I'm really good at this.

"The boxed lunch is standard, with four dishes and a soup! All prepared on-site by the chefs from Dingfulou!"

"Everyone will be picked up and dropped off! And I've already booked all my hotels and guesthouses! I guarantee I'll be dropped off at the hotel after work and ready to go straight to work! The only problem is that two hotels were supposedly booked in advance by another film crew, and they wouldn't let me go even if I offered double the price, which is quite annoying."

"Props? Costumes? Those props are all faded! And they look so plasticky! The costumes too! They either smell sour and foul, or they look incredibly cheap! Are these even fit for human consumption? And Brother Hong, we want a high-quality production! Do you know what high-quality means? It means the most expensive! And the best! Perfection above all else! No flaws!"

"Equipment? The old equipment was really inadequate! I replaced everything with new equipment! The Huaxing Ultra HD 8K camera that can shoot super-strong cinematic-quality images! Lighting with sufficient brightness and color gamut! All the cosmetics are LVMH products!"

"To render top-notch movie-quality visuals and special effects, I've upgraded all my computers to server-level top-of-the-line equipment! Forget 3D rendering, even 70-80D or 90D rendering is a breeze!"

"Of course, I know you might think it's too wasteful. After all, this film crew was actually lent to us by Director Sun Zheng, so the cameras and everything else are rented. It's definitely good value for money!"

At the dinner table, Lin Chuan spoke eloquently.

The right time, the right place, and the right people!

He had done his best during the day when Zhang Hong and Lin Muqing were away!

He didn't even see Zhang Hong and his sister return early in the morning, so he had a sudden inspiration and urgently pulled strings to get the flight approved! So many of the supplies were airlifted directly from his own private plane!

Just one word: Fast!

Spend money?

Those are minor matters! His original intention was simply to indulge in reasonable extravagance and waste!

He heard that some streamers bought computers worth 100,000 yuan just to play games from 15 years ago! They even bought two top-of-the-line graphics cards to crossfire, but only one of them worked!

So is it a problem to max out all the hardware and software just to make a TV series?

Of course, no problem!

I may not need it, but I must have it!

Otherwise, how could they possibly spend 13 million? And there wasn't a single actor in the crew who accounted for 80% of the production cost!

This amount of money is a small matter to him.

For this lousy TV series, Lin Chuan could buy an entire film and television city without batting an eye, so why would he care about this little bit of money?

Don't think that this amount of money is a lot for rich kids of their caliber.

He knew a colleague who ran his own investment business and lost billions of dollars over several years. In the end, his parents had to step in to settle things.

Lin Chuan was very confident in himself; he only thought about spending money and never about making money.

If you don't think about making money, you'll never lose money.

After all, the money he spends in a month is less than what his family earns in a day, so he will never be in debt.

This is self-awareness.

After listening to his boasting, Lin Muqing frowned.

She keenly sensed something fishy: "This is such a waste. The film crew next door invested over 100 million, and their boxed meals only have one meat dish and one vegetable dish at most. Zhang Hong didn't even add an egg. We have four dishes and a soup, plus fruit and milk after the meal, plus a five-star hotel chef cooking for us. This is too much."

Lin Chuan smiled without saying a word, then pointed to the food in front of Zhang Hong: "Brother Hong, how does this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall taste?"

"Very fresh." Zhang Hong swallowed the abalone in one gulp, then put down his spoon, gave a thumbs up, and exclaimed, "Delicious!"

"That's perfect!" Lin Chuan laughed. "People need food to survive. Our crew has my sister, a top student from Peking University, managing the crew's external cooperation matters, Director Sun Zheng's professional and top-notch team in charge of filming, and a peerless genius director like you, Brother Hong, to oversee the whole situation!"

With top-notch software like yours, I, a humble and insignificant investor, am truly unworthy of your position. So all I can do is improve the hardware level of the production team.

With this, we have the best software in the country, as well as equally excellent hardware. How could this show possibly fail?

As a top student who graduated from USC, he almost believed what he said.

He's read Zhang Hong's script before! How could that possibly be successful?

Moreover, they have double insurance that allows the production team to spend all their funds in advance!

How could I possibly fail to complete my own task?

But my little sister just said they spent the whole day at the film set next door? And Brother Hong even went there to mooch some boxed lunches?

This matter deserves to be investigated!

Zhang Hong nodded: "What you said seems to make a lot of sense."

Lin Muqing smiled but remained silent.

She had already seen through her brother's trick.

Although she didn't know why he did this, she already knew that her brother's goal was to spend all the production team's money in advance, so that the film would have to compromise with reality in the end, resulting in a disappointing ending.

But...

You foolish old man, haven't you seen Zhang Hong's latest revised script?

If things go according to that script... all your actions are simply self-inflicted.

Therefore, Lin Muqing did not mention this matter.

After a satisfying meal, let's continue filming!

Zhang Hong felt he was invincible.

Yes! He borrowed a top-notch film crew from Sun Zheng, and now Lin Chuan has completed the top-notch hardware!

Although I am not a genius, I have absorbed a lot of knowledge from the great directors Li Hua and Liu Yishou at that film studio!

Even if I only stole half of the essence, maybe I can still watch my own TV series, right?

Since it was just something forced upon them anyway, Zhang Hong didn't care whether it would take off later.

So, all three of them started the follow-up work with full confidence.

One hour later—

"Card!"

Zhang Hong called for a halt, then mimicked Liu Yishou's furious expression: "What the hell is going on?!"

Luo Jun and Bai Xueye were trembling with fear in front of the camera, barely daring to breathe.

They both felt that they might not have met the director's requirements.

Zhang Hong stormed over... then bypassed the two of them and stood before the director of photography: "How did you film this?"

The cinematographer was dumbfounded: "I just shot it exactly as it was in the storyboard, director."

"You need to learn to be flexible!" Zhang Hong turned to Luo Yun and Bai Xueye and said, "Keep looking at each other from this position."

Then he pulled the cameraman around to stand at a 45-degree angle to the two of them, and then squatted down.

Zhang Hongyi pointed at the two of them: "What did you see?"

The director of photography honestly replied, "Handsome men in period costumes, beautiful women in period costumes, and starry skies."

The handsome man in period costume refers to Bai Xueye, and the beautiful woman in period costume refers to Luo Yun.

As for the starry sky, it's easy to see. We're in the mountains, so there's not much light pollution, and we can naturally see a beautiful starry sky.

"Yes," Zhang Hong continued, "So what's this part of the story about?"

"When the two of them confided in each other, one said that every star is lonely, while the other said that stars are not lonely," the director of photography continued to answer honestly.

Then he paused, then closed his eyes and began to ponder.

A moment later, he opened his eyes, his expression solemn: "Director, I understand! You mean to capture the mood of this scene through the lens! Actors are just tools in our hands! To truly make a film's colors, content, and the ideas it wants to express match the director's vision, that depends on us, the cinematographers and post-production team!"

Director Zhang truly lives up to the super genius director that Director Sun praised! I, a veteran in the industry for over ten years, have never seen such a way of directing TV dramas before!

Director Zhang has opened a door to a whole new world for us!

Maybe... he's even better than Director Sun!

Zhang Hong was also taken aback for a moment, then nodded very naturally: "That's right, that's exactly what I meant."

Actually not.

He just felt that the great director Liu Yishou was quite good at imagining things. Even though he just wanted to cause trouble, Liu Yishou's irresistible handsomeness led him to imagine all sorts of psychological activities.

He was just replicating Director Liu's approach.

Then I discovered that it actually seems to be somewhat useful!

When he seriously tried to find an angle to interpret the meaning of the characters played by Luo Yunbai and Xueye, he actually made a discovery!

But since the photographer has his own ideas, let's go with his ideas.

After all, I'm just an amateur, while they're the professionals.

............

late at night.

After a day of filming, everyone was taken back to the hotel in a luxury bus rented by Lin Chuan.

But on the mountaintop where the cold wind was like a knife, in addition to the howling wind, there were a few more people.

One of them is Lin Chuan.

He quietly crept up to the group of burly men who were still wearing black suits and sunglasses in the middle of the night.

Then he deactivated his stealth and whispered the code: "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"

The bald man standing in front of him, easily over six feet tall, grinned, revealing a set of large, white teeth, and gave him the secret signal: "Meow! Meow! Meow!"

Lin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief; they were definitely one of their own!

So he straightened up and asked, "Where's my dad? Why is he here? And why did he call me all the way to the mountaintop in the middle of the night?"

"The boss is already inside." The burly men stepped aside. "He's been waiting for you for a long time."

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I watched the LPL playoffs, ate three bowls of rice, and then got diarrhea. Sorry.

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