Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1226 News that is not good news

  The friends all have their own affairs to be busy, so Xiao Yao naturally put all his energy on the TV drama project.

  Almost another week later, the audition was over, and the actors for the main roles in the show were all confirmed.

   Normally, it is relatively early for a film and television project to determine the actors. Because an actor usually takes a while to prepare after receiving a role. Some actors will even experience life for the role. Many crews start selecting actors in the early stages of preparation.

  But this situation is not absolute. Different productions, different directors, and different crews have different operations and styles. Sometimes in the same play, the time when actors of different roles are determined may vary a lot.

  For example, if a certain actor has a temporary problem, and another actor is found to save the scene, it is impossible to give the actor a lot of time to prepare and let the whole crew wait.

  There is another possibility that a certain role has not been able to find a suitable actor, but the preparations of the crew are almost ready. After finding a suitable actor, in order not to delay the start-up time, there may be no preparation time.

When Xiao Yao starred in a TV series for the first time, he was decided on-site by the director and producer after the audition, and then he joined the filming in less than a week, because the crew had not been able to find a suitable actor, and it was delayed until that time, and the start-up time was not. Due to good changes. Although it was not a temporary rescue, it was similar in nature to a rescue and was a rare exception.

  As far as Xiao Yao’s personal behavior is concerned, he has never liked to audition for actors too early. As long as he personally participates in the audition and selection of actors, he prefers to audition for actors when the preparations for the project have reached a certain level, except for the actors who are determined in advance.

  On the one hand, when the crew’s preparations have progressed to a certain level, the shooting environment and conditions become clearer, making it easier for Xiao Yao to negotiate contracts with the actors after the audition. For example, in the previous project "Donkey Gets Water", as the filming location was expected to be in the northwest, Xiao Yao chose the filming location and decided on the filming location before returning to audition for the actors.

  On the other hand, Xiao Yao doesn't want to temporarily change the actors of the role, nor does he want to change the boot time. The more complete the preparatory work of the crew, the more certain the start-up time will be. The more certain the boot time is, the less likely it is that there will be conflicts between actors' schedules. Therefore, try to audition later and make the boot time more precise, and you can avoid this situation as much as possible.

  Finally, the actors for the core roles in Xiao Yao’s three current film and television projects were decided very early. For example, the three members of the YRF team in the parkour movie, Sun Tingting, herself and He Ying in "Donkey Deshui", and herself and Yin Xi in this play. Apart from these core roles, Xiao Yao doesn't feel that other roles require actors to spend a lot of time preparing after the audition is finalized. Compared with actors who determine roles early in advance, letting an actor spend a lot of time preparing for a non-core role, Xiao Yao hopes that he will have more choices when auditioning, so that those actors can spend time preparing for the audition.

  However, Xiao Yao just feels that the actors of his project do not need to spend a lot of time preparing after the audition. This preparation time is still given to others, but the time is shorter.

  After all the auditions are completed, the preparatory work on the crew side also has some finishing touches. Although Xiao Yao served as the producer this time, except for the cast audition, Xiao Yao only understands and does not personally participate in other work. According to the work progress reported by the crew, Xiao Yao set the starting time in early April.

  When talking about this project, Xiao Yao once told Yin Xi that he would not turn on the phone before the movie was released. It started in early April, and it was almost half a month after the release of the movie "Donkey Deshui", which was more than half a month later than the movie that Yin Xi had told Yin Xi. But what Xiao Yao said to Yin Xi was that it started in March at the earliest. It was not unsure, and it was not a break, and Yin Xi had no problem there.

   Xiao Yao does not participate in other work of the crew, so Xiao Yao has some free time between the end of the audition and the start of the TV series.

This time, Xiao Yao’s role is an IT man in the entrepreneurial period, but this drama is an urban drama mainly about emotions and life, not a workplace drama, at least there are not many workplace scenes on the male protagonist’s side, so Xiao Yao didn't spend much time preparing for the role. Since the character’s profession is a game designer, Xiao Yao just spent two days in Tongluo’s special effects company and spent two days with the technicians in charge of game special effects. After experiencing their work, he spent the rest of the time. The debt is paid off.

  The so-called debt repayment, of course, is the debt owed to fans and fans. Specifically, there are four songs.

  Two of them are "Hu Lu Hu Lu Piao Er" and "Grandma's Talk" sung on the Spring Festival Evening of Yanjing Satellite TV this year. These two songs only have the live audio version of Yanjing Satellite TV's Spring Evening, and the official version has not yet been recorded.

  The other two songs are the two tea-picking songs sung in "Wild Kitchen". Now that the show has been broadcast, fans who have watched the show on the Internet are calling for Xiao Yao to release the full version of these two songs. As for the song that uses traditional Jino songs and Xiao Yao's spelling in Jino, most people don't understand Jino, but there are no fans asking for that song in Jino.

  Since he wanted to record songs to pay his debts, Xiao Yao planned to record all these four songs.

Among the four songs, "The Love Song of Tea Mountain" is obviously a popular style in the 1980s and 1990s, and it is more suitable for female voices to sing. Therefore, Xiao Yao does not plan to sing it by himself, which means he has to find a singer for this song. .

  When he went to experience life in a special effects company, Xiao Yao came according to other people's working hours, and when people were off work, he also went off work, so he was also free at night. In addition to the night time, it is not difficult for Xiao Yao to record four songs in the past ten days, mainly because it takes some effort to find a singer.

  However, Xiao Yao knew Hong Wei and had a relationship with Su Xiao. One of these two is a singer from the system, and the other is still in the system. Through these two people, it is not a problem to find a singer who is willing and suitable to sing the sweet songs of the last century.

  Now that Xiao Yao releases new singles without publicity, or that the publicity has already been done. In the case of no entity, after the song is recorded, the copyright is negotiated with the music website, the official version of the audio source is delivered, and the music website can upload it.

After the four songs went online on the music website, the official versions of "Hu Lu Hu Lu Diao Er" and "Grandma's Talk" soon replaced the live version, and jumped to the forefront of the hot song list. There is no music accompaniment, so it is a new song after the official version is launched, and the ranking is even higher than the two songs that were popular during the Spring Festival. Only the "Nostalgic" song, and the "Chashan Love Song" performed by other singers, had a slightly worse performance.

  Time passes by day by day, and the day when the TV crew starts up is approaching day by day.

  The preparatory work for the theater is progressing smoothly, and it is not expected to delay the start-up. The recording of the four songs was completed, and the overall results after the music website went live were good. In addition, the movie "Donkey Deshui" was about to be released, and the total box office and word-of-mouth ratings were still gratifying. Xiao Yao was in the period before the TV series started and entered the filming. The mood is really good.

  However, it was precisely during this period when he was in a good mood, Xiao Yao received a piece of news that was originally considered good news, but at this time it was not considered good news.

  Two days before the start of the TV series, Xiao Yao received a video call request from the United States on his mobile phone.

  "Big star, long time no see!" After the video was connected, a person that Xiao Yao hadn't seen for a long time appeared in the screen, but this person was no stranger to Xiao Yao.

   "Yan Ke! Or should I call you Corey?" Xiao Yao smiled, "If you feel uncomfortable, I can speak English to you."

  The person on the video is Yan Ke, who Xiao Yao met when he participated in the training of the China National Olympic Mathematics Team. When he was on the training team, Xiao Yao was in the same dormitory with him and two other top Chinese mathematics students born in high school Yu Gang and Chen Jiwei. It's okay in the spare time, and the four of them often play poker together as a pastime. After being miserably abused after playing 80 minutes, Xiao Yao played blackjack with a few people, and then proposed a plan to "capture the casino" on a whim.

   Xiao Yao said it happily at the time, and forget it when he said it, but the other three were taken seriously. When Xiao Yao got the first prize in the art examination of Shen Opera, Yan Ke specifically called Xiao Yao and asked if Xiao Yao still remembered the original agreement.

  The three are one term higher than Xiao Yao. For the plan that Xiao Yao said, in order to enter the best polytechnic university in the United States and the world, the three even stayed in China for one more year. Of course, this was not what Yan Ke said, but Xiao Yao thought of it afterwards. Because at that time Xiao Yao was already in the third year of high school, it is reasonable to say that the three of them should have gone to college, but what Yan Ke told him on the phone was that they were applying for an MIT offer.

After understanding the attitude of the three, Xiao Yao also took the matter in his mind. However, Xiao Yao just kept it in his heart.

The card counting model is entrusted to the three of them, Xiao Yao is only responsible for the specific operations at that time, so in these years Xiao Yao only occasionally contacted them via email or communication software on the Internet to ensure that they will not be disconnected. In fact, there are not many contacts.

"No need!" Yan Ke on the other end of the phone smiled, "We speak English here all day long, and finally we can speak English with others. I can't miss the opportunity. I know you are good in English, but you still speak Chinese to us. Well, there is nothing unaccustomed to us!"

   "You?" Xiao Yao smiled and asked, "Are Yu Gang and Chen Jiwei also nearby now?"

   "Yes!" Yan Ke nodded, and two heads next to him came to the scene, waved to Xiao Yao, and smiled at the same time, "Good star, long time no see!"

"Long time no see!" Xiao Yao also said hello with a smile, and asked with a smile, "Are you looking for something to do with me? Now March is almost over, your spring break should have just ended, and it shouldn't be because you want to return to China." Do you want to play with me?"

   "No!" Yan Ke shook his head, "You are a big star now, knowing you are busy, which time did we find you when we returned to China? I asked you for a video today. I have something to discuss with you!"

   "Is something to discuss?" Xiao Yao said, "Did your card counting model come out?"

   Xiaoyao is in the entertainment industry, and Yan Ke and others can almost be regarded as people from two worlds. The only thing they can discuss and discuss is the only thing that they said at the beginning. However, in the past few years, Xiao Yao occasionally asked about their progress, and they always answered that they were still far behind, so when Xiao Yao answered the phone, he didn't immediately think about it.

   "You can say so!" Yan Ke said.

   "If you get it out, you get it out, and if you don't get it out, you don't get it out. What can you say?" Xiao Yao said.

  "Let me ask you a question first!" Yan Ke did not answer, but instead asked, "Have you been to MIT? Or do you have other friends at MIT?"

   "None!" Xiao Yao said strangely, "Why ask?"

   "After we came, we discovered that the three of us were not the only ones studying card counting in MIT." Yan Ke said, "Actually, there are a lot of people studying card counting in MIT, and there are several groups."

   "Really?" Xiao Yao was also a little surprised, and then strangely said, "But you have all been to MIT for so many years, and you haven't heard of you before. Did you just know about it recently?"

"It's not very recent, but it's not a long time. We only knew about it a few months ago." Yan Ke said, "These card counting groups are all secretly. It may be because we are all undergraduates and others I didn’t like it, so no one came to us. In the second half of last year, we were all admitted to MIT’s master’s degree. Someone from the card counting group heard that we were also studying card counting, so they invited us to join. From them, I I discovered that many people at MIT are studying card counting."

   "That's it!" Xiao Yao nodded and continued to ask, "What then?"

"Then we joined a card counting group." Yan Ke said, "That group originally did a lot of research work, and the three of us also did a lot. Although we just joined, because we started in high school Researching this stuff, so we also researched some things, and then the two sides integrated each other, after confirming the discussion, we worked together for a while, and now we feel that our model is almost the same."

  "Then, we took advantage of the spring break in March and went to Las Vegas to try it!" Yan Ke said, "We followed the card counting model and won some money in the casino, which proved to be feasible."

   "What? Did you play without me?" Xiao Yao pretended to be dissatisfied.

"No, we don't intend to leave you alone." Yan Ke said, "We are just going to try it out first. If practice proves that our algorithm does not work, we will go back and continue to study and modify. If practice proves feasible, we will notify you to do a big job. Field. We know that you are a big star, you are very busy, and your time is precious. The United States is so far away, we don’t want you to make a trip in vain."

"And we also told the people in the card counting team about you." Yu Gang added, "We told them that we have a friend in China who is very good at mathematics. Although he is not proficient in mathematical models, he has very good brainpower. Both memory and mental arithmetic skills are very strong, and they are very good candidates for performing card counting. We started from high school to make a mathematical model of card counting, which is your idea. Of course, we did not say your identity, did not tell them that you are a Entertainment Stars."

"I heard that when you were in high school, you wanted to go to the casino to play blackjack by counting cards. They are also very interested in you." Chen Jiwei continued, "They have promised us that when you come, they will give you training and Assessment. If you pass the assessment, you will be allowed to join us and go to the casino for a mission."

   "Need training and assessment?" Xiao Yao frowned slightly.

"The so-called training is to memorize some mathematical models and formulas, and then practice them on the spot." Chen Jiwei said, "All of us train first and then take exams. Only after passing the exams can we go to the casino to perform tasks. As long as your brain is not degraded, sure No problem. Based on your ability, I estimate that the training time should not exceed two days!"

"Two days? This is acceptable." Xiao Yao nodded and said a little excited, "Now that you have proved that your card counting method is feasible, then you are telling me to go to the United States for training and assessment, and then follow Did you go to the casino together?"

  Speaking of this, Xiao Yao's expression suddenly changed because he suddenly discovered a problem.

  Although Xiao Yao holds a long-term visa to the United States, he can go to the United States at any time, but the TV crew will start up in two days. It is estimated that at least two or three months have passed by the time the TV series is filmed. Now that Yan Ke and the others have found an effective card counting method, when they are gearing up for a big fight, will they be willing to wait two or three months for themselves?

  (End of this chapter)