A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 423 Top-level division of labor

"You called me here just for this?" Qiao Yingzi asked, looking at the pile of "junk metal" in front of her.

After she received Chen Jinnian's request for help, she put down her work and rushed over from home, but what she saw really shocked her.

Apart from its resemblance to a space suit, this thing has nothing to do with anything else.

"To be precise, this isn't a space suit, but a life-support system designed for hypothermia and hypoxia." Chen Jinnian finished his introduction with a slightly awkward smile. "But there's a problem with the design. Wearing it could kill you, let alone sustain your life."

"So do you want the real thing, or do you want a prop that looks like it?"

Qiao Yingzi has seen real space suits in the school's experimental area.

"Of course it's a prop that looks like it. I only use it on the set and I'm not going into space. The one you see now is too heavy and stuffy. It's still far from being suitable for use in performances."

There are countless bugs like the space suit in the crew. Many of them look good in the design stage, but only after they are manufactured do we realize how clever they are and need to be modified and adjusted every day.

"That's easy. Our club can help you with it, but~" Qiao Yingzi said in a long tone.

"Hurry up and tell me." Chen Jinnian knew that Qiao Yingzi was going to put forward conditions.

"Please support our volunteer activities. It's not a big amount, just a few hundred thousand yuan will do. We plan to buy some school bags, stationery, desks, etc. and give them to students in need."

Qiao Yingzi stretched out her hand and said that she and the other volunteers had already collected money, and when it came to donating love, no amount of money was too much.

"Okay, I'll call you from the company later." Chen Jinnian agreed without hesitation.

The volunteer activities of Qiao Yingzi and others were not under the jurisdiction of the Black Ten Association and the Children's Charity Foundation. They were spontaneously organized among universities. There was no such hellish behavior as asking a young and beautiful mother to sleep with them or five people spending a million yuan.

So Chen Jinnian can still give this money. If he donates it to other organizations, he will not get a penny. He doesn't want his money to become a tool to help evil.

Qiao Yingzi patted his shoulder excitedly, "Don't worry, our club can even make you a small rocket. It's just a few props, and I guarantee it will be beautifully made for you."

After making her promise to Chen Jinnian, she immediately sent the good news to the group and invited several seniors to work on the crew.

"When do you need it?"

"It's already started. Of course, the faster the better. But there's no need to be too anxious. We still need to do it as meticulously as possible," said Chen Jinnian.

The crew's filming progress is quite slow, and because everything is being done in the studio, Chen Jinnian is not clear about the current overall progress. However, according to his estimate, the main storyline between him and Zhao Jinmai alone will take at least three months to complete.

It was a foregone conclusion that the crew would exceed the deadline, but unlike other crews, Chen Jinnian had no way to deal with the delay of Little Break Ball and could only wait for Guo Xing to slowly grind him down.

"Okay, but you can't let us pay for the production costs."

"I'll pay, you just need to make it happen." Chen Jinnian has already made up his mind. After the crew finishes filming, he will take the three spacesuits home as collections. These things are much more meaningful than those high-end dresses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Okay, we will sort out the specific expenses and amounts and send them to you when the time comes." Qiao Yingzi nodded. It was a pleasure to cooperate with Chen Jinnian.

In the following days, Chen Jinnian witnessed the work efficiency of these outstanding students from top universities. No one shirked responsibility, no one quarreled or cursed at each other, and no one took the opportunity to enrich themselves.

Without any clear leadership or management, a group of students were responsible for their own part of the work and made three sets of props in an orderly manner. They even had time to modify the unreasonable design of the prop set.

Especially after seeing the reimbursement details handed over by Qiao Yingzi, Chen Jinnian was even more sincerely impressed. If the crew members could have half of their quality, the shooting process and the quality of the finished film would be significantly improved.

And he doesn't have to be on the crew every day, keeping an eye on the flow of money.

However, Chen Jinnian also knew that his idea was a pipe dream. The best talents were destined to flow into the most important positions. Their entertainment industry, to put it nicely, is called cultural soft power, which brings Chinese culture to the world.

To put it bluntly, it's just icing on the cake.

Qin Shi Huang achieved the standardization of wheel gauges and writing systems, not because of the great culture of Qin State, but because of his powerful fists. After fighting for decades to destroy the State of Zhao, the remaining chickens and clay dogs were not worthy of having their own writing systems.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Qiao Yingzi came over and asked.

"No problem." Chen Jinnian shook his head. "I just want to ask, do any of your seniors want to do internships? You can come to my company. The salary is negotiable."

"What? You want to build a rocket?" Qiao Yingzi asked.

"That's not the case. I just think it's useless to make a hard science fiction movie with a bunch of art students like us who can only shout about how awesome it is," said Chen Jinnian.

To students of liberal arts, everything they see looks like high-tech, while to students of science, everything they hear sounds poetic and picturesque. It is impossible to make a good science fiction film simply by relying on imagination.

"That's probably not going to happen. If you want to build a rocket, you can come to our school to recruit people."

"Haha, thank you. It would be more reliable for me to build a car than a rocket," said Chen Jinnian.

The basic market size of the film market is only tens of billions of yuan a year, which is a drop in the bucket compared to other national industries. There is no such a huge amount of money to burn.

After just a few words, the crew came over to inform Chen Jinnian that the filming was about to begin.

"I have something else to do. You can talk to Yidi." Chen Jinnian stood up and said. He needed to hurry up with the filming recently to leave time for the promotion of Wolf Warrior. Now Wu Jing called him every day to urge him to do the promotion.

"Hey, Teacher Pan is getting married next week, so don't forget."

Qiao Yingzi hurriedly reminded him.

"I can't forget, I can't forget." Chen Jinnian said this and ran away.

His schedule is very tight now, not the kind of tightness that comes from being busy, but the kind of tightness that comes from having nothing to do. He often hangs on the wire for an entire afternoon. Chen Jinnian has no idea what this old guy Guo Xing is shooting, and each shot requires half an hour of discussion.

It's a science fiction drama, but it's harder to shoot than a martial arts film.

Maizi and Uncle Da were both tortured to the point of collapse. After coming down yesterday, Chen Jinnian saw Uncle Da secretly wiping away tears. If it was just the future salary of 200,000, he would have left long ago.

"Brother, are the props ready? We will be shooting the scene with the hood on tomorrow." Zhao Jinmai asked hurriedly when she saw him coming.

"It's all done. You can go take a look when we're done. It's much more comfortable than the first version." Chen Jinnian answered, then looked to the side, "Uncle Da, your set has an oxygen port. You can use it anytime if you feel uncomfortable."

Uncle Da has a heart problem that cannot be treated and can only be relieved by oxygen.

"Thank you, I'm sorry to bother you." Uncle Da smiled. He knew his own body well. If he could hold on, he would not want to delay the filming of the crew.

"It's our duty." After saying this, Chen Jinnian took the initiative to cooperate with the staff to hang the safety rope on his body. He was about to ascend to heaven again.