Chapter 236: Exchange

Just like a regular football league!

There are top leagues and secondary leagues, and the current "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" and "King of Fighters Tournament" can also be understood according to this mode.

The "King of Fighters Tournament" belongs to the secondary competition, while the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" is the top fighting competition, not conflicting at all, but rather complementing each other.

No way, who told Wireless to be unwilling to spend heavy money?

The "King of Fighters Tournament" can only attract gang masters to participate, and numerous martial arts hall masters will not easily participate because of various concerns.

This led to the "King of Fighters Tournament" having insufficient gold content!

On the contrary, the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" not only had masters from all sides in Hong Kong, but also masters from the Mainland and Southeast Asia, and even Japanese and Korean masters participated, and the quality of the players was different.

If the champion player of the "King of Fighters Tournament" appears, and can only enter the main competition of the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament," and it is very difficult to get a higher ranking, then how will the audience look at it?

Even if Wireless is unhappy again, the audience will default to the "King of Fighters Tournament" being a grade lower.

As long as such a concept is formed, it is not something Wireless can easily reverse.

In fact, this is also a good thing for Wireless.

After all, it can provide a platform that is not too fierce for fighting masters in Hong Kong.

It will indeed not be too fierce, no matter the prize money or peripheral income is average, those top masters will not participate, naturally giving ordinary masters a chance to exchange and learn from each other.

Players like Chen Haonan and Datian Er with such strength are very suitable for participation.

As long as a practice is formed, Wireless's revenue will not be less!

Even, it can unite with the gambling pools opened by major gangs to share a cup of soup.

Asia Television's revenue is naturally greater!

Recently, quite a few new faces have come to Asia Television, all with Mainland accents.

They are all employees sent by Mainland film factories, and they are all young and strong talents.

Before, Wu Feng proposed the idea of personnel exchange to the Mainland film factories through Yindu Institution in the name of Asia Television and Feng Rui Film and Television.

Of course, this is a nice way of saying it!

In fact, it was because he took a fancy to various professional talents in the Mainland film factories.

Hoping to increase the strength and professional talent foundation of the two companies through the name of exchange and asking Asia Television and Feng Rui Film and Television for help.

Mainland film factories are similar to Hollywood's big production factories.

Among them, all departments are complete, and they can continuously cultivate professional talents in the film and television industry.

Don't look at the prosperous scene of the Hong Kong film and television circle, but this is the result of the collective explosion of film and television talents in the south of Shanghai and the new generation of film and television talents with overseas study qualifications.

Except for the top few in the industry, in fact, in terms of the quality of other professional talents, compared with the talents cultivated by Mainland film factories, there is no advantage and even a lot of inferiority.

In fact, the film and television talents in the Mainland in the 1980s were not bad at all.

The fourth-generation directors are in their prime, and the fifth-generation directors have gradually emerged.

Like the "Great Decisive Battle" trilogy, "The Founding Ceremony" and other films, which one is not a classic?

Films like "Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain" are also highly acclaimed in Hong Kong.

Martial arts kung fu films have "Yellow River Hero," which absolutely belongs to the leader of actual combat kung fu films.

In terms of large scenes and war film shooting, the Mainland throws Hong Kong eighteen streets.

It is just that there is a considerable gap in the shooting concepts and methods of commercial films.

In fact, as long as Mainland film and television circle talents are given a certain commercial environment and try to shoot a few times by themselves, it is easy to reverse the ideas and catch up.

Like "Double Flag Town Swordsman" and "A Terracotta Warrior," they are all quite good commercial films.

In addition, in terms of the cultivation of professional talents in the crew, the advantage of Mainland film factories is huge.

Later, in the 1990s and the first ten years of the 21st century, the reason why the Mainland film and television circle was suppressed by the Hong Kong and Taiwan circle was mainly due to capital problems.

In fact, at that time, the film factories were in difficulty, and a large number of professional talents left, giving private film and television companies quite a few crew talent choices.

Otherwise, how did those famous private TV drama production companies rise?

At this time, the days of domestic film factories were very difficult.

It was still a unified purchase and sales mode, but it couldn't keep up with the rapidly rising equipment and labor costs.

Plus film companies in various places circled land to be kings and were unwilling to actively share screening profits, causing the days of Mainland film factories to be quite difficult.

Relying entirely on government funding, plus the number of employees accumulated over decades, it was not an exaggeration to describe it as difficult to move.

But unexpectedly, quite a few new employees had to enter every year!

At this time, film and television college graduates were still assigned, but whether they could be assigned to a good unit was hard to say.

People in later generations find it hard to imagine that in order to revitalize the film market, the reform intensity in the 1980s was absolutely beyond imagination.

What box office sharing system, what market film selling system, and even grading systems were all brought out.

Unfortunately, they all ended in failure in the end, and had to continue the previous unified purchase and sales mode.

It was also because of this that inside the Mainland film factories, a large number of young and strong professional talents could not get sufficient training.

The number of films shot every year was just that much, and the director's megaphone was basically in the hands of those old-qualified directors. Even those crew professional positions were in the hands of the older generation.

Young and strong talents were basically assistant chores, needing to be tempered in units of ten years.

Only when the qualifications were enough would there be a chance to get to the top!

This time, Asia Television and Feng Rui Film and Television mainly cooperated with the Pearl River Factory, Xiaoxiang Film Factory, and Guixing Film Studio.

What they wanted were basically those young professional talents who belonged to assistant positions.

In this way, the impact on the film studios themselves was not big!

At the same time, borrowing these professional talents, Asia Television and Feng Rui Film and Television would also give a certain amount of financial compensation, paid directly in Hong Kong dollars.

This was the same nature as Wu Feng recruiting factory employees from his hometown, but it sounded better.

These film studios naturally wouldn't refuse such a good thing, and then sent the first batch of professional talents to Hong Kong.

Among them, some were assigned to Asia Television.

At this time, the Asia Television headquarters was still in Wutaishan, Kowloon Tong.

Here gathered the most film and television circle talents in Hong Kong, and there were also quite a few high-end residential areas, specifically supplying the elite talents of Wutaishan to buy and rent.

Wu Feng had money, and when the stock market crash happened in 1986, he made a fierce profit.

This huge income had long been seen in Hong Kong.

If it weren't for the fact that he was already a Sai Kung councilor, plus the public opinion resources in his hands were sufficient, it was highly probable that he would be pushed out by certain people and forces as an accomplice to the stock market crash and targeted by the damaged Hong Kong stock investors.

He didn't be polite at all, directly buying all of a medium-to-high-end residential area in Kowloon Tong.

It cost less than 100 million at the time, and it had risen to about 150 million at this time.

Cough cough, the residential area here in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, is not a concept with the residential area in the Mainland.

Three or four buildings gathered together can be defined as a residential area.

If placed in the Mainland, without a dozen buildings and thousands or ten thousand houses, it can't be called a residential area at all.

The professional talents from the Mainland film factories assigned to Asia Television had their dormitories in this residential area.

They belonged to apartment rooms, with an area of about 30 square meters, one room and one living room, plus a kitchen and a toilet, and one apartment housed two employees from the Mainland.

Such an environment was definitely much stronger than the tube buildings in the Mainland at this time.

Wang Qiang and Li Dong came from the Pearl River Factory and the Guixing Film Studio respectively.

The two of them were assigned to the same apartment.

Both were employees of Mainland film factories, and soon they became familiar from the initial unfamiliarity in a few days.

One was a photographer, and the other was a lighting engineer, both of which were core types of work in the crew.

Not only that, they were also junior college students who graduated from school, proper academic school.

Unfortunately, no matter how academic school they were, after being assigned to the film factory, they could only start from being assistants.

And it was not the main assistant, but the assistant's assistant, usually wanting to touch the camera or lighting equipment was not very easy.

One worked chores in the film factory for three years, and the other worked chores for four years.

There was no problem with the theoretical foundation, but there were not many opportunities for practical operation.

According to the rules, after they mixed from the assistant's assistant to the assistant, they could slowly get started with the machine. As for when they could become real photographers or lighting engineers, it depended on when the old qualifications in front were willing to let go.

Originally this was nothing, but the days of the film factory were difficult, and their days would only be more difficult.

This was not, the cooperation invitation from Hong Kong spread, and they signed up to participate without saying a word.

First, the labor fee given by Hong Kong was not low, and second, they wanted to try their luck to find opportunities.

Hong Kong's commercial film and television drama was developed, and its influence was not small. As practitioners in the Mainland, they could naturally contact the boutique film and television dramas in Hong Kong earlier.

If they could participate in the production and shooting of commercial film and television dramas in Hong Kong, it would be a great opportunity for them. Whether they stayed in Hong Kong or returned to the film factory in the future, their prospects would be different.

Of course, the prosperity of Hong Kong was also an undeniable reason.

Those old-qualified people who held a large amount of resources in the film factory naturally wouldn't rashly give up the resources in their hands and run to Hong Kong to start over; they didn't have such determination and courage.

In addition, the thinking of old-qualified film factory employees had already been fixed, and wanting to adapt to the production of commercial film and television dramas, the difficulty was afraid of being quite high.

Only young and strong talents who wanted to change the status quo had the courage to fight.

And their thinking was active, and they could quickly adapt to the production concepts of commercial film and television dramas.

The facts were indeed so!

Wang Qiang and Li Dong arrived in Hong Kong, familiarized themselves for three days, and after the freshness passed, they immediately invested in tense work.

Since Asia Television held the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" and "Beauty Pageant" and exploded, earning a large amount of advertising fees and sponsorship fees, it invested heavily in the production of TV dramas.

Especially the shooting involving costume films, the professional talents needed in all aspects were extremely many, and the number of employees itself was a bit unable to support the simultaneous shooting tasks of several TV dramas.

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