Chapter 107
The East Third Ring Road, a steakhouse in a five-star hotel near Yansha.
Quan Zufang came to Feng Jianxiong's banquet as promised.
She reported Feng Jianxiong's name downstairs, and was led to this floor by the service lady guarding the elevator entrance downstairs. The elevator on this floor is locked, and the service lady needs to swipe the card to unlock the docking on this floor.
Such private specifications made Quan Zufang feel a little timid, but on the surface she could not see any suspicious signs. After all, she was a grassroots employee and was not qualified to be sought and corrupted like this.
"It seems that people come to such places when talking about shady transactions. It's such a luxury." She thought to herself.
"Sister Quan, here." Feng Jianxiong called softly and pulled Quan Zufang back from his distractedness.
She quickly trotted over and sat down at the table.
"Xiao Feng, Oda, okay."
"Sister Momo, you know her. She is my girlfriend now, and I am also busy with her business - but don't tell me, she hasn't become my girlfriend yet." Feng Jianxiong pointed at Tian Haimo and introduced to Quan Zufang.
Tian Haimo nodded slightly to Quan Zufang with a charming look. Looking at the alpaca wool tweed clothes hanging on the back of her chair, as well as her exquisite and elegant makeup and beautiful appearance, Quan Zufang felt ashamed.
"Congratulations, you are so talented and beautiful." Quan Zufang gave a compliment.
The waitress waited for them to politely and quiet before she came over from afar and asked Quan Zufang to order food. The steps were a little heavier at first, and there was a sound of high heels hitting the ground, and then it immediately became lighter.
These are the usual details of the waitresses trained by the most advanced hotels in Beijing. When you walk in, the first three steps will ring, which can remind customers that someone is approaching, so as not to temporarily say something private to the waiter hears it. The next few steps will be lighter, so that the customer will not disturb the customer.
When you come to such an occasion, eating is not the key, but the key is to talk about serious matters, so no one orders first and waits for the guests to come, so there is no need to do this.
"I... would you better order it?" Quan Zufang looked at the bunch of unknown dishes and was slightly scared.
"Don't like this flavor?" Feng Jianxiong asked warmly.
"No, no, no...all are good, I haven't tried it." Quan Zufang quickly explained.
"So from the raw materials, what you like to eat, order whatever you like."
It may not have been seen before in the dishes, but it is impossible not to recognize the ingredients of the dishes, so Feng Jianxiong insisted on letting Quan Zufang order it himself.
Quan Zufang gritted his teeth and ordered several main dishes such as charcoal-burned truffle gras, Provence red wine lamb chops wrapped in potato mash, and some side dishes.
Feng Jianxiong looked at it and saw that Quan Zufang was not ruthless enough, so he added a dish of Volga sturgeon caviar from the origin of Astrakhan, and then asked the waitress to place an order.
Quan Baifang looked ashamed and spoke more earnestly.
While waiting for the dishes, Feng Jianxiong only made a few polite words and got to the point without hesitation:
"Sister Quan, I wonder if the matter you asked you to inquire last time will be a result."
"Yes, you wait." Quan Zufang said, taking out his cell phone very simply, and there were some secret photos inside to prove her words.
She pointed to Feng Jianxiong's phone and explained to Feng Jianxiong: "I asked about the project "China on the Bite of the Tongue" last time. Later, I asked the Taiwanese to find a way to find a secret. In fact, someone reported it to him in the second half of 2005. The director who mentioned the project was Director Chen. However, the director of the documentary department of Taiwan did not pass the project when the approval project was approved. Director Chen revised the shooting plan twice and improved the content outline, but he could not pass it."
Quan Zufang's term "the documentary department in the station" is of course not standard, but everyone in the circle can understand it. Because CCTV theoretically has its own independent settlement production company, strictly speaking, the TV station should belong to the TV station and the production company belongs to the production company. In theory, the leaders of the TV station have no right to take care of what the production company shoots or what they don't take.
But in fact, the cross-traffic between these two parts of people is very frequent, so there are also cross-traffic rights.
More importantly, many of the things produced by CCTV's producers have made a little more accurate. If you really want to cater to the market and gain ratings and commercial value, you will often fail.
Therefore, many things made by CCTV production companies are directly pointing to their own TV stations and putting them on. If CCTV doesn’t want to put them on, they can’t sell them.
"Then do you know why you didn't pass?" Feng Jianxiong asked just right.
Feng Jianxiong was not surprised at all because he had known in the future that this film would not be released in several years.
What he didn't know was just the internal reasons, and this was the key to his need to rely on the power of the emperor to inquire.
Quan Zufang obviously did his homework well, and his answer was very direct: "It is because the leader of the documentary department is not optimistic about the ratings of this subject, and he feels... his intention is not high, and he doesn't have much political achievements when he takes the politically correct route."
Whether or not a local TV station decides to shoot a certain film depends entirely on market-oriented decisions. Sometimes, if a film is very politically correct, even if it knows that the ratings are definitely a failure after being shot, it has to be hard for political achievements.
For example, in recent years, since Mango TV became popular with "Super Girl" the year before, it still has the highest viewership after the rise of online videos. Several more open provinces, Shangxing Provincial Taiwan, are jealous of Mango TV's achievements and have begun to think about different ways to create talent shows.
However, such programs that make money and can make advertising fees in Taiwan skyrocket, may not necessarily bring political achievements and promotion to leaders.
On the contrary, for example, in Qiangui Province, there is no hope of market-oriented operation, and locals go out to work, where nine out of ten rooms are empty and no one watches TV. Even though they know that there is no chance to cater to the market, they simply go on a program like "Huaxia Migrant Workers". In the end, the program was successfully launched and was praised by CCTV. Several of the relevant middle-level cadres in Qiangui Province were promoted to CCTV.
Quan Zufang said that "China on the Bite of the Tongue" was believed by Taiwanese leaders to "neither ratings nor political achievements", and Feng Jianxiong completely believed it.
After all, food programs are a bit vulgar. There is nothing more vulgar in the world than these two themes. Even in the online literature world, even if you know that there are many foodies in China, writers who still have to be a little face would rather write nonsensical monster-fighting and upgrading than anyone would think of writing food articles. There are only writers with color similar to food, which are easy to transform and explore.
If it weren't for the later "Tip of the Tongue" narration and verbal commentary and sentence-making, and the connotation of being forced to make up for the high-end connotation, I'm afraid the CCTV leaders would definitely think that this kind of thing has no documentary value.
So, after the "Huaxia on the Tip of the Tongue" becomes vulgar, will the ratings be helpful? Strictly speaking, it may not be necessary. After all, its genre still determines that this is a documentary, serious, and no matter how vulgar it is, it cannot be as vulgar as those funny variety shows-
Just look at the "please, refrigerator" in Nanbang Country, and then I know how funny cooking themes can be filmed, there are celebrities, gossip, private life revelations, and the interactions between chefs...
If you don’t have to make it too high or too low, this movie will be difficult to give birth.
After analyzing with Quan, Feng Jianxiong felt that he had found the crux of the problem.
"So, in fact, as long as we can guarantee first of all in terms of ratings and political achievements, CCTV production company will consider filming this documentary?" Feng Jianxiong asked directly.
"In theory, that's it." Quan Zufang nodded in agreement, "But what do you want to do?"
Feng Jianxiong took a deep breath, thought for a while, and asked, "Does CCTV accept external investment? How much can the shooting cost of such a film be?"
"Is the shooting cost? Leave this kind of documentary to us CCTV to do it yourself. The budget of 1.5 million per episode is almost the same..." Quan Zufang said subconsciously, and then realized a problem, "Wait! Mr. Feng, are you planning to invest by yourself?"
She was so surprised that she had become President Feng from being a child.
"What? CCTV won't accept it?" Feng Jianxiong took a sip of coffee.
Quan Zufang's mind was a little confused. After thinking for a while, he realized that the problem was not as incredible as her first reaction.
"Uh... it can't be said that it's completely impossible to be accepted. But you have to be mentally prepared. Our CCTV rules have always been very large. First of all, we won't accept random investments such as idle people in society. Secondly, even if we accept them, the conditions will be very harsh."
Feng Jianxiong raised his hand slightly and stopped Quan Zufang from continuing to play: "With your recommendation, how can you call it 'accept investment from idle people in society'? Just tell Director Chen a lot about the process of getting to know you and me.
Besides, I have been a person who has been in the "Fayan" of the Central X Department. You know the most about my eloquence and ability to do things. To emphasize this point, I don't believe that Director Chen will not think that he will not be able to use me in the future."
"That investment conditions..." Quan Zufang's last period lasted for a few seconds.
"The conditions are the following issues, so we have to talk about them first, right? Even if you don't talk, you say that no matter how many conditions you have, it is worthless - what you have to do now is to convey my intentions and strength to Director Chen, so that he can come and talk to me in person."
Quan Zufang thought for a while and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll give it a try, but I'll remind you. Generally speaking, if it's a project that feels the risk of viewing is too high, even if you forcefully convince them to accept external investment, you will definitely be used as a risk-sharing depression.
I guess the other party will definitely sign a ratings bet agreement with you. If the ratings fail, you will not be able to receive the final payment. And even if you accept the risk bet, the premium of the deposit you are paying for will not be too high. So you are likely to lose money."
Chapter completed!