Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 6 Did I miss someone?

Now, due to the schedule of other shooting scenes, it has been pushed to next week.

Gu Bei had no choice but to pay Eric an extra week's salary, which was a full five thousand dollars!

This is the case in North America, one day more is still a week.

Gu Bei and Eric negotiated the weekly salary.

Whether this week or next, the shooting time is less than five working days.

And because of the snowstorm, Eric finally showed some mercy and was willing to deduct $1,000 in salary every week.

At least Gu Bei only overspent by three thousand dollars!

Immediately afterwards, Gu Bei also arranged for the lighting technician and the sound engineer.

Their reaction was similar to Eric's. Even if one day was longer than a week, they were still willing to reduce their salary a little, saving Gu Bei hundreds of dollars.

"...What? Sally, you don't have any schedule next week?..."

"...We'll finish filming the apartment scenes on Friday and Saturday, and then I'll find someone else next week..."

Makeup artist Sally is not available next week!
Gu Bei had a headache.

Fortunately, he didn't schedule any filming for Sunday.

Otherwise, they would have to shoot for three consecutive days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Sally would have to go to other crews next week, working for eight consecutive days.

This arrangement is even more horrible than taking a day off, and Sally definitely won't agree to it.

But it’s hard to find a makeup artist now.

Considering that the makeup style of the entire short film must be unified, Gu Bei had to interview the makeup artist in person.

But there will be heavy snow tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so there is no way I can go out for the interview!
Gu Bei has realized the importance of the producer.

There will always be problems, big or small, on the crew. Just like building blocks, there is no way to guarantee that everything will go smoothly. It’s good enough to be able to complete it shakily.

"Then I can only do it myself!"

Fortunately, there are full-level makeup skills in the entertainment treasure house.

We shot the apartment scene over two days, Friday and Saturday, where the most difficult corpse makeup was required.

For the remaining scattered scenes, you only need simple daily makeup.

On top of directing and acting in the film himself, Gu Bei also has the added responsibility of being a makeup artist.

I just needed to buy some makeup, but I saved my makeup artist Sally a week's salary.

All in all, he might have saved some extra money.

"Antonio, it's so noisy over there, are you having a party?...Okay, I'm here to inform you that the apartment shoot will be on Friday and Saturday, and the rest will be next week..."

"...Can't take a day off? Even I, the director, skip classes. How can you, the assistant director, skip classes?"

The last member of the crew is assistant director Antonio.

He is a student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and is responsible for some of the responsibilities of all remaining positions in the crew, including life producer, stage manager, and props team.

Do everything, but just a little bit of everything.

Zero salary.

But for Antonio, it was also a sweet thing.

After all, being able to join a crew, even if it is just a short film crew, is already a very good experience for a student.

After Gu Bei secured the crew members, he contacted the post-production company, equipment rental company and the actors.

They charge by the day, so there is naturally no need to coordinate schedules.

They were more than happy to have Gu Bei use them, after all, they were idle most of the time.

After a round of phone calls, more than an hour passed.

There were many problems, but Gu Bei had at least set up the crew. No matter whether it was shaky or not, at least it could function.

Gu Bei touched his ears. His Nokia phone was burning hot from more than a dozen phone calls, and his ears were also burning red.

But his work wasn't done yet. Gu Bei sat down at his laptop and began rewriting the shooting plan, which he would later copy to all crew members.

"Wait a moment!"

Gu Bei placed his fingers on the keyboard, feeling the cold touch of the plastic keycaps.

He always felt as if he had forgotten something important.

"Did I miss someone?"

……

"The number you dialed is busy, please call again later!"

"OK! This is just a joke. If you have something urgent to talk to me about, please leave it on voicemail after the beep."

"Beep——"

Liu Yifei's eyes were red. She wiped her tears and put down her phone with a smile on her face.

She had just been moved to tears by the book written by Gu Bei, and was about to condemn him, but was then amused by the voicemail notification that Gu Bei had recorded himself.

These three sentences were recorded by Gu Bei himself.

The first sentence was in Chinese, which made Liu Yifei couldn't help but take a look at the number. She almost thought that the call was made to China.

The second sentence switched back to English, prompting her to leave a voicemail message later.

The last word is "beep——"
Then I heard her gnashing her teeth and felt like hitting someone again.

Liu Yifei put her phone aside, sat up straight again, and bent her legs slightly so that she could put the book on top for easy reading.

"Swish!"

The room was as quiet as if in outer space, with only the sound of pages turning.

"The Fault in Our Stars" is not thick, with only more than 300 pages in total.

She read part of it in the afternoon and is now almost to the end.

At first, she was trying hard not to cry because of what Gu Bei said in the afternoon.

However, the first-person narrative technique allowed her to completely immerse herself in the heroine's perspective, and she didn't know when her eyes had turned red.

As the heroine faces death every day, the hero Guts appears as a ray of light.

They got to know each other and fell in love, just like any other teenagers their age.

However, everything in life reminds them of their differences from teenagers of the same age and their identities as teenagers and girls with cancer.

Finally, the hero's condition worsened, and it was time to hold his funeral early, so the heroine and her friends wrote a eulogy for him.

Liu Yifei's defense is really broken!

He was such a good boy, so optimistic and humorous, why did he have to die?
Moreover, the heroine's condition is not optimistic and she may follow in the hero's footsteps at any time.

"call!"

Liu Yifei let out a long breath.

there is none left……

She felt a sense of loss, wiped the tears from her face, hugged the books, and lay down on her side with her clothes on.

Before, when Liu Yifei faced the thousands of words of honor scrolling through the system, she didn't feel much reality. Just like her own 300-word "future", it felt like a dream.

But after reading this book,

She found that it was such a simple story.
Grand themes such as survival and death, family affection, love, etc. are all appropriately distributed to their respective roles.

Not only does it not look messy, but it also leaves people wanting more.

She finally understood the amazing talent represented by those thousands of words of honor!
And this book only represents Gu Bei's talent in storytelling!

This is just the tip of the iceberg!
"Why would I reject him next year?"

(End of this chapter)