Chapter 81: Photography Assistant
Just as the meeting was about to end, there was a knock on the door of the conference room, and then Zhang Yunxing's secretary Xiao Li pushed the door in a little cringe. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Yunxing was slightly dissatisfied, and said unhappily: "Xiao Li, what's the matter?"
"Mr. Zhang, something happened in the studio, Meng Yao and the others couldn't handle it, and the phone called me. Xiao Li said cautiously.
"Oh, isn't there a model card in the studio, what's wrong?" Zhang Yunxing's face softened slightly. Today's photo shoot of the model card in the studio was arranged by him personally, and it is normal to find him here if something happens.
The hired photographer was not satisfied with the assistant arranged for him by the company, saying that it affected his shooting rhythm and wasted his time, and asked the company to either change the assistant or he would stop shooting. Xiao Li reported.
Zhang Yunxing frowned again. Today's photographer who took the model card is not small, a French-Chinese, to be precise, a French-mixed race with Chinese ancestry, named Tieel Chen, Chinese name Chen Xuan. He is a contracted photographer of the French "Paris City Bild", and a cooperative photographer of the American "Discovery" and "National Geographic", and has also cooperated with many world-class first-line fashion brands, and his name in the fashion circle is also very loud.
This time, he was able to find him to take model cards for the company's new models this year and some potential models in the company, and it was he who used a lot of personal relationships to take advantage of the opportunity for people to travel to China.
"Anyway, our meeting is almost over, so why don't I go over with you?" Hong Andong knew how good the photographer Zhang Yunxing invited was, so he simply suggested.
"Okay, that's the end of today's meeting, and I hope you will continue to work hard in the coming year. Lao Hong, let's go to the scene and have a look. Zhang Yunxing got up and said, saw Xiao Siqi and his son sitting on the side, and said with a smile: "Siqi, do you want to take Xiao Yao to see it? Xiao Yao shouldn't have seen the studio yet." Our studio is not far away, just downstairs. ”
"Okay. Xiao Siqi glanced at Xiao Yao and saw that he seemed to be very interested, so he nodded and agreed.
"At this time, it's our models who shoot the model card, so let's go and see it together. Two of the company's top ten brokers also stood up and said.
"Okay, you guys come along. Zhang Yunxing nodded and said to the rest: "Everyone should go and do their own work." ”
Zhang Yunxing took a group of people to the studio downstairs, and when he entered the door, he saw that the people in the studio had stopped and were not working, so he walked directly to a tall man in his thirties and said: "Mr. Chen, I don't know if there is anything dissatisfied, please tell me directly, and I will try my best to solve it." ”
After Xiao Yao came in, he first took a look at this so-called studio. This place is very large, about 1450 square meters in area, and the height should be more than 3 meters. Inside, there are iron brackets, various lights, and background boards. There are a lot of people in the studio, there are many people sitting or standing by the wall, looking at the dress and figure, many are models, and a few are dressed more simply and capably, it is estimated that some models also have assistants. There are two doors next to it, which should be a dressing room and a powder room. Near the middle, there is a large workbench with a lot of photographic equipment on it, and two laptops on the table, both open.
There was a girl sitting in front of the workbench, her head bowed, her long hair hanging down, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly, but she was in good shape. In front of the workbench is the filming set. The lights of the iron frame are arranged, the background board is very interesting, the white bottom plate is seven two or three centimeter high ribbons, the color gradients from black to light gray, and the Arabic numerals from 1 to 7 are also marked next to it.
And the man who Zhang Yunxing took the initiative to step forward when he came in, and he could guess that he was a photographer by looking at his dress. On the way here just now, Zhang Yunxing had already introduced the situation of this cattle photographer to them, thinking that everyone was afraid that everyone would inadvertently offend this industry master.
Although he is sitting on a stool, he can also feel that this person's height is not short, and his figure is also very good, not the good figure of the model, but the kind of strong and good body like regular fitness, which gives people the feeling of being strong and powerful. Looking at his face again, it was a good appearance that could clearly be seen to be mixed-race. Lin Qisan, one of Xiao Yao's friends, is also mixed-race, but Lin Qisan's mixed-race face is too beautiful to say, and this guy is a handsome face with a strong European line.
When Xiao Yao was silently observing, this Chen Xuan had already explained his dissatisfaction to Zhang Yunxing.
Chen Xuan is French, and this time he came to China on vacation. Taking over the job of Zhang Yunxing's company was completely based on the personal feelings of his friend. Zhang Yunxing's company had a total of about 50 models who needed to shoot model cards this time, and Chen Xuan only arranged two days for shooting. If it is an ordinary photographer, it takes about an hour to shoot a model's model card, or two days, and it is impossible to shoot 50 people anyway.
Chen Xuan is not an ordinary photographer, he said that after two days of shooting, Zhang Yunxing believed it. It's just that Chen Xuan traveled alone and didn't bring a photography assistant, so he asked Zhang Yunxing's company to assign him two assistants to assist him in his work.
Chen Xuan asked for two assistants, one administrative assistant is responsible for communicating with the people in the company and Chen Xuan's side, at the end of the year, no matter which company is the busiest time, more than 50 models, all have their own jobs, it is impossible to spare two full days to wait for Chen Xuan to take pictures of them. Of course, Chen Xuan, who is very professional, did not ask them to wait for two days like this. Therefore, the assistant will complete the order of arranging the models to be photographed, notifying the people one by one, determining the time schedule of the models, re-determining before the shooting, reminding, and following up after the shooting.
There's nothing wrong with that. Zhang Yunxing arranged a senior employee in the company's administration to be responsible for this work, because he was from his own company, he knew that the boss attached great importance to this matter, and he was able to do things very dedicatedly, but there was nothing wrong.
The other is Chen Xuan's photography assistant. In two days, it is impossible to work more than 30 hours in theory, and Chen Xuan's plan is only 20 hours. Fifty models have to be photographed in twenty hours, and it is impossible for Chen Xuan to take a break for a while, he must continue shooting. That's why he uses wireless transmission, and the photos he takes are transferred directly from the camera to his laptop. The photography assistant needs to operate a laptop to organize the transferred photos at any time, and divide them into folders according to different shooting categories and names, so as to facilitate Chen Xuan's post-processing.
The modeling agency does not have its own photographer, nor does it have the expertise to do so. With a wave of his hand, Zhang Yunxing sent a newcomer to the company, who seemed to be quite clever, to help Chen Xuan do this work.
As a result, the little girl who had no such experience at all didn't know if she was too nervous or frightened by Chen Xuan's rare shooting method and speed. Anyway, it was a rush to do the job miserably.
After Chen Xuan took six or seven models, he came over and took a casual look, but his mouth was almost not angry, dozens of photos were scattered and filled almost the entire screen, and he clicked on a few established folders at random, and found that there were even misplaced ones in them. In addition, poor communication affected the progress of the shooting, Chen Xuan immediately exploded, and directly put the camera down, saying that he would not shoot.
After saying the matter, Chen Xuan added: "Mr. Zhang, in addition to changing the photography assistant, you'd better assign me another translator to assist me in communicating with the model." ”
"What? Do you still need to translate? Don't you speak Chinese?" Zhang Yunxing said strangely.
"Yes, my mother is Chinese, and she usually asks me to speak Chinese when I am at home. So my Chinese level in daily conversations is okay. But at work, I'm still used to speaking or English. But I found that the English level of the models in your company seems to be relatively average, of course, it may be that my English pronunciation with a French accent is more difficult to understand, let alone French, and the communication is not very smooth anyway. So you'd better find me a translator, the French translation is the best, otherwise the English translation will be fine, but the English translation is relatively good, at least you can understand the English accent of me, a French-speaking person. Chen Xuan said.
Now Zhang Yunxing is in a dilemma.
The translator is not difficult to find, but it takes time, so where can I find it temporarily? Even if I can find it, it will take at least half a day.
As for camera assistants, it's even harder to find. Now at the end of the year, it is the busiest time for business, and photographers who are usually relatively deserted can get jobs at this time. What's more, it is more difficult to find a photography assistant than to find a photographer, a photography assistant is generally a member of the photographer's fixed team, you don't look for a photographer, just dig the photography assistant in someone else's team, which photographer is willing to release people?
"Mr. Chen, do you think this is good, what about the person you want, I'll try to find it for you, but don't stop shooting here, after all, there are only two days, and the time is still relatively tight. Or simply forget it today. You stay in Huaxia for two more days, and you can start again when we have found someone for you. Zhang Yunxing discussed.
"No, I can't. Chen Xuan shook his head, pointed to his laptop and said, "Now like this, the more I shoot, the more difficult it will be for me to do the post-production work." If I don't find a good assistant, I won't continue shooting. Then he said: "My vacation ends tomorrow, and I have to get on a plane and leave Huaxia for the United States early the next morning." The work over there was agreed on a long time ago and could not be changed. In this situation, when will you find me a good person, when will I start work, and the deadline for filming is 9 o'clock tomorrow night, and I can shoot as much as I can. ”
"It's going to be difficult. Zhang Yunxing said with a bitter face. Chen Xuan's matter was something he had already decided. The list of 50 models is also determined by the company's repeated discussions and balance of all aspects, either the company's star models or newcomers with great potential, and they also belong to the names of several different company's backbone agents. There is a saying in China since ancient times: do not suffer from poverty, but suffer from inequality. Now that the next person is not filmed, who will be removed? Whose person will be removed? This decision cannot be made at all.
"Why don't I try it?" Xiao Yao, who had been watching quietly from the sidelines, suddenly said.