Here, this program can no longer be called "A Bite of China", it has to be renamed.
What to change
Yang Fan has already decided to call it "A Journey on the Tip of a Tongue".
This will be the first large-scale food program shot using high-definition equipment, also known as a food documentary.
In previous video materials, food often appeared in the form of "cooking masters" or "famous gourmets", showing exquisite cooking skills and complicated processes.
Most of the food TV shows that viewers see are in the form of competitions.
But in the documentary "A Bite of China", food will be presented more in a relaxed and fast narrative rhythm and exquisite and delicate pictures to show the audience the changes in the daily diet of Chinese people, the rich experience accumulated in diet, the diverse eating habits and unique taste aesthetics, as well as the Eastern life values that have risen to the level of survival wisdom.
"Is this a step too big?" After reading the planning document for the program "A Bite of China", Lao Zhao felt it was refreshing but also a little worried.
Because this is not just the mountain city on the tip of your tongue, but the whole country.
Its preliminary research is divided into three parts: literature review, network collection and field research.
The first two were okay, but the last one was scary.
As it involves huge amounts of money, not to mention local channels, even satellite channels don’t dare to do this without precedent.
What the food channel lacks is not only talent, but also funding.
There are no good programs and the channel is on the verge of being withdrawn. Where does it get so much funding
"If I fail, I'll die." Yang Fan also felt pressure. Sometimes success is accidental. Although the probability is relatively small, it is not impossible.
For "A Bite of China" to be put here, it also requires the right time, place and people.
If he fails to adapt to the local climate, Yang Fan will be dumbfounded.
He had a bolder expectation, but now he had nothing except planning the text, so he had to put all his expectations aside for the time being.
In the next two days, Yang Fan first recruited available people for the food channel, such as Lin Bao, who had ideas and was enterprising, and then made preliminary preparations.
Literature research and online collection can be done now, but field research requires sponsorship first.
The funding provided by the channel is definitely not enough to conduct field research in the many places mentioned in the document.
As for the person, Lao Zhao can let Yang Fan choose.
But there is no way around the funding. The station only allocated a certain amount to the food channel, and Lao Zhao has already given as much as he could to the "A Bite of China" program team.
A good cook cannot cook without rice. In distress, Yang Fan wrote a couplet for the food and fashion channel.
First couplet: two, three, four, five
Second line: six, seven, eight, nine
Horizontal banner: North and South
It’s posted on the elevator door of the Food and Fashion Channel.
"What does this mean?" The next day when he came to work and saw the couplet, Lao Zhao asked Yang Fan.
He was not very interested in Yang Fan's calligraphy, he was just a little curious about the content.
"If a leader with a higher level of education comes here and sees this, maybe it will be of some use." Yang Fan sighed. The funding is too limited. With only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan for research, they can only visit one or two places at most. There can't be too many people, not to mention food and accommodation.
Lao Zhao whispered, "Help me hide the secret of my low education and tell me what the meaning is."
Yang Fan prompted: "Which two numbers are missing from the first and second couplets?"
Old Zhao looked at the couplet again, and after a long while he asked tentatively, "One and ten are missing?"
"Yes." Yang Fan nodded, and then asked, "What's missing from the horizontal banner? Can you tell?"
After looking at it for a long time, Lao Zhao said gloomily, "How can you tell? If you say there are too few, there are too many missing. Who knows which one is missing?"
Yang Fan shook his head: "Nothing."
Old Zhao was stunned.
A cultured person.
Lack of food and clothing, and nothing to eat, is the current situation of the food and fashion channels.
It is the channel with the lowest ratings throughout the year in Shancheng TV, and has been so for many years.
Many of the programs on the food and fashion channels are not even original, but are cheaply purchased copyrights that are rebroadcast to fill in the gaps.
"What does this couplet mean?"
"baffling."
Without Yang Fan's explanation, many people from the food channel were confused after seeing this couplet when entering and exiting the elevator.
"Director Zhao did it, right?"
"The words are OK, but the content is incomprehensible."
"This old guy just likes to mess around."
Many people were talking about it.
The food channel is a place for retirement, and there are only three or two young people like Yang Fan.
The old hands are not impressed by Lao Zhao's desire to show off his talents and create a decent original program.
Some people know that they need to travel all over the country to join the "A Bite of China" program team, and they even refuse to join.
If a place for retirement is often not occupied by the people there, can it still be called a place for retirement
Urban Channel.
"Yang Fan went to the Food Channel to prepare a new program?"
"Well, as expected, it's a food show."
"What's so interesting about a food show? Yang Fan is just too proud."
"I don't understand. When a TV station tried to recruit him, he just went for the high salary and power. Now he's going to the food channel. I don't know what he was thinking."
The people in the "Happy Dictionary" program team thought that Yang Fan was crazy, or that he had become arrogant because he had two signature programs on the channel.
Lu Zhisheng has been full of confidence and energy recently.
After Yang Fan left, the position of chief planner was undoubtedly Lu Zhisheng's.
When Yang Fan was still around, Lu Zhisheng had many ideas about the "Happy Dictionary" program.
He felt that the program could be taken to a higher level, but some aspects needed to be modified.
In fact, he is also revising it.
When recording "Happy Dictionary" a few days ago, the program made some adjustments.
If other people in the program team hadn’t objected, Lu Zhisheng would have wanted to make drastic changes.
Everyone wants to play it safe, so changing some aspects of the game is acceptable.
Just renovate it.
Yang Fan had long since stopped paying attention to the "Happy Dictionary" program and concentrated on preparing for the "Travel on the Tip of a Bite" program.
He bought the latest edition of National Geographic magazine, and whenever he saw something edible, he would put a label on it for easy retrieval.
At the beginning, he and researcher Lin Bao and others divided the data by region and compiled them into tables.
Later, I still felt it was troublesome, so I tore up all the magazines. I spent a whole day tearing them up and put the useful information in the magazines into more than 20 loose-leaf clips, each clip was named after a province.
The annual leave was a bit too much, resulting in a full eight days of work in the first week of returning to work before everyone finally waited for the weekend.
What makes Yang Fan a little happy is that there is no program recording this weekend, so he can spend a full weekend comfortably.
Although the first two parts of the preparation for "A Bite of China" had not been completed, Yang Fan did not work overtime and left work on time.
When he returned home, he saw a familiar figure again—Liu Yueyue or Liu Qianqian.
The temperature has risen in the past two days and it's not so cold. The beauty in front of me looks fresh and natural, wearing a red dress and a thin coat, with her long hair tied up behind her, which is pleasing to the eye.
Beauty is a sin, and even a blizzard cannot cover it.
Yang Fan sighed, for a moment just now he almost wanted to commit a crime.
After calming down, he tentatively asked the beauty in the living room: "Yueyue?"
"Yeah." Seeing Yang Fan coming back, Liu Yueyue's pretty face broke into a smile, and the surprise in her eyes was obvious.