Entertaining Children

"It's wonderful!" Chen Yang walked onto the court while applauding. Behind him, a group of players from the national team also followed.

"Congratulations on winning the national team player." Chen Yang stood in front of Xiao Yao and patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

"The main reason is that Guo Qi allowed me six points. If I didn't, I would definitely not be able to beat him." Xiao Yao said truthfully, "However, I can score three goals and get four points against the national basketball player. Thinking about it. There are a lot of unexpected elements in it, and I was lucky, for example, Guo Qi didn't score the last goal."

"Of course there is a luck factor. If you really beat Guo Qi with your own basketball skills, we should recruit you to the basketball national team training camp. Isn't it enough for you to enter the Olympiad national team training camp once? You still want to come to the basketball country A training camp for the team?" Chen Yang glanced at Xiao Yao amusedly and said.

"I know my level, and I know it's impossible." Xiao Yao smiled and scratched his head.

"If you had promised me to enter the basketball school when you were five years old, it would be possible now." Chen Yang said.

"Brother Yang, are you narrow-minded? Is it necessary to bring it up so often after rejecting you just once?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes helplessly.

"Luck also needs a certain amount of strength as a foundation." Xu Li also came over, patted Xiao Yao and said, "Although your strength is indeed far behind that of professional players, you are already playing very well among amateur players Yes. Thank goodness you didn't go to "Challenge the Champion", otherwise my debut variety show would have ended in a loss."

Except for Chen Yang and Xu Li, the rest of the national team members surrounded Guo Qi who lost the game immediately after they stepped onto the court. I don’t know whether everyone teased or comforted Guo Qi. , Guo Qi and the rest of the team members also walked to Chen Yang, Xu Li and Xiao Yao.

"What do you think of Xiao Yao's performance just now?" Chen Yang looked at everyone and asked after seeing that the team members had come.

"not bad!"

"pretty good!"

"Unexpected! It was really good!"

Everyone answered unevenly. Although the time of answering was not uniform, the content was almost the same. They all expressed their approval of Xiao Yao's performance against Guo Qi just now.

"That means everyone agrees that Xiao Yao will be the photographer for everyone's promotional photos?" Chen Yang asked again.

Seeing everyone nodding their heads, Xiao Yao said directly: "The filming time is from 8:00 to 10:00 in the evening from Monday to Friday next week.

The location is a studio about half an hour's drive away from the Taihe Hotel where everyone stayed. It is estimated that the shooting of the three people will be completed every day. I will send the specific plan to Brother Yang and he will inform everyone of the three people on the specific day. "

"Okay!" Everyone nodded to show that there was no problem.

"Okay, boys, the rest time is over, it's time to start the next training program." At this time, the head coach Alex Jefferson also came over and shouted to the players.

Glancing at Xiao Yao, Alex Jefferson said to Chen Yang and Xiao Yao again: "Is your business over? So..."

"Okay, aj, I'll send him out first, and then come back to continue my work." Chen Yang said to the head coach. He is the team's technical guide, and he should also guide the players on the sidelines during training. Because of Xiao Yao's matter, Chen Yang asked Jefferson for leave today.

"Goodbye, Mr. Jefferson." Xiao Yao greeted the head coach politely, and followed Chen Yang to the outside of the arena.

After leaving the basketball center, Xiao Yao thanked Chen Yang again and took a taxi to leave. Chen Yang also turned around and went back to the arena to guide the players to train.

After getting the subjects of the shooting, that is, the models, Xiao Yao has completed the most important part of the preparation work in the shooting project. Besides, Xiao Yao still has other preparations to do.

The location for the shoot was already chosen. The studio is located in the creative park where the rehearsal room of the Chenxi dance team was located. When Xiao Yao went to learn to dance with the members of the Chenxi Dance Troupe, he would also stroll around the park during his breaks. Then he discovered this studio and went in to play a few times. This studio can fully meet Xiao Yao's shooting requirements in terms of space size and hardware equipment, so Xiao Yao has already negotiated the lease through Qijia Studio and the photography studio.

Because I am not very familiar with the domestic photography circle, I don’t know much about the lighting engineers, sound engineers, set designers, makeup artists, stylists and other staff who do auxiliary work in the shooting activities. Xiao Yao had no choice but to ask Zhang Yunxing and Hong Andong, two model agency owners who are familiar with the domestic fashion circle, to recommend some candidates for him.

Long before the Internet and the media revealed Xiao Yao's identity as a photographer, Nie Yao told the two bosses what she learned while participating in the show. Back then, Chen Xuan was invited by Zhang Yunxing, and it was because of the model agency that Xiao Yao and Chen Xuan could meet. As for Xiao Yao's performance as Chen Xuan's photography assistant, everyone in the company who participated in the shooting that year could see it, and everyone could see Chen Xuan's satisfaction and liking for Xiao Yao. So no one in the model company doubts that Xiao Yao is Chen Xuan's student.

However, Xiao Yao actually concealed his identity as a photographer from the modeling company, especially the two bosses. The two bosses expressed their dissatisfaction to Xiao Yao verbally, and jokingly expressed to Xiao Yao that they were hurt in their hearts. . But when Xiao Yao approached the two of them for help, they agreed without hesitation.

The two bosses expressed some doubts that Xiao Yao only wanted to be a staff member and did not ask for a model.

"You only need staff, don't you need us to recommend some models for you?" Hong Andong asked Xiao Yao.

"No need, the model has already been found." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

"Find it? Which models are you looking for? Which company? Why don't you find a model from our own company?" Zhang Yunxing also said nervously, "There is a saying that fat water does not flow to outsiders, and none of the hundreds of models in our company Does it meet your requirements?"

"The subjects of my shooting this time are the players of the national basketball team." Xiao Yao explained, "I don't shoot professional models, so I didn't pick people from our company."

Hearing that the subject of the shooting was an athlete rather than a professional model, the two felt a little more balanced, but thinking that Xiao Yao's first shooting project in China actually chose a relatively difficult non-professional model shooting project, the two couldn't help but Some admire Xiao Yao's courage.

Xiao Yao required complete control over the entire project, so the two candidates recommended to him also tried to choose some relatively unknown candidates with solid skills. Among these people, Xiao Yao still has to spend some more thought to pick out the ones he thinks are suitable.

After the venue, equipment, and staff are settled, one of the biggest problems Xiao Yao still needs to solve is clothing.

The national team has designated clothing sponsors. Regardless of whether it is a game or training, the players of the national team must wear the game uniforms or sportswear provided by the clothing brand. Therefore, when Xiao Yao took promotional photos of formal attire, he still had a wide choice of clothing.

When it comes to solving the problem of clothing, it can actually be very simple. Given the current controversy caused by Xiao Yao in the media and the Internet because of his identity as a photographer, as long as he discloses the news of his upcoming shooting project to the marketing directors of those fashion brands, I believe that many fashion clothing brands will come to him soon Come and offer clothing to choose from.

Xiao Yao didn't wait for the clothing brand to take the initiative to come to the door, but went to the door by himself.

Although they were all photos in formal clothes, Xiao Yao didn't intend to let everyone wear the same clothes. He specially matched the clothing he thought was suitable for each basketball player. The basketball team has fifteen members, and Xiao Yao also picked out a total of fifteen sets of clothing, each belonging to six different clothing brands.

Since basketball players' bodies are quite different from ordinary people, twelve out of the fifteen sets of clothing need to be specially ordered. Xiao Yao has detailed data on the stature of the basketball players in his hand, and it is not very difficult to order them. In terms of time, usually about three days is enough to order a set of clothes. Now there are still five days before the next week's shooting, so naturally there is no problem. As for the price, I heard that Xiao Yao was the photographer to take promotional photos for the players of the national men's basketball team. This opportunity is not guaranteed to be paid, so how could those brands charge money.

By convention, these brands will send their own personnel to participate in the entire shooting plan as brand representatives. On the one hand, it is to assist the on-site costumers and stylists to take care of their own brand of clothing. After all, they are the most familiar with their things. Another aspect is to assist the project leader, the photographer Xiao Yao, in communicating with his own company. If there is any temporary situation at the shooting site, and it is necessary to change clothes, accessories or even temporarily modify some small details, these brand representatives will be represented. Come and give feedback to the company, and make corresponding arrangements according to the company's response.

As for Xiao Yao specifically, in addition to the above two aspects, there is another attraction to these brands: this is an excellent opportunity to see what Xiao Yao looks like when shooting live. For this photographer who is said to be well-known abroad when he was less than seventeen years old, the domestic fashion circles are full of curiosity about him. Is he really a teenage genius photographer or did he blow it up? They didn't see his foreign shooting projects before, but now it's rare that he has a shooting project in China, and everyone doesn't want to miss the opportunity to witness it with their own eyes.

Therefore, among the six brands, three director-level figures who are more curious and have a panic when they are too idle have condescended to personally serve as the brand representatives of Xiao Yao's shooting project. As for the representatives from the other three brands, although they are not at the director level in the company, their rank in the company is also higher than the rank and position of the company's usual staff in other shooting projects.

Xiao Yao didn't care about this situation. Anyway, his photographic skills have been obtained by using the number of shutters in exchange for so many years. He has a good heart and is naturally not afraid of being seen by others. The higher the level of brand visitors, the easier it is to communicate and make decisions on the spot, but he prefers that the higher the level of brand representatives, the better. (To be continued.)