Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 68 Noon Sunshine
After seeing Qin Lan off, Meng Bai returned to his normal preparation work for the crew.

The only difference is that Meng Bai sets aside two extra hours in his daily schedule for fitness.

Although we have won this round temporarily by relying on our age advantage, as the saying goes, "Forgetting to fight will lead to danger." Who knows if the future fighting situation will be more intense, so we must prepare in advance.

As time passed, by the end of April, the preparation work for the "Psychological Crime" crew was basically completed.

Actually, because of the previous experience, the crew didn't have to spend much time preparing for the crew this time. The most time-consuming part was the renovation of the school building.

Due to the plot requirements, the time background of the story of "Psychological Crime" is in the 00s when surveillance and various criminal investigation and trace detection technologies were not yet developed. Therefore, the crew spent a lot of effort to restore the new dormitory building that the school built only last year.

The advanced electromagnetic door was replaced with an old-fashioned fence door; the multifunctional washroom was turned into an old-fashioned toilet; the original four-person room with a bed above and a desk below was also converted into a crowded eight-person room by the crew using a batch of iron bunk beds they bought on the road.

Of course, all these changes are just renovations to the soft furnishings. After the crew finishes filming, they will naturally be restored to the school.

I don’t know if it’s because the Landao Culture and Tourism Department has said hello, but the school is very cooperative with the crew. Whether it’s the venue or the personnel, they actively cooperate.

Even when they knew that the filming would require a lot of student extras, they allowed the crew to contact the student union to issue a call, allowing students to apply to act as extras in the crew without affecting normal classes and exams.

Of course, in return, Meng Bai also promised to provide a certain number of internship opportunities for the school's poor students and art students in this and subsequent projects.

After all, the entire "Green Ivy Series" has six or seven projects, including sequels, which will take at least three to four years. For school leaders, this is also a highlight of the mid- to long-term "school-enterprise cooperation".

Seeing that the preparations were almost done, Meng Bai calculated the time and set the start time for mid-May. This way, the filming and post-production would take about four months, just in time to avoid the summer vacation.

Unlike movies, online dramas do not require popular time slots, and their spread also depends on the audience's discussion and recommendation in the surrounding circles. In addition, various popular blockbusters are released alternately during the summer vacation, which will inevitably disperse the attention of the network and the audience, and it will be worse than a normal weekday.

Meng Bai originally thought that he would stay in Landao until the filming started, but a sudden phone call made him decide to fly to Hengdian before the opening ceremony.
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Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Xiaoshan Airport.

Meng Bai walked out of the platform, looked around, and immediately saw Zhou You waving at him not far away.

"Senior Brother." Meng Bai shouted, then took a few quick steps to the other party and raised his hand to punch him.

Zhou You glanced at Meng Bai and said jokingly, "Should I call you Teacher Meng now?"

"Hey, we brothers are still talking about this." Meng Bai waved his hand: "Just call me 'Mr. Meng'."

"Hey, Mr. Meng, when I come back to you, you must take good care of my brother."

"No problem. Just because of our friendship, I'll give you a chicken drumstick with every lunch."

"…You really speak human language!"

Zhou You is the senior brother that Meng Bai had contacted before. When they were filming "Soul Ferry", they lacked a suitable director, and it was he who recommended Wubai.

"No luggage?" Zhou You asked Meng Bai, who had nothing in his hands.

"It's just to discuss the spy war script we talked about before. It won't take more than two days." Meng Bai said, "I have a new drama about to start filming. I have to go back quickly after finishing here." Zhou You was surprised and said, "A new project so soon?"

"Wow, Senior Brother, even you, an industry insider, don't know this. It instantly makes me feel like all our previous publicity expenses were wasted."

Zhou You smiled apologetically: "No, no, it's mainly because there are too many messy things in our company recently, and I have no time to read the news or anything like that."

While they were talking, they had already arrived at the parking lot. After getting in the car, Zhou You said, "If you're tired, you can sit in the back and rest for a while. The journey will take about two hours."

"It's okay. I just took a nap on the plane and I'm refreshed now." Meng Bai said, "I thought you were still in Shanying, but I didn't expect you had already moved out."

"Actually, we moved out last year, but we have only recently become relatively independent."

As mentioned before, after graduation, Zhou You joined Shanying and studied under director Kong Sheng.

Shanying is a state-owned enterprise, and there have always been many factions and cliques within it. Although Kong Sheng is well-known, he does not have much say within the company, which has led to many of his projects being difficult to carry out for various reasons.

In order to get rid of this situation of constraints everywhere, after discussing with Hou Hongliang who was also in Shanying, Kong Sheng gathered a group of people to establish "Noon Sunshine", which was considered to be independent from Shanying.

Meng Bai frowned and said, "I remember that Mr. Hou chose to stay in Shanying, right? Why is he coming out now?"

"It's not something that has just come out. Noon Sunshine was originally founded by President Hou and Director Kong."

Zhou You explained to Meng Bai that Shanying had been trying to go public for many years, but had never succeeded due to profit and other reasons. This year, the group's top management planned to introduce external capital to see if they could make another push.

Hou Hongliang was worried that foreign capital would affect the reputation that Shanying had built over the years in pursuit of profits, so he chose not to agree. However, he failed to convince the upper management, failed to stand on the same side, and was disappointed with Shanying's future development plan, so he simply separated himself.

I have to say that the group of people who grew up in the circle in the early years are still quite courageous.

The car soon got on the highway. Meng Bai took a look and asked doubtfully, "Brother, are you sure you are going in the right direction? Is Hengdian in the east?"

"Who told you we were going to Hengdian?" Zhou You said, "We're going to Xiangshan. Mr. Hou is busy filming on the set. Otherwise, how could he have asked me to pick you up?"

"It's the costume drama called Nirvana in Fire that you mentioned last time, right?" Meng Bai said, "Didn't it start filming in February? It's not finished yet?"

Zhou You smiled bitterly, "How can it be done so quickly? Costume dramas are troublesome to begin with, not to mention this is our first drama after becoming independent, so we have to strive for perfection. Conservatively speaking, it will take at least another month to wrap up."

Meng Bai secretly calculated that at the speed of Noon Sunshine, it would take until the end of the year to complete the post-production. Then, the TV series would have to contact the TV station to purchase the film and schedule it, so it would take until next year to be broadcast.

Thinking of this, Meng Bai felt relieved, as long as they were not born in the same period as him, it would be fine.

But then again, if my script is really to be collaborated with Noon Sunshine, how long will it take for it to be released?

(End of this chapter)