Chapter 47
Zhou Chunqing’s status is different now.
Glory's economic team has many experienced behind-the-scenes personnel. Su Ning also asked Qilin to come over to take charge of the daily operations of the team. However, the makeup artist team has just been established and no team leader has been selected yet.
It was precisely because of this that Zhou Chunqing had thought of taking a gamble at the filming location.
She succeeded.
He has real achievements within the team and has immediately stood out from the crowd. He is now considered half a team leader.
And the artists do value her. I’m not referring to Li Chu, but Lin Zhi, with whom she had worked before.
He didn't know the relationship between Li Chu and Zhou Chunqing, but he also specifically praised this "makeup artist" with first-class reaction speed and work quality to Su Ning.
In addition to giving suggestions on makeup and styling, Zhou Chunqing is also quite good at dealing with people. When the concept of the advertising shoot had to be changed temporarily, which inevitably led to an extension of the shooting time, she discussed the changes with the executive agent who was present and ordered dinner extras in advance to distribute to the people on site.
Su Ning has discussed it with the general manager of the brand, but the people on site are all ordinary staff. It is a fact that the time has been extended. Anyone would be unhappy. The artist team should at least do a good job on the surface.
This is mostly how people behave in the world.
Zhou Chunqing's family was in business before it went bankrupt. She was influenced by the family and reacted faster than others.
So later on, not only did the photo shoot turn out well, all parties were very satisfied with it, and even the staff posted a post online praising it, saying that the Glory team knew how to behave and were very humble.
The management team maintains the artist’s image in many ways.
Su Ning quickly found her and talked about some work matters. In the end, he asked, "From your perspective, what do you think is the most important thing for an idol?"
This is the boss talk before promotion. When faced with this question, some people would say it is the stage, some would say it is the personality, or it is the connections, understanding or other things, but her answers are different.
Zhou Chunqing didn't even have to think: "It looks good."
"Not looking good on camera, in my standards, that's absolutely not acceptable."
After all, she didn't understand the other things, so she answered honestly.
Su Ning smiled, but did not judge whether it was right or wrong. He just said seriously: "Chun Qing, I will have to trouble you more in the future. You can try to take charge of the team styling first."
Then Su Ning quickly gave her a raise.
He was a generous boss and would double the salary for this type of increase, so Zhou Chunqing was quickly encouraged.
She will be in charge of the makeup for several commercials that the artists are going to shoot and events that they are going to attend recently.
Therefore, it is more accurate to call Zhou Chunqing a stylist at present. The original stylist was a bit lazy, and besides, she is indeed talented. As soon as she emerged, she was immediately promoted to the top, and her say became much greater.
She didn't understand the part about Ruisong and Zhouheng that required them to write the music, but she had carefully checked the styling and clothes and found no problem. Besides, this brand was an expert in TV commercials and had a good aesthetic.
She made some timely adjustments to Wang Ruoyi's makeup and styling, and quickly changed his top. The creativity of the advertisement itself was also fine. She had picked out several looks for participating in variety shows. It was just a matter of changing clothes, and there was definitely enough time.
You know what, the effect is really good.
The finished advertisements and variety show videos as well as the production process have not been released yet, but the fans will not miss out on these new looks. Many people followed suit and took photos of their airport outfits, and the number of likes increased a lot.
Fans are very honest about things like whether something looks good or not. If the pictures look good, they will make a lot of noise. If they don’t look good, they will pretend not to have seen them and then scold the team behind their backs for wearing ugly clothes. Recently, the official account has been full of praise.
“Please keep up this level!”
"She looks really good recently. I heard she changed her stylist. The previous one was a bit lazy and all the styles were the same cool guy style. This one is better. It's obvious that she is more attentive. Everyone's style is different."
This established Zhou Chunqing's authority within the team in a short period of time.
The team has taken on a lot of advertisements recently. Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai have a bigger problem. The stills they shot are in the ancient style series and they have to change into ancient costumes.
——Ancient costumes are a big hurdle that tests an artist’s appearance.
Ancient costume headgear and clothing are very easy to expose flaws. If you are not careful, layered clothes will make you look fat and strong. If the lighting and camera are not right, it will turn into a cheap photo studio style.
Although this brand is an old domestic brand that has been passed down for decades, it seldom advertised before. It was only promoted by users in the inventory of domestic products on the Internet in recent years. Its main feature is high cost performance, and the product itself is very easy to use, but it is criticized for its rustic packaging, which looks like street goods at first glance.
The brand was also very receptive and changed the packaging of its main products, loose powder and eyebrow pencil, with good early feedback from users, so it thought of finding popular traffic stars to promote it again. Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai were both the first spokespersons for the brand.
The old domestic brand is very sincere, so this shoot should be even more perfect.
Opportunities always come to those who are prepared, but reaching management level requires more than just good makeup skills.
Zhou Chunqing learned from the previous experience and knew that a sudden change of plan on the set would cause unnecessary trouble, which would be very risky for the partners and could easily lead to unhappiness on both sides. Furthermore, last time it happened that the artist had time, but if the schedule was tight, such a change would be even more offensive.
So she learned to ask someone to borrow clothes and headgear before the official shooting.
Although Zhou Chunqing was not well-known before, he had indeed filmed period costume dramas before and knew that the styling and camera shots were very challenging. After trying it on the spot, he immediately found the problem and made a quick decision to call Su Ning and said, "No, we need to adjust it."
"Boss Su, I have to change all these."
She lowered her eyes to look at Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai, then lifted their chins to look at their faces carefully, and said, "I can't let you take pictures like this, even if there's not enough time. If you take pictures like this, you'll be scolded by your fans."
After going through something, Zhou Chunqing, who was a little timid at first, has changed. He has indeed become more decisive. After a quick glance, Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai could only nod.
"Okay," Su Ning checked the time, "but it's a bit urgent to change it now. Ancient costumes are more difficult to style than modern ones. I'm afraid the makeup artists may not be able to do it accurately. How about this, I'll find someone to help you."
"Chunqing, thank you for your help."
Zhou Chunqing: “I understand.”
Su Ning has been busy recently. After he took over Guangying Entertainment, there are still many things to sort out. After the major changes in the company, many people left, but nearly two hundred people stayed. He visited the directors who often cooperated with Guangying Entertainment before and some important behind-the-scenes personnel one by one.
It was not until now that he had a general understanding of the people and relationships in the company, and had a rough idea of which people were used for which purposes.
So after Zhou Chunqing made this request, people arrived very quickly - to her surprise, Su Ning actually found the team of stylists who did the styling for Guangying Entertainment's costume dramas more than ten years ago!
These people have been away from Guangying Entertainment and have been developing outside for some time, and no one knows how Su Ning got in touch with them again.
The wig team had ready-made wigs, and after trying them on, they selected the most suitable ones for the two people. The hairpins on the top of the heads were also changed, keeping it simple so as not to draw attention to the product.
The outer garment was not changed. In order to avoid obvious clashes with the clothes worn in the TV series that made her famous, the inner garment was changed. The garment immediately looked much more elegant. A closer look revealed that the inner garment was embroidered with cloud patterns, which enhanced the texture of the details.
There is no such thing as ancient costumes being out of fashion. After such a long time, the aesthetic taste is still online.
Most importantly, it really suits these two artists.
The professionalism of this team has already surprised Ji Mowei and others, but what they didn't expect was that when they were shooting the next day, Su Ning took the initiative to pick them up.
"You are filming in Rongcheng, there is a project there, I will go there to meet them, I will just take you there." Su Ning said, "But I have to pick someone up on the way, I will ask him to go with you."
No one present knew who Su Ning had invited this time.
They saw a car parked on the side of the road. The house next to it looked like an old residential area where Haicheng locals lived. Then a middle-aged man wearing a simple cloth jacket and a melon-shaped hat walked out of it. He was not good-looking, but Su Ning went down to greet him personally and took the initiative to open the car door for him. He seemed to respect the other person very much.
"Teacher Zheng," he went up and shook hands, "thank you for your help."
This is Zheng Tian, one of the three contracted actors of Guangying Entertainment, who is almost fifty years old.
When this name is mentioned, most people don't know it. Qu Shoubai and the others didn't recognize it at once. They just followed Su Ning and called him "Teacher Zheng". However, many classic supporting characters from many years ago, such as the Swordsman and the White-haired Elder of Xianshan, are well-known to everyone.
He was invited by Su Ning to the filming site. On the surface, he looked like a smiling and easy-going person. He was dressed like an old man and wore an old coat.
The company isn't producing any dramas right now, and they don't want to get stuck in some crappy dramas, but they're pretty free lately, so they don't mind helping out.
"Mr. Su, you're welcome."
Zheng Tian came up with a water cup in his hand and said hello to everyone: "Hello everyone. Hey, my granddaughter likes you very much. Don't forget to sign an autograph for me when the time comes."
When he arrived at the shooting site, his appearance changed immediately.
The concept of Ji Mowei's advertising photo is called "Knight Holding Sword". With his sharp eyebrows, the sword in his hand is a sharpened eyebrow pencil, which really looks like a dagger.
The concept of Qu Shoubai's loose powder is "immortals collecting herbs", which reflects the special Chinese herbal ingredients in the formula. The use of ancient costumes for shooting also shows the brand's domestically produced + long history labels.
Zhou Chunqing's makeup is also very attentive. Qu Shoubai highlights his clear base makeup, with softer eyebrows and eyes, and a very light makeup feel. Ji Mowei highlights his eyebrows and eyes, and his facial features are also relatively deep.
But in addition to makeup, still photos also include actions.
"That's not how you hold it."
"Don't use force on your fingers, use force on your wrists, and don't move your arms like this, it will look ugly in the picture."
Zheng Tian put down his old kettle, pointed at Ji Mowei's wrist and other places where he was posing, and then picked up a plastic stick at the shooting scene, as if he was holding a dagger.
"Like this..." Yan Shanting
He demonstrated: "This is how it looks better."
As his movements changed, his eyes also changed, and the image of an ordinary old man seen on the street suddenly disappeared, and even his white hair seemed to become sharp, making him look like some kind of hidden master.
Then he turned his head again, and returned to his original appearance, with a habitual smile on his face, and said: "Try again."
Ji Mowei stood in awe and nodded in agreement.
As for Qu Shoubai, he also has experience. In this photo, the artist has nothing in his hands, and the powder box was photoshopped in later, which is similar to a performance without physical objects.
Zheng Tian also has a lot of experience in filming fantasy films.
"Your way of exerting force is not quite right. Your shoulders should be relaxed. This is where the waist and abdomen drive the force. Even though this photo only shows your upper body, it is not just about your upper body."
"Your profile looks better. Why don't you try this half-circle move?"
"Yes, yes, move your left arm a little lower, turn it around again, look at me, and lift your chin a little more."
After all, taking photos is not filming a movie. It does not require very high action combos that can be mastered quickly, but there is enough time to adjust the static image.
Both of them have a basic dance foundation and a good comprehension ability, and most importantly, the teacher next to them is very experienced.
Even though they are criticized by outsiders as "old, weak, sick and disabled", the value of these veteran actors who have been working in the industry for many years is just temporarily untapped. As long as they stand in the field they are good at, they are as shining as gold.
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