After receiving the video and camera sent by Mei Fang, Wan Chaoxiong completed the video editing work in just one night. When he saw Wan Chaoxiong the next day, he looked exhausted.
"Hey... You didn't stay up all night, did you? I'll treat you to dinner later."
"Editing the video should be a simple task, but Xiang Bingbing was yelling the whole time during the filming, and it took me too long to eliminate the noise."
Wan Chaoxiong waved his hands and said, "You don't have to treat me to a meal. I am a social phobic. But you must not treat Xiang Bingbing to a meal. She is guilty."
"Hey! Why do you say that to me? Chao Xiongni is so abominable!"
Xiang Bingbing heard Wan Chaoxiong's complaints from behind Mei Fang and immediately said angrily, "Mei Fang performed so brilliantly on stage, and I'm not allowed to cheer and applaud for him?"
"You're a photographer, so you don't have time to give a speech. And can you please call me by my full name? Who knows you well?"
"But it's more fun to call him Chao Xiong. Chao Xiong, super fierce, hahahaha."
Wan Chaoxiong was considered tall in the class, almost 1.8 meters tall, but he was like a little brother in front of Xiang Bingbing. He was constantly slapped on the head by her, and he had no time to dodge. He could only curse at the side:
"Damn you wild girl on the dragon rack!"
Mei Fang was holding his chin with his hand and smiling at Wan Chaoxiong's frustration. Suddenly, he shifted his focus to Bingbing, put his hands on Mei Fang's shoulders and "gently" shook him and said:
"Yuanyuan, you promised me that you could have an all-you-can-eat dinner, you can't break your promise... I may not have done very well this time, but I will definitely not let you down next time!"
“I know, I know, uh, uh, uh, uh… stop for a moment, stop—”
Mei Fang just felt like he was playing on a pirate ship.
"Do you still want there to be a next time? Mei Fang should just ask me to come next time!" Wan Chaoxiong sneered, making Xiang Bingbing angry.
"Hey, you're still talking! I'll punish you..."
Xiang Bingbing chased Wan Chaoxiong and "gently tapped" him all the way. Mei Fang pinched her own bruised shoulders and gave a firm look to the beaten Wan Chaoxiong.
Thanks a lot, bro!
Mei Fang took the edited video that Wan Chaoxiong sent to him on the USB flash drive back home and watched it on his computer. It has to be said that Wan Chaoxiong's editing skills are indeed quite good, and he is worthy of being the first generation UP host enthusiast of Station C.
Please recommend Wan Chaoxiong’s video next time.
Mei Fang uploaded a video of Xia Yuan on Station C last time, but the shooting technique was average and there was no sound reduction. Although it was recommended, it did not cause much of a stir. However, the quality of this video of more than 5 minutes has improved.
Mei Fang also showed the video to Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi, and both of them gave it very satisfactory high scores.
"This classmate in your class is really useful. Can we recruit him to work for us?" Xia Yuan has been with Mei Fang for a long time, and he speaks with a bit of the temperament of a street lamp.
Operation and promotion do require some video editing talents, and Mei Fang has such talents among the temporary workers at Station C, but it is difficult to hand the videos to them, after all, this will expose their identities.
"There's no rush now. Just ask Wan Chaoxiong for help..."
"Oh yes, Ah Fang, I told you before that I wanted to record these songs of ours."
Xia Yuan showed Mei Fang his achievements in detail: "I recently studied the cost of recording studios and recording equipment. A recording studio costs 500 yuan a day, and it is far away from here. The recording equipment includes recording microphones, monitoring headphones, recording sound cards, reverberation, and this harmonic balancer... Although there are many things and it is troublesome, the cost can be controlled at around 4,000 yuan."
"Which room are you going to record in? Your and Youxi's room? Besides, if we put these devices in our house, Aunt Liang will be suspicious."
Mei Fang thought, "In fact, the reason we used to buy the computer last time was already ridiculous. Aunt Liang probably trusted us and didn't say anything."
Lin Youxi interrupted, "You don't have to record at home. You can probably do it at school. The activity room at our Ximilu Studio and Teacher Chen Qi might be able to help. The music classroom might have a ready-made recording studio and recording equipment."
"But it always feels a bit inconvenient to borrow it directly from the school..."
Xia Yuan muttered while pulling Mei Fang's arm, "I still want to have my own set of recording equipment. Youxi suggested putting it in the studio. I think it's okay. There aren't many people in the club building on weekends..."
"I will definitely buy it for you, but you have to figure out this recording equipment first, right? I think you can go to the school to ask about it first. After you are familiar with how to use it, we can set up a recording place in the studio classroom. Whatever you do, it won't be better than a recording studio."
"Then I'll ask at school next week."
Xia Yuan said this and leaned towards Mei Fang curiously, "By the way, how much money has our studio made now? I haven't heard you talk about it... Youxi, do you know? Am I the only one who doesn't know?"
Lin Youxi shook her head. "I don't know either, but I've never really asked about it. I'm just a little curious."
Lin Youxi himself has calculated the monthly bandwidth expenditure of Station C. Their bandwidth has been constantly increasing and is now close to 20,000 per month.
In addition, Mei Fang also has to pay salaries to the part-time outsourced employees of Station C every month. Lin Youxi had never asked about this expense before and didn't know how much it was.
"Since you two are so curious, I can show you the bill... It's equivalent to our studio's financial report. But you have to promise me that after seeing this income, you will not be complacent."
"No, no, there's nothing to be proud of. This is all our hard-earned money."
Xia Yuan quickly waved her hands, "Let me see."
Mei Fang, who was a planner by profession, liked to create EXCEL spreadsheets to manage his accounts. After opening his encrypted work document, he recorded the simple income and expenditure situation of last month in a spreadsheet.
[Studio Monthly Financial Report]
"The Early Bird" + 13452.3 US dollars, equivalent to 102237.48 yuan;
"Kingdom" (unit price 6 yuan) had a total sales volume of 1203 last month, a revenue of +7218 this month, and a cumulative sales volume of 7221;
"Restart Life Simulator" (unit price 1 yuan) had a total sales volume of 3401 last month, a revenue of +3401 this month, and a cumulative sales volume of 13430;
"To the Moon" (unit price 8 yuan) sold 701 units last month, this month's revenue share +1682.4, cumulative sales 4312 units;
"Rainblood: Dead Town" (unit price 5 yuan) sold 922 units last month, this month's revenue share +1383, cumulative sales 3002 units;
Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi took a look at the game's income ledger and were immediately shocked.
"How come "Old Bird First" is still making so much money? My god! These games are obviously much more fun than Old Bird First!"
"These games are obviously much more fun, but their sales are not increasing."
"The domestic market environment is like this. People don't have much money right now. There are a lot of cracked versions online. Even if they cost only 1 yuan, few people will buy games directly."
Lin Youxi asked Mei Fang, "Is it easier to make money by embedding ads like in "The Early Bird"?"
"It's different. Players of single-player games pay a lot of attention to immersive experience. If there are built-in ads, they will be criticized. "Old Bird Begins First" is different. It is a short and fast-paced game. The rhythm is interrupted after death. It is easy to earn revenue by inserting ads."
Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi were not surprised to see Mei Fang's monthly income of nearly 120,000 yuan. After all, this was just the net income, and the following expenses were also very exaggerated -
This year, Mei Fang used his own money to buy three Kidney Machines 4, three Alienware cameras, and a SLR for the three people. The total cost of these digital products was 65,000 yuan.
The bandwidth maintenance and various server costs of Station C accounted for 30,000 yuan.
The labor cost of Station C. Station C now has a total of 20 outsourced part-time employees. Although they are part-time and their monthly salary is not much, Mei Fang has paid a total of nearly 50,000 yuan.
Moreover, Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan saw the names of three classmates in the expenditure column.
Yue Xinyi, -800;
Liu Xiaoyu, -600;
Peng Xue: -8000;
Liu Xiaoyu was a member that Xia Yuan brought in to help with the music production. In addition to the previous Bai Mei family incident, she paid Liu Xiaoyu a salary of 600 yuan, which was transferred in cash from Mei Fang to Xia Yuan.
As for Peng Xue's 8,000 yuan fee, it was a one-time fee. Mei Fang had already told Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi that she wanted to learn bass, so Xia Yuan naturally supported her best friend's dream without a second thought.
Because Peng Xue's goal was to form a band with Xia Yuan, Mei Fang also considered it a business investment rather than a private loan.
Only Yue Xinyi's money puzzled Lin Youxi:
"Are you paying Yue Xinyi a salary every month now?"
"I just started posting it last month. I told Yue Xinyi about it and forgot to sync with you guys."
Mei Fang explained, "You have all witnessed how active Yue Xinyi is on Station C and in the work group. She collects a lot of opinions from netizens, compiles a list and sends it to us. This is already a very professional website operation workflow, and it is quite different from just lending a hand. She deserves this salary."
"I didn't say it's not worth it." Lin Youxi shook her head. "It's just that if you pay Yue Xinyi a salary, please let me know so that I can trouble her to handle some things. I was quite embarrassed before."
Youxi, you will also be hung on the street lamp.
Mei Fang thought that everyone really acted like they were the boss and spoke in a very family-friendly manner.
"You paid them all, why didn't you pay your good friend Zhang Ming? You two have such a close relationship."
"Feelings are feelings, interests are interests. Zhang Ming just did a planning proposal during the summer vacation, and it was pretty average. I asked him to draw a car before, which was considered an advance on his salary. Now he has no time to help me work, so I can't pay him a salary under this situation. I can only give him some New Year's money and bonuses as a token of my appreciation."
Mei Fang was very open.
"So that's how it is... Then it makes sense."
After reading the bill, Xia Yuan sighed, "It seems that making money is really not easy. Everyone is busy and busy, but in the end, we lost money last month... I shouldn't have bought such an expensive phone. By the way, Fang, do you have any savings? I have 70,000 or 80,000 yuan in New Year's money. Do you want me to transfer it to you to deal with it?"
"That's not necessary. I can afford it with my savings." Mei Fang thought to himself, don't ask me about my savings. He really didn't want to tell him that he was a multi-millionaire.
Lin Youxi continued, "Actually, the expenses are not that bad, and you can't calculate it this way. Many expenses are actually one-time consumption, such as these digital products."
"Yeah, I know, I know..."
Xia Yuan stretched lazily, "But I feel like we're still making too little money now. Once I compile the songs and release an album, it should sell well and make a lot of money! Ah Fang, have you ever felt like writing songs recently? If we can get 10 songs together before the New Year, we can release an album, right?"
"Don't worry about that. I still have quite a few drafts of lyrics... You can pick out the lyrics I wrote, and I can give you some advice on the music."
"So awesome! I'll come find you after I finish recording these three songs, but you have to help me record the song "I'm Willing"?"
"OK, no problem... But I have to prepare for the next game now."
Lin Youxi asked in confusion, "Are you in such a hurry? I see that the versions of "Kingdom" and "Restart Simulator" have only recently stabilized. You should take a break and don't fall behind in your studies."
"I know this, the time arrangement is fine..."
Mei Fang suddenly remembered something and quickly reminded them, "Should we treat Xiang Bingbing, Liu Xiaoyu and the others to dinner this weekend?"
"Yeah, yeah, what's wrong?"
"I have to temporarily add someone to chat about the new work."
"Add someone? A girl? When did you meet?"
"No, we're old acquaintances. I'm planning to invite Guo Yun to dinner. Do you have any objections?"
Xia Yuan shook her head. "That's fine. We had planned to play with Guo Yun last time. Didn't she go abroad to play? Or where else did she go..."
Lin Youxi thought for a moment and said, "Her school seems to be a little far from ours. Let's have our meal together in a place that's more in the middle. This way it will be convenient for both sides."
"In that case... the intersection would be more suitable, and it's also in the city. I'll search for a buffet first..."
Mei Fang immediately said with disdain, "Yuanyuan, you don't have to worry about Bingbing eating me out. Don't be so stingy, as if no one can afford to eat."
"I'm not stingy! Buffets are great. I haven't even eaten one before. Why don't we go together? Youxi also wants to eat at the buffet. Why don't you ask?"
"Ah, I see."
Mei Fang turned to look at Lin Youxi, only to see her nod slightly, "I saw others eat it on TV, and I wanted to try it myself."
"If you ask me, there's nothing particularly delicious in the buffet here in Jiangcheng. If you want to eat, you have to go to the Golden Leopard Gate, which costs 180 per person..."
"Ah Fang, you are too proud! You are eating such expensive food. Do you really think that all the money in the studio is yours? Youxi and I are working for you for free now, right?"
Xia Yuan pinched Mei Fang's cheek angrily, "And why do you like to show off so much? You choose the most expensive restaurants for dinner and buy the most expensive things. If you keep going like this, even if we work harder to make money, we won't be able to keep up with how fast you spend it. I think you can't be the only one in charge of the finances in the future. Youxi and I will also have to supervise it!"
"Okay, okay... I get it... Let's just eat something normal!"
Mei made a compromise.
It's really exciting. I've posted 2359 posts for three consecutive days. I worked overtime tonight so it's a bit late. I'll start posting twice a day tomorrow.
In addition, my boss found out about my novel writing. In order to prevent him from misunderstanding that I was alluding to them in the novel, I invited him and his senior executives to dinner_(:з」∠)_
(End of this chapter)