Chapter 263: Insufficient Manpower (Second Update)
The conference room was filled with all the office supplies An Zhixia requested, including an entire wall of blackboards.
Everyone found a seat and sat down, taking out their pens and notebooks.
An Zhixia wrote "Overseas Channel" in beautiful regular script on the blackboard, and turned to look at everyone: "I just took over this channel a few days earlier than you, and our program will be broadcast on the national channel on May 1st. The daily program will also be transmitted to the international channel. It can be said that the time is tight and the task is arduous.
You are part of the overseas channel, let's roughly finalize the program type and content today."
Everyone was a little timid. They came from all walks of life and got in through strong connections. They just wanted to be a clerk, run errands for others, and learn and hone their skills bit by bit. But the reality was a little different from what they imagined. The young leader asked these outsiders to participate in program planning.
Shao Tongfeng was still the leader. He thought for a moment and said, "My family bought a TV relatively early, so I have always paid attention to overseas channels. All the programs we thought of have been performed before, but the response was not good.
Our country of Xiahua has a long history, vast territory and abundant resources, and those programs are also very attentive, but I think that foreign friends who have not walked our path may not understand the wisdom contained in Peking Opera, Manchu-Han Banquet, Tai Chi, Chinese Painting, Tang and Song Poetry. "
Everyone nodded, "Comrade Shao is right. Not to mention foreign friends, even our younger generation may not understand these things. If they don't understand, they will naturally lose interest."
"There are so many countries on our planet, and each country has different customs and habits. The way they think about things and their perspectives are very different from ours. I think we should first find a foreign friend of Xia Huatong to help us!"
Once the idea came to mind, everyone started discussing it.
An Zhixia listened carefully and nodded in encouragement. Divergent thinking is a gradual process. People who make programs need to exercise their brains frequently, so that if she leaves one day, there will be no one who can take responsibility. Moreover, Xia Hua's circle also needs them as the first batch of vanguards to lead others to create a new era in the circle in advance.
When they had almost finished talking, An Zhixia finally expressed her idea: "Whether foreign friends or Chinese people like us, we all need food, clothing, housing and transportation, so let's start with the simplest things. The ancients once said that food is the most important thing for the people, so the first program we have to decide on is the food-related one," she turned around and wrote "Taogui" under the channel name.
"A program that only shows indoor cooking is not attractive. Even if we brag about our own performance, it doesn't mean anything. So at the beginning of the program, we have to go out, just like you said, to find foreign friends for help! Let them taste our authentic Xiahua cuisine, and they will give us a thumbs up from the bottom of their hearts, right?
Our show will be considered a success only if it makes foreign audiences salivate! "
Everyone nodded and wrote it down carefully on paper. Their restless hearts finally settled down when the program took shape. They looked at An Zhixia, a young leader who was younger than them, with bright eyes.
"'Kung Fu' is the second program we chose. Xiahua Kung Fu has always been shrouded in mystery at home and abroad. But as pure Xiahua people, we don't have much contact with it, and practicing good Kung Fu is an extremely boring thing that takes time. So, do you have any suggestions?" An Zhixia threw out the question again.
The twelve people actively discussed this time, speaking freely about An Zhixia's method of opening up the Ren and Du meridians of foreigners.
When they were almost done discussing, An Zhixia took over and said, "Since Kung Fu is mysterious, let's keep it mysterious. This is a channel that analyzes Xiahua to the world. The most important thing is to show the charm of our country. If Kung Fu is explained too thoroughly, it will lose its original mysterious color that attracted people.
We record it in any way that shows how powerful Xiahua Kung Fu is. To put it bluntly, the program is also a form of artistic presentation, and it can have appropriate exaggeration.
For this program, we have ensured that it is 70% to 80% true, and if we can fool our foreign friends, we will be considered successful!"
In just one morning, they finalized the "Travel Notes", a travel guide for Xiahua, the "Customs" which searches for folk artists, the "Xia Yue" which highlights the charm of Xiahua's language and writing, and the "Hua Li" which explains Xiahua's history.
Some are broadcast daily, others are broadcast every one or two days or once a week.
By the time everyone was starving, more than ten pages of the notebook had been used. The number of programs confirmed alone was probably enough to compete with the other five channel groups.
"Teacher Xiao An," everyone got familiar with her and no longer called An Zhixia the director. Instead, they liked to call her the little teacher. "We have so many programs, aren't we too short of staff?"
An Zhixia smiled and nodded, "Let's put together the program in detail this afternoon, and then go to the performance troupe and the graduating high school students to select people tomorrow."
Everyone looked at each other. It seemed that the overseas channel group would recruit quite a few people. A rough estimate was that the total number of people would be comparable to the total number of staff in other channel groups.
Everyone couldn't help but feel a little excited, and were rubbing their hands together, eager to try their hand at the production of the show.
After dinner, they returned to the dormitory to rest for a while, then went to the meeting room early to discuss things on their own. When they had new ideas, they added them to the blackboard.
When An Zhixia arrived, others had already gone through it, and Shao Tongfeng had already started copying it neatly onto paper.
Looking at the fruits of everyone's labor, An Zhixia smiled and nodded: "Sure, the ancient saying that three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang is right. The ideas you have sorted out are more comprehensive than what I thought at the beginning, and they are more feasible. I believe that foreign friends will be able to appreciate your patriotism from the program, and will also gradually like Xia Hua across the screen!"
Everyone clapped happily at the recognition, they were filled with pride and patriotic feelings building up in their hearts, just waiting to put them into practice.
An Zhixia assigned tasks to everyone. The program type, direction, and content had been finalized, so they started writing the plan for the first episode of the program. They wrote it by themselves first, then discussed it together, and finally came up with three plans.
This time, everyone was no longer panicked and timid as they had been at the beginning. They nodded firmly and continued. They were excited when they thought that the global audience would see the program they produced that was full of patriotism.
An Zhixia looked at it and chuckled: "Everyone is in a good momentum, but I have a few requirements for you. I hope you will abide by them as program members: be modest, keep your original intention, resist temptation, and keep learning and enriching yourself!"
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(End of this chapter)
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