Chapter 68 Sunshine at Noon

After seeing Qin Lan off, Meng Bai returned to his normal preparations for the crew.

The only difference is that Meng Bai took out two extra hours of time every day to arrange fitness.

Although he won a round temporarily this time with his age advantage, as the saying goes, "Forgetting the battle will lead to danger." Who knows whether the future battle situation will be more intense, so we must prepare in advance.

Time passed day by day, and at the end of April, the preparations for the "Psychological Crime" crew were basically completed.

In fact, because of the experience of cooperation last time, the crew did not have a long preparation time for personnel issues this time. What really consumed energy was the transformation of the school building scene. Because

of the plot requirements, the time background of the story of "Psychological Crime" was in the 2000s when surveillance was not well developed and various criminal investigation and trace detection technologies were not well developed. So the crew spent a lot of effort to restore the new dormitory building that the school built last year.

The advanced electromagnetic door was replaced with an old-fashioned fence door; the multifunctional washroom was also turned into an old-fashioned pit; the original four-person room with a bed and a desk was also changed into a crowded eight-person room by the crew using a batch of upper and lower iron bed frames.

Of course, all these changes are soft furnishings. After the crew finishes filming, they will naturally be restored to the school.

I don’t know if it’s because the Landao Cultural Tourism Department has said hello, the school is particularly cooperative with the crew. Whether it is the venue or the personnel needs, they actively cooperate.

Even when they knew that a lot of student extras were needed for filming, they were allowed to contact the student union to issue a call, and they could apply for extras in the crew without affecting normal courses and exams.

Of course, as a return, Meng Bai also promised to provide a certain number of internship opportunities for poor students and art students in the school in this and subsequent projects. After all,

the entire "Green Ivy Series" has six or seven projects, including sequels, which will take at least three or four years. For the school leaders, this is also a highlight of the "school-enterprise cooperation" in the medium and long term.

Seeing that the preparations were almost done, Meng Bai calculated the time and set the start time in mid-May. In this way, the shooting and post-production will take about four months, which is just enough to avoid the summer vacation.

Web dramas are not like movies. There is not much demand for popular schedules, and the spread depends on the audience's discussion and recommendation of the surrounding circles. In addition, various popular blockbusters are released alternately during the summer vacation, and the attention of the network and the audience will inevitably be dispersed, which is not as good as normal working days.

Meng Bai thought he would stay in Landao until the start of the filming, but he didn't expect a sudden call to make him decide to fly to Hengdian before the opening ceremony.

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Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Xiaoshan Airport.

Meng Bai walked out of the platform, looked around, and immediately saw Zhou You waving at him not far away.

"Senior brother." Meng Bai shouted, and then took a few quick steps to the other party and raised his hand to punch him.

Zhou You glanced at Meng Bai and said jokingly, "Shouldn't I call you Teacher Meng now?"

"Hey, are we brothers still talking about this?" Meng Bai waved his hand, "Just call me 'Mr. Meng'."

"Hey, Mr. Meng, when I come back to you, you must take good care of me."

"No problem, just for our friendship, I'll give you an extra chicken leg for every lunch box."

"...What you said is really human!"

Zhou You is the senior brother that Meng Bai had contacted before. When they were filming "Soul Ferry", they lacked a suitable director, and it was he who recommended Wu Bai.

"No luggage?" Zhou You asked Meng Bai, who had nothing in his hands.

"It's just to discuss the spy war script we talked about before. It won't take more than two days." Meng Bai said, "I have a new drama about to start filming, and I have to go back quickly after I finish here."

Zhou You was surprised and said, "A new project so soon?"

"Wow, senior brother, you, an industry insider, don't know about it. It suddenly makes me feel that our previous publicity expenses were wasted."

Zhou You smiled apologetically: "No, no, it's mainly because there are too many messy things in our company recently, and I don't have the energy to read the news."

As they were talking, the two had already arrived at the parking lot. After getting in the car, Zhou You said, "If you are tired, you can sit in the back and rest for a while. It will take more than two hours on the road."

"It's okay. I just took a nap on the plane and I'm refreshed now." Meng Bai said, "I always thought you were still in Shanying, but I didn't expect you to move out."

"In fact, we moved out last year, but we have become relatively independent recently."

As mentioned before, Zhou You joined Shanying after graduation and studied under Director Kong Sheng.

Shanying itself is a state-owned enterprise, and there have always been factions and factions inside. Although Kong Sheng is famous, he does not have a high voice inside, which also makes many of his projects difficult to proceed for various reasons.

In order to get rid of this situation of being constrained everywhere, after discussing with Hou Hongliang who was also in Shanying, Kong Sheng pulled a group of people to establish "Zhongzhong Yangguang", which was considered to be independent from Shanying.

Meng Bai frowned and said, "I remember that Mr. Hou chose to stay in Shanying at that time, why is he leaving now?"

"It's not that he just left now. Our Zhongzhong Yangguang was originally established by Mr. Hou and Director Kong."

Zhou You explained to Meng Bai. In short, Shanying has been trying to seek a listing for many years, but it has never been successful due to profit and other reasons. This year, the upper management of the group plans to introduce external capital to see if it can make another push.

Hou Hongliang was worried that external capital would affect the reputation that Shanying has built over the years in pursuit of profits, so he chose not to agree. However, he failed to convince the upper management, failed to stand in line, and was disappointed with Shanying's future development plan, so he simply became independent. It has to

be said that this group of people who grew up in the early years of the circle are still quite courageous.

The car got on the highway soon. Meng Bai took a look and asked in confusion: "Brother, are you sure you are going in the right direction? Is Hengdian in the east?"

"Who told you to go to Hengdian?" Zhou You said: "We are going to Xiangshan. President Hou is busy filming on the crew. Otherwise, how could he let me pick you up?"

"It's the costume drama called "Nirvana in Fire" you mentioned last time, right?" Meng Bai said: "Didn't it start filming in February? It hasn't been finished yet?"

Zhou You smiled bitterly: "How can it be so fast? Costume dramas are troublesome, not to mention that this is our first drama after independence, so we have to strive for perfection. Conservatively speaking, it will take at least more than a month to wrap up."

Meng Bai secretly calculated that at the speed of Noon Sunshine, it would take until the end of the year to finish post-production. In addition, the TV series needs to contact the TV station to purchase the film and schedule it, so it will be broadcast next year.

Thinking of this, Meng Bai was relieved. As long as it didn't conflict with his own production, it would be fine.

But then again, if my script is really going to be released in collaboration with Noon Sunshine, how long will it take for it to be released?

(End of this chapter)