Entertaining Children

  Chapter 212 LED Lighting Service

  The reason why Keith agreed to sign the band was not without Xiao Yao’s lobbying without his own considerations. In addition to Xiao Yao, the Immortals band also has something he valued. First of all, the beautiful drummer Samien is a highlight. In a rock band, a high-cold beauty drummer is quite eye-catching. When they performed at their Los Angeles concert, when the close-up shot of the big screen was given to Samien, the reaction of the audience was the craziest. .

  Secondly, George, a black man, is also a highlight. In the American music scene, most people who play rock and roll are white people. Black people, on the other hand, either play jazz or R&B and Hip-pop. Rock and roll are very rare, and people like George are also scarce resources.

  Although Keith is also very interested in Immortals, the contract terms of the contract have been discussed and confirmed item by item with the entire band, and it took more than a week to confirm the contract terms of the signing.

During the time when the band’s future confirmation and Keith’s studio were tied together, the "Rapid" hip-hop team also experienced the second knockout round, successfully advanced to the quarter-finals, and broke into the final. finals.

  In the quarter-finals, Xiao Yao did not provide any special effects to the street dance team, but gave them some further inspiration in the dance moves. What Xiao Yao showed them this time was not parkour, but the martial arts he had practiced for more than ten years.

  Zhou Jingyi once said that Xiao Yao could play TJ three of them one at a time. TJ took this sentence to his heart. Although he didn't want to fight Xiao Yao single-handedly, he had pestered Xiao Yao several times and wanted to see his Chinese kung fu. Xiao Yao became impatient with TJ, so he casually showed him a few routines in Bajiquan. And TJ's sentence "This action is so cool!" also inspired Xiao Yao.

  Since action is mentioned, Xiao Yao naturally thinks of street dancing. Although "Ripple" retained some new actions created from parkour in the first game, these actions were not enough to hold up the entire game. In his previous life, Xiao Yao has also seen Tai Chi and other martial arts moves into hip-hop in his film and television works, so why can't "Rapid Stream" do this? This world is the same as the previous life. The most impressive of Huaxia's film and television works to Americans is Huaxia's Kung Fu movies. Huaxia Kungfu in the United States in this world also has a very high reputation and a lot of admirers.

Therefore, Xiao Yao gathered all the hip-hop team members and showed them the three sets of martial arts he knew-Taijiquan, Shaolin Changquan, and Bajiquan. Then, they worked together to consider how to adapt these kung fu moves into Cool action in street dance.

  After several days of hard work, everyone has achieved some results. Then in the second knockout, the novel moves inspired by parkour and Chinese Kungfu easily conquered the audience and the three judges.

  Now placed in front of the "Ripple" hip-hop team, only the last final is left. Before the finals, the two good news that followed made everyone's tension in the finals disappear.

  The first good news is that Mary Jane found the "Rapid" hip-hop team and decided to invite them to participate in the shooting of her latest single MV. At the same time, she will serve as her own performing dancer team at the concert that will be held this summer.

  And the second one comes from another judge, Santos Perez. He has a hip-hop movie project on hand and has already decided to invite him to be the action director, and recommend some suitable candidates for the role of dancers in the movie. After watching the three performances of "Rapid Current", he has successfully persuaded the producer to invite the whole team of "Rapid Current" to appear in this movie. Among them, Paul and TJ will be small supporting roles with a certain weight, and Zhou Jingyi is because of foreigners. Outstanding style conditions, and proficient in two different types of dances, modern dance and street dance, and got a big supporting role similar to the status of the female third.

  So, the future of the entire street dance team became clear. Before the finals began, they had already achieved their goal of participating in the "National Street Dance Competition". So before they participate in the finals, they naturally have less tension and their mentality is much more relaxed.

  Though the "Ripple" hip-hop team that reached the competition goal in advance was relaxed in participating in the finals, their preparations for the finals did not relax at all. On the contrary, they were still struggling for their stage performances in the finals.

  This big move is naturally inseparable from Xiao Yao. Strictly speaking, this is Xiao Yao’s idea again. It's just that this big move this time, in advance preparation, Xiao Yao alone can't complete it.

  After finishing the contract with the band, Xiao Yao went into preparations for the finals of "Rapid Current". And the big trick he prepared for the "Tide Current" finals was the kind of clothes with color-changing LED lights that brightened blind people's eyes in the last dance in "Dancing Out of My Life 3" in the previous life. In this world, fluorescent clothing has already appeared, but that fluorescent clothing has only one color, and it can only be effective in a very dim environment. But this kind of clothes with LED lights that are not affected by the environment has not appeared, so they want to surprise their eyes, the premise is to design and make it themselves.

  As an otaku in science and engineering in his previous life, Xiao Yao has studied the principles of this kind of clothes after seeing the movie, but his major is purely theoretical. He understands the principle, but he can do it himself, but he can't do it. Fortunately, there are also many talents in the hip-hop team. He put forward the idea, and some team members who are proficient in electronic equipment excitedly set about turning Xiao Yao's idea into reality. And this player is not someone else, just because he played a zombie, Rick who resents Xiao Yao for always having trouble with their clothes.

  Rick is an avid fan of electronic equipment. He proposed to make it by hand, but Xiao Yao himself did not plan to be a hand shopkeeper. Therefore, when the hip-hop team was not rehearsing, Xiao Yao and Rick spent their free time on the production of this variable LED light that can be installed on clothes. Xiao Yao’s hands-on ability is average, and at best, it is to give Rick a hand, but he has theories and ideas, coupled with Rick’s superb skills and rich hands-on experience, after dozens of continuous attempts, Xiao Yao and Rick have finally made this kind of LED lights that meet the requirements have been obtained, and wireless control equipment that can control the color conversion of the lights has also been made.

  In addition to LED lights, clothing is also an aspect that cannot be ignored. This kind of LED light doesn't fit all clothes. So Xiao Yao deliberately customized a batch of clothes made of special materials for the team members to try to install this LED light.

  Although the power supply voltage required by the LED is not large, Xiao Yao's custom-made clothing still uses a relatively safe double-layer fabric. The close-fitting inner layer is made of nylon-coated fabric material used to make insulating clothes, and the interlayer is used to install the LED lights they made by themselves. Because there is no lack of floor movements in the dance, the outer layer is made of transparent PVC material. , While protecting the bulbs on the clothes, it also facilitates the display of LED lights.

  This aspect is not difficult for Xiao Yao. Because he still has the identity of the photographer YS, Xiao Yao is quite familiar with several custom-made clothing brand companies in the United States, and has a considerable understanding of clothing fabrics and styles. Therefore, based on the astronaut uniforms in science fiction movies, he designed a very technological style clothing, coupled with those cool LED lights, can definitely blind the eye.

  It’s just that the design of the LED light needs to be kept secret for the time being, so Xiao Yao only requires that some openings be reserved between the double layers of the main parts of the clothing, and the LED lights in the mezzanine have to be installed by themselves.

  It took more than ten days to finally turn the props in the previous life movie into the reality before this life. Xiao Yao's heart is full of accomplishment. But this is not the whole story. LED lighting costumes are produced, and matching dances, music, and precise control of lighting during dances are needed.

  Dance and music are relatively easy to solve. With the dance and music in the previous life, it is not too difficult for Xiao Yao to adapt the dance moves that the members of the dance team are good at. Difficulties are mainly concentrated on the overall coordination of LED lighting control and dance and music.

Xiao Yao and Rick racked their brains and devised two methods: The first is to use computer programming to set all the order and time of changing the color of all lights in advance, so that the team members only need to focus. During the dance, don’t worry about the LED lights on your body. But this also involves a problem, that is, hip-hop still has some degrees of freedom. Although there is music, it is difficult to be precise every second. Once everyone’s dance moves have a little time deviation, most of the audience may not be able to see it except for the judges on the stage, but with the light on the body, it will magnify this mistake to a very large extent. obvious.

  The second method is to send another person to be responsible for the color conversion of the light. This method seems to be more reliable, and Xiao Yao, who cannot be on stage, is also a good candidate ready.

  But this competition is not in a theater like it was in the primaries, but in the performance hall of a luxury hotel in Los Angeles, where there will be a TV station live broadcast, and the on-site control is much stricter than the original theater. Xiao Yao could no longer find a condescending and relatively quiet environment to operate. He who can't be on stage, can't even stay backstage with a bad vision, he can only stay in the audience. However, in order to fully mobilize the emotions of the audience watching this final, the production party did not set up seats for the audience, all of which were crowded together to stand and watch. Taking into account the live environment, as long as any audience accidentally squeezed or bumped into Xiao Yao's arm or even his body, it might cause errors in light conversion and dance movements.

  In desperation, Xiao Yao and Rick had to devise a third method, which was to install the controller on the gloves of one of the team members, and let one of the team members control the light conversion while performing on the stage. The advantage of this is that the team members avoid the uncontrollable factor of audience collision, and at the same time, they are the performers on the stage. They can adjust the speed and rhythm of light conversion at any time according to the progress of the performance on the stage, avoiding the problem of unsynchronized coordination. The unfavorable factor is not only performing dances, but also controlling the lights, so the requirements for the players who master the controller are relatively high.

   Looking at the whole team, Xiao Yao still decided to let Paul, who seemed the most reliable, be the controller of the lights on the stage. The team members had no opinion on Xiao Yao's choice, so he settled. This thing was designed by Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao took Paul's place and demonstrated it to Paul in advance.

The soundtrack of the whole dance was made by Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao also participated in the design of the dance moves. The LED lighting suit was also designed by Xiao Yao, and then he worked with Rick to make it. Therefore, Xiao Yao has a thorough understanding of every aspect of the dance. He knows it very well, coupled with his already very good dancing skills and his memory is far beyond ordinary people's head. Therefore, when Xiao Yao demonstrated to Paul, whether it was personal dance moves, coordination with the dance of the entire team, or control of the conversion of LED lights on the team, they were all very accurate. While giving Paul confidence, it also gave him a lot of attention. Great pressure.

  (End of this chapter)