are you willing to lend it?"

"It's okay if you don't want to lend it."

"I checked, the college equipment is very expensive, and the unit price of several cameras has exceeded one million."

"Even some monitoring headphones and microphones are top-notch products that cost hundreds of thousands of yuan."

"If we really break it, we can't afford to pay for it."

"In fact, I think, since it's just a short play, it can be filmed with a mobile phone. Mine is a mate60 with strong photography capabilities..."

This classmate's words were recognized by everyone.

If the school is unwilling to lend equipment, they can understand it.

After all, it's too risky to lend millions of equipment to students to play with.

But what they didn't expect was.

The student committee quickly stood up: "Don't worry, everyone, the teacher has agreed to lend us the equipment!"

"We can use whatever we want in the equipment library. As long as we don't break it on purpose, the college won't even hold us responsible."

Seeing this, the students majoring in film and television were a little excited.

Our own college is indeed different from those coquettish and slutty girls outside.

Some colleges are laying new football fields, but they are reluctant to let students walk on the grass.

And what about our Xingchen College? Millions of equipment can be borrowed at will.

The gap is really too big.

But just when everyone was about to send a group chat to express their admiration for the generosity of the college.

The student committee member continued to type: "You don't have to crowdfund."

"The teacher said that he went to the principal to tell him that we want to shoot a short play."

"The principal was very supportive of us after hearing about it. The college will directly give us 2 million as filming expenses."

Damn...

When the students saw the message sent by the student committee, they were completely shocked.

Just now they were still worried about the filming funds, and they were all planning to go to the seniors to get gold coins.

But then they turned around.

The principal directly gave 2 million?

This is 2 million.

It's enough to buy a big house in most places.

The principal just took it out so casually and let everyone pretend?

Although I have heard that the principal is generous to students and is willing to support students to pursue their dreams.

But this support is too generous.

Moreover, what they were going to shoot were not serious TV series, but short videos.

The arrival of these two million was definitely a pleasant surprise.

It even exceeded the budget by a large margin.

With these two million.

Many props no longer need to be put together on Puyixi, but can be chosen from JD.

However, before the students could cheer and express gratitude for the principal's generosity.

The student committee sent another group chat.

"At the same time, the principal also asked the college to contact the short video giant Douyin..."

"It is said that an agreement has been reached, and the short drama we shot will be launched on Douyin, and Douyin will provide us with a large amount of traffic for promotion..."

"The first ten episodes will be free, and the eleventh episode will be paid."

"If there is income at that time, half will be given to the students who participated in the creation."

"The school will not take the remaining half, and it will be used as the department's creation fund."

"In the future, everyone can create short dramas or shoot other things. As long as the script is approved, you can directly apply for the creation fund from the department..."

"But there is a prerequisite, that is, it cannot affect normal learning."

"If the teacher finds that the cultural courses will be affected, it may be cancelled..."

When the student committee struggled to type all the words.

The group was completely quiet.

All students, including Zhao Maimai, were completely shocked.

The principal agreed to lend the equipment, which was generous.

The principal was willing to support 2 million, which means the college has money.

But the principal even took into account the subsequent release, promotion, and revenue for them.

So that they can concentrate on filming without any worries.

This is really outrageous.

You know, making this short play is just a sudden interest of everyone.

The overall focus is still entertainment.

In this case, they received such attention from the principal.

Their feelings are really complicated.

Anyway, Zhao Maimai is sure.

Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama will never support students like this.

This feeling of being valued, trusted, and strongly supported is really good.

In Zhao Maimai's heart, he was more and more glad that he chose to join Xingchen Academy.

As for other students, they all felt the same way.

Even the most picky students will be conquered by such an academy that values ​​students.

They will be proud to be admitted to Xingchen Academy.

And this gratitude for being valued soon turned into a kind of pressure...

Now they have top-level equipment, sufficient funds, and even promotion.

If they can't do well, how can they live up to the support of the principal and the school?

They must do their best.

So soon...

The discussion atmosphere in the group became much more serious.

Everyone discussed more enthusiastically how to shoot the short play with the best effect!