Negative Electrode Material Chapter 57

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Chapter 57: Passing the Level

Gao Huan arrived at the studio early the next day, with a childish urgency: As long as he can see the complete film today, what he said yesterday will not count.

Julien pushed the door open and came in. Seeing that he was already there, he smiled unexpectedly and said, “You were earlier than me.” He walked over and put his arms around Gao Huan’s neck, kissing his cheek gently. The coffee in his hand spilled a little and fell to the ground.

The studio was filled with the smell of coffee and machine heat. Julien dragged the video to the end, turned up the volume, and a black scene flashed, and the story entered the doomsday world he constructed.For fifteen minutes, Gao Huan didn’t blink a few times, and he watched many clips countless times, but this time it really dragged him into another dimension.

“What do you think?” Julien’s voice was a little soft, as if he was testing, and as if some kind of pride had been suppressed.

Gao Huan shook his head slightly and turned to look at Julien: “You took the picture.”

The corners of the other party’s mouth curled up, and his light eyes flashed with pride: “I know.”

In the next month, Gao Le, Julien, and Haoyue Media entered the film festival preparation period.The content development team identified all possible film festivals, the production coordinator confirmed the budget and deadline, and finally made a submission list.

At the first formal film festival meeting within Haoyue, the table was projected on the screen, and everyone stared at the line of red text:

Moonlight Short Movie Festival – Lisbon

Deadline: 12 Days.

Julien suddenly fell silent when he saw the name. He had made many films, but this was the first one that could actually be submitted to a film festival. He was both excited and a little scared.

The production coordinator brought the meeting back to reality: “Everyone, please note that we still have three things to prepare: posters, stills, English synopsis. And subtitled version. As soon as possible.”

Julien frowned on the spot: “We were in a hurry that day and didn’t have a complete set of stills.”

The PR immediately received: “Reshoots. The poster needs to be made from stills.”

After the meeting, Gao Le and Julien took the team to the venue for reshoots.I picked out the light and angle, and temporarily added two sets of emotional photos, from morning to night, without stopping.Although the work was completed in one day, everyone felt like it took two days of shooting.

Julien felt like flipping the table when he wrote the director’s explanation. He is good at English but not an “administrative professional”. He usually speaks half-sentences and hides half-sentences when he speaks, and his “accent is too strong” when he writes.Content Development read his version for the first time and only said: “This is not the director’s exposition, this is a collection of poems.” In the end, Gao Le sat next to him, and the two of them went through sentence by sentence, deleting all the metaphors that were too floating.Julien was tough and reluctant, but at the end, he shrugged: “If that’s what they want.”

At the same time, Gao Huan had no time to “go into battle personally.”It’s not that he didn’t care about “Hertz”, but he was involved in another negotiation at that time – going back and forth with a German platform over the details of a short film cooperation.

Legal terms, window period, account sharing model, broadcast sequence, market budget… he has to keep an eye on every item.The only advantage is that the Germans don’t talk in circles like the British before talking about the key points. Their communication is almost straightforward, but they are so entangled in details that Gao Huan feels dizzy when he hears it.

Gao Huan’s phone often lights up in Haoyue’s internal meetings—the other platform is chasing him.So much so that it was difficult for him to concentrate throughout the meeting, and later he simply stopped participating in any “Hertz” film festival preparation meetings.He didn’t say a word about the preparations for the film festival, and he didn’t comment on the posters, subtitles, or submission list.Really overwhelmed.

Even so, he read all the emails copied by the preparation team and could see that everyone seemed to be undergoing an inhumane physical test.He did not reply literally. He only told the production coordinator twice when we met in the office: “If the budget is not enough, tell me.”

The poster for “Hertz” was finalized after seven or eight revisions, the sound was remixed, the stills were refined, and the director’s explanation was ready.On the last night of Moonlight registration deadline, all documents were finally uploaded.

Gao Le looked at the “upload successful” prompt window that appeared on the screen, closed his eyes slightly, and slumped in his chair.

Julien breathed a sigh of relief and patted her shoulder: “We made it. ”

On the same day, Gao Huan signed the last page of the contract.

The negotiations finally came to fruition – all details confirmed, contract scanned and uploaded, emails sent back and forth for final verification.

He slapped his thigh and couldn’t help but laugh. He found that he had subconsciously used a little German gesture: when saying goodbye, he always slapped his thigh and said: “So…”

Put on your coat and go downstairs to smoke.

The weather in May can be good or bad. One day the temperature can reach 30 degrees, and the next day it may drop to more than 10 degrees. The wind is still cool at night.Gao Huan was hit by the cold air and shrank his neck.I lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, and took out my phone while spitting out a new message: a screen shot sent by Julien – Upload Sessful.

A simple, clean pink heart follows below.

Gao Huan looked at the message, put the cigarette butt into the hand holding the phone, and slowly typed a few letters with the other hand:

【Well done】——Send.

The contract was signed, the film was successfully uploaded, and the deadline was met.Everyone was in different cities, different rooms, and different time zones and was so tired that they were almost speechless, but they finally passed the test completely.

He put out his cigarette, put his phone back in his pocket, and walked toward the hotel with his neck hunched.

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