Actors have no vacation

Chapter 171 Workplace
【5:59:58】

【5:59:59】

【6:00:00】

Guan Chen opened his eyes without warning, and reached out his hand to turn off the alarm the moment the phone beeped.

In the dimness, his eyes were as clear as two spatula lights, flitting around the room like substance.

Guan Chen relaxed his nerves and put down the pen in his hand after he saw clearly that the dark things with bright red dots on the wall were actually cameras.

"Almost forgot." Guan Chen muttered, rubbing his eyes.

Today is the first day of shooting "Life Alone".

But it has been several days since I brought Zhou Guide and them over to scout the scene.There was an accident halfway through.

The four safe houses that Guan Chen took Director Zhou to visit were basically the same except for the size of the apartment.

There are complex terrains around which are easy to throw off the enemy;
There are old-age neighbors who don't care about their own business;
The outer walls of the old house have a lot of focus, there are wall bricks, balconies, circular railings outside the windows for drying, and air conditioners, which are very convenient to climb up and down;
Inside the house, they were all equally poor, and to say it was shabby would be a kind of politeness.

After Director Zhou brought the scouting results back to the TV station, at the meeting the next day, the program producer raised objections, worrying that the content produced in this way would be outrageous.

The audience came to see the residences of celebrities with curiosity, and essentially wanted to see the difference between the lives of celebrities and ordinary people, how extravagant, how luxurious, and how full of artistic atmosphere.If the star's living conditions are not as good as ordinary people's, this will not meet the expectations of the audience.

The producer hopes that Guan Chen will live in the house provided by the program group, with all the furniture, and use some exquisite scripts to show the lovable side of the star, so as to achieve a win-win situation for the artist, the TV station, and the audience.No, plus advertising sponsors, it is a win-win situation.

However, Director Zhou insisted that celebrities are also people, and people are full of strange things, making the audience feel that "stars are also ordinary people", this is the core concept of the program when it was established.

The meeting was deadlocked for two days.

The producer appreciates Director Zhou's insistence on art, so he plans to replace Director Zhou and catch someone who is obedient.

In the final analysis, Director Zhou has only become a small director of late-night variety shows. His qualifications and status are extremely shallow, and he is far from the time when he can be "willful" for the sake of art.

Although the meaning of "variety art" refers to the art composed of multiple artistic components, its commercial attributes are far greater than any of the included arts.

Guan Chen, who waited and waited for the next shooting notice, did not think who was right or who was wrong after the cameraman found out about it.Whether it is the producer or the director Zhou, they are just seeking their own affairs in their positions.However, the commercial value is of no value to Guan Chen, and the pleasing personality even affects him to give lessons to fans.If Director Zhou is not in charge of "Life Alone", then Guan Chen feels that it is meaningless to record this program.

Guan Chen's statement was probably taken as a kind of stance and threat, and the producer gave in.

However, both Director Zhou and Guan Chen knew that if the ratings did not meet expectations, the next time they came to the meeting, they would be higher-ups.The final result is nothing more than two, either the director Zhou will go down, or the concept of the program will change.

So the first shot becomes critical.

Director Zhou was grateful for Guan Chen's generosity and promised to shoot the show well.

On the contrary, Guan Chen became worried, wondering if he was ordinary enough.He knows very well that it is not easy to be an ordinary person.

Zhou Dao vowed to tell Guan Chen not to think so much, just live as usual.

as usual...

Guan Chen stretched, and crawled out of the sleeping bag on the ground.He first walked to the window, opened the heavy curtains, casually and quickly glanced at the road and the windows of the residents across the street.

There is no one on the street yet, and the days of November have begun to shorten and the nights to lengthen.

The place where Guan Chen lives now is located in the west of the city.Among the four candidate houses, this one took the advantage of [close to the supermarket] in Zhou Dao’s rental guide, so it won.

When Guan Chen walked to the window, a camera next to him turned up and took pictures of his profile.

"There is someone so early?" Guan Chen was a little surprised, and asked the camera, "Did you sleep or just woke up? If you didn't sleep, you shook your head."

The camera pans left and right.

Guan Chen clicked his tongue twice, and the feeling of being watched in his heart became stronger.I'm not used to it.

In the whole house, the show assembled more than a dozen cameras, large and small. Except for the bathroom, there are almost no dead spots in the whole house.

It was the first time for Guan Chen to experience this kind of environment, and he had never been so awkward even in prison in his previous life.He fell asleep several times last night and then woke up suddenly, and his sleep was extremely restless.

Guan Chen lay back on the sleeping bag.

Not for getting back to sleep, but for stretching.

Putting on a good posture, starting from the chest and abdomen, followed by the shoulders, hips, legs, and insteps, Guan Chen stretched his muscles part by part.

After the muscles are stretched, there are still ligaments, and after the ligaments are stretched, there are still joints to move.

"I'm opening my body now, and check the status by the way." According to Director Zhou's instructions, Guan Chen occasionally introduces what he is doing to the camera and why he does it. "If you treat the body as a machine, every muscle is If there is a problem with one part, it will affect the final efficiency. Although it is a few tenths of a second error, if you don’t have a concept in mind, you will be in bad luck at the critical moment.”

Guan Chen has taken many small classes, so talking to himself is quite natural, not like the whispers of a madman.

It took about 10 minutes, one after another, Guan Chen's body gradually came to life.

Guan Chen started packing his sleeping bag.

He slept on the floor in the bedroom last night.Originally, he wanted to set up a tent to sleep in, so that he could have some privacy, and he would wake up when he heard the sound when the enemy unzipped the zipper.But because Guan Chen has the habit of reading before going to bed, director Zhou said he wanted to shoot this, so Guan Chen had to take off the tent and sleep in a sleeping bag.

After tidying up the bedroom, Guan Chen casually put on a sweater, and was ready to go for a run.

There was a commotion in the program group, and the cameraman appeared yawning, wanting to follow Guan Chen.

Guan Chen refused.His running routes are all kinds of alleys and alleys. Cars can't drive in, and bicycles and electric cars are not convenient to turn. Let the camera brother run with him, and he may cause sudden death in vain.

"You should stay and rest." After Guan Chen finished speaking, he turned into a corner and disappeared.

The program team waited for more than 40 minutes before Guan Chen panted slightly and ran back from across the street behind them with a bunch of breakfast in his hand to distribute to the program staff.

There are various styles of breakfast.

There are powder sausages, soup dumplings, egg pancakes, steamed buns...

The staff took the breakfast flattered, unaware that they were being treated as experimental subjects.Guan Chen intends to judge which food tastes more outstanding from the eating speed and micro-expressions of the people, and next time he can directly eat the breakfast from that restaurant without any detours.

After Guan Chen finished his breakfast and washed up, he planned to go to work.

"Let's go, let's shoot my ordinary workplace life." Guan Chen talked to the camera with great interest.

Director Zhou had already woken up at this time, and he replaced the staff on the night shift. He followed Guan Chen and took the program team's car to [Xie Jinzhu's studio].

……

Guan Chen looked out the window and sighed melancholy, "At first I wanted to take the subway to work normally."

"Aren't you going to buy a car yourself? From here to Wedding Street, you have to transfer two subway lines." Director Zhou sat in the co-pilot and turned to ask Guan Chen.

"I don't plan to buy it yet." Guan Chen shook his head and said:
"I don't know if it's weird to say that, but I quite like taking the subway.

Advertisements are updated every day on the subway, just like opening a blind box, you never know what form the next ad will use and what product it will promote;
There are many young people reading and listening to music in the car. I sometimes ask them if the book in their hand is good or not, and what song they are listening to in their earphones. Most of the time, they are very enthusiastic and willing to share with me. If I They said they had never heard of it before, and they were not angry, and they would tell me from the beginning - in addition, when wearing short sleeves in summer is the most polite time for everyone;
On Monday morning, I often see a few students squatting on the ground to catch up with their homework. They are very pitiful. I can’t bear to always guide them. Later, when I meet them again, they say that the homework has been completed when they see me;

Very rarely, in the passage, you can also meet wandering folk singers, student musicians practicing courage, wild magicians, craftsmen, and poets who create on the spot. What they have in common is that they all look poor and poor. I hope they can persist until the short video era in three to five years...

If I drive to and from get off work and see all those people back and forth, I don't get a chance to meet interesting ordinary people. "

Guan Chen looked out the window, with the mood of making up for the loss, he kept looking at the scenery and people along the way.

After listening to it quietly, Director Zhou thought to himself, it's not those people who are actually interesting, but Guan Chen who is always curious.

He felt that people like Guan Chen who lived seriously were very powerful.

"After that, let's try to see if we can travel by subway." Director Zhou nodded with admiration, and then asked Guan Chen another question: "What are you going to do next?"

Guan Chen shook the electronic watch on his wrist, very demeanor of a business elite, "Let me see the itinerary first." He took out a booklet of unknown content from his pocket, flipped through a few pages casually, and focused his attention on it. Look, say, "I have two meetings this morning and one in the afternoon, and then I'm going to start taking on new business."

Director Zhou was speechless: "I'm really busy."

Guan Chen hummed and crossed his arms: "I am also a cadre anyway."

Director Zhou felt that with Guan Chen's intelligence, self-discipline, and serious attitude, even if he stopped acting, he would still be a first-class elite in the workplace.

So Director Zhou was not surprised to hear that Guan Chen was already a leader.

After arriving at Wedding Street, Guan Chen, a cadre, was not in a hurry to go to work. Instead, he led the program team and walked from the street to the end of the street, with the purpose of "letting them recognize people."

After Guan Chen introduced Director Zhou to the bosses of the whole street, it was past nine o'clock.

"It's time to go to work." Guan Chen nodded, his eyes narrowed, as if he was going not to work, but to a den of thieves.

Director Zhou followed Guan Chen to the studio on the second floor.

Pushing open the door, the employees inside are already in place.

As Guan Chen walked in, he clapped his hands and shouted: "Everyone, put down your work and start the meeting!"

It seems that something like this has happened many times.

The staff stood up one after another, with solemn faces, those who called on the phone hung up, and those who typed on the keyboard stopped their hands, as if something important had happened.

Director Zhou didn't know whether to avoid it for a while, because it would be troublesome if he took photos of other people's business secrets.

"It's okay, just follow along." Guan Chen waved to the camera.

Director Zhou took the camera and followed with confidence.

The tidied warehouse was temporarily used as a conference room.All the staff stood in a shoulder-to-shoulder circle.

Guan Chen stood in the middle of the circle, turned around, and inspected the faces of each employee.

"It's still the same sentence, it's very important to bravely say what you really want to say." Guan Chen said seriously: "Because some words are not used to represent you, but to shape you."

The staff nodded and clenched their fists.

"Next, let's start the first meeting." Guan Chen said.

Everyone held their breath and looked at Guan Chen nervously.

Director Zhou was also made solemn by the atmosphere.

"The topic of the first meeting - how to organize my birthday party is interesting." Guan Chen said.

The staff gasped, as if they had never encountered such a problem in their short careers.

However, after a year of natural selection, some employees have adapted to Guan Chen's torture.

A staff member said: "Auction, let everyone snap up your items, or have a chance to have dinner with you."

Another staff member said: "Set up a charity casino and donate all proceeds."

Some staff shouted: "Team building, go to Iceland to see the aurora!"

One is outrageous.

However, just as Director Zhou thought this way, he turned his head and saw that Guan Chen was holding a whiteboard, nodding his head, and seriously writing every suggestion on it, which he thought was very good.

"..." Director Zhou was stunned, completely unaware of what was going on now.

Guan Chen then started to announce the second topic: "What flavor should I choose for my birthday cake?"

The staff immediately raised their hands.

"chocolate."

"Matcha."

"Strawberry flavor!"

"What is this? What is this?" Director Zhou looked around in a daze, waiting for someone to laugh, "Is it a prank? Right? Hahahaha..."

However, everyone looked calm and no one smiled.Some people even stared at Director Zhou with "you are too much".

Director Zhou was speechless.

"Okay, everyone write down these options, complete the voting within today, and write down the reasons. Send it to my email before get off work." Guan Chen saw that everyone was fine, and clapped his hands: "Disband!"

Everyone filed out.

Only Guan Chen and the program team were left in the conference room.

Director Zhou: "Those two meetings..."

"It's over." Guan Chen looked at his watch and nodded with satisfaction, "The efficiency is good today, it only took 3 minutes."

Director Zhou prepared to smile, but still felt that Guan Chen was playing tricks.

But Guan Chen never smiled and said it was a joke.

With a frozen face, Director Zhou walked out of the conference room in a daze.It was found that the staff were getting together in twos and threes to discuss the two issues just now.They are canvassing for votes, threatening threats, and Huairou Huairou.A few people also got into a fight over whether matcha was better than chocolate.

No one is doing serious work...

Is this really a workplace for adults? ? ?

Out of professionalism, Zhou strongly suspected that what was in front of him was a pre-arranged prank.

There must be a lens hiding somewhere.

With this in mind, Director Zhou wandered around the studio.

Suddenly, Director Zhou saw a fat middle-aged man sitting motionless on a recliner behind a desk against the wall. His whole body was covered with vicissitudes, as if he had been sitting got there.In front of the table is the title card of [General Manager].

If Director Zhou remembered correctly, he had heard Guan Chen introduce this manager, saying that this manager was best at pretending to be sick and asking for leave, which made Guan Chen very headache.

Director Zhou slowly approached Manager Qian with a camera, and vaguely heard a voice that seemed human but not human, saying, "It's okay... this afternoon... I'm leaving... It's okay... hahahaha..."

This acting is not good, it's all a joke... Director Zhou found the flaw and was very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)