Entertaining Children

The two found a coffee shop, and after Muying ordered two cups of coffee, she couldn't wait to ask Xiao Yao, "What kind of feature film? What type? Who is the investor? How much is the budget? Who are the actors? You say we Write your own script, do you adapt it from a novel or do you want an original script?"

"Don't be so excited. ?? Bayi? Chinese W㈧W? W?.? 8㈧1? Z? Wi.COM" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I don't have a project in hand, but there is such a feature film It’s just an idea, it’s far from it.”

"Ah? It's just an idea?" Mu Ying calmed down a lot after hearing Xiao Yao's words, but she still asked with great interest, "What's your idea, please tell me in detail."

"Well, to put it simply, I want to make a feature film. I don't think I can do it alone, so I want to get you to do it together. I have already decided on the type of movie, and I will shoot action movies that you are better at." Xiao Yao said.

"Action movie? Ancient Kung Fu movie? Or modern gangster movie?" Muying asked.

"When it comes to Chinese action movies, people think of kung fu movies, so boring." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I want to make an action movie related to a new sport." Xiao Yao said.

"A new movement?" Mu Ying asked curiously, "What is it?"

"Parkour, have you heard of it?" Xiao Yao said directly.

"I've heard of it," Muying nodded. "It's indeed a new sport that has only become popular in the past few years. I saw someone playing it in Los Angeles."

"Well, let's shoot this," Xiao Yao said, "This is a street and community sport. There is no official competition yet, and we don't shoot competitions. We just shoot stories on the streets and people who play parkour. .”

Ever since he brought parkour into this world, Xiao Yao thought that one day he could make a movie about parkour. As parkour has become more and more popular in recent years, Xiao Yao's desire has become stronger and stronger.

Xiao Yao wanted to make a parkour movie, but not only wanted to be the director, but also the starring role. Through the experience of that short film, Xiao Yao discovered that it is quite difficult to direct and act in a film by himself. Moreover, making a feature film is different from a short film. It is impossible for him to invite his grandfather Xiao Chengru to act as a guest executive director, nor can he simply hand over the power to the photographer. He needs a truly capable executive director. If a suitable executive director cannot be found, then it is acceptable for him to step back and co-direct with someone else.

Meeting Muying at the film festival this time, happened to be the most suitable candidate in Xiao Yao's mind. First of all, he is professional enough. He has a bachelor's degree in directing from Yandian University, and he is studying for a master's degree in directing at Southern University. His education is also impressive enough.

Secondly he is young,

Although he was nearly ten years older than himself, he was basically a fledgling kid among directors. Being young means that he has a high degree of acceptance for this emerging thing. Although Mu Ying only has experience in commercials and short films, she has no experience in film directing. The relatively shallow qualifications also allowed him to have a better attitude to cooperate with himself, a 20-year-old rookie. Who would be willing to let himself lead the shooting of a movie for that kind of film director who has become famous, so as to help himself, a real brat?

Finally, he himself has more ideas about action movies, which is what he is good at. His study experience in Los Angeles has also made him more familiar with Hollywood commercial movies. Xiao Yao does not want to make a high-profile literary movie. What I want to shoot is an action movie, and I have the pursuit of commercial interests.

"Sounds good," Muying said, "but what about the funds? This kind of movement is still relatively new. It's hard to say how many audiences it will have and how big the market prospect will be. So this subject is very risky, and it may be difficult to find people who are willing to invest, right? Are you going to let your home studio alone finance your film?"

"There are also actors," Mu Ying continued, "Although you are famous, your fame is in music. I know that many singers in China want to sing songs written by you. But in the film industry, you are still a pure Newcomers, will anyone dare to take the risk of acting in your movie? Even if you recruit a group of relatives and friends like this short film, how many people in it can do parkour? Your mother, your grandfather, and Teacher Lin Shaohua Not to mention, they are definitely not suitable to be the protagonists, how long did Huang Shi and Su Chengying have to practice to do those moves? I guess Cheng Xi, who was born in dancing, may be a bit of a clue."

"No, the two points you mentioned are not within my consideration." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "In terms of actors, I plan to let the most experienced parkour practitioners be the protagonists, and the supporting roles must also be those who can play parkour very well. In this regard, we have to ensure professionalism, so that we can have enough room for movement design.”

"The most experienced parkour person?" Muying said, "Are you looking for people who specialize in parkour? Let's not talk about whether they are willing to come, but is there any guarantee for the acting skills of such people? A movie can't be all Action scenes, no literary dramas, right?"

"Of course there is a guarantee," Xiao Yao said, "I dare not say the supporting roles, at least three of the leading roles will be professional actors."

"A professional actor, or an experienced parkour player, who is it?" Muying said, "Is there such a person?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, pointed to his nose and said, "Me!"

"You?" Mu Ying asked in surprise, "You can also parkour?"

"It's not just me, it's not just me." Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone, opened the yRF parkour video on PV and asked Muying, "Do you know yRF?"

"Yes," Mu Ying nodded, "I heard from those who play parkour, that is the first group in the world to play parkour, and they invented the sport of parkour."

"Yes," Xiao Yao handed the mobile phone to Mu Yingdao, "This is yRF's parkour video. yRF refers to me, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. This group was created when we filmed "Ling Yun Zhi" together. It came out. You should know Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. Although they are young, they are also professional actors with rich acting experience. Do you think there will be problems if I invite Zhao Rui and Xu Fei to act in a movie with me? ?”

"This... this is really you guys!" Muying took the phone and looked at it. Although none of the people in the video have faced the camera head-on and cannot see their faces, but under Xiao Yao's prompt to watch with a purpose, you can still find that the appearance and figure of these people are very similar to Xiao Yao and the three of them .

"Actually, I have also met other people who play parkour," Xiao Yao said. "From the contact with them, I found that the three of us still have a certain status in the hearts of parkour lovers. If we directly pass this The account of the yRF team on the pV is an announcement that we are going to make a parkour movie. We invite parkour lovers who have performance experience or those who want to participate in the filming to audition for other main roles in the movie. Do you think there will be anyone? Response? The Chinese are the protagonists, and the Europeans and Americans are the supporting roles. The combination of actors is very interesting.”

"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "In terms of funds, I don't plan to find film companies or companies as investors, so as not to be restricted. We make independent films and play by ourselves. Apart from the two of us, I plan to let Zhao Rui and Xu Fei also participated in film investment in their own names."

"According to what you said, there should be no problem with actors. But in terms of funds, although I don't know how much the three young stars of you are currently worth, I suspect that with the four of us, is it enough?" Mu Ying held the phone Handing it back to Xiao Yao, he frowned and said, "I'm a poor student, and it cost a lot to make this short film, and I don't have much savings anymore."

"Maybe it's not enough." Xiao Yao nodded and frowned.

Zhao Rui and Xu Fei's financial situation is not very clear to Xiao Yao, but it probably can't support the investment of a movie. Although he now has several sources of income, the ongoing animation film also requires his continuous investment, and it seems that he doesn't have much spare money for him to start another film project.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao clapped his hands and said, "We can still play crowdfunding!"

Whether in the previous life or in this world, crowdfunding has already been used to raise project funds. Xiao Yao didn't plan to use the money from his parents' studio, and when he didn't have enough money, he thought of this relatively open method of fundraising. .

"Crowdfunding?" Muying was a little puzzled, "Who are you crowdfunding with?"

"We still crowdfund all parkour fans around the world in the name of yRF through pV's yRF channel." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "As a parkour lover, I will participate in the world's first parkour and parkour In the related movies, when the movie is released in the future, you can proudly point to the screen and say to your relatives and friends that I also have an investment in this movie, how does it feel?"

"Although I'm not a parkour fan, I can imagine that feeling will be cool!" Muying smiled and nodded. Crowdfunding the first parkour movie from parkour enthusiasts, compared with general crowdfunding projects, this project has a natural advantage.

"You're not a parkour fan? That's not okay." Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile and said, "I still need you to complete the script of this movie with me. Although crowdfunding to parkour fans seems easier, But we also have to follow the rules to make our project ideas reach the level that can be displayed. Parkour enthusiasts can’t just rely on the name of yRF to pay for it, we have to produce some dry goods.”

The movies about parkour that Xiao Yao was more impressed with in his previous life were "Corporate Warrior" and "Violent District 13".

Xiao Yao feels that it is too early for him to play "Violence 13 District" at his age, and "Violence 13 District" has an action style with parkour, and it is essentially a police action movie, which is not suitable as the first publicity film A movie that appeared to promote parkour, and there are only two protagonists in this movie, Xiao Yao didn't want to leave Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, two yRF friends, in the world's first parkour movie.

Relatively speaking, "Enterprise Warrior" with a parkour team as the protagonist is more suitable, but Xiao Yao has no intention of copying "Enterprise Warrior" from his previous life. It may be caused by some kind of emotion. First, Xiao Yao was very unhappy with the Japanese name. More importantly, the plot of this movie is relatively weak. Such plots can be placed in Huaxia and may encounter the problem of not being able to pass the trial. He didn't want the film to be unable to be released in China after it was shot, or to be cut to pieces by radio and television.

Therefore, Xiao Yao intends to only learn from the setting of the movie that the protagonist is a team, and the specific storyline must be completely redesigned. Xiao Yao didn't intend to spend his brains alone in creating this kind of original script, so he naturally had to bring Muying along. After returning to China and notifying Zhao Rui and Xu Fei of the project, Xiao Yao also planned to let them join in the writing of the script and work together.

"It's okay to create scripts together, but I hear what you mean, you want me to learn parkour too?" Muying smiled, "I'm not you, this old man with old arms and legs, can he learn it? Let's talk , I can’t learn it just by watching the video, I’m going back to the US after the film festival, can you still go to the US to teach me?”

"Bah, you're under thirty, how dare you say you have old arms and legs?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and said, "Actually, I originally wanted you to know more about it, and I don't necessarily have to learn how to play. But since you are so Say, I really want you to experience it for yourself. Aren’t you at USC in Los Angeles? I happen to know someone from a parkour team in Los Angeles. Their leader is Nathan Donner, and this is his phone number. Contact him after you return to Los Angeles, and when they have parkour activities, you can go and feel it together. I will say hello to him and let them teach you well." Said, Xiao Yao put Nathan Dow in his phone Naer's contact information is on Muying's cell phone.

"You still know the parkour team in Los Angeles?" Muying stared.

"Of course," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "as I said, the name yRF still has a certain weight among parkour lovers. They even named me "Yuanlao Yang". I ask them to teach you how to play. Parkour, they will definitely not refuse."

"Uh... well, that... I'll try my best to learn." Muying smiled wryly, and changed the subject, "Let's discuss the script first, after all, we can only make movies when the script is completed. Only when you have a budget for the production costs can you start crowdfunding, and this project can be approved. Do you have any preliminary framework?"

"My initial thought now is that the protagonist must be a team, not just me, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei, but five to seven people, all with their own unique personalities and different family backgrounds." Xiao Yao began to describe himself "There must be at least one girl in the team, so that we can tell everyone that girls can also play parkour. As for the plot, I haven't figured out the details yet. I think it should be that they went from simply showing off parkour to using parkour to help Such a process of others..."