Chapter 808
The next day .
Zhang Ye came to work at 6 AM in the morning, carrying a bag of piping hot buns, two hamburgers, and three bottles of mineral water . He headed straight into the editing studio and did not come out for the rest of the day . When everyone from Department 14 knocked off, and even after those who stayed behind to work overtime left at around 8 PM, Zhang Ye still did not come out from the editing studio .
Everyone knew that Director Zhang was busy editing the documentary, so they did not dare to disturb him .
The next day, everyone came to work as usual, but they still did not see any sign of Director Zhang .
A day later, when everyone came to work, they heard from a staff member of Department 14 who had the night shift saying that Director Zhang was no longer in the editing studio and had gone to the recording studio at around 4 AM .
Then, they did not see him again for another day .
Little Wang panicked . "Will Director Zhang's health be affected like this?"
"It has already been three days . " Ha Qiqi was extremely worried and asked, "Director Zhang has not gone home at all?"
Wu Yi wiped his sweat off and said, "Rather than going home, I've heard that he has been staying here all this time . I haven't even seen Director Zhang once in the past few days . Only Little Han who does the night shift has seen him twice, and that was because he went out to buy supper for Director Zhang . It's not good if it goes on like this . With this work intensity, he better not have something happen to him . "
Tong Fu got frightened by that . "Let's go get Director Zhang!"
Zhang Zuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry . "Back then, Director Zhang was also like this when he did The Voice . He did not go home for many days and even brought a child to stay at the program team office every day! He did not leave the station at all!"
Huang Dandan said in shock, "Ah? Really?"
Ha Qiqi gave a wry smile . "Of course it's true . You guys didn't know about the situation because Little Tong and you aren't from The Voice's program team . Our Director Zhang is a guy who would work to death . As long as there is work within the program team, then needless to say, Director Zhang will assuredly be the last one to leave work and the first person to come to work the next day . We have tried persuading and talking to him before, but it's not like you don't know Director Zhang's temper . When has he ever listened to us? So there's no need to go get Director Zhang since it's useless even if you talk to him . You may even end up distracting him from recording the voiceover . "
The original staff of Department 14 were feeling rather alarmed by that!
While those people who worked on The Voice with Zhang Ye were not surprised, they did not feel too comfortable about it either .
Finally, on November 30th, the recording studio's door finally opened during the daytime . Zhang Ye walked out with his hair messy and looked exhausted, though his eyes were shimmering .
Ha Qiqi stood up immediately . "Director Zhang!"
Little Wang exclaimed, "Aiyo, you've finally come out!"
Zhang Zuo shouted, "Quickly, go and get Director Yan!"
Director Yan had told everyone to inform him once Zhang Ye stepped out of the studio . As such, when Tong Fu saw this, he ran to Director Yan's office immediately . After an entire week, they finally saw him again!
Before Tong Fu had reached the director's office, Yan Tianfei heard their shouting and burst through the door and strode towards the office space of A Bite of China .
"Director Yan . " Zhang Ye smiled .
Yan Tianfei heaved a sigh of relief . "You're really risking your life for this documentary!"
However, Zhang Ye brushed it off very casually . "It's nothing, Director Yan . Back when I was recording the talk show and preparing for The Voice, the situation was not that different from this . It's just not going home for a few days . What's the big deal with that . The main issue is that we do not have much time left before the documentary starts its broadcast . If we take it too slowly, I'm afraid it will be too late . That's why I wanted to quickly rush out the documentary to submit it for approval . We still need to plan for the programming lineup and times, otherwise we won't make it in time . "
Yan Tianfei asked, "So how did it go?"
"The documentary is complete . We just need to add in the background music and we can submit it for approval," Zhang Ye answered .
What?
It's already completed?
You finished everything by yourself in just a week??
Everyone was dumbfounded . Those people who were originally from Department 14 looked at Zhang Ye as though he were some kind of god . In the past, they'd frequently heard rumors of Zhang Ye risking his life for work, but did not actually witness it firsthand . However, now that they saw it for themselves, they were truly shocked . He was pushing himself too hard . As a leader, if you took on all the work by yourself, then what would there be left for us to do? However, on second thought, they did not say anything because everyone knew that if they could help out in the areas of editing and voice recording, Director Zhang would surely get them to help . But there was really no one in the program team who could help him; only Director Zhang himself could handle such work that called for certain artistic standards!
If their leader worked so hard, then how could they not do the same?
Everyone immediately busied themselves like they were on stimulants . Some of them went to get the background music, some of them went to finish up the post-production work, and some contacted the approval board staff in advance .
Zhang Ye was still supervising from the side as the remaining tasks were inseparable from him . However, as most of the important work was already done, he could finally afford to relax a little . He took out his cell phone and turned it on .
When it powered on, countless missed calls and messages came flooding in!
Hu Fei: "Call me back when you turn on your phone . "
His mother: "When are you coming home?"
Tian Bin: "What's the matter? You even turned off your cell phone?"
Dong Shanshan: "Old classmate, have you gone missing?"
Zhang Ye called his mother back .
"Mom, I'm going back tonight . "
"You've finished your work already?"
"Yes, I'll be able to finish it today . "
"Alrighty then . If you didn't call back home, your dad and I would have forgotten that we had a son . "
"Man, it can't be that serious, right?"
Then, he suddenly heard the chat app notification sound from his cell phone . It was an invitation to join a group chat but he didn't know when it was sent to him . Seeing that it was Hu Fei who invited him, he accepted and joined . When he entered the group chat, he saw that everyone in it were familiar faces . They were his ex-colleagues from the BTV-Arts Channel whom he worked with on Lecture Room and also the current program team of Do You Remember .
Xiao Lu: "Ah, Teacher Zhang?"
Dafei: "Teacher Zhang has joined the group chat?"
Dong Shanshan: "What have you been doing for the past week? Did you go missing?"
Hu Fei also appeared and typed out a long string of question marks .
Zhang Ye thought that this would save him the trouble of calling them up, so he sent a group message to them: "I was busy editing the documentary for the past few days and didn't even go home or turn on my cell phone, but everything's done now . Let me inform all of you here first, haha . On the Friday of the week after next at 8 PM, remember to tune into Central TV Department 14 to give me some viewership support! "
Hou Ge cried out in excitement: "We'll definitely do so!!!"
Dong Shanshan: "Hur hur, I will switch on a few more television sets in the station and tune it to your channel . "
Hu Fei asked: "Little Zhang, I have something serious to ask you . Why isn't your documentary being promoted anymore? Weren't the promotions going well earlier? Why did the promotions only last for a day? What's the use of that? I don't have to tell you how important the promotions are, right? Surely you understand that with the broadcast date approaching, these two weeks of promotions are especially crucial . It's also the golden period for it, so even if you know that the documentary will not have much of a viewership, and don't have expectations of getting any results on the documentary, you cannot just drop everything and not bother about it . After all, you have already spent a few months shooting the documentary . "
However, Zhang Ye did not explain it in detail . "Hai, don't mention it anymore . "
Hu Fei sent: "Is there something behind this?"
Soon, they found out the shocking reason from the Internet!
. . .
On Weibo .
Actually, some people from the media and industry insiders had been wondering for the past few days as well . They could not understand what was actually going on with Zhang Ye and his new documentary .
"Why aren't there any more promotions?"
"There don't seem to be any more advertisements on the online video hosting site? It looks like we can only see the promotions of Zhang Ye's new documentary on Channel 14 now . Aren't they being too thrifty? Basically, no one watches Channel 14 at all . Every time in the overall viewership ratings, the Central TV Documentary Channel's viewership ratings are even lower than the Military and Agriculture channel . What kind of promotional effects can they achieve there?"
"I wonder what Department 14 is thinking!"
"They're too unsupportive of Teacher Zhang!"
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