Entertaining Children

   Chapter 466

  Xiao Yao’s first task in the New Year is to shoot the MV of "SingMeToSleep".

  The music style of this song is similar to that of "faded". The MV styles of the two previous songs are also the same. In terms of plot and story, the two can be said to be a continuation. After Xiao Yao brought these two songs into the world, no matter in the music or the MV, there was no change in style, only the singer who sang and the location where the MV was filmed.

  The MV for "faded" in the previous life was filmed abroad. Xiao Yao didn't want to go abroad specifically to shoot a MV, so he changed the shooting location to Yanjing. The MV of "SingMeToSleep" in the previous life was shot in Hong Kong. Although Xiao Yao on Hong Kong Island in this life is not unable to go, he also did not plan to go to the original place in the previous life to shoot, but instead set the shooting location of this MV in Shanghai. On the one hand, it is for the convenience of the nearby area. On the other hand, Xiao Yao feels that Shencheng is no worse than Hong Kong Island. Whether it is the shining night view of the modern city with many skyscrapers, or the old-fashioned, civilian life and streetscape, Shanghai City also has no shortage. He believes that in Shencheng, he can also capture the taste of confusion, exploration and search.

  On the first day of the new year, Xiao Yao wandered around in various streets and alleys in Shencheng, looking for suitable shooting scenes. Although the total time spent studying and working in Shanghai in the previous life was more than ten years, in this life, including taking photos, art exams and studying in Shenxi recently, Xiao Yao spent more than four months in Shanghai. This city is definitely not unfamiliar, but in order to find all the suitable scenes in the MV, Xiao Yao still spent a whole day. Next, Xiao Yao wanted to complete the filming of this MV within the remaining two days of the New Year's Day holiday.

  The MV of the song "SingMeToSleep" in Xiaoyao's plan is the same as the previous life, it has only one version, unlike "faded", there are two versions of the MV for the string version and the pure electronic version. The story of the MV continues the story of the "faded" electronic version MV, and the theme is still searching. Although there are no singers and string musicians in the screen like the "faded" string version MV, it is not his one-man show like the electronic version of the MV.

  The MV of this song was replaced by two male and one female three protagonists. They wandered in different locations in the city to find them. They were gathered together according to the clues given to them by three people of different professions in the city. So in terms of actors, Xiao Yao had to find two more protagonists and two to three actors in addition to himself.

  As for the heroine, Xiao Yao planned to let Gong Chen act. Anyway, the faces of the protagonists in the MV have not been fully and clearly exposed, so it doesn’t matter who you use it. As for the other actor, Xiao Yao simply asked Lin Qisan to help, brother, don't use it for nothing.

  In addition, there are three people who provided clues, that is, the three actors in the MV. In the original MV, the three people are a beggar on the pedestrian bridge, a taxi driver and a master in a printing factory. Xiao Yao felt that the actors and scenes of the master printing factory were more difficult to find, so he made some changes to the three clues and replaced them with a street performer and a taxi. The driver and a young old-fashioned grocery store clerk. Xu Yuan, Shazhou, and Nina Ayiguli, who happened to be free during the New Year's Day holiday, and Nina Ayigulilai played these three dragon roles.

  In the original MV, the three protagonists are all masked, the beggar is wearing a hat with his head down, and the taxi driver only shows an arm that is handing a piece of clue paper, and only the printer is showing his entire face. In Xiao Yao's filming plan, the three protagonists are still masked, but all of these three dragon suits have faceless shots. He thinks this kind of contrast makes it more interesting.

In filming, since most of the scenes of the entire MV were on busy streets, Xiao Yao didn’t want to and didn’t have the energy to contact the relevant parts to close the roads and venues on the streets, and find a bunch of extras to act as passersby for special shooting. , I want the actors to mix into the real street passers-by, pretend to be tourists with a handheld HD DV, and shoot the street shots they need with a behavior similar to a sneak shot.

Most of the shots of the three protagonists are separated, each of the protagonists in the middle is only exposed to a dragon-set character, and the largest number is the three protagonists gathered together. In the whole plot, the six actors will not appear in the same frame. of. The six actors Xiao Yao looked for, including himself, were three acting students and three singers. Although they did not have a serious photography professional videographer, there was no problem for them to operate a handheld DV. .

  So Xiao Yao simply saved the shooting team this time, so he and others took turns to shoot with the DV. Although the shots taken in this way will be a little shaky, what Xiao Yao just wants is this kind of effect that makes people feel more real.

On a pedestrian bridge on Fengyi Road in Shencheng, Xu Yuan looked at the pedestrians coming and going, and said to Xiao Yao nervously, "You really want to do street art here?" Xiao Yao asked her to help film the MV at the beginning. At that time, she agreed without saying a word, but she was really about to start filming, and she felt a little nervous in her heart.

   "Aren't you scared?" Xiao Yao smiled and said, "You have seen a lot of big scenes. I used to sing in a bar before, so this street scared you?"

   "But I really haven't done such a thing before!" Xu Yuan cried a little aggrieved.

  A star singer pretending to be a street performer performing on the street? Not everyone has no psychological barriers like Xiao Yao.

   "Why don't we change our roles." Sha Zhou suggested, "I will play a street performer, and Xu Yuan will play a taxi driver."

   "Teacher Shazhou, have you ever seen such a young and beautiful taxi driver Xu Yuan?" Gong Chen on the side looked at Shazhou with a smile and interjected, "You just want to take the opportunity to play Xiao Yao's hand-dish?"

Since   is a street performer, Xiao Yao happened to put his own hand-disc in again, and the street performer who arranged Xu Yuan to perform was playing hand-disc on the street. Xu Yuan is a musical instrument. After the New Year’s Eve party, Xiao Yao gave Xu Yuan a lot of performance skills and methods. On January 1st, Xiao Yao went everywhere to watch the shooting scenes, and Xu Yuan was in the hotel room. After practicing for a day, although it is not as proficient as Xiao Yao, it is not a problem to play a few tunes that can be heard completely, and it can be regarded as pretty.

"Hehe, I really want to play, but Xu Yuan didn't dare to play?" The Shazhou that was seen through was not embarrassed. He just looked at Xu Yuan and said, "Xiao Yao said that only two days of shooting time, we can't just do it. Is it consuming?"

"Who said I didn't dare?" Being excited by Shazhou, Xu Yuan finally summoned his courage and walked to the middle section of the overpass by the railing with the hand dish. He sat cross-legged on the ground and held the hand dish. Putting it on his lap, he pulled the hat on the sweater against his head with both hands, and started playing with his head down.

"Okay!" Xiao Yao watched Xu Yuan starting to perform street art, and said to Lin Qisan and Nina, who were holding high-definition DVs, "Do you know the position and camera angle you just mentioned? Let's start!" Haruka pulled the face towel on his neck back to his face, and put on the hat on his clothes.

  Lin Qisan and Nina Ayiguli both nodded. Nina stood by the railing about a quarter of the overpass, leaning on the railing and raised the DV in her hand, while Lin Qisan was holding the DV and standing three to five meters away in front of Xiao Yao. As Xiao Yao started to walk towards Xu Yuan from one end of the overpass, Lin Qisan held the DV while stepping back and patted Xiao Yao, while Nina Aiguli was standing and using the DV lens to follow Xiao Yao's figure. Take spot shots. Lin Qisan wears a black sweater, no face mask, just sunglasses, Nina is even more casual, not even a disguise, the two holding the DV look more like young tourists using the DV to shoot city travel records.

Xiao Yao looked around and passed by Xu Yuan. When he saw Xu Yuan, Lin Qisan's DV shot caught a trace of doubt in his eyes. Xiao Yao also stopped and turned back and stood in front of Xu Yuan. . At this time, there were already two or three passers-by who were attracted by Xu Yuan’s performance in front of Xu Yuan, but Xu Yuan kept his head down and played a musical instrument regardless, but when she saw Xiao Yao’s shoes, she suddenly raised it. He raised his head, took a close look at Xiao Yao, then stopped playing, took out a folded piece of paper from his clothes, and handed it to Xiao Yao.

  Lin Qisan’s DV camera not only captured Xu Yuan’s front face when he raised his head, but also gave a close-up shot of the Chinese characters on the paper by the way. Xiao Yao took a look at the paper, put it away, turned around and continued to walk towards the other end of the pedestrian bridge. Lin Qisan stopped and didn't continue to shoot in front of Xiao Yao, but took a photo of Xiao Yao's leaving.

  "What is this?" The strange behavior of several people naturally aroused some curiosity of passers-by. Some people even looked at the back of Xu Yuan and Xiao Yao who had left and began to mutter.

   "Withdraw!" Lin Qisan saw that the shot Xiao Yao confessed had been completed, closed the DV preview screen, lost a look at Xu Yuan, and followed Xiao Yao quickly to the stairs on the side of the pedestrian bridge.

  Xu Yuan’s reaction was not slow. Seeing the two leaving one after another, he immediately stood up, picked up the hand dish, and ran to the stairs at one end of the pedestrian bridge.

  Nina Ayiguli on the other side also put away the DV, merged with Shazhou and Gong Chen who were watching from the other end, and quickly left the pedestrian bridge from the stairs over there.

   "Do you feel that the girl's musical instrument just now is very strange, as if you have never seen it before." A passerby looked at Xu Yuan's back and asked a friend next to him.

   "It seems that I have never seen it...no, I have seen it!" The friend beside me slapped his thigh and said, "I remember, it was the hand-disc played at the New Year's Eve party the day before yesterday!"

"Really!" Another passerby who had also watched Xu Yuan's performance also said, "But didn't Li Hai say that the hand disc was invented by Xiao Yao at the party, but there are only two in the world? Why did the other one end up on the street? The performer has it? Is it possible that someone has come out of the cottage in two days?"

   "The performer raised his head just now, and I saw it. He looks very beautiful, as if he has seen it somewhere." said the boy in a pair of obvious lovers.

  "What do you mean? You know all beautiful girls, right?" The girl beside her became unhappy, and put **** on the boy's arm.

   "That's not what I meant," the boy said quickly, "I mean I have seen it on TV."

   "I saw it on TV? Is that a celebrity? Does someone celebrity perform on the street?"

"I really feel like I've seen it before," the boy said, and suddenly clapped his hands, "I remember, that girl is Xu Yuan. She was dressed in tattered clothes just now, so far from the image on TV, I was only momentary. I didn't think of it. But her face...really looks like Xu Yuan."

   "Yeah!" The girl suddenly screamed.

  "What are you doing?" The boy plugged his ear with a finger.

   "Xiao Yao!" The girl said excitedly.

   "Xiao Yao? Where is it?" The boy began to look around.

"Stupid, run away!" said the girl, "the one wearing a hat and mask just now! Since the performer is Xu Yuan, the one wearing a hat and mask must be Xiao Yao. Look at his image and the "faded" MV The image in here is the same. Didn’t you see someone holding a DV next to them, and then ran along with them? It must be Xiao Yao playing some new tricks, maybe he’s filming a new song MV? I don’t know just now. Did you take us in?"

   "Making a MV? How can someone shoot a MV on the street like this with a DV? They are all filmed like TV series and movies, with a special crew and actors and venues, and the scene is cleared." The boy refused to believe.

"Others are shooting like that, Xiao Yao is not necessarily." The girl reminded the boy, "The "Daydream" band ran to the real wedding scene of others, and it was Xiao Yao's idea to record it into a MV. He took a DV in He can definitely do some real-life MV shooting on the street!"

   "Really!" The boy nodded when he heard it, and immediately grabbed the railing and looked down, "They must continue to shoot and see if they can see them. I will take you around!"

   "Okay, okay!" The girl enthusiastically said.

  It's just that the two of them have been chatting for a long time, and when they look down, where can they still see the figures of Xiao Yao and others.

  When the six people returned to a seven-seater SUV borrowed by Lin Qisan, Lin Qisan suddenly said: "You said that if Xu Yuan or Xiao Yao were recognized just now, what would happen if they were surrounded by fans?"

  Before, I used to shoot Xiao Yao alone in the streets and alleys with no people. There is nothing to worry about. The pedestrian bridge scene is the first scene today where there are passers-by who don’t know the truth. Some people think of this scene. You must know that the six of them were involved in the filming today, and none of them brought an assistant.

   "I don't need to worry anyway. I guess no one knows me." Nina smiled and said, "The ones who need to worry about are some of the big stars who have just attended the New Year's Eve party, right?"

"There were only a few people just now. It doesn't matter if they were recognized." Xiao Yao, who had watched the pictures taken by Lin Qisan and Nina, smiled and said, "But at night, especially the shots of Gong Chen on the pedestrian street at night, that's what Test. Let me remind you, in case you are recognized, run quickly. If anyone is surrounded by passers-by, find a way to get out."

  (End of this chapter)