Yang Hui was slightly taken aback: "It’s hard to say..."
Li Younan laughed: "I think so too."
Yang Hui pondered for a mont, then also smiled.
At this mont, Yang Hui looked at Li Younan, and the professional detachnt on her face had eased considerably. She took out her phone to search for Li Younan’s account, while he watched a video on his phone and she reviewed the contract.
After a while, Yang Hui said in surprise: "Your interests are quite broad... parkour, cooking, and woodworking? That’s not quite... usual."
"Just ssing around," Li Younan had finished looking over the contract by this point and put it down, "When you’re traveling alone, you need to find sothing to do. Shooting videos also serves as a record, and it’s a way to et new friends and learn about new places."
Li Younan picked up the letter of intent and pointed to a clause about content modification rights, saying, "This clause, if it’s about factual errors or guidance issues, I completely understand. But if it’s about style or points I personally find interesting, I hope we can communicate a bit? Of course, the bigger direction will definitely follow your promotional needs."
She nodded and this ti agreed readily: "This can be negotiated. We mainly worry that the content is too... frivolous, or has significant issues." Her tone noticeably softened, "Honestly, Younan, after chatting with you, I feel you’re quite down-to-earth, not like... um... soone floating around."
"Keeping it grounded lets you go further." Li Younan smiled, "I think there are no other problems. How about we schedule the specific shoot for tomorrow, does that work for you?"
Yang Hui completely relaxed and held out her hand: "Deal! Let’s set it for now, and later I’ll have our script director contact you to send over the detailed creative and script for further discussion!"
...
Later wasn’t much later.
Li Younan had just been out for a short walk when Yang Hui contacted him.
This ti there were two more people in the eting room, one was a man carrying a professional cara, and the other was a sharp-looking young man, the script director.
"Younan, this is our center’s caraman Brother Zhang and the script director Xiaoliu."
Yang Hui introduced them and handed a more detailed plan to Li Younan, "We discussed and thought your parkour idea is especially suitable for linking city landmarks, and it has strong visual impact. We’d like to have a professional team from our side to shoot it, while you handle the on-screen presence and actions. What do you think? This way we can ensure better content quality."
Li Younan carefully examined the plan.
Their idea was quite clever, wanting to use parkour moves to link places like Tengwang Pavilion, Bayi Square, Shenjin Tower, and the Manshou Palace Historical Cultural Street. The visual design included long shots, dium shots, and a first-person perspective shot from a sports cara mounted on him.
It’s a bit similar to the videos edited by Brother Long from Xian.
"That’s great!" Li Younan nodded, "Seeing the city while parkouring definitely offers a different perspective. However..." He turned to caraman Brother Zhang: "Brother Zhang, parkour moves are fast with many route changes, will that make filming difficult? Especially the follow shots."
Brother Zhang grinned and patted his equipnt: "Don’t worry, we have experience with this. We’ll scout locations in advance, plan the routes and cara positions, and have wide-angle, telephoto, and stabilizers ready. We’ll also give you an action cara to mount on your helt or chest for the subjective viewpoint. Plus, we have soone bringing a drone for aerial shots."
Li Younan actually already had an action cara.
"Safety first," the script director Xiaoliu chid in, "We’ll have safety staff along your planned route, and will keep the ground as clear as possible. You know your limits best, don’t push too hard."
Yang Hui listened to them discuss the technical details, not saying much, but looking clearly more relaxed than during their first eting.
As the discussion neared an end, she finally spoke: "The filming period is about two days, focused shooting. We’ll handle the team, equipnt, and post-production, while you focus on the on-screen presence and providing creative input. Paynt is as discussed before, plus food, lodging, and insurance during filming. Is that okay with you?"
"That’s fair." Li Younan agreed readily.
The compensation wasn’t high, but they provided manpower, expertise, and equipnt, plus food and accommodation, which equates to experiencing professional team service for free and enjoying Nanchang to the fullest. Once the video is released, it will be a collaborative publication, which will bring him a wave of new exposure—not a bad deal.
"Let’s refine the script further, define the actions and intended feeling for each point to improve filming efficiency."
"Sure!" Yang Hui made the decision, "Xiaoliu, work with Younan on the storyboard script. Brother Zhang, make scouting arrangents."
She turned to Li Younan and for once joked, "Younan, this ti don’t use our equipnt as parkour props and jump over them. We’ve had a team before where the equipnt almost got broken."
Li Younan laughed too.
As he left the multidia center, Nanchang’s sun was still blazing, heating up the ground.
Thinking about parkouring around the familiar city with a professional team was a bit exciting.
This shoot’s video would definitely be of higher quality than the one in Xian.
After all, they are professionals.
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