Entertaining Children

? The official version of the girl group's song has been recorded, and it will naturally be released.

Xiao Yao is a weirdo in the music world. Although Xiao Yao is not the only one who has done the thing of throwing new songs out on various shows or other public occasions, most of the songs have a live version first and then an official version. Absolutely Only Xiao Yao is alone.

Although Haiyan Entertainment and the cooperating brokerage company planned to let the 101 girl group perform Korean songs at the Huahan Star Concert, they did not plan to let them follow Xiao Yao's example and use the concert as the first stage of the new song. Haiyan Entertainment wants the 101 girl group to win face for the company at the concert, so they have very high requirements for the effect of the scene. It is self-evident which one will achieve better results in the concert, a newly released hit song or a brand new song that has not been released yet. After all, the 101 Girls Group is not Xiao Yao.

Haiyan plans to release this new Korean song created by Xiao Yao for the girl group online before the concert, so publicity is naturally indispensable.

But the publicity aspect has nothing to do with Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao has always been not interested in music promotional activities. After the release of his own album, he doesn't run publicity, let alone a new song written for others. What I agreed to last year on the performance stage was song writing and choreography, and what I negotiated with Haiyan was also song writing and choreography, which did not include cooperating with Haiyan to help the girl group to do promotion.

Haiyan also understands Xiao Yao's character and behavior style, knowing that it is impossible for Xiao Yao to run various promotional activities with the girl group members in public, so she came up with Xiao Yao's idea behind the scenes.

The MV is a promotional tool to accompany the release of the song. Xiao Yao wrote, directed, and acted in the MV for his own songs, and the level and popularity of the MV are quite good, and he has achieved remarkable results in shooting MVs. Although two films directed by Xiao Yao have achieved good results at the box office in the past two years, and Xiao Yao already has the title of film director, but in terms of Xiao Yao's personality, it seems that he is not the kind to do it. A movie director who doesn't shoot MVs anymore.

Haiyan is sincere in asking Xiao Yao to be the director. After the recording of the official version of the song was completed, Haiyan officially invited Xiao Yao to direct the MV shooting of this song, and the conditions given were quite generous. He decides how to shoot and what to shoot. The screenwriter can do it himself or hire others to write it. Haiyan pays the bill, with a high degree of freedom and power, and sufficient human and material resources. Unfortunately, Xiao Yao did not agree.

It's not that Xiao Yao can't see the job of shooting MVs after he finished filming the movie. After learning about the conditions offered by Haiyan, Xiao Yao was still moved. But as soon as he talked about shooting the MV for this song, Xiao Yao remembered the original version of the MV for this song in his previous life.

Xiao Yao had seen the original MV of this song. To be honest, at first glance, it feels pretty good, but after watching too much,

Xiao Yao felt that the MV was just like that. The plot story of several beauties stealing diamonds does not fit very well with the song itself, and the effect after filming is relatively mediocre. What Xiao Yao is more impressed with is the few shots of climbing ventilation ducts, whipping whips, and passing through infrared rays. Apart from appearance and figure, there is really nothing to watch.

More importantly, the original song singing group is a seven-member group. A multi-minute MV with seven main female characters and one male character is already loose enough, but now with eleven female characters, a multi-minute MV is even more difficult to allocate shots. A gang of eleven to steal diamonds? Unless it is made into a movie like "Ocean's Eleven" in the previous life, with the MV's ability to defeat the male bodyguards, it's better to just tie the male lead to Ming Qiang!

It’s not impossible to rewrite the script and shoot a completely different MV, but Xiao Yao’s new songs released in the past two years still have a lot of MVs that he hasn’t shot. How can he be interested in writing an MV script for this idol girl group? ?

For live performances with headphones, singing and dancing, there are very few people who really turn on the mic, and most of them turn on the mic, especially for idol groups. When the official version of the song was recorded, the main task of the girls was on dance practice.

In music, Xiao Yao is a good creator and a good vocal teacher. In terms of dancing, Xiao Yao is a good choreographer, but not a particularly good dance teacher. When the main training task of the women's group was put on the dance, Xiao Yao's task became much easier. After confirming all the dance moves and the positions during the performance, Xiao Yao seems to have changed from an instructor to an error corrector, telling them where they did not dance correctly, but rarely telling them how to dance better . And if it's just error correction, it seems that the girls can do it by looking at the mirror while practicing.

At this time, Xiao Yao suddenly realized that the one-month practice time he had expected before seemed a bit too long. In the third week, that is, the fourth practice session for all members, Xiao Yao brought Pei Minyi to watch the complete performance of the girl group. After asking Pei Minyi to design the appearance and costumes for the performance stage, Xiao Yao ended early Singing and dancing practice guidance for girl groups.

After ending the affairs of the girl group ahead of schedule, Xiao Yao focused his work on the preparations for the film project.

Xiao Yao first went to the casting studio that entrusted him with the casting, and looked at the actor candidate list that the casting studio had prepared for him. There are about ten main characters in this movie, and besides the three that Xiao Yao has settled on, there are seven more important characters.

For these seven roles, the casting studio has had contact with many actors and has some candidates. After reading the profiles of those candidate actors, I found that most of them are actors with rich acting experience but not very famous, and there are many drama actors among them. Xiao Yao is still quite satisfied.

However, since Xiao Yao told the casting studio that the early casting time would be one month, the audition time that the casting studio explained to these actors was at least a week later. Xiao Yao is not in a hurry, and some actors have problems with their current schedules, so Xiao Yao, who is free in advance, has no plans to audition in advance. He came here this time to look at the shortlist prepared by the casting studio. After reading it, he felt more satisfied, so Xiao Yao left.

The casting studio helped him screen the actors in front of the scene, and most of the crew behind the scenes were found by Xiao Yao himself. Of course, people such as scene management, drama management, lighting, props, etc. were entrusted to the experienced producers in the company to help him find them, but the heads of some major technical departments still had to be checked by Xiao Yao himself.

Now that the affairs of the girl group had ended ahead of schedule, and the casting of actors was going smoothly, Xiao Yao began to look for the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew.

The first job candidate Xiao Yao was looking for was an art director.

The art department is a very important department in the composition of modern films, and it is also a large department second only to the director department. It not only has to do the most fundamental art design for the color sense and scene of the movie, but also includes three sub-departments of Fuhuadao.

When shooting MVs and short films before, Xiao Yao didn't hire a special art director, he did it all by himself. The animated movie "Wall-E" is also absent, because Xiao Yao basically followed the original version of the previous life for all things about art design. The parkour movie had hired an art director, but it was Mu Ying who found it in the United States, and the three of them completed the art design together. This time in Huaxia to shoot his own live-action movie, Xiao Yao had to find it by himself.

When it comes to art direction, Xiao Yao found that Lin Qisan has great potential in this area. Lin Qisan did a lot of things in this area when he made parkour movies in the United States before. However, on the one hand, Lin Qisan did not study fine arts, so he still lacks experience in this area. On the other hand, he has to be busy applying for the TV drama crew of the drama students. He said that regardless of the matter of Xiao Yao's movie, this time he will definitely not be able to help. I'm busy.

Although Huaxia does not have the rigorous and detailed trade unions of various industries as Hollywood, there are also various associations or societies in the film and television industry. Although Xiao Yao's works are not many, and he doesn't know too many behind-the-scenes workers in the film and television industry, but since he is in this circle, it is not impossible to find someone.

According to the type of the film and the desired effect, Xiao Yao quickly screened out art director candidates who met his requirements, and then contacted them one by one.

Among these people, Xiao Yao's favorite is a famous art director named Lin Jingliang. Lin Jingliang is from Hong Kong Island. He is in his forties. He has worked with many big-name directors. He has won many awards in film art design and costume design. Short films, no feature films yet.

Don't look at Xiao Yao's two box office hit films, but as a director, he is still a complete rookie. Generally speaking, art directors of Lin Jingliang's level look down on new directors like Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao only contacted the other party with the mentality of giving it a try because he saw that the other party's schedule was free. He didn't expect that the other party did not directly refuse after receiving Xiao Yao's invitation, but asked to read the script first.

Although he was not directly rejected by the other party, Xiao Yao did not hold out much hope. Because judging from the experience of the original movie in the previous life, this movie has not won any awards in terms of technology. It seems that it has never been nominated, and Xiao Yao does not think that the script alone can impress this famous artist. guide. But this time, Xiao Yao didn't intend to play any tricks to fool people. The other party wanted to read the script, so Xiao Yao happily sent the script to him.

The second day after the script was sent, Xiao Yao received a call back from the other party, saying that he was interested in the movie and wanted to meet and talk in detail.

For such a reply, Xiao Yao was of course overjoyed. After learning that the other party was at home on Hong Kong Island recently, Xiao Yao didn't let the other party work hard, and he flew to Hong Kong Island to meet Lin Jingliang the next day on the excuse that he hadn't been to Hong Kong Island. Of course, it's not that Xiao Yao has never been to Hong Kong Island, but he has never been to Hong Kong Island publicly because of his work, so this reason is at least reasonable on the surface.

It is true that Xiao Yao seldom goes to Hong Kong Island. The number of times he went to Hong Kong Island was less than one-third of the number of times he went to the United States. The most recent time was when he was in junior high school, and he followed Chen Xuan to Hong Kong Island to take pictures for a certain fashion brand during the holidays. Now that so many years have passed, Hong Kong Island has naturally undergone great changes, but Xiao Yao has no intention to explore the changes that have taken place in this city over the years.

After arriving on Hong Kong Island, he went to the hotel to drop off his luggage. Xiao Yao contacted Lin Jingliang, and after learning that the other party was at home, he went directly to Lin Jingliang's residence to pay a visit.

Lin Jingliang has won an international art design award, and belongs to an internationally renowned art design master, so he is naturally rich. His residence on Hong Kong Island is located in the very famous Mid-Levels Villa Area. Xiao Yao also took this opportunity to see the Hong Kong Island Mid-Levels Villa Area that he had heard about countless times in Hong Kong dramas in his previous life for the first time.

Although China's mainland is developing rapidly at present, and many Hong Kong island film and television professionals have gone north to the mainland to develop, but as far as the rich are concerned, the top rich people on Hong Kong Island are still very good. When going up the mountain, Xiao Yao saw almost all top luxury cars on the road.

Since I haven't been here for many years, I am not familiar with the routes on Hong Kong Island, and the cars on Hong Kong Island are right-hand drive, which makes me a little unaccustomed, so Xiao Yao didn't rent a car this time, but asked the hotel to call a taxi for him. Sitting in the taxi, watching the road full of luxury cars, Xiao Yao unconsciously remembered the scene when he took a taxi to visit Keith Craig's house in Beverly Hills when he was an exchange student in the United States.

"My buddy is rich now, do you want to buy a villa in the middle of Hong Kong Island?" Looking up at the villas on the mountain through the taxi window, Xiao Yao couldn't help but rubbed his chin and thought.

"Forget it. Now that Hong Kong Island's filmmakers are all going north, there should not be many opportunities to come to Hong Kong Island to work in the future. If you really want to invest in real estate, it's better to ask Keith to help buy a house in Beverly Hills. Wouldn't it be more awesome to go out?" But as soon as the idea came up, Xiao Yao dismissed it by himself.

"Sir, it's here! Is it Niu?" The taxi stopped, and the driver turned around and asked, which also interrupted Xiao Yao's thoughts.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao turned his head and glanced at the nameplate on the doorpost, nodded to the driver, took out the fare and said, "Oh, please wait! If my friend is not at the house, please take me back head!"

It is not easy to hail a taxi on this half-mountain, and you will definitely not be able to stop a taxi. In case Lin Jingliang goes out for something, Xiao Yao doesn't want to stand here and wait!

"Yes! No problem!" The driver took the banknote and nodded with a smile.

Xiao Yao got out of the car and rang the doorbell, and soon Lin Jingliang's voice came from the intercom at the door: "Mr. Xiao is here, I'll come out right away." As Lin Jingliang's voice fell, the big iron gate also rang, Then slowly slide to the sides.

That's someone at home. Xiao Yao turned around to say hello to the taxi driver and told him to leave.

When Xiao Yao turned around again, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties walking out quickly from the main hall. The visitor was slightly fat, with a pair of rimless metal glasses on his face, he looked gentle and refined, it was Lin Jingliang.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao, welcome!" Lin Jingliang, who came closer, extended his hand to Xiao Yao.

He worked with mainland directors almost 20 years ago. Although he still has a certain Hong Kong accent in Mandarin, it is relatively standard and sounds very comfortable.