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Chapter 79, on 29-second short film hype

Once ambitions expand, it is difficult to control.

The inspiration for entrepreneurship and investment points is of course also bursting.

Alice counts her current career, and Cisco doesn't need to worry about it at all. Driven by the great development of the global Internet, as long as it ensures technological leadership, it is not a problem to go public with an annual profit of 60 million in the early 1990s.

Just like now, the company has just been established for a few months, and orders from seven or eight universities have been obtained. With the current productivity of Posack and the others, these hundreds of routers have been enough for them to be busy for a while. The current office location is their living room. When the company really needs to rent a few offices to recruit employees, it is not too late for Alice to stroll around from time to time.

As for Microsoft, it’s even more so that she doesn’t have to interfere. With a 35% stake in hand, the price of Windows 1.0 of $100 per share, she just waits for dividends. Including the profits of the current DOS system, Gates has to transfer hundreds of thousands of yuan into her account every month.

If so, this achievement is already shocking. You know, Alice is only twelve or thirteen years old after all, and her family is just a middle-class man with a small savings. These two companies can already bring nearly one million US dollars in monthly income. It is no exaggeration to say that it will take about a year to become a millionaire?

But when Alice suddenly opened up her mind and wanted to open up the mainland clothing market, she realized that her drawings were broken.

Even if the prices in the mainland were not high at that time, the exchange rate with the US dollar was around 1:2.3, and the entire 9.6 million square kilometers was not smaller than the entire African continent. If you want to make a lot of money, you must first have money...

Fortunately, Alice learned through repeated investigations in Chinatown that "The Man from the Atlantic" was only just released on the mainland, and even one-quarter of the episodes have not been released yet. It will definitely take some time before the frog mirrors and bell-bottom trousers are popular all over the country. After all, in her previous life, the TV series was aired as early as 1980, and the influence of the entire 1980s was the whole 1980s, and she still had time.

It just so happened that if I really wanted to enter the mainland clothing market, there would be a lot of matters related to the establishment of a company, not to mention that Ashley is still in the drawing design stage and it takes time in all aspects. Alice calmed down and focused on the matter of spending money and saving money.

Money is not omnipotent, but it is absolutely impossible to have no money!

"The Ghost Record" is really a work that surprised her and was amazed. At least, its shooting requirements are much lower than those of other movies. Even if she is only twelve or thirteen years old as a director, people will not feel special after watching it. They can only be particularly surprised.

This was originally a new director's debut work. The whole film cost was only 10,000 US dollars, and it was just shot with a DV machine. Well, there was no DV machine in the 1980s, but of course Alice was not so poor that she had to put the cost so harshly.

More than 190 million yuan is equivalent to a box office of 200 million US dollars. The specific plot is just a story that the naughty camera and the family’s nightlife has to tell. Well, the house ghosts in the house make a brilliant debut. So, whether it is a horror movie, a thriller movie, or a ghost movie, if it is done, it is really a product that makes all businesses love it.

Alice counted back and forth with her fingers and toes, and she didn't think the filming of this movie could take half a month. Within ninety minutes, a family was haunted in the middle of the night, or the snobbish peeping angle of the surveillance probe, it was the rhythm of all the cameras passing through at one time.

Therefore, if you really want this movie to achieve a super high box office, publicity is an indispensable part.

In fact, if you really want to say that you can achieve a high box office model by promoting publicity, "Blair the Witch" is of course the first to be hit, but Alice has no plans to consider it at all.

As for the reason, of course she wouldn't say it was because she was too lazy to get up early and go to Maryland.

First, compared to the down-to-earth gimmick of "Home Haunted in the Middle of the Night", running to the deep mountains and forests of the eastern United States to find witches, the sense of substitution and connotation are naturally worse. Moreover,... now is not an era of highly developed Internet development!

In fact, according to normal historical development, since the success of "Blair Witch" has been a great success, many directors who have not supported a large amount of funds but want to show their skills have all come up with the idea of ​​DV and documentary-style films. Therefore, they have tried their best to move closer to "Blair Witch" in terms of shooting methods and marketing methods.

Perhaps, the new idea of ​​making movies shown in "Blair the Witch" is indeed a way out for ultra-low-cost movies. "The Ghost Record" produced in 2009 actually belongs to this type of genre, but it is worse than the best. Although the former has more box office, it is not as good as others in profit margins.

Alice knew that the success of "The Witch Blair" was not so based on the style of pseudo-documentary, but rather on the background of the complete construction of the Internet. In 1999, it was a beautiful summer, and the American people had not yet ushered in the impact of the real information explosion. Faced with this marketing strategy of creating a story and then asking everyone to pay for the target product, people were of course fooled.

For example, a later generation spread across the Internet and took it on the CBD in the Magic City, which reflected the voices of investors and the turbulent stock market. When it became popular online, people across the country cared about the stock market's wife, the girl who was screaming with heavy capital. The shaking camera illuminated the skyscrapers of CBD, and even symbolized the bleak mood of investors.

As a result, the entire stock market was in a downturn that day, and the entire market opened low and closed low. Because that day, fund managers across the country were no longer interested in stock trading, and were all concerned about the girl's follow-up situation.

But at this moment, a stock that was upset was rising sharply, rising all the way to the daily limit.

Why is this?

Because in that video, the stock market lady knelt on a chair and suffered a double impact from strong funds in the morning. And the annoying stock happened to be the manufacturer of the chair.

So, the truth is that this is a situation set by a company that wants its own stock to rise sharply~

Even if people after 2010 are caught and let the other party succeed, then for the American people who are still in 1999, isn’t it like playing with a harsh blow from "The Witch Blair"?

So, Alice was going to get in.

The film club at the University of California, Los Angeles has a long history. After all, Hollywood is located in this city. Director scenes can be seen from time to time around West Hollywood and Santa Monica. In this unique environment, if their club cannot develop, they will be criticized by movie fans across the country and even the world.

David was born in Denver, and where he grew up was Marin County, California. As early as the summer vacation of eighteen, he ran to Mill Valley to work for a film company. He was fascinated by one and even abandoned his college studies and worked in Lucas for two years. In September this year, everyone should graduate, and he finally entered the door of UCLA.

Then, without a doubt, when the club application form was handed to him, he chose the movie club without thinking.

"Hey, David, you've finished watching my short video, how do you think?"

In the club classroom in the afternoon, Minister York stood in front of the projector excitedly and showed David a five-minute short film he took during the winter vacation last year.

"The plot is interesting, but will it be too slow?"

David said without hesitation: "No matter what kind of literary works it is, you should strive to tell the story clearly in the shortest time, so you must make the plot compact. But I can tell more about your movie... but most of the time I am occupied by the nonsense of the protagonists."

After hearing this, York's face looked a little bad on the spot.

Just kidding, he is a junior student after all, and he has been the director of the film club for two years! Even if no movie can be seen by Hollywood's eight trump cards, the script has been rejected by many small companies, but he is also a minister after all!

Even if this damn David Fincher has left his luck, what's so great about being able to work in Lucas' Industrial Light Magic for two years!?

York won't admit his envy, jealousy and hatred even if he beats him to death!

There were other people in the classroom. Seeing that York's face was not very good, Yofanie, who was sitting beside him, smiled and said, "David, York is the director of dialogue. You know, dialogue is the best character image. A man and a woman sit in front of the screen and kiss me. Isn't it just to rely on dialogue to reflect it?"

David curled his lips, but said nothing more. It’s not impossible to use a five-minute short film to shoot a date, but at least there must be a complete plot, right? What the hell is it just a little chatting that is not clear from the beginning?

York saw that David was still dissatisfied and smiled loudly: "By the way, David, if you really want to say the qualifications, you are better than us. Otherwise, let's shoot another short film next, and you will be the director? I really want to see how high your level is as a genius who has worked in Industrial Light Magic for two years!"

As soon as these words were said, more than a dozen students from all over the community applauded. After all, David's self-introduction when he joined the community was amazing. What is Lucas' concept? He is the director of "Star Wars". Not to mention that David was working as a technician in Industrial Light and Magic, even if he was just a cleaner, he would definitely be stronger than ordinary people!?

"no problem."

After thinking about it, David said, "Since you want to shoot it, you can shoot it better. The cost of shooting movies is not low. Why don't we find an investor? If there is an angel who originally intended to inject capital into our movie, I will definitely be able to shoot a work that will be available on the screen!"

This sentence was really too loud. After David finished speaking, everyone, including York, was mute for a moment.

"Wow, so ambition!"

At this moment, the classroom door was pushed open and a little girl appeared at the door without warning.

"It seems that my trip to UCLA is really in vain. Young man, what is your name? I'll be optimistic about you~"
Chapter completed!
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