Entertaining Children

The reason why Keith agreed to sign this band was not because of Xiao Yao's lobbying, but also because of his own considerations. In addition to Xiao Yao, the rtals band also had some things he valued. First of all, the beautiful drummer Samien is a highlight. In a rock band, a cold and beautiful drummer is quite eye-catching. When they performed in the opening stage of their Los Angeles concert, when the big screen showed Samien in close-up, the reaction of the audience was the craziest. .

Secondly, George, a black man, is also a big bright spot. In the American music scene, the majority of rock players are white. Blacks, on the other hand, either play jazz, or r\u0026b and hip-pop, and there are very few people who play rock, and people like George are also scarce resources.

Although Keith was also very interested in the Immortals band, the terms of the signed contract were discussed and confirmed with the entire band one by one. It took more than a week to confirm the terms of the signed contract.

During the time when the band's future confirmation and Keith's studio were tied together, the "Torrent" street dance team also experienced the second knockout round, and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, breaking into the final round. finals.

In the quarter-finals, Xiao Yao didn't provide any special effects to the hip-hop team, but further inspired them in dance moves. This time Xiao Yao showed them not parkour, but the martial arts he had practiced for more than ten years.

Zhou Jingyi once said that Xiao Yao can fight three like TJ, this sentence was remembered by TJ in his heart. Although he didn't want to fight Xiao Yao single-handedly, he had pestered Xiao Yao several times to see his Huaxia Kungfu. Xiao Yao became impatient with being pestered by TJ, so he casually showed him a few routines in Bajiquan. And TJ's sentence "This action is so cool!" also inspired Xiao Yao.

Now that movements are mentioned, Xiao Yao naturally thinks of hip-hop. Although "Torrent" retained some new movements created from parkour in the first game, these movements were not enough to support the entire game. In the previous life, Xiao Yao also saw martial arts moves such as Tai Chi being integrated into street dance in film and television works, so why can't "Torrent" do this? This world is the same as in the previous life. The most impressive thing about Huaxia's film and television works to Americans is Huaxia's kung fu movies. Huaxia Kung Fu is also very famous and has many admirers in the United States of this world.

Therefore, Xiao Yao gathered all the hip-hop dancers and demonstrated to them the three sets of boxing techniques he knew—Taijiquan, Shaolin Changquan and Bajiquan, and then worked together with everyone to consider how to adapt these kung fu moves into Cool moves in hip-hop.

After several days of hard work, we have achieved some results. Then in the second knockout round, the novel movements inspired by Parkour and Chinese Kung Fu also easily conquered the audience and the three judges.

Now in front of the "Rapid" street dance team, there is only the last final. Before the final, two good news came one after another, which made everyone's tension in the final dissipate a lot.

The first good news is that Mary Jane has found the "Torrent" hip-hop dance team and decided to invite them to participate in the filming of her latest single mv, and at the same time, she will be her performance backup dance team at the upcoming concert this summer.

And the second one comes from another judge, Santos Perez. He has a hip-hop movie project on hand and has decided to invite him to be the action director, and recommend some candidates who are suitable for the role of dancers in the movie. After seeing the three performances of "Torrent", he has successfully persuaded the producer to invite the whole team of "Torrent" to star in this movie. The type condition is outstanding, and he is proficient in two different types of dances, modern dance and street dance, and got a big supporting role similar to the status of the female number three.

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The future of the entire hip-hop team is also clear. Before the finals started, they had already achieved their goal of participating in the "National Street Dance Competition". Then before they participated in the finals, they would naturally be less nervous, and their mentality would be much more relaxed.

Although the hip-hop team of "Rapid Current" who reached the competition goal ahead of schedule relaxed their mentality to participate in the finals, their preparations for the finals did not relax at all. On the contrary, they were still holding back their big moves for the stage performance of the finals.

Naturally, this big move has something to do with Xiao Yao. Strictly speaking, it was Xiao Yao's idea again. It's just that this big move this time, in terms of prior preparation, Xiao Yao alone couldn't complete it.

After finalizing the band's contract matters, Xiao Yao started preparing for the "Torrent" finals. And the big move he prepared for the "Torrent" final was the clothes with color-changing LED lights that blinded people's eyes in the last dance in "Dancing Out of My Life 3" in his previous life. In this world, fluorescent clothing has already appeared, but that kind of fluorescent clothing has only one color, and it can only be effective in a very dark environment. But this kind of clothing with LED lights that is not affected by the environment has not yet appeared, so they want to surprise the eyeballs, but the premise is to design and make it by themselves.

As a science and engineering geek in his previous life, Xiao Yao studied the principles of this kind of clothes after watching the movie, but his major is purely theoretical. He understands the principle, but it is impossible for him to make one by himself. Fortunately, there are many talents in the hip-hop team. He brought up the idea, and some team members who were proficient in electronic equipment excitedly started to turn Xiao Yao's idea into reality. And this team member is none other than Rick, who resents Xiao Yao for always having trouble with their clothes because he played the role of a zombie.

Rick is a fan of electronic equipment, he proposed to make it by hand, Xiao Yao himself did not intend to be a hands-off shopkeeper. Therefore, when the street dance team rehearsed, Xiao Yao and Rick spent their free time on making this variable LED light that can be installed on clothes. Xiao Yao's hands-on ability is mediocre, and at best he can help Rick, but he has theories and ideas, coupled with Rick's superb skills and rich hands-on experience, after dozens of continuous attempts, Xiao Yao and Rick finally mastered this LED lights that meet the requirements have been produced, and wireless control equipment that can control the color conversion of lights has also been made.

In addition to LED lights, clothing is also an aspect that cannot be ignored. This kind of LED light can not be installed on any clothes. So Xiao Yao specially ordered a batch of clothes made of special materials for the players to try to install this LED light according to their figures.

Although the power supply voltage required by LEDs is not high, Xiao Yao's custom-made clothing still uses a relatively safe double-layer fabric. The inner layer of the body is made of nylon coated fabric material used to make insulating clothing, the interlayer is used to install the LED lights that they made themselves, and the outer layer is made of transparent PVC material because there is no lack of floor movements in the dance , while protecting the light bulb on the clothes, it is also convenient for the display of led lights.

This aspect is not difficult for Xiao Yao. Because he still has the identity of photographer ys, Xiao Yao is quite familiar with several custom-made clothing brand companies in the United States, and has a considerable understanding of clothing fabrics and styles. Therefore, based on the astronaut uniforms in sci-fi movies, he designed a very technological style of clothing, with those cool LED lights, it can definitely blind your eyes.

It’s just that the design of the LED light needs to be kept secret for the time being, so Xiao Yao only asked for some openings to be reserved in the middle of the double-layer material of each main part of the clothing, and they had to install the LED lights in the interlayer by themselves.

It took more than ten days to finally turn the props in the movie of the previous life into the reality in front of the eyes of this life. Xiao Yao's heart is full of a sense of accomplishment. But that's not all. After the LED light costume is produced, it also needs supporting dance, music and precise control of the light during dancing.

Dancing and music are relatively easy to solve. With the dance and music from the previous life as the basis, it is not too difficult for Xiao Yao to adapt according to the dance moves that the members of the dance team are good at. Difficulties mainly focus on the control of LED lighting and the overall coordination of dance and music.

Xiao Yao and Rick racked their brains and devised two methods: the first one is to use computer programming to set the order and time of changing the colors of all lights in advance, so that the team members only need to focus on During the dance, don't worry about the LED lights on your body. But there is also a problem involved, that is, hip-hop dance still has some degrees of freedom. Although it is accompanied by music, it is difficult to achieve every second of precision. Once there is a slight time deviation in everyone's dance movements, most of the audience may not be able to see it except for the judges on the stage, but with the lights on their bodies, this mistake will be magnified to a very large extent. obvious.

The second method is to assign a special person to be responsible for the color conversion of the light. This method seems to be more reliable, and Xiao Yao, who cannot be on stage, is also a ready-made excellent candidate.

But this time the competition was not held in a theater like in the primary election, but in the performance hall of a luxury hotel in Los Angeles. There will be a TV station that will broadcast the whole process live, and the control on the scene is much stricter than that of the original theater. It is impossible for Xiao Yao to find another condescending and relatively quiet environment to operate. He couldn't go on stage, and he couldn't even stay in the backstage with bad eyesight, so he could only stay in the audience. However, in order to fully mobilize the emotions of the audience watching the final, the producer did not set up seats for the audience, and all of them crowded together to stand and watch. Considering the on-site environment, as long as any audience accidentally bumps into Xiao Yao's arm or even touches his body, it may cause mistakes in lighting conversion and dance movement coordination.

Finally, in desperation, Xiao Yao and Rick had to devise a third method, which was to install the controller on the glove of one of the players, allowing one of the players to control the switching of the lights while performing on the stage. The advantage of this is that the team members avoid uncontrollable factors such as audience collision, and at the same time, they are performers on the stage. They can adjust the speed and rhythm of lighting conversion at any time according to the progress of the performance on the stage, avoiding the problem of asynchrony. The unfavorable factor is that it is necessary to perform dance and control the lights, so the requirements for the player who masters the controller are relatively high.

After looking at the whole team, Xiao Yao still decided to let Paul, who seemed the most reliable, be the light controller on this stage. The team members had no opinion on Xiao Yao's choice, so they decided on it. This thing was designed by Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao took Paul's place and demonstrated it to Paul in advance.

The soundtrack of the whole dance was made by Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao also participated in the design of the dance moves. The LED lighting suit was also Xiao Yao's idea, and then he made it together with Rick, so Xiao Yao is very concerned about every aspect of the whole dance. He understands it very well, coupled with his already very good dancing skills and his head with a memory that far exceeds that of ordinary people. So when Xiao Yao demonstrated to Paul, whether it was the individual dance moves, the dance coordination with the whole team, or the control of the LED lights on the team, he did it very accurately, which not only gave Paul confidence, but also gave him a lot of confidence. big pressure. (To be continued.)