Entertaining Children

When Xiao Yao took promotional photos for the men's basketball team back then, each person had a suit of formal attire, and the finished film consisted of six or seven photos for each person, which couldn't even fill a nine-square grid. The promotional photos taken for the women’s basketball players this time consisted of two to three sets of different outfits for each person, and the final film was 14 or 15 photos per person, which is almost the same as the promotional photos taken for the male basketball players back then. twice the amount. Even if the three or four photos selected by the Basketball Association to be included in the official website gallery are removed, the rest of the photos cannot fit in a nine-square grid. The women's basketball players only posted two Weibo posts in a row before posting all those photos.

Huaxia basketball fans must pay more attention to men's basketball than women's basketball. In terms of popularity, the men's basketball players are definitely far superior to the women's basketball players, but in terms of appearance, despite the same long legs, the girls of the women's basketball team are more eye-catching than the boys of the men's basketball team. Generally speaking, whether it is taking publicity photos or attending formal occasions, women have more clothing styles to choose from than men. Therefore, fans and netizens feel that the difference in the number of clothing and photos in Xiao Yao's two publicity photos is quite normal.

Fans and netizens had no objections, but some of the men’s basketball players jumped out to publicly express their dissatisfaction. Women's basketball players are given special treatment, and the treatment difference between the two is too great.

The male basketball player not only talked about the difference in the number of clothing and photos between the male and female basketball players on Weibo, but also specifically mentioned that when Xiao Yao took the promotional photos for the male basketball team, the clothing was from domestic clothing brands. Or from the Huaxia branch of an international brand, but this time he helped the women's basketball team to take promotional photos, but Xiao Yao pushed the performance of the opening match of this season's Huaxia Basketball Professional League, and went to New York Fashion Week to help the women's basketball players. They choose clothes, some of the women's basketball players' clothes were newly unveiled at New York Fashion Week last year, and the latest styles have not yet been officially released.

After reading this Weibo revelation, everyone knew that Xiao Yao participated in New York Fashion Week last year with the purpose of choosing clothes for the women's basketball players. Reminiscent of the robbery and kidnapping case that Xiao Yao encountered at New York Fashion Week last year, and Xiao Yao’s rejection of the opportunity to perform in the opening game of the China Basketball Professional League, the fans’ affection for Xiao Yao has deepened. .

Xiao Yao's promotional photos for both men's and women's basketball players are free. Even if the two are treated differently, it is Xiao Yao's freedom. Logically speaking, no one should stand up and say something. However, after seeing that the men’s basketball player who posted complaints on Weibo was Guo Qi, everyone also understood that this seemingly complaining and complaining Weibo was not actually complaining and complaining, but Guo Qi’s change of direction. Remote call.

In the charity star basketball game last year, Xiao Yao passed an alley-oop dunk pass to Guo Qi, and Guo Qi also passed an alley-oop dunk pass to Xiao Yao. Even better. In addition, the two communicated a lot during the game, far surpassing the other players. Even the one-on-one match between Xiao Yao and Zhuo Zhiyuan seemed to be instigated by Guo Qi. Whether it is cooperation or interaction, these two are the most among the eighteen players in the entire game.

Such a performance will naturally arouse the interest of reporters. In the post-match interview, Guo Qi also talked a lot about his relationship and origin with Xiao Yao when asked about this aspect by reporters. Only then did everyone know that, in addition to the cooperation in shooting promotional photos of the men's basketball team a few years ago, Guo Qi also gave technical guidance to the TV series "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" for a day, and the guidance happened to be Xiao Yao's cameo playing basketball that scene. And the alley-oop dunk he passed to Xiao Yao during the game was also a "secret weapon" that the two of them practiced privately without telling their teammates, in order to help Xiao Yao shine in the game.

After these interviews were reported, Guo Qi and Xiao Yao are undoubtedly a good pair of friends in the eyes of everyone. It is precisely because of the good relationship that Guo Qi can complain and make fun of Xiao Yao so unscrupulously. And if you look deeper, Guo Qi is not really complaining about Xiao Yao, but is breaking the news in this way that Xiao Yao went to New York Fashion Week to help the women's basketball players choose clothes.

In fact, he was speaking for Xiao Yao.

Guo Qi's Weibo post complaining and complaining about Xiao Yao also deliberately tweeted about Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao himself didn't make any response. Instead, many fans and Xiao Yao's fans joined in the fun and ran to Guo Qi's Weibo to reply and comment.

"Xiao Yao is famous for "emphasizing sex over friends". I don't even know this, which means that you and Xiao Yao are just superficial brothers."

"Are you as good-looking as Chen Nuo Xuyue? I am Xiao Yao, and I must take more pictures of the women's basketball players!"

"What do you look like, don't you have any number in your heart?"

A lot of replies and comments ridiculing Guo Qi made many netizens very happy to see it, and it also made Guo Qi very helpless.

Guo Qi's Weibo is just an episode, everyone's attention, except Xiao Yao, the photographer and Guo Qi who jumped out to make troubles, is more focused on the protagonists of the promotional photos, the women's basketball girls.

The day the promotional photo was released, the topic of women's basketball going to the World Championships had already become a hot topic on the Internet. Many people got to know the women's basketball girls who were not familiar with them through those promotional photos, paid more attention to and understood them, and had a lot of expectations for their performance in the World Championships this year. Everyone expressed that they would pay attention to this year's Women's Basketball World Championships, cheer for the women's basketball girls, and hope that these beautiful girls can achieve good results in the World Championships.

But before seeing the performance of these girls in the World Championships, fans and netizens who followed these women's basketball girls first saw their other side. On the second day after the promotional photo was released, everyone saw another video of women's basketball girls singing.

In addition to the promotional photos, Xiao Yao also made a song for the women's basketball players and took a video. That song was for the women's basketball players to cheer for their participation in the Women's Basketball World Championships, so it was naturally to be released before the women's basketball players set off. The specific release of this song is in charge of Qi Jia Studio, but the specific release time is determined after communicating with the Basketball Association.

Considering that the promotional photos will attract the attention of the media and the public and become a news hotspot, everyone decided not to distract the public's attention from the promotional photos, so they put the video and song online on the second day after the promotional photos were released. The first day and the third day, in order to let the media and the public form continuous attention on the women's basketball team going to the Women's Basketball World Championships.

The official website of the Basketball Association has a dedicated video section, but no dedicated music section. So on the second day after the promotional photo was released, the video of the song was released simultaneously on the video section of the Basketball Association's official website, the video section of several major music websites, and several major video websites.

The promotional song that Xiao Yao wrote for the women's basketball girls was "The First Dream" sung by Fan Weiqi in her previous life. Compared with the four promotional theme songs written by Xiao Yao for the professional league, the rhythm of this song is not intense, and the actions and pictures of the women's basketball game are not as visually impactful as the men's basketball game. They didn’t edit the promotional video specifically for this song, but used Xiao Yao’s video that was edited and made with the scenes of women’s basketball players singing with headphones in the recording studio.

You have seen a lot of videos of singers singing with headphones in the recording studio, and you have occasionally seen videos of individual athletes participating in the recording of public welfare songs, but all nine of them are members of the women's national team recording songs in the recording studio It's the first time you've seen the music video.

Although the images of this video are all the scenes of the players recording songs with headphones in the recording studio, it can be viewed alone, and this video is quite watchable.

In addition to Chen Nuo and Xu Yue, the two women's basketball players who are recognized as the most handsome, you have also seen a lot of other players' looks in normal games or interviews, and everyone knows how good-looking they are. But in this video, it is clearly an ordinary picture of wearing headphones and singing in the recording studio, without the lighting of the studio, and the makeup on the face is like the ordinary light makeup of girls when they go out, without any exaggeration , but combined with the facial expressions when singing, each team member looks very beautiful.

The ability to make players with different appearances also present a beautiful effect is not only due to the skills of the makeup artist, but also the credit of the cameraman. The scene in the video is in the same recording studio, and each team member stands in the same position when recording the song. The only difference is the angle selected when shooting, some are profile, some are half profile, and some are full face. The so-called 360-degree beauties without dead angles are very rare. Correspondingly, even girls with average looks will always look particularly beautiful from one angle. And in this video, the angle at which each team member sings is precisely the angle that looks the most beautiful.

In addition to the very good choice of shooting angle, the editing of this video is also very interesting. These nine players sing a song, both solo and chorus. In the solo part, the video is naturally the picture of the singing player, while in the chorus part, the video is split-screen to show the players who contributed to the chorus together. In the chorus part, the chorus members are changed frequently, and there are two or three less, and five or six more. However, the clip switching in the video is not only smooth, but also very accurate. In any place, no one person has any lip-synch at all.

In the performance of the last song, the nine female players also gave the audience a big surprise.

Athletes are not singers, and everyone will not be as strict with them as they are for singers. Basically, as long as they sound good and have the singing skills of ordinary KTV mic masters, everyone will be amazed. There are many athletes who can sing well in the sports circle, such as Niu Ben, a sprinter in China, Xu Tao, a swimmer, and Zhou Jifeng, a diver, are all recognized by sports fans as good singers. After watching this video, everyone felt that none of the nine female basketball players sang worse than the above three.

"Although I haven't heard those women's basketball players sing before, there are so many good singers in a women's basketball team? It's unscientific!" Many viewers also had such a question in their hearts.

At the end of the video, the question in everyone's mind was answered. Although this video is not an official MV, it also has subtitles. At the beginning of the video, the title of the song is displayed in the middle of the screen, but there is no information about the songwriter. During the playback, when each female basketball player appeared on the screen for the first time, the name of the player was displayed vertically next to it, and the lyrics sung by the players were simultaneously played below. After the song was sung and the video came to an end, the staff list of the video was released in the form of a black screen. The songwriter, director, cameraman, and editor all have the same name, Xiao Yao!

This time, everyone will understand. It turns out that this music video was created by Xiao Yao. Not only did he take care of the lyrics and songwriting of the song, but he also completed the filming and editing of this video by himself.

Why do the female players in the video look so beautiful, because Xiao Yao is the photographer. After taking so many promotional photos for the players, can he know which player looks the most beautiful from which angle? Why does it feel like all nine of them can sing so well? Because Xiao Yao is a professional music producer! In "Singer", who can help Liang Xueying prepare for the show, guide her singing, and be invited by "The Voice" to be a mentor, and guide several non-professional women's basketball players, it is naturally a matter of course.

Although there were no intense game scenes, once the music video created by Xiao Yao was released, it quickly spread all over the Internet. Xiao Yao also continued to become a hot topic among netizens before the Women's Basketball World Championships.

Many athletes perform and sing in public, but without exception, they are all covers. In this world, there are musicians who write songs based on the deeds and spirit of athletes, but no musician has ever written songs specifically for athletes who are not professional singers. This "First Dream" debuted in this music video of the women's basketball players. It is a new song that has not been sung by any singer before. Does that also mean that these nine women's basketball players are this song? The original singer of the song, is this a song that belongs to them?

Of course, this is just a music video after all, the official version of the song has not yet been released, and it is also possible that the original singer of this song is someone else, but it has not been officially released. The topic of the women's basketball team going to the World Championships is a warm-up for this song, and the official version of the original song will be released after the song has gained popularity. However, will Xiao Yao's work need to use women's basketball players to gain popularity?

A day later, the official version of the song was launched simultaneously on several major music websites. Although they were all in the free area, the names of the nine women's basketball players were indeed written in the column of singers. After everyone clicked to listen, they found that it was indeed the version sung by the nine female basketball players in the video. Now that the official version has been released, the fact that the nine women's basketball players are the original singers of the song is confirmed.

This song sounds not too difficult, and there should be quite a few singers who can sing it. Not to mention Liang Xueying and other big-name singers who have collaborated with Xiao Yao, Fan Linxuan from Qijia Studio is very suitable for the style of this pop song, and her singing skills are obviously more suitable than the nine non-professional women's basketball players, but Xiao Yao Yao did not give this song to any professional singer, but to nine women's basketball players who were not professional singers.

In the current situation where good works are hard to come by, and the media once exposed that many big-name singers were unable to find Xiao Yao to invite them to sing, Xiao Yao's behavior once again shocked the attention of the whole world.

Then, Guo Qi complained and complained about Xiao Yao's Weibo, and there were countless replies. Netizens said in their replies, what is one or two more clothes and a few photos? Girls have more clothes than boys, and it’s normal to have more photos. Writing songs, recording songs and shooting videos for the women’s basketball players is the real special treatment. They all encouraged Guo Qi to go to Xiao Yao to invite a song, to see if Xiao Yao would also write a song for him or the men's basketball players.