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    After winning the award

    Chapter 61 After winning the award

    The production coordinator called Gao Huan that night and said, “Best actress and best sound effect!” The excitement was palpable.Gao Huan was answering emails in the office at the time. When he heard the news, he was instantly excited and blurted out: “Awesome!”

    The other party obviously didn’t understand the meaning of this all-purpose Chinese sentence, but he was obviously constantly interrupted by the scene, so he didn’t ask any more questions. He just briefly described Gao Le’s chic thank you and the atmosphere after he came on stage.Before hanging up, the production coordinator added that there were many people staying at the scene to communicate. Even the person in charge of a production platform took the initiative to chat with them. He spoke highly of the completion of “Hertz” and planned to make an appointment to discuss it in detail.

    Gao Huan listened and nodded.This information is more important than the award itself.

    “Julien has always been by my side.” The production coordinator said in a very neutral tone, “He knows the production process best.”

    Gao Huan said “That’s good” and didn’t ask any more questions.

    He can almost make up these scenes by himself: the crowd has not dispersed, the lights are still on, the person who just won the award is naturally surrounded in the middle, the questions are not sharp, but they have already begun to point to the next step.Who was present, who spoke to whom, whose names were silently noted – these were not accomplished with trophies.

    After hanging up the phone, he sat in his seat for a while before returning his attention to the screen.The email was still on the interface just now, but he did not continue typing immediately. Instead, he went through the names of the people he just heard in his mind.

    Not long after, news about Gao Le also came in.

    She sent a selfie.The background was a bit cluttered, but she was still standing in the middle of the crowd, holding the trophy in her hand, looking relaxed and smiling widely.

    Gao Huan clicked on it and looked at it for a while, then replied: “Awesome, come back and treat me to dinner.” There was also a series of thumbs-up expressions.

    Over the next period of time, Hertz’s name began to appear in a steady, low-noise manner.Not a hot topic that is mentioned repeatedly, but a case that is seriously cited.Someone began to mention “your short film” in the email, and the tone was no longer probing, but instead acquiesced that the other party knew that this was a complete and successful execution.

    The first thing I approached was cooperation related to sound design.

    Someone named him directly in the email, saying that he had seen the sound processing of “Hertz” and was very interested in the team’s overall judgment. He hoped to chat about the possibility of long-term cooperation in the future.It’s not a single project, but “if the direction is right, we can walk together for a while”.

    Gao Huan saw the email and replied to the production coordinator: “Let’s talk first, don’t rush to agree.”

    He began to consciously slow things down.

    This “slowness” is not hesitation, but screening.Once projects, cooperation, and resources enter this stage, speed will mean distorted judgment.He would rather miss it than be finalized in advance.

    The pace of meetings at Haoyue Media has also changed.

    The previous discussion was more like confirming possibilities, now it is more like calibrating the direction.Which projects are worthy of entering the development stage, which people are suitable to be included in the long-term cooperation list, and which ones look lively but are not clean – these judgments have been mentioned repeatedly and verified repeatedly.

    Once, Peter mentioned at a meeting a cooperation that seemed to have good conditions. The other party had complete resources and a positive attitude. The only problem was that the pace was too fast.

    “They hope to finalize the framework within three months.” There was a silence in the conference room.

    Gao Huan did not express his position immediately, but only asked: “What are you anxious about?”

    That year, he began to frequently reject options that “seemed right.”The refusal was straightforward and polite.No explanation, no pulling, just clear boundaries.Slowly, the other party also learned to adjust their posture – the proposal became more concrete and the rhythm became more realistic.

    Life has been compressed even more tightly during this year.

    London in the morning, Berlin in the evening, and Paris at night. The cities are constantly switching, but the conference rooms are almost the same.He is used to eating simple meals at the airport, answering emails on the plane, and organizing information in the hotel room.

    I haven’t taken any vacation, and it’s just point-to-point work when I return home.This kind of life was far from enjoyable, but it made him feel at ease, as if a top could only keep spinning and would fall if it stopped.

    There was a subtle change in Grace’s attitude.

    She no longer places Haoyue Media in a position that “needs additional clarification.”When communicating with the outside world, relevant projects are directly integrated into the conventional context of the European system; in terms of resources and structure, margins are also begun to be left in advance.She still did not interfere with the content or guide the direction, but used a series of practical actions to confirm the way the company was treated equally.

    Changes within the group came more quietly.Wang Yuan began to synchronize some information to Gao Huan in advance instead of explaining it afterwards.During several decision-making meetings, his opinions were naturally written into the minutes without emphasis or additional explanation.Gao Xuefeng no longer asked about the process, but only looked at the results at key nodes.

    Gao Huan didn’t deliberately feel this.

    He just continued to finish what he had to do every day, read the materials that needed to be read, confirmed those that needed to be confirmed, and rejected those that needed to be rejected.Judgment still needs to be cautious, and rhythm still needs to be controlled.

    Like a top that has been thrown, as long as it keeps spinning, the balance remains.

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