All cancelled
Xu Qiao pushed back his chair and sat down, carefully looking over the stack of program cooperation sheets that had been almost negotiated.
Mo Chenghong pushed his glasses and gradually calmed down: "Forget it, these few are gone. I'll contact you for other ones."
"And I've read the scripts sent by your directors." Mo Chenghong took the printed scripts to his desk. "These two are good. One is a war film, and the other is a gangster film. Both have positive images, and the directors are reliable."
The script was sent directly to Xu Qiao by the director, but specific cooperation and remuneration still need to be negotiated through the agent.
Mo Chenghong contacted two directors and they seemed to be having a very pleasant conversation on the phone at first.
Xu Qiao tilted his head and looked at Mo Chenghong, and saw that the smile on his face slowly faded and could no longer be maintained.
After a moment, he hung up the phone, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Rejected again?" Xu Qiao glanced at him and guessed what happened.
Mo Chenghong nodded. Now he understood that someone was targeting Xu Qiao.
Otherwise, agreements wouldn't have been reached and then collapsed one after another.
Xu Qiao retracted his gaze and looked at the cooperation order in front of him.
In the producer column, in addition to TV stations and video platforms, there is also Huijin Media.
"These programs are all produced in cooperation with Huijin Media." Xu Qiao pushed the cooperation form to Mo Chenghong.
"Huijin Media?" Mo Chenghong frowned and flipped through the lists. Sure enough, all of these programs had the shadow of Huijin Media.
Putting down the program list, Mo Chenghong tapped the desktop and checked. Sure enough, the two directors just now were also signed to Huijin Media.
It's obviously not a coincidence that this happened.
After figuring out who was behind Xu Qiao's attack, Mo Chenghong frowned and asked, "When did you offend Huijin Media?"
Xu Qiao raised the corners of his mouth slightly, with an innocent expression: "I have been filming in the mountains all this time, how can I have the time to offend anyone?"
Mo Chenghong thought so, but then he felt something was wrong: "Didn't Guan Chaosheng present the award to you at the award ceremony in Shanghai?"
Xu Qiao nodded, thought about it, and took out a business card from his bag. It was the one that Guan Chaosheng had someone give him after the award ceremony that day.
Mo Chenghong curled his lips as he looked at the business card with Guan Chaosheng's name and phone number printed on it.
With only a name and phone number, this is obviously a personal business card.
His expression changed again and again, and suddenly he understood something: "This is to... seduce you."
He even gave him a personal business card, which shows that he at least has no ill-will towards Xu Qiao. But he also ruined Xu Qiao's work, which shows that his intention is obvious to everyone.
This routine is quite common in the entertainment industry. It is easy to get the upper hand by oppressing newcomers when they are desperate and can't get any work.
Mo Chenghong looked at his own artist. His appearance was impeccable, so it was normal for him to be noticed. But he had never heard anyone say that Guan Chaosheng was gay. Was there a misunderstanding
After coughing, Mo Chenghong patted Xu Qiao on the shoulder and said, "Look, they've given you their personal business card. Should I give them a call and ask?"
Xu Qiao didn't say anything. He recalled his brief encounter with Guan Chaosheng on the night of the award ceremony. That man gave him a very strange feeling.
Xu Qiao's keen sense of danger made him not want to have any additional contact with him.
When his eyes fell on the business card, Xu Qiao knew that the other party probably wanted him to beg him.
Of course he wouldn't make that call.
Standing up, Xu Qiao walked to the filing cabinet in the conference room.
Each compartment in the filing cabinet was clearly labeled and classified. Xu Qiao ran his finger over the TV program column and took out a few to take a look.
"Those programs over there are not very promising." Mo Chenghong reminded.
The programs he selected for Xu Qiao were all those with strong production teams, sufficient funding, and quality assurance. The others that he didn't select were definitely much worse.
When it comes to his artists, Mo Chenghong always prioritizes quality over quantity when it comes to the work they accept. If they appear on too many rubbish shows, it will only mean that they are wasting their popularity.
Xu Qiao nodded and started to look through the documents. When he saw Huijin Media was one of the producers or partners, he put them back.
When Xu Qiao saw a realistic program, he stopped.
Putting the other documents back in place, Xu Qiao handed this one to Mo Chenghong: "Take a look at this."
Mo Chenghong took it and looked at it. It was a realistic TV program called "Survival", independently produced by a documentary channel.
Xu Qiao saw that the program had a line of words highlighted in bold in the introduction: "It simulates the survival of ordinary people in real desperate situations, requires an operational survival guide, and survives for half a month without a script and without backup support."
There is no need to worry about Huijin Media intervening in the programs produced by the documentary channel.
only…
Mo Chenghong stared at Xu Qiao and felt a headache. "Let's not talk about the danger of this program. Do you know what kind of people they want? The producers are currently looking for retired special forces soldiers and some outdoor adventurers with strong physical fitness."
"Shouldn't the final selection be made after comprehensive consideration?" Xu Qiao glanced at him, "Sign up for me."
Guan Chaosheng: “???”
He looked Xu Qiao up and down and snorted coldly: "With your physical fitness?"
Mo Chenghong did not forget to do a few squats, and he looked so tired that his face turned pale after running on the treadmill for a while.
"Physical fitness can be improved." Xu Qiao paused, "Survival knowledge is the most important."
Besides... Xu Qiao looked at the introduction of this program carefully again.
It can be seen that the program team really wants to make a survival program that can be used as a teaching material.
Mo Chenghong has counted that there are at least seven or eight similar programs being broadcast at the same time, but they cannot be considered realistic programs, at best they are variety shows.
A group of people went to the wilderness and played and fought like they were camping.
For those who are more professional, most routes are planned in advance, there are people leading the way, food and water will also be prepared along the route, and there are basically scripts and sufficient backup support.
These are more to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and considering the ratings there will be a lot of performance elements.
Many of these measures are not suitable for ordinary people who are actually facing such a situation to imitate.
The program that the documentary channel is going to make really embodies the word "record".
No script or support.
"Survival knowledge is the most important thing." Mo Chenghong repeated his words and choked back what he was about to say.
"Well, let's take a step back and say that even if you are really selected, this program itself is really-"
Mo Chenghong pushed his glasses away and pressed his nose bridge, not knowing how to explain to Xu Qiao.
After organizing his words, he continued, "This documentary channel has always had low ratings. Let me show you a portrait of its audience."
Mo Chenghong flipped through the pages for a long time, found a chart and took it to Xu Qiao, pointing at the data on it: "See, middle-aged and elderly viewers are the main viewers of their programs. If you go up, your fan base will basically not overlap with their audience, and the expected popularity effect you will bring is also extremely low."
Xu Qiao didn't think so: "Since the TV station plans to produce a documentary about wilderness, it means that it wants to make changes to cater to young audiences."
Mo Chenghong sighed, "That's true, but this channel is really poor. The ratings are not good and we can't get any advertisements. You can imagine the production budget. We have always bought the copyrights of foreign documentaries and replayed them over and over again every day. This time we are producing our own program, and the money is really pitiful-"
"Then what else can I answer now?" Xu Qiao glanced at him and answered lazily.
Mo Chenghong: “…”
After a long pause, Mo Chenghong said, "The CEO of Huijin Media wouldn't target you for no reason. Although he has a weird temper, he doesn't look like someone who uses hidden rules. Xu Qiao, you have to be popular in the entertainment industry. He made things difficult for you. If you don't resolve this problem later, you will be unable to move forward sooner or later."
Xu Qiao sat there looking at him without answering.
Mo Chenghong was amused: "Okay, okay, if you want to go then go. I've got to tell you, although the investment in this program is limited, you can't go just because you want to. What can you compare with the retired special forces soldiers? Popularity? The production team is very noble, they don't care whether you are popular or not, and they didn't plan to choose a celebrity to be on it."
Xu Qiao smiled and said, "Let's give it a try. We'll see if it works."
Why is this kid so stubborn? Mo Chenghong exhaled and felt that his liver hurt a little from anger.
Mo Chenghong was very efficient, and perhaps with the idea of making Xu Qiao give up, he quickly contacted the production company and sent Xu Qiao in when the production company officially started looking for candidates.
When Xu Qiao arrived, the other five candidates had already arrived. The director was asking them questions, and when they saw Xu Qiao come in, they all looked a little strange.
As the only star artist, the slim Xu Qiao seemed out of place among these burly men.
The director looked at his fair face, his slender fingers that had almost no calluses on them, and pulled the corners of his mouth.
When the assistant said that a star named Xu Qiao had signed up, he thought it was a joke.
Now he has really arrived. The director thought he was just joking, or he took it for granted and didn't understand the danger of the program.
Xu Qiao walked over, sat down, and greeted a few people.
There was an eerie silence.
"Well, let's continue."
Xu Qiao sat quietly by the side. Seeing the director carefully asking questions one by one to understand the background situation, but not looking at him, he politely asked, "Don't you have anything to ask me?"
The director heard the voice and looked at him, and said in a forced and gentle voice: "You want to participate in our program, but can you eat frogs and insects raw?"
I wanted to tell Xu Qiao through this question, which most people would find disgusting, that survival is not that easy.
Protein is too precious. In the struggle for survival, one must overcome physical discomfort and eat all kinds of strange things in order to survive.
As a result, Xu Qiao looked at him strangely and asked, "Why should I eat frogs and insects raw?"
Director: “…”
Look, you can actually ask such a question. I really don't know what these spoiled stars are thinking of coming here to make trouble.
If you can't even accept eating raw meat, let alone anything else.
The other candidates also had speechless expressions on their faces.
Xu Qiao lowered his eyelashes. "There are a lot of parasites in frogs. Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Spirometra mansoni, Sparganosis... These parasites can parasitize and migrate to the subcutaneous tissue, eyes, and brain, causing blindness, paralysis, and even death."
He spoke the last six words so calmly and steadily that the director's brows twitched involuntarily.
"And eating raw meat can easily cause diarrhea, which will consume all your energy and put you on the verge of death. So why do you eat frogs raw?"
Physical strength is the most important thing, and eating raw food is the most taboo in the wild.
In the book world of "The End of the World", he did eat a lot of raw food in the early days of the end of the world. But at that time, humans had already begun to mutate, and their physical fitness was much better than before, so there was no need to worry about parasites.
After hearing what he said, the director looked at him with a strange look on his face.
It seemed that he was somewhat convinced.
He changed his posture and asked again, "What if there is an absolute food shortage? You have to eat to get energy."
"We will try to roast it until it's cooked through," Xu Qiao replied. "We will only consider eating it raw when we have no other choice."
Although he still felt that Xu Qiao was not very reliable, he no longer completely ignored him as he did in the beginning.
The program team then considered wilderness survival knowledge and geography-related knowledge, including judging time, direction identification, understanding of the footprints and habits of wild animals, as well as temperature zones, wind belts, ocean currents, day and night temperature differences, topography, etc.
Surprisingly, Xu Qiao's knowledge reserves are enormous.
But knowing is one thing, but whether you can apply it in actual survival is the most important thing. The final test of the program team is in the jungle.