The Ace Producer

Knock knock knock——

"President, are you looking for us?"

"Well," Rong Chengjue said with a deep look on his face, "Mark, Matthew, I remember that you also graduated from the University of Washington. Do you know who Ye Zhen is chasing after you in school?"

This kind of question: "We... don't know..." Huada is so big, if they hadn't heard the gossip before coming here, they wouldn't even be able to figure out who the junior sister suddenly appeared.

"Then go and find out."

"Ah?" The two brothers looked at each other, "Oh."

"Azhan," Rong Chengjue turned to his special assistant again, "Help me check who Ye Zhen has contacted in Rongcheng Entertainment and give me the detailed list."

Azhan looked up from the document and said, "President, how detailed do you want it to be?"

"Including everyone who meets her eyes!"

"OK."

"Oh, by the way, and you, Xigu—" Rong Chengjue looked around the office and suddenly realized, "Where did Xigu go?"

"Leaved with Miss Ye."

! ! ! "Call this grandson back to me! Immediately, immediately!"

"Okay, let's go now." Special assistant Azhan put down the documents in his hands, turned around and calmly left the president's office.

Brother Mark saw this and took the opportunity to retreat. After Mr. Special Assistant called the security guard downstairs to intercept Xigu, he couldn't help but asked: "What is the situation now?"

"Can't you see?" Mr. Special Assistant raised his glasses expressionlessly, "This is the beginning of an article about a domineering president. It's an honor that we all have a role to play."

"Oh, I understand," the brothers suddenly realized, "I'm just saying, this feels so familiar. The overbearing president usually wants to find out the heroine's life experience. Put a thick stack in a brown paper bag and throw it out. Very stylish!”

"Oh my god, isn't our role very crucial?"

…

Different from the excitement of passers-by A, B, and C who were assigned a role, classmate Xi Gu was trying his best to jump off the throne of "suspected love rival" at this time: "You ask me why I want to go with Ye Zhen? That's because she came in my car. Yes, I sent her to find you, okay?!"

"Why did she join the crew of "Treasures of the Tang Dynasty"? Isn't it because you, Jiji Waiwai, don't want her to join Rongcheng Entertainment? They asked me to help. I want to learn something from the crew?!"

"Okay grandson, listen to me, I'll repeat it for the last time!" Xigu put his hands on the boss's desk and shouted to defend his integrity, "I didn't know Ye Zhen before today! I'm not interested in my brother's woman! I don’t like her style at all!”

"Okay, okay, I believe you," Rong Chengjue wiped the spittle from his face. Why didn't he just ask a few questions, why did this person get more excited than him, and, "Why don't you like it?" Ye Zhen, what's wrong with her?"

"Ah hiss -" Higu had an urge to die. He took three steps back and threw himself on the sofa, not wanting to pay attention to his grandson anymore.

However, the CEO didn't let him go, and said again: "Forget it, I'm sorry for your lack of vision."

Higu shook his body stiffly to show that he was standing up, but he couldn't help but said: "I feel like you have been interested in me for a long time. Why didn't I know when it happened?"

"Do you remember that I was not quite normal for a while just after I came back from England?"

"I don't remember," Xigu said honestly, "You have always been unusual."

"..."

Ye Zhen naturally didn't know about the "bloody storm" behind her. After she separated from Xigu that day, she spent another weekend at home before receiving a call from Xigu, saying that his contract with the crew of "Treasures of the Tang Dynasty" had been negotiated and he would join the crew for filming the next day. When negotiating the contract, the producer told him that there was a vacancy for a recorder, which might be more suitable for a pure newcomer. He hoped to ask whether she would accept it. If she accepted it, she could accompany him to report on the set; if not,

Then she can also directly join the IP development department of Rongcheng Entertainment and serve as the deputy director of the department, responsible for the overall analysis of big data.

Of course, he informed the latter on behalf of Rong Chengjue.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Ye Zhen still chose to join the crew and work as an errand boy.

The recorder, as the name suggests, is the person sitting behind the monitor, the recorder of time codes, the director's mouthpiece, and the planner of the shooting sequence.

However, there are more than one scene notes for the crew. Naturally, it is not the newcomer Ye Zhen's turn to do these big tasks. Her job is to record the details of the actors' styles, costumes, headdresses, hand-held props and other details for each scene, and to accompany various departments before the filming starts. Checking and preparing, and then handing over the recorded content to various departments after shooting starts, can be said to be a complex, trivial, and error-prone job.

If it's not good, there will be a "gang-up" scene that will be criticized by the audience.

However, as a person engaged in scientific research, perhaps the most important thing is endurance and observation. Ye Zhen quickly got started with the job, and no one even noticed that she had just entered the industry.

Slowly, she became familiar with the life of the crew, and when she was free, she took pleasure in comparing some things that she found interesting, with what ordinary people remembered, and what the person who had left said.

When she was young, she once asked that person what the crew was like and whether filming was fun. Different from those artistic and romantic imaginations, the man wrinkled his nose and said with disgust: "It's not fun at all. The crew is like a big construction site. The producers and directors are the contractors, and I am the contractor."

Ye Zhen had never understood the meaning of the words, but now that she had experienced it herself, she realized that it was really the case. For example, the crew of "Treasures of the Tang Dynasty" is currently filming at a well-known film and television base in the industry. It is said to be filming, but in addition to some basic pavilions and pavilions, many special scenes of each crew have to be built and transformed by themselves, so if you climb If you look up from a high place, you will find that the entire film and television base is a big construction site - demolition and construction here, construction and demolition there, it is noisy everywhere, and the style of painting is not uniform.

The reason why producers and directors are contractors is because most crew teams are different from the production companies we know. They have great fluidity and disassembly and assembly: group performances have group leaders, and fleets have drivers. Costumes, props, makeup, and even the production director and finance, they all have their own relatively fixed teams and people in charge. When a crew starts work, the producer and director start to build the team. The team leaders of each department bring their members in to work. After the filming of the crew ends, each team disperses or partners up to join the next crew.

...really looks like a contractor.

As for whether actors are working as part-time workers, according to Ye Zhen, this is a bit exaggerated. The most similar thing is that if you film in the wilderness, even if you can call it a day after filming, there is no place to go, and there is nothing good to eat. I can only squat on the set all day long.

"Treasures of the Tang Dynasty" is now in a film and television base, surrounded by all the facilities for people's livelihood. It does not have such troubles, but other problems have also arisen accordingly, such as too many crews. There are hundreds or thousands of people in each crew, and there are simply not enough hotels to accommodate them. Many crew members cannot even stay in small hotels and have to stay in private houses. Naturally, a small field reporter like Ye Zhen shouldn't enjoy any special treatment. It's just that she was new here and didn't understand the rules, so she followed Xigu and checked into the nearest super five-star hotel.

So he was properly labeled as an "airborne soldier."

Most of the crew are old people who are used to traveling around the world, so their attitude towards her is naturally neither too far nor too close, neither offending nor too close to avoid making her look bad. Anyway, after this single is completed, the future will be bright and prosperous. Who knows where to meet again?

Ye Zhen sensed this self-explanatory atmosphere, but didn't take it seriously. She usually just did her own thing well, and after work, she went back to the hotel to do the school projects. It took more than half a month.

On this day, she handed the record sheet to the collector as usual, then wrote the daily report, made three copies, handed one copy to another group of recorders, and handed the second copy to the production director. There, I finally turned around to the coordinator's office, and just as I was about to reach out and push open the ajar door to hand over the third copy, I heard someone inside mention "Ye Yi".

Ye Zhen paused and took her hand back, only to hear the words continue:

"...I always feel like there's something wrong with this, but I can't explain it. Old Wu, do you know what's going on?"

"You ask me? It was good that I was in Macau that day, but I was not there," the man known as Lao Wu said in a lowered voice. "The few of them who left were very tight-lipped and didn't ask anything." Ken said.”

"Then this is definitely something."

"You are not talking nonsense, otherwise it would be fine, why would they leave!"

"No way, this is, but human life is at stake~"

"Shh, please keep your voice down, don't you want to mess around?!"

"Hey, let's not talk about it anymore. Let's pretend we don't know about this kind of thing. Let's work, work..."

Ye Zhen's mind went blank, and she was so confused that she didn't know how she got away from the coordinator's office and returned to the hotel room. When she had memories again, it was already dark, and someone was filming her "bang bang bang". door.

After staring at the door for a while, she realized that she should open the door, so she got up from the ground, stumbled towards the door, turned the lock left and right several times, and then opened the door.

Xiaolin, the coordinator assistant at the door, said with a face covering her face: "What's wrong with you? Do you know what time it is? You don't hand over the schedule to the coordinator, and you come back to sleep? Why, it's amazing to have a backstage!"

Hearing the word "coordinator", Ye Zhen looked up reflexively and looked at her. Her long messy hair, red eyes and pale complexion made her appear sharp and gloomy for no reason in the dim room. Xiaolin couldn't help but He took half a step back, but still said loudly: "I'm here to get the daily report. Give it to me when you're done!"

"Wait a minute." Ye Zhen responded in a hoarse voice. She turned around and slowly found the daily report in the room. She didn't even know how to turn on the light. It took a long time before she lay down under the table to find it. He walked back in a daze, handed it to her and said, "I'm sorry, I--"

"Pa-" Before she could finish her words, Xiaolin grabbed the schedule and ran away, as if there was a ghost behind her.

"..." It seemed to scare her.

Using the light from the corridor, Ye Zhen glanced at herself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror and wanted to smile, but she couldn't smile after all. After closing the door, turning on the light, she habitually put her hand into her pocket to touch the playing card. Gently, again and again, after a long time, she slowly took the card out of her pocket.

Under the light, the most conspicuous thing on the card is not the clown representing the "King" card, but the word "Ye Yi" that shines through the back of the paper.

"Before I came here, I thought I was overthinking..."

I didn’t expect that, huh——

Thinking of this, Ye Zhen finally smiled, but that smile was sadder than crying.