Entertaining Children

"Hehe, you old Hong," Zhang Yunxing smiled and nodded Hong Andong, "You also know that Bayi and Yin Xi are working together on a fashion brand? You, the vice president in charge of external business, are indeed better than me. The news of this boss should be well-informed. Bayi Chinese W≤W≤W=.≥8≠1≥Z≤W=.≈C=OM”

"Old Zhang, I didn't deliberately hide this matter from you." Hong Andong didn't even call "Mr. Zhang", and changed to a more friendly address, "I'm looking at the end of the year, and you in the company There are too many things that need to be busy, and the external business is under my management, which is within the scope of my duties, so I want to wait until this matter is implemented before reporting to you. I also want to try it on my own For the sake of human face, can you win this business from Bayi. If I can't do it alone, I will pull you to go out together."

"No, no," Zhang Yunxing waved his hand, "I don't blame you for keeping it from me. You are the vice president, and you don't have the obligation to report everything to me. But you don't have to try your own face. , Bayi came here this time just for this matter. He came to ask us for someone on his own initiative. He said that in the press conference at Yin Xi’s studio, sixteen runway models were going to be selected from our company. .”

"That's a good thing," Hong Andong said with a smile, "This shows that Bayi still has our company in his heart. Although he has participated in the year-end meeting for three consecutive years, he still thinks of us at the critical moment. Yin Xi Now she is our top model in China. She is going to launch her personal brand, which is a brand launched in cooperation with Bayi. The fashion circle must be very concerned about it. Our model can become her runway model, which is a very good publicity for our company .”

"Yeah, we were talking about this just now." Zhang Yunxing said, "I said let's call the company's brokers for a meeting to discuss this matter, but August 1st doesn't want to hold a meeting. They said that we will have a meeting in the next week and March. In the first half of the year, he directly selected all the models who had no business information."

"Well, it's no wonder I have to come to our year-end meeting. It seems that Bayi doesn't like meetings." Hong Andong said, "Since he doesn't want to have a meeting, then he won't hold it, and just inform our company's manager about it. Just let them send the suitable model materials to Bayi for selection. I think our company's managers and their models should not be unwilling to serve as runway models for Yin Xi and Bayi's brands. .”

"Okay, then I'll ask the secretary to notify the company's manager. If he's not in the company, he can call and notify. If it doesn't work, he can send the information by email." Zhang Yunxing got up and said.

"Wait a minute," Xiao Yao stretched out his hand to stop Zhang Yunxing, "Uncle Zhang, Uncle Hong, actually I haven't finished what I just said."

"Huh?" Both Zhang Yunxing and Hong Andong looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Do you have any additional conditions?"

"No, there are no additional conditions." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "It's just that the matter is not clear."

"What do you say.

"Zhang Yunxing said.

"I just said that there will be no business in the next week and the first ten days of March, and there will be free model materials. It's not just about picking people for me and Yin Xi's brand press conference." Xiao Yao said, "Actually, I have two models on hand. A project. I’m free in early March, and I’m looking for catwalk models for the brand’s press conference. I’m free in the next week, and I’m looking for graphic models, and most of them are male models. I’m For a photography project of my own."

"Your own photography project? In the next week?" Hong Andong asked strangely, "What brand of photography project? What you can agree to sell should not be the second- and third-rate brands or fashion publications, but I haven't I heard that there are some big domestic brands or publications that have photography projects. You don’t mean to take our company’s models to foreign projects, do you? That would be even better.”

"It's a domestic project, but it's not for a brand, it's for a TV show." Xiao Yao said, shaking his head again, "That's not accurate. Forget it, let me start from the beginning. That’s what happened. Do you know about Yanjing Satellite TV’s "Ancient Poetry Conference"? I promised them to take a set of classical portraits for the champion of the last season of this show and put them on their show’s official website as promotional photos.”

"I know, I've watched this show. Didn't you participate in the No. 1 Scholar Special and won the No. 1 Scholar Special?" Hong Andong said, "The last season's champion was a girl named Tu Yiyuan, who was the same age as you, and last year was also the college entrance examination No. 1 champion, the final episode of No. 1 Scholar is the pk between the two of you. But why did you find a model from our company when you took a photo of that little girl? Take group portrait photos? Our company’s models don’t have any contestants from that show, which is in line with the proposal of the program group Is there a shooting request?"

"It really doesn't match, so it's not accurate to say that it was filmed for them." Xiao Yao said, ""Ancient Poetry Conference" is a program with high ratings on Yanjing Satellite TV. Tu Yiyuan is a "scholar" from this program. I think the program group wants to make Tu Yiyuan a business card of the show, so they attach great importance to this photo shooting. In addition to requiring Tu Yiyuan's photos to be classical and graceful to match their show style, and also promised to provide me with costumes, props and venues. When I was conceiving Tu Yiyuan’s shooting plan yesterday, I thought of an idea. Since there are ready-made costumes, props and venues, in addition to taking personal photos for Tu Yiyuan , I also plan to make another static film with Tu Yiyuan as the main character, and I need to select some models from our company as supporting roles."

"Static movie?" Both Hong Andong and Zhang Yunxing asked in confusion, "What is that?"

"In professional terms, it's called picture montage," Xiao Yao said. "In simple terms, it's using photos to tell a story. Generally, the reason why the movies we watch feel dynamic is to show the film at 24 frames per second. Achieved. To put it bluntly, a two-hour movie, 7,200 seconds, is composed of 172,800 films. And a static movie does not need hundreds of thousands of films to form a film. Instead of a movie, a dozen or dozens of photos are used to express a story."

Xiao Yao continued, "Static movies are different from ordinary portraits. They are the same as making movies. Scripts, costumes, actors, and props are all indispensable. I can write the script myself, and now someone has provided me with costumes. For props and venues, I just need to find actors."

"You can also write scripts?" Zhang Yunxing asked in surprise.

"Yes, I have not only written scripts, but also directed them." Xiao Yao laughed.

"I know this. The TV series that your family collaborated with Dongri Sunshine was written by you, and you also directed the MV yourself." Hong Andong said, "But since it's the same as making a movie, shouldn't you find a film and television actor? ? Why are you looking for a model?"

"Because it is different from making a movie. It only has a dozen or dozens of photos. These photos should have the visual effect of still photos, which can shock people, not like ordinary movie screenshots. So What I need is not a film and television actor with dynamic acting skills in front of the camera lens, but a model with static performance in front of the camera lens.

In fact, picture montage is also a compulsory course for students majoring in film directing, but there is no photographer in this world who has taken it as a photography project. Students majoring in directing are not necessarily professional photographers, and not many people will make picture montages into blockbuster photographs comparable to still photos in order to complete their homework. Naturally, not many people will use professional flat models to shoot stills Movie. But I am different, I am a professional photographer, I majored in film and television, I have been a director, I can play like this. "

"Sounds very interesting," Zhang Yunxing and Hong Andong nodded at the same time.

Zhang Yunxing said: "Since it is your own project, and it is a new trick that no one else has tried, we must fully support it. I think the company's agents and models should also want to participate in your project. "

"That's not necessarily the case," Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head and said, "Go and be a catwalk model for me and Yin Xi's brand press conference. We will pay according to the rules, and we will do whatever we want. The specific price is your agent. You can talk to Yin Xi, I’m only responsible for selecting people. But my own static film project, this is my personal attempt, purely for fun, and I don’t think of any commercial use for the time being, so the graphic model of this project is not paid You can take it. You have to make this clear with your agents and their models."

Although the static expression of professional models in front of the camera lens is relatively strong, those professional film and television actors usually take various promotional photos, and their performance in photography is actually very good. However, when Xiao Yao made the short film "Tuner", he had already brushed up his resources in film and television actors. Xiao Yao himself felt a little embarrassed when actors came to play for free.

"You are a free model." Zhang Yunxing understood, and joked with a smile, "You boss is really picky."

"I can't help it, I'm poor!" Xiao Yao spread his hands, "I've already invested all the company's dividends this year in other places. The still movie I made this time is about ancient costumes, and I can't get the factory to do it. This is not an ordinary movie, no one has played it like this before, and I don’t know if it can be sold after filming, so I can only regard it as my own fun work, not a commercial work. I haven’t seen my costume props Do the venues have to take advantage of other people's program groups to dare to open this project?"

Xiao Yao had seen two static movies in his previous life, namely "Xin Jin Ping Mei" and "Red Cliff Tongque Terrace". Those photos look beautiful and amazing, but the characters in them are too sexy and revealing. The highlights are the beautiful backs, long legs and big "steamed buns" of the female models in the pictures. Xiao Yao doesn't intend to make that style of static movie. His protagonist is Tu Yiyuan, and he can't make that kind of large-scale sexy style.

After chatting with Tu Yiyuan, Xiao Yao found that the ancient talented woman Tu Yiyuan admired most was Li Qingzhao, a poetess from the Song Dynasty. Moreover, Tu Yiyuan didn't know Li Qingzhao's life very well, and she herself was very similar to Li Qingzhao's temperament. There are not only the gracefulness in Li Qingzhao's poems, but also the impassionedness in Li Qingzhao's poems. Xiao Yao himself admired Li Qingzhao, the "most talented woman of all time", so he planned to make a static movie about Li Qingzhao's life with Tu Yiyuan as the protagonist.

Although Tu Yiyuan is a "scholar internet celebrity", she is not an entertainer in the entertainment circle after all. Moreover, Li Qingzhao's life story is far less entertaining than Jin Ping Mei and Tongque Terrace. In addition, this static film of his does not have large-scale images to attract attention, so Xiao Yao is not sure about the "money" of this static film. I really don't have much confidence.