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After resting at home for a day, Xiao Yao devoted himself to the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala. ??August 1?Chinese Network Ｑ㈧W?W?． ?8?1?ZW. COM

Whether it's "The Great Wall" or "Song Not For Whom", there are ready-made live stage versions. But after all, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is different from the music and variety TV shows of ordinary reality shows. Neither of these two programs can simply copy the performances in the show to the Spring Festival Gala stage. There are some changes in details in the performance, and in order to make no mistakes in rehearsals and official performances, these revised details must be mastered in advance.

Let me talk about "The Great Wall" first. When they were performing in the show, Xiao Yao, Chen Chen and the supporting dancers were all dressed in black, and the Spring Festival is a very festive day, so the director team of the Spring Festival Gala proposed to Xiao Yao whether the color of the costumes could be changed to Change to a more festive red.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that other colors such as black or white cannot appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. In fact, there are many performers in the Spring Festival Gala whose performance costumes are black or white. It’s just that the director team thinks that for a group dance program such as "The Great Wall", if it is red, It looks like it might work better. However, the director team of the Spring Festival Gala also said that this is just a suggestion, and if it can be changed, it can be changed. If it is not easy to change, the original black costume is also acceptable. After all, one of the highlights of this show is the lights on the clothes. If there is any problem with the lighting system because of changing clothes, it is a small loss.

Xiao Yao readily accepted this proposal. Wearing the same costumes as in previous shows, Xiao Yao himself didn't think it was very interesting. Not to mention that Rick has come to Huaxia, even if Rick didn't come, he can take out those sets of lighting systems from the original clothes and put them into new clothes. But now that Rick has come, Xiao Yao will not waste it, so he simply asked Rick to make a few new lighting systems, and installed them in his newly customized dark red costumes. Another year has passed, and Rick has made many improvements to the lighting system. Not only are the bulbs used smaller and brighter, but there are also more options for operation and lighting conversion. Xiao Yao can also use it to perform in the Spring Festival Gala.

Regarding the color of the costumes, the director team only suggested, and did not make a strong requirement, but in terms of performance movements, the director team clearly prohibited Xiao Yao from flying out from behind Chen Chen, and the movement of sprinkling talcum powder in the air to make a stop-frame pose had to be changed. The Spring Festival Gala is a live broadcast, Xiao Yao's other actions are fine, but what if he sprinkles talcum powder on the Spring Festival Gala? They don't want to send staff to the stage to clean up the white dust in front of so many audiences. The director team only forbade Xiao Yao from sprinkling talcum powder, not canceling that action. On the contrary, they also made other articles on this action.

Xiao Yao's lighting costumes are very technological and have great visual effects. The Spring Festival Gala stage will cooperate with the performance in these two aspects. Xiao Yao still flew into the air as usual, but without spreading talcum powder, he directly gave Xiao Yao a pair of special effects of fire wings on the big screen behind the scene, which was also very technological, and the visual effect was even better.

But in this way, higher demands were placed on Xiao Yao,

That is the problem of coordinating with the special effects screen on the big screen at the scene. If it is sprinkled with talcum powder, Xiao Yao can control the height of the jump by himself, as long as he surpasses Chen Chen, it doesn't matter if he is taller or shorter, but he has to cooperate with the special effect wings on the big screen at the Spring Festival Gala. There are specific position and speed requirements for Yao Tengkong to do freeze-frame movements.

This is a bit difficult, and the directors of the Spring Festival Gala don’t know if they will be able to cooperate successfully. Anyway, spreading talcum powder is definitely not possible. This plan is evaluated from the effect of the rehearsal. If it works, go ahead. If it doesn’t work, Then let Xiao Yao just fly out from behind Chen Chen. Of course, Xiao Yao hopes that the performance can be as perfect as possible, so this is also a focus of his early practice.

In this show, apart from the two singers Xiao Yao and Chen Chen, there are also backup dancers and harmony voices. In terms of dancers, the dancers of the "Morning Sun" dance troupe, Xiao Yao and Chen Chen are all under Xiao Yao's Qi Jia Studio, and they cooperated tacitly. Xiao Yao would not agree to change, and the director team of the Spring Festival Gala did not want to change either. But it's different when it comes to voice actors.

In the show back then, Wan Peiling had temporarily found the four harmony singers for Xiao Yao, and they were not familiar with Xiao Yao and Chen Chen, so it wasn't necessary for them to be those four. Of course, the resources at the Spring Festival Gala are not comparable to that of Wan Peiling. Not only did they find professional opera singers directly from the National Opera House to help them sing harmony, but they also found eight singers at once. Twice the number of singers. So Xiao Yao and Chen Chen had to practice with these eight opera singers to cultivate a tacit understanding between them.

As for Gong Chen and Xu Yuan's "Song Not Made for Whom", apart from Xu Yuan's costume being inappropriate, the way they sang in the show was also not suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage. The Spring Festival Gala is not a music TV show that needs to fully demonstrate the singer's singing skills. The singing style of the entire stage performance must be much "gentle". The style of the version of the soundtrack in the mV of this song made by Yu Xiaoyao.

Both Gong Chen and Xu Yuan had only sung this style of singing when they recorded the official version in the recording studio. They also had to practice hard when they sang it live and accompanied it with a stage performance. This song was written by Xiao Yao for the two of them. Xiao Yao was also responsible for the arrangement and recording of the studio version used in the mV. Therefore, besides the practice of "The Great Wall", Xiao Yao had to find time to guide Gong Chen and Xu Yuan. practice.

After more than a week of practice, Xiao Yao, Chen Chen, Gong Chen, and Xu Yuan participated in the first make-up rehearsal of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala as scheduled.

Among the two groups of artists, Gong Chen and Xu Yuan's song came first, and they also went on stage for rehearsal first. When the two were singing, the mV of this song produced by Xiao Yao was also played on the big screen at the scene as the background. Because all the videos in this mV were processed into black and white images by Xiao Yao, the director team asked Xu Yuan and Gong Chen who sang on stage to also dress in black and white to match it. Gong Chen was still wearing the "fairy-like" white gauze dress in the original show, while Xu Yuan changed into a more conservative black silk evening dress. Although it looks a little less sexy, it is also beautiful clatter.

The two were very familiar with the song, and they didn't make any major mistakes during the rehearsal. They finished the rehearsal smoothly, and then sat aside and waited to see Xiao Yao and Chen Chen's performance.

There were several other shows between them, so the two of them also waited in the auditorium for a while before seeing Xiao Yao and Chen Chen come on stage for rehearsal.

"Xiao Yao, why don't you hang up the wire and try it later when you are doing that aerial maneuver?" Before Xiao Yao and Chen Chen's rehearsal started, Wen An, the chief director at the scene, suddenly proposed to Xiao Yao, "We can Use the wire to control your flying height, and it can also help you stabilize at a specified height. In this way, the wings on the screen and your movements in the air will be much better coordinated."

Wen An was still worried about the picture of Xiao Yao cooperating with the special effects wings on the big screen. It happened that the previous show was acrobatics. Suddenly thought of this way. Although Xiao Yao is the youngest performer on stage, this show was originally created by Xiao Yao, and the most dangerous and difficult moves are also Xiao Yao's. Obviously, he is the person in charge of this show, so Wen An also directly communicated with Xiao Yao. Dialogue communication.

It's true to hang on to Wei Yaxiaoyao, but the overall effect...

Xiao Yao said to the general director Wen An, "Director Wen, if you use wire to control it, it may disrupt the overall rhythm of the song. And no matter how inconspicuous these two steel wires are, sharp-eyed audiences can still see them. Acrobats The reason for hanging wire is for safety, the audience can understand. But we have a singing and dancing show, hanging wire just to give me wings on the screen, it seems too deliberate."

"You still mean to follow the previous one?" Wen An said.

"Yeah, just follow our previous practice," Xiao Yao said, "Didn't you already tell me the position of the wings on the big screen and the specific height I need to vacate? We have been practicing well during this period of time. Let's try it the way it is."

"Then you guys try it first, if it doesn't work, let's do it again with Wia hanging." Wen An thought about it, and said, "The overall rhythm problem, we will discuss and solve it later, after all, there are still more than ten days. There is a second rehearsal."

"Okay." Xiao Yao nodded in agreement helplessly.

Xiao Yao, Chen Chen and several supporting dancers stood in formation, the lights on the stage dimmed a little, the accompanying music sounded, and the rehearsal of the show began.

When Xiao Yao and Chen Chen performed this song for the first time, Gong Chen watched it live, and Xu Yuan also watched the program video of this song several times, but once again saw Xiao Yao and Chen Chen performing live in the CCTV studio When singing this song, the two of them were still deeply shocked like the other staff on the scene.

"They don't want to cross~"

Accompanied by a high-pitched roar, Xiao Yao soared into the air from behind Chen Chen. This time, Xiao Yao stood upright like a javelin during the ascent, with his arms tightly attached to the sides of his legs, and he waited until he felt that he had almost reached the designated height before Xiao Yao's waist and abdomen tightened. With force, he stopped the upward trend, causing the whole person to pause in the air for a short time, then lifted his hands up to his armpits, and then quickly opened them to the sides. At this time, on the big screen behind Xiao Yao, two groups of red flames appeared exactly corresponding to Xiao Yao's shoulders. As Xiao Yao opened his arms horizontally to the sides, a pair of wings grew out of the two flames. , followed by his arms extending to the sides.

"It's beautiful!" Many people at the scene exclaimed in their hearts.

Xiao Yao started to fall, and raised his arms from the horizontal position. The roots of a pair of wings on the big screen moved downward synchronously with Xiao Yao's whereabouts, and remained behind Xiao Yao's shoulders and back, while the wingspan part also changed to wave upwards following Xiao Yao's upward movement of his arms.

When Xiao Yao was about to fall to the ground, the pair of flame wings that had become pointing upwards were quickly retracted into the flame at the root, and when Xiao Yao's feet fell to the ground, the two flames also shot from the big screen. disappeared.

"Okay!" Although the rehearsal performance on the stage was not over yet, many people at the scene couldn't wait to stand up and applaud Xiao Yao on the stage.

"This effect is amazing!" The assistant director next to Wen An couldn't help applauding and said, "This cooperation is absolutely seamless!"

"Yeah, I didn't expect the first rehearsal to be successful." Wen An was also applauding, nodding his head and laughing, "There are marks on the jumping positions on the stage, as long as you go up and down straight and don't jump crookedly, that's fine. But this It is not easy for them to be able to grasp the height of the flight so accurately. I told him that the height of the shoulders was 3.8 meters when I reached the highest point, and the error of his stroke is definitely less than five centimeters."

"Director Wen, how is the effect? ​​Do you want to try again without hanging on to Wia?" After the performance, Xiao Yao asked Wen An with a smile amidst everyone's applause.

"The effect is great!" Wen An gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "If you can maintain this level in the second rehearsal, I won't let you hang on to Wia!"