After listening to Chen Zhe's impassioned statement, everyone in the team was a little skeptical.

If it weren't for Chen Zhe, who created a ratings miracle, they might have laughed on the spot.

Want to make a documentary into a phenomenal work?

Want to make money with a niche and unpopular genre like documentaries?

Isn't that a fantasy?

However, since these words were said by Chen Zhe, everyone did not dare to question anything, only the deputy chief director Meng Xuehua asked weakly:

"Director Chen, since you are so confident in this documentary project, can I ask, what are you going to shoot in this documentary?"

Chen Zhe smiled brightly: "Food documentary." ”

"Gastronomy...... Documentary?" Meng Xuehua tilted his head and said, "Do you want to film the chef cooking?"

"It's not just the chef who cooks, I photograph the past and present of a dish – from the time the ingredients are grown, picked, and obtained, until they are transported into the kitchen, cooked by the chef, and finally brought to the table......

As the saying goes, 'people take food as the sky', I think such a food documentary must be loved by everyone, as long as our production is good enough, then this column will definitely explode. Chen Zhe said.

"So that's ......" Meng Xuehua nodded lightly, and the rest of the team also agreed.

In fact, there are many types of documentaries, and food documentaries are the most widely used among all documentaries.

If Chen Zhe can really do a good job of this food documentary, maybe this show can really make money, and even become popular.

"Director Chen, what is the name of this show, do you have any ideas?" Meng Xuehua asked.

"Yes. Chen Zhe smiled and nodded, and said, "It's called "Life on the Tip of the Tongue". ”

""A Bite of Life"?" Meng Xuehua repeated the name repeatedly, only to think that this name is both meaningful and catchy, and it is also very down-to-earth, it is simply a wonderful name.

"Then it's called "Life on the Tip of the Tongue"!" Meng Xuehua immediately agreed.

......

After a few days of planning, Chen Zhe quickly determined the content of the first episode of "A Bite of Life".

Because the idea of this documentary came from another "Tip of the Tongue" in another world, Chen Zhe did not waste too many brain cells in terms of conception.

After confirming the content of the recording, Chen Zhe led the film crew to the primeval forest in the southwest, which is quite affluent, surrounded by dense towering trees.

The subtitle of the first issue of "A Bite of Life" is called "The Gift of Nature", which mainly explains the tender and delicious natural ingredients in nature, and the primeval forest in the southwest is such an excellent natural food library.

After coming to the vicinity of the primeval forest, Chen Zhe asked Meng Xuehua to contact the local guide, who was also very strict with the selection of the guide, who must be a person who has been wandering in the primeval forest all year round, and knows how to cook wild ingredients very well.

Soon, Meng Xuehua found a suitable candidate, this candidate is a native of the southwest snow mountain tribe, the name is Nima, the eldest brother Nima is in his early forties this year, dark skin, long hands and feet, strong limbs, is a good hand at picking food in the deep mountains.

Under the leadership of Brother Nima, Chen Zhe and the film crew went to the primeval forest with heavy machinery on their backs, walking through the dense and obscured woods, stepping on the muddy and slippery humus on the ground.

It is not easy to shoot a high-quality ingredient, Chen Zhe and his film crew even had to travel more than ten kilometers to find it, and even Brother Nima, who showed them the way, couldn't help but say in broken Mandarin:

"Director Chen, your film crew is really hard, you actually traveled a long way to shoot me picking ingredients in the woods, I saw food shows on TV before, no one cared about where the ingredients grow, they were all directly filmed from the vegetable market ready-made goods......"

was said by Brother Nima, and a photographer behind him couldn't help but complain:

"That's right, Director Chen, is it necessary for us to go to the deep mountains and old forests to shoot the ingredients?

Because the photographer has to carry a heavy machine to walk together, it is inevitable that he will be depressed, Chen Zhe also understands the photographer's hard work, and patiently comforts: "Master Xie, hold on a little longer, our "Tip of the Tongue" is to shoot something that other food shows can't shoot."

The subtitle of the first issue is "The Gift of Nature", and if you don't go deep into nature, how can you find the gift of nature?"

"This ......," the photographer sighed and compromised, "Well, I'm just a videographer, and I don't know much about the control of content, so I listen to Director Chen." ”

"Thank you for your trust, I will not let your hard work go to waste. Chen Zhe said.

Meng Xuehua next to him also cheered up: "Yes, everyone must believe Director Chen." Do you know how much everyone got for a "The Masked Singer" program? 670,000 yuan! All of this is due to Director Chen.

As long as we follow Director Chen to do a good job in this "Life on the Tip of the Tongue", our bonus will definitely not be less!"

As soon as money was mentioned, the masters carrying the cameras were really interested and full of enthusiasm.

"The Masked Singer has so much money?"

"Director Chen is simply too good......"

"Follow Director Chen to have meat to eat!"

"I didn't catch up with "The Masked Singer", but this time "Tip of the Tongue" is a good opportunity!"

"You must hug Director Chen's thighs, so that there is meat to eat, even if there is no meat to eat, you can drink soup with it......"

Chen Zhe smiled and encouraged: "Come on, everyone, this time I promise not to let everyone work in vain." ”

......

After a two-hour trek through the dense primeval forest, the guide, Nima, finally led the film crew to find a precious ingredient - matsutake mushrooms.

This matsutake mushroom grows at the roots of a large tree, and its state changes very quickly, and the freshest matsutake canopy is shrunk together, and once the canopy is opened, then this matsutake mushroom misses the best stage of eating.

Because Brother Nima rushed with the film crew this time, the large-scale operation slowed down the pace, so the matsutake mushroom he found was not in good condition, and the umbrella cover had shrunk.

Brother Nima was very sorry and said regretfully: "It's a pity, this kind of matsutake mushroom is not the most delicious." ”

Later, he explained, "Originally, there were a lot of matsutake mushrooms in the forest, but as the number of people picking them increased, the number of matsutake mushrooms became smaller.

Matsutake mushrooms used to be found on the outskirts of the forest, but now they can only be found in the depths of the rainforest......

In addition, matsutake mushrooms are also closely related to rainfall, last year's rain was more, the forest matsutake mushrooms were more, this year's precipitation is less, the forest matsutake mushrooms are less. ”

Chen Zhe listened carefully to Brother Nima's introduction, and took this paragraph seriously with the shooting video.

After Nima had picked enough matsutake mushrooms, everyone left the area and began to walk to a higher position in the primeval forest.

In addition to matsutake mushrooms, this lush forest is home to another cherished ingredient – bamboo shoots.

The best winter bamboo shoots are one of the most delicious ingredients, and they follow the muddy, moist old roads in the forest, and soon Nima has found the place of the bamboo shoots with his rich experience.

Bamboo shoots are more cunning than matsutake mushrooms and tend to grow deep soil.

When Chen Zhe and the rest of the program team didn't see anything, Brother Nima had already keenly discovered the sharp corners of the bamboo shoots.

Carefully digging out the bamboo shoots, Brother Nima laughed happily.

"This bamboo shoot is fresh! This bamboo shoot is very fresh! Some of them are eaten now, and the winter bamboo shoots are the most delicious!"

Seeing the simple smile of Brother Nima, and the photographers have recorded all this with their lenses, for these simple and hard-working foragers living in nature, obtaining natural, high-quality ingredients is their simplest happiness.

And at the same time as seeing Brother Nima showing a happy smile, Meng Xuehua, the assistant director standing next to Chen Zhe, seemed to suddenly understand Chen Zhe's creative intention.

"Do you capture the happiness and joy of these working people in the process of obtaining ingredients? Use the camera to record the joy and satisfaction of three meals a day? Director Chen, you are really a genius, this idea is really very good......," Meng Xuehua sighed silently in his heart.

......

Chen Zhe and the production team set off at four or five o'clock in the morning, but it was already one or two o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the village.

The members of the film crew were so tired that their backs hurt, and they were almost alive and dead.

Chief director Chen Zhe and deputy director Meng Xuehua are also quite tired, and their shoes and trouser legs are all stained with dirty soil.

But everyone's work is far from over, and the next step is to record the cooking process of matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.

Freshly picked bamboo shoots and matsutake mushrooms must be cooked as fast as possible, and they simply don't have time to be delivered to a nearby town or city restaurant.

If you delay for one more minute, the freshness of the two precious ingredients will be wasted, so Nima starts processing the ingredients directly on his own chopping board, using an old but still sharp kitchen knife to cut the matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.

"Zheng ——!"

"Zheng ——!"

"Zheng ——!"

With the sound of a kitchen knife cutting through matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots, Chen Zhe saw a beautiful cross-section of these precious ingredients.

The cross-section of the bamboo shoots is crystal clear like a piece of jade, while the cross-section of the matsutake mushrooms is snow-white, as if it was made of snow.

The camera carefully followed the footage of Brother Nima cooking the ingredients, and the camera completely recorded these matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots from the original place of growth to the dining table.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a sumptuous feast of mountain delicacies was completely cooked, and the recording of the first issue of "The Gift of Nature" came to an end.