Entertainment from Divorce

After coming out of Tan Yue’s office, Xu Nuo went straight back to his office in the program department.

Pushing open the door, Xu Nuo sat down at the desk and put the documents in his hand into the drawer under the desk.

Xu Nuo looked at the time and it was already around eleven o'clock in the morning.

Xu Nuo was ready to take a break, so he leaned back in his chair, picked up his phone and started watching Douyin videos.

On Douyin, many netizens are still discussing the 13 Invitations program that has already been aired.

Many netizens even dug out the host Xu Nuo, and for a time, Xu Nuo became popular among people on the Internet.

After brushing for about ten minutes, Xu Nuo gathered his attention and started working.

The most important thing at the moment is to prepare for the filming of the second episode of the 13 Invitations program. Xu Nuo decided to start with the guests first.

Since the first guest is also from the entertainment industry, Xu Nuo plans to select a guest from another industry this time.

Moreover, the guests must have a certain degree of fame in society.

Xu Nuo prepared to search for information online and planned to select a representative figure from all walks of life. This would not only help him select good guests for the second episode, but would also be of great help for the third and fourth episodes.

However, the workload was extremely heavy, and Xu Nuo did not finish the work until he got off work in the evening.

So at night at Xu Nuo's house, the light in the study stayed on until after one o'clock in the morning.

The next morning, Xu Nuo came to the office.

After working overtime last night, Xu Nuo has already drawn up a list of guests.

I wanted to send it to Tan Yue quickly, but then I thought that Tan Yue should still be processing documents at this time, so I decided not to disturb him for the time being.

It just so happens that I also have documents that need to be processed.

So Xu Nuo also started to process the documents.

An hour and a half later, Xu Nuo felt that the time was almost up, so he took the list of guests and went to the top floor to find Tan Yue.

In the vice president's office on the top floor, Tan Yue had just asked Chen Ye to take the processed documents back and was about to go to the balcony to rest for a while when Xu Nuo walked straight in.

  Tan Yue saw Xu Nuo coming, so he pointed to the balcony and said:

"Let's talk on the balcony. I'm just about to go there to rest for a while."

Tan Yue and Xu Nuo came to the balcony and sat down on the rattan chairs.

At this time, outside, a light drizzle began to fall from the sky.

The two of them sat on the balcony, looking at the capital city in the rain outside.

"The capital city is quite beautiful in the rain!"

Xu Nuo exclaimed.

What the capital city lacks the most is ancient buildings such as pavilions and towers. After all, thousands of years of cultural heritage are stored here.

Looking out now, the capital city in the rain has some of the flavor of the southern water towns.

  After enjoying the beautiful scenery in the rain, Xu Nuo remembered the main purpose of this trip, organized his words, and said:

"Mr. Tan, I have already prepared the list of guests to be invited to the show. They are all elites from various industries."

  After that, Xu Nuo handed the list to Tan Yue, and then continued:

"Mr. Tan, they are all here. Who do you think we should invite for the second session?"

Tan Yue took the list, looked at it carefully, and kept thinking in his mind.

He remembered that in his previous life, the second episode of the Thirteen Invitations program seemed to have invited Yao Chen, who was an actor.

So Tan Yue said:

"I think we should find a popular actor for the second episode, and he must be the kind who has many excellent works."

"We invited male guests for the first episode, let's switch to female guests for the second episode."

"And we need to find a few more and prepare backup guests, so that if a guest is unable to attend due to something, we can make timely adjustments."

"After all, the first episode was a huge success. I don't know how many eyes are staring at us now."

After listening to this, Xu Nuo carefully searched the list according to Tan Yue's request, and finally fixed his eyes on Wang Chen.

Moreover, this actor is also an actor under Brilliant Entertainment, so it is more convenient to shoot with him.

After Xu Nuo reported the candidates to Tan Yue, Tan Yue agreed, and then Xu Nuo found two more lists of candidates.

As for the theme of the program, Tan Yue let Xu Nuo decide it himself.

After all these were confirmed, Tan Yue and Xu Nuo watched the rain scene for a while, and then left Tan Yue's office, because there were still many things to do next.

After Xu Nuo returned to his office, he turned on his computer and prepared to write the draft plan for the second episode of "Thirteen Invitations".

Then, Xu Nuo encountered the first problem, which was where to choose the interview location.

Xu Nuo stood up and walked to the window, thinking, since the person invited this time is an actor, and an artist under his own company, then where should the interview be held?

Xu Nuo looked out the window and saw a park. At this moment, Xu Nuo had an inspiration.

  Why not choose the location in the nearby Nanshan Park, the environment there is very good!

There are also relatively few people, which is very suitable for filming the show.

After coming up with the idea, Xu Nuo immediately returned to his computer and began writing the draft plan.

The next work will be much smoother.

  After the draft was finished, Xu Nuo called his assistant in and said:

"Take this draft to the program group next door and ask the relevant personnel to improve it."

The assistant said he understood, then left with the draft.

Xu Nuo remembered another thing and hadn’t contacted the guest yet.

Since the confirmed guests this time are artists from the company, Xu Nuo does not plan to contact them personally, and lets the program's assistant director do the contacting.

  So Xu Nuo stopped the assistant who was walking out and said:

"Wait, call Director Liu over again."

"Okay, Mr. Xu."

The assistant agreed and then walked out.

After a while, a tall and thin middle-aged man came to Xu Nuo's office.

"Mr. Xu, are you looking for me?"

  Xu Nuo saw Director Liu coming, asked him to sit down, and then said:

"Director Liu, I've been quite busy these past two days, so I need your help with something."

After hearing this, Director Liu quickly replied:

"Mr. Xu, you are too polite. If you have anything to say, just tell me and I will do it right away."

  Xu Nuo didn't beat around the bush and said:

"We have already decided on the candidate for the next episode. It's Wang Chen from our company."

"I thought that you two had worked together before, so you should be quite familiar with each other. So I wanted you to talk to her and see if she is willing to participate in our Thirteen Invitations program."

After hearing this, Director Liu agreed to this matter without hesitation.

……

The next day,

Beijing, Bright Entertainment Company.

In the office of the deputy director of the program department, Tan Yue was handling work.

Fortunately, during the filming period, most of the program department's files were taken over by Director Ma Wenbo and another deputy director. This was to allow Xu Nuo to concentrate on the program "Thirteen Invitations". The reason was that the program was assigned to Xu Nuo by Mr. Tan himself.

Therefore, the promised daily file processing volume is not that large.

As soon as the file was processed, the assistant walked in with a file in his hand.

"Mr. Xu, the plan for the second episode has been completed. Please take a look."

Xu Nuo took the document handed over by the assistant and looked through it.

It’s okay. The plan has been completed in great detail and Xu Nuo is basically satisfied.

  When Xu Nuo was about to finish reading, the assistant pointed to the document that Xu Nuo had already processed on the table and said:

"Mr. Xu, I'll take out the documents you've processed."

After saying that, he prepared to pick up the pile of documents on the table.

"Well, take it out. I've already dealt with it."

Xu Nuo said.

After the assistant took the document out, Xu Nuo opened the plan again and read it in detail. He would have to explain it to Tan Yue again when reporting to him later, so he had to remember some key words now.

……

In the vice president's office on the top floor, Tan Yue was also processing documents.

Tan Yue was not in a very good condition today. Maybe he caught a cold after the work, so he coughed from time to time this morning.

Although Tan Yue had taken cold medicine before coming to the company in the morning, everyone knows that although a cold is not a serious illness, it will take at least three days and at most a week to fully recover.

Although he felt a little unwell, Tan Yue still insisted on finishing the documents.

Outside the office, Xu Nuo, holding the planning proposal, just walked here. Before he could go in, he heard a cough coming from inside.

Xu Nuo pushed the door open and saw Tan Yue coughing violently at the table.

  Xu Nuo hurried forward, picked up Tan Yue's cup and filled it with hot water, then said:

"What's wrong with Mr. Tan? Do you have a cold?"

Tan Yue also recovered from his coughing, drank some water, and felt his throat was much better. Then he said:

"I have a little cold."

"How did you come?"

Seeing that Tan Yue was feeling better, Xu Nuo walked up to Tan Yue, pulled out a chair and sat down, took out the newly completed plan, and said:

"I'm here to report my work."

"Mr. Tan, we have already prepared the plan for the second episode of the 13 Invitations program. Please take a look."

Tan Yue opened the plan in front of him and started reading it, reading it in detail. During the process, Xu Nuo kept introducing some details of the second episode to Tan Yue.

After reading it, Tan Yue was generally satisfied with the planning proposal given by the program team.

But some minor problems are inevitable.

However, for the sake of the program's effect, Tan Yue still asked Xu Nuo to take it back and revise it again.

After chatting about the 13 Invitations program for a while, Xu Nuo left Tan Yue's office.

……

Skyview Entertainment Company.

In the program department's meeting room, the person in charge was holding a meeting with several key stakeholders.

The theme of the meeting was the Thirteen Invitations variety show of Brilliant Entertainment Company.

Because he had already been reprimanded by President Qin Da for this matter.

So naturally his expression was not very good when facing his subordinates.

This is the case in the workplace. After being offended by the boss, people will naturally take it out on their subordinates. And the subordinates will go back and take it out on the grassroots employees. This kind of thing is the same no matter where you are.

"I won't talk about what happened before."

"Anyway, the president's meaning is very clear. Since we can't produce a hit program like 13 Invitations in a short period of time, then we will imitate 13 Invitations."

"Use the Thirteen Invitations program as a blueprint and make a program similar to them."

"It's easy to imitate. Go back and watch the Thirteen Invitations program, study it, and come up with a plan as soon as possible."

"Okay, that's all I have to say. Let's adjourn the meeting."

After the meeting, several planners walked out of the conference room together, and while walking to their workstations, they were still complaining about the person in charge.

"Really? After getting scolded by President Qin, he turned around and took his anger out on us. What kind of person is he?"

"How shameless! When the 13 Invitations program was first promoted, I told the person in charge that this program is very novel and it was Tan Yue's idea, but they didn't take it seriously. Now they are criticizing us."

……

Back at their workstations, several planners gathered together, opened Penguin Video on their computers, found the "Thirteen Invitations" program, and started watching it.

They also watched it a few days ago and were shocked.

But at that time I was just watching as a spectator, but this time the purpose is different.

Since you want to imitate it, you have to understand the program of "13 Invitations" thoroughly.

Several planners held notebooks and recorded some wonderful moments in the show.

After the program is over, we discuss and analyze the program's techniques based on our previous notes.

Although the process and format of "13 Invitations" have been analyzed almost completely, these are only external manifestations. If you want to truly understand it, you must fully understand the core of this program.

Therefore, it is still very difficult to completely imitate the 13 Invitations program.

This is also the reason why the show "Thirteen Invitations" became so popular. Their understanding and shooting methods of variety shows are very unique, and this is also the credit of Tan Yue's original planning proposal.

Several planners gathered together to discuss how to imitate this kind of program.

"What a fool! The leader said it was simple. He said that we just need to imitate their program, write a plan and come up with a new program. It sounds good, but how can it be so simple to actually do it?"

"Indeed, after watching the first episode of 13 Invitations, I feel that the production team has definitely hidden a lot of things, with the goal of preventing us from discovering their essence."

"I agree with this view point."

"I agree."

Indeed, it is very difficult to imitate the actual operation of a program just by watching the video. Some details cannot be seen just by watching the program video, and if the details are not handled well, the quality of the program will be greatly reduced.

So several planners are in a dilemma now, but they dare not go to the person in charge to discuss the matter, because the person in charge has just assigned them a task, and was scolded by the company president and is now angry.

However, if they imitate without grasping the core details, they will definitely be held accountable if the program is not well received after it is broadcast.

So several planners discussed how to deal with this problem.

……

(End of this chapter)