Meng Shitong took a taxi to the studio early this morning. If it were a normal day, she would not get up so early to come to the studio.
But today is different. After shooting the old street for two consecutive days over the weekend, today is the day to start editing the footage. Before editing, Meng Shitong also made an appointment with her partner to have a small meeting.
During the two days of the weekend, while Feng Yifan made Su Ji's business very popular, he also attracted a lot of people to the old street.
Naturally, Meng Shitong and her studio also visited many shops on the old street and shot a lot of materials for editing.
When we arrived at the studio, almost all the members of the studio team, including He Yaqian and photographer A Fei, had arrived.
Meng Shitong and her colleagues actually rented two rooms in an apartment building, one of which is used for editing and making videos, and the other, a larger living room, is naturally used as a place for office and meetings.
After everyone arrived, Meng Shitong asked everyone to sit down and began to discuss the direction of the next video editing.
Meng Shitong spoke first: "We took a lot of photos on the old street over the weekend. Which shops do you think we should focus on?"
He Yaqian said without thinking: "Sister Meng, is there any need to say this? The main one is of course Su Ji."
Almost all the studio colleagues present nodded in agreement with He Yaqian's words.
But Meng Shitong shook her head and said, "No, the theme of this program is clearly 'The New Life of Old Street'. As you can see in the past two days, there are many different kinds of shops on the old street.
So if we simply use Su Ji as the main point, it will deviate from our theme and fail to promote the old street.”
Photographer A Fei agreed with Meng Shitong's words: "I think Sister Meng is right. We can't just use Su Kee as the theme. Although Su Kee and Chef Feng's cooking skills are indeed very attractive, our series is about introducing the old street.
We should actually introduce all kinds of shops on the old street, especially those selling traditional crafts.”
The partners present fell into deep thought, and everyone began to think about how to arrange a video on this theme
After thinking for a moment, He Yaqian spoke again: "Sister Meng, since we want to promote the old street, why don't we introduce an old shop in each video, select the most distinctive shops to introduce, and then end with a summary video."
He Yaqian is indeed the person in the studio who is better at overall planning, so everyone has no choice but to agree with what she says.
However, this time, photographer Ah Fei said, "Sister He's idea is great, but I think that if we do this, the video about Su Ji and Chef Feng that we have already released will not fit in with the overall theme."
After Ah Fei raised his doubts, Meng Shitong also smiled and said, "What Ah Fei said is what I thought of last night, so I called everyone to a meeting today just to talk about this issue."
After another short pause, Meng Shitong expressed her thoughts seriously: "I think, can we make Su Ji and Chef Feng a separate theme
In the video series with the theme of 'The Rebirth of Old Street', we re-edited an introduction about Su Ji
What do you think of this arrangement? "
After hearing what Meng Shitong said, the friends looked at each other and all fell into thought.
Photographer A Fei thought for a while and asked, "Sister Meng, do you mean that we should do a separate Su Ji series in addition to the Old Street series?"
Meng Shitong nodded: "Yes, that's right, because the original theme of our video is also to explore food stores, we can use Su Ji as one of our local stores to create a series.
And I think there will be a lot of things to film at Su Ji. Our previous video didn’t introduce many dishes.”
He Yaqian thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Sister, if that's the case, won't we have to spend a lot of money? Su Ji has a lot of special dishes, and the key is that I will definitely gain weight again. Does this count as a work injury?"
The meeting was originally quite tense, but after He Yaqian said this, all the colleagues present suddenly laughed.
Photographer A Fei couldn't help but laugh and said, "You've been eating a lot, haven't you? I don't think your weight will go up any more."
As soon as these words came out, He Yaqian's face suddenly changed. The next moment, she stood up and rushed towards Ah Fei, roaring: "Ge Qifei, I will fight you today."
The small meeting in Meng Shitong's studio was "forced" to end due to the desperate efforts of He Yaqian and photographer Ge Qifei.
Of course, although the meeting is over, Meng Shitong and her colleagues still have a lot of work to do. They need to select videos with two different themes, and the most important thing is to edit them according to the theme.
In the battle between He Yaqian and Ge Qifei, He Yaqian naturally won in the end. Ge Qifei was beaten so badly that he dared not fight back at all.
Afterwards, Ge Qifei and the others started working on their own and went into another room to start editing the video.
When they really started editing and producing, Meng Shitong and her team were glad that they had brought two more sets of filming equipment when they went to the old street for two days over the weekend, so that they could shoot so much material to use.
When making the arrangements and combinations, after everyone's discussion, it was decided not to put Su Ji first in the theme of "Rebirth of Old Street".
After all, the video introducing the old street does not focus on Su Ji’s shop, but on some old shops in the old street.
Meng Shitong and her team finally focused on a very distinctive blacksmith shop on the old street.
You know, in today's modern cities, blacksmith shops are rare. Especially the blacksmith shop on the old street still adheres to the ancient craftsmanship, which is even more rare.
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While Meng Shitong and her team decided to use the blacksmith shop as the first introduction in the video series, Feng Yifan also brought his apprentice to the blacksmith shop after his mother and wife sent their daughter to kindergarten.
As soon as he entered the door, the dark-faced middle-aged man in the blacksmith shop greeted Lin Ruifeng first: "Ruifeng, what's wrong? Is your stove hook broken?"
Lin Ruifeng greeted the middle-aged man and said, "Uncle He, it's not that my furnace hook is not working today, it's that my master wants to ask you to help make two things."
The blacksmith He Younian looked at Lin Ruifeng in surprise: "Your master? When did you find a master?"
Then, He Younian looked at Feng Yifan carefully and slowly recognized him: "Hey, it's Uncle Rong's son-in-law Feng Yifan, right? What? Are you back from abroad?"
Lin Ruifeng helped answer: "Uncle He, how long have you not been out? My master has been back for a week."
He Younian nodded and agreed: "Oh, you've been back for a week?"
Then he looked at Feng Yifan with some surprise and said, "You are Ruifeng's master? Does this mean Ruifeng has become Su Ji's disciple?"
Su Ji is indeed very famous in the old street, so most of the old shop owners in the old street are familiar with some of Su Ji's rules. They probably know that although Su Ji's cooking skills will be taught, some of the classic dishes are usually not passed on to others.
So the blacksmith He Younian was really surprised that Feng Yifan accepted Lin Ruifeng as his apprentice.
Lin Ruifeng quickly explained: "No, Uncle He, I just want to learn some basic cooking skills from my master, and mainly learn white case to expand the categories of my breakfast shop."
Hearing this explanation, He Younian nodded and said, "Oh, so that's it. Then you have to study hard. Those who were able to enter Su Ji to learn cooking were all top chefs from all over the country."
Feng Yifan smiled and waved his hands: "Uncle He, you are really exaggerating. That is a scene that can only happen when Grandpa is still alive."
He Younian also laughed: "Yes, yes, the old neighbors in our old street all know about Mr. Su. The old man participated in the state banquet. That was really the glorious era of our old street."
Afterwards, He Younian said to Feng Yifan, "Yifan, don't call me uncle. At our age, it's not appropriate for you to call me uncle. Just call me brother."
Knowing that the blacksmith He Younian was a straightforward person, Feng Yifan did not act pretentiously: "Okay, Brother He, we came here today just to invite you to see if you can help us make a few things."
As he spoke, Feng Yifan handed He Younian the diagram of the stove he designed specifically for his apprentice to use to make hamburgers.