Entertaining Children

   Chapter 81 Photography Assistant

  Just as the meeting was about to end, the door of the meeting room was knocked, and then Zhang Yunxing’s secretary, Xiao Li, cringed and pushed in.

  Zhang Yunxing was slightly dissatisfied, and said displeased: "Xiao Li, what's the matter?"

   "Mr. Zhang, something happened to the studio. Mengyao and the others couldn't figure it out. The call came to me." Xiao Li said cautiously.

   "Oh? Isn't the studio taking the model card? What happened?" Zhang Yunxing's expression softened a little. Today, the shooting of the model card at the studio was personally arranged by him. It is normal to find him here if something goes wrong.

   "The photographer who was invited was dissatisfied with the assistant that the company arranged for him, saying that it affected his shooting rhythm, wasted his time, and asked the company to either change the assistant or he would not shoot." Xiao Lihui reported.

  Zhang Yunxing frowned again. The photographer who took the model card today is not small. He is a French-Chinese. To be precise, he is a French mixed-race with Chinese ancestry. His name is Thiel Chen and his Chinese name is Chen Xuan. He is a contract photographer of the French "Paris City Pictorial" and a co-photographer of "Exploration" and "National Geographic" in the United States. At the same time, he has also cooperated with many world-class first-line fashion brands. It is also very loud.

  This time, I was able to find him to take model cards for the company’s new models this year and some potential models in the company. He used a lot of personal relationships and finally took advantage of the opportunity of others to travel to China.

   "Anyway, our meeting is almost over, or I will accompany you to take a look." Hong Andong knows how amazing the photographer Zhang Yunxing is, so he simply suggested.

"Okay, that's the end of today's meeting. I hope everyone will continue to work hard in the coming year. Lao Hong, let's go to the site and have a look." Zhang Yunxing got up and said, seeing Xiao Siqi and his son sitting aside, and said with a smile: "Si Qi, Would you like to take Xiao Yao to see it together? Xiao Yao probably hasn't seen the studio yet. Our studio is not far away, it's downstairs."

   "Okay." Xiao Siqi glanced at Xiao Yao, and when he saw that he seemed very interested, he nodded and agreed.

   "At this time, the model card is our model. Let's go and take a look." Two of the company's top ten agents also stood up and said.

   "Okay, you guys come together too." Zhang Yunxing nodded, and said to the rest of the people: "Everyone, go and do your own thing."

Zhang Yunxing brought a group of people to the studio downstairs. When he entered the door, he saw that everyone in the studio had stopped and was not working, so he walked directly to a tall man in his thirties. He said: "Mr. Chen, I don't know what is unsatisfactory. Please tell me directly and I will try my best to solve it."

  After Xiao Yao came in, he first took a look at this so-called studio. This place has a lot of space, about 145 square meters in area, and the height should be more than three meters. There are iron brackets, various lights, and background boards. There are a lot of people in the studio, and there are many people sitting or standing by the wall, looking at their dress and body, many of them are models, and the few who are relatively simple and capable of dressing and dressing are estimated to be some models with assistants. There should be a dressing room and dressing room inside the two doors next to it. Near the middle, there is a large workbench with a lot of photographic equipment on it. There are also two laptops on the stage, both open.

  There was a girl sitting in front of the workbench with her head down, her long hair hanging down and she couldn't see her face clearly, but she was in a very good shape. In front of the workbench is the shooting set. The iron frame lights are all set up, and the background board is very interesting. On the white bottom plate are seven ribbons two or three centimeters high. The color gradually changes from black to light gray. There are also Arabic numerals from 1 to 7 on the side. , It is easy to think of the background board used by American prisons to take pictures of prisoners in the American TV series. The numbers behind them are used to show the height of the prisoners.

  And the man who Zhang Yunxing came in and walked forward on his own initiative could guess that he was the photographer by looking at his dress. Just now on the way here, Zhang Yunxing has already introduced the situation of this amazing photographer to them, thinking that he was afraid that everyone would inadvertently offend this industry leader.

Although it is sitting on a stool, it can also make people feel that this person's height is not short and the figure is also very good. It is not the good figure of the model, but the strong and good figure like the regular fitness. It feels strong and powerful. Looking at his face again, it turned out to be a good look that could clearly be seen as a mixed race. Lin Qisan, one of Xiao Yao's little friends, is also a mixed race, but Lin Qisan's mixed face is so beautiful, and this guy, this guy, this is a handsome face with a strong European line.

   While Xiao Yao was observing silently, this Chen Xuan had already explained his dissatisfaction to Zhang Yunxing.

  Chen Xuan is French. This time he came to China for a vacation. Taking over this job from Zhang Yunxing's company was entirely based on the personal feelings of a friend. There were about fifty models in Zhang Yunxing's company that needed to take model cards this time, and Chen Xuan only arranged two days to shoot. If it is an ordinary photographer, it takes about an hour to take a model card for a model, two days, no matter how many people can be photographed.

  Chen Xuan is not an ordinary photographer. He said that after shooting in two days, Zhang Yunxing believed it. It's just that Chen Xuan traveled by himself and didn't bring a photography assistant, so he asked Zhang Yunxing's company to appoint him two assistants to assist him in his work.

Chen Xuan asked two assistants. An administrative assistant was responsible for communicating with people in the company and Chen Xuan. At the end of the year, no matter which company was the busiest time, more than 50 models had their own jobs. , It is impossible to spare two full days to wait for Chen Xuan to take pictures of them. Of course, the very professional Chen Xuan did not ask them to wait two days like this. So sort out the order of the models to be shot, notify people one by one, determine the time schedule of the models, confirm before the shooting, reminders, follow up after the shooting, etc., all by the assistant.

  There is no problem with this one. Zhang Yunxing arranged for a senior employee in the company's administration to take charge of this work, because he was from his own company and knew that the boss attached great importance to this matter, and he had the ability and was very dedicated to doing things, but there was nothing wrong with it.

  The other one is Chen Xuan’s assistant of photography. In two days, the theoretical working hours cannot exceed 30 hours, and Chen Xuan's plan is only 20 hours. It takes twenty hours to shoot fifty models. It is impossible for Chen Xuan to take a rest for a while. He must continue to shoot. Therefore, he uses wireless transmission, and the pictures taken are directly transmitted from the camera to the laptop. The photography assistant needs to operate a laptop computer, organize the photos that come in at any time, and divide them into folders according to different shooting categories and names to facilitate Chen Xuan's post-processing.

  The model agency does not have its own photographers, nor does it have specialized talents for such photography assistants. Thinking about organizing photos? With a big wave of his hand, Zhang Yunxing sent a newcomer to the company, a young model who seemed to be clever newcomer to help Chen Xuan do this work.

  As a result, the little girl who had no such experience at all didn't know if she was too nervous or was frightened by Chen Xuan's rare shooting method and speed. Anyway, it was a rush to make this work miserable.

Chen Xuan came over and took a casual look after taking six or seven models. As a result, his mouth was almost not crooked. Dozens of photos were scattered all over the screen. He clicked on a few created folders and found that there was still something inside. There is a misplacement. In addition, poor communication originally affected the progress of the shooting, and Chen Xuan immediately exploded and put the camera down to indicate that he would not shoot.

  After finishing the matter, Chen Xuan added: “Mr. Zhang, in addition to changing the camera assistant, you'd better provide me with an interpreter to help me communicate with the model.”

   "What? Translation? Don't you speak Chinese?" Zhang Yunxing asked strangely.

"That's it. My mother is from Huaxia, and she usually asks me to speak Chinese at home. So my Chinese level in daily conversations is not bad. But at work, I still speak French or English habitually. .But I found that the English level of your company's models seems to be relatively average. Of course, it may be that my English pronunciation with French accent is more difficult to understand. Not to mention French. Anyway, communication is not very smooth. So you are the best So I can find a translator for me. French translation is the best, otherwise English translation is also good, but the level of English translation is relatively good, at least I can understand the English accent of a French-speaking person." Chen Xuan said.

   Now Zhang Yunxing is embarrassed.

  Translation is not difficult to find, but it takes time. Where can I find it temporarily? Even if it can be found, it will take at least half a day.

  As for the camera assistant, it is even more difficult to find. At the end of the year, it is the busiest time for business, and photographers who are usually deserted can receive jobs at this time. What's more, it is more difficult to find a photography assistant than a photographer. A photography assistant is usually a member of a fixed team of photographers. If you don't find a photographer, you just dig out the assistants in other people's teams. Which photographer is willing to let them go?

"Mr. Chen, do you think this is good? I will try to find the person you want, but don't stop filming here. After all, there are only two days, and the time is still relatively tight. Or just forget it today. . You stay in China for two more days. You can start after we find someone for you." Zhang Yunxing discussed.

"No." Chen Xuan shook his head and pointed to the laptop. "As it is now, the more I shoot, the more difficult it will be for me to do later work. If I don't find a good assistant for me, I won't continue to shoot." Then he said: "My vacation will end tomorrow. I have to get on the plane and leave China for the United States the next morning. The job there has been agreed long ago and cannot be changed. In this situation, when will you find a good person for me? When will the work start, the deadline for the photo will be nine o'clock tomorrow night, and that's what you can take."

   "This will be difficult." Zhang Yunxing said bitterly. He had settled the matter of Chen Xuan a long time ago. The fifty model candidates were also determined by the company after repeated discussions and balanced various aspects. It was either the company's star model or the newcomer with great potential, and they belonged to several different company's backbone agents. Huaxia has said it well since ancient times: Don't suffer from poverty but suffer from unevenness. Now that the filming of a film is removed, who should be removed? Whose people will be removed? This decision simply cannot be made.

  "Why don't I try?" Xiao Yao, who had been watching quietly, suddenly said.

  (End of this chapter)