lovenovelstory Chapter 29 Lighting Director 2
Chapter 29 Lighting Director 2
Evening in mid-to-late May.
The sunlight had shed its daytime heat and gained a gentle warmth. The golden rays were clear and long, spilling onto the city streets and office buildings. Su Qing left at 4:30 in the evening.
She didn't say goodbye to Huang Min when she left.
At present, all of Dong Sheng Pictures' work revolves around the film "The Terror Live," so her focus is on overcoming difficulties for the film, and there is nothing else for her to handle.
Especially after spending some time together.
Su Qing discovered another advantage of Huang Min.
That is, as long as she can help him handle things, he doesn't care where she goes or what she does, giving her a great deal of freedom. In this respect, Su Qing is quite satisfied.
Her biggest worry is that Huang Min, like some other company bosses, makes his employees pretend to be very busy even when there isn't much work to do. He only feels comfortable doing so. And once a boss has this habit of "liking to see people making a fuss over nothing," the business will never grow big.
Because of a lack of clarity and a lack of perspective.
Currently, Huang Min is facing a lot of trouble, but Su Qing admires certain qualities he possesses.
He is emotionally stable, resilient to pressure, and patient... especially the latter. After his lighting team was poached, he didn't seem to call his ex-wife to question her or show any anger.
They just went about their business as usual.
She wasn't swayed by her emotions at all and knew how to be patient, which was excellent. It reduced the workload for her company by providing a lot of unnecessary "extra emotional value."
After leaving the film crew.
Su Qing first went home and prepared dinner. After eating, Su Qing saw that it was already six o'clock. She went to a law firm to pick up the contract, and then drove her own car to a large supermarket where she spent more than two thousand yuan to buy two bottles of liquor. She then drove straight to the north of the city.
Half an hour later, following the navigation, she parked her car in front of a quiet courtyard house. The gate was open, and an elderly woman, around sixty years old, was watering the chili peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and other vegetable seedlings in two plots. Seeing Su Qing enter, the old woman asked in confusion, "You are...?"
"Mr. Hu, don't you remember? I'm Su Qing, the one you spoke to on the phone this afternoon."
Su Qing said with a smile.
"Little Su!"
The old man suddenly realized, and then said, "I already refused! You should look for someone else! I'm retired now."
"Old Hu, your vegetables are growing very well."
Su Qing placed the two bottles of wine under the eaves, walked to the old man's side, and pointed to the vegetable seedlings planted in the garden.
This is the second batch.
The old man chuckled, "The first batch was planted around April 7th or 8th. I didn't expect the temperature to drop so drastically in mid-April, with the lowest point reaching 11 or 12 degrees Celsius. It froze all the vegetable seedlings I bought. I only dared to buy them and plant them after checking the weather forecast in early May and seeing that the temperature would be in the 20s. Today's temperature is so strange; it's never been like this in previous years."
"It is indeed quite strange."
Su Qing nodded in agreement.
Seemingly hearing that guests had arrived, Old Hu's wife came out with a cup of tea. Su Qing thanked her and then sat down with the old man in the living room on the first floor for a chat.
"Xiao Su, take the things you bought back with you later. I'm too old for that kind of hassle."
Knowing Su Qing's purpose, Old Hu chatted with her for a few words before directly refusing her.
"Aren't you going to ask about the payment?!"
Su Qing smiled and asked, but seeing Old Hu wave his hand, Su Qing changed the subject: "Old Hu, I heard that your grandson is studying acting, right? Since he's studying this major, he must want to enter the entertainment industry and become an actor. If you agree, I happen to have a role here. It's a villainous role that runs throughout the entire film, kind of like an invisible protagonist."
Old Hu remained silent, but his wife, sitting beside him, spoke first, asking, "Really!?"
Su Qing took out a contract from her bag and placed it on the coffee table. Then, she took out a script from her bag and pushed it in front of Old Hu.
Hu's wife immediately got up and went into the room. A moment later, she brought out a pair of glasses and handed them to Hu. Hu glanced at Su Qing, put on the glasses, and began to read the script.
Su Qing sat quietly to the side and waited.
Huang Min didn't look for an actor for this role; he originally wanted a crew member to play it, since the role wouldn't have many scenes and would mostly involve online conversations. In that case, Su Qing offered the role to solve the problem of the lighting director.
The lighting requirements for this film are extremely strict.
Huang Min's filming was fine, and Zhou Nian's acting was also fine, but many times we had to reshoot due to lighting issues, which greatly affected the filming schedule.
Therefore, Su Qing went directly to this highly skilled Elder Hu.
Since the other party is not short of money, if you want to impress them, you have to give them what they want. As the grandfather's most beloved grandson, Su Qing felt that this was a good breakthrough.
Judging from the current situation, the results are quite good.
Su Qing doesn't know much about the entertainment industry yet, but based on her years of experience in the workplace, she feels that even a lighting director as skilled as Director Hu would find it difficult to get a leading role with significant screen time for his grandson. After all, even investors compete for leading roles, and many ordinary directors can't control that, let alone someone like Director Hu who is just a lighting director.
I'm doing this as a favor, and getting a supporting role is probably the limit.
Above that, it's an arena for battles between capital, which is not something he's qualified to participate in.
Now that she's offering this role, it doesn't really appeal to Old Hu, but it's very appealing to his grandson. What a great opportunity for the grandfather to help his eldest grandson get such an important role!
Old Hu flipped through the script very slowly. Occasionally, he would flip back to it and read it carefully again after he had already flipped through it. Around nine o'clock, Old Hu had roughly finished flipping through the script, and only then did he speak, "The production cost of your play must be very low, right?"
"Um"
Su Qing nodded: "Four or five million, but I estimate it will definitely exceed that. Director Huang said that in the past, this film would have cost at least twenty to thirty million to complete. But now there's AR technology, right? Several special effects scenes can be completed using special effects."
"This character named Li Wei is really going to be given to my grandson!?"
Old Hu asked in an uncertain tone.
Su Qing pointed to the contract on the coffee table: "Once the contract is signed, this role will belong to your grandson. However, Mr. Hu, due to production costs, the crew can only give you 8,000 yuan a day. Your grandson will be paid on a daily basis. Since he is the lead actor, the 'Terror Live' crew will give him 15,000 yuan a day."
"My grandson earns more than my husband!"
Hu's wife beamed with joy and nudged Director Hu, saying, "See? I told you my grandson is promising. He hasn't even graduated yet, and he's already a lead actor, earning 15,000 a day. He's sure to become a huge star in the future."