noffsinger Chapter 301 Visit from Shandong Publishing House
Chapter 301 Visit from Shandong Publishing House
The fact that Jiang Yafei and Wang Haiyang were dating was like a ripple on a calm lake. It didn't cause much trouble, and both of them were satisfied with it.
However, Jiang Defu's attitude was still quite firm. He demanded that Jiang Yafei not visit Wang Haiyang's home before graduation, and emphasized that the two must not get along in the military compound.
Jiang Yafei looked at her father's unquestionable eyes. Although she was full of helplessness, she could only bear it silently.
Jiang Yafei comforted herself in her heart that fortunately she just couldn't stay in the military compound. There was a wide world outside and there would always be space for them to get along.
Time flies, and Jiang Yafei's seven days at home passed in a flash.
The school's mission forced her to return. Jiang Weimin then drove her and Wang Haiyang to the train station.
When they arrived at the train station, Jiang Yafei and Wang Haiyang said goodbye to each other reluctantly.
The scorching summer sun at Qingdao Railway Station cannot dispel the faint sadness of parting.
Jiang Weimin was busy helping Jiang Yafei move her luggage into the car, and he carefully reminded her to be careful on the road.
After Jiang Yafei's figure disappeared at the entrance to the station, Jiang Weimin took Wang Haiyang to Qingdao Publishing House first, and then arranged for a driver to take Wang Haiyang back to the military compound.
Wang Haiyang sat in the car, thinking about a lot of things. He recalled Jiang Weimin in his memory, when he was still a little boy who loved to cry.
When he was bullied, he would ask Jiang Yafei for help in revenge. Now he has become a big leader with a driver, and his every move is full of maturity and stability.
Jiang Weimin came to the building of Qingdao Publishing House.
At this moment, Li Changfeng, president of Shandong Publishing House, was leading the staff of his own publishing house, and had been looking forward to Jiang Weimin's arrival.
There are many deep reasons behind the grand visit of the Shandong Publishing House delegation.
Amid the booming publishing industry, Shandong Publishing House clearly felt its own limitations.
Furthermore, the news that Qingdao Publishing House’s first animated film will soon be released in theaters is like a huge rock thrown into a calm lake, causing a thousand waves in the industry.
This is not only a breakthrough in the field of film and television, but also means that Qingdao Publishing House has taken a bold and successful step in the expansion of the cultural industry chain, indicating that its innovative development in the comic field has entered a new stage.
For the better development of Shandong Publishing House, when Li Changfeng learned that Jiang Weimin had returned to Qingdao, he could not wait to organize this visit and exchange activity.
I hope to have in-depth communication with Jiang Weimin on the future direction of comic strips and explore new paths suitable for the development of Shandong Publishing House.
When you walk into Qingdao Publishing House, you can feel the busy and orderly working atmosphere here.
The printing volume of Qingdao Publishing House has achieved a leapfrog growth, from the initial printing volume of only a few hundred thousand per month to the current steady over several million per month. This amazing development speed is staggering.
A large number of vehicles come in and out of Qingdao Publishing House every day, some carrying raw materials and some carrying printed comic books.
The workers parked the cars and unloaded the goods skillfully, moving the materials into the warehouse box by box and bundle by bundle.
On the other side, vehicles loaded with printed comic books drove out in an orderly manner. They will be sent to bookstores and supply and marketing cooperatives across the country.
In comparison, Shandong Publishing House, which was once well-known in the industry, can only look up to it in terms of scale and development momentum.
In recent years, Shandong Publishing House has been working hard to catch up with Qingdao Publishing House, just like a persistent light chaser, always keeping his eyes on the light ahead.
Since the suspenseful crime series launched by Qingdao Publishing House first set off a craze in the market,
Shandong Publishing House keenly captured the opportunity and quickly followed up, launching a series of suspense-themed works with similar styles.
Soon after, Qingdao Publishing House's Monkey King series became popular again with its wonderful stories, exquisite painting style and unforgettable character creation.
Shandong Publishing House naturally did not want to lag behind, and worked tirelessly to prepare and publish similar comic strips based on mythological stories, striving to get a share of the pie in this craze.
Nowadays, the Legend of Nezha and the Legend of Yang Jian, which imitate Jiang Weimin's painting style and are very popular, were also published by Shandong Publishing House and are deeply loved by readers.
It is undeniable that Shandong Publishing House’s efforts have produced remarkable results.
Following the ideas of Qingdao Publishing House all the way, Shandong Publishing House has expanded a lot compared to before, gradually gained a firm foothold in the market, and earned a lot of foreign exchange.
Now, they have even set up their own storytelling department and tried to explore new business areas, and their development can be said to be going smoothly.
However, the reality is cruel. Although Shandong Publishing House has been trying hard to catch up, the gap between it and Qingdao Publishing House is getting bigger and bigger.
Shandong Publishing House has always found it difficult to break through the bottleneck in creating excellent content.
Most of their works imitate the successful cases of Qingdao Publishing House and lack unique creativity.
In terms of comic book peripheral development, Qingdao Publishing House has built a huge and mature industrial chain.
In contrast, Shandong Publishing House's attempts in this regard are still in the initial stage. The types of peripheral products are single, the designs lack novelty, and it is unable to form effective market competitiveness.
As a result, as time went by, the gap between the two became more and more obvious, and it became increasingly difficult for Shandong Publishing House to catch up with Qingdao Publishing House.
As soon as Jiang Weimin stepped into the reception hall, he saw President Chen of Shandong Publishing House and his group.
President Chen walked up to Jiang Weimin with a warm smile on his face, stretched out his hand and shook Jiang Weimin's hand tightly, his tone full of familiarity and kindness: "President Jiang, long time no see! Finally seeing you again!"
Jiang Weimin smiled and shook hands back, his eyes full of sincerity: "President Chen, welcome, welcome! You've worked hard all the way here. Come on, let's go inside and chat.
I will personally take you to visit our Qingdao Publishing House later to see the new changes in the past two years!"
As he spoke, Jiang Weimin turned sideways, gestured for invitation, and led everyone to the reception room.
President Chen nodded slightly and said politely, "President Jiang, I'm sorry to bother you."
"President Chen, look at what you are saying! We are all brothers in the same unit, and it is only natural for us to help each other. Please don't be so formal!"
Jiang Weimin smiled brightly, and that warmth immediately brought them closer.
Everyone sat down in the reception room and the secretary quickly brought them steaming hot tea.
President Chen took a sip, put down the teacup, and became serious: "President Jiang, actually, the reason we came here this time is mainly because we heard that your animated film has been completed. It's really impressive!
So, we also want to learn from you and discuss the future development direction of comic strips. We need to learn more from you industry pioneers.”
Jiang Weimin nodded seriously, his eyes firm and confident, and said calmly: "President Chen, you are too kind. We are also pioneers in the industry."
"President Jiang, you are too modest! Which publishing house in the country can compare with your Qingdao Publishing House?"
"President Chen has mentioned this. Let's do it step by step. I'll take you to visit Qingdao Publishing House first.
This will give you an intuitive understanding of our operating procedures, making communication smoother.
Then, from content creation, marketing promotion, to peripheral development, each link can be discussed in depth.”
After saying that, Jiang Weimin stood up and made a gesture of invitation again.
As the group walked along the corridor, Jiang Weimin introduced: "This is our editorial office, where we are reviewing the comic strip manuscripts."
Through the glass, you can see the editors either having heated discussions or concentrating on reviewing manuscripts.
Chen Changfeng kept nodding his head, showing great interest in the innovative ideas in topic planning, and asked how to discover high-quality topics.
Jiang Wei Pingshumin shared that he pays attention to social hot spots and audience preferences, explores niche themes, and then forms a professional team to polish them.
Then we came to the comic book exhibition hall, where the draft designs of comic book covers were displayed. All the drafts of published artists were displayed here! President Chen was very moved after seeing them!
"President Jiang, this exhibition hall is very meaningful! I will also build one at Shandong Publishing House when I return!"
Jiang Weimin then led everyone into the toy factory, where the roaring sounds of machines and the busy workers intertwined to create a bustling scene.
Jiang Weimin pointed to the toys of various shapes on the production line and said: "These are all developed based on the characters in the comic books we published. From design and proofing to mass production, every link is strictly controlled."
President Chen picked up an exquisite toy and praised the details, but what Chen Changfeng wanted to know most was what kind of toys could be sold! Unfortunately, Shandong Publishing House did not have any comic books that could be transformed into toys.
After coming out of the toy factory, Jiang Weimin brought Chen Changfeng and his party to the storytelling department.
As soon as you step into this area, you can hear the rhythmic voices echoing.
Jiang Weimin introduced as he walked: "Our storytelling department has developed quite well in recent years. Basically, every work can be broadcast nationwide."
"President Jiang, you need to explain this to us in detail. It seems that the works of our storytelling department are not well recognized in various places."
"Comrade Shan Tianfang is recording now, I will let him tell you in detail later!
Comrade Shan Tianfang is absolutely the most professional person in storytelling.”
After the recording, Shan Tianfang came out to greet everyone and shared his own storytelling experience.
Chen Changfeng nodded repeatedly as he listened, and asked someone to quickly take out a small notebook to write it down.
Then, everyone came to the animation department, which Chen Changfeng was most looking forward to and was also the most shocked by.
As soon as you push open the door, what comes into view is a busy and orderly scene. The workstations are full of people, and everyone is concentrating on drawing animation storyboards and designing character images on the computer.
Chen Changfeng looked around at the dense crowd and couldn't help but exclaimed: "President Jiang, animation production requires so many people!"
At this time, Gu Ziyi happened to walk over and greeted politely: "Hello, President Chen, our animation department has more than 300 people, including the professionals hired from Japan."
"Are they all responsible for animation production?" Chen Changfeng asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Yes! Currently, the number of our animation production staff has exceeded that of Shanghai Animation Film Studio." Gu Ziyi answered proudly.
Chen Changfeng was even more surprised and asked, "Are these people able to draw?"
"Yes, they all have a solid foundation in painting and have received professional animation production training." Gu Ziyi explained patiently.
Chen Changfeng was filled with curiosity and confusion, and continued to ask: "Where did you find so many painters?"
Jiang Weimin took over the conversation: "We have our own comic strip training school, and many talents are trained there, and some are recruited from all over the country.
But now it is very difficult to recruit outstanding talents from all over the country, after all, the college entrance examination has been suspended for many years. "
After hearing this, Chen Changfeng felt disappointed.
Shandong Publishing House also followed suit and established a comic book school, originally hoping to get a piece of the pie in the animation production field. But now it seems that the gap is too big.
Only then did he realize that the comic book school of Qingdao Publishing House was largely intended to provide professional talents for the animation department.
However, the planning and layout of our own publishing house in this regard is too backward.
In fact, Qingdao Publishing House established the comic book school to help Jiang Weimin and at the same time enrich the new force of comic book authors.
What I didn’t expect was that Qingdao Publishing House was developing faster and faster. All the graduates of the comic book school were recruited to the animation department of Qingdao Publishing House.
"How long does it take for so many people to produce an animated film?" Chen Changfeng asked with the last glimmer of hope.
Gu Ziyi replied: "It will take about 3 months from production to completion."
"Such a long time!" Chen Changfeng muttered to himself. At this moment, he had completely given up.
He knew very well that given the current situation of Shandong Publishing House, it would not only be difficult to find so many professional painters, but even if they were found, it would be difficult to form such a large and professional animation production team in a short period of time.
Chen Changfeng looked at Jiang Weimin, with a hint of hope in his eyes, as if he was expecting Jiang Weimin to show him a way and tell him how to catch up with the huge gap.
"President Jiang, our publishing house also wants to establish its own animation department. Do you think there is hope?" After saying that, Chen Changfeng stared at Jiang Weimin closely, his eyes full of a fiery light of anticipation for an answer.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Weimin did not answer immediately, but narrowed his eyes slightly and fell into a brief contemplation.
After a moment, Jiang Weimin said slowly: "It's not impossible.
President Chen, do you know how the animation department of our publishing house was established step by step?
Chen Changfeng's eyes lit up instantly, "President Jiang, are you saying that we can also cooperate with foreign animation companies?"
Jiang Weimin nodded and said, "That's right, we are using the expertise and experience of foreign animation producers to train our own talents.
This is a feasible path, but it also involves many difficulties and obstacles.”
Hearing this, Chen Changfeng's interest grew. He stood up, made a gesture of invitation, and said enthusiastically: "Then President Jiang, we can't just have a simple chat here, let's go out to the conference room and talk in detail!"
Jiang Weimin then explained the details of the cooperation with the Japanese animation company to Chen Changfeng in detail! The most important part was whether the comic strip stories published by Shandong Publishing House could be favored by the Japanese animation company.
After listening to Jiang Weimin's introduction, Chen Changfeng looked anxious, "President Jiang, do you think that the comic strips published by our Shandong Publishing House can cooperate with Japanese animation companies?"
Jiang Weimin was a little embarrassed. After all, Jiang Weimin was really busy. Not only did he have to go to school, but he also had to organize the comic strip drawing.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't pay attention to the comic strips you drew!"
"It's okay, President Jiang. Aren't you going to Jinan in a couple of days? It's a good opportunity for you to give us some suggestions for Shandong Publishing House!"
"Jiang Weimin thought about it and agreed without refusing."