Entertaining Children

Even the invitation to perform at the New Year's Eve Gala of the four major local satellite TVs was rejected, and other commercial performance opportunities naturally did not arouse Xiao Yao's interest. Since there is no commercial performance, Xiao Yao does not need to prepare for the performance. After the live broadcast of the moving party, besides helping Tang Jingjing record another song as promised, Xiao Yao put all his energy into taking pictures and recording songs for the national women's basketball team.

Part of the reason why Xiao Yao took pictures of the men’s basketball team back then was to get a photography project to justify his identity as a photographer. Haruka only designed a set of styles and clothing for each male basketball player. Female athletes can choose much more clothing than male athletes when taking publicity photos. This time, the decision to help the women's basketball team take promotional photos was made earlier, with more time, and Xiao Yao did more preparatory work in the early stage.

The last time he took pictures for the men's basketball team was during the men's basketball team's training camp. Xiao Yao was not only restricted by the venue and personnel, but also by the time limit of the subjects to be photographed, so he took all the looks and costume designs of the fifteen players together. After the work is done, the work starts, and everyone gathers together to shoot. This time, Xiao Yao has no restrictions on taking pictures of the women's basketball team, so he separates the early modeling and costume design work. After designing one, he calls a team member to shoot. After completing the shooting of a women's basketball player Then proceed to the image design work of the next team member.

When it came time to enter the studio for shooting, Xiao Yao's work efficiency was very high. Back then, when Xiao Yao took pictures of the men’s basketball players, although it took five days, the total amount of time was only ten hours. The average of the promotional photos taken by the 15 men’s basketball players was less than an hour each. arrive.

Now that several years have passed, Xiao Yao's photography level and work efficiency have both increased. Although this time I don’t need to consider their training time as I did when I took pictures of the men’s basketball team this time. There is no time limit, and you can take pictures slowly. There is still some extra time for changing clothes and makeup, but Xiao Yao did not spend more than half a day in the studio when taking pictures of each female basketball player.

In terms of song recording, there are a total of nine women's basketball players who are confident in their voices and are willing to sing this song. These players are KTV middle-to-upper-level singers who can sing well, and they are naturally incomparable with professional singers. However, when Xiao Yao recorded this song for them, there was no need to follow the standards of professional singers. In addition, the singing of these people was combined to make a song. It is enough for each person to perform well in a certain part. So the whole recording process is not too long. Specific to every female basketball player who participated in the song singing, it also did not exceed half a day.

The shooting and recording took no more than half a day, that is, the shooting and recording of a female basketball player can be done in one day. Without being distracted, Xiao Yao spent a lot of time collecting the information of the players on the women's basketball training candidate list, understanding their experiences and personalities, and then doing styling and clothing design for them. There is a lot more ample, and in a more relaxed and leisurely state of mind, Xiao Yao basically notifies a female basketball player to come to Shanghai to take pictures every one to two days.

Before the new year, Xiao Yao completed the project.

This time, the women’s basketball team’s publicity photo project has more time than the men’s basketball team’s, and Xiao Yao finally took out more pictures than when he took pictures for the men’s basketball team. On average, each team member has 14 or 15 pictures. , almost twice that of the men's basketball players. After completing the post-production retouching of the photos, Xiao Yao gave these photos to the relevant person in charge of the propaganda department of the China Basketball Association and the team members themselves. Xiao Yao himself is satisfied with the photos that can be taken out. As for which ones to use and which ones to not, which basketball associations to put in the official website gallery for publicity, and which players to post on their own social media, Xiao Yao doesn't care.

In addition to the promotional photos, Xiao Yao also wrote a promotional song for the women's basketball players this time, and recorded a version sung by some of the women's basketball players themselves. The matter of the promotional photo was that Xiao Yao had promised Chen Nuo to take the photo for them for free during the training class of the Star Charity Exhibition Competition, and he could ignore it after the photo was delivered. This promotional song was written by Xiao Yao at the request of Chen Yang, not to mention that it wasn't free, and Xiao Yao couldn't make it and leave it alone.

Of course, after the song is produced, it will be released to the public. Xiao Yao used nine female basketball players as the original singers for this song. These female basketball players are not professional singers, but nine people. Naturally, it is impossible to ask Xiao Yao to buy the copyright of the song, and find a record company to release it for them. This song was written by Xiao Yao. His family's studio already had the resources of a record company and the ability to release songs, so the matter of song release naturally fell on Qi Jia's studio.

His own song is released by his own studio, and Xiao Yao naturally has a considerable say in it. Since it is a promotional song written for the women's basketball players to go to the Women's Basketball World Championships and sung by the women's basketball players themselves, of course it is more appropriate to release it online when the women's basketball players go to the Women's Basketball World Championships. So Xiao Yao put the finished song and the music video shot by the women's basketball players in the recording studio on hold for the time being, and planned to wait until next year when the women's basketball players went out to play.

Of course, Xiao Yao only decided on an approximate release time. Xiao Yao does not need to personally participate in the specific publicity and distribution work. At that time, some publicity activities that need to be coordinated by the Basketball Association and the women's basketball players will also be carried out by Qi Jia's studio's publicity department, the relevant personnel of the Basketball Association's publicity department, and the women's basketball players. It was decided through discussion with our brokers.

The Women's Basketball World Championships will not be held until March next year, so the promotional song for the women's basketball team will naturally not be released until the end of February and the beginning of March next year. The publicity department of Qijia Studio doesn't have to worry about the release of Xiao Yao's women's basketball promotional song for the time being, but at the busy time of the end of the year, they are still working overtime because of Xiao Yao.

Although Xiao Yao rejected the four big TV's New Year's Eve party performance invitation, not everyone is as indifferent to the four big TV's New Year's Eve party performance invitation as Xiao Yao. Among them, the people around Xiao Yao were also included.

In the webcast of the moving party in late November, Tang Jingjing became popular by revealing Xiao Yao's identity as a student and performing two songs live, which naturally attracted the attention of various satellite TV New Year's Eve party program groups. Since Xiao Yao can't be invited, it is a very good choice to invite people around Xiao Yao, especially the little girl Tang Jingjing who is young, very good at singing, has a special relationship with Xiao Yao, and is also very popular recently. In mid-December, Tang Jingjing also received an invitation to perform at the New Year's Eve party of the four major local TV stations.

Tang Jingjing's current agent is jointly served by her mother and a professional agent appointed by Qi Jia's studio. After receiving the invitation to perform at the New Year's Eve party of Four David TV, Tang Jingjing and Tang's mother immediately asked Xiao Yao for his opinion. When Xiao Yao accepted Tang Jingjing as a student, he said that he would not be responsible for Tang Jingjing's acting career. He never intervened in Tang Jingjing's management affairs, and naturally he would not ask Tang Jingjing to accept or reject the performance invitation. In the absence of Xiao Yao's objection, Mama Tang and the professional manager would naturally not let go of such a good opportunity to perform at the New Year's Eve party.

After the webcast, Xiao Yao helped Tang Jingjing write a song as promised, and has already recorded the official version of the song. Tang Jingjing is a contracted artist of Qi Jia Studio, and Qi Jia Studio is naturally responsible for the release of the single. Tang Jingjing's invitation to perform at the New Year's Eve party is inseparable from Xiao Yao. Since there was an opportunity to perform at the New Year's Eve party, the publicity department of Qijia Studio adopted Xiao Yao's model to release this single. The release date of the single originally scheduled for late December was postponed, and Tang Jingjing planned to sing the song at the New Year's Eve party for the premiere of the new song, and then officially release it on New Year's Day.

Mama Tang and Tang Jingjing's professional manager also agreed with the publicity plan of Qijia's studio. Although with Tang Jingjing's current status, she has not yet reached the point where she can decide to perform and sing whatever she wants in front of the four David TV's New Year's Eve party program groups, but with the signboard of "Xiao Yao", It can still be done. As long as Xiao Yao's new song is mentioned, and the Four David TV agrees that Tang Jingjing will sing the new song at the New Year's Eve party, there will be no problem.

Considering that the new song written by Xiao Yao to Tang Jingjing is still an English song, Tang's mother and her manager finally chose to accept the invitation of Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party. On the one hand, Tang Jingjing now lives in Shencheng, which saves her from traveling and traveling. On the other hand, among the four major TV stations, Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party had the largest audience for English songs.

After successfully inviting Tang Jingjing to perform at the New Year's Eve party, Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party program team took this opportunity to send another invitation to Xiao Yao. The wording of the invitation letter was different from the first one sent at the beginning of the month, emphasizing that Tang Jingjing had confirmed that she would participate in the New Year's Eve party performance. Although it didn't say it clearly, the meaning it wanted to express is also obvious, that is, your student came to our New Year's Eve party. As a teacher, you didn't think about coming together and bringing her along?

Xiao Yao didn't intend to attend the Shonan New Year's Eve party the year before last, but he went there for the "girls' band" in his studio. This is no secret among the Four David TV circles. Donghai Satellite TV also thought of this, so it issued a second invitation to Xiao Yao. But to their disappointment, Xiao Yao still refused the second invitation.

Not to mention that Xiao Yao was still busy with the photography and song recording of the women's basketball players at that time, even if Xiao Yao had free time, Tang Jingjing's situation was different from that of the "Women's Band" back then.

The "Women's Band" was proposed by Xiao Yao. The "Women's Band" took the initiative to seek performance opportunities from Shonan Satellite TV. This idea was also proposed by Xiao Yao. After the matter was blocked, Xiao Siqi threw it to Xiao without any burden. remote to solve. As for Tang Jingjing, Tang Jingjing's mother took the initiative to let Tang Jingjing be Xiao Yao's student. Donghai Satellite TV also took the initiative to invite Tang Jingjing after seeing Tang Jingjing's topicality, instead of saying that Xiao Yao, who was not responsible for Tang Jingjing's acting career, asked Tang Jingjing to go to Donghai Satellite TV strives for. Regardless of whether Xiao Yao goes or not, Tang Jingjing's chance to perform will never go away, so Xiao Yao naturally has no scruples.

However, although Xiao Yao did not agree to participate in Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party because of Tang Jingjing's relationship, he was his student after all, and Xiao Yao would not really ignore this little girl. On the day of Donghai Satellite TV's rehearsal, Xiao Yao still appeared at the rehearsal scene and watched Tang Jingjing's rehearsal with Tang's mother in the audience. On the day of the official rehearsal, Xiao Yao, as a member of Tang Jingjing's private team, came to the performance site of Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party with Tang Jingjing.

Although I have participated in the talent show TV show "New Voice of China" before, and I have also participated in public performances such as children's music festivals, but that one is a recorded program, and the other is an open-air music festival, not only the number of audience and performance requirements It's different, and none of them are live broadcasts like the New Year's Eve party. This is Tang Jingjing's first time participating in the New Year's Eve Gala performance of Satellite TV. Before the official performance on stage, Tang Jingjing was inevitably a little nervous. Just as Xiao Yao was soothing Tang Jingjing's emotions in the lounge, thinking whether to help Tang Jingjing do a live broadcast in the actor's lounge to divert her attention and relieve her tension like last time in Li Ai's dressing room, the door of Tang Jingjing's lounge was ringing.

Mama Tang, who was standing in the lounge, went to open the door and found an acquaintance standing outside the door.

"Hi, Miss Fan!" Mama Tang greeted her proactively.

"Hi, Mama Tang, just call me Linxuan. I'll come and see Jingjing!" Standing at the door was Fan Linxuan. At the beginning of the year, because Xiao Yao and Yin Xi recorded songs together for the brand launch event, she and Tang Jingjing still had Tang Jingjing's mother knew everyone.

"Sister Linxuan!" Seeing Fan Linxuan, Tang Jingjing ran over immediately, grabbed Fan Linxuan's hand, and shouted affectionately.

"Hi Jingjing." Fan Linxuan stroked Tang Jingjing's hair and said with a smile, "It's great to be able to perform alone at the New Year's Eve party at such a young age!"

When recording songs for the brand press conference at the beginning of the year, although Fan Linxuan and Tang Jingjing recorded separately, they were always in Yin Xi's studio. girl. After learning that Tang Jingjing was also the singer of Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party, she also specially ran over to visit the little girl before the party started.

"Thank you sister!" Tang Jingjing laughed.

"How is it? I'm going to perform on stage soon, are you nervous?" Fan Linxuan asked again with a smile.

"Nervous!" Tang Jingjing nodded, and the smile on her face disappeared.

"How can you ask this at this time? Even if you are not nervous, you will become nervous." Xiao Yao, who was sitting in the lounge, interjected with a smile.

"Xiao Yao! Are you here too?" Fan Linxuan asked slightly surprised. As soon as she entered the lounge, Tang Jingjing ran over. She kept her head down and talked to Tang Jingjing, but she didn't even have time to look up at Tang Jingjing's lounge. Hearing the sound at this time, he followed the sound, only to find that Xiao Yao was still sitting in the lounge.

"Why are you here?" Fan Linxuan asked strangely, "I heard from the program crew that you didn't agree to participate in Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party this year. Have you changed your mind?"

"No, I'm not tonight's guest performer." Xiao Yao pointed to Tang Jingjing with a smile and said, "Today I came as a member of Jingjing's private team, and I will only stay in the lounge and backstage, and will not appear on the stage superior."

"Private team member? Makeup artist or assistant?" Fan Linxuan laughed, "You used to be Xu Yuan and Gong Chen's servant, and now you're Jingjing's servant, when will I get this treatment?"