Chapter 304 Assistant Director
Wu Yang nodded: "Xiao Chen, now you go to the theater team to get familiar with the situation. I will be here. Xiao Wang, why are you still standing there? Take Director Chen over and have any important tasks? Add more burdens to him!"
Xiao Wang was waiting beside him, understanding Director Wu's intentions, and laughed at him: "Director Chen, please come here. I will introduce you to the specific work of the theater team."
As mentioned earlier, in the crew, the drama business does not refer to specific positions such as lighting, photography, makeup, etc., but is a general term. The drama business does dirty work, tiring work, and miscellaneous work. The one who serves tea and water is simple. When props come, you have to carry heavy objects. After the filming is over, pack up things. The extras are dissatisfied and have to comfort them. The big-name stars have to wait by their side to drink tea.
Strictly speaking, the crew is like a court, and the director is naturally a high-ranking emperor, the screenwriter, makeup artist, and sound engineer are his ministers, and the actors are his favorite concubines. The theater business is just a group of eunuchs, and you do whatever you want. There are so many people who don’t like to do it and rush to do it.
There are five dramas on the set, and Xiao Wang is their little boss, named Wang Shengyi, who is in his forties and is an old fox in the film company.
"Director Chen, I heard that Director Cui is your cousin?" Wang Shengyi asked carefully while leading Chen Huayao forward.
"What? Director Cui is my cousin? Are you kidding?" Chen Huayao was stunned: "It was the first time I met him when I came to hand over the script a few days ago."
Wang Shengyi was full of doubts and asked again: "I heard that Mr. Bai is your cousin?"
Chen Huayao couldn't touch his head and said, "What if my cousin in Baiyoucheng is that would be fine? I still use it to flatter people in a small literary assignment in the city government. I do all the hard work of sending documents and writing materials every day?"
Seeing that his expression was not like a fake, Wang Shengyi asked tentatively: "Then why did you...become the assistant director when you come to the crew?"
This is also the question of most people present. Chen Huayao is only twenty-five years old, has no qualifications, no professional experience, no background, and is still a man. He cannot hide the rules. The only reliable thing is to propose the original script concept and gain the appreciation of Bai Youcheng, but this is not enough to be able to become an assistant director!
In the eyes of the wealthy Moon Entertainment Company, what is a researcher in the Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange Office?
Chen Huayao smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know either. Maybe Mr. Cui and Mr. Bai will like me. I don't know anything. If there are any shortcomings in the future, please take care of Brother Wang."
Wang Shengyi found out the other party's background. When he thought about it, he felt that the rumors that Director Cui and the senior management of the company's competition for power and profit were probably true. This Director Chen was just a stepping stone for him to take office, and it was not worth worrying. He immediately calmed down his cautious expression and smiled proudly: "Xiao Chen! Mr. Cui praised you, that is your blessing. But the key is to have self-knowledge and not be complacent because of this. He must do what he should do."
OK, even Director Chen’s name has been changed to Xiao Chen.
"Brother Wang is right." Chen Huayao quickly polite to the boss.
When Wang Shengyi saw the poplar sign, he threw it on the ground disdainfully, frowned and said, "You are still smoking such cheap cigarettes, which is not conventional or conventional! Smoke mine first today, go back and buy a Yuhu. I will take you to meet the top leaders of the crew and let you continue to work smoothly." Yuhu cigarettes cost 1,000 yuan, which is considered a high-end cigarette. There are not many ordinary people who can afford it.
After hearing this, Chen Huayao's face was dull and almost choked to death by saliva. I was walking sideways in the West District, countless companies were rushing to offer offerings, countless units were scrambling to flatter him, and countless gangsters were proud of having relationships with him, and they would cut down whoever they wanted, and there was no nonsense.
Now this kid has blackmailed cigarettes and even stolen me! Isn’t he accused of using the neighborhood committee director?
Seeing that Chen Huayao didn't say anything, Wang Shengyi said, "You used to work in Wenshu, and your salary was a little lower. It would be a bit difficult to take out a whole Yuhu at once. But think about it, if you do well in the Moon Company in the future, you will be suspended from your salary and stay away from work. The company will pay you 10,000 yuan a month. Which side will be beneficial? Brother Wang, I will give others guidance, but I rarely give people a chance."
Chen Huayao smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Wang for your advice. I will get you two jade lake cigarettes when I go back."
When I walked to the rest of the show, it was a shed made of several triple boards, with three or two cheap plastic benches inside. A bunch of documents were scattered among them, and a few foam lunch boxes were thrown in the corner, which looked extremely simple.
Wang Shengyi introduced the names of the members of the theater team to Chen Huayao one by one. These theater companies have been doing odd jobs in the Moon Company for many years, mainly because of Wang Shengyi's face. They are strong and very good at observing their faces. Obviously, they are used to doing odd jobs. Regarding Chen Huayao, Wang Shengyi only said one sentence: "This little Chen is the newcomer who Director Wu asked to come to cooperate with our work. Don't be polite to him."
"Brother Liu, hello. Brother Qin, hello. Brother Zhang, hello..." Chen Huayao went over to Jingyan one by one, calling him brother to everyone, and was extremely enthusiastic.
Several opera workers had already received the gesture of Wang Shengyi's eyes, and their attitude towards Chen Huayao was lukewarm. Everyone raised their heads arrogantly, with a cold expression. Some took the poplar tree and clamped it on their backs and did not ignite it, while others simply hugged their arms and looked at him coldly on their chests.
"I'm here for the first time. I have no experience. I'll ask some elder brothers for advice." Seeing that everyone didn't want to talk in detail, Chen Huayao lit a cigarette by himself. In the misty smoke, his clear-cut face seemed to be smiling.
"This is almost the same, let's start doing things." Wang Shengyi said domineeringly: "There are more than 40 sets of clothes on the front door just now. It may be used in the next scene. If the car cannot be driven in here, you can work hard and move it over."
"I want my dignified assistant director to move miscellaneous things?" Chen Huayao couldn't believe it for a moment.
Wang Shengyi said unhappily: "If you ask you to go, why are you talking about it? Didn't Director Wu ask you to come here to exercise? How can it be called exercise if you don't participate in the actual work of the theater team?"
It doesn't matter if it's blackmailing a good cigarette. Although Deputy Director Chen is not well-off at hand, the filial piety of the people below is inevitable. Everyone makes money, and the well water does not interfere with the river. I will just watch the fun. However, it's funny to ask the chairman of the Crab Committee to move dirty old clothes for props.
Chen Huayao said: "I clearly remember that Wu Yang asked me to come and lead you. Brother Wang, don't put the cart before the horse."
"You!" Wang Shengyi shouted, "I thought you had a good personal attitude and a talent for creation. Why can't you recognize the situation now? You are a newcomer who doesn't know anything, don't start from scratch? Let you be the director, can you direct?"
"oh?"
Wang Shengyi and his men were all beside him, so they couldn't tell them to joke, and their faces became more and more serious, saying, "Moving things is nothing more than a training. They are all costumes that extras use in the future. If you don't move them or get familiar with them, how can you understand the costume matching of various actors in the future? There is also cost control and actor scheduling. Doesn't this require research?"
It seems that Brother Wang is worthy of being an old bastard who has been in the film company for a long time. He speaks one by one and another, which seems to make sense.
Chen Huayao said with a strange expression: "I think I can also study it when I stand by and watch you move."
Wang Shengyi was anxious and said angrily: "Are you going? Don't make me unhappy, and everyone ended up slapping apart."
His eager oppression of Chen Huayao was based on Wu Yang's instructions and he couldn't wait to show his loyalty to the director. As long as he beat Chen Huayao and let this kid be low and small in the crew and cannot take away the director's power, Wang Shengyi will be the number one hero in front of Director Wu, and his status will rise in the future.
Chen Huayao had to cough: "If it beats apart, what should I do?"
Wang Shengyi simply pointed directly at the nose of the annoying guy and said word by word: "If you don't move things, I'll tell you not to get a box lunch in the crew!"
Receiving lunch boxes is also a slander in the crew. The crew of the film company is working hard to shoot videos and often has to work overtime. The team members are so busy that they often order lunch boxes from outside. Each person has one serving, no more or less, and even big-name stars eat their ingredients together, or maybe a little more and more. The term "receiving lunch boxes" has become synonymous with the crew to work and eat and get a salary.
If you can't get a box lunch, the implication is that you can't make it on the crew. Wang Shengyi has Director Wu as his backer, and he scolds a newcomer with the title of deputy director and doesn't care at all.
Chen Huayao was reluctantly interested, and he was smoking a cigarette, and the cigarette butts were clearly extinguished under the shadow of the simple shed of the triple board: "Brother Wang, you've been kidding."
Wang Shengyi sneered: "Who is joking with you? Everyone opens the skylight and says something. I, Wang Shengyi, are you today! If you don't obey the orders, you can't even get out of the film and television city today!"
Chen Huayao straightened his body and looked down at the other party: "Brother Wang, do you know who I am?"
"I care who you are!"
Chen Huayao rolled up his sleeves, and a cruel smile slowly oozed out of the corner of his mouth: "Since you don't know, you will have to spend the next six months in a wheelchair."
When a few stout drama staff saw that this was all right? The crew was Xinneng who was actually going to attack Brother Wang, was it so courageous? Everyone had a playful smile on their faces and was eager to try it out. As long as they took it seriously, they would not mind giving this young man a little bitter taste!
Apart from the purpose of publicity and hype, violence is the ban on the crew. In case of a storm, the media waiting outside don’t know what excitement should be. Every crew member who participates in the fight will be severely punished. Those who have no background will be fired, and no one in the entertainment industry will dare to hire them in the future. Even second-rate stars will kick them as soon as they say they are not obeyed by the crew management, and no company will like them wherever they are placed.
But if Deputy Director Chen takes the initiative to raise trouble, it is a different matter. Even if he makes trouble in the company, he won’t be afraid!
Everyone is waiting for him to do it.
As they were fighting, a second-rate boy who was gritting his toothpick in his mouth swayed over and said from a distance: "Old Wang, do you still have cigarettes? I will lend me a few packs first. The weather is warm and I am too lazy to go out and buy them."
When Wang Shengyi saw the man, he pushed Chen Huayao away with force. His anger turned into flattery. He smiled like an old chrysanthemum blooming in the wind. He shouted loudly: "Brother Kang! You are old! If you want cigarettes, just call and say it. I'll send it to you. Why do you have to come here in person?"
Chapter completed!