Chapter 1083 Art Director

The official version of the song of the   girl group has been recorded, and it will naturally be released.

Xiao Yao is a wonderful work in the music world. Although Xiao Yao is not the only one who throws new songs out on various shows or other public occasions, most of the songs have the live version first and then the official version. There is only Xiao Yao.

  Although Haiyan Entertainment and the cooperating agency planned to let the 101 girl group perform Korean songs at the Korean star concert, they did not intend to let them learn from Xiao Yao and use the concert as the first stage of the new song. Haiyan Entertainment wants the 101 girl group to fight for the company's face at the concert, and it has very high requirements for the on-site effect. It's self-evident whether a new hit song or a brand new song that hasn't been released will achieve better results at the concert. After all, the 101 women's team is not Xiao Yao.

  Haiyan intends to release this new Korean song created by Xiao Yao for the girl group on the Internet before the concert begins, so the publicity aspect is naturally also essential.

  But the publicity aspect has nothing to do with Xiao Yao.

   Xiao Yao has never been interested in music promotion activities. After the release of my own album, I don't run any promotion, let alone write a new song for others. What I promised on the performance stage last year was to write song and choreography, and what I negotiated with Haiyan was also to write song and choreography, not including cooperating with Haiyan to help the women's group in publicity.

  Haiyan also understands Xiao Yao’s character and acting style, and knows that it is impossible for Xiao Yao to show up and run various publicity activities with members of the women’s team, so she started Xiao Yao’s idea behind the scenes.

  MV is a means of propaganda that cooperates with the release of the song. Xiao Yao wrote and directed and acted and filmed MV for his own songs, and the level and popularity of the MV are quite good, and he has achieved remarkable results in shooting MV. Although two consecutive films directed by Xiao Yao have achieved good results in the box office in the past two years, Xiao Yao already has the title of film director, but in terms of Xiao Yao’s personality, it seems that it’s not that way. Those who don’t make MVs by film directors.

  Let Xiao Yao be the director. Haiyan is sincere on her side. After the official version of the song was recorded, Haiyan officially issued an invitation to Xiao Yao to direct the MV shooting of the song, and the conditions were quite generous. He decides how and what to shoot. The screenwriter can do it himself or ask someone to write it. Haiyan pays the bill, he has a high degree of freedom and power, and he has sufficient human and material resources. Unfortunately, Xiao Yao did not agree.

  It's not that Xiao Yao couldn't take advantage of the work of making MV after filming. After learning about Haiyan's conditions, Xiao Yao was still moved. But when he talked about shooting the MV for this song, Xiao Yao remembered the original MV of the song in his previous life.

  The original MV Xiao Yao of this song has been seen. To be honest, at first glance, it feels pretty good, but after watching more, Xiao Yao thinks that the MV is just like that. The plot story of a few beauties stealing diamonds does not fit well with the song itself, and the effect after shooting is relatively average. Xiao Yao is more impressed by a few lenses that climbed the ventilation ducts, flicked whips, and passed infrared rays. In addition to appearance and figure, there is really nothing to watch.

  More importantly, the original song singing group is a group of seven. It’s enough to have seven main female characters and one male character in a few-minute MV. Now it’s more difficult to assign shots to a few-minute MV with eleven female characters. A gang of eleven people going to steal diamonds? Unless it is made into a movie like the "Eleven Arhats" in the previous life, or the MV in the MV can beat the male bodyguards, it is better to tie the male protagonist directly!

To rewrite the script, it is not impossible to shoot a completely different MV, but there are still many new songs that Xiao Yao has released in the past two years that have not made MVs. How can you be interested in writing a MV script for this idol girl group? ?

  Live performances with headsets and singing and dancing. Few people are really full of microphones. Most of them are half of them. This is especially true for idol groups. When the official version of the song was recorded, the girls' main task was to practice dancing.

  In terms of music, Xiao Yao is a very good creator and a very good vocal teacher. In terms of dancing, Xiao Yao is a good choreographer, but not a particularly good dance teacher. When the main practice task of the women's group was placed on dance, Xiao Yao's task became much easier. After determining all the dance moves and the positions during the performance, Xiao Yao seemed to have transformed from an instructor to an error corrector, telling them where they didn’t jump right, but seldom told them how to dance better. . And if it's just for error correction, it seems that girls can do it by looking in the mirror while practicing.

  At this time, Xiao Yao suddenly realized that the one-month practice time he had planned before seemed a bit too long. In the third week, the fourth full practice class, Xiao Yao brought Pei Minyi and watched the complete performance of the women's group together. After Pei Minyi was asked to design the shape and costumes of the stage for them, Xiao Yao ended early. Guidance on singing and dancing practice for women's groups.

  After finishing the women's team in advance, Xiao Yao focused his work on the preparation of the film project.

  Xiao Yao first went to the casting studio that was commissioned to help him cast, and looked at the list of cast candidates prepared by the casting studio for him. There are about ten main characters in this movie. In addition to the three that Xiao Yao has set, there are seven more important roles.

  For these seven roles, the casting studio has had contact with many actors and has some alternatives. Looking at the information of the candidate actors, I found that most of them are actors with rich performance experience but not very well-known. Among them, there are many drama actors. Xiao Yao is quite satisfied.

  However, because Xiao Yao told the casting studio before that there was a month for the early casting, so the casting studio confessed to these actors that the audition time was at least one week later. Xiao Yao is not in a hurry. In addition, some actors have problems with their current schedules, so Xiao Yao, who is free early, has no plans to audition in advance. He came over this time, that is, to look at the shortlist prepared by the casting studio. After seeing it, he felt quite satisfied, and Xiao Yao left.

  The actor in front of the scene has a casting studio to help him carry out the preliminary screening, and most of the crew behind the scenes are found by Xiao Yao himself. Of course, people like scene, drama, lighting, and props are all commissioned by experienced producers in the company to help him find them, but Xiao Yao still has to check the heads of some major technical departments.

  Since the women’s group's affairs were ended ahead of schedule, the casting of the actors went smoothly, and Xiao Yao began to look for the crew behind the scenes.

  The first candidate Xiao Yao was looking for was an art director.

  The art department is a very important department in the composition of modern movies, and it is also a large department second only to the director department. It not only has to do the most fundamental art design for the color perception and scenes of the movie, but also includes three sub-divisions of the service department.

  When shooting MVs and short films before, Xiao Yao didn’t ask for a special art director, he did it all by himself. There is no animation film "Wali" either, because all things about art design, Xiao Yao is basically based on the original version of the previous life. The parkour movie has hired art directors, but Mu Ying looked for it in the United States, and the art design was completed by three people together. This time he was shooting his own live-action movie in China, so Xiao Yao could only find it by himself.

  Speaking of art director, Xiao Yao found that Lin Qisan has great potential in this respect. Before making parkour movies in the United States, Lin Qisan did a lot of things in this regard. However, on the one hand, Lin Qisan is not a student of fine arts, and his experience in this area is still lacking. On the other hand, he is also busy with the TV drama crew of a student of Shen Opera. He said that regardless of Xiao Yao’s movie, he must not help this time. I'm busy.

Although Huaxia does not have the strict and detailed trade unions of Hollywood, there are also various associations or societies in the film and television industry. Although Xiao Yao doesn't have many works and he knows not many people behind the scenes of the film and television industry, since he is in this circle, he will not find someone to find him.

  According to the genre of the movie and the desired effect, Xiao Yao quickly screened out the art director candidates who met the requirements in his mind, and then contacted them one by one.

  Among these people, Xiao Yao’s favorite object is a big art director named Lin Jingliang. Lin Jingliang is a native of Hong Kong Island, in his forties. He has worked with many big-name directors. He has won many awards in film art design and costume design. At present, he has also transformed into a director, but he has only filmed movies for the time being. Short films, no feature films yet.

  Don’t look at Xiao Yao’s two films that have hit the box office, but as a director, he is just a complete newcomer. Generally speaking, art directors of Lin Jingliang's level do not look down upon new directors like Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao only contacted the other party after seeing that the other party's schedule was free, with the mentality of giving it a try. Unexpectedly, after receiving Xiao Yao's invitation, Xiao Yao didn't directly refuse, but asked to read the script first.

  Although he was not directly rejected by the other party, Xiao Yao did not hold out much hope. Because from the experience of the original film in the previous life, this film has not won any awards in terms of technology at all. It seems that he has not even received a nomination. Xiao Yao does not think that the script alone can impress this big art artist. guide. But this time Xiao Yao didn't plan to play any tricks to fool others. The other party wanted to read the script, so Xiao Yao happily sent the script.

  On the second day after the script was posted, Xiao Yao received a call back from the other party, saying that he was interested in the movie and wanted to meet and talk in detail.

  Of course, Xiao Yao was overjoyed with such a reply. After learning that the other party had been at home on Hong Kong Island recently, Xiao Yao didn't let the other party work hard. He pretended that he hadn't been to Hong Kong Island, so he flew to Hong Kong Island to meet Lin Jingliang the next day. Of course, Xiao Yao has never been to Hong Kong Island, but he has never publicly visited as a star because of his work, so this reason at least makes sense on the face of it.

  It is true that Xiao Yao rarely goes to Hong Kong Island. The number of times he went to Hong Kong Island was less than one-third of the number of times he went to the United States. The last time he was in junior high school, he took advantage of the holiday to come to Hong Kong Island with Chen Xuan to take pictures of a fashion brand. After so many years, Hong Kong Island has naturally undergone great changes, but Xiao Yao has no intention of exploring the changes that have taken place in this city over the years.

  Arrived on Hong Kong Island and went to the hotel to put down his luggage. Xiao Yao contacted Lin Jingliang. After learning that the other party was at home, he went directly to Lin Jingliang’s residence to visit.

  Lin Jingliang has won an international art design award and belongs to an internationally renowned art design master. His residence on Hong Kong Island is located in the very famous Mid-levels villa area. Xiao Yao also took this opportunity to see for the first time the mid-levels villa area on Hong Kong Island, which he had heard of countless times in Hong Kong dramas in his previous life.

  Although China's mainland is developing rapidly, many Hong Kong Island film and television producers have gone northward to develop in the mainland, but as far as the rich are concerned, the top rich on Hong Kong Island are still very good. All the way up the mountain, Xiao Yao saw almost all top luxury cars on the road.

  Since I haven’t been here for many years, I am not familiar with the routes on Hong Kong Island. In addition, I am a little uncomfortable with the right-hand drive on Hong Kong Island, so Xiao Yao did not rent a car this time, but asked the hotel to call a taxi for him. Sitting in a taxi, watching the roads are full of luxury cars back and forth, Xiao Yao unconsciously remembered the scene of taking a taxi to Keith Craig's house in Beverly Hills when he was an exchange student in the United States.

   "My buddy is rich now, should I also come to Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island to buy a villa to play?" Looking up at the villas on the mountain through the taxi glass, Xiao Yao couldn't help but feel his chin.

"Forget it. Now filmmakers on Hong Kong Island are going north, and there should not be many opportunities to come to work on Hong Kong Island in the future. If you really want to invest in real estate, it is better to ask Keith to help buy a house in Beverly Hills, like that. Wouldn't it be better to go out?" But when he started to think about it, Xiao Yao dismissed it himself.

   "Sir, here you are! Is it a nun?" The taxi stopped, and the driver asked back, interrupting Xiao Yao's thoughts.

"Yeah!" Xiao Yao turned his head and glanced at the nameplate on the doorpost, nodded to the driver, and took out the fare, "Oh, please wait! If my friend is not in the house, please take me back. head!"

  It’s not easy to call a taxi on this half of the mountain, and it’s definitely impossible to stop a taxi. In case Lin Jingliang goes out for something, Xiao Yao doesn’t want to stand here and wait!

   "Yes! No problem!" The driver took the banknotes and nodded with a smile.

Xiao Yao got out of the car and rang the doorbell. Soon Lin Jingliang's voice came from the intercom at the door: "Mr. Xiao is here, I will come out immediately." As Lin Jingliang's voice fell, the big iron gate rang. Then slowly slid away to both sides.

  This is where someone is at home. Xiao Yao turned around to greet the taxi driver and let him leave.

   When Xiao Yao turned around again, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties who had quickly walked out of the main hall to welcome him. The body is slightly fat, with a pair of rimless metal glasses on his face, and the whole person looks polite, it is Lin Jingliang.

  "Hello, Mr. Xiao, welcome!" Lin Jingliang reached out and greeted Xiao Yao.

  He worked with directors in the Mainland almost 20 years ago. Although the Mandarin spoken with a certain Hong Kong accent, it is relatively standard and sounds very comfortable.

  (End of this chapter)