So I’m sure again that you’re not here because you want to listen to me. So it gives me great pleasure, and Nicholas really needs no introduction, but here today he’s coming as a entrepreneur, a business he’s founded, several years back, when he was only , guess how old? 22! That was only yesterday right? And he has a very very successful business. He has an office here in Hong Kong of course, as well as in Shanghai I understand.
So, without further ado, I would like to invite Nicholas to come up.
NIC: Hello. Thank you for the warm welcome. And…Ladies and gentlemen welcome and thank you for having me on campus. This is truly overwhelming. Really. I’m instructed to deliver a speech in English. So therefore I will be speaking in English. But if any of you prefer to speak in Cantonese or mandarin, please feel free to do so. I do hope that at the end of the session, both parties you and I will gain something out of it and leave behind somewhat, to take it as memory, all right? Wow, this is really intense right now, for me, really, maybe because this is my first time to show up as an entrepreneur, in front of the crowd. What is very odd is that I’ve been doing this most of my life. I have been giving speeches and performances, and talks around the world. The crowds ranging from 30 people to 130,000 people, but never have been so uptight and nerve-racking. Maybe it’s because I am simply put in front of a crowd of academics. And I feel that I’m not actually out of my…I do feel I’m talking to another caliber; I’m left out. So the first point is really to tell you I dropped out of school in grade 10. And I urge you really to go through your education. Most of you I think have gone half way. Really. Might as well go all the way and grab that piece of paper! If I had the chance to take all the wealth and so called fame and glory that I have right now, and buy back 15 years of life, but keep the knowledge that I have now and relive the physique I had 15 years ago and trade places with you right now. I would make that trade in a heartbeat, really. I dropped out school when I was…maybe in grade 10, and ever since I set put into the so called business world. There has not been a day that has gone by without me hating myself regretting that I did not fully commit to my education. Maybe fine arts, agriculture, architecture, ceramics…who knows, I don’t know. MBA. But, I dropped. And every day that has gone by, I do regret. Some of you may not feel it right now. But that diploma when you are trying to close a deal with someone, it means just that much more. When you are trying to convince someone to an idea, concept, something new, that piece of paper will just mean that much more and people will judge you, and they’ll doubt you that much less. That is reality, and it has been hard for me but…so I think I’m here to hopefully convince you to go through, go to the education, go all the way, grab that piece of paper before you leave. OK? Do not walk the path I’ve ever gone through. So for the people who did not know, I have been running a so called post production business for the past 9 years. And that’s what I do apart from the acting or the singing part, the entertainment part. There’s also the business part of Nicholas Tse. We are based on Hong Kong right now. We have a sub branch in Shanghai, it’s going very well. We are going to open in Beijing in the end…hopefully the end of May. Can I say that, please? Because we are in a rush and everything is really….so I’m looking at my colleague whether we can pull it off at the end of May. When I say post production it’s actually to a lot of people a very foreign term. So what is post production? Post-production is… I mean but by audio dubbing, online editing, offline editing, compositing, animation, computer graphics…all that good stuff. Actually, everything you see right now on television, advertising, was, or in the cinema, or even in the internet. Every visual image you see right now is actually…it has…it should have undergone the process of post-production in order to achieve a certain standard of broadcast quality. And just by saying that I’m very very happy to say that it has already obvious very high demand, or else I will not be here today. And so…for a more visual explanation of what I do, I would like to show the company reel and…These are some of the brands that we do represent in Hong Kong or in the mainland China right now. Some of you may recognize or may not recognize it. OK?
Thank you. That’s some of these brands that we represent at the moment, but…what you have just seen is the pretty side of the production. I would actually like to show you some of the before and after as to actually how we make a living. So what I’m about to show you, is a…something called the Canon G12 model. It is an advertisement shot 2 years ago by a very famous crew. But, why don’t I show you.
Here you see in front of the green screen, just a…it’s merely a model holding a camera. And all it is…it’s just actually a track back show of this model…it’s quite not up to the entertaining part…This is the source that we got when we first accepted this project. We have taken the initiative to talk to the producer and director and say…hey, why don’t we do something more interesting and something that is to the next level…graphic wise and so…can we show the next layer? So with audio and visual enhancement…each layer by layer you can see that inch by inch…this is what we do to enhance the visual effect…for the outcome…After 1160 and some more layers and modelling put onto this image, you got the finished product…that’s it. All right, that’s one more full version or finished version.
There you have it. And that’s what we do for a living. For people do not know, post production… that’s we do, and…so any question so far? Why don’t I ask you a question. Who in here wants to be successful? Raise your hand if you wanna succeed. Coz I sure as hell do. What’s preventing you from raising your hand? Anyway, second question, and the more important: who’s lying? Because I’m pretty sure you out there and you ask people, “who wants to be successful?” 99% of people would tell you, I want to succeed. I want to be the best basketball player; I want to be the best hockey player; I want to be the best artist, engineer, whatever…They will talk. But most of you want to succeed. But are you truly being honest to yourself? Whereas you found your passion, you know your strength and weaknesses, where to place yourself in the market, how you want people to see you and how to project yourself in a market. I founded this company because, at the age of 22 and 3, between that time, I was on set, on a movie set. And, I saw the director go up to the CG, computer graphics guy in the department and ask them… could we… actually, I wanna do this… take the computer graphic image and do this… and, he hesitated, froze, and I thought, wow…
