Chapter 703: It's Just Very Magical

Being able to make money, Jin Li was naturally happy.

But some things didn't need to be delayed in the first place, and having to drag it out to overtime to finish was actually a bit of a waste of her time.

Money is just a string of numbers once it reaches a certain amount, and personal time is more precious.

According to the shooting progress of "Nianhua," if they continued like this, one set a day, even if they were willing to pay a lot of overtime, Jin Li wasn't willing to waste any more time.

There were less than seven days left before she had to start school.

And before school started, she still had to participate in brand activities for Fangfei, Rumengling, and Yajun Watches.

Although brand activities didn't require too much physical exertion, she still had to stay at the scene for at least two or three hours.

This back-and-forth also destined that on the day of participating in the activities, she couldn't rush to the "Nianhua" shoot.

So the shooting for "Nianhua" had to be accelerated.

This was shooting for the October cover, and it wasn't even September yet.

If Nianhua's progress was still this slow, then Jin Li could only delay the shooting.

From having relatively ample time to only having time on weekends after school started.

After chatting with Gu Cheng, Jin Li thought for a while and called Sister Fang.

She asked: "You said yesterday you were going to negotiate with Nianhua. How did it go?"

Sui Lingfang sighed: "Not very well. Their explanation is that they want to strive for excellence, and shooting one set a day is already a very fast speed, which can better ensure quality.

I asked them to shoot two sets a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but they didn't agree."

Jin Li: "But the contract we signed gives them at most five days of shooting time. If the shooting is extended, additional fees need to be paid, and that fee is not cheap."

Sui Lingfang said helplessly: "Yes, I told them the same thing, but the people at Nianhua replied that they would rather pay overtime than delay the shooting."

Jin Li: ...

Four words floated into her mind again:

It's just very magical.

Jin Li said lightly: "They can afford to drag it out, but I can't. I still have three brand announcements coming up. I originally planned to finish the Nianhua shoot early before participating.

Even if I can't finish the shoot early, as long as it's finished within the specified time according to the contract date, I still have time to participate in those three brand activities.

Now Nianhua insists on delaying, but my announcements cannot be delayed."

Jin Li paused and pondered: "Tell them about my announcements. I will only shoot for them until the date stipulated in the contract, and after that, the shooting time needs to be negotiated separately.

After I start school, I will only have time on weekends. If they are willing to wait for my weekends, then they can shoot for as long as they want, even if it's shooting until the weekends in October."

The release date of "Nianhua" is October 13th, staggered with the release times of other top magazines.

Sui Lingfang was also thinking about this problem and happened to want to call Jin Li to communicate and see if she could find a way.

This was the first time she had encountered an announcement provider willing to keep paying overtime to delay.

After all, with Jin Li's current price, overtime pay is really not cheap.

If Nianhua continues to drag it out like this, all the overtime pay they give would be enough to hire another first-line star to shoot the magazine.

Sui Lingfang thought for a few seconds and nodded: "Let's do it this way. If Nianhua is really willing to wait for your weekends after school starts, then I will give up all the weekend announcements and use them for their shooting."

She smiled, "After all, your overtime pay is really not cheap; it's equivalent to participating in an announcement."

Jin Li also smiled.

If Nianhua is willing to accept such conditions, then she has nothing to say.

In her view, the staff at Nianhua are far from releasing their potential; many problems were not thought of in advance, and they were all solved on the day they were found.

This is too much of a waste of time.

Students going to class know to preview first; Nianhua cannot use cumbersome arrangements as an excuse to skip the preview stage.

She was ready to go on stage at any time, but others couldn't do it.

The next day, Sui Lingfang took Jin Li to the shooting location of Nianhua.

Sui Lingfang asked: "How many sets do you have left to shoot?"

Jin Li: "Seven sets left. What did they say on their side? Still decided to delay and shoot overtime?"

She had to shoot 10 sets for Nianhua in total, but the days signed in the contract were 5 days, and now it was the 4th day.

For a top star, spending a day shooting two sets of clothing for Nianhua is already giving them a lot of face.

Because top stars have busy schedules, many stars' teams would propose requirements such as only shooting for a certain amount of time, and one set must be completed within an hour.

Jin Li's team naturally also proposed this requirement, and the requirements were also very detailed—how much time was shot had to be given to Jin Li for rest.

But out of trust in Nianhua, they didn't hold too tight on the working hours.

Even if the time was exceeded, the overtime pay was already thought of.

But no one expected that Nianhua really intended to honestly pay out the overtime pay for more than five days.

Sui Lingfang: "I'm going over today, also to find their contact person to talk and change to someone with greater authority to talk to me.

The current contact person's authority is too small. I put forward our requirements, and the contact person says they have to turn it over to the leader to look at, and then there is no sound.

So I'm not sure if they agree to our requirements or intend to finish shooting in these two days."

Jin Li shook her head: "There are seven sets left, and only two days left. Shooting more than three sets a day is absolutely impossible to finish; it must be delayed.

If it's just a delay of two days, I can still find time, but if they insist on a delay of five days, then I can only wait for the weekends after I start school."

Arriving at the headquarters of "Nianhua," Jin Li was already very skilled at waiting in the makeup room.

The makeup artist appeared on time at 9:30, not early or late, just right.

She greeted Jin Li, immediately coiled her hair, did a simple style first, and then came to do makeup.

After the full set of makeup was done, she had to do the styling again.

Just this step used to take two to three hours or more.

But Jin Li didn't feel irritable about this process.

Nianhua really strives for excellence in makeup and styling. The effect after slow work and careful work is very amazing when taking pictures. Even Jin Li couldn't help but take a few more looks when she saw herself in the mirror.

Quite rare.

It's not that she hasn't shot ancient costume films, nor has she not shot advertisements related to ancient style, but Nianhua is the only one that does it so meticulously and restores all accessories.

Just for this craftsmanship spirit, Jin Li wouldn't have any opinions when doing makeup and styling.

It is true that ancient noble ladies need several people to serve them; some clothing is really cumbersome.

However.

The makeup and styling were finally done beautifully, but the shooting was dawdling, and Jin Li didn't want to endure it a bit.

Even if Gu Cheng didn't tell her to be more assertive, Jin Li intended to mention it to her agent.

While Jin Li was doing makeup and styling, on the other side, Sui Lingfang went directly to the editor-in-chief of Nianhua.

She thought: The editor-in-chief of Jinse has such great authority, so the editor-in-chief of Nianhua should be about the same.

As a result, she reflected the relevant problems to the editor-in-chief and saw the editor-in-chief's panicked expression. Only then did Sui Lingfang realize one thing:

Not every editor-in-chief of a top magazine has such great authority.

This has to do with brand operation methods, internal power structures, etc.

The editor-in-chief of "Nianhua" is indeed better than other ordinary workers, but what she can decide is only the style of this magazine.

And there are many things about magazine operation, marketing, and other processes that the editor-in-chief cannot decide.

The editor-in-chief of Nianhua has more authority in setting the style of the magazine, determining what makeup Jin Li should use, what clothes... grasping the aesthetics of the magazine.

But when it needs to be shot, and how much time it needs to be completed, this is not her authority.

It can be said that the editor-in-chief of Nianhua has never managed these things.

Seeing that she couldn't give a clear answer, Sui Lingfang pointed directly to the core:

"Jin Li's announcements are all arranged according to the dates stipulated in the contract. They must be finished tomorrow, and she has to participate in other announcements the day after tomorrow.

If Nianhua can't finish shooting here, in addition to paying her a large amount of overtime, she will try her best to cooperate with Nianhua's time for shooting.

But here it refers to trying to cooperate, not forced cooperation. Jin Li doesn't have enough time, and you can't finish shooting within the two-day delay, so you can only wait for the weekends after she starts school."

Hearing this, the editor-in-chief also realized the seriousness of the problem.

Jin Li is different from other artists; she is going back to school to study, and only comes out to be active during winter and summer vacations.

Her window period is far more than other artists.

And you can't turn around and say Jin Li is playing big.

Let alone in the industry, who on the whole internet doesn't know Jin Li is a student at Tsinghua and Peking University?

Can you criticize Jin Li because she refuses to skip classes at Tsinghua and Peking University and not participate in your announcement?

The editor-in-chief's expression changed, and she asked with hope: "Can't you spare more time?"

Sui Lingfang said expressionlessly: "Why don't you go talk to the professors at Tsinghua and Peking University and ask them to give Jin Li a few more days off?"

Editor-in-chief: ...

Where do I have this face?

The fashion circle is not worth mentioning in front of the top academic circle.

Editor-in-chief: "Can't you give a few more days?"

Sui Lingfang shook her head: "There are two days left from the date stipulated in the contract. We will extend it for another two days, for a total of four days to shoot seven sets of clothes, which in my opinion is completely enough.

If Nianhua is short of manpower, why don't you see if you can transfer more people to help?"

Speaking of this, her expression was quite a bit of "hating iron for not becoming steel."

The time has been given to you as much as possible; it is Nianhua itself that is not striving!

If it really drags until the weekend after school starts, let alone how much time it takes to rearrange the scene, this floor cannot be used only for Jin Li to shoot forever.

At other times, it also has to undertake other shooting tasks.

Just say that the shooting mood cannot be done in one go, and coming to get stuck every week, I believe everyone is uncomfortable.

Except for Jin Li.

As a professional actor, Sui Lingfang believes that she will not be affected when shooting and can quickly enter the state.

Then, the problem comes.

Since there is an actor who enters the state so quickly, Nianhua can still drag the shooting into such a state, which is also a talent.

Sui Lingfang couldn't say directly, is there something wrong with your photographer?

Are your staff related to photography all workplace slackers, used to fishing in the workplace, able to pass one day is one day.

She said euphemistically: "If your photographers are not enough, I have a few good photographers here.

These photographers have all taken photos for the four top magazines in other countries. I can help you ask if they have time to come and save the emergency."

No matter how stupid the editor-in-chief was, she heard the complaint in Sui Lingfang's words.

She just thinks Nianhua's photographers are not good enough!

The editor-in-chief considered for a while and didn't say it to death in one breath, but said:

"I need to report it upward, and I will give you news soon. Today, no, I can give you news at noon, you wait again."

Sui Lingfang nodded: "Okay."

On the other side, Jin Li was doing makeup and styling, and the makeup artist chatted with her.

After getting along for the first three days, the makeup artist was already quite familiar with Jin Li.

The makeup artist liked Jin Li's personality very much and would always tell her gossip about stars in the circle, but Jin Li usually just smiled and didn't echo.

The makeup artist wasn't surprised; not every star is keen on eating melons.

And she felt that the reason for Jin Li's good personality was that she respected everyone.

Even if it is a peer, or a peer with a lot of black material, she will respect it.

Because she hasn't been in contact with others, she holds the attitude of "unknown full picture, no comment," and doesn't comment on others easily.

This made the makeup artist's favorability rise, and she liked chatting with Jin Li even more.

Because she was sure that Jin Li wouldn't sell her out.

She just liked chatting with stars with such morality and character, without worrying about thunder.

The makeup artist chatted and chatted, although most of the time she was talking to herself, she suddenly thought of something and said:

"Jin Li, what do you think of Photographer Chen?"

Jin Li asked calmly: "What do you think of what?"

Makeup artist: "It's Photographer Chen's professional ability. What do you think of the photos he takes?"

Jin Li: "Usually I only listen to the photographer's suggestions. He tells me how to shoot, and I shoot how he tells me. After shooting, I won't watch the photos too much, so as not to lose the amazing feeling of seeing the finished product later."

Makeup artist: "So that's it. I said why your temper is so good, and you didn't get angry after shooting for so long."

Jin Li: "It was shot for a long time, but I saw that you guys didn't seem to care, so I didn't ask."

Makeup artist: "It's not that we don't care, but we are already numb. Anyway, I have been tossed without temper.

I am a makeup artist. You stars didn't rest, and we couldn't rest. I have to stay and follow the makeup all the way."

Jin Li understood. Yes, this makeup artist has also been very hard these past few days.

When she finishes work, people also finish work at that time.

Jin Li asked proactively: "Listening to you say this, are you guys still in the running-in period with the photographer?"

Makeup artist: "It can be considered so. This photographer was suddenly dropped into the headquarters last month, squeezing out several other big photographers, saying that the boss spent a lot of money to dig from the outside."

She said this and turned her head to look around subconsciously.

Looking at the empty room, she recalled that this was Jin Li's exclusive makeup room. Except for the agent and assistant, no second person would come in, so she was relieved.

The makeup artist said in a low voice: "Anyway, I think this photographer takes pictures no differently from other big photographers, and it's much slower.

He seems to have many uncertain places, so he has to slow himself down and feel like he is fine-tuning bit by bit."

"We discussed in private that this photographer looks quite like a certain chairman in the company. It is said that he was also recruited by this director with all his strength.

But the chairman did not announce him as his son to the outside world, and the photographer's mother's name is not the chairman's wife's name, but the photographer has the same surname as the chairman."

The makeup artist didn't sell the pass and said the answer directly: "We all suspect that the photographer is the illegitimate son of that chairman!"

Jin Li: ...

She just wanted to finish taking pictures well, but didn't expect to hear such a big melon.