Entertaining Children

The popularity of short movies is directly reflected in the number of hits on these four video sites. In just one week, the hits and plays of this short movie on the four websites exceeded tens of millions of times. The three video sites with broadcasting rights felt that it was worth the money.

At first, Xiao Yao shot a short film just to satisfy his own wish. He originally planned to upload it on the website for free viewing by netizens, so all the actors he found were acquaintances he found through his relationship to star in for free. But when he came across a video website that came to him in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Xiao Yao discovered that this short video could actually make money. Xiao Yao really needs a website to spread his works, but the website also needs good and attractive works to attract netizens and earn traffic and clicks.

Traffic is the foundation of a website. When encountering a work that can obviously increase website traffic, even if it is not suitable for channels and sections that can only be watched by paying members, the website will still spend money to buy broadcasting rights. And his work, which has the award-winning short film title of the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film International Film Festival, is undoubtedly the kind of work that can be expected to bring a lot of network traffic.

Xiao Yao made money with this short film, and he did not forget those relatives and friends who helped him star in this short film for free. Therefore, when he received the copyright fees for the online broadcast of five websites, he also expressed his heart to the actors who starred in this short film. For friends like Su Chengying, Huang Shi, and Cheng Xi, Xiao Yao sent them a red envelope very simply and directly as a thank you. As for Lin Shaohua, Ye Jiaying, Xiao Chengru, including relatives and elders such as Tian Fangzhen, Xiao Yao carefully selected a gift that was equivalent to the amount of the red envelope and gave it out.

Therefore, when there was a lot of discussion about Xiao Yao's short film on the Internet, Xiao Yao hid in school and racked his brains thinking about what gifts to give to his relatives and elders. Youfang and Pei Minyi can help him with running errands, but it's up to Xiao Yao to decide who to give.

From returning to Shanghai after recording the quick book to before the recording of "Singer", to be precise, before Xiao Yao participated in the recording of "Singer", Xiao Yao still had about three weeks of preparation time. The actor prepares red envelopes and gifts, attends classes at school, discusses the script of the Parkour movie with Muying, Zhao Rui and others once a week, and the most important thing is to prepare to participate in the "Singer" program.

As the first singer to kick the hall, Xiao Yao will not appear on the stage until the third episode, but even because of the short film that has become popular on the Internet recently, the program team did not reveal in advance what Xiao Yao will be. As the first singer to join the "Singer" news, it can also be seen how strict the "Singer" program keeps the singer's identity confidential. Similarly, Xiao Yao couldn't know in advance who the seven starting singers in the show were. Apart from guessing that there might be his father Xiao Siqi, he didn't know anything about the other six contestants before the show was broadcast.

However, "Singer" is also a program that is recorded and broadcast at the same time, and the recording time and broadcast time are separated by about two weeks. It wasn't until the week when Xiao Yao set off for Shonan to record the third episode of the program that Xiao Yao saw the first episode on TV, and then he knew who the seven singers who started the show were.

Xiao Yao guessed that Xiao Siqi was indeed in the initial seven-member list. Besides Xiao Siqi, there were two singers from Taiwan, one from Hong Kong Island, two mainland singers and one from South Korea. . Among these people, the youngest is the Mesozoic generation who is about 30 years old, and the older ones have been veterans who have dominated the music scene for nearly 30 years. The lineup can be said to be very strong.

Among these people, Xiao Yao is of course most concerned about the performance of his father Xiao Siqi. In the first qualifying competition, Xiao Siqi finally won the third place with an adapted song "The Night I Missed You". This is a relatively safe ranking. As long as their performance in the second episode of the show is not too bad, their father and son should be able to appear on the same stage at the same time.

The morning and afternoon of the recording of the "Singer" program were the rehearsals for the singers and the live band of the program. Each singer could have about half an hour to an hour, and the official recording of the program was at night. Therefore, Xiao Yao did not set off on the day of program recording like Kuaiben, but arrived in Shonan one day in advance.

At around nine o'clock in the morning on the recording day of the program, there was a knock on the door of Xiao Yao's hotel room.

Xiao Yao opened the door and found a beautiful girl in her twenties standing outside the door, and behind her was a man carrying a video camera.

"Agent?" Xiao Yao asked.

Just like the show in the previous life, the "Singer" in this world also arranges a manager for each singer, usually a host from Shonan TV Station. Seeing the camera, Xiao Yao immediately guessed the identity of the girl in front of him.

"Hi Xiao Yao, I'm Shen Man, your manager on the show." Sure enough, the girl smiled and extended her hand to Xiao Yao.

"Hello." Xiao Yao reached out to shake hands with Shen Man, and said with a smile, "Didn't it say ten o'clock? It's early enough!"

"We are afraid of traffic jams, so we set off early." Shen Man asked with a smile, "Well...can I go in? Or should we wait outside for a while?"

In addition to showing the performances of the singers on stage, this program will also record some behind-the-scenes content to be interspersed in the program. The first contact between the singer and the program crew is usually a must-shoot. The program director originally planned to send a film crew to Xiao Yao's school to take pictures of Xiao Yao's dormitory, but Xiao Yao thought that he didn't want to disturb his classmates. Because of the refusal, I changed it to start from the hotel after discussing with the program director team. This is one of the reasons why he arrived in Shonan one day earlier.

Nine o'clock in the morning is not considered early for ordinary people, but for singers and entertainers, there are many people who are still sleeping late at this time. Shen Man was a little worried that Xiao Yao would not get up before he came, but he didn't expect the door to open as soon as he knocked. But she was also afraid that Xiao Yao had just woken up, and the mess in the shooting room would affect his image, so she asked this question.

"Ah! Come in!" Xiao Yao hurriedly opened the door without hesitation, and invited Shen Man and the cameraman into the room.

Shen Man walked into Xiao Yao's room with a hint of curiosity, and looked around. Because it is a hotel room, the pillows and quilts on the bed are scattered, and they are kept in the state after waking up. Other than that, other places are relatively tidy.

"What is this? Is it the sheet music of the song to be sung today?" Shen Man suddenly noticed a few sheets of white paper and a pencil spread out on the desk, and guessed with a smile, "Woke up early in the morning to prepare? I Talk about why you got up so early, it seems that you attach great importance to today's performance. Huh? Why do you seem to have paintings?"

"Uh..." Xiao Yao rubbed his nose in embarrassment and said, "That's not a song score. I'm writing a script recently, and I'm revising and perfecting it just now. Those paintings are the sub-shots of the paintings."

"Ah?" Shen Man and the cameraman behind him were a little dumbfounded. A singer still writing the script on the day of the competition? Should it be said that he has a big heart or he didn't pay attention to this show, and didn't pay attention to the starting singers he wanted to challenge?

"Actually, I've already prepared the song I'm going to sing tonight." Xiao Yao definitely couldn't let them think about the latter, so he quickly explained.

Managers and singers are bound together. If the singer is eliminated, then his agent in this show will not appear again, so of course Shen Man hopes that Xiao Yao can go as far as possible, so Shen Man wants to ask the director team to cut the previous part Don't broadcast it. But after coming in, there couldn't be nothing, so Shen Man started to find other topics to chat with Xiao Yao.

"I think your hair feels a little wet, did you take a shower this morning?" Shen Man noticed Xiao Yao's hair.

"Well, I went to the hotel gym to exercise for a while in the morning, and then I had breakfast. After I came back, you came here not long after taking a shower. If you had arrived a little earlier, I might not have come back." Xiao Yao nodded.

"The living habits are really good!" Shen Man boasted with a smile. This is no problem, you can take it out and broadcast it.

"Your rehearsal with the band is scheduled for the afternoon, but in the morning you're going to record a pre-match interview with a singer who is kicking the gym. Can you start now?" Shen Man briefly chatted with Xiao Yao, and then told him Start today's itinerary.

"Wait a minute, my agent may not have woken up yet, I'll ask first." Saying that, Xiao Yao took out his cell phone and started calling Fang Yiran.

Although most of the time in this show is that the manager and the singer are together, but when the singer is performing, there will also be fixed shots of the real manager of the singer standing with the manager in the show. Therefore, Fang still came with Xiao Yao to record the program this time. Since the meeting time mentioned by the director team was ten o'clock, it is very likely that Fang still hasn't woken up at this time.

"Sorry, please wait for her for twenty minutes." Putting down the phone, Xiao Yao said to Shen Man with a little apology. As expected, Fang still hadn't gotten up yet.

"It's okay, we arrived early." Shen Man waved his hand quickly. Although I was very surprised that the manager woke up later than the artist, but he suppressed it and didn't show it at all.

Twenty minutes later, Fang Yiran, who had finished packing, also knocked on Xiao Yao's door. After introducing each other to Shen Man, they set off for the Shonan TV station building.

The interview is not in the studio, but in a special interview booth. The recording time was not very long, and I mainly asked questions such as my mood and feelings when I was sure that I would become the first singer to kick off this season, my understanding and evaluation of the other first-time singers, and whether I would be able to kick off. Questions like expectations of success. Xiao Yao's answer was quite satisfactory, and there was nothing unexpected about it. However, considering Xiao Yao's age and the fact that he was on the same stage with those big names in the industry for the first time, Xiao Yao's calm expression and well-regulated answers were actually quite beyond the expectations of the interview director on the spot.

Only those who become regular singers can enter the singer preparation room marked with the number. Kicking singers cannot enter the hall until they successfully become regular singers, so after the interview, Shen Man took Xiao Yao and Fang Yiran to the temporary room. lounge. The environment of the temporary lounge is also very good. The program team not only prepared a guitar for Xiao Yao, but also an extra gift.

After entering the temporary rest room, Xiao Yao picked up the guitar in the room and started playing. Shen Man pointed to a box on the table and said: "The program group gave the kicking singer a privilege, do you want to know?"

"Think about it, help me take a look." Xiao Yao smiled while plucking the strings.

"Okay." Shen Man opened the box, took out a card and said, "You can watch the rehearsal of the other six first-time singers live, once!"

"How is it? Do you want to see it?" Shen Man smiled and raised the card in his hand.

"Think about it." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, and continued, "I can watch their rehearsal, but can they watch mine?"

"Of course not, otherwise how can it be called a privilege!" Shen Man said, "Except for the host, other singers don't know who the singer is, if they can go to your rehearsal, they will know who the singer is Who is it? Although the host knows that the singer who kicked the hall is you, he must keep it a secret from other singers, so we can’t tell him. When they rehearse later, we will sit in the audience seats to watch. Because the stage The lights on the stage are very bright, but those under the stage are very dark, we can see them, but they cannot see us."

"That's it." Xiao Yao suddenly realized, "Then I won't go!"

"Ah?" Shen Man was dumbfounded again, and asked anxiously: "Why don't you go? It's a good opportunity to investigate the enemy's situation. Don't you wonder what songs they will sing?"

"I'm curious, and I want to watch it too. But I think I can watch their rehearsals, but they can't watch my rehearsals. It feels a bit unfair, and I think I may be psychologically affected after watching their rehearsals, maybe Nervous or something. I thank the program team for this privilege, but I'll just stay here and play guitar." Xiao Yao shrugged.

"Director, what should we do?" Shen Man got up and asked the director of the camera crew in the room. The part of picking up Xiao Yao at the hotel just now was relatively simple. Shen Man took the cameraman with him. Now there is a film crew in the room following the director. Shen Man can't make up his own mind, so he can only ask the director.

The director of the film crew can't make the decision either. According to the plan, Xiao Yao's peeking at other singers' rehearsals will be edited and played. If he doesn't go, a lot of playback material will be missing. But force him to go? The director of the film crew simply took out his phone and called Tao Ran, the chief director and producer, to ask him for instructions.

"Okay." The director of the film crew hung up the phone, and said to Shen Man helplessly, "Director Tao said, let him do as he pleases."

"Before the show starts recording, can I pretend to be a cameraman and go to the rest hall of the singers?" Xiao Yao put down his guitar and asked, "They will definitely guess who the singer is, and I want to hear what they will say, Would you guess it was me?"

"Ah?" Shen Man and the director of the film crew were dumbfounded again, "What the hell are you going to do?"

"Yes!" This time, the director of the film crew did not ask for instructions, but directly made a decision. The same is peeking, which can just replace Xiao Yao’s peeking at the clips of singers’ rehearsals, and the nature of eavesdropping on others talking about themselves behind their backs is different from peeking at rehearsals. When talking later, the expressions of other singers must be Better than knowing you've been peeped at your rehearsal.