Chapter 690: Counterattack

After Jin Li and Gu Cheng offered incense, they left the Daoist temple.

It just happened to catch up with the peak period of people going out, and the cars on the road were blocked into a long dragon.

But Jin Li and Gu Cheng's mood and state were very good.

Because they were in the same car, they exchanged their studies, talked about recent arrangements, and some plans for the future.

Gu Cheng: "I have more theoretical knowledge in my freshman year. From sophomore year, I have to film some small short films, about five or six minutes, ten or a dozen minutes."

"I asked the senior of this major. The senior said that when I come to sophomore year, the school will assign some short film tasks related to themes such as humanities, inheritance, and intangible cultural heritage, for us to practice, or choose themes we are interested in."

"Just filming the themes set by the school will get more exhibition recommendation opportunities, and if filmed well, they will also be recommended to major satellite TVs."

"Every year, major satellite TVs have related tasks that need to be completed, and they will purchase a batch of students' works. This is a rare time for our major to make money."

Jin Li understood.

"Learning the director major, you have to throw a sum of money to buy equipment. After the training is completed, you have to be taught how to behave by the market. After finally grinding out and being accepted by the audience, you have to face the problem of investment."

Gu Cheng nodded: "Yes, so don't look at the developed film and television industry in China, but it is thirsty for many talents."

"Not to mention the demand for directors and screenwriters, just say actors, don't netizens say every year that there are no fresh faces on the screen, and they are tired of watching?"

Jin Li is in the actor industry, and this kind of evaluation is often heard.

Some actors repeatedly film the same type of roles. Maybe they haven't filmed tired themselves, but netizens are tired of watching first.

To be honest, staying in the comfort zone is not bad, and going out to break through in the comfort zone requires great courage.

But the reality is that stars are also affected by netizens' evaluations, and often they can't help themselves.

Whether they can stay in the comfort zone and when to go out, the market will give distinct feedback, and stars cannot choose for themselves.

Jin Li asked: "You are only a freshman, and you mentioned the content of sophomore classes. Do you have any ideas now?"

Gu Cheng nodded: "I am more interested in photography. Before reading this major, I filmed some small short films, so I plan to skip the stage of filming small short films and go directly to filming micro-short dramas."

Jin Li asked: "How short is the micro-short drama?"

Gu Cheng: "Half an hour to an hour."

Jin Li pondered for a while: "I feel this duration is a bit awkward. It's too short to tell a complete story, but it's too long to express a simple story."

Gu Cheng nodded: "So I plan to start with TV dramas, plan to buy scripts by myself, or ask screenwriters to write a script, and film every episode as a micro-short drama."

"Every episode is a complete small story, but the ending of every episode can extend to another small story. This unit drama theme made me think of several themes, and I am struggling with the selection."

Jin Li asked with interest: "Can you talk about it?"

Gu Cheng smiled lightly: "Three themes, suspense-oriented, family-oriented, career-oriented."

"These three themes I feel are all okay. How about you help me pick one of them?"

Jin Li's eyes flashed, and a trace of cunning flashed.

"Why not film them all once? Try them all, and you will find themes and filming methods you like more."

Gu Cheng was a bit tempted, but the reality problem was placed here.

"If I only film one of the themes, it will only occupy a small part of my time. If I have to film all three themes, Brother Guang is probably not very happy, because I won't have much time to run announcements."

Jin Li thought for a while and said: "Then you film well, display your works, and you can also get a wave of popularity."

"Although you didn't run announcements, you have also been active in the entertainment industry. And the star's identity is actually quite good. You can also film more public welfare short films or advertisements, which is very meaningful."

Gu Cheng said softly: "I can't guarantee other films, but if I want to film a public welfare film, I hope you will be the heroine under my lens."

Jin Li looked at him.

Gu Cheng felt that the starlight in her eyes was incomparably dazzling. This pair of eyes was the clearest and most compassionate eyes he had ever seen.

"In my eyes, you are the one with the most feeling."

Jin Li was coughed by him a few times, her cheeks flushed, and she turned to look out the window.

Good end......

Say what love words.

Blocked for four hours, the car finally slowly arrived at the hotel they booked, and converged with their respective agents.

Everyone knows the long holiday, the scenic spots all over the country are full of people, and looking at it, they are all people, people, people.

So the two agents arranged their announcements directly in the Imperial Capital.

At least at the necessary time, the subway is absolutely punctual, which is better than the blocked traffic on the road.

Sui Lingfang and Zhang Guang had already exchanged greetings in the hotel before the two stars came. As soon as the stars arrived, they immediately parted ways.

Jin Li looked at the itinerary just handed over by Sister Fang and remained silent.

After a while, she hesitated: "Why do I feel that the announcements on this are more than what I saw three days ago? Can the rest time be guaranteed?"

Sui Lingfang: "Adjusted a round, rest assured, the 8-hour sleep time is complete."

"There is also some rest time, which is relatively fragmented, and you have to cooperate with makeup and styling while resting."

From tomorrow morning, Jin Li has to run two brand activities.

During the lunch break, while eating, changing clothes, changing makeup, while heading to the third brand activity site.

The afternoon was also arranged for two brand activities, so the day was equal to running four brand activities.

Brand activities are occasionally run, which is quite easy, and Jin Li doesn't need to do anything.

Often she just appears to greet fans, take photos with brand executives, and then sit under the stage and smile throughout, clapping appropriately.

But running brand activities with high intensity is a bit tossing.

The time of every activity must be precisely managed, as if the time to practice breathing is calculated in it.

Seeing this itinerary, Jin Li thought of Qi Guan Mingzhu going to Tiangong Entertainment and running the itinerary combined with Ji Qinglian before.

It was almost the same as her current itinerary.

The intensity is actually not high, but it is particularly fragmented.

Need to complete many things synchronously in fragmented time, Pearl was a bit collapsed at that time.

However, considering her body, Sister Fang didn't arrange every brand activity very tightly.

A brand activity for two hours is actually almost the same, and there is also time to fish and rest.

The bigger change is the evening itinerary.

Originally in Sister Fang's plan, she had to run another brand activity at night.

But now the itinerary has been changed to two brand live broadcasts at night, which is a bit tiring.

Jin Li felt that the intensity at night was a bit unreasonable, and just wanted to bring it up, Sister Fang explained:

"The biggest adjustment this time is the evening activity. Originally, another brand activity was arranged for you."

"But I was worried that you would run too much during the day and be too tired, so I simply changed it to a brand live broadcast."

"But rest assured, I have already talked to them. You go to do a live broadcast for the brand, no need to bring goods. Instead, talk about the impression of the brand, help promote the brand image, chat, and answer some questions."

"As for the questions the brand will ask, we have to get them in advance, and communicate with the brand to delete inappropriate ones directly."

Looking at these brand activities, Jin Li realized that the brand endorsements she had were not few.

Clothes, shoes, bags, makeup, items that girls often use, she was involved in them.

Besides that, there are some brands that launch co-branded products well, so there are various co-branded cooperations later, so their brand activities cannot be pushed.

Among them, Jin Li also saw the brand activity of 【Yajun Watches】 on the third day of the long holiday, and couldn't help but take a photo to Gu Cheng.

【Will you also participate in this activity?】

Gu Cheng was in the car and replied very quickly: 【Participate, I am the national spokesperson for the Li series, and I have to be present at every activity of Yajun. Do you also participate?】

Jin Li: 【Before, Yajun talked to me about the co-branded activity of ladies' watches, and the contract has been signed, but their ladies' watches have been adjusting, and they have been unable to determine the final plan.】

Gu Cheng: 【Shall I ask for you?】

Jin Li: 【No need, the one in a hurry is not me, I have already received the signature fee and the bottom fee.】

Gu Cheng: 【You stay by my side for this activity, I will take you to know some Yajun executives.】

Jin Li: 【This is not necessary, I want to be low-key.】

Gu Cheng: 【But I want to stick to you.】

Jin Li: 【......】

Tsk, the younger brother is sticky!

No matter what personality!

Jin Li put down the phone and asked Sui Lingfang about the co-branded watch of Yajun Watches.

Mentioning this, Sui Lingfang was also speechless.

"I don't know what they are thinking. The contract was signed last summer, but this summer is coming, and the co-branded watch they cooperated with you just hasn't been designed."

Knowing that Yajun Watches is rigorous, but it shouldn't be rigorous for a year and still can't hold out a model, right?

Sui Lingfang: "I have two guesses. Either they are striving for excellence and want to cooperate with you on a super explosion watch."

"Or they designed a whole series, and the watch you endorse is one of them. Other watches in the series can rub off on your fame and increase sales."

"Even if your co-branded watch explodes, but other watches also explode, even if they have to pay you a high share after exploding, but with the sales bonus of other models, they won't lose."

Jin Li raised her eyebrows, "Listening to your tone, you think it's the second one?"

Sui Lingfang said calmly: "Standing from the perspective of a capitalist, only the second one can make them spend a year without determining the product."

"Because they want to design a whole series, this series is not just one, maybe more than 10 watches, so it will take such a long construction period."

Jin Li asked: "Didn't Yajun report the progress of the co-branded product to us?"

Sui Lingfang shook her head: "No, just reported once that the pattern has been determined, but it needs to be modified, and later didn't tell Chenxi Entertainment."

She said: "Through this cooperation, I found that when we formulated this contract, there were still shortcomings, that is, the time was not determined."

"If I had known that Yajun would drag on for a year or even longer, we would definitely have determined the time, and the longer the time is extended, the higher the share will be."

Jin Li smiled:

Jin Li smiled: "A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit; there is no such thing as a perfect contract in this world."

"When Yajun first approached us, it was already quite difficult to negotiate a high commission for the co-branded line. Who would have thought that the sugar-coated bullets of a big company wouldn't be so easy to swallow?"

The next day, bright and early, Jin Li was dragged up to sit for hair and makeup.

She felt that every celebrity eventually masters a special skill: sleeping while getting their makeup done.

Otherwise, a single makeup session takes over an hour, and having to stay perfectly still the whole time—how uncomfortable would that be?

Of course, if you sleep too deeply, that's also uncomfortable.

After all, keeping your neck in a suspended position for a long time makes it very uncomfortable when you wake up, and you don't sleep soundly either.

But it's not like there aren't more comfortable ways.

The makeup artist Jin Li had collaborated with before, who had since been signed by Chenxi Entertainment to work exclusively as an artist's makeup artist, was traveling with Jin Li alone for this May Day holiday.

They had great chemistry, and the makeup artist had also developed the skill of letting Jin Li lie down to get her makeup done.

While lying down, Jin Li truly never lacked for sleep.

By the time she woke up, she was greeted by an exquisite makeup look; at that point, only a few adjustments to the eyelashes were needed, which was very fast.

Amidst a busy schedule of announcements, Jin Li, while ensuring she got enough sleep, actually experienced the race against time of solving practice problems all over again.

She couldn't help but feel a bit nostalgic for this long-lost feeling of racing against the clock to solve problems!

It felt just like when she was sprinting toward the college entrance exam.

And just as she thought of last year's college entrance exam, Sui Lingfang told her some good news when she came to pick her up.

The movie "Counterattack" had finished editing!

Jin Li was a bit surprised and was about to say, "So fast?"

But then she thought about it: in China, where the film and television industry is very mature, "Counterattack" had finished filming before the new year, and dragging it out to May for editing wasn't actually fast; it could only be considered average.

It was because the directors of the dramas she had filmed previously were always striving for perfection, which caused the editing progress to drag on very slowly, giving her the illusion that "film and television dramas are edited slowly."

In reality, the speed of "Counterattack" was normal.

Sui Lingfang: "I haven't seen the final cut, but the director showed it to some investors, and they all expressed satisfaction. The director has already submitted it for review and is just waiting for the dragon seal from the National Radio and Television Administration."

Jin Li thought for a moment: "Submitting for review at this time—could they be aiming for the summer release window?"

Sui Lingfang nodded: "Yes. Although the college entrance exam is before the summer break, the scores are released during the summer. If 'Counterattack' is released then, it can capture a wave of traffic from the vast number of examinees, and it's also very meaningful."

【Youth is the time for struggle and hard work; let's counterattack together!】

The director of "Counterattack" had already thought of the advertising slogan and sent it to her to look at last night.

Jin Li: "What about the promotion? When do they plan to launch it?"

Sui Lingfang: "It's being released in July. The production team plans to launch the promotion in mid-June, roughly right after the college entrance exam ends."

Jin Li nodded: "The timing is also very appropriate."

Sui Lingfang smiled: "This director has a knack for promotion. I think we can look forward to it; perhaps you won't need to run to the scene frequently."