"Shaolin Temple martial arts team, there are two more programs that are yours, come and prepare!" CCTV's Spring Festival Gala rehearsal director shouted at this side.

The leader of the group of "little monks" was a middle-aged man in his 40s, who immediately ordered: "Hurry up and finish eating, the rehearsal will be going soon." ”

The group of bald teenagers were very obedient, and immediately picked up the lunch box quickly.

Kang Jianfei made an opinion: "You should pay attention to the rules of diet and exercise, performing martial arts just after eating is very bad for gastrointestinal digestion." ”

The man who led the team didn't know Kang Jianfei at all, and when he heard that he was accusing him when they first met, he was quite unhappy, and asked Hu Juncai: "Mr. Hu, this comrade is your friend?" ”

Hu Juncai introduced with a smile: "Ah Fei, this is Teacher Zhang Jinyang, the cultural teacher of the martial arts school, and the leader of the martial arts performance team of this Spring Festival Gala. Saying that, Hu Juncai affectionately pulled Zhang Jinyang and introduced, "Teacher Zhang, this is the real boss of Shaolin Temple Martial Arts School, Boss Kang Jianfei. ”

"Boss Kang?" Zhang Jinyang lost his temper when he heard this, and quickly explained, "Boss Kang, it's not that I don't pay attention to the dietary rules of the team members, it's the problem of their logistics arrangements for the Spring Festival Gala program team." There are so many rehearsal staff to take care of the food, and they didn't arrange it beforehand, so they split it into three lunches......"

"I know what I said, you don't have to explain." Kang Jianfei said and looked at the top of the stage, not optimistic about this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Although Kang Jianfei has never directed a large-scale party, as a director, he is very sensitive to lighting. The stage in the workers' gymnasium is very large and empty, and the live broadcast image is not clear, and the brightness of the lights on the scene is completely insufficient, and the audience in front of the TV must see a dirty and dark picture.

Not only that, but today is the last rehearsal, and the on-site scheduling is still chaotic. I didn't even get the actor's lunch at one time.

It can only be said that the chief director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala has no experience in doing large-scale live broadcasts, and the previous Spring Festival Gala was recorded and broadcast in advance, and it is inevitable that the first time to do a live broadcast, he will inevitably take care of one or the other.

Kang Jianfei's eyes swept around the stage, and suddenly saw Chen Xiuwen sitting in the audience drinking mineral water, and there were Wang Mingquan, Luo Wen and others from TVB next to him.

"I'll go over first." Kang Jianfei nodded at Hu Juncai.

Hu Juncai smiled: "Let's go over together, I was also a fan of Sister Wang back then." ”

After the two left, Teacher Zhang Jinyang said to himself: "Kang Jianfei? This name is so familiar, I seem to have heard it somewhere. ”

Before Kang Jianfei could speak, the Phoenix Terrace employees who accompanied Chen Xiuwen to the capital stood up to greet him and said in surprise: "Kang Dong." Why are you there? ”

"I'll take a look by the way, feel free to do so." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.

CCTV wants to make this year's Spring Festival Gala a big scene, the hosts are from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, and the program performance is also a gathering of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, with the implication of the Chinese League members being a family in it. Huang Yihe, the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, originally wanted to invite Teresa Teng. And Xu Jiasheng, president of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, personally invited him, but unfortunately he could not make the trip after the end.

Because of that layer of special reasons. The several Taiwanese programs that were originally prepared had to be abandoned. I had to let one of the planners of the Spring Festival Gala, Taiwan's famous TV personality Huang Ayuan, intersperse several winning and game shows with the Spring Festival Gala.

After the vacancy of Taiwanese programs came out, it was natural to let Hong Kong programs fill it, and TVB sent stars such as Wang Mingquan , Luo Wen , Banban , Xi Xiulan and other stars to participate in the Spring Festival Gala. Phoenix Terrace knew that it was natural that it could not show weakness, and finally decided to let Chen Xiuwen, Mo Shaocong, He Jiajin and Ye Zhentang come to the Spring Festival Gala.

In addition, Zhang Mingmin, who became popular all over the country with his song "My Chinese Heart" last year, will continue to participate in the performance this year. In the entire Spring Festival Gala, there were nearly 10 performers from Hong Kong alone.

All this is thanks to the success of the negotiations between China and Britain more than two years ago, otherwise the wireless station would not dare to send the leading stars to the capital to perform so swaggeringly.

"Happy New Year, Chairman!" Chen Xiuwen shook hands with Kang Jianfei excitedly. Since she starred in "Sister Tuogun", she has been firmly on the throne of the first sister of Phoenix Stage, and she is very grateful to Kang Jianfei who supported and helped her through the difficulties. There is even a sense of admiration for Kang Jianfei hidden in his heart.

Mo Shaocong, He Jiajin and Ye Zhentang also greeted one after another, Mo Shaocong and He Jiajin are both actors and stars of Phoenix Channel, and Ye Zhentang is the original singer of "The Great Wall Will Never Fall". Strictly speaking, Ye Zhentang is a freelance singer like Zhang Mingmin, but he has cooperated with Phoenix TV for a long time to record some TV series theme songs, which can be regarded as eating under Kang Jianfei.

TVB's TV songs are basically sung by Luo Wen, and on the Phoenix TV side, Ye Zhentang, Luo Wen is more popular in Hong Kong, but Ye Zhentang is famous in Nanyang and Japan, and he also won the "Asian Award" at the Tokyo Music Festival three years ago, and is the only Hong Kong singer to win this award.

"This is my friend Hu Juncai, let's get to know each other." Kang Jianfei introduced.

"Happy New Year Mr. Hu!" Chen Xiuwen and the others hurriedly greeted, but it was the first time they heard Kang Jianfei mention the word friend when he introduced people.

Kang Jianfei's arrival actually made these people a little embarrassed, although the two TV stations were fighting, but just now Chen Xiuwen, He Jiajin and others chatted happily with Wang Mingquan and Luo Wen. After all, everyone is from Hong Kong, and the vast majority of mainlanders can't understand Cantonese and can't communicate, so people from the two TV stations naturally got together.

Now that Kang Jianfei came, the stars on TVB's side were really not too enthusiastic, so they only nodded at him as a greeting, and then stopped talking.

Hu Juncai didn't have any scruples, walked up to Wang Mingquan and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Sister Wang!" ”

"Hello, you ask who you are?" Wang Mingquan has no impression of Hu Juncai at all, she really can't remember that she knows Kang Jianfei's friends.

Hu Juncai said with a smile: "I ran through the crew of "Chu Liuxiang", and I was hacked to death by Sister Wang several times. ”

Wang Mingquan suddenly realized, and guessed that Hu Jun was the one who mixed with Kang Jianfei at the beginning, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It's only been a few years, and Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai, two grassroots people who could only play tricks back then, have turned into big bosses that she can only look up to, which is really unpredictable.

Kang Jianfei chatted with the stars of Phoenix Terrace for a while, and found that he couldn't let go of them, so he left after a few words.

Li Ningyu, who was signed some time ago. Kang Jianfei also asked Ye Zipei to win a chance to perform at the Spring Festival Gala, but at this time, he searched for a long time and did not find Li Ningyu's shadow.

It stands to reason that Kang Jianfei is the guest invited by the Spring Festival Gala, and the chief director Huang Yihe should arrange someone to receive him. However, no one knew that Kang Jianfei would come in the afternoon, and now the director team is busy doing the most post-rehearsal, where can they take care of anything else.

Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai drove back to the courtyard, and after dinner, they found time to return to the Workers' Gymnasium.

In the afternoon, I went to the Workers' Sports Hall to watch the rehearsal, using Hu Juncai's pass, but I entered the door in the evening with Kang Jianfei's own invitation.

Now "Sister Tuogun" is being screened on CCTV, "Royal Sister" is also unfinished in the mainland, and Kang Jianfei's fame in the mainland is still very great. It's just that few people can match his name with his looks.

After reading Kang Jianfei's invitation letter, the staff member immediately took Kang Jianfei to sit down as if he had seen a leader.

There was an open space between the auditorium and the stage, where more than a dozen tables were set up, each with a beautiful white tablecloth. Fruits, drinks and sweets and snacks are placed on the table. There are also name cards of the guests on each seat.

Kang Jianfei, as a guest invited by CCTV, sat at this kind of dinner table. And Hu Juncai sat in the first row of the audience.

Kang Jianfei looked left and right at the name plate. None of the people at the table with him knew each other, but after chatting a few words, he realized that Lu Dao was an official of the Ministry of Culture and a celebrity in the cultural circles.

There were still more than ten minutes before the Spring Festival Gala started, and Kang Jianfei suddenly asked the old lady next to him in surprise: "Director Yang is filming "Journey to the West"? ”

Although Kang Jianfei is quite familiar with "Journey to the West", he really can't remember who the director of this TV series is, and after chatting for a while, he was stunned to find that he was sitting next to Yang Jie, the director of "Journey to the West".

Yang Jie is not just a TV series director, her father is the famous martyr Yang Bokai, and her mother is also a party member. Yang Jie was sent to Yan'an to live and study in 1945. At the beginning of CCTV, Yang Jie was transferred to work in the TV station, and she is regarded as the top veteran of CCTV, and has been the top ten directors in China every year from 1978 to the present.

And that's not surprising. Why did Yang Jie sit at the same table with officials from the Ministry of Culture?

A deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture said: "Director Yang is serious and responsible for her work, "Journey to the West" has been filmed for three years, and she has been running all over the country. ”

Yang Jie smiled bitterly: "Minister Li, don't praise me, whether "Journey to the West" can be filmed is another matter." ”

Kang Jianfei said strangely: "Didn't you say that the first 11 episodes of "Journey to the West" have high ratings? How could it not be filmed. ”

"Millions of dollars have been spent, and it took three years to shoot 11 episodes, and someone reported that I was traveling with the production fee, and now the top is already investigating." Yang Jie did not hide her predicament at all, and her tone was full of self-deprecation.

In the 80s, it took millions of yuan to shoot 11 episodes of TV series after three years of filming, and if Kang Jianfei was the boss, the director would have the heart to chop it alive.

But after chatting later, Kang Jianfei realized how Yang Jie spent money.

First of all, the entire "Journey to the West" crew only has one camera.

You heard it right, all the shots of the 86 version of "Journey to the West" were shot with a single camera from beginning to end, and in some places you need to switch the camera angle, so you can only move the camera to let the actors play it again.

Secondly, it is Yang Jie who shoots the TV series as a movie.

Just putting on makeup and sticking monkey hair on Sun Wukong's face takes 6 hours a day, and the makeup is gone in half a day. Then because the scene jumps too much, I often run around by train from all over the world, and I have to build a crew to set up the scenery when I run a place, and I can't get up fast if I want to.

And the first 11 episodes of the first version are different from the later broadcasts, and each episode can be seen as a complete movie. At the beginning of the first month of 87, the full 20 levels were broadcast, and the length of each episode was cut to about 45 minutes.

What could happen for Lang?

Because when the filming of "Journey to the West" started, the program time of the entire CCTV was chaotic, and the broadcast time of each program was not fixed. At that time, the first episode of the movie made by CCTV was 50 minutes, the second episode may be 40 minutes, and the third episode may be 60 minutes.

It wasn't until last year's "Words of the Yangtze River" that CCTV began to have requirements for the program time because it was broadcast at 6 o'clock every day and achieved a high rating of 40%.

Kang Jianfei had a general understanding of the situation and asked, "In other words, the crew of "Journey to the West" has temporarily stopped filming?" ”

Yang Jie nodded silently, as for the leader asking her to write an inspection report or something, this kind of embarrassing thing naturally can't be said.

Kang Jianfei knew how popular this version of "Journey to the West" was, and it swept Southeast Asia back then, so he immediately thought about it and said: "Phoenix TV is now cooperating with CCTV and is filming a life program. If "Journey to the West" has difficulties in funding, Phoenix Terrace may be able to fund some. ”

"Mr. Kang, are you serious?" Yang Jie herself is a veteran of CCTV, and she is also the chief director of CCTV's TV drama production center, so she is very clear about CCTV's financial situation.

"Dream of Red Mansions" and "Journey to the West" each spent millions of budgets, and now it is still very early before the filming is over, and the TV drama production center is already so poor that it can starve to death. At present, half of the filming of "Journey to the West" is stranded due to funds, if Phoenix Channel can inject a sum of funds, then the difficulties faced by Yang Jie will be reduced a lot.

"Of course it's true," Kang Jianfei said with a smile, "but I'm a businessman after all, and money isn't for nothing." ”

Yang Jie can completely make decisions for the CCTV TV drama production center, she said: "If Mr. Kang has any requirements, please feel free to say it." ”

"I hope that Phoenix TV can become one of the producers of "Journey to the West", owning all the copyrights of this TV series in Hong Kong, and owning part of the copyrights in Nanyang, Japan and South Korea, including the peripheral rights such as the sales of other videotapes other than the broadcast rights of the TV station."

Yang Jie couldn't understand the word periphery, and asked, "What are the peripheral copyrights that Mr. Kang is talking about?" ”

Kang Jianfei explained: "Peripheral copyrights include videotapes, records and other products, as well as related albums, toys, games, clothing and other products. ”

No one buys TV series produced in the mainland at all, let alone any peripheral products, Yang Jie has no objection to this, and said: "What does Mr. Kang mean is that except in Hong Kong, the TV broadcast rights of "Journey to the West" in other places belong to CCTV? ”

"That's what it means," Kang Jianfei nodded, "I plan to invest 2 million yuan first, and then donate two Japanese-made cameras to CCTV, which do not require film and will help the filming of "Journey to the West". ”

Yang Jie felt that this deal could be done, nodded and smiled: "Mr. Kang's proposal, I will report to the leader." ”

The two have just finished talking about cooperation, and the 85-year CCTV Spring Festival Gala has officially begun. (To be continued......)