Chapter 73: Illusory Reality(1/2)
When Zhang Jun and Yang Pan appeared in the advertising filming crew accompanied by their agent Hua Fang, it immediately caused a small commotion, and men and women rushed to witness the "Hope of Chinese Football" and the "New Idol of Chinese Football", and kept asking for autographs or hoping to take a group photo. However, this joy was knocked out by Wu Wei, the leader of the crew.
"Why are you quarreling? Go back to work!" He shouted against his subordinates with a stern face.
Zhang Jun and Yang Pan also quickly raised their faces, thinking whether they should be more serious and serious when they met for the first time.
Everyone dispersed in disappointment, and Wu Wei walked up and shook hands with the two: "Hello, I am Wu Wei, the director of this advertisement."
"Hello, Director Wu!" the two answered respectfully. They probably were suppressed by Wu Wei's majesty just now. They were directors, and big-name stars would listen to the director when they came here. But then, Wu Wei stood among the two, made a "V" gesture, and shouted to his assistant: "Xiao Chen, hurry up! Take a picture of us!"
Boos are everywhere.
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"...It's basically like this. You have probably seen the advertising creativity. I will ask Xiao Chen to give you one copy. When you go back, you can take a good look and carefully consider it. Let's take a look at the heroine, Xiao Chen."
Assistant Chen Lin said, and then brought a girl in a white dress, which Wu Wei specially ordered art and clothing to make for her. After wearing it, she was holy like an angel.
Zhang Jun and Yang Pan's eyes lit up.
"Sophie was what we found in this university. We think she is the best candidate for the heroine." Chen Lin introduced to the two stars. Sophie smiled slightly at everyone - in fact, she smiled at Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. Wu Wei was fascinated by Sophie's smile again, which was as bright as the sun and as gentle as the spring breeze. This smile only comes from heaven, so how many times can I see it on earth?
"Let's meet each other. Speaking of which, you three are still alumni! Haha, you must cooperate well within three days!" Wu Wei smiled. He didn't know the relationship between the three, and there was no problem with cooperation. According to creativity, one of the two stars would be in a relationship with Sophie. Reality and fiction actually met in a sixty-second commercial. Life is really wonderful!
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Today's plan is to have the two stars audition and perform some rehearsals. Regarding the costume styles of the two, Wu Wei adopted the true style, ordinary T-shirts and bright smiles, coupled with the green campus scenes and lifelike design, which will give consumers a feeling of a boy next door, and this kind of affinity is needed.
Wu Wei has read the copywriting he wrote before. He believes that there is no need to make a bottle of ordinary sports drinks, which are both going to the world and flying over the eaves and walls. There are too many such advertisements, and consumers want to change the channel at a glance. How can you let consumers remember and buy your products?
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"I fought with you alone, so tired that I was sweating all over. In the end, I defeated you and won Sophie's kiss and heart. Uh, good creativity." Yang Pan lay on the bed and watched the creative copywriting.
"I'm wrong. It should be that I fought with you one-on-one, so tired and sweaty that I finally won you and won Sophie's heart and kiss." Zhang Jun was unhappy.
"Hehe, you and Sophie are paired up in reality, so don't argue with me in the advertisement, right?" Yang Pan smiled.
"No! I don't want any point if it's not mine, I won't give anyone my money!"
"Hey, hey, just a joke, why are you so excited? Haha, but then again, this advertisement is written...it is just like a tailor-made for you and Sophie."
Zhang Jun smiled: "But I can't act too close to Sophie yet. Those reporters are so awesome!" He pointed below, and in the hotel lobby below the tenth floor, there were more than a dozen reporters, including sports reporters and entertainment reporters. They were all aimed at Zhang Jun and Yang. If you don't pay attention, Sophie's identity is likely to be exposed, and that is definitely not what Zhang Jun wants to see.
"Oh! You guys are really working hard!" Yang Pan sighed.
Zhang Jun stopped talking. He became a celebrity and was exposed in front of the camera every day. Various praises gradually became pressure. Some people praised him when he performed well, and those who performed poorly would start scolding him. He could still bear these pressures. What really made Zhang Jun feel tired was that he spent too little time with Sophie, and when he was together, he could not show the relationship between lovers. For example, in front of many reporters on the set, he always kept a certain distance to Sophie, and even a little cold. Sophie also understood that he never took the initiative to contact him, and the two could only communicate with their eyes. Even so, they could not look at each other for too long, because they would also be discovered by others.
However, when filming an advertisement, he can vent his emotions that are suppressed in his heart and be intimate with Sophie without any scruples. Many people even dare not believe that Zhang Jun can't act at all, because he played the relationship between a man and a woman "too well-placed! It's appropriate!"
At that moment, Zhang Jun really couldn't tell what reality is and what illusion is.
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At the end of the advertisement, there is such a scene where the winner Zhang Jun will accept a shy kiss from Sophie after drinking the product. This scene was reshooted several times, and the performances of the two were always inadequate. It should be said that the two were still a little unwilling to let go of kissing in front of so many people. Even if Sophie just kissed Zhang Jun’s face, they always made the two blush.
Director assistant Chen Lin had to repeatedly emphasize that the two of them put aside distracting thoughts and left distracting thoughts. The effect was still not great. Instead, Yang Pan smiled and said, "Don't think so much, just treat yourself as a couple!"
This statement really worked. In the next shooting, Sophie and Zhang Jun entered the state early before Wu Wei shouted. When Sophie heard Yang Pan's words, she remembered that she and Zhang Jun were thousands of miles apart and could only rely on the phone to maintain their longing. That kind of hard work... If it weren't for Zhang Jun's promise of "I want to marry you", she would have thought it would have been too hard!
"start!"
Wu Wei looked at Sophie in the monitor and closed her eyes, kissed Zhang Jun with a shy and affectionate look on her face. Her heart suddenly became sour. He found that he had actually eaten the jealousy of the characters in the play.
After Sophie kissed Zhang Jun, she didn't hear the director shouting "OK". She was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do. The others also continued to work according to inertia until Chen Lin gently touched Wu Wei who was trance to the monitor: "Director Wu?"
Wu Wei then realized: "OK, OK, stop!"
Everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief for the NG's shot that had finally passed countless times, Wu Wei spoke again: "Lighting, photography, let's do it again!" Then he said to Chen Lin: "I don't think this is outstanding enough to highlight the product and there is no memory. Tell Yang Pan, let him accidentally put the product between the two while Sophie and Zhang Jun are about to kiss, and let Sophie kiss the bottle. Let's see how the effect is."
Yang Pan did as he said, and surprised the two without Sophie and Zhang Jun knowing it in advance, "OK!" Wu Wei was finally satisfied this time. It was difficult to make people who could not perform a surprise expression, so he could only pass it once this time. If he repeated it, he would not achieve his unexpected effect.
When he shouted "OK", Wu Wei knew that it was better to say that this part was improvised by the director's experience, it was better to say that his jealousy towards Zhang Jun inspired him. He found that he had fallen in love with the girl in white who smiled extremely charmingly without realizing it.
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When Sophie watched movies, she only knew that the stars appeared on the screen with dazzling brilliance and chatted and laughed freely. However, she didn't expect how much hard work and sweat it would take to shoot such an effect. Fortunately, it was only a sixty-second advertisement. If it was an hour and a half movie, Sophie didn't know what she would look like after the filming.
Dragging her tired body, Sophie returned to the hotel with her mother. The reporters were interviewing Zhang Jun and Yang Pan who came back a little earlier than her. She is a supporting role, and the questions asked by the reporters were all about "How is it like to work with stars and filming" and "whether a fan". Therefore, Sophie doesn't have to be afraid of being besieged by reporters. She is famous because she is exposed to the light of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. When she is alone, there are rarely reporters who will disturb her, so she can walk by Zhang Jun and Yang Pan who are being interviewed.
But this time she saw an acquaintance in the lobby.
"Mr. Huang Deren?"
"Haha, just call me Brother Ren, don't be so polite!" Huang Deren's face was full of spring.
"Okay, Brother Ren. Why are you here?"
"I have been in Hefei all the time. I heard that you are filming, so I came to see you. We haven't seen each other for a long time, and it's still from the same city."
"Yes, yes." Sophie was a little happy after finally meeting an acquaintance who was not a reporter. "What is Brother Ren doing?"
"I haven't been busy with anything, I haven't found a job, I'll just be busy every day!"
"Didn't Brother Ren find a girlfriend?"
"Ha! You don't even have a job, it's difficult to support yourself. How can you find a girlfriend?" Huang Deren blinked at Sophie, "It's you, are you happy with Zhang Jun?" He asked in a low voice.
Sophie blushed. Huang Deren smiled, "I won't disturb you from rest! I'm tired for a day, so I'll leave. Anyway, you're going to school in Hefei, and I'll come to see you when you have time. You've become an advertising star now, so you won't recognize me then, right?"
"Brother Ren, I have a good memory." Sophie smiled.
"Ha! It's just a joke! I'm leaving, goodbye!"
"Goodbye Brother Ren!"
Huang Deren walked out of the lively hotel lobby and left all the noise deep. Classmate Li Yan is now on TV and is already a well-known reporter. If there is a selection of the top ten sports reporters of the year, just discovering and creating a sensational effect of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan in China will be enough to make him top the list.
And what about me? Since I graduated from school, I have never found any serious job. I always work for a while, play for a while, and live every day. Yes, I still don’t even have a girlfriend, and I am almost thirty!
Looking at the newspaper stall on the roadside, he murmured: "Maybe I really should find a job..."
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Two days later, the commercial, which invested 2 million yuan (excluding the cost of endorsing Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, was finally finished filming. The rest of the work was handed over to the post-production work in Hong Kong. Sophie will return to Luoyang to continue her summer vacation, while Zhang Jun and Yang Pan will rush to Chengdu, Sichuan, Maojiawan training base without stopping. Go there to participate in a week's National Olympic Training Cultivation, and then they will pack up their things, say goodbye to their relatives and friends, and return to the Netherlands. Then they flew from the Netherlands to Italy. At that time, Huafang probably had already completed the transfer of the two, and they went there to sign and have a physical examination.
A summer passed in a busy life and they will usher in their first season in the "Little World Cup".
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The reporters chased from Luoyang to Beijing, from Beijing to Hefei, then from Hefei to Chengdu, from Shuangliu Airport to Chengya Expressway, and chased all the way to Pujiang. They conveyed a message to people: "Zhang Jun and Yang Pan are here!"
At Maojiawan Training Base, the Chinese National Olympic Team led by Qiu Suhui moved from the hot Beijing to this place and held the second training camp before their match with the Syrian National Olympic Team.
Originally, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan did not need to come to the National Olympic Games, but Qiu Suhui still hoped that the two would come to get familiar with everyone. Famous reputation is not conducive to their integration into the team. Only by integrating into the team and allowing everyone to truly understand them can they form a tacit understanding in future games. Tacit understanding is not achieved through training, but is cultivated by living together.
There are a thousand bad reasons for closed training, but there is a great benefit. It is to quickly get familiar with a group of people who are originally very strange, thus forming an effective team and individual tacit understanding.
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"I tell you, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan are coming! Are you ready? Find them to sign at that time! Haha!"
"Tsk! What people on earth know must be done so mysteriously! You only know? They are already in Coach Qiu's office now."
"No way? So soon? It's over, it's over, I have to go find the camera!"
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Qiu Suhui welcomed the two beloved disciples who had been separated for more than half a year in the office with hugs. "You are much stronger again!"
"Haha! Zhang Jun and Yang Pan came to report, Coach Qiu!"
"Come on, I'll keep both No. 11 and No. 7 of the National Olympic Games."
After the three of them sat down, Qiu Suhui first cared about the teacher's situation: "How is the old man?"
"It's pretty good. He's also very excited to win the Dutch Cup. And Seth (Kozel) agreed to renew his contract for another year, and the team is in good condition."
"When it comes to the Dutch Cup, what are your thoughts on winning the championship?"
"It's certain to leave the team, but before leaving, I'm going to get a trophy for the team, it's also a reward for the coach!" Yang Pan said, and Zhang Jun nodded.
"You are finally going to embark on the road to a world-class star. The Italian League is very harsh on offensive players and it is not easy to succeed. Pay more attention, by the way, how are your physical condition?"
“Everything is good, nothing wrong!”
"Very good, haha! I feel relieved that you are healthy. I will not arrange any high-intensity training for a week. You mainly contact more with your teammates and develop tacit understanding. You will have little time to come back in the future and have fewer opportunities to practice with your teammates. So while you are familiar with everyone now, it will be very helpful for your game in the future."
"Yes."
"In the afternoon training, go to meet your teammates, and then go back to rest. These days, we are doing interviews and filming advertisements. Are you tired?"
"No need, coach." Zhang Jun said, "We have no problem. After resting for more than a month, our feet were itchy."
"Haha! OK, I respect your opinions!" The arrival of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan made Qiu Suhui feel very good. It was very happy to meet acquaintances from the Netherlands. He was not worried at all that Zhang Jun and Yang Pan integrated into the team, because as the first two people to understand his training methods and technical and tactical ideas, they would soon find a familiar feeling in the National Olympic Committee.
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In the afternoon, the sky was cloudy and a breeze blew, bringing rays of breeze to the training base that had been bored for several days. Does this mean that the arrival of Zhang and Yang also brought rays of breeze to the National Olympic Committee?
Zhang Jun and Yang Pan no longer need to be introduced. The players in the National Olympic Team will definitely be familiar with their affairs. They are the best among Chinese players of the same age. Of course, Kaka, who has joined the Brazilian national team, must be excluded. He has fulfilled the lifelong dreams of countless Chinese players in just two years like a Rocket.
Zhang Jun and Yang Pan did not put on airs because of their rapid fame as many people thought. In fact, their worries make sense. Young players with a little bit of fame in China will turn against each other and forget their surnames. They still smiled shyly in front of a group of strange teammates. From some small movements like scratching their heads, they are still children and they have not changed.
Qiu Suhui's introduction is not the same as introducing a guest in a serious manner. Maybe you are a star in the club, or you can't even play as a substitute in the local team, but everyone is the same in the National Olympic Team. No matter how famous he is, he must sit on the bench. Even if he is outstanding, even if he is not famous, I dare to let you start.
To be continued...