Chapter 930 Who Is Kidding Me?

Nokia has undoubtedly inherited the unique craftsmanship spirit of Europeans. The two music phone prototypes in Eric's hands are only made of plastic, but the silver shell has a high-grade metal texture.

Moreover, these two mobile phones do not adopt the unchanging classic shape of Nokia, but are similar to the long strip design of Nokia Rittal, but due to the current technical limitations, the body appears to be wider than Nokia Rittal, but the phone as a whole is still Full of fashion. In addition to basic communication functions, this phone's music playback system is also much more convenient than fireflyer due to the buttons, and even simple search operations can be performed.

Although the starting price of $600 is definitely an expensive high-end model among existing mobile phones, Eric still believes that this mobile phone will have great appeal to young white-collar workers under the age of 30.

Putting on the headphones and listening to a piece of music, Eric put the two mobile phones away again with satisfaction.

Now that people are in the restaurant, it is impossible for Eric to continue to test whether the two phones can easily purchase and transfer music from the Yahoo Music Store. However, after a brief trial, Eric will be able to transfer music to this phone. There is no doubt about the function, there is no doubt that Nokia's technology research and development capabilities are no less than that of Firefly Electronics.

After a few more chats with Caroline and Melanie, Eric began to eat. However, he couldn't help but start to think about what time and form he should choose in the future to intervene in or even take over Nokia's management affairs.

Nokia has no shortage of technology, talents, and channels, but its sudden decline after 15 years of being at its peak is definitely not an accident, but a long process of qualitative change. It's definitely not okay to wait until the end of the matter.

Firefly Investment still firmly holds 51% of Nokia's absolute controlling stake. Therefore, as long as Eric is willing, he has the absolute power to make the adjustments he wants to Nokia.

However, it is definitely not possible to do this in recent years. Nokia has just entered the position of the world's No. 1 mobile phone manufacturer, and the current management has a very complete company development plan. If you want to intervene in the management of this company now, it will definitely cause conflicts between the management and Eric, the major shareholder, and affect the momentum of Nokia's further rise.

Even if it is the current music phone, when Eric promotes this project, he can vaguely feel some dissatisfaction from Nokia's management. Many senior executives of Nokia are pursuing the ultimate in simple and easy-to-use feature phones. The entertainment function of mobile phones is just a chicken rib for 'not doing business'. Until the decline of the past, they have always been proud to adhere to their own ideas, and finally caused this mobile phone industry giant to fall from the peak to the bottom at an astonishing speed.

It wasn't until the two women on the opposite side finished lunch that he felt that he was silent for a while, and then looked over curiously together, Eric retracted his scattered thoughts, smiled, and speeded up the meal.

Since it is unclear for a while, then consider it slowly. Anyway, Nokia has just entered its peak period. There are many opportunities, whether it is time or opportunity. At least, the contract of Nokia CEO Jooma Ollila will expire next year. Whatever you want to do, at least wait until then.

Eric is just a little regretful. He doesn't remember the name of the last Nokia CEO who quickly brought Nokia into the abyss. Otherwise, even if everyone objected, he would immediately find that guy and kick Nokia out. In just a few years, an industry giant that occupies more than 40% of the world's mobile phone market can be brought to the point of liquidation, such a "talent" Eric thinks that it should be sent to harm other talents immediately.

had lunch,

Eric told the two women: "You send a memo to Nokia, since they plan to adopt two storage versions of 1g and 2g similar to the second-generation fireflyer, then postpone the release time and change it from January to In April, a week after the second-generation fireflyer was released. In addition, although Nokia's main business scope is in Europe and Asia, the main market for this phone should be the United States, because only the United States has a relatively complete online music store for the time being. Europe is not in a hurry, Asia, um, don’t rush to promote it for the time being, although the music copyright supervision there is not strict, but we don’t need to do this, the gain outweighs the loss.”

After confirming that the two women wrote down their words, Eric left the restaurant and returned to the studio to continue his work.

In the next two days, the simple set for the rehearsal of "wannabe" in the studio was completed. Eric was planning to call the members of the Spice Girls to start the rehearsal, and another heavyweight news came from the United States.

After a long three-month tug-of-war negotiations, Viacom and cbs group finally reached an acquisition agreement, the final transaction price reached 36 billion US dollars.

So far, the four major TV networks in the United States, abc, cbs, nbc and fox, are all under the umbrella of large groups. Although General Electric, which owns the nbc group, cannot be regarded as a media group, it is still a big wave of integration in the American media industry. of a sign.

The acquisition negotiation that Canada's Seagram Group is launching on Europe's Polygon Records can only be regarded as an extension of this integration wave, because whether the merger is successfully completed or not, it will no longer cause too much damage to the US media industry. big impact.

The completion of the integration of the media group also means that under the circumstance that this monopoly pattern has been formed, a media company will no longer have the possibility to develop into a media group from scratch unless it adopts a small and broad merger method. The media industry in the United States has once again entered the era of oligarchy.

When Eric heard the news, he suddenly remembered a conversation he had had with New Line Cinema CEO Robert Shea for the first time a few years ago. Although his butterfly fanned too many storms in the following years, this kind of thing that has happened in history has not changed in the general trend. Fortunately, Firefly successfully completed its own layout before that.

Today is the third day of the official rehearsal of "wannabe".

Eric spent two days watching and guiding the performance of several girls from the Spice Girls to the entire MV. Although there has never been a shortage of female singing groups in the history of music, what really brought this form of girl group to the world, It's the Spice Girls.

Therefore, in the original history, although many people felt that when the Spice Girl group was just emerging, it was cool whether it was a filmed MV or a live performance, but in the eyes of Eric, who has more than ten years of experience and experience, The dance of the Spice Girls during the MV performance was terrible, so Eric naturally asked the choreographer to re-design some classic dance moves for several girls based on memory.

In the studio of Pinewood Studios, since the set was open, dozens of pairs of eyes were curiously watching Eric who was wearing a Steadicam camera system on the sidelines, including the Spice Girls. Everyone, including the five girls, looked surprised.

Caroline and Melanie helped Eric check a few ports on his body again, and Simon Fuller came over and looked at the guy in a shock-absorbing vest, holding a balance bar and adjusting a light camera. Eric looked incredulous: "Eric, are you planning to shoot this mv yourself?"

Eric nodded, looked at the surprised Simon Fuller, and said with a smile, "Can't I come in person?"

"No, oh, yes, of course," Simon Fuller shook his head quickly, joking, Eric Williams personally acted as the photographer to shoot the mv, who would dare to say no.

Seeing that Simon Fuller couldn't react for a while, Eric said again: "Everyone here should have signed a non-disclosure agreement. Please remind me again that this matter should not be disclosed until this MV is completed."

During this time, Eric's arrival in the UK has long appeared frequently in the local media. The news of the establishment of the Spice Girls was also heated up under the operation of Simon Fuller. However, the outside world only vaguely heard the news that Eric was about to direct the Spice Girls to make a song, and other information was tightly sealed.

Simon Fuller confirmed from Eric that he was going to be the photographer himself. The first thought in his mind was to call a certain newspaper immediately. This is heavyweight news.

However, after hearing Eric's special exhortation, Simon Fuller had to give up the idea: "Okay, Eric, I will arrange it."

"Then, let's start," Eric nodded, walked to the sidelines, and signaled that a certain MV director who was invited by Simon Fuller but was destined to no longer find any presence was ready to start.

All the extras began to bury their seats quickly as the voice of the field manager sounded.

The five girls of the Spice Girls stood at the starting point, and the director who had lost all power without a sound looked at Eric, and when he made a gesture of ok, the accompaniment of "wannabe" rang out, in order to make the most of it. Confidential as possible, only accompaniment will be used, whether for rehearsal or official shooting. Although everyone has signed a non-disclosure agreement, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will be tempted by money to reveal something. The ability of British paparazzi to dig news by any means is world-renowned. If the lyrics are leaked ahead of time, it will be lively.

With the sound of music, five girls laughed and entered the camera. Eric stared at the monitor and began to move slowly with several girls.

To make good use of long shots, the key is to quickly find the focus of the lens in the constantly moving chaotic picture, and complete the composition to show the lens language that the creator wants to express.

The script of the "wannabe" mv was written by Eric based on memory. The plot is roughly the story of five girls with full of personality who broke into a club and turned it upside down.

I don't know if it was because of Eric's own control of the camera. Less than a minute after the first rehearsal started, one of the girls in the five-member group accidentally fell and the shooting had to be suspended. Seeing the baby-faced girl who was set as a 'baby hot girl' looking at him with a face that almost wanted to cry, Eric had to personally come forward to comfort the other party.

In order to figure out how to move the camera with a long lens, Eric set aside a full two weeks for the shooting of this mv. Therefore, he was not in a hurry, soothed the baby hot girl, and told everyone that the next shooting would only be as long as Don't stop halfway without a particularly serious situation.

The music sounded again, although there were still some minor problems in the process, but finally there was no intention to pause in the middle. Eric stared at the monitor, and followed the dance steps of several girls steadily, quickly calculating in his heart. How to shoot each scene to be more coordinated.

Originally thought that the first 'one shot to the end' would be completed this time, but the music lasted about three minutes. In this detail, it should be a young couple dancing excitedly with five girls, but Ai However, Rick suddenly felt that the actress in the pink dress on the left of the monitor looked familiar, looked up subconsciously, and was immediately stunned.

Even with light blonde hair and a pink jumpsuit that doesn't go well, the slightly darker complexion, darker eyeshadow, and the iconic indifferent face, isn't this Victoria Beckham or who the fuck is, oh, No, it should still be Victoria Adams now, and maybe it will always be Victoria Adams in the future.

wtf!

Who is kidding me?

Eric felt a strange and funny feeling in his heart.

He definitely won't bother about the selection of mv actors. Before this, it was only the mv director who was in charge of acting for these actors. He only found out now that, well, he was mixed in by the 'strange' mythical beast. .

The music continued, and the performance of the five girls did not stop, but everyone noticed that Eric had paused for a few seconds beside the girl in the pink dress, and Victoria Adams naturally felt it herself, and she couldn't help but watch it too. Xiang Eric, who was dancing on the chair, stopped, and wanted to get off the chair, but he didn't know whether to do it or not.

She had just seen in the crowd that Eric was planning to take the position of the photographer himself, so she could not help but fantasize about whether she would be noticed by such a big man, but she also knew that this was probably just a fantasy.

Not to mention the five-member Spice Girls, even among the actresses who participated in the MV, there are several prettier than her. Now, suddenly finding that Eric Williams deliberately stopped and looked at her for a few seconds, Victoria Adams felt her heart pounding, and her whole body also had a faint feeling of excitement and excitement. of numbness.

Eric noticed that Victoria Adams had completely stopped moving to look at himself, and then came back to his senses, naturally operating the camera, and turned the lens elsewhere.

Outside the venue, Melanie, who also noticed this detail, snatched the cup of coffee that Caroline had been holding carefully, took a sip, and said, "Look, what I said."