Chapter 476 - Got onto a live broadcast? (1/2)
Chapter 476: Got onto a live broadcast?
A while later.
The person-in-charge had hurriedly gathered several trusted members of his team and mysteriously ushered them into a small office. After shutting the door, he relayed the 'intentions' of the Director to them — ”Need not mind the ban, pretend there's no decree!”
His subordinates reacted in surprise when they heard that!
”Ah?”
”This...”
”But why?”
”Didn't they get banned from broadcasts?”
The person-in-charge waved his hands and said, ”Who are we to question the Director's intentions? We only need to carry it out according to his wishes!”
Did a power struggle happen within the management? The policy to ban the artists was not agreed upon unanimously? There were internal rifts? The members of the program team were stunned and looked at each other at the same time. They remembered that the SARFT's Deputy Chief had recently been transferred out suddenly, so did it mean that the power struggle was getting more intense? As Central TV, which was directly under the SARFT, their Station Head was also a member of the SARFT's higher echelons, so did that mean their boss was also involved? Did he intend to take the rank of Deputy Chief of the SARFT? Otherwise, why would there be such a request from the top?
Yes! That must be it!
This was really calling for a change in the status quo!
Everyone of them were alarmed as their imaginations ran wild.
A youth blinked and said, ”Then how should we do this? Do we record Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai's compet.i.tion and upload it? Or should we use our channel's website to do a live internet broadcast?”
Another middle-aged man said nervously, ”Live internet broadcast? There's a limited quota of people that we can do that for. It's usually reserved for the preliminaries of those hot favorites. As we can only broadcast one team at a time, we might not have the resources to do that. Besides, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai are amateurs who don't seem like they can actually perform crosstalk. Their performance, no matter how I see it, won't be good, so if we were to do a live broadcast.....”
The person-in-charge gave a wave of his hand and interrupted. He thought through it calmly before clenching his teeth and saying, ”We will a.s.sign a live broadcast slot for them. The words that Secretary An pa.s.sed to me directly from the Director was to let us do the recording and to do it clearly. What did he mean by recording clearly? He must have meant for us to reserve the resources for this!”
A person said, ”Alright then.”
The youth hurriedly got up and said, ”Then I will quickly go and make the arrangements. It's almost time for those two to begin!”
The person-in-charge said, ”Go quickly then. Remember to keep this matter to ourselves. Don't spread the word in case it complicates things. Even if something were to happen and the sky were to fall, we still have a higher up to take responsibility.”
The few of them all acknowledged this, ”Yes, leader.”
......
On the other side.
Division C's contest recording studio, in a waiting room backstage.
Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai had already changed into their crosstalk attire. Both of them were dressed in black. As they all say, clothes make the man. Proving this right, the two of them really looked as though they were crosstalk actors. Zhang Ye's clothes were borrowed for him by Yao Jiancai and just barely fit.
In the waiting room were a few other contestants as well.
The makeup artist was touching up their makeup to look better on camera.
A staff from the production team began briefing them on things to look out for, ”When you get on stage and after the signal light turns on, it means that the recording has begun. Pay attention to your own expressions and movements as your recorded footage will be uploaded to the website after that. Also, please take note of the field director's hand signals. If there are any issue during the recording, the field director will inform you.” The staff said a lot of things in a long winded briefing before finally looking at the few contestants. When his eyes swept over to Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai, he said, ”Did you get all of that?”
Zhang Ye asked, ”You're asking me?”
Only then did that person recognize Zhang Ye. He coughed and said, ”Man, so it's Teacher Zhang Ye. No, I was just asking them. You know more about recordings than I do.” Although Zhang Ye had been banned, no one dared to be arrogant in front of Zhang Ye. A starving camel was still bigger than a horse, much less this man of G.o.d. His popularity was increasing by the day even after he had been banned. The only person in the entire entertainment industry who could do that was Zhang Ye. Tang Dazhang and the other celebrities and experts could dare to doubt Zhang Ye, but as underlings, they could not.
When the door opened, a person came in and said loudly, ”Next team, get ready!”
Yao Jiancai got up and stretched a little, ”It's our turn, right?”
The staff nodded, ”Yes, it's time for #8.”
Zhang Ye gurgled on some water to moisten his throat before doing his usual vocal warm up, ”AH-WU-LU-AH!”
Yao Jiancai also did his vocal warmups professionally.
Subsequently, the two of them followed the staff out of the backstage seating area.
Yao Jiancai said, ”Since we won't get broadcasted anyway, why don't the two of us bros just loosen up a little more. I've not done crosstalk in such a long while now, so I must really enjoy it today!”
Zhang Ye smiled, ”Sure, but don't you get nervous.”
Yao Jiancai said, ”Can this old bro even get nervous? I'm just afraid that you’ll make a mistake. Even though the both of us have done some practice, I've not heard you do a complete one. Don't worry about your old bro's strength. Even if you were to spontaneously come up with something out of the script, I'd be able to hold it down. I've got many years of experience to back me up.”
Zhang Ye was tickled, ”Don't boast now and screw up when the time comes, I might really have some unscripted lines to say. You should know me well enough that I have always done things on the spot.”