Chapter 114: Ambition
The photographer recommended by Ning Hao is named He Xiaofei, whom Chen Li knows and is a graduate of Nortel's photography department in 02.
When he was in school, He Xiaofei won the best work award at the National Youth Film Festival. After graduation, many directors have invited him, but this person's personality is too stubborn, and he is a little arrogant. Later, after quarreling with several crews in a row, no crew looked for him.
"Brother Hao, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle him." Hearing Ning Hao mention He Xiaofei's name, Chen Li was a little stunned.
"Artists also have to eat. Not to mention that he is not an artist yet. Ning Hao lit a cigarette and explained to the two: "He Xiaofei's skills are fine, and his personality is a little arrogant, but the past two years have not been satisfactory. His family's business went bankrupt, and there was no money to fund him to continue his career. Moreover, playing photography is very expensive, and if he has no income, he is afraid that it will be difficult to even make a basic living. ”
Zhou Cheng hesitated: "It's just that how should we communicate with him?" Is it just talking about money? I'm afraid that he won't be able to put it down, and the conversation will fall apart in the end. ”
"He's always wanted to prove himself in the film field, and if you can direct some shots for him and give him an assistant directorship, I don't think he will turn it down." Ning Hao gave his own advice according to his understanding of He Xiaofei, but he didn't notice that Chen Li's face changed slightly.
If he follows Ning Hao's proposal, then he will move Chen Li's cake, and with his unruly character, I am afraid that after he has the authority in this regard, he will show his disobedience to Chen Li.
In Zhou Cheng's plan, Director Chen Li's authority cannot be undermined by He Xiaofei, which will destroy the harmony of the crew. After thinking about it for two days, Zhou Cheng decided to use another method: painting cakes.
After Zhou Cheng made a guarantee to Chen Li, he decided to negotiate with He Xiaofei himself.
"Senior Brother He, as long as you can prove your level in the drama "Donkey Gets Water", and come up with the filming plan of the drama "Big Man", I can leave this script to you to shoot."
In Zhou Cheng's plan, his film and television company cannot have only a director like Chen Li, and he has not proven himself yet.
Since He Xiaofei has the ambition to become a director, Zhou Chengcheng gave him this opportunity. As a traverser, the last thing Zhou Cheng lacks is the script.
took out two different types of scripts for He Xiaofei to choose from, "People in Embarrassment" and "Big Man", and finally succeeded He Xiaofei in agreeing to do the photography of "Donkey Gets Water", and cooperated with Chen Li to work.
Chen Li has no opinion, he also understands that the cooperation with He Xiaofei is only temporary, and he can wait until Liu Dong is trained to carry out long-term cooperation in the future. It's just that Chen Li was a little surprised that Zhou Cheng came up with two more excellent scripts and a complete production plan.
Three movies, plus the TV series scripts that Li Yan and others are creating, Zhou Cheng currently has four projects in progress. This is already the strength of a medium-sized film and television company.
If Zhou Cheng can really complete these projects within three years, he will definitely become a weighty film and television person in the Yanjing entertainment industry.
This also made Chen Li decide to hold Zhou Cheng's thigh tightly and never let go. It's just that Zhou Cheng's ambition is even bigger than he thought.
Zhou Cheng plans to wait until the release of "Donkey Gets Water", and he will carry out three or four projects at the same time, striving to make his company take shape in 2010, so that it can develop rapidly in the golden period of the next ten years, and even in the transition period of the post-entertainment era after 2020, he can have enough capital to deal with it.
With Zhou Cheng's background, there will be no shortage of partners and no lack of investment. But in order to achieve this goal and develop rapidly, Zhou Cheng will even sacrifice some interests in the early stage of development, so that he can unite other film and television companies to become a community of interests, and will not be despised, isolated or even bullied by other film and television companies because of his small size.
Life in the world, success and failure, are all between trade-offs, there is a give-and-take, there is no reluctance.
Today, we are one step closer to that goal.
Zhou Cheng received a call from Li Yan and told him that the script of the love story had been completed, and asked him to come over to review it, and then take it to the declaration for filing.
Zhou Cheng came to the campus, the school had just finished military training, and there were freshmen wandering around in camouflage uniforms everywhere. Zhou Cheng saw that these freshmen were all avoiding, but he was worried that he would encounter Qin Nanlu and be entangled by this girl.
Fortunately, the small building provided by the school for them is close to the family area, a relatively secluded area, and even if the school has opened, there are not many students who come here.
It's just that today downstairs in the company, Zhou Chengcheng heard a laughing voice from the office on the second floor.
"Brother Cheng, you're here." Wu Xiaotian, who was standing at the door, saw Zhou Cheng coming up from the stairs and hurriedly greeted him.
"Here we are." Zhou Cheng nodded, and asked with some doubts, "What's the situation today?" Why so many people? ”
Zhou Cheng came to the office and took a closer look. In addition to Li Yan and the three of them, there is also a boy and three girls here.
That boy is Liu Wei, Zhou Cheng's younger brother in the literature department, who is a senior this year and helped Zhou Cheng clean up last time.
Liu Wei is the best at historical scripts in their session. This time, Zhou Cheng specially called him over, that is, he was going to let him join the company and help write a TV script for a costume drama.
And the appearance of those three girls surprised Zhou Cheng a little, in addition to Zhang Xiaofei and Tang Wan, there was also their classmate Yan Mi. It stands to reason that they should be in the classroom at this time as their juniors.
"Brother Cheng..."After seeing Zhou Cheng, several people greeted Zhou Cheng one after another, but one of them had a very special voice, her thick nasal voice with a little smack, the tone called the clip sound by the other world made Zhou Cheng's tailbone faintly numb.
"Hello." Zhou Cheng nodded at the few of them who knew him, and then looked at Yan Mi, who made a snort just now, and said, "I heard them mention you, we should meet for the first time." ”
Yan Mi shook her head, looked at Zhou Cheng and continued to say in her special voice: "No, when I entered the school, I was a freshman you picked up, and you asked me why I didn't bring any luggage?" ”
"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Cheng scratched his head, although it has only been two years since this incident, but for Zhou Cheng, who came from another world, it has been more than ten years, where will these little things be remembered.
"Yes, you are still talking to us, boasting about your Yanjing girl's unique coolness." Wu Xiaotian obviously remembered it better than he did.
"You're pretending, our Yanjing girl doesn't talk like that. It's too much. Zhou Cheng is no longer surprised by celebrities, especially these stars who are still in the development period, and they will lose if they want to.
"I'm nasal, where did I pretend." Yan Mi said dissatisfied.
"Okay, just rush this 'nasal voice', it's a girl from Nancheng Gen'er." Zhou Cheng first praised it, and then denied Wu Xiaotian's words just now: "To be honest, I really don't have any impression." Otherwise, I must be impressed by a beautiful big girl like you. ”
"Then let's get acquainted again." Yan Mi was not angry, and stretched out her hand at Zhou Cheng: "My name is Yan Mi, a girl from Lazhu Hutong." ”
"Zhou Cheng, mixed with Liuli Bridge." Watching the other party reintroduce himself generously, Zhou Cheng also reintroduced himself, and then stretched out a thumbs up at the other party's atmosphere.
The incident between Zhou Cheng and Li Jiaqi has been troubled several times, and Yan Mi, as a company, must have heard of it, so Zhou Cheng was a little guarded, but he didn't expect that he still thought too much.