Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian said that, Spielberg had to follow Meng Qian's words to continue his feelings, "Of course, we have just experienced a lesson of failure, whether it is for myself or for DreamWorks, I will be responsible for every next step. Be more cautious.

DreamWorks does need money, but Viacom has made us understand that what we need more is respect and understanding. "

Speaking of this, the two came to the technical department of Dafeng Entertainment from the production center. "Mr. Spielberg is really the kind of person I imagined. As I just said, I spent a long time looking for us. The fit between the two, today I have three things I want Mr. Spielberg to take a look at."

Meng Qian has always been a state of sympathy among creators.

Spielberg turned around in the technical department with unspeakable entanglements at first, and then stopped entangled, because the things in the production department really attracted Spielberg, and Meng Qian showed him the production technology. A huge breakthrough.

Contrary to Cameron, who is known as a tech madman, Spielberg has so many special effects movies, but he has said more than once that the most important script of the movie is the story. The current movies put too much energy and financial resources on Technically, this is not a good phenomenon.

And what Meng Qian showed him is a film and television production plan that will gradually become popular in the film and television production industry in the future. By integrating a large amount of production data and combining artificial intelligence algorithms, the production becomes easier and easier, and a special effects clip is also made. In the past, it took 3 people to do it for 3 days, but now it only takes one person to do it in a day, and many things have become foolish, which can greatly save production costs and speed up the production progress.

This is an area where many people who do video post-production will start to switch to in the future, and it is also another sub-area spawned in the era of artificial intelligence. Meng Qian has contacted relevant party A, so he knows this.

In 2007, the development of this thing is definitely leading, Disney probably hasn't noticed this thing much, after all, artificial intelligence has not been popular at the moment.

How to liberate the production cost and production cycle has always been what he expected. In fact, Spielberg, the production center of companies such as Disney and Warner, has been there. He really did not expect such an interesting concept to be born in a Chinese company. .

After visiting the technical department, Meng Qian took Spielberg to the meeting room of Dafeng Entertainment. "This is the overseas distribution map of Dafeng Pictures. Mr. Spielberg can find out."

"Overseas distribution map?" Spielberg stunned. Now Dafeng Group hasn't been in a movie yet, right? Where does the overseas distribution map come from? With doubts, he took Meng Qian and looked at his notebook. Spielberg was really surprised. "Dafeng Group has actually arranged offices in so many countries in the past few years? And... Publishers in many countries have worked together..."

The issue of overseas distribution can be said to be one of the biggest weaknesses of DreamWorks. It can even be removed. It is also one of the biggest weaknesses of the China Film Industry. Films are produced to be released, but how to get them to be distributed overseas is not A simple matter, as a new production company, basically you can only go to various countries to find local distributors to operate, provided that the other party recognizes your work. But why should the new production company recognize you? And there is a very complicated issue here, which is localization.

Hollywood movies often have different plots in different countries. For example, they will add Chinese elements to the Chinese market and add a few Chinese actors to the movie. This is localization, and local distributors will be more willing to distribute if you do this. Distributors, to put it bluntly, are sales. Sales only recognize money. When they choose a movie for distribution, they only recognize one thing, which is whether the movie can make money. Therefore, they don’t trust companies that can’t even do well in localization. .

The problem that Huaxia movies cannot go overseas is that Huaxia’s culture cannot be read by Westerners. From the perspective of the distributors, there is no money at all. There are so many Hollywood movies that can be released, so why do you publish Huaxia movies? , Can't you live with money?

Therefore, how to establish overseas distribution channels is very troublesome. It took several decades for the companies in Hollywood to develop existing global distribution channels.

New players want to quickly establish a global distribution channel network. From the perspective of the development of global publishers, Sony has been relatively successful, but the method is actually very crude, which is to spend money. How to adapt to localization, Hollywood’s approach is to All countries that have distribution needs have set up offices to maintain good relations with the publishers there and continue to study localization models.

But like them, each market has people. The annual salary and basic operating expenses alone cost several hundred million. This is the reason why DreamWorks can't do it. DreamWorks does not have so much money to support such a team.

Sony Pictures is different. The parent company has strong wealth and crazy money, and abruptly smashed its own distribution channels.

So there is the case of Sony. Dafeng Group has been a veteran of overseas localization for so many years. Meng Qian did not hesitate to choose to spend money. Sony Pictures’ parent company is rich, and Dafeng Pictures’ parent company is also rich.

Meng Qian wants to engage in cultural export. If he doesn't plan for overseas distribution early, he will export a fart.

Of course, Sony has helped a lot in the development of overseas distribution, and the cooperation with the Emperor has once again achieved mutual benefit. Now Dafeng Group does not have its own works. In the past few years, it has mainly assisted in the development of overseas distribution. Some of the works of other companies are mainly those of Xiangjiang, among which the emperor is the main one, helping Dafeng Group to accumulate a lot of practical experience.

After overseas offices have successfully cooperated with local publishers to operate some works, the relationship between everyone will be stronger.

"Overseas distribution is the basis for the development of this industry. For the creators of the company, I don't want their works to face the problem of not being able to go out." Meng Qian looked sincere.

"Mr. Meng's approach is very far-sighted, DreamWorks is restricted by overseas distribution, otherwise our development will be better." Spielberg can't help but recall the frustration of the past few years.

Meng Qian laughed at himself, "Although our overseas coverage and experience cannot be compared with Disney and Warner, the overall development in the past two years is still good. Fortunately, the expansion of overseas territory can be used to a certain extent. Promoted."

Spielberg followed with a smile, "Issuing this thing is more of an operational and commercial matter, and money is indeed a good booster."

Meng Qian began to show his muscles and show his attitude, "I probably understand that Disney's investment in this matter is 50 million meters of gold each year, and Warner's is 60 million meters of gold. In the next few years, as our company’s works begin to be released, I plan to increase investment and invest a budget of more than one billion yuan a year."

Spielberg whispered in his heart, it's great to have money, "Mr. Meng has courage."

Meng Qian gave Spielberg a look, "If we can really become a family in the future, I believe DreamWorks will no longer have to worry about the release."

Spielberg didn't know how to respond for a while, and nodded for a moment, but Meng Qian knew that his heart was moving.

Naturally, I can’t ask questions at this time, but take Spielberg to see the third thing, “This is the creative department. Our company has more than 50 contracted screenwriters and more than 200 co-writers. At the same time We also dig out good scripts from the market every year.

We have been accumulating works for the past few years. In the process, we have discovered many excellent works. I know that Mr. Spielberg is a person who loves to create. I want to share it with Mr. Spielberg.

This is our script wall. There are a lot of semi-finished scripts here. In my opinion, they are all excellent, such as this one. "

Meng Qian took out a script from the script wall seemingly at random, "Mr. Spielberg can take a look at the story."

Spielberg saw the name of the script after receiving it: "The Number One Player".

After a relatively rough scan for more than ten minutes, Spielberg sighed sincerely, "The vision of the future is fascinating, but the details need to be improved."

"Every time I stand here, I feel a particularly anxious feeling." Meng Qian stared at the script wall and was silent for a while. "Mr. Spielberg has ever thought that the development of the enterprise to a certain extent can allow the market to accommodate the enterprise. of?"

Spielberg couldn't understand for a while, "What does Mr. Meng mean?"

Meng Qian looked forward to the future infinitely, "Disney's model is to use sufficient funds to try and make mistakes, and then create excellent works, but after all, it is still accommodating the market.

Mr. Spielberg, you said, if we solve the problems of production funding, distribution, and production technology, will it be possible for us to focus completely on the work?

In fact, I have been thinking about www.NovelMTL.com many times. Is it possible for us to create even a product or a work in our life. Its greatness can not be defined by the market, but it can conquer the market, or even create a brand new one. market. "

"This idea is crazy." Spielberg said so, but his eyes looked different when he looked at Meng Qian. What kind of creative feeling is this businessman...

For a while, Spielberg couldn’t help sorting out everything he saw today, from production technology, to overseas distribution markets, to script polishing, to Meng Qian’s respect and love for creation. It's all for the work, all for the creation.

Meng Qian is really completely different from other businessmen he has met, and has an indescribable charm.

At this moment, Meng Qian asked, "Mr. Spielber, if I invite you to do this crazy thing, would you agree?"

The meaning of this sentence is obvious. Meng Qian asked Spielberg to work for him, but Spielberg looked at Meng Qian's appearance and suddenly felt that if he was such a boss, it seemed not bad...