Chapter 009: It Won't Take Long
On May 1st, most of the people were on vacation, but only a few employees of Bai Yuhan Art Studio had to work overtime. No way, every holiday, there are always a bunch of people who come to take pictures, art photos and wedding photos. So during this time, including Bai Yuhan, he had to devote himself to the work of the photo studio.
Zhao Dafei had nothing to do, so he went back to his hometown, and his family's refinery shipped a lot of goods during the May Day period, so he also had to help.
As for the filming of "Happy Little 2B: Silly A and Silly C", it was officially completed yesterday afternoon, and the plot was very simple, so it was filmed in a few days. However, because everyone is busy with the affairs of the photo studio, there is no way to edit the film and post-production for the time being.
"Ma Xin, there will be a group of people coming over to take pictures soon, I will leave Zhang Ping behind to cooperate with you, and I will take Zhang Lan out first."
After explaining Ma Xin's words, Bai Yuhan took Zhang Lan and a small couple of guests to get into a taxi and go to Xinghua Park to take exterior photos. The photo studio is not far from Xinghua Park, a few stops away, and after arriving at the place, Bai Yuhan began to arrange for the young couple to play with various poses.
Canon 400D In the hands of Bai Yuhan, it has achieved the realm of man-machine integration, 360-degree shooting without dead ends.
Changing places, postures, and shapes, it took a morning to serve the young couple.
In the afternoon interior shooting, Bai Yuhan directly handed over the person to Ma Xin, and then took another young couple to shoot the exterior scene. On May 17, he (1) (Ben ~ Reading (Novel) YBDU was almost busy like this for a week. Even at night, I had to be idle, taking the interior shot until more than ten o'clock, and then working with Liu Yuan and Li Long, busy processing the post-production of the photos. In front of the computer screen, keying and beautiful pictures.
Only Li Yumin, who is on vacation, stays in the studio every day, helping to sort out the various sub-shots a little, and do a good job of numbering and ordering, so that Bai Yuhan can edit in the future. Of course, they were occasionally approached by Bai Yuhan and followed them to do post-production of photos.
Squeezing out the surplus value of employees is a necessary skill for a boss.
In a blink of an eye, the May 17 holiday passed, and the photo studio was also relieved from its busyness.
Bai Yuhan finally didn't have to be a photographer anymore, early in the morning of May 8th, he took a meat bun in his mouth and rode Mulan to the photo studio.
As soon as I arrived at the photo studio, I saw Wang Yingying and Zhang Lan calculating the ledger at the cash register.
Chewing on the meat bun, Bai Yuhan greeted vaguely: "Wang Yingying, Zhang Lan, good morning." β
"Xiaobai is in a good mood today?" Wang Yingying looked up.
Bai Yuhan parked the car and smiled: "Looking at the bill today, of course I'm in a good mood, have you counted it, how many orders have you received in the past few days?" β
"I received seven wedding photos and eleven art photos."
"Not bad, yes, everyone will work hard this month and send you red envelopes back!" Bai Yuhan raised his eyebrows, and changing the photo studio into a photo studio was the most successful thing he had done when he was so big.
Wedding photos are the most expensive, a set of wedding photos in his store is 1999 yuan, there are 2999, 3999 and other prices. Art photos are much cheaper, but the work is also simpler, basically starting from 299 yuan, 399, 499 and the most expensive 999 yuan a set.
Speaking of which, the photo studio is a no-capital deal, the clothes are rented, the processing and printing are contracted to the processing shop, and the exterior scenes are paid by customers for car fares, meal subsidies and scenic spots, and they have to add money on rainy days. The store is also responsible for makeup and photography, and the more clothing and styling sets you choose, the cheaper the cost.
Of course, when it comes to boasting to the outside world, that's not the case.
As a store, Wang Yingying always says to others: "Our cost is very high, not to mention the costumes and props, the photographer's salary is very high, the photographer in our store is a family of photographers, and he has been cultivated since he was a child, and he doesn't accept a job without a salary of tens of thousands of yuan a month." β
"The cameras we use are all expensive products, Canon and Nikon, tens of thousands of dollars each. Especially for this lens, photography relies on lenses, the lowest of a red circle head is tens of thousands, and we use hundreds of thousands of lenses, which is too costly. And do you know the machine for developing photos, it is even more expensive, more than a million! β
"In order to do a good job of the photos, several of us post-compositors worked overtime until midnight almost every day to retouch beautiful pictures. Moreover, the rent, water and electricity in this place are more expensive than in other places, and it is not easy for us to make money. β
The competition in the photo studio during this period is not very fierce, and the customers can only accept it honestly. Shenma photography family, Shenma has hundreds of thousands of heads in a red circle, and no one knows whether it is true or fake.
In short, the moisture is very large.
After listening to Wang Yingying's report on the achievements, Bai Yuhan's mood is getting better and better, and the hardships of the past few days are nothing. In China, where the economy is booming, people are getting richer and richer, and they are willing to spend money to enjoy art. Especially the wedding photos, it may be only this once in a lifetime, the bride-to-be flickered a little, and the money will be sent to the photo studio.
Sometimes the newcomer decides to ask for a 1999 yuan suit before entering the door, but it becomes a 2999 yuan or even 3999 yuan suit after going out.
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The business of the photo studio is good, and Bai Yuhan is more confident to run his new business, the White Swordsman Studio.
"Director, I have marked these shots one by one, the order imported into the computer has been arranged according to the script, many repetitive shots, I have eliminated the worse ones, and the ones left are the better shots, you can take a look." Li Yumin is a conscientious assistant director who is very meticulous in his work.
"Okay, I'll edit, if you're okay, go to the studio to help continue the post-production."
"Oh, then I'm out."
Editing is a meticulous job, from a large number of materials, to find the most suitable shots, and then connect them into a complete story, you need to do a complete Dagang context in your heart, and you have to take into account the transition between each two shots.
As an amateur DV player, Bai Yuhan is no stranger to editing, and he is also very good at using Huisheng and Picture editing software.
Compared with the original impression in his mind, it only took one day for Bai Yuhan to edit "Happy Little 2B: Silly A and Silly C" into a 6-minute complete short film.
"Whew." Stretching his waist and spitting out turbidity, Bai Yuhan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening.
Liu Yuan and Li Long are still immersed in the post-production of art photos, Li Yumin has gone back to school, sisters Zhang Ping and Zhang Lan get off work early, and Wang Yingying is sorting out the latest goods list at the front desk.
After thinking about it, Bai Yuhan called Zhao Dafei.
"Hey, Da Fei, where are you now?"
"I'm ...... Fellow scholar, what's wrong? β
"Fellow student, get out, which hotel are you in, take it easy, don't overindulge and hurt your kidneys. By the way, tomorrow morning you drive directly to my place, let's go to the market and buy some recording equipment, I've already edited the short film, and I'm left with some post-effects and dubbing. β
"I know this little thing, I'll rush over tomorrow morning."
"Also, you keep a snack and see if you can find another person to study film and television editing, I feel that it is a bit unrealistic to let Liu Yuan and Li Long do the post-production. One is that the photo studio is also busy, and the other is that there is a difference between retouching and video production after all, and I am afraid that they will not be able to take care of it. β
"Well, I'll contact a friend and see if I can find it."
"Take it easy at night, I'll hang up."
After hanging up the phone, Bai Yuhan went downstairs and started making a cup of tea.
Sitting on the sofa, she picked up the phone and asked Wang Yingying: "What is the phone number of the food stall diagonally opposite, I asked them to send a few dishes and a few bottles of wine for supper." β
In terms of eating and drinking, Bai Yuhan has always been very generous, and he will add meals to employees when there is nothing to do.
βxxxxxxγβ Wang Yingying flipped through the phone book and reported a string of numbers.
Bai Yuhan quickly ordered the meal.
"Swordsman, have you cut the film?"
"It's cut."
"Show me."
"You go upstairs to see it yourself, it's not dubbed, it's still the original recorded voice, it's not very clear."
Wang Yingying ran to watch the video, and it was quiet downstairs.
Bai Yuhan held the teacup and began to think about some things outside the short film. Now that the film has been filmed and post-production is being prepared, the only thing that has not yet been determined is how to release the video and promote it.
Through the future episodes in his mind, he more or less learned about some future video websites, among which Youku, Tudou, iQiyi, and LeTV are better developed. But it's 2006, and video-sharing sites are still in their infancy.
Take the information that Bai Yuhan searched on the Internet,04In November, LeTV was established,05In April, Tudou.com and (I Le.com) were established,Excitement.com was also established in 05Videoγ This year, in the past April, Ku6.com was established. As for Youku and iQiyi, they haven't appeared yet.
Originally, Bai Yuhan didn't need to worry about anything at all, just go directly to Tudou and LeTV, these two websites have a very good momentum of development in the future. The rest, Excitement.com and Ku6.com are very average, and the episodes produced by these sites rarely appear in his mind.
But after observation, I know that now, on the Internet, Qing Entertainment, Mofile (Rubik's Cube Network), and Bobo Network have the most fierce momentum, as if they have the posture of winning the hegemony of domestic video sharing websites. Those websites that will compete in the future, such as Tudou, are not as good as these websites.
Tudou's daily hits are only more than 10,000, and even with the storm of the steamed bun murder at the beginning of the year, Tudou has only increased its daily hits by more than 10,000.
Therefore, Bai Yuhan is very entangled, which website do he want to post the video on?
Is it the hottest now, Qing Entertainment, or the future overlords Tudou and LeTV? That's a serious question.
Wrong!
Bai Yuhan suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.
found something that he had overlooked, and he was confused by the self-made dramas of those video sites in his mind, and took it for granted that the first website of the series was counted. But he ignored a problem, it is 2006, piracy is rampant on the Internet, and there is no such thing as copyright.
He could have registered an account on every website, and then uploaded his own works on each website, and he took them by himself anyway, like uploading them wherever they were.
"I'll it! I've been struggling with the loss for a while, and I'm really speechless. β
After figuring this out, Bai Yuhan's mood was even better.
After eating supper, I couldn't wait to go online, and registered an account for all the video websites I could find, and named the ID "White Swordsman Studio".
Just wait for the short film to be made and uploaded.
"Haha, that's it!"
After applying for an account on the last website, Bai Yuhan couldn't help but feel proud: "In a few days, it will be the beginning of the fame of the White Swordsman Studio, and it won't be long before I will be promoted and raised, become the general manager, become the CEO, marry Bai Fumei, and go to the peak of my life." It's a little exciting to think about it! β