She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 1119 - 911: Super Star 85 (10,000-Word Update) _7

Usually, Zhou Zhou is busy, and so is she, so she doesn’t really pay much attention to the internet, which is why she missed the opportunity with "Glass Heart."

After Hua Yan realized her mistake, she quickly followed him back, not just him, but also other actors from this campus romance drama. Naturally, she also followed Ling Yao, who was the first to follow her. Honestly, Ling Yao had been following her for almost half a year, and she hadn’t followed him back, yet no one criticized her for it!

So, there’s a huge difference between family and strangers after all.

The filming of this drama wrapped up in mid-August, and what follows is post-production. Whether to use original voices or voice actors hasn’t been decided yet, and we need to wait for further news.

After wrapping up the shoot, she didn’t have time to rest and went straight home to study in her space.

Even if she uses all her fragmented time, she is still lingering at the first-grade level because there is just so much to learn.

However, as she takes on more roles, she’s getting to know more people in the industry. Although most of them, except for a few male idols, aren’t popular, at least now she could be considered part of this circle.

The company of the male idol refused to hype the couple, and Hua Yan never thought about it that way, since her couple status with Ling Yao, the Shuanghua couple, has always been popular. So, when they turned her down, she didn’t feel any pressure.

Ling Yao returned to the country at the end of August. He originally selected many luxury items for her like clothes, bags, and cosmetics, but she didn’t let him buy them. Mainly, she doesn’t need them and doesn’t want him to spend too much money on this. Instead, she thought it would be better if he donated.

"It’s been scheduled, on September 26th our ’Heiress Strategy’ will air on Yunnan TV, simultaneously on TX Video,"

Like many netizens, Hua Yan once asked Liang An how they make money if the TV dramas are broadcast for free on television?

Liang An explained to her.

"Our TV series earns advertisement or sponsorship income during production. For example, the costs for venues and accommodation included in the investment. With sponsorships from venue renters and hotels, the savings are counted as sales revenue brought by the drama itself."

"Secondly, the producer of the drama, which is our company, sells each episode to the TV stations for advertising revenue."

"Now the domestic TV drama market is relatively mature. TV stations purchase according to their own levels and the drama’s theme. For example, CCTV’s prime-time dramas can go for up to 700,000 yuan per episode, while the lowest county-level TV stations can buy an episode for just several thousand yuan, of course, after several rounds of distribution. Our drama has a total of sixty episodes. Since we only discussed with a single provincial satellite TV, and it’s the premiere, we sold each episode for two hundred thousand yuan."

Two hundred thousand per episode is really cheap. Sixty episodes come to only twelve million, which doesn’t even cover the costs. They had a fifty million budget, weren’t they losing money?

"Besides TV stations, aren’t there audio-visual broadcasting rights? We sold these rights to TX Video, and the revenue from the sale of these rights is also a major channel of our sales."

"Of course, besides these three main channels, there are other hidden or open sources of income, such as royalties from adapting the script into a published novel, advertising and partial sales revenue from broadcasts on other media. However, understanding the above-mentioned ways to make money from a TV series only sets the premise for realizing a profit from a TV series investment; to achieve actual profitability, many internal and external conditions are still needed."

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Following this is some rather professional dialogue, summarizing issues like bandwagon trends in TV series, internal corruption and embezzlement during filming, decreasing production costs due to idol casting, selection of appropriate broadcast channels, and timing considerations among many other aspects.

In short, expecting the television series to break even or succeed immediately is impossible; it requires a one-year cycle. If the broadcasting TV station does well on its first airing, subsequent reruns and rebroadcasts can still gain revenue, and should other TV stations wish to introduce it, negotiations and communications will be needed.

Anyway, as long as the show takes off, even if it was initially priced low, it’s fine because the actors in the later stages can bring in more profits through their popularity. Everything is interconnected; you definitely can’t just focus on immediate profits. Having a more long-term vision is exactly what is meant by this.

If an actor becomes popular through a TV drama, crosses over a billion with movies, and then makes appearances in variety shows, once the traffic increases, the RMB becomes countless.

After listening, Hua Yan felt a headache because the entertainment circle is the most realistic place. There’s also a risk in filming TV dramas. Some dramas when filmed have popular actors, but by the time they are aired, due to some issues, they become outdated to the point they don’t even get broadcast.

So, more people prefer to film shorter-cycle movies or variety shows where money comes faster, even if someone has issues they can be edited out later.

To become an evergreen tree in the entertainment industry, without experiencing some struggles, it’s difficult to reach the pinnacle.

Fortunately, Hua Yan has always faced this issue with great clarity.

Sold for twenty thousand per episode, "I feel like we lost a lot, and this Yunnan TV rarely broadcasts palace drama, right? It might not even match their style?"

Liang An sighed, looking helpless, "Who told us the actors in our drama aren’t well-known? Without popularity, to secure a prime-time slot, we had to lower the price. Never mind, let’s consider it a trial stone. I’m really confident in this, and I hope our move wasn’t wrong, as long as this drama becomes a hit, next time aiming for level one star satellite TV should be pretty much a sure thing."

Hua Yan deeply agreed, thinking indeed, an actor wanting to become famous isn’t just about having roles; luck is essential too.

Thinking carefully, gambling isn’t just limited to dramas without popularity. Even those with popular stars don’t guarantee success, don’t some also flop?

So, whether it works, it still depends on the audience.