Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 115 The Obstruction Behind

"When the commander-in-chief was participating in a 6.2-mile cross-country running race in Camp David, Maryland, he accidentally fainted due to heat stroke and was rushed to the hospital. According to the White House, after treatment, the commander-in-chief was fine, but the discomfort was caused by the high temperature that day... ..."

Ronald and his agent, Eddie, were waiting in the CBS studio, and happened to see the news of the Grand Commander running heatstroke on TV.

"Didn't he often boast that he was in good health and could run a marathon? Why did he pass out after only 6 miles?" Ronald asked.

"Who knows? After all, he is 55 years old, although he is still young among the previous commanders." Eddie is not too impressed with the current commander. The dissatisfaction was vented on the commander-in-chief, and the TV news also ridiculed him, without a single good word.

Eddie has followed Ronald for the past two days. If the version shot by Ronald can win this chewing gum commercial, Hershey will invest more.For the same idea, shoot more than 10 series of advertisements.Actors under Eddie will have a lot of opportunities for TV commercials out of thin air.

This is also the reason why Eddie would rather sign a fledgling Ronald. Once the director can gain a firm foothold in the industry, he can solve the job opportunities of many actors under his banner by opening an advertisement.

"Darcy Maguire is here, and she looks a bit uncomfortable." Eddie touched Ronald, reminded him in a low voice, and then greeted him with a smile, "Darcy, how are you? When will we You can use this studio, but also set up the uneven bars and lighting. Ronald said it will take at least 2 hours."

"Dan is making small moves. We were notified that we cannot use this studio today." Darcy Maguire said bitterly.

Ronald was taken aback, and quickly asked, "What's our backup plan, Darcy?"

"There is no backup plan. I didn't expect him to be able to influence the insiders of CBS. The Englishman Hugh Hudson he found has already set up a huge outdoor billboard today. The filming can be completed in two days, and then go to After the TV station finishes the later stage, it can still catch up with us.”

"Dan influenced the CBS executives through his umbrella in the partnership, and the reason they rejected me this time was that the venue needed to shoot other shows the next day, and the installation and teardown of the gymnastics facility would have an impact."

Both sides have their own intelligence networks, and Darcy Maguire has a clear picture of Dan's filming progress.

"Don't worry, Darcy." Ronald immediately decided to look forward.

Darcy Maguire also knew that if he was arguing with CBS now, even if he got the filming permit, the manager influenced by Dan would still have follow-up tricks to delay the time.Just write it down and talk about it later.

"We can find a gymnastics gym to shoot on-site, which can save the time of setting up the scene. If it is done properly, it will not waste time." Ronald suggested.

"But we borrowed the CBS filming team. If we look for other places to shoot, their personnel and machines cannot be borrowed." Darcy Maguire frowned, "Ronald, if you have your own The filming team will be fine."

"This is just an ordinary commercial shot with a TV camera. If we can't use the CBS team, there are many master students in our Tisch College. They all have practical shooting experience. We find some to form a temporary commercial shooting team Not a big deal."

Darcy looked at Ronald. If this arrangement can be made, the progress will not be behind the other party, and maybe it can be completed ahead of schedule.

"Okay, you are in charge of assembling the shooting team, and I will contact the high school that has a gymnasium." Darcy is also a character who does what he says, and immediately decides to divide the work, and the two split up to make calls.

Eddie looked at Ronald eagerly, hoping that he could form a filming team and advance the filming immediately. His advertising business for the next year was counting on him.His actors can shoot advertisements for companies like Hershey, and he has much stronger control over the actors and models signed by him.

"Let me make a few phone calls first." Ronald took out his notebook and gestured to Eddie.

Find Spike Lee first. His crew has been filming for less than a month and has already shut down due to financial reasons.If you find him, you can bring his black classmate, Ernest Dixon, who is the director of photography of his film as a guest, so that the photography team and lighting team can handle it.

Then I brought in the senior female classmate who helped with the homework of the photography class last time, and brought in a few of her suitors to come to the recording group, so that the on-site recording could also be in place.

Ronald himself can direct, assistant director, and play record.

Over there, Darcy Maguire also found Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan and borrowed their gymnastics gym.

"It's my high school alma mater, I did my gymnastics there, and my coach is still there, and she let us go and shoot for a day.

The rest is the commercial borrowing of shooting equipment.

"Do you have a channel to borrow TV cameras?" Ronald asked Darcy Maguire. In the warehouse of New York University, there are more old film equipment, and newer TV equipment has also been occupied.

"No, we usually find production companies, and BBDO doesn't care about these." Darcy Maguire couldn't think of channels for a while.

"Eddie, what about you? Can I borrow the equipment?"

"Of course, I have a relationship with equipment leasing, but they are all settled in cash. The cooperation between BBDO and CBS is a business relationship between companies, so we don't need to advance money." Eddie said hesitantly.

"It's an emergency now, I'll just advance the money first." Ronald replied.

"No, Ronnie, you actually have a way to borrow equipment, why don't you try it?" Eddie's Jewish side broke out.

"Who is it? Why don't I know?" Ronald looked blank.

"It's the Helen Slater from the other version of the advertisement that you told me to leave..." Eddie reminded.

Ronald slapped his head, how could he forget him.It's not too much for Dad to borrow some equipment to shoot commercials for her daughter, right?

"Ronald, are you borrowing the shooting equipment to shoot my daughter's scene?" Of course, Gerald would not give Ronald the opportunity to use his influence in vain.

"No, Mr. Slater. Helen's appearance is more suitable for the role of the student who went to the company for an internship. We have prepared the shooting script and the shot, and we are sending it to you for approval. This time it is a gymnastics shot, so we A member of the gymnastics team from a New Jersey high school was cast," Ronald replied.

"Okay, then you can send the script and the storyboard to my office and give it to my secretary Stella. I will read it." After speaking, Gerald hung up the phone.

"Mr. Slater agreed, and we went to the WNDT branch in New York to borrow equipment. They can also lend us a van and driver. Then we will wait for Elizabeth Sue and go to Stuyvesant High School to shoot together." Ronald To Darcy Maguire.

"It's Gerald Slater from PBS? You know him?" Darcy Maguire looked surprised, and she also began to wonder if Ronald was the child of some big shot.

"He was a key figure in enabling the national broadcast of the Congressional hearings on Watergate in 1973, without which PBS would not have become a national television network."

"We met by chance, and I agreed to let her daughter appear in the commercial, and we have to let her be the leading role in the future." Ronald simply pointed out Helen's matter, and now is a good time.

"There is no problem, Ronald. You really have 'resources' and can get things done." Darcy Maguire thought it was the price of borrowing equipment, and agreed to Helen as another version without hesitation. protagonist of the ad.

Everyone immediately divided the work. Darcy first went to Stuyvesant High School to approach the gymnastics coach. Ronald went to PBS's New York TV Station to borrow equipment and drivers. Eddie waited for the heroine Elizabeth Sue on the scene and took her to Stuyvesant High School.

"Don't let me know who is doing the tricks today, otherwise..." Darcy Maguire stomped on his high heels, scolding with a frown.

"What, is it good for our competition to know who is doing the trick?" Ronald stopped and asked.

"Of course, at least I can know that it was the traitors around me or the upper class who leaked our script to Dan, so that I can avoid them in the next filming, or even..."

"You can use double agents to pass some false news." Eddie is no stranger to this kind of conspiracy.

"I can make a phone call to find out more about it." Ronald remembered the popular hostess Pia at CBS.

"Pia, I'm Ronald...I'm on CBS right now. Yes, I'm doing a Chewels commercial and Helen's doing one of the series...

No, today we are preparing to shoot the first gymnast. We borrowed the studio of CBS, but we were temporarily notified that we can’t use it... No, no, I didn’t mean to borrow it by force, I just want to know who is embarrassing us... ...OK, thank you Pia, I'll be right here waiting for your call. "

After 10 minutes, Pia called, and today it was the secretary of a high-level CBS Alan Wagner who notified the cancellation of their shooting arrangements.

"Alan Wagner is the vice president of CBS New York. He single-handedly created the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a program with high ratings. He is a major contributor to CBS's transition from rural to urban." Pia specifically told Ronald Don't think of any retaliatory actions.

"Don't worry, Pia, we just want to know who the mole inside BBDO advertising agency is." Ronald replied in the caliber taught by Darcy Maguire.

Darcy Maguire said that he already knew who leaked the idea and shooting plan here. One of BBDO’s partners has always had a good relationship with CBS’s Mary Tyler Moore show and put in a lot of advertisements. And he is Dan's direct asylum.

At the door, the three just picked up Elizabeth Sue, who came to the door of the CBS studio with her mother.

"My daughter can't be in your ad shoot."

(End of this chapter)