Chapter 82 August 4th, Thursday

On August 4th, Thursday, the construction of Binhu Community was largely complete!

Buildings 8 and 9 both had 180-degree curved floor-to-ceiling windows facing the park and artificial lake. From the outside, there was nothing to see, but the scene inside the rooms was completely different!

As for the Shun Dong Garden commercial and residential building, it was completed even earlier because there was no need for hard decoration, but the change was not as obvious as here.

Standing on the top floor of Building 8 in Binhu Community, Liang Qingfan looked at the mostly decorated room and had only one feeling: he had lived up to his mission!

President Pei had given him so much money for decoration. If he couldn't do a good job, what face would he have to be an architect?

The construction team was still doing the finishing touches.

Liang Qingfan had just inspected all thirty-odd apartments in the two buildings of Binhu Community, found some minor problems, and was arranging for the construction team to solve them.

Since it was his own property, he had to pay as much attention as possible to ensure that the decoration of all rooms met the standards.

In addition, Liang Qingfan also strictly followed President Pei's requirements, and tried to use environmentally friendly materials for both decoration materials and furniture, so there would be no excessive formaldehyde exceeding national standards.

During the renovation period, the videographer who came to shoot from time to time had also completed all the shooting, and a large amount of high-definition video material was waiting to be edited and post-processed.

As for who to hand over the editing to, Liang Qingfan had already decided.

Go directly to Fei Huang Workshop!

Fei Huang Workshop was Tenda's own industry. It didn't matter how much or how little money was involved, it was just a matter of transferring money from the left hand to the right. Liang Qingfan mainly felt that Fei Huang Workshop would be more attentive than other companies.

For a video, collecting materials was very important, but editing and post-production were even more important.

The cameraman had already recorded all the key nodes of the decoration process, but the order of each set of shots was relatively messy and incoherent.

If a video wanted to be liked by the audience, it had to be concise enough on the premise that the content was substantial, and the order of narration was also very important.

Different expressions conveyed completely different meanings to the audience.

Therefore, Liang Qingfan planned to make a trip to Fei Huang Workshop first, hand over these video materials, and carefully discuss the editing requirements of the video. Then, he would invite President Pei over to see if the decoration effect met his expectations.

Mainly, editing couldn't be completed in a day or two, so it had to be arranged in advance. If there were any changes in subsequent requirements, they could be raised at any time.

Liang Qingfan brought the video materials recorded by the cameraman with a mobile hard drive and went directly to Fei Huang Workshop's office.

...

At this time, Fei Huang Workshop was still struggling with what kind of small project to do.

President Pei had only given them a little over a month, and it was very difficult to come up with something watchable in such a short period of time.

The key was that there was no target.

Even if they were making a short video, they had to have an idea, a general direction, and then everyone had to brainstorm ideas and revise the script. After that, they had to find actors, prepare the location, and then there was the editing and post-production...

No matter how you looked at it, there wasn't enough time.

Of course, if everyone didn't care about quality and just did something casually, they could definitely do it. The problem was that Fei Huang Workshop now had a reputation. The short videos and documentaries they had made before, and the movies they were now filming, all received enthusiastic responses. If they just did something to make do, wouldn't that be ruining their own brand?

What's more, everyone had been in "suspended animation" for so long, and they were all eager to show off their skills. Ordinary projects couldn't even catch their eye.

Therefore, things were stuck. Some people had proposed several plans, but they were all shelved because they couldn't satisfy everyone's demands.

Huang Sibao was also very helpless. As the final decision-makers with Zhu Xiaoce, they were also very distressed to have rejected several plans in a row, but there was no other choice in order to ensure the quality of the work.

But in addition to helplessness, Huang Sibao and Zhu Xiaoce also understood the meaning of President Pei's "suspended animation" even more.

In the office, Huang Sibao threw a few plans on the table and rubbed his temples with a headache. He sighed and said, "Sure enough, we were too optimistic before. President Pei's casual test has stumped us."

"Before the 'suspended animation,' we all thought we were great. Our movies were sweeping the box office and winning awards. Everyone was feeling proud. After the 'suspended animation,' we felt that we had consolidated our foundation and accumulated inspiration. Everyone was ambitious."

"But President Pei asked us to do a small and beautiful project in a short period of time, and we were at a loss!"

Zhu Xiaoce nodded: "Yes, because inspiration and direction are too important."

"Our previous successful projects were all because we already had good inspiration and direction, so we could add bricks and tiles step by step and build skyscrapers."

"And these inspirations and directions all came from President Pei."

"Now that President Pei doesn't speak, we are immediately confused and don't know what to do."

Just then, there was a knock on the office door, and an employee said, "Brother Huang, a Mr. Liang is here, claiming to be the person in charge of President Pei's Sloth Apartments project, and wants to talk to us about cooperation."

Huang Sibao was stunned for a moment, then said, "Please come in!"

Zhu Xiaoce was a little puzzled: "What is Sloth Apartments?"

Huang Sibao explained: "It's a rental project that President Pei is doing, but it's relatively low-key. Even internal staff only know a few things about it."

After all, the scale of Sloth Apartments was very large, and it was impossible to keep it completely secret. Pei Qian could only be as low-key and unassuming as possible, but internal personnel like Huang Sibao, who had good access to information, would definitely hear about it.

Liang Qingfan was led to Huang Sibao's office and shook hands with Huang Sibao and Zhu Xiaoce warmly.

Naturally, both sides praised each other.

After taking a seat, Liang Qingfan explained his purpose while drinking tea.

"Asking us to edit and produce a documentary?" Huang Sibao was a little surprised.

They were quite good at documentaries. After all, they had made a documentary about an e-sports player before, and everyone was familiar with the process.

But what was puzzling was, what kind of documentary would a rental project make?

Liang Qingfan took out a mobile hard drive: "Actually, this was a temporary idea. I didn't originally plan to do this."

"The main thing is that the apartment type President Pei found is too... unique. I think the renovation process is very interesting and worth recording."

"You'll understand everything after you watch the video footage."

Zhu Xiaoce took a laptop, and Liang Qingfan began to play the video footage, while telling the story of the building's past and present, including the renovation ideas and some interesting stories during the renovation process.

At first, Huang Sibao and Zhu Xiaoce didn't feel anything, but after watching the video, they both saw shock on each other's faces.

This was possible?

The original dilapidated house was actually renovated to be so ethereal?

This house was bought for only 500,000 yuan?

For 500,000 yuan, we would buy them all!

Of course, it was too dilapidated when it was bought, and no one had lived in it for several years, so the price was relatively low. In fact, the cost of renovation, furniture, and design for this house was higher than the value of the house itself.

"Mr. Liang is truly a design master. I didn't expect that this house could be renovated to this extent!" Huang Sibao was sincerely convinced.

Liang Qingfan waved his hand: "Not at all, I'm just taking advantage of the situation."

"Without President Pei's foresight, valuing this strangely shaped house, giving me so much renovation budget, and strictly requiring a minimalist style, I definitely wouldn't have considered this direction."

"So, I think the most valuable thing about this house is not the decoration, nor is it my design, but the philosophical concepts of President Pei that are condensed in it!"

"My design is just a concrete expression of President Pei's philosophical concepts."

"This is also the reason why I came to visit you two."

"On the one hand, I have great confidence in the ability of Fei Huang Workshop. We are all subordinate departments of Tenda Group, so the quality is guaranteed."

"On the other hand, I think only you can feel President Pei's philosophical concepts like me and express them well in the video."

"So, what do you two think?"

Huang Sibao and Zhu Xiaoce looked at each other and nodded decisively: "Okay, we'll take it!"

The timing was too coincidental, even making Huang Sibao suspect that this was President Pei's secret instruction.

Fei Huang Workshop had only just ended its "suspended animation" for a few days and was worrying about what project to do, and Liang Qingfan came to the door?

The timing was just right!

Moreover, Liang Qingfan came with video footage, so there was no need to shoot. They only needed to edit and process it, so there was plenty of time.

Most importantly, these video materials contained President Pei's concepts!

What was the most troublesome thing for everyone now?

It wasn't that there were no plans, but that everyone couldn't reach a consensus on all the plans.

But everyone would definitely not have any disagreements on this video, because it was President Pei's idea!

Seeing Huang Sibao agree so readily, Liang Qingfan was also very happy: "That's great!"

"Let me briefly state my opinion first. You can selectively adopt it. After all, you are the professionals, so you should be the ones in charge."

"I think the process of transformation is more important than the result of the transformation."

"It's best to show the details of the transformation in detail, so that the audience can feel President Pei's concepts from these details."

"As for the length of the video, I think about forty minutes is fine."

Zhu Xiaoce thought for a moment: "Well, this is the safest approach."

"But..."

"Will this meet President Pei's expectations?"

Liang Qingfan was stumped by Zhu Xiaoce's words.

This was indeed a very serious question.