Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 186 The factory director has great tricks!
In the heated office, Chen Shiping felt very headache looking at the documents piled up on the table.

It looks like we have to work overtime again tonight. There have been too many applications submitted from various workshops recently.

When he came to Chen Shiping, he stretched out his hand, either asking for money or support.

At this time, outside the office, a director looked around and knocked on the closed door.

Chen Shiping said without raising his head: "Come in."

The office door was carefully pushed open, and a director in his forties or fifties came in with a smile on his face.

"Hey, Director Wang! Come in and sit down." Chen Shiping raised his head and greeted with a smile, then stood up to pour him tea.

Wang Binglin smiled and said: "Director, you're welcome. I just stopped by to have a chat. This is my first time in your office."

"Then we have to sit down and have a cup of tea." Chen Shiping smiled and put the teacup in front of Director Wang.

After sitting down and looking at him looking around, I couldn't help but curl up my lips and said with a smile: "Director Wang said in a meeting before that he wanted to shoot a tragedy, right? Is he already planning to shoot it?"

"Haha, I have this idea. I'm here to learn."

Wang Binglin picked up the cup to relieve the embarrassment, but when he put it to his mouth, he realized that it was very hot.

Chen Shiping laughed and said: "The comedies we shot before were pretty good, so why would we want to make a tragedy?

The second son opening a store is still very classic, but it is still good to have the courage to try. Just like the current producer system, it is also an attempt. What do you think of Director Wang? . "

Wang Binglin squeezed the hand on his leg, why should he be reserved even though he was here?

"I think it's very good. The factory is very dynamic now. I think it's even better than the collective creation model of Shanghai Film Studio!"

"That's right. My model is more mature and I will definitely lead everyone on a different path in the future." Chen Shiping laughed, and then said: "Since Director Wang agrees, then go to the production department to apply."

Having said this, Wang Binglin had nothing to hide and immediately said: "Director Chen, although I am a few years older than you, I have to say that you are very courageous. I will also make more pictures in the future." Good movies make the factory develop better!"

"Let's work hard together! We are all a family! Let's have a good shoot. To be honest, the production department is still supporting you guys."

Chen Shiping smiled, shook Wang Binglin's hand, and sent him out.

After seeing Wang Binglin off, Chen Shiping sat in his seat and hummed, shook his head and continued to work.

I thought those people were strong enough to resist, but now I can’t bear it.

There are many directors in the factory. The factory can only make a few movies a year, so everyone should be stretched.

Let’s drink tea in the office until the end! Drink until you retire!
Everyone is ignorant. In the past, they could only make more than ten movies a year, and the annual investment amount was only more than 20 million.

How much money has Chen Shiping made for the factory since he came up? Employee benefits and investment quotas have all been increased, and you still have the nerve to confront him!
If I hadn't been worried about being a leader, I would have dragged out every one of these people to criticize them!
Chen Shiping drank tea calmly, and soon there was another knock on the door outside.

"Come in." Chen Shiping said calmly, crossing his legs.

"Hey, factory manager, I'm having tea. I just stopped by to take a look."

Chen Shiping didn't even bother to stand up and pour tea this time. The first one to surrender would be rewarded, and the next ones would be pulled down.

"I heard that there has been a lot of trouble in the director's room recently?" Chen Shiping asked while drinking tea.

"Hey, some people are a little moody, but I still approve of the factory's reform measures!"

"Really? I passed by the director's room the other day and heard someone saying that the producer system was not working. I thought it was you."

"I must have heard wrong! I am supported by 10,000 people. It is probably Lao Teng who said it. He always said that Xiying Film Studio is good. I see, he just wants to go back."

Chen Shiping raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect Teng Wenji to be quite noisy, so he went to deal with him later!

"Director, that one"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Shiping interrupted: "You have a project that is still under review and approval. I'll go back and talk to the production department. Just wait for news from the production department."

After Chen Shiping finished speaking, he waved his hand and let him go out.

The visitor didn't even warm his butt before he stood up with a smile and left.

Chen Shiping glanced at the time on his watch. It was now two forty-five in the afternoon. There were still a few hours left after get off work. Let's see how many people would take the initiative to come over today.

He may not remember those who come, and he may not give any resources to them, but those who don't come will never get any money from the factory in the future!
Don’t they all want power? Go ahead and become independent filmmakers!

I’ll take a picture and seal one for you!
A group of directors who reached out to ask for money from the factory also want to shake things up and eat shit!
Chen Shiping's trip to Xiangjiang was not in vain. When he was doing a pilot project in the factory, he even went to the bureau to ask for documents. What he wanted was to silence these people.

Otherwise, like the Xiying Film Studio or the Shanghai Film Studio, who want to carry out reforms like the ones at the top, they can just start the work themselves.

Wu Tianming and Wu Yigong didn't do it all by themselves. How could anyone like Chen Shiping start working on it after getting through the whole process?

However, he is the first-in-command of the factory, and Chen Shiping is only the deputy. After all, they are different.

In fact, Song Zhu also admired the production system. In the original timeline, after he retired, he took the lead in making a film with a producer-led model and made a lot of money.

But he no longer had much influence at that time, and the film he produced became an experiment that no one cared about.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Shiping supported Song Zhu and helped him in the first place. It is very important to have like-minded people.

In the next few hours, several more people came to Chen Shiping's office one after another, all of whom had plans to film and couldn't hold on.

Chen Shiping didn't deliberately make things difficult for them, but he just didn't give them a good look.

The producer system has been established at Beijing Film Studio, but we have to wait until this batch of movies are released to see the results.

In the literature department on the third floor of the main building, several editors were discussing what happened in the afternoon.

"Director Chen's methods are still very powerful. When I just went out, I saw several directors going to his office."

"No, when I went to the production department to submit creative ideas, I heard that they were planning to start several projects."

"Why didn't I notice it before? At that time, when he came to the office, he would either drink tea or just have fun."

"Haha, I remember he flirted with Sister Wu at that time."

At this time, not only the people in the literature department were discussing the matter in the factory, but the news was also spread in other workshops.

"Let me tell you, these directors just can't figure it out. If Director Chen removes that deputy in the future, all of these people will suffer."

"No, if the reform is really ruined, Director Chen can't hold a grudge."

"Everyone is used to being arrogant. In the past, the whole factory revolved around them, but now everyone is doing their own thing, and they feel unbalanced."

Everyone's comments also reached the ears of many directors, and all of them became blushing. From now on, they will no longer be the core in the factory. The good days are now over.

The people in the production department were all crazy with joy at this time, and they would be in charge from now on!

Follow Director Chen and you will have meat to eat!

When Chen Shiping came home in the evening, Tao Huimin was sitting on the sofa talking on the phone.

"Really or not?" Tao Huimin asked gossiping on the phone: "Don't be joking. I'm not the factory director's wife. It's useless for you to tell me."

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore, my husband is back."

Seeing Chen Shiping coming back, Tao Huimin quickly hung up the phone and came over to take his coat.

"Who are you chatting with?" Chen Shiping asked with a smile.

"Who else, Lin Fangbing, could be asking about you?" Tao Huimin asked curiously, "Is the factory really planning to implement a star system?"

Chen Shiping nodded and sat down and said, "She came to you for help?"

"I didn't say it clearly, but that's what I meant." Tao Huimin sat next to Chen Shiping and counted on his fingers: "The most popular people in the factory right now are her and Fu Yiwei, so I'm not in a hurry."

Chen Shiping shrugged and said: "They are not suitable. They are already famous and are not young. I plan to introduce new talents. There are many good talents now. Xu Qing, Gong Li, and Chen Hong are all quite good. I will transfer them later." .”

"Then they will be sad." Tao Huimin didn't care about it, but was a little bit surprised to hear the name Chen Hong from Chen Shiping's mouth.

The little maid who was betraying his master got angry thinking about her, but now that Chen Shiping was his, he didn't care about this little maid anymore!
Tao Huimin graciously let the party go and asked Chen Shiping about filming a TV series.

Chen Shiping then remembered that he hadn't found a screenwriter for Tao Huimin yet, and would go to Wang Shuo tomorrow to make an appointment.

The next day, Chen Shiping found Wang Shuo and others through Liu Zhenyun and asked them to write. The story of the dance troupe can only be written with such flavor by this group of people from the compound.

To put it bluntly, when these children were young, many of them were members of the Huohuo Wenzhou Song and Dance Troupe, and these people would also put gold on their faces.

Bad things like quarreling, skating, slapping one's mother-in-law, and playing the piano can be turned into good things! Just ask them to write the script!
After helping Tao Huimin make an appointment for the manuscript, Chen Shiping went about his own business.

Things in the factory were on track, and Chen Shiping's focus was on movies.

The love letter is almost ready now, and Zhao Fei has even finished the storyboards.

Chen Shiping didn't even look at the storyboards at all. He had to change them during filming anyway.

The photographer's storyboards are all done from the perspective of photography. They can only be used as a reference for the director and cannot be based on what is photographed.

However, many directors now rely heavily on photography. If they were replaced by another camera, they would no longer be able to film.

This is also what many laymen will say, it can be done if the director is replaced by a dog, but the producer model is really mature, maybe it can be done if the director is replaced by a dog.

In many of the later Chinese-language films, the director just put his name on it and found himself seven or eight assistant directors and two great photographers.

Chen Shiping envied that kind of director, but he also despised that kind of director who fed shit to the audience. In his previous life, he was the audience!

"Bah, bah, bah! What the hell is this?"

On the set of Love Letter, Chen Shiping spit out the buns in his mouth, which were the set's breakfast.

You can't see the filling when you take a bite of the bun! Face or dead face!

"Old Song!" Chen Shiping couldn't help shouting as he looked at Song Zhu in the distance.

When Song Tao saw the buns that Chen Shiping took a bite of, he came over helplessly and explained: "I ordered them from a breakfast shop nearby. I ordered too many at once and the boss didn't prepare enough."

Chen Shiping rolled his eyes speechlessly and said, "On the first day the crew started working, I thought you were corrupt."

"Go away, do you want to eat it or not?" Song Zhen was so angry that he wanted to kick him.

If the crew hadn't started shooting today, he wouldn't have come as a factory director. Unexpectedly, he would have been ridiculed by Chen Shiping.

Chen Shiping chuckled and said, "The stuff about Baozi can be big or small. This shows that our production is not yet mature. It should be said that the entire system is not very mature. Field support is also a very important part."

Song Tao nodded, thought for a while and said, "When the camera is turned on, I will go back to the factory to have a meeting with the producers to discuss it."

Chen Shiping took a bite of the unpalatable bun and said vaguely: "After the spring, go to Peking University to recruit talents who can do cost accounting. Although we are a studio, we are the same as those industrial factories."

"I'll use you to teach me. Let's eat your buns." Song Tao rolled his eyes at him and went to find trouble with the production crew.

On the other side of the set, Yu Feihong, who was squatting on the ground biting a bun and trying to memorize lyrics, secretly glanced at Chen Shiping, then took out a small mirror from his pocket to take a look, and then patted some powder on his face.

She has lost a lot of weight during this period, but her whitening has no effect at all, so she can only rely on makeup.

"Xiaohong, come here!"

Yu Feihong raised his head and looked at Chen Shiping blankly, pointing at himself in confusion.

"Yes, it's you, otherwise you still want me to call you Brother Fei!" Chen Shiping shouted while sitting on the horse.

Yu Feihong put away the mirror and said, "If you are called Xiaohong, just Xiaohong. He is the director and he can be called whatever he wants. He has no objection to calling me my wife."

Yu Feihong looked very beautiful in black while walking in the snow. She walked to Chen Shiping and knelt down carefully and said, "Director, what did you ask me to do?"

"I'm telling you a drama, remember not to show too many expressions, your eyes should be a bit melancholy, and your expressions must be restrained."

Yu Feihong nodded, blinked at him and asked, "Is there anything else? For example, how should the characters express their emotions?"

"Didn't you say that you are a book lover and you are studying acting, so you still want to ask me?" Chen Shiping coughed lightly and said, "Just remember one feeling, cold, like snowflakes in the sky, beautiful, weak and confused."

"Don't you want to be sad? This is my husband's funeral." Yu Feihong couldn't help but ask.

"Sorrowful but not sad, I am confused about death, confused about the future, and confused about love." Chen Shiping said with a smile and said: "Besides, there is nothing to be sad about having a dead husband."

Yu Feihong: "." How on earth did you write a love letter!
"Okay, let's go and think about it. When Cheng Daoming joins the group in a few days, you can learn from him."

Chen Shiping waved his hand and let her go. The male lead of the movie was chosen by Song Tao and Cheng Daoming.

This kid is currently learning how to make glass. I heard that he found a glass product factory to learn.

After waiting for a while, the crew was all ready, Chen Shiping stood up and shouted with a loudspeaker: "All departments are ready, the filming will officially start in five minutes!"

Soon, all departments of the crew started to work. Chen Shiping sat behind the monitor and picked up the loudspeaker.

"Love Letter, officially launched!"

(End of this chapter)