Chapter 356 Audition
"Good!"
Yoo Hee-yeol shouted happily. In the past half month, he had spent most of his time in the recording studio with Jung Soo-heng and Lee Hyo-ri. Lee Hyo-ri's album had a total of five songs. After discussion, they finally decided to release a mini album, and the plan for the third regular album was left for next year.
Among the five songs, two of the main songs were written by Zheng Xiuheng. The main song "Sad Crying Bird" was written by Zheng Xiuheng, the second main song "What Do You Know" was jointly completed by Lee Hyori and Zheng Xiuheng, and Yoo Hee-yeol composed a lyrical song. The remaining two songs are electronic music collected directly from outside.
Recording was not actually very difficult, but the title song "Sad Crying Bird" took ten days to complete. Although Zheng Xiuheng slowed down the rap speed in the end, it was still a bit difficult for Lee Hyori. So she practiced, practiced, and practiced again during these ten days, and then recorded it piece by piece. It took a long time to complete the recording of the title song.
As for the other songs, they are recorded quickly and usually within one day. Now we are recording "What Do You Know", which is also the last song of the mini album.
The Feat of this song is sung by Zheng Xiuheng.
"Hyori, where did that guy Soo-heng go these past two days?"
Looking at Lee Hyori walking out of the recording studio, Yoo Hee-yeol asked curiously.
Lee Hyori rolled her eyes at him and said, "How should I know? I'm not his mother!"
"But you are his cousin!" Yoo Hee-yeol replied with a smile. Although there was no special meaning in it, his smile looked so vulgar no matter how you looked at it, which made Lee Hyo-ri extremely speechless.
"By the way, when will that boy go back to be his radio DJ?"
"It seems to be tomorrow, the first day of August, and I can be free!"
Lee Hyo-ri curled her lips, then said she was going to the bathroom, and left the studio, while Yoo Hee-yeol continued his work with his assistant.
At this time, Zheng Xiuheng is busy with the finishing work of "Deemo", mainly song introduction and gameplay testing.
"Not bad, not bad, very good!"
Zheng Xiuheng was playing the test version of "Deemo". Choi Minxi said that about ten songs have been imported, and the remaining work is more about improving the plot and the number of illustrations.
The staff of this small studio has now increased from three to seven. Except for two temporary workers, Han Zhiyuan and Jiang Su-ra, the rest are new temporary workers found by Choi Min-hee.
Therefore, the work speed increased dramatically, and with the addition of the men who had escaped from the "devil's cave", Cui Minxi's work efficiency was also greatly improved. He rented two good locations in the office building next to the building where Hengshou Credit is located. This is Cui Minxi's current work area.
"How long will it take to complete the development?" Zheng Xiuheng asked after testing for a while.
Cui Minxi calculated and said, "About a month at most. If you can provide the songs faster, maybe half a month will be enough!"
Zheng Xiuheng nodded with satisfaction. Although the game development cost him a lot of money, the result was still good, especially the graphic style designed by Han Zhiyuan and the character settings, which were very consistent with Zheng Xiuheng's concept.
"How come I fell in love with you like this?
How could such a painful thing happen?
I have never complained to anyone like this before..."
"Hello!"
"Zheng Xiuheng, where are you? Come out and meet me!"
"beep!"
Zheng Xiuheng hung up the phone directly.
"How come I fell in love with you like this?
How could such a painful thing happen..."
"beep!"
"How could I fall in love with you like this..."
Zheng Xiuheng sighed, looked at the phone number that kept appearing, and finally chose to answer it. He asked speechlessly, "Are you very free? But I have a lot of things to do every day!"
"Hey, you've hung up on me so many times, you annoying bastard. I called you to discuss business with you. Don't you want to promote games in the Internet cafe run by CJ? I've agreed now, so how about you meet with me to talk?"
"don't want!"
"Ah, how can this be!"
Li Youmei on the other side was very angry about Zheng Xiuheng's dry response, but Zheng Xiuheng was a stubborn person and he hung up on her hundreds of times during this period.
However, Zheng Xiuheng had some changes this time, so he said: "Let's talk again after the game development is completed. I have to work now. Goodbye!"
"Ah, how annoying! How long will it take for your game to finish..."
“Beep!”
"ah!"
In the executive office of CJ Network, Lee Yoomi was shouting angrily. She was really upset with Jung Soo-heng's attitude. She was not a terrible monster, so why was he like this?
"By the way, go find my aunt and let her tell us about them!"
Li Roumei remembered something, her eyes lit up, and then she immediately took action.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, after Zheng Xiuheng returned to the company, he called Bai Zhenxi into the car and drove to a film studio in Yongsan District.
"President, are we going for an audition?"
Bai Zhenxi asked carefully while sitting in the back seat of the car.
Zheng Xiuheng nodded without explaining, which made Bai Zhenxi feel like a cat scratching her heart. Zheng Dabin, who was standing next to her, wanted to laugh because she heard Zheng Xiuheng say that he wanted to send a girl who was afraid of ghosts to audition for the leading role in a horror movie, so she thought it was the girl behind.
"President, can you tell me what the audition is about?" Bai Zhenxi might have used her sixth sense, and she always felt that something was wrong.
Zheng Xiuheng turned around and said with a smile: "Of course it's a horror movie!"
“No!”
Baek Jin Hee was stunned for a moment, then immediately started screaming. Her panicked expression was very interesting to Jung Soo Heng.
"Okay, I'm not sending you to a cemetery, it's just a movie. Behave yourself or I'll send you back home from the dormitory. Then your independence plan will be ruined!"
Zheng Xiuheng's small threat instantly hit Bai Zhenxi's soft spot, and that mournful expression made Zheng Xiuheng quite happy.
In fact, Zheng Xiuheng did not mean to bully her, and he was not that boring. It was just that Bai Zhenxi's current situation was very real. Both her appearance and body shape were small, and she looked only about fourteen or fifteen years old. Moreover, she looked like a weak little loli. Realistically speaking, roles such as students were more suitable for her now. After all, she was a newcomer, and even if she had connections, she had to arrange the role according to the script.
Zheng Xiuheng didn't want to raise these children as vases. That's why he wanted to throw Bai Zhenxi into the horror film crew to train. Putting aside other things, horror movies are more challenging for acting skills, unlike Korean TV dramas, which have such low requirements.
Actors also need to be packaged, especially for new actors. Unless their acting skills are good enough to win the Best Actress award, the best way is to temporarily follow a certain path. If you want to play the pure Cinderella path, follow the Cinderella path; if you want to play the villain path, follow the villain path. Generally, if you have a certain path, have good works, and are recognized by the public, you will never lack scripts to shoot.
Just like Lee Yu-ri, she has been invited to play various villainous supporting roles, but there is also a side effect, that is, she has basically been stereotyped by people in the industry. Although she is capable of playing other types of roles, it turns out that villainous roles are the best, and this is what the producers think.
Zheng Xiuheng has decided to throw Bai Zhenxi into the horror film circle to train. Moreover, most of the horror films in South Korea are campus films, which are basically low-budget. If they are lucky, they can achieve the goal of profit as long as they can attract one million viewers after the release.
This is related to the fact that the Korean film market hit rock bottom from 2006 to 2007. During this period, in order to save the Korean film market, most stars took the initiative to reduce their pay and switched to a model of basic pay plus profit sharing, which enabled South Korea's small and medium-cost films to both guarantee production funds and afford big stars. Under such circumstances, talented new actors also received a lot of favor. A big name leading a bunch of newcomers is a common lineup for low-cost horror films.
The so-called profit sharing here means that after the film makes a profit, the actors can get a certain percentage of the profit. For each movie ticket sold, after deducting the 10% value-added tax and the 3% film development fund, the cinema can generally get 40-50%, and the production company and the distribution company can get 37-45%.
In South Korea, production companies and distribution companies are independent of each other. CJ, ShowBox, Lotte and other companies own more than half of the cinemas in South Korea, and their main business is film distribution. Independent small production companies are mainly responsible for finding scripts, accumulating projects, and supervising production. Sometimes there is overlap and cooperation between the two.
Therefore, you can see the logo animations of these big companies in the opening credits of most films.
In fact, Zheng Xiuheng had the idea of investing in movies a long time ago. Although this kind of project is very risky, it is still beneficial to the development of the company. In addition to arranging for artists to take on roles, it can also help them enter this circle more quickly.
Of course, the prerequisite is to have money. Zheng Xiuheng has no spare money now, so he doesn’t have any goals for the time being. The funds on the antenna side are not much, and that is the company’s working capital.
As for Hengshou Credit, since they had finally acquired Han Jae-seok's shares half a month ago, they didn't have much money left, so Zheng Xiuheng had no way to invest.
As for using Han Zhenyu's money, that is impossible. After all, he invested so much money in acquiring SM shares, and it was a bank loan. What his three clubs need now is to run them well.
Of course, Han Zhenyu and Zheng Xiuheng had an agreement regarding SM's shares. At that time, Zheng Xiuheng would exchange his shares in the antenna with him, but not now. After all, the value of the antenna is still too low. Even if Han Zhenyu really trusts Zheng Xiuheng and has expectations for him, it is impossible for him to really give all his property to him.
However, during this period, Zheng Xiuheng has been regretting that the condition he proposed to Li Jae-hyun was simply meaningless. Instead, Li Jae-hyun was fooled by him and thought that Zheng Xiuheng had his own film production and distribution company, so he agreed to his conditions.
But after Zheng Xiuheng went to the crew of "The Chaser" to reshoot scenes, he drank with Luo Hongzhen and Qiu Changmin. After listening to the words of the two industry insiders, he realized that he was an idiot.
