Chapter 688: False Face

Sui Lingfang naturally thought it could be agreed.

If she felt it was inappropriate, she wouldn't have come to the Imperial Capital in person to ask Seeing Jin Li, but would have just explained it on the phone.

She explained: "Although Jin Bafu Jewelry and Tiangong Jewelry both have the word 'Jewelry,' there is a big difference in the business scope of the two. Jin Bafu is mainly gold ornaments, while Tiangong Jewelry focuses on jewelry."

"Even if some ornaments overlap, in the eyes of the public, these two are not competing brands, so there will be no problem with public opinion."

"As for the non-compete agreement you signed with Tiangong, it didn't require you not to endorse gold brands, so the non-compete agreement won't be triggered."

"The most important point." Sui Lingfang said firmly, "Jin Bafu Jewelry's reputation is very stable in the eyes of the public, and no negative news has appeared, so I tend to let you take the endorsement."

"You have national popularity, and they are also a household name national brand. Cooperation between the two sides is mutually beneficial."

"What's more, in order to reach cooperation with you, Jin Bafu Jewelry also offered an extremely generous 10-year endorsement contract."

Sui Lingfang concluded: "We have no reason to refuse at all."

Seeing Jin Li nodded: "I don't understand endorsement matters, you guys just check it."

Chenxi Entertainment has insufficient experience in film and television dramas, because it has never been involved before.

In terms of business cooperation, experience is also weak, and it needs help from President Xiao's side.

But in terms of endorsement, their experience is very rich.

The richness here doesn't mean they have a lot of experience in negotiating endorsements, but that they have rich experience in investigating the fit between brands and stars.

Seeing Jin Li didn't return to popularity before, but she had endorsements in her name, just given less, and didn't sign miscellaneous brands whose names she couldn't call out.

And after she became popular, Chenxi Entertainment managed her image even more carefully, for fear that randomly accepting an endorsement would reduce her commercial value, so the endorsements they chose for her were better to be missing than to be bad.

Relying on this point, Chenxi Entertainment had long since gained Seeing Jin Li's trust.

Sui Lingfang: "Then I will push the contract with the legal department. Are you in a hurry for this endorsement? If you are not in a hurry, I plan to grind the specific detailed terms with Jin Bafu well."

Seeing Jin Li smiled: "Not in a hurry, I'm not short of money."

She didn't know what she thought of, and said: "If there are no accidents, I have another investment to be credited."

The investment Seeing Jin Li mentioned was "False Face," which she casually invested 1 million in last year.

Ordinary short dramas don't need such a large investment. She took 1 million here, and Qi Guan Mingzhu also took 1 million, with a total investment of 2 million.

The director didn't dare to be lazy and filmed both horizontal and vertical versions separately.

The horizontal screen as a boutique short drama has gone online on Bilibili, not only taking back all the investment but also conducting dividends.

A few days ago, Pearl called to chat with her about this, and also said that the vertical screen short drama of "False Face" would also be put into the market this week.

Compared to the boutique short drama on the horizontal screen, everyone actually looked forward to the sales of "False Face" on the vertical screen short drama more.

After all, in the field of short dramas, saying "vertical screen is king" is not an exaggeration.

There are really too many vertical screen short dramas, almost occupying all short drama markets, and the profit-sharing model is also more thorough.

Seeing Jin Li had seen the quality of the horizontal screen short drama, and she believed that as long as the vertical screen version was not cut randomly, it should be able to explode.

Next, "False Face" chose an auspicious day to go online, and sure enough, as she expected, it exploded as soon as it started!

And this kind of explosion was an unexpected explosion.

The male and female leads attracted a wave of fans on the horizontal screen short drama, and the attention of their personal accounts also soared rapidly.

They called on their fans to reserve the vertical screen version on every social platform.

As soon as the vertical screen version went online, relying on the reservation volume accumulated before, it rushed to the first place in popularity that day.

And because the plot of "False Face" was very dog-blooded in the early stage, and there was no lack of intrigue, it was very suitable for casting flow in various places.

So some short drama companies took it for full-network flow casting, and the playback volume of "False Face" climbed again, making investors earn a lot of money again.

Seeing Jin Li was at Qingbei, but she didn't hear the students around discussing this short drama.

However, she occasionally opened video software and could swipe to the advertising flow casting of this drama. In terms of flow casting, those third-party companies were still very willing.

Of course, since third-party companies spent money on flow casting, they were counting on "False Face" to make money for them, so they signed separate profit-sharing agreements.

Even if the profit-sharing ratio was lowered, full-network flow casting was originally an accidental exposure. She and Mingzhu treated this money as a generous extra income.

Time came to May.

At this time, "False Face" had exploded for a full month, and the popularity finally eased.

Qi Guan Mingzhu called Seeing Jin Li again, happily reporting the results this time.

"Because the vertical screen short drama 'False Face' exploded, it fed back the horizontal screen short drama, and we shared another 3 million on Bilibili."

"As for the vertical screen, the first profit-sharing will also be ushered in this month, estimated to be 5 million, and there should be more than 20 million in profit-sharing later."

Qi Guan Mingzhu sighed: "I finally understand why so many stars don't be stars properly, and will go to engage in investment when they have some money."

"It turns out that investing and making money is so addictive. We only threw 1 million each, and now we are each going to earn tens of millions, a 10-fold profit!"

Seeing Jin Li reminded: "Film and television dramas return capital slowly, the profit-sharing cycle is long, and it is easy to lose money. Examples of winning big with small are not common."

Qi Guan Mingzhu: "I know. After I invested in 'False Face,' some friends heard the news and thought I was interested in investment. These days they have called to ask me and pull me to invest."

"There are a few very good projects, just listening to them makes me very tempted, but I kept an eye on it and specifically searched for related cases."

"I found that those projects sounded very beautiful, but they were actually packaged, basically impossible to get back the investment, no different from fraud, so I couldn't help but be shocked, fortunately I wasn't fooled."

No one looked for Seeing Jin Li here.

Anything was blocked by Chenxi Entertainment, and not many people knew her private phone number.

In addition, Seeing Jin Li had been in contact with investment much earlier than Qi Guan Mingzhu. Many film and television dramas she participated in had personal dividends, and Chenxi Entertainment also invested a little.

On the subject of fraud, Chenxi Entertainment didn't know how many they had encountered, and the company was very experienced.

Seeing Jin Li said with some worry: "In the future, if you have any investment projects you are very optimistic about, but can't make up your mind, just tell me."

Qi Guan Mingzhu asked curiously: "If I tell you, can you help me calculate it?"

Seeing Jin Li smiled: "I don't calculate, and what I calculate is not accurate, but I can go to the Daoist temple to help you draw a lot. If the lot text is not good, don't invest."

"You can also use this method to draw yourself. The probability of 51% is accurate."

Qi Guan Mingzhu laughed, "51% probability? That's just half and half, sure enough, it's metaphysical enough."

She didn't take this to heart. The 51% probability sounded similar to 50%, but placed in the Daoist temple, the difference was very large.

That extra 1% is equivalent to the favor of the gods, which will exert unexpected effects at critical moments.

Qi Guan Mingzhu happily finished chatting with Seeing Jin Li, and talked about the news that the director was ready to prepare for the second short drama.

"'False Face' is a story that sells well. She wants to film it as one of the unit dramas. The second part is also a similar story with a fantasy style, but this time it doesn't change people's faces, but changes people's brains."

"Change brains?" Seeing Jin Li was a bit puzzled, "How is this a brain-changing method?"

Qi Guan Mingzhu: "I haven't seen the script yet, but the director told me about her idea. She wants to let three people in their seventies or eighties return to the past when they were 20."

"Let these three people have rich experience and life experience when they are young, and then write about how they develop their lives."

"Among them, two people were brave and resourceful at the beginning, very dare to fight, but after one person fought to a certain extent, he became comfortable and didn't want to continue to struggle, while the other person made his business bigger and bigger."

"The remaining person, because he felt he knew the future development trend, was instead high-minded and far-reaching. At the beginning, he set the goal too high and didn't do the right thing at the right time. He was very aggressive, and in the end, he achieved nothing."

Judging from the narrated plot, Seeing Jin Li felt that this drama should also be very interesting.

This has a very "False Face" style. The design of the script is always a fairy-tale beginning, but a very cruel ending.

Returning to the past doesn't mean you can go smoothly and become a person above people.

People's experience is often limited to their own past experience. If they don't make changes, they will instead be trapped by past experience.

It's like a commoner, his experience is also limited to the commoner class.

If he returns to the past, if he doesn't find a way to jump out of this class, he won't necessarily get a good opportunity.

Similarly, having rich experience only allows life to take fewer detours, but it doesn't mean life can become completely different.

Anyone who wants to change their life has great wisdom and great courage.

After all, you can't expect a person who has been lazy for a lifetime to return to the past and change his lazy nature and become incomparably diligent.

If a person really makes up his mind to change, he can change now, so why bother looking for the excuse of "returning to" the past?

Qi Guan Mingzhu said again: "The director told me that she intends to find the original cast to film."

Seeing Jin Li asked: "Will the budget she set this time increase?"

Qi Guan Mingzhu said: "No, she said it's still 2 million, filming two versions."

"As a short drama, the investment of 2 million is already much more abundant than the industry benchmark. The investment of many short drama crews is only more than 100,000, 300,000 or 400,000."

Seeing Jin Li lowered her head and looked at the activities the male and female leads attended recently on the tablet, and there were photos of them on it.

Her body had been much better recently.

But in terms of ability, there was no room for improvement, and "half the effort" had also been developed to the greatest extent.

Since the quality couldn't be better, her body instead had some more abilities.

Most of these abilities were what she had before, but because she didn't use them much, they faded, and now they reappeared.

This look, she saw the difference in the faces of the male and female leads.

There is a burning ambition and desire, and the heart is also higher.

Seeing Jin Li asked: "Since you want to use the original cast, are the male and female leads also the original ones?"

Qi Guan Mingzhu: "It should be, and the male and female leads are popular, with them continuing to participate, the next step can also be guaranteed."

Seeing Jin Li said: "The director shouldn't have talked to the male and female leads, right? Since they are popular and their status has risen, it's impossible to take the previous salary."

Qi Guan Mingzhu was stunned, "I didn't ask about this, but you reminded me."

"Last time we gave 2 million, she spent all the money where it should be spent. This time, if the actors' salary rises, if we still follow the director's filming style, I'm afraid it will really not be enough."

In fact.

Seeing Jin Li's intuition is very accurate.

After Qi Guan Mingzhu finished chatting with her, she immediately asked the director.

The director was polishing the script with the screenwriter. Wanting to use the original cast was also because in the last cooperation, everyone already had a tacit understanding and knew the story she wanted to film.

Hearing Qi Guan Mingzhu say this, she realized that she had to coordinate the schedule with others.

At this time, the director still thought she could call all the original cast.

After all, the explosion of "False Face" had already proven that her vision and filming were excellent.

The staff was easy to talk to. Those people didn't have a fixed team, and they went to whichever group had work.

Hearing that the director wanted to film a new drama, they all expressed their willingness to join the group.

But on the side of the male and female leads, the director encountered a tricky thing.

One is because the male and female leads exploded, and many short drama directors also aimed at them, wanting to cooperate with them on new dramas.

So their schedule was full within three months.

According to them, the brokerage company had to continue to take dramas for them, striving to fill the schedule for this year, and seamlessly enter the group until before the New Year next year.

But because they became popular by filming the director's "False Face," the male and female leads also wanted to cooperate with the director very much and were willing to coordinate the schedule.

But another thing that made the director difficult came.

In terms of salary, it couldn't be set according to the previous appearance.

The director also expressed understanding.

Popular, status is different, popular, salary increase is as it should be.

But what she couldn't accept was that the salary of these two people actually rose 100 times compared to the past.

Before, she set them at 2,000 yuan a day.

2,000 yuan looked little as a lead, but "False Face" took a long time to film, unlike other short dramas that only filmed for a week, but filmed for a month with excellence!

And now, the male and female leads both indicated that the price offered by the company was 200,000 a day.

As soon as this price came out, the director was trance-like.

Is this still a short drama actor?

This price is comparable to a second-tier student with some popularity in the domestic entertainment industry!

If you film for a month, calculated by thirty days, wouldn't you have to take out 6 million?

One person 6 million, two people 12 million, what kind of short drama is this still filming?

TV dramas can be filmed!

Calculated by day, this is absolutely not possible!

But the male and female leads just recognized this point, gritted their teeth and didn't loosen their mouths at 200,000 a day.

The director asked the brokerage company behind them, and the brokerage company was also a unified tone, currently taking dramas at this market price.

It's just that the director felt this was impossible.

Short drama filming for seven days, seven days is 1.4 million, two people are industry popularity kings, the actor's salary alone is 2.8 million.

Except for the salary of the male and female leads, other venue expenses, staff salaries...... a drama can't come down for 5 million.

With this investment, what kind of short drama is still filming, it's better to film a small-cost web drama.

The director complained to Qi Guan Mingzhu, and Qi Guan Mingzhu called Seeing Jin Li again a few days later, sighing:

"It was really guessed by you, 2 million investment is estimated to be unable to take it down, the actor's salary is too high."

She said the matter, Seeing Jin Li recalled the face she saw before, said:

"They are taking the lead, 200,000 is just the external quotation, it can't be the actual quotation, but they don't want to lower the quotation, they are sure that the director can't do without them."

"It is estimated that they think this drama can explode because they performed excellently, not because the script is good and the director filmed well."

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