One of the most intuitive benefits of holding Wanbao Open Day events is to shorten the distance with fans, allowing more people to deepen their understanding of Wanbao Animation.

Talking about people is down to earth!

In the past, everyone’s understanding of Wanbao Animation was mostly limited to a few lines of text introduction in a certain encyclopedia.

It's different now.

Through the on-site visit, everyone also understood the normal operating logic of an animation company and the corresponding process of animation production.

Fans had a blast!

As for the media bloggers who were invited to visit, the harvest was even greater. After all, during this open day event, they had a lot of inside information in advance.

For example, there is information about the upcoming movie "Bear Bears", which will be released in the summer, as well as the production progress of works such as "Wandering in the Animated World" and "Three Years After Marriage".

The outside world is very interested in the progress of these projects. It is foreseeable that as long as they release this video, the number of views and attention they will receive will definitely explode.

certainly!

This was also the result of Gu Miao's acquiescence.

With so many media bloggers helping to build momentum and publicity, they can save a lot of publicity and promotion funds, so why not?

And to be honest.

The projects whose progress is disclosed at the Open Day event are not particularly confidential, so exposure will result in exposure.

Wanbao's truly confidential content, such as the Superman reboot plan and the Neon Division's Inuyasha project, is absolutely impossible for these media bloggers to know, and Gu Miao will not take the initiative to reveal it.

The open day activities lasted until the afternoon.

After eating a standard employee meal in the Wanbao canteen, Gu Miao took a group of senior executives to take photos with fans.

Originally, the activity was over here, and all that was left was to go back to each house to find each mother. Gu Miao, who had been tired for a day, no longer had to act as a tour guide and lead the group around.

Unexpectedly, many animation video bloggers headed by Liu Zida did not want to let him go. Even though the event was over, they still pestered him for so-called group interviews.

Just interview!

Invite these video bloggers and media reporters to a special reception room, and after setting up microphones and lighting and sound recording equipment in advance, the group interview begins.

"Mr. Gu, I have noticed that in recent times, Wanbao's works are basically broadcast exclusively on online platforms and have not been broadcast on TV platforms. Does this mean that your company has given up on traditional TV animation?"

The first question is the dispute between online animation and TV animation that many people are concerned about. I wonder what Wanbao will choose?

"We have not given up on TV animation. On the contrary, we are preparing to launch a pure TV animation in the second half of this year..."

Gu Miao denied this speculation.

Wanbao's overall business is indeed shifting to online animation, and 90% of new works are exclusively broadcast online.

But this does not mean that Wanbao Animation will not deal with TV stations in the future.

"'SpongeBob SquarePants' has been a huge success overseas recently and has been nominated for five Annie Awards. What do Mr. Gu think of this?"

"I don't have any thoughts."

Gu Miao shook her head.

The nomination of "SpongeBob SquarePants" for the Annie Award has long been discussed within the company, and his attitude is still the same: I have no interest in winning awards, and I have never touched a trophy!

Five nominations is truly astonishing.

But that's "SpongeBob SquarePants"! Other animations may attract controversy if they receive so many nominations, but "SpongeBob SquarePants" is less troublesome.

not to mention……

Although it has been nominated for five awards, it is still uncertain how many it will win.

Even if it won them all, it was only five out of five, which is still a bit less interesting than "Battle of Two Cities" which had nine Annie Award nominations and nine grand slams in my memory.

From this perspective, Gu Miao was actually a little dissatisfied that the Annie Awards only gave "SpongeBob SquarePants" five nominations this time.

…

"Only five nominations?!"

Dave also learned that Spongebob Squarepants had received five nominations. As the producer and chief director of the "SpongeBob SquarePants" animation, he acted even more unhappy than Gu Miao.

In his words, Spongebob Squarepants has swept across the entire European and American animation circles and won the love of hundreds of millions of viewers.

This kind of animation only has five nominations?

Why?

Looking at the first half of this year, including the whole of last year, is there any European and American animation that can compare to "SpongeBob SquarePants"?

None! Not even one!

An animation of this level only received five nominations. Even though Dave recognized the gold content of the Annie Award, he couldn't help but wonder, did "SpongeBob SquarePants" offend the judges?

"Okay, no need to worry."

Gu Miao said calmly: "If you give us an award, let's just keep it. It doesn't matter whether there are five nominations or nine nominations. There is essentially no difference."

Do the judges dislike Spongebob? Or do they dislike Wanbao?

Gu Miao doesn't care about this at all. Regardless of whether they like it or not, it doesn't affect "SpongeBob" being the most popular animation work in Europe and the United States today.

Winning a prize is a good thing, but don’t worry if you don’t get it.

Moreover, the Annie Award is not the White Lotus Award. Many animation companies and animation producers have publicly expressed their stance in the past to boycott and refuse to accept the award.

The Oscars of animation?

Maybe, but when you say this, don't forget that Oscar itself is not particularly clean, and the operations and shady stories behind it are common.

"Let me tell you, in the future we, Wanbao, will hold an award ourselves, and it will be called the Gu Miao Award, or the Wanbao Award..."

Du Hao winked and said: "When the time comes, who will join in the excitement of Wai Nuo Nuo? You can take as many trophies as you want!"

"That's purely for my own entertainment."

Gu Miao shook her head and did not take Du Hao's joke seriously, because he knew very well that such a thing was unrealistic.

"Don't talk about this, tell me your plan. I heard that Long Biao and Dong Shen Zi have been released?"

"Yep!"

Du Hao nodded.

For other animation companies, it may be more troublesome to apply for dragon mark and dynamic word review, and the approval speed is not that fast.

But Wanbao is different. Wanbao is a key enterprise registered with the superior authorities and has great appeal and influence in overseas markets.

For such an enterprise, the superior authorities must give them the green light to do their best to avoid any hindrance and help more high-quality enterprises like Wanbao go forward.

Therefore, not long after the film was submitted for review, the film "Treasure Bear Soldier" had received accurate approval documents and the schedule could be agreed upon.

Passing the review is certain.

As a major movie in the "Bear Bears" series, there is nothing sensitive about it, and the review is nothing more than a formality.

If even a film like Bears and Bears can't pass the censorship and has to make various cuts and omissions, will other animated films survive?

"Summer vacation is around the end of June."

Gu Miao has been away from campus for so long that she has forgotten the specific time of summer vacation for primary and secondary school students.

But he estimated that it would only be early July at the latest, and it couldn't be delayed for too long anyway. After all, the college entrance examination was in two days, and after the college entrance examination, high school students would have a holiday.

As we all know.

From elementary school to university, vacation time is arranged backwards, that is, the higher the degree of education, the earlier the vacation. There are occasional exceptions.

The opposite is true for admission time. The higher the academic qualifications, the earlier the admission.

Counting the days, mid-June or the end of June should be the beginning of summer vacation in a general sense, which is suitable for the release of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

"I think so too."

Du Hao nodded.

Every province has different arrangements for the holidays during the summer vacation. Except that the college entrance examination is a fixed time period, it is really hard to say about the holidays.

But no matter how you calculate it, the end of June is the most suitable time.

As for releasing it after the college entrance examination?

Stop it!

The senior high school students who have finished the college entrance examination are like birds out of the cage. How can they have the leisure and interest to watch the movie "Bear Bears"?

Primary and middle school students, including kindergarten children, are the audiences that the movie "The Bear Soldier" should try its best to win over.

For high school students and college students, I can only say that it depends on whether you want to watch it or not. Anyway, the box office is not bad...

End of June!

This is the release date of the movie decided upon by Gu Miao and Du Hao after discussion.

After the schedule is determined, it is time to make corresponding publicity arrangements around this schedule, communicate with theaters, screen competing products that threaten the film in the same schedule, etc.

The former needs no introduction.
To be continued...