A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 306 The crew is really a makeshift team

The director of Mushroom House quickly asked the camera crew to delete the footage. Chen Jinnian was stubborn and refused to shoot anything, but their production team couldn't do that. If the content just now leaked out, it would be a big trouble.

Chen Jinnian was leisurely drinking coffee and discussing today's tasks with Teacher He.

Reality shows focus on authenticity, but they are actually all acting, or to be more precise, they are the celebrities’ public images in mass media.

For example, Huang Xiaochu’s public image is an old fox, a good father, a chef, etc. No matter what variety show he is in, he can only be confined to the inherent labels. Once he deviates from them, his personality will collapse.

The same goes for Wang Zhonglei just now. He had been acting quite well, creating the image of a very easy-going boss, which was in line with Huayi's expectations for the company image. However, his performance was ruined by Chen Jinnian's words.

"There are no special requirements, just a relatively daily routine. We'll split into two groups later. One is to follow Teacher Huang in the yard to record the food scene, which is relatively relaxing. The other is to follow me to break corn and complete the program team's task."

Talking about this, He Ling felt a little embarrassed, "I owed too much in the past few days, which resulted in a heavy workload today."

After hearing this, Chen Chichi hurried over and said, "Teacher He, I haven't slept for a whole day and night. I need to rest for a while. I will come to help you in the afternoon."

"Chichi, why don't you stay in the yard? Your back injury is no joke." He Ling said worriedly.

"Brother, is your back injury real? I thought you were in Running Man just for the show effect." Chen Jinnian asked puzzledly.

"It's true. It's an old injury I had when I was in college. It kept coming back and never healed. Two years ago when I was recording Running Man, I got even more injured. I had four bones dislocated and almost lost my life." Chen Chichi said with lingering fear.

In fact, his waist is a little painful now, but he didn't tell everyone because he was afraid of delaying the recording.

"Brother, you should have a good rest. And help take care of Xia Di. It's her first time recording a variety show, so she's a little nervous." Chen Jinnian stood up after saying that. "Teacher He, let's go. Let's do more work while it's cooler."

He stood up and was about to leave, which amused Huang Xiaochu. He quickly stopped him, "Wait a minute, kid. Let's finish recording the previous part first. I still need to negotiate the price with Lao Wang. I can't really break more than 2,000 corns. That would take forever."

"Okay, then you can talk first, Mr. Huang. I'll go change my clothes first."

Chen Jinnian hurriedly carried his suitcase into the house, looking very anxious. He Ling was stunned and quickly chased after him. "There's a camera in the room. Let me turn it off for you."

Chef Huang was laughing so hard, feeling that there was a good chance of completing today's task. He took the slippers he made to "negotiate" with the director, wanting to get this year's task done.

They do owe the program team a lot of corn. In the past few days, the guests just played and did almost no work, and they owed a total of 1131 corns. In addition to the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall worth 800 corns and the large steak worth 400 corns, the Mushroom House now owes a total of 2231 corns.

There is so much corn that it would take more than half an acre of land.

After an arduous showdown, the program team finally decided to halve today's amount, reducing the 1200 corns to 600, but the prerequisite was to make up the previous 1131 corns, for a total of 1731 corns.

After changing his clothes, Chen Jinnian went for a walk in the tool shed and came out looking at the film crew with a bad face.

"Hey, Jinnian, it's just right that you're here. They actually want 1731 corns. Why don't we fight them?" Chef Huang said. He meant to let the other party stop him and make the show effect as good as possible.

But unexpectedly, Chen Jinnian nodded heavily and agreed, "Okay." Then he looked past Huang Xiaochu and looked at Wang Zhengyu in the director's vest in front of him, "You are the director."

Wang Zhengyu was stunned by the question. He blinked his eyes and said, "Uh, I'm the director."

"Who on your team is in charge of the props? I want to talk to him. Why are there only two small bamboo baskets in the tool room? Who uses small bamboo baskets to harvest corn? Do they have any real life experience? Why are they being so pretentious? Who approved the preliminary research and planning? Who supervised the on-site work? Why are there still such mistakes after running the machine for several days?"

Chen Jinnian's series of questions quieted everyone present.

Although Wang Zhengyu is much older than him, this is his first time as a director. Before this, he only worked as a publicity director and had no actual experience in on-site scheduling.

It is precisely because of these problems that a large number of bloopers appear in the editing. Often, Teacher He is standing at the door in the previous second, and the next second Teacher He is sitting behind Dahua. Then the camera turns and Teacher He appears at the door again.

What? Teacher He is a Super Saiyan and can teleport?

And these are still minor problems. The bigger problem is that the time doesn't match. Sometimes it's morning and sometimes it's afternoon. When I answer the phone it's daytime and when I go out it's night. I have no idea what I'm recording. Everything depends on post-production editing and modification.

"We'll rectify that right away."

Wang Zhengyu said with a guilty conscience that he knew he was not capable enough. He could fool laymen, but he was too weak to face experts.

"Also, I just saw a bunch of wild mushrooms over there. Who picked them? Are there any poisonous ones? Has your crew hired someone to identify them? Also, this isn't a food-focused show, so why don't I see any doctors on set?"

Chen Jinnian's words made Teacher He's face change. They picked the mushrooms in the morning and were only considering using them to make soup. They really forgot whether they were poisonous or not.

"Hurry, go check it out."

Wang Zhengyu also said in a panic that on the first day of filming, there was a poisonous bean. If there is a poisonous mushroom soup today, then his directorial career will not even begin and it is better to end it as soon as possible.

"Here, here." He Ling walked over with mushrooms.

Everyone looked at each other, not daring to speak. Everyone present was lazy and didn't know the difference between grains. Not to mention telling whether there were poisonous mushrooms, it was even difficult to tell the difference between newly grown wheat and leeks.

"Jinnian, this..." Seeing that no one spoke, He Ling felt even more uneasy and turned to look at Chen Jinnian.

"Teacher He, don't look at me. I don't recognize any of these people."

He just reminded that even if he had to stay to cook or make soup, he would not eat it.

"Why not feed it to the sheep? Animals should be able to tell whether they can eat it or not."

Wang Yidi suggested timidly. She was a little scared now and held Chen Jinnian's arm tightly. She felt that the mushroom house was not as good as the military training base. After all, there was only insufficient food and sleep in the base, but safety was still guaranteed.

"Good idea." Chen Chichi agreed immediately, grabbed the bamboo basket of mushrooms and put them all into the sheep pen.

Then everyone in his family stood in a line to see whether the two sheep would eat it.

The smaller one didn't even look at it, but the larger sheep came over and sniffed, then turned and walked away, no longer looking at the pile of mixed mushrooms.

Seeing this scene, Chen Jinnian asked thoughtfully.

"Teacher He, where did you pick it from? It seems really poisonous."

"It's just in the back mountain. It seems we can't go there anymore." He Ling said with lingering fear. Mushrooms are a food with very regional characteristics, so it's better for outsiders not to touch them.

Wang Zhengyu, who was standing next to him, felt weak at this moment, his legs were trembling, and his back was covered in cold sweat.