Chapter 250 - WebTV’s First Historical Live Broadcast! (2/2)
He left.
Only Sister Four, Dong Shanshan, w.a.n.g Bei, and the others were left looking at each other.
Eh. This wasn’t right. It definitely didn’t feel right. Everyone in the company knew about Zhang Ye’s terrible temper. If someone casually said something that offended him, he might even desire to grab them by the collar and scold them. What’s more, that Korean celebrity had blatantly accused him like this. This wasn’t Teacher Zhang Ye’s style at all!
Ah Qian wondered, “What’s with Teacher Zhang?”
Sister Four was also bewildered, “Just a small matter? Shouldn’t this be a big matter? He’ll let it go, just like this?”
It was still his old cla.s.smate, Dong Shanshan, who knew him the best. She smiled diligently, saying, “This is the calm before the storm. Zhang Ye is simmering his feelings right now. I think in this episode of the program today, someone’s definitely going to get scolded. And I think he’s going to be scolded really, really badly!”
Put on makeup.
Get changed.
The costumes were all handled and chosen by Zhang Ye himself. The makeup artist gave him some opinions, but he didn’t listen. He insisted on wearing a suit and tie. No one except Zhang Ye understood what a talk show was like. In his previous world, a suit and tie were the symbol of a talk show, therefore Zhang Ye didn’t want to change and lose that in this world. He picked a color that he felt matched, and went to the front.
A field director along with several staff members were carrying a teleprompter.
“What are you doing?” Zhang Ye went over and asked.
The director said, “Oh, Director w.a.n.g said to prepare this for you.”
Zhang Ye said with a wave of his hand, “Take it away. I don’t need something like this.”
Sister Four, who was fiddling with the cameras, looked over, “Teacher Little Zhang. This is a live broadcast, so there’s a need to be prepared. You might not need it, but it’s always better to have it prepared in case you forget a line……”
Zhang Ye was very stubborn. Smiling, he said, “Sister Four, there’s no ‘in case’. I definitely won’t forget my lines. In fact, I don’t even have a script, so what’s the teleprompter going to show?”
The director nervously said, “Ah? You don’t even have a script for a live broadcast?”
“I’ve never used a script when I did a recording or broadcast.” Zhang Ye had said this before, and he repeated it again today.
The few of them didn’t dare to make a decision. One of them ran over to w.a.n.g Xiong in order to seek his advice.
w.a.n.g Xiong frowned and looked back at Zhang Ye. Then he told the staff, “The production team is handled by Teacher Zhang Ye, just do whatever he says. There’s no need to ask me for advice!”
The staff appeared to be choked, but didn’t dare to say anything further.
w.a.n.g Xiong’s att.i.tude towards Zhang Ye was to give him full support.
20 minutes until the live broadcast.
The audience had already entered the studio. Then, Feng Guiqin and a few of the company’s leaders entered through a side door. They didn’t sit in the front row, instead sitting in one of the corners. The remaining company staff also came along to watch, even though they didn’t have any tickets. He couldn’t neglect his fellow colleagues, so he arranged for them to stand to both sides near the stage. The cameras wouldn’t be able to capture them, as it was considered a section for the internal crew to watch over the set. Their fellow colleagues who’d wanted to come and watch had all arrived. Even that person, Yang Yang from Human Resources, who’d argued with Zhang Ye before, was here.
Finally.
The audience numbered around 70 to 80 people.
The company’s staff members watching numbered around 40 to 50 people, almost equal in number to the live audience numbers.
Dong Shanshan, w.a.n.g Bei, and the others had tickets for seats, so they sat in the middle and waited. Everyone was looking forward to the broadcast, but a lot of them were worried about it.
Zhang Ye looked on as the time approached. He tested the mic on stage, “h.e.l.lo, I hope everyone’s doing good. The live broadcast will be starting soon. The situation today will be a little different. Because the picture and sound will be broadcast real time over the internet, I hope that everyone can minimize their movement and volumes. Thank you.”
Sister Four’s camera crew gestured to him—there was still 10 minutes left.
After the audience had been seated, they started discussions amongst themselves.
“Did you see what happened online?”
“Yeah, you’re talking about Lee Parkwoo, right?”
“Yes, those bunch of Koreans are so wicked!”
“Yeah, I already disliked them from before. They should’ve just quietly had their own developments to earn our money and gain our fans. But now they’re even scolding our hosts?”
“Korea has always been like this!”
“Right? They’re really strange people. Always claiming that everything belongs to them!”
“I came to the recording the previous time, and I know that Teacher Zhang didn’t use a script. Look, there’s no teleprompter today as well, right? This is a live broadcast, let’s see if that Korean still dares to shoot his mouth off this time!”
“But what if a situation arises?”
“Hai, indeed. There can be all sorts of incidents during a live broadcast. I hope Teacher Zhang can do well for our countryman, such that that Korean can’t mock us!”
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