I’m Really a Superstar

After a busy morning, the overall plan is finally finished.

Zhang Ye looked at the time and saw that it was almost lunch time. However, he did not rush downstairs for lunch break. Instead, he found Yan Tianfei's office not far from his office without any delay. There was a hanging hanging on the door. There was a metal sign that read - Office of the Director of CCTV Channel 14.

Boom boom.

Knocked on the door.

"Come in, it's unlocked." Yan Tianfei's voice came from inside.

Zhang Ye opened the door and walked in, only to find that Yan Tianfei was eating. Tong Fu from Channel 14, whom he had just met before, was also inside, reporting to Yan Tianfei.

Tong Fu turned around and smiled kindly at Zhang Ye, and then continued: "Director Yan, let me continue."

"you say."

"This week on our channel, the ratings of "Crossing Shangri-La" are 0.014%."

"Um."

"The national ratings for the second part of "Revisiting Xining" are 0.027%."

"Um."

""Visiting the Tribes", ratings 0.066%"

"oh."

""The Road to the CBA Basketball Championship", ratings 0.092%"

Tong Fu read a series of ratings statistics one by one.

Zhang Ye listened from behind. The more he listened, the colder his heart became, and the more he listened, the more he sighed.

These ratings are so miserable!

No, it’s too damn miserable!

What's half past zero? Is this also called ratings? Is this the current situation on Channel 14? What’s the current state of the documentary industry? This is too low! What is the concept of a ratings of 0.00%? For the most ordinary TV program, whether it is a variety show or a talk show, the ratings are a fraction! For "The Voice" that Zhang Ye originally launched into this world, the ratings were almost zero!

When Zhang Ye was on CCTV One, I saw people doing ratings statistics and related tables. There was an interesting statistic: CCTV One stopped airing programs at four or five o'clock every morning.

It turns into a fixed color picture, and a long background sound. Yes, this is the picture period where nothing lasts until the morning. Can you guess what the ratings are? Even your mother has 0.02%! These are all people who had been watching CCTV one night before and then went to bed without turning off the TV. Therefore, the ratings signal sample sampling statistics were used to calculate the ratings for this period, putting aside accuracy and precision. Let’s not talk about it, but this is indeed sent as a datagram!

What concept?

CCTV's set of dead scenes of programs that were suspended late at night have higher ratings than the small number of programs that are normally broadcast on CCTV Channel 14 during the day or even during prime time. As for the other Channel 14 Several programs with higher ratings than CCTV during off-air hours were actually not much higher. The highest rating, a sports documentary about the CBA league, only had a ratings of less than 0.1%!

This is inhumane misery!

This is too tragic to look at!

Zhang Ye couldn't laugh or cry. He once again had a deeper and more intuitive understanding of the world's record channels. No wonder this channel has the lowest ratings among all CCTV channels!

Alas, fortunately I am here!

Give me a fulcrum, and I will move the earth for you!

there.

Yan Tianfei nodded and said expressionlessly: "I understand."

Tong Fu smiled, "Then you eat, I won't disturb you anymore."

As soon as Tong Fu left, Yan Tianfei called to Zhang Ye, "Sit down."

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Oh, it smells so good." He looked at the two lunch boxes on his desk and said, "Are you preparing your own meals?"

Yan Tianfei pointed to the lunch box, "My wife brought it to me in the morning. It will be easy to heat it up in the microwave at noon. You came just in time. There are a lot of dishes today. Let's eat together and sit down."

Zhang Ye said: "Don't bother me, I'll go back to the canteen."

"The food over there is just that." Yan Tianfei said with a smile: "Try my lover's cooking, I'm sure it's not the same as the big pot rice. I also have disposable chopsticks here, come here."

Seeing that Lao Yan was not being polite, but really wanted him to eat together, Zhang Ye did not shirk, "Okay, then I'll take advantage of you. The food cooked in the canteen downstairs is indeed getting more and more confusing."

Eat for a while.

Yan Tianfei then said: "If something happens, which one are you holding?"

Zhang Yefang handed over the draft paper and said, "This is the program plan I told you about this morning. Please check it."

"It's all done so soon?" Yan Tianfei was a little stunned.

Zhang Ye said: "I will prepare it over the weekend."

Yan Tianfei took it over and glanced at it in surprise.

Zhang Ye stopped eating and introduced: "The first step is program preparation, and the next step is shooting arrangements, expected schedule period, etc."

Yan Tianfei praised: "As expected of Teacher Zhang, you can tell at a glance that the planners of our channel are not on the same level as you." He flipped through the pages quickly without taking a closer look, and then Yan Tianfei put down the planning project. , said: "Okay, as I told you this morning, after this program is approved, you will serve as both executive producer and chief director. The people from the original "The Voice" team are at your disposal. If there are not enough people, first You can also borrow a few people from the office area to help you. The shooting period is whatever you want, and it doesn’t matter when the shooting is completed.”

Is this approved?

Don't you take a closer look? It’s too casual!

Zhang Ye was helpless. He knew that Lao Yan was careless and didn't take the program seriously at all. He might not have even seen clearly that the program was in the form of a filming. He probably just wanted to give Zhang Ye a face and let Zhang Ye Ye made a documentary just for fun. He never expected what kind of film Zhang Ye could make. Anyway, Channel 14 has been half-dead. If it is left to the original people to make the film, it is not good to let Zhang Ye make it. They are all documentaries with a ratings of just a few tenths that few people will watch. Who makes them differently? Yan Tianfei definitely feels there is no difference.

The difference in the shot was a few tenths.

The photo was taken well...it was only a few tenths.

What is the actual difference between ratings of 0.01% and 0.09%?

He guessed correctly, Yan Tianfei really thought so.

It's not that Yan Tianfei doesn't trust Zhang Ye, it's that the two or three years that Lao Yan spent at Channel 14 made him very familiar with the domestic documentary industry. The more he understands, the more he understands the depth of this industry and how important it is to them. In other words, or for their channel, they expect that the most ideal height that domestic documentaries can reach is nothing more than to make a film on their own and win relevant domestic art film awards, take the high-end line of art, earn reputation, and gain a reputation. Fame, as for ratings? He has never had the extravagant expectation that a documentary would have any ratings. The word ratings is simply a ridiculous expectation in the field of domestic documentaries. If you ask for it, you will never get it! This is not the case with CCTV Channel 14. All other domestic TV stations and documentaries are similar. Don’t laugh at anyone, because no one is any better than the other!

Zhang Ye suggested: "Director, why don't you take a look first?"

Yan Tianfei said humbly: "Okay, I will take a closer look in the next few days."

Zhang Ye said, "As for the production funds..."

Yan Tianfei said cheerfully: "As I said this morning, I will grant you one million yuan, so you can make whatever you want! You don't need to ask me for approval if you have any extra money after the filming. If you still want to try another film, you can continue to make the second film." , our channel doesn’t have so many restrictions, it’s very free!”

Any extra money?

A second film?

If you include the cost of equipment, one million would be too much to film even one episode!

What Zhang Ye is most worried about is the production funds. The gap is so big that he is embarrassed to say, "Ahem, what about that, Director Yan, this money... um, can you..."

Yan Tianfei was startled, "What? Don't tell me this money is not enough?"

When people really asked this, Zhang Ye couldn't say anything. Thinking about it carefully, Lao Yan was really good to him. He approved the plan without paying much attention to it. He wanted people to give people, and wanted power to give power. Today they are... It was their first contact, and they were not yet familiar with each other. How could Zhang Ye speak?

Zhang Ye could only say: "No."

Yan Tianfei asked, "Then what did you just say?"

Zhang Ye had already thought about it before he came, so he settled for the next best thing and said, "I would like to borrow several sets of high-definition video equipment, from machines to supporting equipment. It would be best to have three sets to support three teams in different provinces and regions." Carrying out multi-threaded recording work at the same time can speed up the work progress several times."

Yan Tianfei was stunned, "HD equipment? Three sets?"

Zhang Ye: "Yes."

The money is probably gone. If the high-definition equipment can be solved, it can be regarded as saving a lot of production funds. This kind of machine and supporting equipment are not cheap, let alone three sets of equipment that can record independently?

Yan Tianfei asked: "Why do you have to have three sets?"

Zhang Ye said: "I want to finish recording in December. It's written in the planning. I want to record more. After all, winter is coming soon. If the weather gets too cold, some scenes won't be recorded."

Yan Tianfei wondered: "Why do you have to use high-definition equipment? Can't you take pictures with ordinary equipment?"

"Our channel now also has high-definition signals. Although the programs on the channel are all based on regular picture standards, and domestic documentaries have always been this standard, I always feel that it is too wasteful. If there is a high-definition signal output, it must be High-definition programs can better reflect the value, and the value of high-definition equipment is not only the clarity of the picture. There are many professional-grade lenses and many close-up shots that are magnified several times. Only high-definition cameras can produce results," Zhang Ye said.

Yan Tianfei: "But no one uses high-definition equipment to shoot documentaries?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said: "We can be the first to eat crabs."

Yan Tianfei said: "But the cost of filming has increased significantly, and it's not just a little bit higher. Have you ever thought about this?"

Zhang Ye said: "So I want you to help solve the equipment gap. Does our channel have it?"

"We don't have it. It's too expensive and money-consuming, and the station has never allocated channels to us." Yan Tianfei thought for a while and said, "CCTV has a lot of these high-definition shooting equipment, but I and them The directors and deputy directors don’t have a good relationship with each other, and they can’t borrow them even if they want to. Also, there are two sets of foreign language programs there, and there should be four or five high-definition cameras at the sports channel. I don’t have a good relationship with their director. It’s okay, if you have to borrow it, it should be no problem.”

Zhang Ye was happy, "Then I'll trouble you!"

Yan Tianfei spread his hands, "I can only say give it a try. Who knows if they will use it."

"I will only borrow it for two months at most. I will ask everyone to work overtime to record it as soon as possible, and then return it to our brother channel!" Zhang Ye immediately promised.

Yan Tianfei added: "But I can't borrow people. The cameras and reporters on our channel may not necessarily use professional-grade equipment."

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "It's okay, I can!"

Yan Tianfei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't take Zhang Ye's words seriously. He only thought that he was making an excuse to get the high-definition equipment, so he didn't say anything.

In fact, Zhang Ye really knows how to do it!

In the previous lottery, Zhang Ye not only got one hundred experience books on director skills, but also one hundred and one experience books on photography techniques. He knew how to use more or less video shooting equipment. One hundred and one experience books. An experience book is not a small amount, and it cannot be said to be professional. If you are proficient, you will probably have no problem!

Well, now that the equipment is solved, if you don’t need to purchase these things separately, you don’t have to need 10 million to shoot the show. If you save a little more and squeeze a little more, six to seven million should be enough? This is good news! The production cost has been reduced a lot, but the bad news is still the same problem!

Where to get the rest of the money? We have to think of a way!

The documentary that Zhang Ye wants to shoot this time is a signature program in the documentary field that is famous on earth. It is not impossible to make it if you have less money. You can actually make a similar film with any amount of production funds. But in that case, the quality of the program will be compromised. It will definitely be greatly compromised, and it will definitely not achieve the expected viewing effect and ratings. This is completely unacceptable to Zhang Ye, and Zhang Ye will not do such a wasteful thing!

If you don’t do it, that’s it. If you do, do it to the best of your ability!

Zhang Ye even wanted to increase the production budget. He even wanted to use a production budget that was even richer than that of his previous earth to elaborate this classic documentary so that people all over the country and the whole world could watch it. Look at the pinnacle of their republican documentaries!

Money!

Money!

How to fill the gap of several million? ?