Chapter 141 Film Festival is Not Difficult
On the day she had an appointment with Fu Ying, Lin Ruoyan showed up in the office a little earlier than normal working hours.
She seems to have barely been in the office in recent weeks. It's like throwing boots on the floor in the middle of the night. The people downstairs are listening. After throwing one, they must be thinking you have another one to throw. They wait in suspense for half the night, but no one throws it. Now, is the other boot thrown today?
No, that wasn't the case. No one had figured out the pattern behind Lin Ruoyan's visits to the company. So they were constantly on edge, constantly monitoring their work attitude. After all, if someone slacked off, they'd be laughed at and their conscience would be aching. With such a high salary and monthly bonuses, who would want to lose such a good job?
The boss was very busy, busy planning various projects and attending to various social events, which was something ordinary employees could not even imagine. They could only behave more diligently when Mr. Lin appeared.
Lin Ruoyan saw that everyone in the office had arrived before work time, and they all looked energetic. The few who looked a little haggard were mostly from the Information Department, and their cots still had unmade bedding.
People from the Human Resources Department rushed over immediately, urging them to tidy up the office's image, helping them make the beds, and letting them go wash and change clothes.
Lin Ruoyan said that they were going to be meeting clients today, and since it was related to the company's image, all departments needed to be swiftly reorganized. She asked Qin Shuang and Feng Qiang to attend the meeting later, and to let them handle any specific matters.
This time, Fu Ying had invited Mr. and Mrs. Luo. The three of them arrived on time and were stunned upon entering the office building. The office immediately felt luxurious and upscale. The employees all wore custom-made suits, each worth tens of thousands of yuan. Every watch they wore was a brand name worth tens of thousands of yuan, making it look incredibly formal.
Of course, these watches were gifts that Lin Ruoyan gave to everyone when they were traveling in Europe.
Lin Ruoyan's company is a real estate company, which theoretically has nothing to do with film and television, but Boss Luo wants to find a partner that does not conflict with his industry.
Boss Luo had recently been looking into Lin's Real Estate. The top-tier luxury homes outside the Fourth Ring Road were already on sale, each priced at 20 million yuan, and word had spread about CY International School's enrollment. These two facts alone were enough to draw considerable attention. Not to mention Lin's Real Estate also had other projects, and backed by the multi-billion dollar industrial company, the Lin Group.
Mr. Luo and his wife have a daughter who just started kindergarten this year, but his wife is already worried about her future education. Their daughter is a foreign national, and since their careers are expected to flourish in China, they will need to enroll her in an international school.
They realized that Lin Ruoyan was quite capable. Even if there was no opportunity for cooperation in the film and television town, knowing such a friend would provide connections for buying a house or attending an international school in the future.
Fu Ying's intentions were simpler: she simply wanted to keep the College Student Film Festival going. Students from several schools had put in a lot of effort to get involved, including short film competitions, photography exhibitions, play rehearsals, and various cultural performances. Throughout the summer, they had been diligently preparing. She couldn't let them down.
After several people sat down in the conference room, Fu Ying introduced them to each other.
Lin Ruoyan and Luo Sihai were clearly more concerned about the film festival than the current film and television base. He had long been impressed by the grandeur of Lin's Real Estate. Upon entering the company, he saw superbly configured computers and well-dressed, hardworking employees. How could he not be envious and respectful? Compared to this, the team at his film and television base was utterly sloppy.
Boss Luo was, of course, delighted that Lin Ruoyan could sponsor the film festival. The title and promotional content were easily arranged, and the venue was provided free of charge by Boss Luo's filming base. It would be even better if the two sides could further collaborate on the filming base project in the future.
Fu Ying specially prepared relevant preparatory materials for the film festival, and took advantage of the advanced equipment in Lin Ruoyan's conference room to demonstrate it with a projector.
Projectors of this era were very expensive. Unlike the domestically produced ones twenty years later that had many styles and could be bought for a few thousand yuan, they had to be imported from foreign countries. A ceiling-mounted projector with high resolution and the ability to play streaming media could cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.
When Lin Ruoyan was decorating her office, she used the most advanced equipment in the conference room. In addition to a dedicated computer access projector presentation system, there were also audio equipment and a multi-party remote telephone conferencing system.
Nowadays, it is very convenient for people to hold online voice and video conferences. They don’t even need computers, and can hold cloud conferences with their mobile phones. But twenty years ago, mobile phones were not yet popular, and this kind of multi-party remote telephone conferencing system was a new thing.
This service system, based on landline phones and online conference rooms, requires a one-time or monthly subscription fee based on the number of access points and duration of use. Dial-up is cumbersome, requiring a long dial-through number on a landline to access the virtual conference room, which is then connected and debugged using a separate device in a different location. Ultimately, only audio is transmitted; video conferencing is impossible due to the slow network speed.
Mr. Luo had worked abroad for many years and had seen everything in this conference room, but he hadn't expected to see it used by companies in China. After returning to China, he witnessed firsthand the rapid economic development in China, with infrastructure construction and the widespread adoption of high-tech equipment even faster than he had imagined. Perhaps soon, computer office work will no longer be limited to niche industries. He is very optimistic about the domestic market.
The film festival event plan Fu Ying presented today wasn't her own creation; it was the result of repeated research she and her student union colleagues had done. The required funding for each component was clearly defined. She had presented this to Boss Luo, who provided some guidance and added or subtracted some activities based on the actual situation at the film and television base. Fu Ying then made further adjustments to the draft.
At this time, the report is still in Word, with some photos and video presentations, no PPT.
Fu Ying brought an 800MB CD with her, specifically to store the relevant data and to prepare for presentations. She had initially worried that Mr. Lin's computer or projector wouldn't be up to par. The last time she'd visited Mr. Luo, she'd borrowed a computer from a film and television post-production company to play the data. This time, she'd added some short film clips, resulting in an even larger file size.
Fortunately, Mr. Lin's office wasn't just luxuriously decorated; the equipment was even more advanced than the best at their school. Using the projector and the speakers, playing a movie was no problem. This time, the presentation went much more smoothly, earning praise from Boss Luo. Lin Ruoyan also felt the event planning was incredibly thoughtful.
Lin Ruoyan was relatively relieved about the film festival. However, questions about Fu Ying and Wei Xu's connection, as well as the film and television town project, lingered in her mind, and she couldn't make a quick decision.
She asked the prodigal system: "What do these people have to do with me?"
The prodigal system said truthfully: [They have nothing to do with you.]
She refused to give up: "So what is the relationship between Fu Ying and the male protagonist Wei Xu?"
The prodigal system replied: [The host is really too smart. These two people do have some grudges.]
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