Chapter 1099 The Wind Rises Qingping
Mobile phone direct access: m.xinwanben.com
"As the provincial TV stations in mainland China have successively become stars in recent years, the TV industry will enter a period of quite vigorous development, which is the best opportunity for the rise of the Jinshu department. The demand is far more than that. However, other capitals will definitely not miss this opportunity. If the Jinshu Department wants to stand out, it needs to have enough competitiveness. What should be the core competitiveness of the Jinshu Department? It seems that the key is the specialization of film and television projects from incubation, production, marketing, distribution and other links to form a whole mature industry chain."
"Remember, this is business."
"If any business wants to succeed, the core is high-quality products, but in addition to ensuring that the products are good enough, you also need to reduce costs as much as possible in the production process, and be as famous as possible in the marketing process. The ultimate goal It's about making more money."
"Perhaps you're thinking, how to do it specifically, can I teach you more than these broad concepts?"
"Of course I know what to do, because I have come up step by step from the bottom. Even though the film and television entertainment environment in the United States is very different from China's, but from the perspective of Time will teach you, I just want the result."
"If you have the will, with the position you are in now, with the resources available to the Westeros system, you can learn how to operate in any professional field. Again, I only look at the results. Done well, I will It will give you enough returns, and it will definitely be more than you think. Because of various legal restrictions in China, most of the Jinshu series companies and the Westeros system cannot hold too many shares. I hope that these shares will be more widely used. Those of you who do things specifically take it away. Of course, if you don’t do well, you still have nothing. I am a person who highly respects people who have to pay before they get rewarded.”
In the study room in the mansion on the west side of the West Lake.
Simon didn't have time to contact his feelings. Basically, he communicated directly with several senior officials of the Jinshu Department, and many of them were still talking about Simon.
So to the end, Simon once again turned over a document sent by Lin Su before, and continued: "The last thing, about Tianlong Babu. This is my favorite one, in fact, most of Mr. Jin Yong's works ? I like them very much. Therefore, outside of business, I hope to do this project as my personal hobby? Make it a real artwork. It happens that this project is a tripartite cooperation between Hong Kong tvb and mainland CCTV? So it can't be counted Pure business? It's more special, so be the best? It doesn't conflict with my hopes."
"Since it's my personal hobby? Regardless of how many resources CCTV and TVB can provide, I will give a budget of $15 million."
When Simon said this, Wu Shanlin and Luo Gu, who were sitting on the opposite sofa, were a little stunned.
15 million US dollars? Converted to 120 million yuan.
Tianlong Babu is expected to have about 40 episodes? The Water Margin is being produced by CCTV in the past few years? It can be called a national drama? The budget is less than 60 million yuan. Moreover, the $15 million that my boss just mentioned? It is only the investment of the Jinshu family, and the resources that CCTV and TVB can provide are not counted.
After spending money like this, it is obvious that the owner of the company really does not intend to recover the cost.
After Simon finished speaking, he gave a few people some time to digest, and handed the document in his hand to Wu Shanlin? He continued: "So? There is no need to worry about the production? It will be no problem to complete it in two to three years? In that way, choose the best actors and the best behind-the-scenes team. Finally, there is this? I will personally donate an additional set of digital cameras and corresponding post-production equipment. The core is the latest digital camera developed by Sony, 1920*1080 film-level The resolution, oh, it's actually not enough. It's only about 800 pixels vertically. It needs to be compensated by hardware such as lenses, but it is far beyond the current 640*420 picture quality standard for TV series shooting. You will find a suitable team to practice as soon as possible. Master the equipment."
Simon's biggest regret for the various famous epics and even the later CCTV Jin Yong series is the picture quality. All kinds of scenes with beautiful mountains, rivers, beautiful scenery, beauties and tough guys are greatly discounted because of the rough picture quality.
Especially CCTV's Jin Yong series.
If Zhang Dabeard could shoot with film-level image quality back then, there would be no room for all kinds of 'women who came out of the dust' to act as demons.
Therefore, what Simon wants this time is to do it in one step.
Using CCTV can mobilize the huge resources of the whole country, the mature professional production team in Hong Kong and the rich funds of the Jinshu Department, to achieve the ultimate at one time. There has been no Jin Yong drama before, and there will be no Jin Yong drama since then.
To achieve this goal, the first is image quality.
The first 1080p movie-grade digital video camera was born in 2000, mainly because Sony developed it specially for the shooting of Star Wars at the request of George Lucas. In fact, the major electronic giants have already accumulated enough technology. This time, the great success of Tinkerbell's i-cam series has stimulated the rapid development of digital camera technology in advance. With the increased investment of various electronic giants, Sony has launched a 2-megapixel 1080p three years in advance. Professional digital video camera.
Of course, the current image quality of Sony's camera is still quite different from that of film, and the actual pixels are less than 1080p. It needs some technical processing to get the corresponding effect. But this is already absolute for the current 420p TV shooting.
span.
Although TV broadcasts in this era must be compressed, shooting at 1080p quality will not be outdated even after 20 or 30 years.
In order to achieve this goal, Simon donated three sets of Sony's latest digital video cameras this time, together with various lenses and storage accessories, as well as the corresponding post-production equipment, with a total value of 1.8 million US dollars, equivalent to nearly 15 million yuan, enough to shoot two or three low-cost TV dramas in China at this time.
Letting a few people on the other side come together to check the list of equipment that will be shipped to China in the near future, Simon asked again: "By the way, on CCTV, have you contacted Zhang? How does he reply?"
Of course it's a big beard here.
Zhang Dabeard is still in the system at this time, and is currently serving as the chief producer of Water Margin.
Fortunately, the filming of the Water Margin has come to an end, and CCTV is most in need of producers. They invited the other party to come over in advance. As long as Zhang Dabeard is not stupid, you will know that the significance of this errand is no less than that of Water Margin.
Simon still hopes that Zhang Dabeard can serve as the helm of Tianlong Babu and even the follow-up Jin Yong series.
In the past, Simon had always had a hard time understanding the outside world's criticism of Zhang Dabeard's Jin Yong series. Whether as an insider or an ordinary audience, Simon believed that Zhang's Jin Yong series was definitely the best version, no one. As for the touting of the Hong Kong version in the 1990s, it is not aesthetics, but only feelings.
Just like a certain Zhu Yuanzhang's unforgettable allusions about the bowl of 'Jade White Jade Soup' before his fortune, because of the lack of film and television content at that time, some of them will become classics.
Wu Shanlin heard Simon ask about Zhang Dabeard, and quickly said: "Zhang has agreed, boss, we have been meeting all this time, and he is very much looking forward to meeting with the boss, but unfortunately he didn't get an invitation this time."
"Just promise, forget it this time, there will be opportunities in the future. In addition, if the other party is willing, you can pull him into Jinshu Media."
Wu Shanlin said: "Actually Zhang already has this intention, boss, in this case, I will talk to the other party about this when I go back?"
"Can."
In this way, until more than ten o'clock in the morning, everyone who should be seen has seen it, and Simon officially left China. Lin Su stayed, and is expected to return to North America after the Lantern Festival with his family.
After the Boeing 767 took off, Simon began to learn something else in his office in the cabin.
Or the 'Westeros effect'.
It was another coincidence. On February 4, the day after Simon arrived in China, Hanbo Steel Co., which ranks 14th in South Korea and is also the second largest steel giant in South Korea, suddenly declared bankruptcy, and the South Korean stock market fell sharply. It was transmitted to Japan, Singapore and other countries, causing the stock market in Southeast Asia to fluctuate and fall.
The main reason for the collapse of Hanbao Steel and even the Hanbao chaebol, which controls more companies behind the scenes, is debt.
For its own rapid expansion, Hanbao Iron and Steel has been frantically promoting the construction of 10 million-ton steel plants with a mere 2% of its own funds in recent years, and the other 98% of the funds come from various banks and insurance companies in and outside Korea. Financial institutions, let’s not say how many violations there are. After all, a slightly more normal financial institution should not provide a company with a 50 times leverage level loan. .
These days, South Korea is also celebrating the New Year, but the South Korean government is overwhelmed.
In order to avoid a chain reaction caused by the collapse of the Hanbao chaebol with a total debt of more than 5.5 trillion (about 7 billion U.S. dollars), the South Korean government had to urgently provide 1 trillion won (about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars) in rescue money to fill the financial loophole for the Hanbao chaebol. , in order to avoid systemic financial risks in the Korean economy.
The wind blows Qingping.
The economic boom in Southeast Asia in the 1980s inevitably led to over-investment in all walks of life. These investments not only consumed the wealth brought by the domestic economic growth, but also caused investors to borrow heavily from the international market, which in turn consumed revenue from a seemingly thriving export business.
All of this eventually led to huge debt problems hidden throughout Southeast Asia.
Debts must eventually be repaid.
The result is that the company goes bankrupt first. After an enterprise goes bankrupt, if there is a lack of remedies and the huge debt cannot be repaid, it will cause problems in the capital chain of financial institutions such as banks, and even go bankrupt.
If real industries are organs, financial institutions are the blood vessels connecting a country's economy.
Problems with a single organ will not necessarily be life-threatening as long as it is repaired in time, or even removed. However, once the bloodline completely collapses, it will definitely be difficult to survive.
In this Hanbao Steel incident, the South Korean government has limited the negative impact by decisively bailing out financial institutions, that is, the blood of a country.
However, once the scale of debt is too large, even the government cannot save it. The result is widespread bankruptcy of financial institutions, and the impact is transmitted overseas. A large number of international debts cannot be repaid. Rating agencies will downgrade a country's credit rating and trigger bond selling. If At this time, if someone cooperates to sell the currency, it will cause a country's currency to depreciate sharply, and the national wealth will evaporate and dissipate out of thin air.
This is the economic crisis.
In fact, not only South Korea, Thailand, which was the flashpoint of the Southeast Asian financial crisis, has also started to default on small-scale debts in recent months, but because the scale is far less than that of Hanbao Steel, it has not attracted too many people's attention.
During the more than ten hours of flight, Simon read a thick pile of economic information in Southeast Asia.
Analysis of the situation, but nothing was done.
For the time being, he was still watching from the sidelines.
Three billion dollars of funds have been thrown to Soros, and Cersei Capital also has its own layout. When the general direction is correct, Simon is too lazy to go into the details.
This time, Simon's main target is South Korea.
In fact, Japan is more attractive.
However, on the one hand, Japan’s size is too large to be eaten. On the other hand, the Japanese economy is actually far less open than the outside world imagines, and it can even be said to be quite closed, which is really difficult to chew.
South Korea is different.
After the coming crisis, South Korea's economy will be forced to open its doors to the world. Moreover, South Korea's current GDP volume of about 600 billion US dollars is also within the appetite of the Westeros system.
The most important point is that compared with other countries in Southeast Asia, South Korea has many industrial fields that Simon is very interested in. The two major targets, electronics and entertainment, were locked in early in advance. After the investigation and research in recent months, combined with the information in memory. , and more specific two items, shipbuilding and construction.
Now South Korea has reached the world's top level in the field of shipbuilding and construction, and the key point is that there is a considerable cost advantage. Investing in these two industries will yield considerable returns in the future.
As for electronics, that's a pretty broad concept.
Simon hopes that through the manipulation of the Westeros system, South Korea's entire industrial chain development in the electronics field will be cut off, and only as a component supplier of the Westeros system Nokia, Tinkerbell and other direct electronics giants.
At this point, the once apple is simply a tiger.
Simon certainly wouldn't make that mistake again.
For example, Samsung, this time, semiconductors and LCD screens, can only choose one, even if it is the semiconductor industry, Samsung can only choose one of them, and will not let it develop in an all-round way.
In the last entertainment industry, it is completely suppressed, and music, film and television, and games are not spared.
After all, this is the field Simon is most familiar with.
Moreover, Simon needs a bridgehead for the entertainment industry in Greater China. Growth in China takes time. Japan is still too closed, and South Korea is just right. The control of audio-visual entertainment is, on the one hand, pacifiers, and on the other hand, public opinion. As for the occasional play with thighs and the like, it's just by the way.
If you can't remember the website address, you can search on Baidu: [End Benshen Station]