If Yang Xiao could use one word to describe the first day of his new job, it would be "busy".
The kind of busy, the kind of busy that the amount of information explodes.
"Okay, this is all the information." Yu Linglong, another director of the program, dragged the last file to Yang Xiao's office computer, and as many as a dozen video files occupied her computer hard drive. The last bit of space. Before that, he had passed nearly a hundred references to Yang Xiao.
"Thank you Brother Yu." Yang smiled and thanked, "I will finish reading these things as soon as possible."
"Don't say thank you... We will be comrades on the same battlefield in the future." Yu Linglong smiled, but that smile was really shallow.
From the outside, he is a typical young man of literature and art. The hair is long, and a small ball is loosely tied at the back of the head, and he is wearing a large, loose cotton shirt. He couldn't tell his age, Yang Xiao guessed that he should be in his early thirties, with two heavy dark circles hanging under his eyes, and the coffee cup in his hand always had a bitter taste.
"It's really a battlefield." Yang Xiao looked at the dense data packets on the computer, and said with a wry smile, "It's too difficult for me to dig trenches with my bare hands."
Yu Linglong said: "Just wait until you get used to it. Teacher Zhou is that character, and he can't tolerate a little flaw in the workplace. If he can't think of a selling point, he'll be scolded, if he can't think of a slogan, he'll be scolded, and if he can't think of a topic, he'll be scolded. Scolding... I have worked under her for eight years, and she has been scolding me since the first day I joined, and she is still scolding me now."
"… "
Yu Linglong seemed to have already accepted his fate, his face was dead, and there was no emotional fluctuation on his face when he said these words.
He quickly skimmed over the topic and said, "By the way, the person in yellow over there is the copywriter, and the person in red next to it is the coordinator. If you need any more information, it's fine. If you need to contact business, go to the side. The office." He raised his hand and glanced at his watch, "There are less than 60 hours until you get off work on Friday, so you have to speed up."
Yang Xiao looked at the blank ppt, and for the first time felt the emotion of running away.
She just learned from Yu Linglong about the twists and turns of their project - before the show was about to launch, the entire core team was poached, and producer Zhou Hui could only redo the show with the remaining shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
Yes, shrimp, soldiers, crabs, generals.
Yes, repeat, do, once, repeat.
It's easy to build a building, and it's easy to blow up a building. But wanting to rebuild the building from the ruins, and the new building is bigger, prettier, more imposing than the original... that is difficult.
But no matter how difficult the job was, she had to do it.
Yang Xiaoxian spent an afternoon going through the existing materials to understand the purpose of the founding of "The King of Backboards" and the ultimate goal to be achieved.
The project approval document was drafted by the producer Zhou Hui, and the first page reads - Gathering folk basketball talents to create the first basketball competitive variety show.
The basketball circle is not a niche, it is like football, which has always attracted an audience of countless fans. But the strange thing is that there is a very clear gap between the inside and outside of this circle. There are always people who want to try to break this barrier, such as inviting entertainment stars and basketball stars to form teammates (such as the NBA All-Star Game), or holding offline events in multiple cities (such as the KFC basketball game), but it can only attract small circles s concern.
Zhou Hui wants to create a brand new variety show. She wants to rely on the power of TV media to make an ordinary person a star.
Therefore, this variety show is just a "draft show" in name, but in essence, this is a "reality show".
The athletes in front of the camera are almost amateurs. She wants to expose their ambitions, their pursuits, their dreams, their ugliness and greatness to the audience.
Under the chase of the camera, who can attract everyone's attention
In Zhou Hui's plan, 27 players will be selected in the first season, most of which come from colleges and universities, and a small part from the street field.
After several rounds of competition, several rounds of splits, and several rounds of mutual selection, there are finally three left. The first is the "King of Rebounding" and the remaining two are "Stars of Rebounding".
Yang Xiao turned the pen on her fingertips in a circle, and she buried her head and began to write and draw on the paper.
When she is thinking, she likes to do mind maps.
She first wrote a line on the top of the white paper.
From: 27 amateur athletes.
Then write another line at the bottom of the white paper.
Final: Three winners are selected.
In the large blank space in the middle, you need to fill in the competition system, rules, how to create a topic, when to create conflicts, the pace of the script, and the points that need to be dig deep.
To be honest, since Yang Xiao started to work as a choreographer, she finds it boring to watch any variety show. Because she is already familiar with the twists and turns inside, most of the conflict points in the eyes of fans are mostly planned in advance by the script.
For a talent show, during the audition of the show, it has already decided which episodes will announce who will retire from the competition; for an emotional program, when the contract is signed, it has been determined which episodes of female guests will get divorced; there are even some A quiz show, because the ratings were so bad, the show team took a different approach and let two contestants with no emotional foundation staged love at first sight in front of the camera and directly proposed marriage...
They always laugh at themselves in the circle, they should not be called the director, they should be called the screenwriter.
Yang Xiao buried his head and wrote down a series of key words on the white paper.
There must be brothers who love each other and kill each other; wild ball players with arrogant characters must have; academic players with contrasting appearance and personality must have; injured, retired, tears, and sad schooling stories must have;
When she finished writing, she looked at the white paper full of keywords, and was silent for a few minutes. Suddenly, she crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can.
No, no, no.
She can produce such garbage, and others can too.
She came to Satellite TV because she wanted to make quality shows, not just to fry traffic!
And... She also has a bit of selfishness, and wants Meng Yufan to sign up for this show and win a bit of fame for him. If she could only come up with such third-rate ideas, how could she be worthy of him!
Yang Xiao got up and went to the tea room to pour a cup of coffee, then went back to the table and sat down.
She picked up a piece of paper again, rewritten the beginning and the end, and then faced the blank page and began to rack her brains for ideas...
The king of rebounds... The king of rebounds... How are these four words reflected in the show
While she was contemplating before the desk, several colleagues from the project team gathered together in the pantry and were gossiping in a low voice.
"I don't think this new director is anything special." The executive planner blew the newly-made nails in a frivolous tone.
The copywriter continued: "Just now she asked me for information and said, 'Give me the several versions of the copywriting that were shot before', I don't know why, how can I keep things that have been rejected? Make me go to the recycle bin to dig through them. half a day."
"Okay," among the crowd, Yu Linglong pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said lightly, "Since she was hand-picked by the producer, let's see how capable she is."
…
"Yu Fan, come here!"
In the basketball training hall of Huacheng University, Coach Wu stopped Meng Yufan and asked him to go to the office to find him.
Meng Yufan took off the oxygen-blocking mask on his head, sweat dripped into his collar like a stream, and the water could be squeezed out of the clothes with a casual squeeze.
It took a lot of effort for him to regain his breath, and he walked to Coach Wu's office out of breath.
The office was still as messy as the last time he came in. There were dirty jerseys piled up in the corners, and all broken sneakers and basketballs were piled up there. Meng Yufan suspected that they might collapse at any time.
"Coach, what's the matter?"
Coach Wu didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "It's something... Just now a program team came to me and said that they were going to do a basketball variety show, and they were looking for young and capable basketball players. Our Huada is a strong team, and they are the first. We are here, saying that it can give us an invisible seed spot and can guarantee to enter the last three rounds.”
The so-called invisible seeds, in the words of the fan circle, are the "chosen sons". Through the method of internal control of the schedule, when the two teams are pk, the situation is favorable to the other side, and a rolling victory is obtained.
Coach Wu added: "I discussed it with the other two assistant coaches, and I think this is a good publicity. It is for the team and for you, but I still need to ask your opinion before signing up."
Meng Yufan is quite a low-key person and doesn't like to be in the limelight. He hesitated for a while when he heard Wu Coach's words, and asked, "But if I go to record a show, won't it delay training?"
"We have also asked each other this question, and the other party said that it is only recorded once a week, and that we can compete with other opponents on the show, so it is not a waste of time."
Meng Yufan was still a little hesitant.
To be honest, he really doesn't like the practice of "invisible seeds". He has the strength, and he can play it upright by himself. If even the game is manipulated, where is the spirit of competitive sports
Coach Wu saw his hesitation and persuaded: "If it is a 'three no' variety show, I will definitely not advise you to accept it. But this "Basketball Mania" is produced by the famous Kiwifruit website, and the team jumped out from a big TV station. , the project introduction is also very reliable, I think you can consider it.”
"... Still no." Meng Yufan shook his head, but he didn't give the real reason for refusing, only said, "I just want to practice with peace of mind now, and I don't want to be on TV."
"Hey, this is not a TV, this is an online video platform."
"It's all the same." Meng Yufan said without blinking, "Coach, I'm actually allergic to the camera. As long as the camera is pointed at me, I will sneeze, runny nose, shortness of breath, and have small red rashes all over my body."
"… "
Okay, the child is older, and the coach can't move.
The author has something to say: Meng Yufan: I wouldn't take part in the roundup even if I were killed...
Xiaoxiao: I have a variety show here and I want you to participate.
Meng Yufan: ojkb!