yournovel Chapter 55 Challenge 3
Chapter 55 Challenge 3
"You're in charge."
Huang Min nodded and laughed, "My last marriage lasted so many years, and my ex-wife never bought me any clothes. Now I have an agent/partner, and she's buying me clothes. Would you call me a success or a failure?!"
"Quite a failure"
Su Qing gave Huang Min no face whatsoever in her reply.
I think this is a success.
Huang Min kept his eyes glued to the screen.
He reviewed each of the key plot points he had marked to prevent any continuity errors, and then archived the shooting dates by scene, shot number, camera position, and shot type.
Hearing Su Qing, who was sitting next to him, ask, "What do you mean?", Huang Min replied with a smile while busy with his work, "I'm only thirty-two this year. I have plenty of time to correct my mistakes. If I delay for a few more years, that would be a real failure. It's not scary for young people to encounter problems. What's scary is not having enough time to correct them. Knowing this in advance is a kind of success."
"Then your success was somewhat embarrassing."
Su Qing commented.
Huang Min smiled and said, "It's not exactly a mess, I just happened to run into you!"
talking.
Huang Min turned to look at the phone screen in Su Qing's hand and couldn't help but laugh, "I never said that you need to respect me as your boss, but it's a bit disrespectful of you to sit next to me and look at the job postings on the recruitment website."
Before Su Qing could answer, Huang Min saw the job posting on her phone that advertised for a project manager with an annual salary of 800,000 to 2 million yuan. Huang Min remarked, "This company looks good."
"Fake"
Su Qing replied, "They say the annual salary is between eight and two million, but if I pass the interview, it will be about the same as what I get here."
"Then why are you still looking on job websites?"
Huang Min laughed and said, "Why don't you just let a headhunting firm find the job for you? You only look for ordinary positions online; the best senior management positions are all handled by headhunting firms."
"I'll just take a look."
Su Qing exited the recruitment website, turned off her phone, and put it in her bag.
"The Terror Live failed, and the next project I directed for Anniversary also failed. Once you find a good job, how about I bring Anniversary with me to come and join you?!"
Huang Min asked with a smile.
"My team doesn't need people like you and Teacher Zhou who have absolutely no work experience."
Su Qing shook her head without hesitation: "Your educational background is very low, and Teacher Zhou's is about the same. Once you leave behind the industries you're familiar with, you're just complete newcomers, the kind with poor learning ability and rigid thinking. So you should just continue wasting your time in the entertainment industry!"
"Why don't you just say that if Teacher Zhou and I switched industries, we would be complete failures in the workplace?"
Huang Min replied.
"That's a pretty accurate way to put it."
Su Qing nodded slightly in agreement, then her expression turned serious: "You've exceeded the production cost of 'The Terror Live' by 6.12 million. You only have less than 3 million available. I've been checking the ratio of film production costs to promotional expenses lately. Many films have promotional expenses roughly equal to production costs, but yours is clearly too low. With just over 2 million in promotional expenses, judging by the current market, that amount won't have any effect at all. So the only path you can take is to rely on word-of-mouth. If you have Teacher Zhou and the other actors do a promotional tour, it's best to just visit a few surrounding cities. If it's too far, the travel, accommodation, venue, security, and other miscellaneous expenses will add up to at least tens of thousands per show. With your money, you'll only have enough for a dozen or so shows at most."
"You can decide those things."
Huang Min did not raise any objections.
Given the current situation, he doesn't have many options. The main problem is that there's no follow-up funding coming in, and the money he got from the bank mortgage loan is dwindling. Simply put, he has a pipe in his house that needs to be kept running to prevent water from entering, but there's no water inlet.
During this time.
We also need to invite the senior executives of the publishing company to dinner, and who knows, we might even have to give them gifts.
Huang Min knew perfectly well how big these people's appetites were. They wouldn't even look at something worth a few thousand or tens of thousands of yuan; they would at least demand something worth tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan.
However, as long as the issuance is approved, the money should still be paid out.
"Besides publishing, should we consider a buy-out online strategy...?"
Before Su Qing could finish speaking, Huang Min shook his head and refused, saying, "Let's not consider that for now. Even if the website chooses to buy out the film, they will drive down the price drastically because this is my first film in this transitional phase. If we adopt a revenue-sharing model, the revenue cycle will be very long, at least more than three months. I would go bankrupt in that time. So the focus should be on the theatrical release. After the film is finished showing, we can consider a one-time sale. That way, we can have another source of income."
"clear"
Su Qing nodded.
After that, Huang Min continued working on the post-production of "Terror Live," while Su Qing sat quietly to the side with her legs crossed, waiting. Perhaps feeling bored, she started browsing the job postings on the recruitment website.
Huang Min ignored her.
Any other boss would definitely mind this, as it's obvious they think he'll go bankrupt! But Huang Min doesn't care, mainly because Su Qing has handled everything he's asked of her almost perfectly lately.
That's enough.
As for the rest, Su Qing can look at job postings or do whatever she wants! Anyway, even if "The Terror Live" fails, Huang Min will not let her go.
Around six o'clock in the evening, the city was bathed in the glow of the sunset. A gentle breeze carrying the heat of the evening swept through the city, and the chirping of cicadas could be heard from the streets. After changing into the suit and tie that Su Qing had bought for him, Huang Min opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
"How many movies were released the day before yesterday!?"
As soon as he fastened his seatbelt, Huang Min casually asked.
"Eleven parts"
Su Qing replied, "Three fifth-generation directors are bringing their own commercial blockbusters to this summer's box office, along with a leading seventh-generation director, two youth romance films, three animated films, and some low-budget films. If 'The Terror Live' is released on August 1st, it will face competition from another representative of the seventh-generation directors, Shen Ming, as well as an animated film derived from 'Journey to the West,' a war-themed film, and two action films. On August 15th, another blockbuster will be released..."
He paused slightly in his speech.
Su Qing wanted to suggest that Huang Min change the release date, since the competition during this summer season was too fierce. If "The Terror Live" were released during such a period, it would be crushed by those big commercial films and left without a trace. However, in the end, Su Qing did not say this.
Because it's meaningless.
She was well aware of Huang Min's current situation; he simply couldn't afford to delay. Every month, the bank loan alone amounted to a large sum of money, followed by her salary and the salaries of the other two, plus Uncle Zheng's.
These fixed expenses require Huang Min to pay 200,000 yuan every month.
The longer it dragged on, the less room he had to maneuver. After a while, Su Qing still asked, "Do you have a backup plan?"