Chapter 57 Daily life in the editorial department
Liu Meiling is an editor at the fashion magazine FirstClass.
This is a women's fashion magazine that ranks among the top five in the country in terms of periodical sales, and its sales target is not only high-quality professional women, but also includes the fashion trends of young people.
In addition to providing the latest fashion information and incisive fashion trend reports, we also publish interviews with the most popular people and women's topics. For example, the column publishes unique theme restaurants, warm and lovely concept stores, simple and fashionable furniture design, music and movie information, etc., which is an intimate entertainment vane for readers.
Among them, the most important thing is naturally the hard photo shoot of the magazine cover.
First of all, the cover means that the star's image, temperament, popularity, topic effect and brand value have been affirmed by the fashion circle.
In addition, taking magazine photos, especially the cover work, has a complete set of processes like industrial aesthetics. Among them, top photographers, makeup artists, etc. are indispensable. The golden combination smashed with money, the blockbusters that came out are all beautiful, how can stars not love it?
That's why top-notch, and even internationally acclaimed, superstars are happy to shoot magazine covers.
Liu Meiling, as the editor of such a best-selling magazine, the intrigue between colleagues makes her unguarded. In addition, the high-intensity work given by the editor-in-chief, contacting advertisers, shooting and other heavy tasks also need to be done by oneself. With such a lot of work pressure, she has become a loyal fan of TV series after work.
The TV series that have been broadcast recently have not been satisfactory, and it is still the same decadence after work. By chance, she saw the TV series "A Liter of Tears", which was rebroadcast on the TV station.
The name is quite attractive, and she continued to read it with interest, only to find that it was the type of youth campus. She is past this age, and she always feels awkward when she looks at this, and she just wanted to turn the table, but she vaguely remembers that her colleagues in the editorial department seemed to talk about it.
I watched it with the mood of giving it a try, and then I couldn't control it.
Especially when I saw Yaya wearing a dress and sitting in a wheelchair to attend the teacher's wedding, I remembered the timid sentence at the beginning: "Mom, I'm ...... Is it possible to get married? At the moment, my heart was in turmoil, and there were sourness welling up in my chest.
As the editorial conference was about to take place this month, she left everything behind and worked overtime to start working on the proposal.
I wanted Yaya to put on her wedding dress, and the thought lingered in my mind.
Since there is no way in the TV series, at least a similar scene must appear on "Firstclass".
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A smart, fashionable woman stands in front of a whiteboard, speaks quickly and analyzes the proposals in a coherent and coherent manner.
Liu Meiling looked at the editor-in-chief with anxiety and sighed.
The selection of cover actresses is very rigorous, and this time I brought in personal feelings because I was too emotional, which is really irrational.
The editor-in-chief analyzed the pros and cons of the previous proposal in a few words, asked everyone to vote by a show of hands, and finally rejected it by a very narrow margin.
"Next, Liu Meiling's "Dream Wedding"."
If the editor-in-chief frowns, such an old-fashioned proposal is not competitive.
I turned the first page boringly, and then stopped.
The editors below looked at each other, is this proposal so outrageous?!
Their eyes turned to Liu Meiling, as if with a hint of mockery, Liu Meiling lowered her head more and more, and her hands moved uneasily.
The editor-in-chief's expression remained unchanged, and he finally turned the second page, but this time he opened his mouth slightly and spoke: "Liu Meiling? ”
Liu Meiling stood up tremblingly, trying to make her tone more ordinary: "Here, editor-in-chief." ”
"The creativity was good. But in the end, you can't really wear a wedding dress, you can use a hairdressing to achieve a similar effect. ”
The editor-in-chief who has always been poisonous gave a positive verdict, Liu Meiling opened her mouth wide in surprise, and covered it in surprise, and her heart was full of joy: My sleepless efforts in the past few days have not been in vain!
Immediately, an editor spoke dissatisfiedly: "Editor-in-chief, can this kind of subject matter be filmed with any new ideas?" ”
The editor-in-chief glanced at the editor indifferently and replied, "No." However, the star selected by Liu Meiling is Chu Feng. ”
Chu Feng? The editor suddenly woke up - "A Liter of Tears"!
Oh my God, if there really is a topic like this, I don't know what a gimmick it is!
Chu Feng has not been affirmed by the fashion circle in terms of image, but in the play, she dreams of wearing a wedding dress, which cannot be replaced or surpassed by any star!
She has also watched "A Liter of Tears", why didn't she think of such an easy point!
Seeing that there was silence in the audience, the editor-in-chief glanced at all the editors of the week: "Does anyone have an objection?" If not, next month's cover will be set. ”
There was no objection.
"Then, I'll leave this case to you, come on. The Lord is in charge, and you can pick a few more helpers. ”
"Yes, editor-in-chief!" She held her proposal and smiled widely.
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After determining the star, the next step is to make an appointment.
She needs to contact Chu Feng's agent to see if the schedule is suitable and whether the style matches.
As a fashion magazine that sells advertisements rather than sales, and whose production costs are much higher than those of sales, it is natural to take care of advertisers in all aspects of shooting covers -- celebrities must also take care of various brands in their outfits.
Of course, taking the cover does not mean that it is an endorsement for advertisers, which is not a matter of concern.
After Chu Feng's agent gave an affirmative answer, the next step was to finalize the photographers and makeup artists preferred by the stars, and the magazine would come forward to contact these core staff members and negotiate the price.
Chu Feng appointed photographer Fred Zhengtai, and without making any requirements for the makeup artist, the magazine selected an excellent makeup artist in the industry.
Liu Meiling ran around for three whole days, receiving phone calls non-stop, first confirmed the costumes, then repeatedly discussed with Chu Feng's agent, and then contacted Fred and the makeup artist, and confirmed all the price issues, venue problems, time problems, and set props one by one, and finally completed all the preliminary preparations.
In the end, he waited for Chu Feng's entry into the studio to start filming.
(Ziya: Finally, I'm going to go to the legendary Qingyun push next week, I don't think about the results first, but at least it's definitely not for me!) Ziya will continue to work hard! )