Chapter 453: Effortless
November 18th, the second day after Nazha returned to Beijing.
After arriving at the company early in the morning, Gu Wei first found Yang Liwen to discuss with her about appearing on the variety show "Divas Hit the Road 3".
"The most important thing is the editing rights in the later stage. We tell the program team that the final program must be approved by us before it can be released online. This is the only way to fundamentally prevent malicious editing."
Gu Wei knew too well the true nature of the variety show crews on local satellite TV stations. In order to create hot topics and achieve good program effects, they would do anything in post-production editing.
Many times, how you perform on a variety show is not the most important thing. What matters is what effect the program team wants you to present.
Of course, usually the program team will only bully some small stars or unknown newcomers, and they dare not do anything to the real popular stars.
But it is better to be prepared. Unlike Gu Wei's previous participation as a guest in "Running Man" and "Go Fighting", the recording of "Divas Hit the Road 3" will take nearly a month.
There will be a large amount of footage during such a long period of time, and he has to ensure that his image in front of the camera is not deliberately distorted.
"Understood, Boss"
Yang Liwen lowered her head and thought about it.
"Actually, if you plan to appear on Mango TV's variety show, we can definitely make some more requests to them."
"You mean"
Yang Liwen smiled.
“We can ask the production team to put some of our own people in [Divas Hit the Road 3].
For example, Meng Ziyi.
With your current fame and popularity, once the news of your participation in "Divas Hit the Road 3" is announced, it will definitely attract the attention of a large number of viewers and fans.
By then, the number of views and popularity of this variety show will surely explode, and we can use the program to promote our company's artists.
Meng Ziyi has played supporting roles in the past two years, and while she's become somewhat familiar to the audience, she's still a long way from being as popular and well-known as she used to be.
After hearing what Yang Liwen said, Gu Wei nodded slowly.
"That makes sense. We'll kill two birds with one stone. Okay, then we'll negotiate with Mango TV based on these conditions."
Mango TV backstage.
Wu Mengru was sitting in her office processing some documents. She is the chief director of the third season of "Divas Hit the Road" and is currently busy with the preparations for this variety show, including the selection of stars, route planning, local arrangements abroad, and investment promotion for the program. There are a lot of things to do, and many of them require her to make the final decision personally.
Although the first two episodes of the variety show [Flowers and Youth] did not receive very good reviews, the show’s ratings have always been good because of the highlights of the show, which include the quarrels between celebrities during travel.
Especially in the second episode, during the broadcast of the program, Zheng Shuang, Xu Qing and Ning Jing dominated the hot searches for a long time, and the popularity of the artists' quarrels was even higher than the program itself at one point.
According to the normal schedule, the third season was to be filmed in 2016, but Liao Ke, the chief director of the first two seasons, resigned unexpectedly, so the program was suspended for a year.
When Mango TV planned to restart the third season, the station brought Wu Mengru, the chief writer of the first two seasons, from behind the scenes to the front of the stage to serve as the chief director of "Divas Hit the Road 3".
The newly appointed director Wu is under a lot of pressure. She is a new official and desperately wants to make this variety show a success to prove herself.
Wu Mengru learned from the shortcomings of the previous two seasons of the variety show and planned to give the show a new look, so she abandoned the conflict between new and old stars. The theme of the show was also changed from "poor travel" in the previous two seasons to "adventure", hoping that the new look of the show would be welcomed by the audience.
Of course, she also has her own selfish motives for doing this. Director Wu doesn't want others to say that she is following the same path as Director Liao, and she hopes to prove herself with new content.
However, doing so is also much riskier.
First of all, the program spanned three continents and 24 time zones, underwent four international transfers, more than 80 flight transfers, and flew 60,000 kilometers. The cost during this period was very huge.
In addition, in terms of program investment, brands also expressed doubts about the final results of "Divas Hit the Road 3".
Wu Mengru was looking at a plan of activities in Brazil handed to him by his staff, wondering if there was anything wrong or could be changed.
The office door was suddenly opened.
"Director Wu, great news! Terrible news!"
A plump, white-looking middle-aged man in his 40s rushed in, waving two pages of paper and looking excited.
Wu Mengru frowned and raised his head.
The person who came was Huang Wei, the artist coordinator of the "Divas Hit the Road 2" program team. The two have been colleagues for many years and have always had a good relationship.
"Old Huang, what's going on? You're in such a hurry and you didn't even knock before coming in."
Entrusted with an important task by the station, Wu Mengru felt that he was now a leader to some extent and could be more particular in his daily life.
Huang Wei didn't care too much. He walked two steps to Director Wu, slapped the two pages in his hand on the table, and looked excited.
"I just received a call from Wei Ming Tian Xia. Gu Wei is interested in accepting our invitation and joining the filming of Youth with Flowers 3."
"What?"
After hearing what Huang Wei said, Wu Mengru stood up from his chair excitedly.
"Is what you said true?"
"I just hung up the phone and came to see you. They put forward some conditions, and I wrote them down on a piece of paper."
"Very good!"
Director Wu couldn't contain his joy on his face, and he quickly picked up the paper on the table and started reading.
"No problem, agree to all his requests.
With Gu Wei joining us, our variety show is a success!"
After quickly reading the conditions proposed by Wei Ming Tian Xia, Wu Mengru made the decision.
"I think so too. Although these conditions seem a bit harsh, they are nothing compared to the benefits that Gu Wei's joining will bring us.
I just hung up the phone with Manager Yang from [Weiming World] and rushed to find you, fearing that the night would be too long and full of dreams."
Wu Mengru patted Huang Wei's shoulder opposite him.
“Haha~
Lao Huang, you did the right thing!
Hurry up, reply to that letter and make an appointment to sign the contract.
Once the contract is signed, I will release this news as soon as possible.
During the previous investment conference, those brands acted like big shots. I want to see how these brands will react to me now that Gu Wei is joining the variety show."
"Understood, I'll do it right away!"
After Huang Wei left, Wu Mengru felt quite complacent. She walked to the window of her office and looked at the busy traffic and the bustling crowds on the street below. She felt a lot more relaxed.
This good news seemed to have lifted the heavy burden she had been carrying after becoming the chief director, and she felt relieved of the pressure all of a sudden.
Wu Mengru's reaction was not exaggerated.
You have to know that as one of the top stars in the entertainment industry today, Gu Wei's popularity and fame are extremely exaggerated.
As soon as the news of his joining "Divas Hit the Road 3" came out, all kinds of brands came to him and the program team will surely make a lot of money.
With him around, no matter how much the cost of recording the program is, there is no need to worry about the final profit.
Of course, Gu Wei’s salary is also very exaggerated now, but compared with the benefits he brings to the variety show, that money is nothing.
Wu Mengru has worked at Mango TV for many years, and she knows best how popular Gu Wei is.
Back then, the two TV series that Gu Wei filmed when he debuted, "Gu Jian Qi Tan" and "My Sunshine", were both broadcast on Mango TV.
The release of two hit dramas, one ancient idol drama and one modern idol drama, in the same year made Mango TV the most popular in 2014.
During the two summer and winter vacations, the two dramas were broadcast and all the major local satellite TV stations were helpless.
Mango TV also made a lot of money from these two TV series.
Although she has always been working on variety shows at the station, she also has some knowledge of TV dramas.
Unfortunately, Gu Wei's "Love O2O" was missed due to the conservatism of the newly appointed film purchasing director of their station.
Nirvana in Fire was also sold to Shanghai TV Station due to the cooperative relationship between the production company Noon Sunshine and other local TV stations.
The performance of those two dramas also truly proved to everyone Gu Wei's superb ability to lead a drama.
She had discussed this with other colleagues at the station before. Gu Wei has a huge amount of personal traffic, and whether he is filming a movie or a TV series, as long as the quality is acceptable, it will easily become a hit.
As for variety shows, it is no exception. Gu Wei has previously participated as a guest in "Running Man", "Go Fighting" and even "The Voice of China". As long as he appears in the episode, the ratings will set a record for the season.
Moreover, Gu Wei has never participated in a long variety show, and "Divas Hit the Road 3" can be said to be his first time.
Thinking about it this way, Wu Mengru felt more and more that with Gu Wei joining, their variety show would definitely be a hit.
"You search high and low for what you want, but it comes to you effortlessly.
I didn’t expect that this would be accomplished just after I started it.”
The sudden good news allowed Wu Mengru to unload all her burdens and go into battle lightly. Now she has no burden at all in preparing for the recording of "Divas Hit the Road 3". She can completely follow her own ideas and let several young people experience a truly happy and enjoyable "adventure" journey!
Gu Wei, who was busy dealing with various affairs in the company, naturally had no idea how much change his decision brought to the creative team of "Divas Hit the Road 3".
If he knew about Director Wu's inner changes, he would probably ask her to thank Nazha. If it weren't for Nazha's request, Gu Wei really wouldn't be very interested.
Of course, he himself has no aversion to recording variety shows. Like Nazha said last night, he uses the crew's money to go on a public trip and just treats it as fun.
In the afternoon, Han Jianu and Rao Xiaozhi returned to the company with the filmed film materials and began to prepare for post-production.
[Take my brother away quickly] The crew finished filming in Xiamen three days ago, and the crew members and cast members have returned to Beijing in the past two days.
After the filming of this movie, among the several TV series and movies produced by Wei Ming Tian Xia in the second half of this year, only "Ashes of Love" is still being filmed, and the rest have all been completed.
[Ashes of Love] According to the shooting schedule, it will probably be completed by the end of this year.
In the office, Gu Wei slowly brewed a pot of Gongfu tea, and then poured two cups for Han Jianu and Rao Xiaozhi sitting opposite him.
"Thank you, Senior Sister and Director Rao, for your hard work during the filming these past few months. You two will have to pay close attention to the post-production of the film."
"It's nothing. We are film directors, and this is what we should do. Moreover, the work is like our child, and we will definitely give it 100% of our heart."
Rao Xiaozhi replied to Gu Wei with a smile.
"What about our child? I'm telling you, Old Rao, don't talk nonsense!"
"Yes, yes, it's my fault."
Rao Xiaozhi realized that he had spoken out of turn and apologized with a wry smile.
Han Jianu ignored him and picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"But it is indeed very hard work. I regret that I listened to your persuasion and took on this project. If it weren't for Lao Rao's help, I don't know what I should have done.
Filmmaking is not an easy job.”
(End of this chapter)
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