Li Mu gave Ning Hao one thousand yuan in cash as agreed. Ning Hao didn't expect that Li Mu would give money so readily. He hadn't even started to do anything. He didn't even sign an agreement or even see his ID card. Give the money first.
However, Li Mu's straightforwardness also moved him somewhat. One thousand yuan is not a huge amount of money, but it can definitely solve an urgent need, which is of great significance to him.
The two discussed the script and shooting plan at the dinner table. Ning Hao's understanding of the movie is relatively unique and ingenious, so Li Mu's emotional story with one main line to the end actually has no special feeling to him, and is even a bit tacky. , but because he had a good impression of Li Mu, Ning Hao listened carefully and gave some pertinent suggestions based on his own experience.
Li Mu asked Ning Hao to help him prepare for the formation of the group, and spent time together on weekends. Ning Hao didn't have a mobile phone yet, so he gave Li Mu a paging number before leaving.
Li Mu is very interested in Ning Hao. This young director with ideas will have to wait until 2006 to truly become famous. If it weren't for the Asian Rising Star Director Program invested by Andy Lau, he would have to wait a long time to become famous.
Even Asia's new star director only gave him a budget of more than 3 million yuan. The box office that year reached more than 20 million yuan. Not only did he become famous for the film and the director, he also made famous a large number of grassroots actors.
Now, the budget for making a short film has reached 2 million. Ning Hao is probably heartbroken. Calculating the inflation rate of RMB, he can still shoot "Crazy Stone" with only 2 million. Out.
Li Mu wants to use this cooperation to trick Ning Hao, who is still studying, into his Makino image. There is no doubt about his ability. In addition, he also has the network resources he has accumulated at Yanjing Film Academy. If he By joining Makino Imaging, I can provide funds so that he can get investment early and make the movies he wants to make.
Ning Hao's work efficiency was indeed extraordinary. Li Mu gave Ning Hao all the information about the relevant people who had contacted him, and asked him to make the arrangements himself, and then find time to meet with him. Ning Hao had already contacted him before Friday. The rough outline of the crew and several extras were planned. The careful Ning Hao also made a detailed shooting budget for Li Mu. In view of the simple plan of the biggest star to star for zero pay, Ning Hao finally calculated it. The overall cost actually only costs about one million, and this price also includes the remuneration of several supporting actors from the film school.
Li Mu asked him: "Among the students currently studying at the film school, are there any good candidates? It would be better if they are already somewhat famous."
Ning Hao said with a high-pitched smile: "There are not many famous students in school now, but there were a few famous ones in the 1996 class, not to mention Zhao Wei, Huang Xiaoming and Chen Kun. They are quite famous, so we can consider them both to play the role of the male villain in this movie."
Li Mu had no feelings for Leader Huang, but Chen Kun had a good impression, so he asked him: "What is Chen Kun's current salary?"
Ning Hao said: "He is awesome. In the TV series Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind, he was paid 3,000 per episode. After filming 30 episodes of the TV series, he earned 90,000. He also accumulated some money through this TV series. With fame, the price must have gone up a bit now, and it costs 30,000 to 50,000 to make a movie, right?"
Ning Hao said, and suddenly said: "No, no, we are a micro-movie, and we don't want him to star in it. The production time is short, and I guess the price can be discussed again."
Li Muxin said that the price was extremely affordable. When his film The Golden Fen Family becomes a hit next year, the salary will definitely skyrocket. It is still worth it to win him for 30 to 50 thousand yuan, so he said to Ning Hao: "Chen Kun's You can contact me about the matter. I have seen the TV series he acted in, and they are quite good. It doesn’t matter if it’s 30,000 to 50,000 yuan. You are responsible for negotiating him.”
"OK, our budget is very loose anyway." Ning Hao said with a smile: "Actually, there are many people in our film school who can play the female lead. Why do you have to find an inexperienced music student to play the role?"
Ning Hao had never met Du Wei, so he didn't know how well her appearance and temperament fit with the characters in the play. Li Mu didn't explain much, and just said: "You will know when you meet the actor. Your film school will definitely not be able to find one." A girl with such a temperament.”
Ning Hao laughed twice: "Okay, then I will coordinate the people first. If you have time on the weekend, we will meet and finalize the details. If the crew has decided, I will contact the filming location and the scenes of the talent show as soon as possible. You need to rent a studio, and the cost may be slightly higher.”
Li Mu urged: "Although the two million budget does not necessarily have to be spent entirely, you must not save money where you should spend money and work hard. The set for the talent show must be high-end and upscale. Spend more money. It doesn’t matter, the key is to produce results.”
"I understand, don't worry!"
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On Friday, a new product emerged in the e-commerce field.
Li Mu’s own Alipay is finally officially launched.
Alipay has been deeply integrated with 3321 since its launch. The preferential policy of exempting and exempting the first month's commission has allowed Alipay's registration rate among parent users to reach 90%, and the penetration rate among student groups has reached 95%. In the future, they will be on 3321 Cash withdrawals on the platform are completely free to operate through Alipay, which is safe and convenient. Moreover, 3321 has also specially opened a text message platform. In conjunction with the promotion of Alipay, Alipay users will receive instant text message reminders for payment, account arrival, and cash withdrawal.
When the bidding started, Li Mu personally went to Makino Technology to monitor user data. The total number of registered students and registered users of 3321 now totaled more than 30,000, making up the first batch of Alipay users. After a round of bidding and payment, there was no problem with Alipay throughout the process. Bugs and loopholes, the user experience is very good.
However, the birth of Alipay has not attracted attention in the Internet industry. Everyone has not yet realized the key role that the payment platform will play in the future e-commerce industry. Internet people who know Alipay only think that it is a platform specially developed for 3321. As for the payment channel, 3321 itself is a very closed network, and it is not for profit. Therefore, for Internet practitioners, it is difficult for such a marginal and unprofitable product to attract their attention.
This also made Li Mu relieved. Alipay itself does not have the opportunity to rise rapidly now, but it is difficult for 3321 users to support this payment platform. However, in the next step, Li Mu will connect Makino Technology to Alipay's payment channel. When Makino Technology's Happy Farm launches paid props, it will use a wave of ultra-low prices to attract users. The one-cent fertilizer prop package and the one-cent pet prop package are all killer features to attract users to pay. In the field of Internet payment, The most difficult thing is to break through from 0 to 0.01 yuan. As long as the user pays a penny on this payment platform, half of his wallet has been opened to you.
As for Taobao, the huge aircraft carrier of e-commerce, Li Mu is not yet capable of building it. Makino’s team is currently operating at high load. Kong Lingyu’s ability has not yet been significantly improved. His technical strength and his vision can It is already very good to support Tieba. In the future, there is also a social plan for communication software. He doesn't know whether it can grow in time, let alone an Internet giant like e-commerce.
However, Li Mu is not worried. Talents need to be encountered slowly. The concept of Taobao only needs to be developed before 2003. Even Mr. Ma from Hangzhou launched another Taobao in advance because of his own butterfly effect. I am not worried at all, because I have saved myself a long exploration period compared to him, and I have Alipay as support. Once I start Taobao, and Alipay will follow closely and launch a complete compensation service, Mr. Ma will definitely not be able to catch up with this kind of planned business. Premeditated business rhythm.
Li Mu once again experienced the beta version of the user personal space and Happy Farm at Makino Technology.
The functional layout of the personal space is similar to that of the junior Tencent QQ space. It has functions such as messages, logs, moods, and photo albums. It also allows professional artists to develop and design a variety of beautiful templates for users to choose from. Overall, it is pretty good and has the basic functions. The most important thing about the display and interactive effect is Happy Farm, which is the key core of Makino Technology’s transformation into social networking. Li Mu not only wants to use it to attract users to transplant their connections on Tencent QQ, but also hopes to rely on this to get them to post on Tieba Establish larger connections on the Internet, making Tieba connections become their main network connections. Once YY is launched, users’ connections can be transferred to YY at extremely low operating costs.
Version 1.0 of Happy Farm basically meets Li Mu’s expectations for the primary stage of Happy Farm. The cartoon interface design is very cute and beautiful, and the hierarchical structure of crops is also relatively comprehensive. The most basic crops range from radish and carrot to cabbage, rice, wheat, and more advanced crops. There are also vegetables, fruits and flowers.
The upgrade of user experience and land reclamation also have a complete structure. Users can gain corresponding experience by farming, harvesting, stealing vegetables, helping friends weed, deworm, and purchase seed props. The experience and gold coins will generate a Ranking list, friends can see the person with the highest level and the person with the most funds at any time.
The only thing that is still missing now is that the props are not perfect, but overall, it can definitely be solved within a week.
Li Mu calculated the time and found that it would take another week to solve version 1.0, and another week to make an upgraded version of 1.0. It was tentatively designated as version 1.1. Based on version 1.1, it would also take at least a week to make version 1.2. However, the version will not be launched so quickly. Version 1.0 will need to be promoted online for at least a month to let users understand and invest in it, so that competitors can also start to imitate or even launch basic imitation versions. By that time, I will launch version 1.1 myself so that my opponents will not have time to copy it.
(End of chapter)