Chapter 466: The Generous Sponsor

Chapter 466: Chapter 466: The Generous Sponsor

After the performance, the three turning judges began to win her over one by one.

Steve Winwood valued the soulful texture and stability in her voice, believing that her plasticity was extremely strong and suitable for long-term deep cultivation in the field of orthodox vocal music.

Kanye West valued the tension and adaptability of her timbre, believing that she could handle diversified musical styles, adapting to trendy adaptations and cross-border stages.

While Britney accurately grasped the pop potential in the contestant’s voice, gently and firmly analyzing the other party’s stage adaptability and market breakthrough ability, and elaborating in detail on the comprehensive guidance she could provide for her, such as pop style polishing, stage performance enhancement, and market packaging.

Facing the competition from the three heavyweight judges, the female contestant did not panic or hesitate.

After careful and prudent weighing and consideration, she finally firmly chose to join Britney’s team.

This choice also allowed Britney to successfully break the situation of harvesting nothing all day, smoothly taking in a top-tier ace student suitable for the pop track, sweeping away the regret and loss of missing out on a talent in the morning, and completely warming up her mindset.

On the other hand, Kanye West, passing by quality students once again, could only smile and shake his head helplessly, continuing to quietly await subsequent opportunities.

Steve Winwood also calmly let go, respecting the contestant’s choice, and continued to polish his team lineup.

As quality contestants appeared intensively and high-energy snatching scenes followed one after another, the recording progress of the afternoon session slowed down significantly.

Unlike the bland, fast-paced, elimination-based assembly-line recording in the morning, every quality student in the afternoon needed to go through complete processes such as judge comments, competing statements, and contestant reverse-selection.

The footage content was richer, the interactive sessions were fuller, and the recording duration was significantly lengthened accordingly.

The team maintained a high-standard recording rhythm throughout the entire process, steadily polishing every piece of stage material and every judge interaction.

Lasting from three o’clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the evening, after five hours of high-intensity consecutive recording, the recording task for the forty contestants on the first day was finally successfully concluded.

The studio that night completely shed its hustle and bustle.

The staff orderly wrapped up, sorted equipment, registered materials, and reviewed the day’s process, while the judges left one after another to rest.

In the control room, Irene still stuck to her post, checking all recording materials of the whole day one by one, confirming that the picture, sound pickup, clip editing, and process records were all complete and correct.

After confirming that there were no omissions and no flaws, she completely let go of work.

Afterwards, Irene took out her phone and actively called Britney.

"The recording effect of the whole day is very good today. The afternoon stage is enough to support the premiere popularity, and the overall material quality is completely up to standard. I have other matters to arrange tomorrow, so I will not go to the studio site to follow up on the recording."

She fully trusted the coordination ability of Britney and Violet: "For the subsequent recording of the second day, the on-site coordination, judge docking, and process control will still be solely the responsibility of Violet. For the routine problems, process adjustments, contestant docking, and on-site coordination you encounter in daily recording, you can communicate directly with her. If you encounter major problems, sudden crises, or special needs that Violet cannot decide, report to me at the first time, and I will intervene remotely to handle it at any time."

Hearing this, Britney’s tone was brisk and resolute, without any worry or scruples, and she responded full of confidence:

"Rest assured, Irene, you can just deal with your own affairs at ease. We are already completely familiar with the competition system process and recording rhythm over here. I will cooperate well with Violet throughout the whole process, stabilize the recording state, strictly control the stage quality, and ensure that tomorrow’s recording proceeds smoothly without any omissions."

With Britney’s guarantee, Irene completely set her mind at ease.

After giving a few simple instructions, she hung up the phone, ending all work coordination for the first day of variety show recording.

Early the next morning, the morning light of New York was clear and transparent.

The city shed its night color and recovered its bustling noise early.

At eight o’clock in the morning, Vera Cecil and her driver drove on time and arrived downstairs at Irene’s apartment.

The car body parked steadily on the side of the road, quietly waiting for Irene to go downstairs.

As Irene’s most capable film and television project assistant, Vera followed up on the preparation and implementation of the entire movie The Devil Wears Prada throughout the whole process, knowing the project progress, cooperative resources, docking difficulties, and demands of all parties like the back of her hand.

After Irene took her seat, the vehicle smoothly merged into the morning peak traffic and sped towards the headquarters of the Condé Nast Group in the core urban area of Manhattan.

Vera took the opportunity to turn on the work report mode, synchronizing the latest preparation progress of the movie one by one.

"Irene, currently the overall preparation progress of The Devil Wears Prada is steadily advancing. The script has long been prepared. Except for the leading actors, the other main creative teams have basically been built, and the preliminary budget planning has basically landed. The focus next is to confirm shooting locations, clothing sponsorship, brand linkage, and actor selection."

"Thanks to the network endorsement and full support of Ms. Elizabeth Newhouse, we successfully secured the deep cooperation permissions of the Condé Nast Group, which is also our biggest resource breakthrough at present."

She further detailed the all-round resource support provided by the group, listing the various rights and interests clearly:

"First of all, in terms of real-scene location scouting, we have obtained the official approval of the other party’s group, allowing our crew to directly enter core locations such as the Vogue New York headquarters office area, fashion editorial room, styling fitting room, magazine shooting studio, and the company’s peripheral area for filming.

There is no need to additionally rent high-end fashion studio sets, which can maximize the restoration of the real working atmosphere of top fashion magazines. The picture texture and scene realism will far exceed similar fashion films."

"Secondly, regarding clothing resource sponsorship, Condé Nast gathers global top fashion brand resources.

Relying on the industry influence of Vogue, the group will provide free sponsorship of full sets of haute couture clothing, fashion ready-to-wear, and styling accessories for the film throughout the entire process, covering all workplace, fashion show, and daily appearance styles in the movie, completely eliminating the need for the crew to purchase additional clothing, which greatly compressed our costume and makeup budget."

Not only that, Vera also added more invisible resource blessings to reflect the high gold content of the cooperation:

"In addition, the group simultaneously opened up the publicity resources of top publications such as Vanity Fair and GQ under its umbrella.

In the subsequent stages of the film wrapping up, setting a release date, and premiering, it can enjoy the promotional exposure of the group’s full media matrix, covering multiple channels such as print media publications, digital official websites, and social platforms, creating momentum for the early stage of the film and guaranteeing the box office in the later stage.

At the same time, the professional fashion photographers and stylists under the group can also provide behind-the-scenes guidance for the crew, ensuring that the fashion aesthetic of the film absolutely fits the industry’s top level."

After finishing the core advantages, Vera also objectively pointed out the only cooperation limitation and difficulty at present:

"However, the other party has also put forward a clear premise: all appearing actors, especially the core leading actors, must pass the aesthetic audit of the group’s fashion director and Vogue’s main creative team to ensure that the actor’s temperament, appearance, and fashion adaptability meet the high-end tone of top magazines.

Among them, the core role portraying the prototype benchmark Anna Wintour has the most rigorous audit standards.

From the docking details, it can be clearly seen that Anna Wintour herself was originally extremely cautious about film and television adaptation and image authorization, and it was entirely because of Ms. Elizabeth’s deep network and face that she reluctantly relented and acquiesced to us borrowing her character prototype and creating related characters.

The overall cooperation permissions did not come easily."