Entertaining Children

  Chapter 438 Continue to work

  This music video by Xiao Yao definitely needs actors. He wants to show what happened. It's definitely not like he made the electronic version of "faded", which can be done on his own one-man show. The original video in the previous life was taken by the Canadian musician who asked a bunch of friends to help. Although the plot of Xiao Yao’s video is not exactly the same, at least there will be two bellboys, three flight attendants, and a mother. The female role requires seven actors.

  Xiao Yao is not very demanding on his own video, as long as the filming is interesting, there is no need for professional actors at all. The couple, Keith Craig and Betty Belet, one is a singer, has filmed MV, the other is a model, and has guest appearances in movies. With their performance experience, this video is more than enough to play him. In terms of external image, Keith Craig can serve as a guest member, and Betty Belet can perform the role of a stewardess or a mother. The two wanted to participate, but Xiao Yao couldn't ask for it.

"Of course I need actors." Xiao Yao said to the couple. "In addition to myself, there are seven actors in this video, but the requirements for acting skills are not high. If it is in China, or even in New York, I will find a friend to appear as a guest. You can solve it with help. But here, I originally only planned to ask my girlfriend to help, and six more actors. Since you are willing to participate in the show, I only need to find four more."

Needless to say in China, if in New York, Xiao Yao could let Paul and TJ come to serve as Li members, and ask Morton mother and daughter to help them play themselves, and they would not be rejected. Zhou Jingyi, Samien and Sun Tingting would play flight attendants, just right. A free performance lineup can be made up.

"Since there is no requirement for acting skills, the actors in your video should just ask our friends to perform. Such a fun thing, I think there will be many friends willing to participate. I don't know what is in this video. What kind of role?" Keith Craig asked with interest.

"A pair of mother and daughter, two bellboys, and three flight attendants." Xiao Yao briefly introduced the plot of the video to the two of them, and said, "My girlfriend can play one of the flight attendants, and Keith, you can play the bellboy. Betty, you can play a flight attendant or a mother in a mother and daughter. So I also need a bellman, a little girl, two flight attendants or a flight attendant and a mother."

"Another bellman can ask Vincent to play," Keith Craig immediately suggested to Xiao Yao, "It's all in a band, and he will be free when I have time. He will definitely not refuse this kind of thing. ."

   "Yes, no problem." Xiao Yao nodded. Keith Craig said that Vincent is the bassist Vincent Valle of the "Daydream" band. He is relatively sturdy and fits a bellman.

"The other two adult female roles can be played by Oriana Wilson and Lily Gibson." Betty Belet also had a recommendation. "The two of them are also in Los Angeles, and they asked me to go out for dinner the day before yesterday. They said recently. On vacation, I will stay in Los Angeles for about a week, and there should be no problem with time."

   "Huh? They are both in Los Angeles? Is this lineup too luxurious?" Xiao Yao said in surprise.

  Oriana Wilson and Lily Gibson are both models who have participated in the Eva show. Xiao Yao also knows them, but they are not so familiar with Betty Belet. Although they are not Eva's signing angels, they are also world-class well-known models. A fun free video featuring three world-renowned models and two members of a world-renowned rock band. The cast is indeed a bit scary.

   "Is luxury not good?" Betty Belet smiled, "Anyway, they don't know you, are you still worried that they will ask you to be paid?"

"Yes." Xiao Yao thought for a while and couldn't help but nodded. At the same time, he thought to himself: "American Airlines, you are over! After the video of the previous life was uploaded to the Internet, it could be forced by 4 million views in ten days. The airline bowed his head to admit his mistake, and now he has such a great cast. Not to mention the four million hits in ten days, forty million is not impossible. See how many days you can hold on?"

"Looking at it this way, it seems that all the actors also know Yang. You don't need us to come out, and you can gather the cast by relying on your own face. We seem to be acting as a liaison." Keith. Craig suddenly smiled.

"Wait a minute, I still lack the role of a little girl." Sun Tingting reminded, and immediately suggested, "Should I go to Calabasas and get Irene for help." Although he didn't stay at Smith's house for a long time, Sun Tingting I still have an impression of that lively little girl.

"Eileen is thirteen years old, and she is a bit older." Xiao Yao shook her head, "Moreover, it's a bit too much trouble to take it from Calabasas and send it back afterwards." Xiao Yao wanted to use that video to restore what happened at the time. , So I don’t want to find a girl too much older than Katie.

   "Mom!" Several people were discussing, a little girl in pajamas walked down the stairs barefoot, rubbing her eyes and shouted.

   "Oh, why did I forget our baby?" Betty Belet patted her forehead and said, "Where to go to Calabasas? Isn't Ally suitable? We can just play mother and daughter."

With that said, Betty Beilette beckoned to her daughter Alicia Craig who came downstairs, "Ali, come here. Tell mom, do you want to act with mom? Let's make a music video together." How?"

   "Acting? Okay!" The little girl immediately said with joy.

"Aili is indeed more suitable than Irene." Xiao Yao also agreed, "You are the whole family who has been dispatched. Thank you so much for your support." Alicia Craig is not yet nine years old, acting Katie’s role is indeed much more suitable than the thirteen-year-old Irene.

   Keith Craig and Betty Belet called Vincent Valle, Oriana Wilson and Lily Gibson respectively. I heard that it was Young Shaw who was going to make a video, and Craig’s family was still the whole family. Unexpectedly, all of them gave a positive answer.

  After the cast is finalized, all that remains is to set up a shooting team, prepare costumes and props, and choose a shooting location. In fact, in terms of the so-called shooting team, Xiao Yao mainly needs photographers. Both Xiao Yao and Keith Craig decided to find the two photographers who helped them shoot the raid on the wedding yesterday. This video does not require live radio, so there is no need for a recording engineer at all. Xiao Yao will design and arrange scenes, live lighting, props, costumes, and make-up, so he just picked it up on his own. And to prepare costumes and select venues, in Los Angeles and Hollywood, there are many shops that provide costumes and venues for shooting. In half a day, Xiao Yao is enough to be a local Keith Craig. All are ready to stop under the leadership of.

  As for the script, it was already in Xiao Yao's mind. So after half a day of preparation, Xiao Yao smoothly started shooting the video the next day.

  Since everyone is Xiao Yao’s acquaintance, there is no obstacle to Xiao Yao’s command and coordination.

  The shooting went smoothly. In a day and a half, Xiao Yao successfully shot all the necessary impact materials, and the rest was to do his own post-production. After thanking friends, especially the Craig family for their support, Xiao Yao returned the car he rented near the airport on the third afternoon as planned, and boarded the plane back to New York with Sun Tingting.

  After coming out of the airport in New York, Xiao Yao took a taxi and took Sun Tingting back to the Chambers Conservatory of Music.

"If something like this happens, do you really decide to stay here? In fact, there is not no good music school in China, and it is much safer than here." Standing at the door of Chambers, Xiao Yao asked again Sun Tingting said.

  In fact, after Sun Tingting came out of the police station, Xiao Yao, who was afraid of it, suggested to Sun Tingting to drop out of the Chambers Conservatory of Music and simply return to China. But Sun Tingting disagreed at the time, and Xiao Yao didn't insist. Now thinking that he would return to China tomorrow, Xiao Yao, who was worried again, brought up this matter to Sun Tingting again.

"I said, I don't want to give up halfway." Sun Tingting shook her head firmly, "It would be fine if I didn't come back then. Since I have come, I must finish my studies here. I don't want to write a letter on my resume in the future. Chambers Conservatory of Music dropped out."

Looking at Xiao Yao’s worried eyes, Sun Tingting felt moved, and then comforted Xiao Yao: “In fact, American schools are not as scary as you think, especially Chambers is still a professional music school. The school takes drugs. After all, there are only a handful of students, and people like Wyatt are an exception. Don’t worry so much. I’ve been here for almost half a year. Except you’re not around, in other aspects, whether it’s study or life, it’s actually a good life. Very good."

   "Okay," Xiao Yao can only nod helplessly when Sun Tingting is so determined, "I'm waiting for you to graduate in one and a half years."

   "Get off early! You have to go to class tomorrow, so you won't use the airport to see you off." Xiao Yao said goodbye after sending Sun Tingting to the dormitory.

  "Then next time you come back, you must notify me in advance." Sun Tingting demanded, "I will pick you up at the airport."

Xiao Yao inexplicably remembered that if it wasn't for what he was going to play, he would suddenly surprise Sun Tingting. Sun Tingting would have a perfect alibi to pick up the plane at the airport, and he would not be detained as the main suspect or even made it necessary Being prosecuted, he nodded immediately and promised: "I promise, I will never play this kind of surprise attack again. I must tell you in advance before coming."

   "Well," Sun Tingting hugged Xiaoyao with an attachment, "Pay attention to safety on the way back. Don't forget to contact me frequently after returning home."

  After coming out of Chambers Conservatory of Music, Xiao Yao no longer stayed in a nearby hotel. To make it easier to catch the morning flight tomorrow morning, Xiao Yao stayed in a hotel near the airport at night.

Lying on the hotel bed, Xiao Yao took out his cell phone and sent text messages to TJ, Paul, Zhou Jingyi, and Samien, informing him that he had returned to New York and would return to China tomorrow. In any case, these friends should also be notified when they return home.

  Xiao Yao did not let Sun Tingting come to see him at the airport, nor did he want others to send him. Therefore, the text messages Xiao Yao sent to several people only informed them that they were going to return home, but did not tell them their specific flight numbers. But there were only a few international flights from New York Airport to Yanjing a day, so when Xiao Yao arrived at the airport lobby with his luggage the next day, Paul and the others, who had arrived at the airport long ago, were already waiting for him at the airport.

  From Sun Tingting’s mouth, Xiao Yao knew that Paul and TJ had taken care of Sun Tingting in the past six months, and he was very grateful to them. I was helpless when I came to the United States this time and happened to have an accident with Sun Tingting. In order to accompany Sun Tingting, he did not get together with the two of them. He could only hug them hard and promised that next time he came to the United States or they had a chance to go to China. Thank them again.

   When facing the two girls Zhou Jingyi and Samien, Xiao Yao was a little embarrassed and unnatural. Just politely hugged them lightly as farewell, and didn't say much.

  The two girls are more generous than Xiao Yao. Zhou Jingyi unceremoniously complained that he quietly ran to Los Angeles with Sun Tingting, and then bluntly said that he would miss him, and even go to China to find him if he had the opportunity. Although Samien was not as straightforward as Zhou Jingyi, he just said that the journey went smoothly, but the tone in his eyes... Xiao Yao wanted to turn around and ran away.

Saying goodbye to a few friends, Xiao Yao, who was sitting on the plane, thought about the two girls, the more they looked at him, the bigger their heads became, so he asked the stewardess for a few glasses of vodka after the plane took off, and fell asleep after drinking. . When I came here, because I didn't know where and how much money he would spend with Sun Tingting in the United States, Xiao Yao frugally bought the economy class that needed a transfer. Now that I have been with Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao feels that after returning to China, he is definitely making money faster than spending money, so he bought a first-class ticket for a direct flight in luxury, which can also make him fall asleep comfortably after drinking. .

  After returning to Yanjing, Xiao Yao, who hadn't bought a car, still let Fang pick up the plane and let her send herself home.

   Xiao Yao, who had slept for a long time on the plane, was in good spirits after arriving home. In addition to the problem of jet lag, he did not want to rest, so he decided to continue working. There are still three or four days to leave school. Xiao Yao wants to finish the post-production of a music video and a short film before the start of school.

  Music videos are not very demanding and relatively simple, but the problem is that there is no official song audio. So the first thing Xiao Yao did after he went home and put down his luggage was to get into the studio in the basement of his home, and recorded the official studio version of "American Airlines Broken My Guitar", and then took it to give it to him. The video is the soundtrack.

  (End of this chapter)