By linking my account to the check-in system, I became a leisurely traveler.

Chapter 193 High-Quality Videos Can Be a Problem Too [First Update!]

However, after a brief moment of surprise, one of the onlookers couldn't help but sneer.

"Well, this guy seems to have some photography background."

"What was his profession again?"

"Oh, by the way, she's a professional internet celebrity."

"He makes money by shooting videos, so it's quite reasonable that he has such superb shooting skills."

"Having just arrived at his solitary residence, he was quite excited and showed us his superb photography skills."

Then he laughed.

"But this guy might have forgotten that this is a solitary place in the wilderness!"

"I bet his calm excitement won't even last until dark."

Although the others did not respond, they nodded slightly, clearly agreeing with this statement.

Everyone had something to do, so after watching the footage, they all returned to their workstations.

Only the guy responsible for editing Li Younan's videos remained. He glanced at the length of the video footage, sighed slightly, and said, "Of all the videos uploaded, this guy's is the longest!"

"He probably filmed everything, hahaha."

"I estimate there are a lot of unusable films."

The editor shrugged: "Who knows? Looks like I'll have to work overtime tonight."

So he continued watching, but as he watched, his relaxed expression gradually turned to doubt.

Li Younan's videos are mostly arranged in chronological order.

After finishing his initial sightseeing, he began searching for a location for a shelter.

When the video showed him aiming at a relatively distant target, the editor, with his arms crossed and leaning back in his chair, frankly wasn't a good choice.

It's not that the shelter was bad, but we spent so much effort and traveled so many miles just to choose a shelter.

After arriving at the shelter's chosen location, he brazenly told the camera, "I'll spend about three hours looking for food and try to have lunch before noon."

The editor chuckled at the precise timing.

Because Li Younan's tone was as if he were saying, "I'm going to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast, it will take about 20 minutes." How could such a precise time calculation be possible in the wilderness?

This is a wilderness where everything is unknown and uncertain!
In the following video, Li Younan began to name the various plants in the frame with great familiarity and tried to explain their names to the audience.

He then found the vines of a plant and quickly wove the materials into a small basket.

The editor was stunned for a moment.

He then adjusted his posture and his expression became serious.

The skill that Li Younan just displayed was indeed a bit unexpected. He had never seen a contestant show such a skill on the show before.

Next came Li Younan's first truly shining moment.

He searched through the woods with a basket in his hand, saying, "To be honest, I find it hard to imagine how anyone could not survive in a place with such abundant resources."

Upon hearing this, the editor's lips twitched slightly.

what?
Supplies, plentiful? Can these words be combined with wilderness?
In the following video, Li Younan begins searching in the forest.

He would occasionally find some kind of plant somewhere; sometimes it was the root of a rhizome-like plant, sometimes it was some kind of green plant with leaves, and sometimes it was berries of various colors.

As a seasoned video editor, he had seen many clips of contestants searching for food, but almost none of them were as successful as Li Younan.

He even doubted whether the plants Li Younan had picked up were edible.

However, during the search, Li Younan not only dug and picked, but also kept talking, explaining to the viewers outside the video what the things he found were called, and even the details of the carbohydrates, trace elements, and taste they contained.

This content is convincing.

The editor couldn't help but think to himself... If he wasn't talking nonsense, this guy was practically a walking encyclopedia.

He started speeding up the video, and just as Li Younan had said at the beginning, he only planned to spend three hours looking for food. In fact, in the video, he didn't even need three hours to collect enough plants to eat for several days.

For a moment, even the editors were starting to question their own existence.

Could it be true, as this guy says, that there are so many resources here that it's hard to survive?

He seemed to be having a really good time, but then he remembered the previous video he had edited, in which the poor female contestant spent a long time searching in the forest on the first day and only managed to find some blackberries, which made him shake the absurd idea out of his mind.

Upon closer observation of Li Younan's video, he gradually realized something incredible.

That is, this guy wasn't searching blindly and aimlessly, but he clearly knew what edible wild plants might be found in this place, in this season, and under what conditions!
He went looking for it with a purpose and a clear direction!

Even when Li Younan was chatting casually on the video, he could point to those strange and unusual plants and describe their characteristics, not just their food content.

He suspected that there wasn't a single plant in the entire forest that Li Younan didn't recognize.

Upon realizing this, he was shocked; this guy was practically a botanist!
At this point, the editor finally got excited.

But Li Younan's shining moments have only just begun.

The next morning in the video, when he got up, he looked like a leisurely traveler, brewing himself a bowl of ginger tea before comfortably heading out to fish at the lake. At this point, the editor felt that this guy wasn't going to live in the wilderness alone, but rather was on a lakeside vacation—having breakfast and then going fishing, what surprises would that bring him?

A dozen minutes later, he witnessed the second moment that left him speechless.

A few minutes later, when Li Younan caught a small fish, the editor was just a little happy, thinking that he hadn't come away empty-handed. But then, when Li Younan playfully said, "I suggest we release it back into the wild," the editor couldn't hold back any longer: This guy is really outrageous!
What's even more outrageous is what comes next.

Instead of releasing the fish, Li Younan used it as bait and caught a huge rainbow trout, which looked to weigh over ten pounds.

Next, he cleaned and prepared the rainbow trout very efficiently.

The image of the fish being pierced through the heart with a hunting knife the instant it was caught was particularly shocking and was highlighted as a moment of brilliance by him.

The editor's breathing had become heavy as he stared excitedly at the video screen.

People who choose this job actually have a wilderness dream in their hearts to some extent. Unfortunately, he is just a big fat man weighing nearly 250 pounds, so he can only watch the contestants realize his wilderness dream for him.

Seeing Li Younan's superb survival skills, he instantly became a fan of Li Younan.

The following video is almost entirely engaging, constantly creating various highlight moments.

From that moment on, for this editor, the job was no longer a torment, but rather a pleasure.

After watching Li Younan's videos for a while longer, he suddenly realized something even more astonishing: the quality of the videos Li Younan had filmed was simply too high.

Almost every shot in the entire film was used effectively.

It's fair to say that every single shot could be directly shown on television.

In terms of shooting, perspective, and lighting, it is truly professional – the dynamic video footage is full of tension and excitement, while the static footage is often a tranquil scene in harmony with nature.

Especially when he was building the shelter, sitting in front of it at sunset, the sunlight dyed the sky golden, and a gentle breeze blew by; any frame of it could be a work of art.

So comfortable, so very comfortable; so enjoyable, so incredibly enjoyable.

He watched all of Li Younan's videos with such immersion that he even forgot about his job—to categorize and label the videos.

However, he was not annoyed by this. Instead, he watched it again with great anticipation. This time, he marked all the locations in detail before submitting the footage to director Jeff Kay.

……

Jeff Kay has sent several internal emails urging them to submit the video, as only Li Younan's video has not yet been submitted.

When Jeff Kay received Li Younan's video, he saw that the footage was over two hours long and much larger than that of other contestants. Before he even looked at the video file, he called the editor in charge of editing and gave him a good scolding.

"Look at what you submitted to me! Did you send me the contestants' original files? Is this the result of all your hard work?"

After the outburst, the other party weakly said, "Oh, director, you misunderstood me. I think you haven't seen the video I sent you yet. Please click on it and you'll understand."

Jeff Kay was somewhat puzzled, and then said sternly, "I hope that when I click on it I've indeed misunderstood you, then I'll apologize to you. Otherwise, you know the consequences!"

After hanging up the phone, Jeff Kay turned on the video call.

About ten minutes later, he was stunned.

what?
What kind of player is this?!
He felt a sense of powerlessness after watching only half of the video.

Yes, there was not only surprise, but also helplessness!

When watching other people's videos, he would select the content he wanted to watch based on the annotations, which greatly improved his work efficiency. However, when watching Li Younan's videos, it was difficult to do so in this way... because almost all the content in the videos that Li Younan handed over was usable, and it was almost entirely highlighted!
This is unprecedented in the entire history of the show.

They've produced so many episodes about living alone in the wilderness; just a few highlight moments in each episode are enough to make it a show worth airing.

Even someone as strong as Roland didn't have many highlight moments in the early stages of the show. To support the broadcast of an episode, it requires the participation of all the trainees, even if it's just a moment of bad luck for one of the unlucky ones!
Therefore, another limiting factor in program production is the quality of the contestants' videos.

You need to gather enough material to produce a great program.

However, the video that Li Younan provided was too outrageous.

No, not almost, but definitely, his videos alone are enough to edit into an entire show!

However, this goes against the original intention of the show. It is a survival competition and cannot become a show for Li Younan alone.

Therefore, the high quality of Li Younan's videos has become a problem.

At this point, he also became excited, and he was very curious about how far a survival expert like Li Younan could go in this program.

Compared to Li Younan, the players who had previously excited him immediately paled in comparison, including Pasini, who hunted a goat at the start of the game, and Michael, who caught a porcupine using a trap.

However, he calmed down after a moment.

Although Li Younan demonstrated very professional survival skills, his strategy was to build a shelter at the beginning, and this shelter was the most luxurious among all the contestants, and even in the history of the show.

Based on past experience, trainees who initially focused their main efforts on the shelter seem to be the first to be eliminated.

Isn't this guy a bit too arrogant?
But after thinking about the fishing skills Li Younan had demonstrated, Jeff Kay felt as if everything was under his control.

He sighed slightly. Instead of worrying about that, he should think about how to produce this episode.

Really.

He never imagined that one day he would be troubled by the high quality of a contestant's video.

(End of this chapter)