Entertaining Children

  Chapter 164 Shooting Preparation

   "It's wonderful!" Chen Yang clapped and walked onto the court. Behind him, a group of national team members also followed.

   "Congratulations on winning the national team player." Chen Yang stood in front of Xiao Yao and patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

"The main reason is that Guo Qi gave me six points. If I didn't give up, I would definitely not be able to beat him." Xiao Yao said honestly, "but I can advance three goals in the national basketball team and get four points. I thought. There are many unexpected elements in this, and I was also lucky. For example, Guo Qi didn't score in the last goal."

"Of course there is a factor of luck. If you really rely on your own basketball skills to win Guo Qi, we should recruit you into the national basketball team training. Is it not enough for you to enter the Olympics national team training, and you want to come to the basketball country? Team training once?" Chen Yang glanced at Xiao Yao amusedly.

   "I know my level and know it's impossible." Xiao Yao smiled and scratched his head.

   "If you promised me to go to basketball school when you were five, it will be possible now." Chen Yang said.

   "Brother Yang, are you careful? Just rejected you once. Is it necessary to mention it so often?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes helplessly.

"Luck also requires a certain level of strength as a basis." Xu Li also leaned over and patted Xiao Yao. "Although your strength is indeed different from that of professional players, you are already playing very well among amateur players. Thanks. Fortunately, you didn't go to "Challenge the Champions", otherwise Brother's first variety show would have ended in a loss."

Except for Chen Yang and Xu Li, the rest of the national team was surrounded by the losing Guo Qi immediately after they stepped onto the court. I don’t know if everyone ridiculed Guo Qi or comforted him, not long after. , Guo Qi and the other team members also walked to Chen Yang, Xu Li and Xiao Yao.

   "What do you think of Xiao Yao's performance just now?" Chen Yang looked at everyone and asked when the team members were coming.

"very nice!"

"pretty good!"

   "Unexpected! It was really good!"

  Everyone replied very unevenly. Although the time of the answers was not uniform, the content was the same. They all expressed their recognition of Xiao Yao's performance against Guo Qi just now.

   "That means that everyone recognized Xiao Yao as the photographer for everyone's promotional photos?" Chen Yang asked again.

Seeing everyone nodding their heads, Xiao Yao directly said: "The shooting time is from 8 to 10 pm from Monday to Friday next night, and the location is at a studio about half an hour's drive from the Taihe Hotel where everyone is staying. It is estimated that the three people will be filmed every day. I will send out the specific plans and arrangements for the three people who will be filmed on a specific day, and he will inform everyone."

   "OK!" Everyone nodded and said there was no problem.

   "Well, boys, the break is over, it's time to start the next training program." At this time, the head coach Alex Jefferson also came over and shouted to the players.

  Looking at Xiao Yao, Alex Jefferson said to Chen Yang and Xiao Yao: "Your business is over? So..."

   "OK, AJ, I will send him out first, and then come back to continue my work." Chen Yang said to the coach. He is the technical coach of the team, and he should be on the sidelines to guide the players during training. Because of Xiao Yao's affairs, Chen Yang deliberately asked Jefferson for leave today.

   "Goodbye, Mr. Jefferson." Xiao Yao politely greeted the coach and followed Chen Yang to the outside of the arena.

  Out of the basketball center, Xiao Yao and Chen Yang thanked him again and then took a taxi and left. Chen Yang also turned back to the arena to instruct the players to train.

  Fixed the subject of the shooting, that is, the models, Xiao Yao is considered to be the most important part of the preparation work in the shooting project. In addition, Xiao Yao has other preparations to do.

  The shooting location was chosen a long time ago. The studio was in the creative park where the Chenxi dance team rehearsal room was located. When Xiao Yao went to learn to dance with the people from the Chenxi Dance Troupe, he would also walk around the park during his break, and he found this studio and went in to play a few times. This studio can fully meet Xiao Yao's shooting requirements in terms of space size and hardware equipment, so Xiao Yao has negotiated the lease through Qijia Studio and the photography studio a long time ago.

  Because I am not very familiar with the domestic photography circle, I don’t know much about the lighting engineers, sound engineers, set designers, makeup artists, stylists and other staff who do auxiliary work in the shooting activities. Xiao Yao had to ask Zhang Yunxing and Hong Andong, two model company owners who were familiar with the domestic fashion circle, to recommend some candidates for him.

   Long before the network and media revealed Xiao Yao’s identity as a photographer, Nie Yao told the two bosses what he had learned while participating in the show. Back then, Chen Xuan was invited by Zhang Yunxing, and Xiao Yao and Chen Xuan were able to meet because of the modeling agency. As for Xiao Yao's performance when he worked as a photography assistant for Chen Xuan, the people in the company who participated in the shooting that year were all visible. You can also see Chen Xuan's satisfaction and liking for Xiao Yao. Therefore, no one in the modeling agency doubts that Xiao Yao is a student of Chen Xuan.

But when Xiao Yao concealed his identity as a photographer from the modeling agency, especially the two bosses, both bosses verbally expressed their dissatisfaction with Xiao Yao, and jokingly expressed to Xiao Yao that they were hurt. . But when Xiao Yao approached the two for help, the two still agreed without hesitation.

  The two bosses expressed some doubts that Xiao Yao only had a staff member and did not ask for a model.

  "You only need staff, don't you need us to recommend some models for you?" Hong Andong asked Xiao Yao.

   "No need, the model has been found." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

"I'm looking for? Which models are you looking for? Which company? Why don't you look for models from our own company?" Zhang Yunxing also nervously said, "There is a saying that water does not flow into outsiders' fields. We don't have any of the hundreds of models in our company. Does it meet your requirements?"

   "The objects I photographed this time are the members of the national basketball team." Xiao Yao explained, "I don't shoot professional models, so I didn't pick people from our company."

I heard that the subjects were athletes rather than professional models, and the two of them felt a little more balanced. However, thinking that Xiao Yao chose a more difficult non-professional model shooting project for his first domestic shooting project, the two couldn’t help. Some admire Xiao Yao's courage.

   Xiao Yao requires complete control over the entire project, so the two candidates recommended to him also try to choose some relatively unfamiliar, but technically solid candidates. Among these people, Xiao Yao has to spend more time to select the ones he thinks are suitable.

  After finishing the venue, equipment, and staff, the biggest problem Xiao Yao still needs to solve is clothing.

  The national team has designated clothing sponsors. Regardless of whether it is for competition or training, the national team members must wear the game or sportswear provided by the clothing brand, but because the clothing brand is a specialized sports brand, it does not provide formal wear, nor does it sign a formal wear agreement with the national team. The sponsorship agreement, so Xiao Yao still has a lot of choice in clothing when he shoots formal photos for promotional photos.

  When it comes to solving the problem of clothing, it can actually be very simple. With the current controversy caused by Xiao Yao in the media and the Internet because of his identity as a photographer, as long as he reveals the news about the shooting project to the marketing directors of those fashion brands, I believe that many fashion clothing brands will come to the door soon. Come, provide clothing to choose from.

   Xiao Yao did not wait for the clothing brand to take the initiative to come to the door, but went to the door by himself.

  Although they are all formal photos, Xiao Yao did not intend to let everyone wear the same clothes. He has specially matched the clothes he thinks to be suitable for each basketball player. The basketball team has fifteen players, and Xiao Yao also selected fifteen sets of clothing, which belong to six different clothing brands.

  Because the body of basketball players is quite different from that of ordinary people, twelve of these fifteen sets of costumes need to be specially customized. Xiao Yao has detailed statistics on the figures of the basketball players, and it is not very difficult to customize. In terms of time, it is usually enough to order a set of clothing for about three days. Now there are still five days before the shooting next week, so naturally there is no problem. As for the price, I heard that Xiao Yao, as a photographer, used to take promotional photos for the players of the National Men's Basketball Team. This opportunity may not necessarily come with the money. How can those brands collect money?

  As usual, these brands will send their own personnel as brand representatives to participate in the entire shooting plan. On the one hand, it is to assist the costumers and stylists on the scene to take care of their own brand clothing. After all, they are the most familiar with their stuff. Another aspect is to assist in the communication between the project leader, the photographer Xiao Yao, and his company. If something happens temporarily at the shooting site, it is necessary to change clothes, accessories or even temporarily modify some small details. These brands will be represented. Come to give feedback to the company, and make corresponding arrangements based on the company's response.

  As for Xiao Yao, in addition to the above two aspects, there is another place that attracts these brands: this is a great opportunity to see what Xiao Yao looks like when shooting on-site. The domestic fashion circle is full of curiosity about this photographer who is said to have been well-known abroad before he was seventeen years old. Is he really a young genius photographer or did he blow it out by himself? They didn't see his shooting projects abroad before, but now it is rare that he has shooting projects in China, and everyone does not want to miss the opportunity to witness it with their own eyes.

  Therefore, three of the six brands are more curious, and the director-level figures who happen to be panicked at leisure, Du Yu, personally served as the brand representative of Xiao Yao's shooting project. The representatives from the other three brands are not at the director level in the company, but their level in the company is also higher than the level and position of the company’s customary personnel in other shooting projects.

  In this case, Xiao Yao doesn't care. Anyway, his photography skills have been exchanged with the number of shutters for so many years, so he is not guilty, and naturally he is not afraid of others watching. The higher the level of the brand, the more convenient on-site communication and decision-making. He prefers that the higher the level of brand representatives, the better.

  (End of this chapter)