Chapter 1490 1592. A day in the life of a celebrity assistant

Chapter 1490 1592. A day in the life of a celebrity assistant

In March, the weather in Kyoto gradually rose above zero degrees, and the ice and snow melted, but the green belts on both sides of the street, except for the cold pines, still did not see any green.

This is like the hearts of Ma Dong and others, full of boredom.

I don’t know if it’s because the flu has been too boring for more than half a month. Anyway, after the recording of "Infinite Challenge" resumed, everyone looked very listless, which made the program crew anxious.

We started work yesterday and recorded for most of the day, but the result was very bad.

No one could get into the state. It should have been a very competitive game, but when people played it in a lazy manner, it became a completely different game. Of course, after the shooting, the program crew also found problems themselves and felt that the design link was indeed lacking and could not inspire the enthusiasm of the members.

The reason why "Infinite Challenge" is still so popular after more than ten years of recording includes decisiveness.

Faced with an episode that they were not satisfied with, the program crew did not send it to the TV station for broadcast in order to cope with the task, but directly chose to throw all the content recorded in one day into the trash can.

After all, if you are not satisfied with it, how can you show it to the TV audience?

However, this also brings a serious problem. First of all, Cheng Kun does not have enough time to record. After all, Cheng Kun was able to record a whole day on that day, which was done by taking time out of his busy schedule and adjusting a lot of schedules.

It is obviously not realistic to ask Cheng Kun, who is now so busy that he has to walk on the ground, to adjust one day to record the program.

This also makes the program team very distressed.

After all, he is the most popular member of their program. If it were not for the friendship at the beginning, even the variety show overlord "Infinite Challenge" would not be able to keep a top actor like Cheng Kun as a regular member.

After all, Cheng Kun does not lack exposure and does not care about exposure.

But Cheng Kun is a man of friendship and nostalgia. After all, when his career was at a low point, it was with "Infinite Challenge" that he got back on track.

"Kun'er will definitely not be able to record this time." The director said helplessly to everyone after talking to Cheng Kun on the phone again.

Hearing this answer, even if everyone was prepared, they all couldn't help but sigh together.

"There will be a lot of people scolding us online." Someone lamented.

Cheng Kun is so popular now that there are tens of thousands of messages on the official website hoping to see Cheng Kun appear in the show. What everyone didn't expect was that Cheng Kun would be absent in the first official recording after the Spring Festival.

"How about we put yesterday's..." Thinking of disappointing the audience, someone suggested.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ma Dong.

"It is naturally a good thing to have a star effect, but it is not okay to sacrifice the quality of the program for this." Ma Dong frowned and scolded. "Infinite Challenge" has always adhered to the point that the program must be good first, and the star effect is secondary.

After all, if the program itself is not good, even if more big-name stars are invited to participate, it is nonsense.

The ace program of a certain station is a typical example. The program format imitates "Happy Camp", but it can't imitate the essence. It relies purely on the star effect and consumer sentiment to attract popularity. The program effect is supported by a few hosts, and the quality of the program itself can only be described as terrible.

Compared with "Happy Camp", you will find that this ace program is like an off-road vehicle driving on a mountain road, relying only on its good performance, rushing around and stumbling all the way, while "Happy Camp" is like a sports car driving on a track, with a super driver driving it, and the whole process is extremely smooth.

"What should we do, should the five of us record it, or should we find other guests?" Xie Na asked.

"Why are you all sitting there stupidly? Do you want to recruit?" Ma Dong looked at everyone looking at him and shouted angrily.

At this moment, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked, and then Xie Na's assistant walked in carefully and handed the phone to Xie Na.

"Brother Jie's call."

"Hello, husband, how do I prepare the milk powder? Wait a minute..."

Xie Na and everyone made an apologetic gesture, and then hurried out of the conference room with the phone. Everyone understood this at that time, after all, Xie Na's twin babies were just born not long ago, and she and Brother Jie were both novice mothers and novice fathers.

After Xie Na left, Xie Na's new assistant forgot to follow him out. When he realized it, Xie Na had already left, leaving her standing alone. She didn't know whether to leave or stay, and she was very embarrassed.

What made her even more nervous was that Ma Dong, who was sitting in the main seat, was still looking at her thoughtfully.

"Who am I? Where am I? Have I made any mistakes?" The assistant had three questions in her mind, and she was panicked by Ma Dong.

Especially since Ma Dong stared at the assistant for a long time, others couldn't help but stare at the assistant with Ma Dong, as if they wanted to see what was so special about the assistant that attracted Mr. Ma's attention for so long.

Being stared at by such a group of bigwigs, the assistant felt that she was weak, pitiful and helpless at this moment, and could only tremble.

Seeing that the assistant's evasive eyes were about to float into outer space, Ma Dong was finally amused by this interesting reaction, and caught a sudden inspiration in his heart.

"Let's do a special on celebrity assistants." Ma Dong withdrew his gaze from the young assistant and looked at everyone and made a suggestion.

"Celebrity Assistant Special? What do you mean?" Some people didn't react for a while, but there were some smart people who guessed Ma Dong's meaning from the name alone, and quickly confirmed: "Let our members experience being a star's assistant. "?"

"Yes, this key idea can also solve the problem of Cheng Kun's busy schedule."

"That's right!" After hearing what Ma Dong said, someone suddenly realized: "Since Cheng Kun can't participate in normal recording, then we might as well send members to be Cheng Kun's assistants. Wouldn't this indirectly solve the problem of recording the program? , and it won’t delay Cheng Kun’s work.”

"Ok, Ma, that's a good idea!" The director also gave Ma Dong a thumbs up and praised.

Ma Dong smiled slightly, imitating Nie Wei's indifferent look, and said: "Now that the core idea is in place, we will quickly make the entire program process. It is best to start filming within this week."

"No problem, I promise to complete the task."

When Xie Na came back from answering the phone, he found that there was no one else in the conference room except his assistant.

"Where are the people? Where have they gone?" Xie Na rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had entered the wrong room, and even exited the door to take a look.

"After they finished discussing, they all left." The assistant's slightly trembling mouth showed that she was not at peace at the moment.

Can she calm down? Although she has only been in the industry for a short period of time, she has seen a lot of variety show crews with Xie Na, but she has never seen anything like "Infinite Challenge". The idea was just a slap on the forehead, and then everyone started to implement it immediately .

The execution was the strongest of any program group she had ever seen, and the creativity was also the most casual of any program group.

Xie Na was happy after hearing this and told the assistant that this was the feature of "Infinite Challenge".

Many classic specials of "Infinite Challenge" rely on the members' flashes of creativity. These are the reasons why the audience likes this show because it does not follow routines.

After Xie Na had a careful chat with his assistant, he understood the general outline of the matter, and went to the next schedule with his assistant. On the other side, Ma Dong was carefully thinking about the overall plan for this program.

Although the meaning of the celebrity assistant special series is simple and clear, you can't simply think that you can just be a celebrity assistant for a day. You must at least know what the audience likes to watch.

Fanxing once produced a singing program called "I Am a Singer". The program team of this program conducted a survey and found that the highest real-time ratings of the show was when the program director announced the results at the end, and the second highest ratings point was But it is not necessarily the highlight moment of the singer's performance in the show, but rather the daily VCR at the beginning of the show.

This program was originally just a warm-up session for the program team, but it has become the second highest ratings point for this program. When this discovery was made at the beginning, everyone in the program team was very surprised.

They also made an investigative report on this.

When the results of the investigation report came out, they realized that the public liked this segment because they wanted to see the private side of the celebrities.

Just like a celebrity's wonderful performance, people often discuss it for a while after watching it, and may forget it after a sleep the next day, but the celebrity's personal gossip may stay on the hot search list for several days.

Because human beings are born with curiosity, they have long been accustomed to celebrities shining brightly on the stage. Instead, they are more interested in the little-known things about celebrities’ private situations.

Ma Dong knew that in order to make this special issue a success, he not only had to film the celebrities at work in private, but also had to dig deep into the behind-the-scenes profession of 'assistant' and carefully analyze and present this seemingly mysterious profession to the audience. To arouse the audience's interest, rather than blindly flatter the star, is to lose the meaning.

Therefore, this program still needs to move closer to my "real" direction, and the participating members must be brought into the job role itself.

Thinking of this, Ma Dong suddenly wanted to invite a few guests to participate.

Because the more popular celebrities suddenly become assistants, this thing itself is very attractive to the public.

But who to look for?

Just as Ma Dong was thinking about it, he bumped into Nie Wei who was wandering around the company. When he saw such a busy guy, what else could he think of? It was him!

Nie Wei was stopped by Ma Dong and pulled aside. After hearing his request, she couldn't laugh or cry.

"No, no, I'm very busy. Haven't you seen how many meetings I have to hold today?" Nie Wei refused. He didn't want to participate in a variety show, let alone work as an assistant for others. It would be a waste. Dong could come up with this idea.

"Yuncai, has Mr. Nie been busy recently?" Ma Dong asked Nie Wei's secretary.

Yuncai suppressed a smile and tried to look serious. He first looked at Nie Wei, and then responded to Ma Dong with Nie Wei's eyes indicating: "Busy, really busy."

"Don't be ridiculous. I've seen all the recent meeting schedules, and you don't need to attend them." Ma Dong said casually, but it wasn't actually a lie. After all, after working together for so many years, when had Nie Wei been really busy? There are a lot of them.

The company has been quiet recently, with no big moves and everything is running normally. This is often when Nie Wei is the most lazy.

But Nie Wei was someone who could easily be deceived. He didn't believe that Ma Dong had checked his itinerary, so he immediately retorted: "I'm really busy. I'm sorry. I'll treat you to dinner next time."

After saying that, Nie Wei didn't give Ma Dong a chance to stay, and walked away directly.

After Yuncai and Ma Dong stared at each other for a long time, Yuncai finally couldn't hold on any longer. She smiled and bowed slightly to Ma Dong, saying "Goodbye, Mr. Ma", and then immediately followed Nie Wei's back.

Ma Dong was the only one who felt confused at the scene.

But Ma Dong was not a person who gave up easily. He was thinking about how to invite Nie Wei, but he saw a few girls appear in his eyes, chattering, and he didn't know what they were talking about. Their laughter could be heard from a long distance.

After seeing Ma Dong, the girls stopped chatting and stood aside respectfully to greet him.

Originally, in the eyes of the girls, this was just a brush with the company's senior management, but they didn't expect Ma Dong to call them.

"You are members of the new group in the company, right? I remember your name is Xuanyi and your name is Meiqi?" Ma Dong asked.

"Hello, Mr. Ma." The two girls were very surprised when they were called, but they still introduced themselves seriously.

Ma Dong looked at the two girls and suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"Do you want to be on the show? It's Infinite Challenge." Ma Dong asked.

Huh?

Both girls looked surprised. After all, it was Infinite Challenge, which was a top resource for idol artists like them.

Although they had received a lot of resources recently, the invitation from Infinite Challenge still surprised them. However, the invitation was initiated by Ma Dong, a big shot, which made the two girls feel confused and a little wary...

The girls' vigilant eyes were actually quite deep, but they couldn't hide it from an old fox like Ma Dong. He didn't get angry because of this misunderstanding, but felt amused.

Ma Dong was afraid that the misunderstanding would deepen, so he quickly explained the reason.

"We are going to do an assistant special for Infinite Challenge, where we invite our members to be a celebrity's assistant for a day. I think your group is quite suitable to be our celebrity guest this time. What do you think? Are you interested?"

"Really?"

"It sounds very interesting."

"Will Cheng Kun be our assistant?"

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

"Ahem." Ma Dong watched the two girls fantasizing endlessly, and had to remind them to stop. Of course, being interested is a good thing. As long as they are interested, the next thing will be easy.