Chapter 329: Have a Pattern
Facing Xin Yongsheng's doubts, Zhao Yutong encouraged him, "Why not go? You can find a job at any time, but an opportunity like this may only come once in a lifetime, and if you miss it, it will be gone. Now that you have passed the preliminaries and entered the finals, it means that you are competing on the same stage with others. I believe in your ability, and you have to believe in yourself too. Even if you don't succeed in the end, at least you have tried your best and you won't have any regrets or remorse."
Even his girlfriend said so. Xin Yongsheng felt that it would be unreasonable for him not to fight hard once. Moreover, he really wanted to get the one million bonus and change his fate. He immediately grabbed Zhao Yutong's hand with a firm gaze and looked at her pretty face seriously: "Okay, I'll listen to you and go to the competition!"
With Zhao Yutong's encouragement, Xin Yongsheng packed up his things and went to the address provided by Shijinji.
With a prize of one million yuan and the continuous bombardment of major media, the program "Millionaire Painter" has gained unimaginable public attention before it officially started recording.
After all, there are too few explosive news these days, especially those about money.
At noon that day, Lu Yiming came to eat at Jinji. Before he had time to drink some fat house happy water, Lei Peilin came up to him.
"Mr. Lu is really punctual."
Lu Yiming rolled his eyes slightly and said in a bored tone: "You look so hurried, what happened again?"
Lei Peilin smiled and said the good news he brought: "Boss Lu, many companies have come to us and want to advertise on the show and become sponsors of our "Millionaire Painters" program, and each of their offers is not low."
The advertisements for "Millionaire Painter" were so aggressive, and now the branding of "the first professional development reality show in the country" has been put out, which has also attracted a lot of attention. Naturally, everyone is jealous and wants to spend money to get on board.
In fact, this is a very mainstream practice. When a TV station makes a program, or introduces a program, isn't it just to increase the ratings so as to drive up the advertising prices?
Programs like those on Mango TV have ten minutes of program content and half an hour of advertisements. Five minutes of the ten minutes are spent on advertisements. It's simply insane.
But from a business perspective, Lei Peilin felt that there was nothing wrong with taking these advertising orders, as it would at least give him some return on his investment.
But what he didn't expect was that after hearing the news, Lu Yiming's expression was joking: "The offer is not low? How low can it be?"
Lei Peilin stepped forward quickly and said, "One million for a product placement ad, and two million for a host's voiceover ad."
"One million? Two million? That's it?"
Lu Yiming laughed out loud and looked at Lei Peilin teasingly: "Old Lei, do you think I look like someone who is short of one or two million?"
"I did this program to promote Shi Jin Ji and build momentum for Shi Jin Ji, but now I have to advertise for others? What am I trying to achieve?"
Lei Peilin thought about it and said in amazement: " It seems so."
Although the grand champion's prize is one million, and it is estimated that the total prize after adding the other small prizes will be only two million, but the early advertising and operations cost money, and the previously approved budget has been mostly spent.
Compared with this, this small amount of money of one or two million is really nothing.
At the station, Xin Yongsheng and Zhao Yutong said goodbye to each other reluctantly.
Although it is only a two-hour drive, it means that the two people cannot see each other during the recording of the program. This poses various challenges for campus couples in love.
Xin Yongsheng was generally excited because he had a chance to realize his dream. If he succeeded, he could continue on this path for the rest of his life.
Zhao Yutong is a "virtuous" woman. Like most young girls of this era, she is still very simple in some aspects. Facing Xin Yongsheng's pursuit of his dream, she chose to support and encourage him, and she believed in him in her heart.
"Go for your dream. No matter if you can win the championship or not, don't give up!"
"I will definitely try my best! Wait until I win the championship!"
"good!"
The car started to move, and Xin Yongsheng watched the scenery outside the window begin to recede. He looked out the window with mixed feelings.
The car can keep moving forward, but where will your life go?
There is no doubt that the current "Million Painters" competition may be a turning point in his life.
Just as Xin Yongsheng was thinking about it, a young man who looked about the same age as him suddenly said, "Brother, are you also going to participate in the "Millionaire Painter" competition?"
Xin Yongsheng came back to his senses and looked at the young man with some caution: "How did you know?"
The young man smiled, approached and started talking in a familiar manner: "You are holding such a big drawing board, and the beautiful lady just now asked you to cheer up and win the championship, so you must be going to participate in a painting competition. This bus is bound for Baiyun City Central Station, and the only competition is "Millionaire Painter" - In addition, I am also going to participate, let me introduce myself, my name is He Zizhe."
The young man stretched out his right hand. Xin Yongsheng hesitated for a moment, then shook his hand.
He couldn't help but look up and look at the "competitor" in front of him. There was no doubt that He Zizhe's flowing long hair and long gown decorated with ink and wash made him look more artistic than him.
He Zizhe seemed very talkative. Although the two were now competitors, he didn't care at all. He asked in a relaxed tone, "What type of painting do you do?"
There was nothing to hide, so Xin Yongsheng casually replied, "I draw a little bit of everything. I usually draw some stick figures and comics."
He Zizhe smiled after hearing this, but he kept talking: "It seems that you are not a professional painter. I have been learning to paint since I was a child. When I was three years old, I followed my grandfather to pick up a brush. I also like painting. I have been painting with a professional teacher for more than ten years. I mainly focus on freehand ink painting, and I have also dabbled in other genres."
When Xin Yongsheng heard that He Zizhe was a "professional talent", he was immediately in awe and couldn't help but feel worried.
We have just set out and we have met a professional player. When we get to the program crew, there will be masters everywhere, right?
For this competition, it is most likely that “participation is what matters”.
However, thinking about Zhao Yutong who had high hopes for him, Xin Yongsheng would not give up easily.
He looked at He Zizhe seriously for a few times, and then said with deep emotion: "You are really amazing. I can't compare with you. My family doesn't like me to learn painting. Learning painting is very expensive and my family can't afford it. After all, these days, it's not easy to find a job after learning painting."
He Zizhe was surprised: "Then what did you study?"
Xin Yongsheng sighed: "My family said that the country is now developing rapidly and construction is going on everywhere. They told me to study civil engineering, which will be very popular in the future."
"Ah... that's indeed true."
They both like painting, but their situations are completely different, so they have endless topics to talk about. They didn't finish their conversation until they arrived at the Baiyun City Center Bus Station.
Coming out of the bus station, Xin Yongsheng couldn't help but admire the constant flow of people on the street, with hawking and talking. "The city center is so prosperous, there are so many people. No wonder they say that if you don't go to the center of Baiyun, you don't know how many people there are in Xia Country. Family planning is really a good national policy. If it weren't for the policy of only having one child in recent years, I'm afraid there would be so many people here that the station wouldn't be able to accommodate them."
He Zizhe also joked: "It is indeed prosperous. I even want to stop and create a painting called "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains"."
Xin Yongsheng curled his lips and laughed and complained: "Forget it, it's getting dark soon. If we don't want to sleep on the street, we'd better contact the program production team first. Or do you want to sleep on the street tonight?"
"That's not the case. I have a phone card. Let's go to that public phone booth and make a call."
He Zizhe ran over and made a phone call, and the other party asked them to wait in front of the KFC at the station entrance. After more than ten minutes, an employee of Shijinji drove a black Santana and appeared in front of the two.
"Are you here to participate in the "Millionaire Painter" competition? I'm a staff member of Shijinji, and this is my work ID."
The driver was a man in his forties. After verifying the identities of the two people, he let them get in the car and drove to the hotel they had booked previously.
After getting in the car, Xin Yongsheng couldn't help but say, "How cool! There's a special car to pick us up. It looks like this production team is really rich."
It's fine that they provide food and accommodation and reimburse travel expenses, but they even send a special car to pick you up from the station. This is something only rich people can do.
The driver, who was holding the steering wheel, was obviously quite talkative. He smiled and said to the two of them, "Of course, our President Lu is always generous."
The hotel designated by the contestants of "Millionaire Painter" to stay is the Marriott Hotel.
When the car arrived at the entrance of the Marriott Hotel, Xin Yongsheng looked at the huge fountain and sculptures in front of the hotel and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. When he entered the magnificent lobby, he was even more amazed.
"All the participating teams live here? How much does it cost to host a competition?"
Even He Zizhe, whose family conditions were relatively good, was amazed at this moment: "As expected of a large company that can offer a million-dollar bonus, Shijinji is not simple."
Neither of them knew that, in fact, their every move had been captured by the camera since the bus station, and what was recorded were their most genuine reactions.
These shots are the essence of reality TV.
at the same time.
In the editing room of Mingzhu TV Station, Lu Yiming was watching the editing of the first episode accompanied by the production team of "Millionaire Painters".
The first episode was supposed to be nothing special, just everyone complaining about all kinds of messy manuscripts, and it was considered good to be able to edit out 10 minutes. But Ji Wenzhe happened to be such an awesome person, adding a lot of new vitality to the competition, such as making a scene in the studio and abusing power for personal gain. There was simply too much material. The teachers in the video editing department wanted to give Ji Wenzhe a tribute on the spot - this first 45-minute program depends entirely on you to hold the scene.
After watching the sample film, Lu Yiming said with a smile: "That's it, it's good, don't change it."
Li Zixian said with some concern: "Boss Lu, as the saying goes, a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. Once this film comes out, I'm afraid that Ji Wen Ze will be so angry that he will have a cerebral hemorrhage."
However, Lu Yiming didn't care about this at all. He sneered, "He dared to do this, and he won't let me do it on the show? Don't worry, he doesn't dare to do anything. This is the effect of the show. If he has the guts, he can make trouble again. After all, we still have the second, third, and fourth episodes of our show... I want to see how strong his background is, and whether he can suppress that level of public opinion."
Li Zixian constructed that scene in her mind, and immediately couldn't help rolling her eyes at Lu Yiming, and said with a sweet smile: "Boss Lu is so young, but he has so many thoughts."
Lu Yiming chose to edit Ji Wenze's content into the main film. In addition to creating topics and making this old man lose face, it was also to protect him and the program team. The conflict has intensified to the point that people all over the country know about it. If the program encounters an accident, there is no doubt that the murderer is Ji Wenze. Therefore, Ji Wenze and the forces behind him will never dare to act rashly.
Public outrage is no joke.
After watching the film, Lu Yiming returned to Shijinji. Lei Peilin came over with a few receipts and reported to Lu Yiming: "Boss Lu, we have already negotiated with the hotel. We have more than 140 contestants and cast members staying here. The daily expenses will be tens of thousands of yuan. A month of program recording time will cost millions of yuan! I think an ordinary boutique hotel is enough. Isn't this five-star hotel too luxurious?"
However, Lu Yiming shook his head and rejected his proposal, and patiently explained the intention to him: "This is to show the company's financial strength to the outside world and improve the company's image. We spent so much money on advertising and gave out millions of bonuses. The capital invested is already a lot, but you saved money on some trivial matters and made it look shabby. Wouldn't the previous investment be wasted? Don't save a little money and ruin the big things."
Lei Peilin thought about it and realized that it was true. Compared with other expenses, the money for staying in a hotel was nothing. He said with some shame, "Is it because I am narrow-minded, or is it because you are far-sighted, Mr. Lu? This money really cannot be saved."
"That's natural. As the saying goes, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Spending money now is to make more money in the future, so don't save recklessly where you shouldn't save."
The reason why Lu Yiming used a special car for pick-up and arranged luxury hotel accommodation and did so many things was not just to let the audience take a good look. Is our "Millionaire Painter" really luxurious?
This is actually just spending money to buy attention, a tactic that has been overused by some variety shows in later generations, but it works very well at the moment.
After all, these days, those who make variety shows in China are very poor. Many well-known crews go out to film, and no matter how big a star you are, you are all served with boxed lunches and at most two chicken legs.
Sometimes when filming in the wild, we have to sleep in tents. Don’t even think about staying in a five-star hotel.
Once Lu Yiming's reputation is raised, no matter what else, the attention he will get will definitely be maximized.
