On June 10th, Lu Chen returned to the capital.
Shaking off the melancholy of graduation and parting, he cheered up and started on the road again.
From now on, his identity is no longer a college student in the ivory tower, but a real fresh social person.
The road is long and long, I will search up and down!
At this moment, Lu Chen didn't know what was waiting for him in the future. He didn't know whether he was about to embark on a bright road covered with flowers, or a dangerous road full of thorns.
But he is fearless, and he looks forward to it!
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June 11th, Thursday, overcast.
Lu Chen came to the Delong Building located on the Fourth Ring Road of Beijing.
Delong Building is a 58-story office building, located in the most prosperous financial and business district on the Fourth Ring Road. Lu Chen has been here twice a while ago, and participated in the production of two singles by the band in the Tianlai Music Workshop on the 35th floor. .
Tianlai Music Workshop is very well-known in the pop music scene in Beijing. It was established ten years ago and is mainly engaged in music production and promotion. It has complete and advanced equipment and a group of outstanding professionals.
Many big names in the industry have used the Teana Music Workshop to produce their own works. Light Rain Media made their first album in the Teana Music Workshop in order to launch the first shot into pop music.
Quality first!
Although Lu Chen's participation is not deep, he has a deep understanding of the strength of Tianlai Music Workshop.
So he wanted to hand over his own album to Tian Lai to complete.
The idea of making a solo album started when Lu Chen signed a contract with [Whale TV]. Later, after the PK theme show, the editor of Yunjing Music Network, Suian, discussed with him, and finally made up his mind.
Lu Chen wanted to use this album as a stepping stone to enter the pan-entertainment industry!
So he attaches great importance to it and treats it as the first major event after returning to Beijing.
In the customer reception room of Tianlai Music Workshop, Lu Chen first met the other party's business representative.
The business representative, surnamed Ni, is in his 30s. He is a typical workplace bone spirit, with exquisite makeup and well-groomed clothes. Although the smile on his face is slightly professional, it does not make people feel slighted.
This Ms. Ni also spoke in a soft voice: "Mr. Lu Chen, this is our company's external music production quotation list, which includes five packages of ABCDE. Of course, if you have special needs, our company can also provide You tailor it."
Lu Chen nodded, took the other party's price list and looked at it carefully.
The first two times he came to Tianlai Music Workshop were to help out, and he never inquired about the price. Now he has opened his eyes.
This price list is specially made for the album, including all the costs of arrangement, recording and post-production. Among the five types, the lowest price for the E package is 100,000 yuan, and the highest price for the A package is 1 million yuan. The difference is a full 10 times!
Before coming to Tianlai Music Workshop, Lu Chen knew a little about single and album production.
Beijing is the center of the national cultural industry. There are numerous entertainment and media companies. There are millions of people working in entertainment-related industries. Music studios, recording studios and professional production companies of all sizes abound.
If you just play tickets and don't pay attention to quality, you can directly place an order on the Internet and commission the production of a personal album.
And if you want to experience the feeling of recording in a studio, spending one or two thousand yuan can also meet your needs.
Of course, these are pure amateurs. If you really want to produce a single or album with high quality, the cost will be very high. One to two thousand one song is basic, and hundreds of thousands are not too expensive. You get what you pay for.
So despite the fact that there are so many singers in Jingpiao, many of them have never released a real album in their entire lives. Apart from the song itself, the cost of production is the key, and there will be promotion and distribution later. If it can’t be sold, it will lose money!
As for songs made for thousands of dollars, there is no way to find a way to get them out, and it would be a shame to give them away for nothing.
As an experienced company in the industry, Teana Music Workshop is very professional. The price list lists the various expenses included in the five packages in detail, which makes it clear for people to see.
After Lu Chen watched it, he was most satisfied with the package C, which includes a well-known arranger, producer, band accompaniment, high-standard recording and post-production. The quotation is 500,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 50,000 yuan for a song.
It's not that the AB package is not as good as the C package, but the price of the AB package is simply not what Lu Chen can afford.
Even for the C package, he can't afford the money now.
As for the D package of 250,000 and the 100,000 package, compared with the C package, it seems that the sincerity is not very sufficient.
If you are not in charge, you don't know that rice is expensive!
Lu Chen secretly sighed. He pinched the price list and tentatively asked, "Miss Ni, if I choose package C, how much discount can your company give?"
He heard from Qin Hanyang last time that he could bargain with the production company.
Ms. Ni said sincerely: "Mr. Lu, with my authority, I can give you a 5% discount at most. If you can ask our manager or director to sign, the minimum discount is 10%."
Lu Chen gave up as soon as he heard it, not to mention that he didn't know the manager and director of Tianlai Music Workshop at all, and even if he could get the other party's signature, the 10% discount would cost 450,000.
Lu Chen knew that if he didn't come forward personally, but a company in the industry like Light Rain Media negotiated, the price would probably be lower. Who told him to do it alone
As the saying goes, a big tree is a good place to enjoy the shade. Although signing an entertainment and media company will lose a lot of freedom and rights, there are also many conveniences. For example, there is no need to worry about production and distribution, and you only need to spend effort on publicity.
But Lu Chen didn't regret his choice!
He thought for a while and said, "Then I'll think about it, Miss Ni, can I take this price list with me?"
Miss Ni smiled sweetly: "It's absolutely fine. If you have any questions, you can also ask me directly."
Her business card was given to Lu Chen when they met.
"thanks!"
Lu Chen took the price list and left the Tianlai Music Workshop.
In fact, for Lu Chen now, 450,000 is really not a big amount. It can be earned after a while, or it is enough to find a way to sell two songs.
However, this involves another question, that is, is such a large investment worth the cost
Lu Chen didn't know what to do.
He has achieved some success in webcasting and has a large number of fans, but he is not even a newcomer in the entertainment circle, he is still an outsider, and has no influence at all.
Moreover, publishing online albums also involves the issue of piracy. The price of online albums is very low, but not many people are willing to pay, because free pirated resources can be found soon after the album is released.
The same reasoning also applies to [Whale TV]. Even though he has hundreds of thousands of fish fans, just like a reward, it is always a small number of people who are really willing to pay.
The album is 100% to be released, but Lu Chen doesn't want to lose money and make money, and he is not willing to compromise on quality, so there is a problem—the idea is beautiful, but the reality is too cruel!
With a tangled mind, he took the elevator down to the ground floor of the Delong Building.
Just a few steps out of the elevator, a middle-aged man suddenly strode over and stopped Lu Chen.
"Sir, are you planning to make songs in Tianlai Workshop?"
The middle-aged man was about fifty years old, with a thin body and a suit of clothes that didn't fit very well, so he looked baggy.
When he spoke, his expression was obviously a little nervous, and his eyes were more focused on the security guard in the hall not far away.
"Uh… "
Lu Chen froze for a moment, then asked curiously, "What's the matter with you?"
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Lu Chen with both hands.
"This is Wang Changsheng, the manager of Nirvana Music Production Studio, can we talk?"
He spoke quite quickly, with a hint of anxiety and anticipation.
Nirvana Music Production Studio
Lu Chen thought for a while, but he didn't have the slightest impression. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Okay."
Mostly curiosity.
There was a teahouse on the first floor of the Delong Building. The two found a place to sit down and ordered a pot of tea.
After being seated, Lu Chen's first question was: "Manager Wang, how did you know that I was planning to make a song at the Teana Workshop?"
The studio manager named Wang Changsheng pointed to the price list on Lu Chen's table, and said embarrassedly: "I saw you holding this item in your hand, so I came here to try my luck. "
Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh.