Chapter 1174
Chapter 1174: Zhang Ye's Olympic commentary!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
On the fourth day of the Olympics .
After three days of scolding by all the different parties, the issue began to subside .
Zhang Ye, who was sleeping in late, finally woke up at 11 AM . After he got up, he went straight out to the living room and saw his parents watching the Olympics on TV .
"Dad, Mom, how many do we have?"
"We just got another one today . "
"And in total?"
"Six gold medals . "
"That's not much, is it?"
"Yeah, the performance this year is just average . We threw away our chances in several of the events . "
"Hai . "
"Do you want to eat something?"
"No, I'm going back to the studio to have a look . "
"Oh yes, the swimming finals will be happening in a few days . Get us a few extra tickets . "
"Uh, I'll try . "
Noon .
At Zhang Ye's studio, everyone was busy working .
When Zhang Ye arrived, Zhang Zuo, smiling, came to him with several documents for him and discussed the work that had been done over the past few days . "Director Zhang, the issue of you tripping the referees has more or less been resolved . The police pretty much leaned toward our side and have already settled it for us . The suspended referees have also returned home and did not make any comments regarding the incident . We were lucky the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games issued that statement this time . That diverted away all of the heat on you and subsequently lightened the impact of the incident . "
Zhang Ye browsed through the documents . "Good . "
Zhang Zuo pointed at it and said, "This is your popularity score curve over the past few days . Your domestic popularity score has increased by quite a bit again . Although you're still in first place on the A-list rankings, your popularity score has been rising very quickly . This chart over here shows your Asian celebrity ranking, where you've also experienced an increase in your score . We've analyzed the main reason for this to be because of a large number of people around Asia who got to know about you through that incident . Regarding your international ranking, as they only publish data for celebrities who are at least an international C-lister, we can't find out more . But according to our analysis, it is definitely trending up as well . If your popularity in the country and Asia constantly keeps rising, there's no reason why there wouldn't be any changes in the international rankings . But for now, there's no indication of that . In summary, the situation for you now is pretty good overall . Not only did you not get burnt this time, you even increased your visibility on the international scene . I guess we can still consider that a blessing . The only issue is your reputation . I don't think we can really turn that around in the short term . "
Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Alright, I got it . "
Little Wang also came over . "Director Zhang, these are invitations to collaborate on projects that we've received in the past few days . "
"OK, let me have a look at them . " Zhang Ye went through them .
Having a team was really very efficient . There was always going to be someone around to help him deal with things like popularity analysis and project negotiations . This saved Zhang Ye a lot of worry and greatly improved his work productivity .
Ha Qiqi came down from upstairs . "What project would you like to take on next?"
"I haven't thought of it yet . " Zhang Ye smiled and said, "What do you guys suggest?"
Ha Qiqi and Zhang Zuo gave each other a look .
Ha Qiqi said, "We had a discussion about this, actually . During these two weeks the Olympics are held, anything we try to do will probably end up being insignificant . Nothing can take attention away from the Olympics, after all . "
Zhang Zuo said, "Why don't we accept some advertisement campaigns related to the Olympics then? We can earn some money from that and also rub off a little on the Olympics hype . "
Zhang Ye threw his hands up and said, "Have you guys been watching any TV lately? The ad campaigns have all gone to the athletes . Their contracts were probably negotiated several months in advance, so do you think that there will be anything left for me? After all, I'm not an athlete, so I'm not really going to have a chance . We should think of something else . "
Wu Yi said, "How about producing a new show? That's our rice bowl, after all . "
Zhang Ye asked, "What offers do we have?"
Wu Yi said, "Only a few not so popular satellite channels approached us . But after we took a look at their proposals, we didn't find them to be too ideal . "
Little Wang giggled and said, "Director Zhang, how about releasing a new song? We can shoot a music video to try for the charts and help increase your popularity . I really like your songs . They're all so good!"
Produce a show?
Shoot a music video?
Hold a concert?
Take on an acting project?
Do an advertisement campaign?
Everyone was throwing out all kinds of ideas onto the table .
But Zhang Ye still did not make a decision . He always had very high standards for the kind of work he would take, so there were more considerations he had to think about . An athlete had a limited sporting lifespan, and their peak when they were in their best physical and competitive state would only last a few years . This was the same for a celebrity too . He always believed that there was a time for everything . If he waited until he was older and missed the opportunity, he wouldn't be able to do those things again even if he wanted to . For example, when he did Ghost Blows Out the Light on radio in the past, the audience were all very receptive to it and all of them only had praise for the program . But if Zhang Ye spent another one or two months doing nothing but telling supernatural ghost stories on radio nowadays, that would obviously not work out and the audience would probably not look forward to it either—this was what it meant by "a time and place for everything . " So he always considered every job offer that he received very carefully as he wanted to ensure that he would be able to provide as much variety to the audience as he could give .
So what could he do during this Olympic period?
Or should he wait until the Olympic Games were over to decide?
While he was thinking about it, the doorbell suddenly rang .
Little Wang went to answer the door . "Eh, Teacher Yu?"
The visitor was Zhang Ye's old classmate, and a current host at Central TV Sports Channel, Yu Yingyi .
"Hi . " Yu Yingyi waved and smiled .
The studio staff were also very friendly toward her . All of them knew that she was Director Zhang's good friend and classmate from his university days, so they wouldn't treat her like they would treat a client .
Little Wang went to pour some tea for her .
Zhang Ye beckoned for her to take a seat . "What brings you here today?"
Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "I just came to visit my old classmate . Am I not welcome?"
"How could that be? Since I have nothing much to do anyway, why don't we chat over a drink? Beer or Chardonnay? Merlot or whiskey? I have everything here," Zhang Ye said joyfully .
Yu Yingyi rolled her eyes . "Who wants to day drink with you? I'm here for business . I still have commentary to do when I get back in the afternoon . It's the Olympics period . Do you really think that I'm that free?"
Zhang Ye knew that she'd come with an agenda . "Tell me about it then, I'm listening . "
Little Wang brought the tea over .
Yu Yingyi was not bothered that the tea was still hot . She brought the teacup up to her mouth and blew at it before drinking . After she put the teacup down, she looked at Zhang Ye . "Didn't you say you have nothing much to do these days?"
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