hollywood billionaire

Chapter 41 Standards for Partners

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The Korean girl obviously didn't expect the next line to be this, and she even forgot to make a corresponding expression.

"I am extremely serious about my career, I love music, I love this industry, and I hope to use the gift that God has given me to accomplish something of value."

Han Yi spoke very slowly, as if hoping that Zhao Youzhen would chew every word thoroughly.

"It doesn't matter whether it's charming or ugly, bald or long-haired, short-legged or long-legged...these appearance conditions are not important. I hope that my partner is someone who can really show my own value and help me improve."

"So, Yujin, I hope you understand that the reason why I chose to offer Phineas and Billy a $20 contract has nothing to do with you. More precisely, it has nothing to do with you. I agree with your judgment of them, I like their music, and I have every confidence in their potential to be future superstars in the music world, which is why I made this offer."

"Yoojin, we can be friends and have many dinners together. But if you want to start a business with me, I have to tell you that I have very strict standards. Phineas and Billi It is the artist you discovered, and I fully respect that. I will do my best to help you become their manager as promised. But whether we can have further cooperation depends entirely on your ability and performance."

"Now you, in my eyes, are a rookie Youzhen. You don't study this major, and you don't have any working experience. I don't know how capable you are, and I don't know what your character is when it comes to interests."

"I want to be completely honest with you. I'm still in the probationary period for you, and I hope you are for me too. Maybe I own 40% of the shares of Hollywood's top acting agency, but that doesn't mean I'm really The most important thing is the partner that suits you. Maybe we are a natural match in the business field, maybe we can’t work together for a minute at all, these are unknowns, which need time and experience to discover.”

"Okay, I've finished what I have to say. Sorry, when I talk about business, I will appear a little serious."

Zhao Youzhen took a deep look at Han Yi, and the other party put on a straight face, trying to make the most serious expression, as if he wanted to prove his point in this way.Obviously he should answer very seriously, but for some reason, Zhao Youzhen pouted and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"This...why are you laughing?"

This time, Han Yifa was stunned. He even raised his neck and looked at himself in the rearview mirror.

"I thought it was pretty cool."

"It's quite handsome." Zhao Youzhen stopped laughing, at this moment she had completely relaxed, leaning on the soft back of the 250 GT SWB chair.Han Yi's sincere praise made her very happy, and the frankness that almost broke her heart also added a lot of weight to this happiness, "I have to admit, as a woman, I was also a little fascinated just now. But, all these It's not important, is it? We... are still in the investigation period."

"I will work very hard to become a partner that meets your standards. My love for music is nothing more than that. And I am a person who has never put the word "giving up" in the dictionary. You should be able to see that, Yi .”

"I'm going to be the best at anything, better than you, better than everyone."

"I hope so." Han Yi smiled and nodded, "The partner I need must be better than me."

"Okay." Zhao Youzhen pushed his hair back, "Dinner is my treat."

"What dinner?" Han Yi's eyes widened, "We just had it."

"Not enough. There were too many people just now... I'm too embarrassed to express myself." Zhao Youzhen blushed and said softly in Chinese. Although there was no one else in the car, speaking in Chinese seemed to make her feel less guilty something like that.

"It's embarrassing in front of me, isn't it? Hey, that's not right." Han Yi tilted his head, as if he thought he had heard it wrong, "I just realized that your Mandarin is so sloppy."

"My Chinese teacher is from Yanbian." When it came to the word Yanbian, Zhao Youzhen playfully changed his tone, and then returned to his normal accent, "How is it? Genwa, please, it's very close."

"I can't eat anymore, but I can accompany you there. Just to talk about the promotion plan of "Ocean Eyes"."

"But...Korean barbecue is too old-fashioned. Fogo de Cho across from Genwa, have you heard of it?"

Han Yi restarted the car, lowered his voice, and let every word carry a magnetic temptation.

“Brazilian, barbecue, buffet.”

Brazilian, barbecue, buffet.

Yoo Jin swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Can it be delicious?

"too delicious!"

A piece of top-notch Alcatraz barbecue was in the mouth, and Zhao Youzhen began to shake happily again.

"Yuzhen, I'm a normal man... I hope you don't tempt me like this again."

Han Yi rolled his eyes helplessly, and while talking ironically, he handed You Zhen a tissue——when going out to eat with Xiao Zhao, the thing Han Yi did most was handing tissue.

"You're really annoying." Zhao Youzhen wiped off the gravy dripping from the corner of his mouth, and stared back, "Has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like Chandler when you're joking."

"That's my mentor, my spiritual totem." Han Yi said casually, "You also look like Monica when you eat."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Han Yi realized something was wrong, and Zhao Youzhen also lowered his head in embarrassment, pretending to concentrate on fiddle with the barbecue in front of him.

"So, about the promotion plan."

A few minutes later, Zhao Youzhen was the first to break the silence.

"Do you have any idea?"

"I want to hear your opinion first." Han Yi threw the question back.

"If it were me..." Zhao Youzhen put the fork aside, put his hands on his chin, and thought seriously, "Before formulating any promotion plan, the first step we need to do is to improve the quality of the song itself."

"What do you mean?" Han Yi raised his eyebrows and asked with great interest.

"I believe you can also tell, Yi, the post-production of "Ocean Eyes" has not reached a professional level." Zhao Youzhen drew a circle in mid-air with his index finger, "Whether it's radio, streaming media, or other channels, want to To meet the broadcasting and promotion standards of commercial platforms, we must help Phineas and Billy start over in post-production."

"I totally agree with you."

Han Yi nodded slightly in deep agreement.

The music production process is far more cumbersome than people imagine.The finalization of the creation and the completion of the recording are only half of the work completed, and the subsequent post-production is also a very challenging link.

Post-production roughly consists of two parts, Mixing & Mastering. Mixing is the term "mixing" that we often hear. The simplest explanation for this term is to keep the sounds in a song in a natural and delicate balance.

Mixing engineers first need to consider the level, how to balance the various sounds on the level, so that the sound that wants to stand out is louder, and the sound that needs to be placed in the background is smaller.They also need to place the sound in a suitable position through panning, which vocal should be more left, and which sound effect should be more right, in order to create the best sense of hearing and immersive music experience.

In addition, the frequency adjustment of different tracks is also very important, which sounds need to be louder and which sounds need to be darkened.Even which frequencies should be removed, which instruments and vocals should be enhanced in depth, so that the audience can hear the sense of distance and space between the musicians and singers with their ears, and add a layer of wonderful sense of three-dimensional space to the music works.

Generally speaking, the mixing engineer is a conductor that you can't see at all, and it is up to him to determine how a work will appear on the playback device.A bad mixing engineer can be like a botched wedding band, with everyone huddled together, whistling through bad speakers and making your guests miserable.

And the really outstanding ones, like Furtwängler and Karajan, can integrate their own understanding of music into their works in a way that ordinary listeners cannot detect, giving them fresh and renewed life.

And Mastering, or mastering processing, is the last step in the entire music production process after the mixing is completed.The purpose of mastering is to balance all the sonic elements present in the stereo mix, and to ensure that the painstaking work done by the mixing engineer can achieve the best playback effect in a variety of media formats and media .

Through equalization, compression, limiting, and stereo enhancement, a master master engineer must make the music play equally well on iPhones, car stereos, and private theaters.

This is especially important for popular music.In Europe and the United States, radio is an important medium for disseminating and promoting music. Any work must sound attractive enough on the radio in order to obtain the best publicity effect.It can be understood without explanation, if there is no excellent mixing and mastering, the loss and limitation of sound quality caused by shortwave will make a song directly lose the atmosphere that the creator and recorder want to achieve.

The music creator buys the food back into the kitchen, the recorder processes the raw materials into ingredients, the mixing engineer uses these materials to fry a plate of cooked food, and finally the mastering engineer adds exquisite arrangement and decoration to it.The four groups of people work together to push a musical work, like a delicacy in a Michelin restaurant, to the commercial market for music fans to consume.

The song "Ocean Eyes" has only completed the first two steps, and it is still in the state of ingredients to be processed.On a fan platform like SoundCloud, which is dominated by bedroom producers and unsigned musicians, users can treat songs as instant noodles, even eating raw noodles.

But if you want to enter Spotify, Apple Music, and commercial music stations that have high standards and post-processing requirements, "Ocean Eyes" still has a lot of work to do.

"You also have research on post-production?" Han Yi asked with a smile.

"Of course." Zhao Youzhen picked up the fork again, and put a piece of Picania sirloin into his mouth, "I'm a real music lover, not a critic of Rate Your Music moaning about nothing."

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Han Yi leaned forward slightly.

"Umm...are you thinking what I'm thinking?" The corners of Zhao Youzhen's eyes raised a little expectantly.

"Let's talk together, three, two, one..."

"Serbang-Gana!"

"We're really music nerds."

Zhao Youzhen couldn't help laughing at the unanimous voice that was too consistent.

"It's not geek to appreciate real art... Serbon is real art."

"is not that right?"

Serb Garner, who was regarded as a model by the two, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1969. He became Teddy Riley's mixing engineer in 1993 and has been in the industry since then.

Today, Serb Garner has become one of Hollywood's leading post-production masters, from Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears to the new generation of Adele, Bruno Mars and Taylor- Swift and Cerbon have so far produced a staggering 188 title singles in post-production. 19 Grammy Awards, 3 Latin Grammy Awards, and the most valuable Grammy Award for Album of the Year won four in one go.

Post-production of musical compositions is like visual effects in the realm of film.You can say that the plot of the Marvel series of movies is naive and lacks depth, but you can never criticize the visual effects presented in the works.The same concept applies in the music industry. Maybe Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" is a piece of pop electronic waste without nutrition as the critics say, but in terms of listening experience, it undoubtedly stands at the top of the industry. .

Behind the scenes, Serb Ghana is the hand of God who turned decay into magic.

The team he leads is the industrial light and magic of the music industry.

"I'm very happy that we can reach an agreement, Yujin, not only this song "Ocean Eyes" I hope to give it to him to complete. All the singles of Billy and Phineas, including...well, maybe in the future I want to cooperate with Serbon for all the musicians involved." Han Yi pondered for a few seconds before saying, "Actually, do you think it would be better if we could acquire his post-production studio?"

"I think that's something that can be considered in the next step." Zhao Youzhen nodded, "If we can cultivate many elite musicians in the future, a stable post-production team will definitely be indispensable, and if we can hold Serb-- A studio at this level in Garner is also a profitable business...but I am still not sure whether we should spend so much energy and resources on Bi Li's first official single. "

"I heard that if you ask him to do sound mixing and mastering, the price will be at least [-] US dollars, and only superstars will get some discounts."

"As I said, we should take a long-term view. Bili has the potential to become a superstar, so we have to match her with superstar resources from the first day. RCA and Interscope can give her, why? Can't we?" Han Yi tapped the window with his thumb and said, "Whether it's music distribution, label or artist management, Billie Eilish is our first signboard, and we have to show people that we have strong resources. And confidence. Not only for Billy and Phineas, but also for the artists we want to talk about in the future."

"You're right, and the production cost of "Ocean Eyes" itself is already zero... Oh, yes, talking about it."

"What should be the name of our artist management company?"

Zhao Youzhen bit the first word very hard.

"In this regard, we are partners, so I hope to combine the opinions of both parties." Han Yi spread his hands, smiled and blinked, "Whether it's the name or the way of equity distribution, I hope you can do it after you go back." Think carefully, give me a formal proposal, and of course I will give my opinion. Collaboration should be divided into two parts, negotiation, and then cooperation. I hope our partnership model is like this.”

"Okay, I will think about it carefully, and then I will send you a letter of intent." Zhao Youzhen's expression was quite serious, and the girl knew that this was also one of the tests that the billionaire in front of her gave her.

In most cases, the person who makes the first offer is the weaker party.Han Yi not only wanted to use this method to test Zhao Youzhen's bottom line and ambition, but also used this method to adjust the power dynamics between the two so that he himself could take the lead in the subsequent negotiations.

However, this did not cause Zhao Youzhen to feel negative emotions, on the contrary, she liked the feeling of being seriously regarded as a negotiating opponent.

What's more, Zhao You really understands that Han Yi is the key person who provides financial support. If she wants to start her career in the music industry at her age, Han Yi is her best opportunity so far.Therefore, she must also be fully prepared to be a supporting role and a secondary character.

Unlike most coquettish beauties who have high self-esteem, Zhao Youzhen never thinks that beauty should be a reason for others to give in in the business field, and never has the unrealistic fantasy that the whole world has to revolve around her.

On the contrary, in the country she is most familiar with, extraordinary beauty often becomes the biggest obstacle to climbing.

Just wait and see.

I will give you a satisfactory quotation.

Zhao Youzhen stared at Han Yi, convinced, admiring, and eager to prove himself stubborn and competitive together, a small storm blew up in his heart.

"Okay, let's move on to the next topic."

Han Yi couldn't fully understand all the emotions in Zhao Youzhen's eyes, but the fighting spirit he captured already showed that he had achieved his goal.

Han Yi tapped on the table and asked slowly.

"What do you think about that amateur music video?"

(End of this chapter)