Entertaining Children

Paul and TJ couldn't figure out what Zhou Jingyi was thinking, but what they could tell was that Zhou Jingyi had really been very serious in helping Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting rehearse that sweet pas de deux for the past two days, and even helped them Some movements designed by Xiao Yao have been modified and perfected to make the effect of this dance better.

Two days later, the group arrived at the filming location that Paul and the others had found in advance, and the filming of the MV for this song also started smoothly.

This is a room that looks like a performance hall in a European-style palace. The surrounding walls are decorated with very delicate patterns, simple and elegant wall lamps, and there are many protruding semicircular balconies on the two opposite walls. Below the terrace, there are curtains with strings of small light bulbs. When the yellow bulbs are lit, the dots of light on each pair of curtains spell out a pattern of a boy and a girl doing intimate actions together. There are many murals on the ceiling with a group of huge ornate European-style chandeliers.

The entire floor of the performance hall is covered with blue carpets with elegant patterns. On the central carpet, a square with a side length of about six meters is spelled out with a wooden floor. This smooth and flat square wooden floor is also the stage for two people to dance. And around the wooden stage, there are some classical European wooden sofa chairs and small tables scattered here and there. On the small table, there is also an antique small European-style table lamp.

When Xiao Yao and others arrived, the preparations for the scene were almost done. In addition to the obvious extra square wooden floor, a fixed spotlight is installed on the top of each terrace, which casts two rows of oval light spots on the two sides of the wooden floor. On the walls of two adjacent corners, two movable follow spot lights are installed. There are a total of three cameras on the scene, one of which is carried by the cameraman on his shoulders and hand-held to shoot, and the other is set up on a sliding rail trolley on the side of the wooden stage. The sliding rails laid on the ground are curved, which can basically guarantee The camera on the trolley can adjust the shooting direction by about 150 degrees, and the third camera is installed on a rocker arm erected on site to ensure the shooting angle from top to bottom. As for the audio equipment, that is of course also essential.

All the staff of the shooting team have also arrived. It just seems that the configuration of this team does not seem to be neat. It is understandable that there is no sound engineer in charge of on-site sound recording for the MV, but there are only camera operators, prop artists, lighting engineers, field reporters, and technicians who operate the rocker and slide rail trolley. There are no costumers, no makeup artists, and the most important thing is , not even a director.

Naturally, Xiao Yao's assistant and personal makeup artist, Pei Minyi, came to make a guest appearance as the make-up artist, and Xiao Yao, who was the lead actor, came to do the work of costumer and director. Yes, Xiao Yao's mv is written, directed and acted by himself. He has experience as a sound engineer in filming short films, and now he is very familiar with doing this.

After entering the shooting site, Xiao Yao gathered the cameraman, lighting engineer, and technicians who operated the rocker arm and the trolley, and explained his shooting plan to them. The three cameras are shooting at the same time, when should each camera shoot at what angle, when to zoom in and when to zoom out. How does the lighting engineer adjust the brightness of the on-site lighting?

When to turn on the wall lamp and how to turn on the follow spot light, Xiao Yao will explain to these people in detail one by one.

After the shooting plan was clearly explained, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting went to change clothes and make up next.

Xiao Yao is dressed in a white shirt, black vest, and black trousers, but the sleeves of the shirt are rolled up to the forearm. It is basically the same as Boss Huang's appearance in the original MV in the previous life. Tie, but this outfit is exactly the same as the last time when the singer performed the song with a shovel guitar on the singer's stage. Sun Tingting's costumes are a little more conservative than those of the female dancers in the original mv in her previous life, but they still look soft and elegant. The slanted one-shoulder long dress made of light blue yarn does not highlight Sun Tingting's chest curve, but the light, soft and slightly transparent fabric of the lower body and the diagonal cut of the skirt can also highlight Sun Tingting's beautiful leg lines during the dance.

The shooting started, and the official version of the song that Xiao Yao had recorded began to play on the speakers at the scene. Compared with Xiao Yao's previous live version of music, although this version of music is still mainly based on the soundtrack of electric guitars and drums, it greatly increases the proportion of piano sounds, making the whole song less folk-like. There is an extra taste of classicism and elegance, which is more suitable for this environment and the whole dance. billionaire

The lights at the scene dimmed, and the lights of the two follow-up lights slashed onto the wooden stage, forming two bright cone-shaped beams of light. Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting walked towards each other slowly from the darkness on both sides of the stage with elegant modern dance steps. When their figures entered the beam of light, the follow spot lights also began to swing with their figures. As the two slowly approached each other, the oval light spots cast by the two spotlights on the stage also slowly overlapped together, but the light spots did not completely overlap, but spelled out on the stage. A pattern of hearts.

At the beginning of the dance, Xiao Yao made a relatively large modification. The two did not have physical contact at the beginning like the original dance, but borrowed from the scene of Dameng and Elena dancing in the previous life of The Vampire Diaries, and danced During a short section of the mesonzas in the square dance, the two held out one palm to each other, but they did not touch each other. It was just the affectionate eyes they looked at each other during the process of stepping and spinning, which already made the spectators watching the monitor feel It's too sweet.

This dance is still a modern dance as a whole, not a ballroom dance, so Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting did not turn their right hand, left hand, and then their hands facing each other but not touching, like in the previous American TV series Dameng and Elena. One and a half circles, just stretched out her right hand and turned around, Sun Tingting put down her arms and turned around to make a movement to leave. Xiao Yao grabbed Sun Tingting's hanging wrist, pulled it inward, and Sun Tingting stood on tiptoe in a modern dance With a spinning motion, he threw himself into Xiao Yao's arms.

After raising her head from Xiao Yao's arms, Sun Tingting took the initiative to raise Xiao Yao's hand, put her right palm into Xiao Yao's palm, gently picked Xiao Yao's chin with her left hand, showing shyness on her face, Xiao Yao, who lowered his head in embarrassment, turned his head up, and the eyes of the two met again.

"Ha..." Looking at Xiao Yao's shy look in the close-up shot of the monitor, several bystanders couldn't help but chuckled softly. Xiao Yao like this seems to have never been seen by anyone. Fortunately, the filming of this mv does not require on-site radio, and the laughter of the few people is not loud. As long as the performance and dance emotions of the two actors on the stage are not disturbed, there is no problem.

The following dance moves are almost the same as those in the original mv in the previous life. Paul, Fang Yiran, Mei Fang and other groups of people watching have seen it many times during the two days of rehearsal, but in such a In the scene, with the effects of lighting and music, everyone felt that this was a sweet dance.

In the whole dance, in addition to the lingering movements of the two people getting tired of being together, there are also many difficult professional movements. However, the more difficult movements are basically performed by the female dancer Sun Tingting. The difficulty of Xiao Yao's movements is only reflected in the strength, accuracy and cooperation with Sun Tingting required in those lifting movements. So it was the female dancer Sun Tingting, not Xiao Yao, who was more brilliant in the whole dance.

But when both of them were on the floor, Sun Tingting's feet passed under Xiao Yao's armpit, Xiao Yao grabbed Sun Tingting's left ankle with his left hand, and pulled it into his arms so that Sun Tingting's left leg stretched diagonally upwards. At the same time, the right hand is held empty on the outside of Sun Tingting's bent right thigh to make a plucking movement. When Sun Tingting's legs are used to simulate the fun action of playing the guitar, the focus of the audience will inevitably be on Xiao Yao. There was also a smile of "I have convinced you" on the face. In the design of the dance movements, I have to add the appearance of myself playing the guitar. This kind of choreography will make others dissatisfied.

At the end, when the two lay down on the floor side by side with their fingers clasped together, and then Sun Tingting lay sideways on Xiao Yao's chest, two follow-spot lights could be seen in the overhead shot of the camera on the rocker arm. He moved a bit, and once again spelled out a heart-shaped light spot pattern on the floor, and placed the two people lying in the center of the heart-shaped light spot. The people watching from the side had the urge to turn off all the other lights and turn away, leaving the two of them alone to linger.

After the dance was over, Xiao Yao lay down on the floor for a while, not only to take a short breath and rest, but also to take some time to get himself out of the emotion of this dance, and then stood up, stood in front of the monitor and watched Replays of footage captured by several cameras. Traveling through the Kangxi period

This mv with dance as its content is basically a long shot, and the occasional camera cuts are just switching between the lenses of several cameras on different camera positions because of the angle relationship, so when shooting, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting were The whole dance was finished in one breath, and all three cameras were arranged to shoot all in one shot from beginning to end with a long shot of nearly five minutes in length. After a dance is completed, watch the replay to judge the shooting effect.

Whether it is filming, TV or MV, there are very few shots that can be shot at once, let alone long shots that are close to five minutes in length, so when watching the playback, Xiao Yao inevitably found some problems . Some are due to the movement flaws of the dance between the two of them, some are due to the lighting control of the lighting engineer and the coordination of the dance, and some are due to the cameraman's shooting angle and lens movement. Xiao Yao pointed out and recorded all these problems, discussed with the cameraman and lighting engineer, and discussed the improvement method, and then prepared to start the second shooting and recording.

The dance was nearly five minutes in length from beginning to end, and it took Xiao Yao almost a quarter of an hour to watch all the footage from the three cameras, plus the time for discussion, which added up to almost half an hour. Sun Tingting has been sitting on the wooden sofa next to her and resting during this time. Although Xiao Yao seems to be busy watching the replay and discussing shooting methods, he is also resting physically, and both of them have good physical strength, so It's not a problem to start jumping the second time right away.

Although the cameramen, lighting engineers and other staff hired by tj and Paul for Xiao Yao are not very well-known, their skills and experience are still very strong, and they are considered top-notch in the industry in the United States, but Xiao Yao himself The requirements for the MV shooting materials are also very high, and the difficulty of shooting a five-minute long shot is indeed a bit high, so for the dance material of this MV, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting danced repeatedly ten times, and a group of people also filmed for a whole day. It can be regarded as barely meeting the quality requirements expected by Xiao Yao.

The reason why it is barely achieved is because even if the tenth time is taken, the pictures taken by the three cameras are not flawless and perfect from beginning to end, but Xiao Yao has not deleted the material of the previous nine times. Ten pieces of dance scene material, Xiao Yao, who has a strong memory, is confident that he can re-cut and splice these ten pieces of material through post-editing to create a complete dance picture that is perfect from beginning to end. For Xiao Yao of the MV, that is enough.

Xiao Yao still intends to finish the post-editing and soundtrack of the MV by himself, but this is definitely not done on the spot, but to organize and package the material, and then slowly make it after taking it back to China.

However, after the filming of the mv's dance was completed, Xiao Yao did not announce the end of work, but asked Sun Tingting to change her clothes and continue filming.

Sun Tingting, who reappeared in front of everyone, not only put on an elegant and solemn red dress-style dress, her hair and makeup have obviously been re-made, without the lightness of dancing, she looks very demure and dignified.

"Here!" When Sun Tingting went to the dressing room to change her clothes and look, Xiao Yao ran outside to the car and brought her violin case. At this time, it was the violin that Xiao Yao handed over to welcome Sun Tingting.

"What are you doing again?" Mei Fang looked at Sun Tingting, who had put the violin on her shoulders, and asked Xiao Yao, who retreated behind the cameraman.

"I'm planning to record a video for the next singer competition. I don't plan to take Duo'er back to China, but I plan to replace it with a video of her playing the violin." Xiao Yao explained to Mei Fang.

"What?" Mei Fang was surprised, "Xiao Yao, you came to the United States, and you worked on the MV for several days, and the next performance was dismissed with a video? You are actually because of that MV, because of the sweet dance just now Did you just come to America?" (.)