"Documentary ???"

Zheng Weijie thought for a moment that he had misheard.

He, a director who has only made online TV series, is interested in making documentaries.

"Mr. Xu, did I hear me right?"

He subconsciously asked, and then secretly calculated.

"The cost of documentaries should not be low......"

Documentaries are different from movies and TV series, involving much more things, take the simplest lens, usually used to shoot films, there is no way to meet the requirements of slightly more professional documentaries, and suitable shots, the price is usually several times higher or even more than ten times, in addition, some documentaries are also very troublesome, such as the most famous "Animal World" documentaries, the production team even has to go deep into the hinterland of the African continent, stay in a deserted place for ten days and half a month, and live with wild beasts and poisonous insects.

It is precisely for this reason that Chinese documentaries have always been set up by TV stations, funded, and then organized for filming, and the broadcast is naturally on TV stations.

Compared with online TV series, documentaries are obviously much taller and synonymous with professionalism.

"I have an idea here, I'm going to shoot a documentary, I have previously commissioned someone to investigate the situation in the industry, and I noticed your previous online TV series, I think you have quite potential."

Xu Rui didn't care about Zheng Weijie's stunned and explained.

Although Zheng Weijie has been in the industry for more than ten years, there seems to be something wrong with the term "potential", but being praised by others still makes him very happy.

"Mr. Xu, have you seen it?"

"Well, although the TV series you filmed, the acting skills of the characters in it are very embarrassing, and the plot is a bit boring, but the use of the camera is very good, and I like the way I shoot food."

Xu Rui's words made Zheng Weijie agree, and it was not okay not to agree.

Obviously boasting about yourself, why does it always sound a little weird?

Zheng Weijie suddenly noticed what Xu Rui mentioned in his words.

"Food?"

He confirmed.

"That's right, the heroine in your drama is a chef, and then the hero is a picky eater and a domineering president, and he fell in love with her because he ate the heroine's cooking, and there are many scenes of the heroine cooking in the whole play."

Xu Rui said.

"At that time, I asked someone to find out which directors in the industry are good at shooting food-themed works, and I found a few at the beginning, but they either didn't have the right schedule, or they already had contracts with other film and television companies, and in the end, they recommended your work to me."

Zheng Weijie listened, opening his mouth wide.

Yes, when he was filming that TV series, he was really interested in dishes and food.

On the one hand, Zheng Weijie's father is a chef, since he was a child, he began to cook under the influence of his father, cooking skills are good, after learning photography, he also likes to take some photos of food, at the beginning, of course, he sent photos in the space late at night to repay the society, and later also took some short films or something, that TV series, it is also because of such elements that Zheng Weijie filmed with his heart.

On the other hand, it is a little helpless, because the investor and the leading actor brought funds into the group, the script and shooting were messed up, and Zheng Weijie, who was unable to return to the sky, could only exert a little bit of his subjective initiative in cooking.

Unexpectedly, someone really noticed his intentions, and even directly acquired this film and television company for this purpose.

In an instant, Zheng Weijie had a feeling that he had finally met his soulmate.

"Yes, that's the case, I've been more fond of filming these foods since I was a child, I think it's strange that Huaxia, as a country with rich food, rarely pays attention to everyone's daily three meals a day."

He replied, a little excited.

"I think so too, in fact, in China, food and culture are in the same line, food, revealing the ideas handed down by our ancestors, I am preparing a food culture documentary, hoping to reflect the public from the perspective of food, Director Zheng, what do you think?"

Xu Rui's words made Zheng Weijie stunned, and then fell into thought.

Indeed, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the people take food as the sky", and the most tribute used for sacrifices in the past was also food, and the Chinese people are best at farming, and even entertainment works have given birth to such a unique genre as farming.

Every time people meet, they always greet "have you eaten" cordially, which shows that eating is an important element in Chinese culture.

There are documentaries that record ink paintings, there are documentaries that record human geography, and there are documentaries that look at the stars and the sea, but only in China, a big country of foodies, no one thinks of shooting food documentaries.

Zheng Weijie used to like to shoot food, just because he felt that freshly baked, steaming food had a unique beauty, but now that I think about it, maybe it is because I have seen many delicacies with my father since I was a child, so whenever I see those foods and see those people who enjoy them, he will think of his father.

I remember the last time I went home, my father, who had retired for many years, still insisted on making a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, although the taste has changed due to age, but for Zheng Weijie, it is the taste of home.

"In fact, I have also done market research and food documentaries before, and there are a few in the industry, but those films focus more on cooking, they are all documentaries of some cuisines, and the technical part occupies too much, and the humanistic part is a little less, I think this is the reason why these films are not widely circulated, I want to make some more down-to-earth works, and at the same time, it is not limited to those exquisite foods."

Xu Rui said that it seems that he did not make this decision with a pat on the head, but did some market research and thinking before taking action.

"Although the food documentary is good, the framework of Chinese cuisine is too big, if you don't spend a lot of money to shoot, it is easy to create a one-sided impression, the most typical is the major cuisines, but if it is just for the pursuit of comprehensiveness, it is easy to lose the uniqueness, this is a bit difficult to do."

Zheng Weijie said, thought about it again, and spoke.

"Then, Mr. Xu, do you have any shooting direction?"

Humanistic documentaries, in the end, have to be implemented on people, if a cuisine can not find a suitable story to tell the record, then forcibly pull it, the perception will not be much better, of course, Huaxia is so big, the story will definitely not be lacking, but the production team does not necessarily have so much time and energy to find, this is limited by time and funding.

"Well, I've thought about this too."

Xu Rui replied, and then smiled a little mysteriously.

"Director Zheng, why don't we go have a barbecue and talk slowly?"