Entertaining Children

  Chapter 260 Start learning from shooting MV

  The young men and women in love all hope to get tired of being together all the time. After completing the task of recording the album and MV shooting has not yet started, Xiao Yao, who rarely had a full day off after school started, of course chose to stay with Sun Tingting.

Sun Tingting is not the kind of girl who likes to go crazy around, nor is she a shopaholic who has a strong obsession with shopping. Taking into account the hard work of Xiao Yao's recording a while ago, she is very considerate to set the place for the two to date. The place where they felt most relaxing was the "Grandpa's Secret Garden" that Sun Tingting would never forget once he visited.

  Sitting in Xie Di’s small courtyard, Xiao Yao also conveyed to Sun Tingting that Ye Jiaying invited Sun Tingting to participate in the MV shooting, and also brought Sun Tingting a MV script.

   "What do you mean?" After reading the simple MV script, Sun Tingting raised her head to look at Xiao Yao.

   "Hmm..." Xiao Yao hesitated for a moment, and said the truth, "Actually, I don't want you to participate in this MV performance."

   "Oh?" Sun Tingting glanced at Xiao Yao strangely.

"It's just a few minutes of MV. Actually, it doesn't have much value for the actors, and there is not much performance experience accumulated," Xiao Yao explained. "If this is not the MV of my own song, I am I don’t have much interest in acting. For you, it’s not about entering the entertainment industry now and looking for a chance to debut. There is no need to go to the MV. This is different from the last time I asked you to come on stage to help me play "Courage", then It’s your specialty, the best violinist I have ever seen."

   "What you mean is that my acting skills are not good." Sun Tingting pursed her lips pretending to be aggrieved, "You have never seen me acting."

"No," Xiao Yao hurriedly shook his head. "It's because this MV doesn't require much acting skills at all. Or my mother wouldn't want to play with you without watching it. She hasn't seen you either. Acting. I don’t want others to say that you are with me because you want to be famous. If you really want to make your debut now, I don’t even mind creating a tailor-made work for you to praise you, but you are now I don’t really want to be famous, so why do it needlessly. Don’t you know, my parents’ attitudes towards me are different recently. They basically ignored me before, but now they’re thinking about squeezing me. I have a lot of things, I don’t want you to be squeezed by them like I am."

"How can you say that about uncles and aunts." Sun Tingting was still very happy to hear Xiao Yao's care and love for herself, but Xiao Yao finally disagrees with Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying, "You Don’t you think that the change in your uncle’s attitude towards you is because you are already an adult? I think they are just paying more attention to your career development. To be honest, as a capable second generation of stars, before you It’s been a leisurely enough time, don’t you want to live a lifetime like this?"

   "What do you mean?" Xiao Yao said in a vague way, "I'm still a student, now I'm going to talk about my career?"

Sun Tingting sighed helplessly: "Look at how Brother Stone came over these years. He has appeared in more than 20 works, almost every year. You are also a star that has already debuted, as a star. An actor who has won a newcomer award, you haven't acted in three years. As a singer, it has been more than two years since you released a single. It is only after participating in the show that your uncle took the opportunity to let you make an album. Don’t use students as an excuse for studying. Everyone knows how your grades are. You went to the United States for a year, and you went straight into the third year after you came back, and you didn’t see any discomforts. Uncles and aunts are enough for you to be happy and happy. Now, this has to be changed to another family, how can there be such a good thing?"

   Xiao Yao thought for a while, and found that Sun Tingting really made sense. The entertainment industry was originally a place where newcomers became popular and old people were outdone. Although I had golden fingers with memories of my past life, I didn’t worry at all, but my parents didn’t know this. I was able to let myself play until now. It's rare. And even if they are now officially of adulthood, what their parents change is just their mentality, they just want to participate in more work. In the way of doing things, they still fully consider their own opinions. What they don’t want to do is still I haven't reluctantly. Thinking of this, Xiao Yao's bit of resentment towards his parents also disappeared without a trace.

"Well, you make sense." Xiao Yao smiled and said to Sun Tingting, "It's still a girl with a delicate mind, or they all say that their daughter is the intimate little padded jacket of their parents. If I want a child in the future, I must also have one. daughter."

   "Huh?" Sun Tingting was blushed by Xiao Yao's extremely jumpy thinking. Somewhat embarrassingly said: "What nonsense, how old are you, now you are thinking about the child's problem, sorry?

   Xiao Yao was amused by Sun Tingting’s embarrassment, and deliberately teased: "I have no face and no skin, why are you blushing? It's not that you want to..."

   "Yeah!" Sun Tingting was so angry that she reached out and pulled a piece of the rose cake in front of him and threw it towards Xiao Yao across the table: "Let you talk nonsense!"

   Xiao Yao's quick response was short and opened his mouth. He even caught a small piece of rose cake thrown by Sun Tingting directly with his mouth. Sun Tingting was speechless for a while.

Seeing that after Sun Tingting reacted, Xiao Yao quickly swallowed the food in his mouth. He stretched out his left hand and made a stop gesture. He pointed his right finger at the rose cake in front of Sun Tingting and said seriously: "Don't If you throw it away, I can't guarantee that you can catch it. If you throw food around here and spoil things, Sister Di will be angry!"

   "You..." Sun Tingting looked at Xiao Yao like this, and suddenly she couldn't laugh or cry.

  After a day of playing with Sun Tingting in "Grandfather's Secret Garden", Xiao Yao seemed to have charged the whole person. In the following week, the studio also arranged various preparations for the MV shooting. At the weekend, Xiao Yao also devoted himself to the MV shooting with immense enthusiasm.

The first filming was the MV of "The New Drunken Concubine". The shooting location was the old house where Mei Qingchang lived and a Peking Opera Theater. In addition to Xiao Yao, the actors invited a teenage student from Mei Qingchang. And an apprentice in his twenties.

The content of the MV of this song is probably about a child who has been very enthusiastic about Peking opera since childhood. He has been obsessed with Peking Opera Tsing Yi since childhood. After continuous hard study and practice, he finally wears Tsing Yi costumes when he grows up. The story of the Peking Opera stage. Some scenes of Xiao Yao singing in modern clothes will be interspersed in the middle, which roughly serves as a narration in the whole story. It is roughly similar to the previous version of Li Yugang’s MV, except that Xiao Yao is not interested in actually painting Tsing Yi’s makeup and Tsing Yi costumes to dance the Peking Opera, so he invited an apprentice of Mei Qingchang to complete the child’s growth. The more professional Peking opera makeup and action shooting after adulthood.

This MV is essentially a positive publicity for Peking opera practitioners. Whether it is children’s persistence and hard work on Peking opera, or the beauty and beauty on stage when they grow up, it is the inheritance of the national quintessence of Peking opera. Because of his praise, Mei Qingchang showed great support for the shooting of this MV, not only provided great convenience to the venue and personnel, but also enthusiastically acted as a professional consultant for the plot of Peking Opera in this MV. And art direction.

In this MV, Xiao Yao only needs to shoot a few scenes of standing in Mei Qingchang’s yard singing to the camera. Since the MV must be post-production sound effects, there is no need for live radio, so Xiao Yao can sing without worrying about himself. How's it going? I don't even sing it at all, just a good mouth shape. This can be considered extremely easy for him. Therefore, among the three actors, Xiao Yao's shots were the first to be filmed.

   Xiao Yao, who finished taking his own shots, did not leave, but stayed in the film crew very actively to help. Xiao Yao has worked with many film and television crews with Xiao Chengru since he was a child, and has a certain understanding of the work of various departments in the crew. However, Xiao Yao has never understood how to coordinate and direct the director work of these departments. This time, Xiao Yao focused on learning and understanding how the director directs the work of these different departments to realize his ideas.

   When Xiao Yao mixed with Xiao Chengru when he was a child, Xiao Chengru once asked Xiao Yao if he wanted to be a director when he grew up. At that time, Xiao Yao’s first reaction was to refuse. When he answered Xiao Chengru, he said: “It seems that the entire crew has to take care of everything. It feels so tired and troublesome.” But now Xiao Yao has grown up, and he has also grown up. It has been determined that he will continue to develop in the entertainment industry in the future, so he likes Xiao Yao who is in charge of everything himself, and director is naturally also a career he wants to try. Of course, being a director is not so good, nor is it so easy to be a director. Then it is a very good choice to learn from the MV director who needs less control. After all, apart from advertising, MV should be the easiest, much easier than controlling a film and television crew.

  With a strong memory, Xiao Yao’s learning ability has always been beyond doubt. Most of the morning on Saturday, Xiao Yao's own shots had already been taken. From then on, Xiao Yao started to fight the MV director who is said to be well-known in the industry and has his own style. For more than half a day after the first day, Xiao Yao was basically another scene from the MV film crew. When the shots of Peking Opera began the next day, Xiao Yao had already become the deputy director of the entire film crew.

  After all the shooting tasks were over, Xiao Yao went into the studio with the director, editor, and soundtrack enthusiastically to watch and learn the editing, soundtrack and other post-production work of the entire MV.

  A week later, Xiao Yao started shooting the MV for another song "Those Flowers". The actor in this MV is Xiao Yao alone, and all of them are shots of him playing and singing in a natural environment and walking through various old streets in the old city. The whole MV has the folk nostalgic style of the 1990s, so it also changed to a director who is famous for his romantic and beautiful picture style. This time, after taking a shot, Xiao Yao ran to the director and watched the replay of the shot on the monitor. He dared to point to the monitor and put forward his own opinions and opinions to the director.

  It's actually very taboo for such a young teenager to run in front of the director and gesticulate. But the MV is for the song after all. Xiao Yao also has the identity of the song’s songwriter. He is the clearest in expressing the meaning of the song. In addition, this shooting idea was also proposed by him, and he may have to add He is the son of the producer, so Xiao Yao is qualified to discuss the shooting of every shot in the MV with the director. Xiao Yao's two generations were human, and his emotional intelligence was quite testable, so it did not arouse the director's disgust, and the director even took the initiative to teach Xiao Yao a lot of things during the enthusiastic discussion process.

  (End of this chapter)