As soon as the idea of setting up a film and television training school was born, Li Mu was determined to put this matter into practice and do it thoroughly.
Unlike some so-called colleges where the boss becomes famous and becomes the president and professor himself, Li Mu knows that he is not qualified to teach, so he only provides money, resources and integration for running the school, but never interferes with any real-related matters. Educational things.
In fact, the cost of setting up a film and television training academy is not too high for Li Mu. In recent years, domestic industries have begun to centralize, including the education industry. There are similar "university towns" everywhere. University towns are like entrepreneurial incubators, providing venues for schools, teaching buildings, dormitories, stadiums, libraries and other infrastructure to facilitate the rapid settlement of major institutions.
Li Mu feels that he can register for a private film and television training academy, rent teaching hardware in a university town near a first-tier city, hire a large number of outstanding talents from Hollywood to teach in China on a fixed or rotating basis, and recruit students from the whole society at the same time.
When the time comes, you can use your investment, as well as your own resources and influence, to build the school's software and hardware to the top, even surpassing the old domestic film and television schools. As long as you are willing to work hard and invest, you will definitely be able to create the best school in the country. Film and Television Academy, and this academy does not even need to be included in the unified recruitment of the Ministry of Education. It only needs to have private teaching qualifications and then recruit students from the society on its own.
The criteria for determining whether a student can enter the school are no longer based on cultural courses, relationships, background, age and appearance, but are entirely based on professional talent and quality.
Even if you have not even graduated from high school, even if you are thirty or even forty years old, as long as your professional skills meet the requirements, you will be admitted as a student.
As for tuition fees, Li Mu thinks they can be divided into two levels. The first level is for social students. They pay to study and then find jobs on their own after completing their studies. The tuition fees for such students are relatively more expensive. Although the school does not plan to make a profit, at least it cannot pay too much. Many; the other category is for students who are willing to sign a contract with Makino Imaging. If they are willing to sign a contract with Makino Imaging, then according to the difference in the contract and the student's own strength, tuition fees will be reduced to a certain extent. For those good seedlings , you can be exempted from all tuition and miscellaneous fees, and the school may even provide certain scholarships to help you complete your studies.
As for teaching, it is entirely based on professional skills. No courses unrelated to professional skills are taught. All goals are to improve students' professional skills.
With an authoritative teaching team, recruiting truly capable students, and conducting the most scientific and systematic teaching, it goes without saying that the students who come out of this system must be effective and highly professional.
After this idea became more mature in his mind, Li Mu told everyone about his thoughts and asked others to give opinions and suggestions. Unexpectedly, as soon as this whole idea came out, everyone was shocked.
Even Spielberg was stunned. After a while, he said to Li Mu in embarrassment: "Actually, what I meant was to open a relatively high-end training institution. I didn't really want to establish a comprehensive film and television academy... The former It’s not difficult to achieve, but the latter is completely different.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. If we want the industry to develop better, we must have good soil. I don't want domestic film and television dramas to be filled with actors who can't act."
When he said this, what Li Mu thought of was a bunch of fresh-faced actors with facial paralysis who couldn't act, and a bunch of old actors who didn't want to make progress.
In the era of young actors, a large number of actors with facial paralysis who only have good looks but no acting skills have become super first-line actors. This in itself is very heartbreaking, but what is even more embarrassing is that there is a group of so-called "old actors". Age alone does not improve acting skills. For example, Kaili has been acting for decades. From daughter-in-law to mother-in-law, her screen image has hardly changed, but even so, she still has no acting skills to speak of. She uses too much force as soon as she is on camera. A lot of embarrassment was released across the screen.
If there really is a "Whampoa Military Academy" or even a "West Point Military Academy" in the film and television industry, and it can cultivate a group of truly professional talents for this industry, it will not only have a huge promotion effect on the entire industry, but also have a great error-correcting effect. To a large extent, it will prevent the domestic film and television industry from falling into that embarrassing situation again.
Seeing that everyone was shocked by his idea, Li Mu frowned and asked Spielberg: "Steven, if I build such a school in China, would you be interested in becoming the principal of the school?"
Only then did Spielberg come back to his senses and exclaimed, "Mr. Li, I really admire you for coming up with such a systematic idea and a huge structure so quickly! As for your invitation just now, I personally admire it very much." I’m willing to take it, but I’m worried I might not have that much time.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's enough for you to come here a few times a year. For real management work, I can hire a professional management talent to do it."
Spielberg thought for a while and mentally weighed Li Mu's strength and Li Mu's future development prospects.
In his opinion, Li Mu's prospects are limitless, and he may even become the new richest man in the world in a few years. Such a super talent means resources and opportunities to others, and he also hopes very much. Being able to maintain an excellent cooperative relationship with him, he couldn't refuse Li Mu's invitation.
"Mr. Li, since you trust me so much, I will officially agree to your invitation!"
"That's great." Li Mu was also slightly excited and said: "Since we want to run a school, we must run the best school. By then our major will design all aspects of the film and television industry, from actors to directors to editors and soundtracks. and computer special effects to cultivate a group of truly outstanding talents for China’s film and television industry!”
Ning Hao, Teng Huatao and several other Makino Image contracted actors were excited to hear this. Li Mu was really going to invest in establishing a Whampoa Military Academy for the film and television industry in China. If he really followed his plan, all the teaching staff would be entirely from scratch. If Hollywood hires people and abandons cultural courses, abandons all unspoken rules and secret operations, and only uses professional skills as the criterion, then it will definitely be able to cultivate a group of truly high-end talents!
The cost of running a school is very high. Apart from the investment in hardware, the biggest costs are software costs and management costs. It may not be able to recruit many students, but all teachers must be fully equipped. It costs a certain amount to travel thousands of miles to find professors from Hollywood. It is several times or even dozens of times more expensive than finding a domestic professor. If there are not enough students, you will probably lose money.
The reason why most private universities in China make money is that they themselves are a group of businessmen doing a business, an education business.
In doing this kind of business, they also maintain the nature of profiteers. On the one hand, they try their best to increase the tuition and miscellaneous expenses, and on the other hand, they save as much as they can on software and hardware.
Especially the teaching staff, most private universities rely almost entirely on fooling around, enrolling thousands of students a year, bringing in tens of millions in tuition fees, of which millions are used to pay for hardware costs, and millions are used to pay the salaries of the teaching staff. , the rest is all the net profit of the school board. Overall, if you put aside the moral issues that delay students, this is still a very good business.
During Li Mu's college summer vacation in his previous life, he actually heard that other classmates went out to recruit students for private universities. If they did well, they could earn hundreds of thousands in one summer vacation. That was because the enrollment commissions of private universities were very high. In the past, students were given commissions of one thousand, two thousand or more. If you recruit dozens or hundreds of students in a city during one summer vacation, you can basically make a fortune. From this, we can also see that the overall level of private universities is The shortcomings have a lot to do with their motivation for running schools. They don't teach and educate people, they just want to make money.
Moreover, even if private universities have the intention to educate people, it is difficult for them to do this well. This is different from Europe and the United States. This is mainly due to the domestic environment. Most of the educational resources are in the hands of public schools. Private schools The living space of universities is not enough, so they can only survive in the cracks. If private universities are equipped with first-class or even super-first-class teachers, without national subsidies, almost all private universities will lose money.
Li Mu didn't set up the film and television school to make money, and was even prepared to run it at a loss. His idea was to use his profits from the film and television industry to donate blood to the school.
Although Li Mu is not sure that all future movies produced by Makino Image will make money, he already has a Muying ticketing system. This system will make more and more profits as the domestic box office market continues to improve. This money After meeting the needs of daily operations, Li Mu can use all the net profits to feed back to this school. The purpose is also to feed back the Chinese film and television industry and promote the further development of the Chinese film and television industry.
If we can create a real cradle of the Chinese film and television industry, it can be considered as a contribution to this industry.
For such a big matter and such a huge financial risk, Li Mu made the decision on the spot and came up with such a complete plan. This courage not only infected Spielberg, but also made everyone else present admire him from the bottom of their hearts.
The contracted directors and artists brought over by Li Mu, including Du Wei and Zhang Kexuan, had already admired Li Mu for a long time, so the exclamation and admiration he felt at this moment could not be concealed. Anne Hai, who had been silent all the time, Sewei, looking at Li Mu right now, she looks like a little fangirl!
For the first time, Anne Hathaway felt that when a man's courage is transformed into charm, that kind of charm that makes women fall for him. In her opinion, Li Mu, a big oriental boy, seemed to exude to her everywhere. With fatal attraction...
(End of chapter)