Entertaining Children

After the soundtrack is settled, Xiao Yao's trip to the crew for the day is all over. Next, it was the recording of the electronic song and the shooting of the MV.

"Yiran, you don't have to go to the recording studio this afternoon. I have another task for you." After lunch the next day after visiting Zhou Jingyi's crew, Xiao Yao found Fang Yiran and said, "The night before yesterday, I posted on the Internet. I posted a video about recruiting MV actors. Some people should have sent emails to apply. I left my work email. Please help me to filter the emails first, and filter out those advertising emails, spam emails, and location distances that are not for recruitment. Los Angeles is too far away, and I will definitely not be able to arrive in Los Angeles tomorrow, and the emails of applicants with too special appearance are filtered out, and I will pick people after the recording in the afternoon."

"Understood." Fang still nodded, and then asked again: "How many new emails need to be screened?"

"I don't know," Xiao Yao shook his head, "The premise is that I haven't opened the email after sending the video at night, but I think with my appeal, after a day and two nights, there will be hundreds of emails anyway. Bar."

"Okay, I see. I'll go and see for myself." Fang still agreed.

After Xiao Yao explained, he went back to his room and tidied up briefly, and was about to go to the recording studio of "Daydream", but before he could go out, there was a knock on the door of his room.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yao opened the door and found Fang Yiran standing outside, holding a laptop in his hand.

"You just said how many new emails are there in the mailbox?" Fang still had a smile on his face, but stared at Xiao Yao unkindly.

"It's estimated that there are a hundred or so." Xiao Yao said, "What's the matter? You don't even have a hundred? It doesn't matter if you don't have one. I only need nineteen people, not even nineteen. None of them?" Nathan Donal had already replied that there were a total of eleven people in his parkour team who could participate in the shooting of his MV.

"Nineteen? It's more than three hundred times!" Fang still turned the laptop in his hand, turned the screen to Xiao Yao and said, "You can read it yourself! So many emails, you let me go through them all afternoon? I'm exhausted." It can't be over!"

"Damn it!" Xiao Yao looked at the computer screen and was also taken aback. It shows that the number of new emails is "6195"!

"Why are there so many?" Xiao Yao asked strangely, "I said that only thirty people are needed, and I also said that the requirements are around Los Angeles, people who can gather in Los Angeles tomorrow."

"I checked online," Fang Yiran said, "The video you posted the night before yesterday was posted on the PV with YRF's account, right? Some netizens revealed in the comments below the video that you are the Y in YRF. Is part of the founding team of Parkour.

Now it's all over the Internet, and almost everyone who does parkour is discussing it online! I read a few emails just now, and almost half of them are not for application, but emails to ask if you are Y in YRF. "

"Oh!" Xiao Yao suddenly said, "It's okay! You should ignore all those emails asking about this, just filter them out."

"That's no problem, but even if you don't count the identity confirmation emails, there should be 3,000 application emails left, and I have to spend time clicking through the identity confirmation emails. I can't finish it by myself. Ah," Fang Yiran said, "I still can't complete the task you gave me."

"Then you leave Minyi to help me screen emails with you." Xiao Yao said, "It doesn't matter if you can't finish the screening. I only need 19 actors, and you can help me choose dozens of actors who live near Los Angeles, The candidates with a decent figure and appearance are fine, and don’t read the emails that follow if you can’t read them all. By the way, try to choose candidates with different races, different skin colors, different hair colors, and different looks.”

"Okay!" Fang Yiran said, "Then what about the online discussion about you being the veteran of parkour? Would you like to express your opinion on social media and respond?"

"No need! Even if I want to disclose YRF's identity, it must be disclosed together with Shi Shi, Xu Fei, and the three of us." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "It's not a scandal, let the Internet talk about it, you are busy with emails Enough."

"That's it, I'm rushing to the recording studio to record." Finally, Xiao Yao picked up his backpack and left the room.

After arriving at the recording studio of "Daydream" with Xiao Siqi, Xiao Yao found that Keith Craig and Liv Paremo were already waiting for him in the studio.

"Do you mind if I come to supervise?" Keith Craig asked with a smile when he saw Xiao Yao coming.

"This is your place, of course I don't mind." Xiao Yao replied with a smile.

"Are you ready?" Xiao Yao asked Liv Paremer who was standing aside again, "Have you opened your voice yet?"

"I've opened my voice, and I'm ready." Liv Paremo agreed with a smile, covered her mouth with a palm, and approached Xiao Yao in a low voice, "Actually, I was in the recording studio yesterday. Keith has coached me during practice, and your dad has also told me some of your recording habits. I'm very confident in myself now."

"It seems that the two of you were not idle when you went to the set yesterday!" Xiao Yao turned his head to look at Keith Craig and his father, then turned around and smiled at Liv Paremo, "It's good to have confidence! Then let's start."

Xiao Yao sat in front of the console, while Liv Paremo walked briskly to the recording room, put on headphones and stood in front of the microphone.

"Okay, let's get started!" Xiao Yao put on the monitor earphones, called up the accompaniment saved in the device, said something to Liv Paremo through the communication microphone, stretched out his fingers to push up the volume of the accompaniment , and the play key was pressed.

Although it is the first time to collaborate with Xiao Yao on a new song, Liv Paremer has listened to his previous "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep" many times, and has a certain understanding of his electronic song style. She got the score of this song the afternoon before yesterday and started to get familiar with it. Yesterday, she practiced for a day listening to the accompaniment in the recording studio. Keith Craig has helped her point out and correct some obvious mistakes. Xiao Siqi's point It also made her not unfamiliar with Xiao Yao's cooperation when recording for the first time, so the whole recording process was very smooth.

"Great!" After listening to the finished recording with headphones on for the last time, Xiao Yao gave Liv Paremo a thumbs up through the glass window, indicating that the recording was over and she could come out. All that's left is some post-processing work.

Liv Paremo nodded with a smile, opened the door and left the recording room, but she didn't return to the control room immediately, but went to nowhere.

Xiao Yao didn't pay too much attention to this, and immediately started the overall post-production sound adjustment of the song.

Counting music albums and song albums, Xiao Yaoguang has already produced dozens of music works for himself, and his production experience at this time is far from what it was before. So not only was the recording process of this song relatively fast, but the post-production was also completed very quickly. In about two hours, Xiao Yao finished recording the official version of this song, which is much more efficient than when he recorded "faded" for Gong Chen.

"OK, it's done! Do you want to listen to it?" After Xiao Yao copied the finished product to a USB flash drive for backup, he turned around and asked the two senior producers in the control room with a smile.

"Okay!" Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi nodded together and were about to step forward. Although they listened to Liv Paremo with monitor headphones for a while while recording, the semi-finished product without post-processing is not the same as the finished product after all.

But before they started, the door of the control room was pushed open, and the three turned their heads to look at the door.

"Damn it!" When they saw the person who came in, both Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao were startled.

The person who came in was wearing a black hooded sweater, the hood was pulled up and covered his head, and his face was covered with a black elastic mask. Only the area around the eyes was exposed on the entire head.

The person who came in was petite and empty-handed, and his attire was very similar to his image in the MV. Xiao Yao quickly realized that this was not a case of robbery. Logically speaking, it is impossible for his netizens and fans to know that he was recording in the recording studio of "Daydream". Xiao Yao thought of a possibility through the other person's figure, and asked tentatively: "Liv? What about you?" What are you doing?"

"It's me!" The person who came pulled down the mask on his face and put down the hat on his head. It was indeed Liv Paremo who disappeared after leaving the recording studio. Obviously, after she left the recording room just now, she ran to the dressing room to change.

"Didn't you say that there will be an MV for this song?" Liv Paremo said with a smile, "I wonder if I can also participate in the MV performance. I remember you said that the MV of this song and " The MVs of the two songs "faded" and "SingMeToSleep" are related, and the styles are similar. I guess the costumes of the characters in that MV should also look like this. You see, I even prepared the costumes myself. This image is not bad Is it?" With that said, Liv Paremo deliberately turned around in front of Xiao Yao.

"Your idea?" Xiao Yao asked Keith Craig sideways. When Liv Paremer came in just now, only Keith Craig's expression was not surprised at all.

"Yes." Keith Craig nodded and admitted, "Of course, Liv herself also hopes to participate in the performance of this MV. I don't know if your thirty actors have been found, but I think , there are thirty actors, and it’s not just three, so adding one shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

"Of course no problem." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, then turned his gaze back to Liv Paremo and said, "I agree!"

Although Liv Paremo's height is a little shorter, her body proportions are still good, and her appearance is quite beautiful. Not everyone in the MV needs to show parkour movements, and not everyone is masked all the way, those are just the majority of them. In the video of recruiting actors, he emphasized the need for people who can parkour and most people will not show their faces. He just told everyone the most basic requirements, lowered everyone's expectations, and sometimes some people would not be dissatisfied because they couldn't show their faces.

After Xiao Yao agreed to Liv Paremo's participation in the MV, both Keith Craig and Liv Paremo seemed very happy. After Xiao Yao played the finished product to them, they also Feel very satisfied.

When Xiao Yao returned to the hotel, it was already evening, and the clothes Yin Xi had sent had arrived, and Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi had already helped him pick out a lot of options.

Xiao Yao first checked the clothes and masks sent by Yin Xi. Xiao Yao found that there were thirty-five sets in total, and Yin Xi sent five more sets as spares. Based on the principle of making the best use of everything, Xiao Yao also temporarily decided to limit the number of actors to be filmed. increased to thirty-six. Nathan Donal's team consisted of eleven people, plus Liv Paremo, who brought his own clothes, meant that Xiao Yao still had to pick another twenty-four people from Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi's candidates. , reply to the email to inform them of the time and place of the collection.

At around nine o'clock the next morning, Xiao Yao took Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi to the agreed meeting place.

Due to the large number of actors, Xiao Yao chose a meeting place in a public parking lot. Xiao Yao just appeared at the entrance of the parking lot, and Keith Craig, who arrived earlier with the filming team, immediately greeted him.

"Yang, tell me again, how many actors do you need for this MV shooting?" Keith Craig didn't say hello, and asked Xiao Yao with a strange expression when they met.

"Thirty, oh no, counting Liv and excluding me, there are thirty-six people in total." Xiao Yao said, "Yin Xi sent five more sets of clothes, plus Liv who brought her own clothes, I will There are six people added temporarily, is there any problem?"

"Of course there is a problem!" Keith Craig said, "The people inside are actors you recruited, right? Not to mention thirty-six, there are more than sixty-three, the bus we prepared simply can't fit it! "

"Ah?" Xiao Yao was also taken aback, "But there are only twenty-four in my email notification, plus the eleven people and Liv in a parkour team I played with before, there should be only three Sixteen! Could it be that some organization organizes activities and sets the meeting place here?"

"Other organization activities?" Keith Craig laughed, "Go in and see for yourself! The filming team I invited was shocked, and kept asking me what kind of big production I invited so many actor."

Xiao Yao stopped talking, and walked into the parking lot. After entering the parking lot, Xiao Yao found a large crowd of people inside, not to mention thirty-six and sixty-three, it is conservatively estimated that they are all over a hundred. And with just one glance, Xiao Yao knew that this was definitely not a collision with any other organization, because most of these people were wearing black hooded sweaters and black masks on their faces.

Seeing over a hundred people in black clothes and masks gathered here, Xiao Yao felt that it was already a miracle that passers-by did not call the police to call the police!

"Are those cars ours?" Xiao Yao turned his head and asked Keith Craig.

"Those!" Keith Craig pointed to several cars.

Xiao Yao picked the tallest bus, kicked his feet twice on the side door, jumped to the top of the bus, waved his arms and shouted loudly: "Hey, everyone, be quiet, listen to me!"

Even without using any amplification tools, as soon as Xiao Yao's three-chamber resonant drama came out, the voice was clearly transmitted in the parking lot, and everyone's attention was quickly attracted.

"Hi everyone, I'm Yang Xiao. I'm the person who sent a video to recruit MV actors." Seeing everyone quiet down and looking at him, Xiao Yao said loudly, "Is everyone here to apply for the MV shooting?"

"Wow, Jan!"

"It seems to be the guy in the video!"

"yes!"

Everyone yelled and answered.

"But I said in the video that 30 actors are needed, and there should only be more than 20 people who received my email reply!" Seeing everyone shouting "yes", Xiao Yao smiled wryly, "We are going to give the actors a ride." The car can't hold so many people, and I only prepared more than 30 sets of costumes!"

"It's okay, we can all perform for free!"

"You can add some more actors!"

"We prepared the clothes ourselves, so you don't need to prepare them!"

"We came here by our own car, we can drive with you, don't need your car!"

"Even if you don't need so many people, it doesn't matter, just pick as many as you want, and the rest will watch!"

Everyone continued to shout at one another.

It turned out that among the twenty-four people Xiao Yao replied to the email, many of them were members of the parkour team. After receiving the invitation email from Xiao Yao's reply, it is inevitable to show off in front of other unselected teammates or friends in the team. Since someone in the team received Xiao Yao's reply email and knew the time and place of the assembly, it is no secret that this time and place is in front of others.

The hearts of those who were not selected were unwilling, and many people planned to come to the scene to fight for it again. Considering that Xiao Yao said that he had prepared 30 sets of clothes, in order to prevent Xiao Yao from rejecting them with this excuse, they all prepared their own costumes according to the characters in "Faded". Even if they weren't selected in the end, they didn't plan to miss this opportunity to see someone who was suspected to be one of the veterans of YRF shoot the MV. Even if they were going to watch, they still wanted to join in the fun.

"Okay!" Xiao Yao said, "But now, first of all, those guys wearing masks, please take off all the masks on their faces. With so many of you gathered here like this, I'm afraid the police will be called in."