Chapter 236 - Program Title Introduction, “I’ll Feed a Bag of Salt to Myself”! (2/2)

Zhang Ye smiled. “I need to record a t.i.tle introduction for my program.”

Sister Four acknowledged, “Sure. Give me a few seconds.” She took her dumplings and stuffed them whole into her mouth. She probably got scalded by the hot soup since she gasped with her tongue out of her mouth. Then she stood up and called for a few people, “Li, w.a.n.g, time to work.” They brought along their equipment and followed Zhang Ye.

When they pa.s.sed the costume department, Zhang Ye made a quick detour inside. He greeted the person in charge and choose a few suits of different colors quickly. He also took a few neckties and bowties of different colors. Then, he put them on a rolling clothes rack and rolled it out along towards Studio 7.

Inside, the few of them were stunned.

Sister Four asked, surprised, “Hey, why is there only you?”

Zhang Ye laughed, “It’s just me.”

“What about your production team? The Deputy Director? Who is in charge of the introduction t.i.tle planning? Without it, how can we film?” Sister Four and her team were from the filming department; they did not need to do any planning.

Zhang Ye replied, “The Overall Director and Planner is me.”

After explaining a little, Sister Four did not know whether to laugh or to cry, “You’re really fantastic. Your guys from the WebTV department are really great, too. They are too sn.o.bbish. Who says that your program won’t make the cut? They are even dodging their responsibilities out of fear? Little Zhang, Sister Four supports you. Make a program with an average rating of 500,000 views to show them. I will take care of the camera filming. Your program will broadcast on Monday? Filming will be done on Sunday? I will pick a few cameramen with the best skills and report to you on Sunday!”

Zhang Ye was in a good mood, “Then I will say my thanks first?”

“Don’t be so polite. Just tell us how you want to film the t.i.tle introduction.” Sister Four asked.

Zhang Ye had already planned it, “We will just do a few simple shots. I will be changing my costume for every shot, then we will put them together in post-production.”

Sister Four asked, “What about the t.i.tle words?”

A cameraman interjected saying, “That ‘I’ll speak for myself’ advertis.e.m.e.nt slogan was too good. If you don’t use it in the introduction t.i.tle, won’t it be a pity?”

“Yea, that slogan is too awesome!” another female cameraman said.

Sister Four professionally gave a wave of her hands, “That’s not suitable. It’s too full of pa.s.sion. I might not fully understand Teacher Little Zhang’s new program, something called a talk show. But the overall theme is one of humor and jokes, right? With such a formal introduction, it will clash with the theme. That’s a definite no-no.”

But Zhang Ye laughed, “It won’t. Let’s use that then.”

Sister Four was stunned, “Don’t fool around, Teacher Little Zhang. That’s really not suitable!”

“It will be okay. Listen to me and when we are done recording, you will all understand.” Zhang Ye was confident, “Can all of you help me to set up the background? I will go get changed and then prepare a prop.”

Prop?

There’s even a prop?

Sister Four did not expect it to be promising, but she didn’t say anything. She called for everyone to start decorating the set.

Zhang Ye went backstage to a room without anyone and got changed into his suit and tie. He looked much more spirited as he looked in the mirror, fully satisfied. Then, he looked everywhere for a “prop”, found something, nodded and prepared to make his own prop.

It was still lunch time.

When Zhang Ye came outside, he saw that there were still many people outside.

Dong Shanshan, w.a.n.g Bei, Ah Qian, Little Yu and a few familiar looking faces that he did not know too well. They probably wanted to take a look.

Dong Shanshan smiled and said, “Zhang Ye, do you need any help?”

“No, take a seat.” Zhang Ye attended to them for a little while.

They went over to the audience seats and sat there, waiting to see how Zhang Ye would handle everything by himself.

At this moment, w.a.n.g Xiong and a Leader that Zhang Ye had never seen before arrived. They did not say anything, but went directly to the seats in front of the stage. It was obvious that w.a.n.g Xiong was worried about him. Being the Producer, Director, Costume Planner and Set Layout Planner made him worried that Zhang Ye would mess things up, so he came over to see if Zhang Ye could really handle it all. If there were any problems, he, as the Overall Leader, would have to answer for it, too.

There were many people in the audience.

The set layout was decorated simply.

Sister Four shouted, “Okay, ready.”

Zhang Ye adjusted his suit and then walked to the background wall, “Then let’s begin.”

“Cameras ready, 3….2….1, action!” Sister Four commanded.

The recording indicator on the cameras lit up. Zhang Ye looked towards the camera with a straight face and said, “You only smell my cologne, but didn’t see my sweat. You have your rules, I have my choices. You deny my existence, I decide my future…..”

Everyone off-stage was frowning.

Eh?

Isn’t this still the advertis.e.m.e.nt?

Still using this as the t.i.tle introduction?

To be honest, the advertis.e.m.e.nt was really good. But isn’t your program meant to be humorous? Isn’t it a program where you say jokes? Using such an advertis.e.m.e.nt as the t.i.tle introduction is too formal! It’s not suitable at all! As expected, Zhang Ye had his limitations just working alone. How could he handle so many jobs by himself?

w.a.n.g Bei, Ah Qian and the others were all expressionless.

w.a.n.g Xiong was already shaking his head in self blame. The company’s Leader beside him also whispered to him several words. It looked like he was unsatisfied with the performance.

Sister Four sighed, thinking to call for a cut, but she didn’t and continued the filming.

Zhang Ye seemingly disregarded everyone’s expressions and became even more serious and formal. He poured his emotions in saying, “You mock at me having nothing, I pity how you always keep yearning. You show contempt for my young age, I will prove whose era this is. Dreams are paths destined to be forged alone, filled with doubts and mockery, but so what? Even if I’m all blue and black all over, I will also want to live beautifully!”

Up until here, Zhang Ye suddenly made a move that left everyone bewildered. He picked up a bag of his self-made prop. It was a bag used to hold condiments, the logo had been hidden by a sticker which was labeled — Salt.

What?

What did this mean?

“I am Zhang Ye!”

“I’ll feed a bag of salt to myself!”

Only to see Zhang Ye tilting his head backwards and pouring the prop into his mouth. Then his facial expression became rich with emotions. He held his throat and coughed and spitted out a few times!

“Pfft!”

“Hahahaha!”

Everyone off stage suddenly burst into laughter!

“I’ll speak for myself” (Wo wèi zìji dài yán) sounded the same as “I’ll feed a bag of salt to myself” (Wo wèi zìji dài yán)?

What were you even thinking! What a G.o.dly twist! That was some f**king G.o.dly twist!

Dong Shanshan was cramping up from laughing. She held her stomach as she kept on laughing!

The others like w.a.n.g Bei, Ah Qian and Sister Four were also unable to sit straight from all the laughing! Zhang Ye’s serious expression had all led up to this twist! This contrast seriously made it so that everyone couldn’t help but laugh!

Zhang Ye put down the prop in his hand, “The cameras can stop rolling!”

Sister Four finally stopped laughing and gave him a thumbs up in admiration, “This t.i.tle introduction….. is really paramount! Teacher Little Zhang, I am totally in awe of you!”

The few cameramen were also left in awe. They all wondered how this guy’s brain worked! Able to write serious advertis.e.m.e.nt slogans! But when it came to the t.i.tle introduction, the words were unchanged, but when repeated, it achieved two very different results! One was full of pa.s.sion, the other was totally hilarious! This…. So a t.i.tle introduction could actually be presented this way! It’s too wonderful!

w.a.n.g Xiong’s face broke into a smile.

Meanwhile, the other Leader was a little dazed!

He finally believed that Zhang Ye could really handle multiple roles by himself. This short segment was enabled through his directorial work and production, planning, costumes, prop, etc!

When work resumed in the afternoon, the few “audiences” began leaving.

When Dong Shanshan and w.a.n.g Bei left, they were still laughing and discussing about the t.i.tle introduction.

But Zhang Ye was still not satisfied, thinking it was a little monotonous. So he changed into a few more costumes and recorded a few more shots before calling it a day! To others, it was needless to say that for a program, especially a new program’s, its t.i.tle introduction was especially important. Some people racked their brains over this and might film it over and over for a week or even a month. Because it would be aired constantly on every episode, from a certain perspective, it was even more important than the contents of the program. But Zhang Ye only needed an hour to complete the t.i.tle introduction. Even with that, no one said that it wasn’t good!

“I’ll feed a bag of salt to myself”!

The t.i.tle introduction has been decided!

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