Entertaining Children

  Chapter 474 Spring Festival Gala Rehearsal

  After a day’s rest at home, Xiao Yao devoted himself to the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala.

  Whether it is "The Great Wall" or "Songs for Nobody", there are ready-made live stage versions. But after all, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is not the same as the general reality show’s music variety TV shows. Both of these shows are not simple. Simply copy the original performance in the show to the Spring Festival Gala stage. The two shows are in There are some changes in the details of the performance, and in order not to make mistakes in the rehearsal and the official performance, the details of these changes must be well-prepared in advance.

  Let’s talk about "The Great Wall" first. When performing in the show, Xiao Yao, Chen Chen and the dancers who accompanied the dancers were all dressed in black, and the Spring Festival was a very festive day, so the director team of the Spring Festival Gala suggested to Xiao Yao whether the color of the costumes could be changed. Change to a more festive red.

Of course, it’s not that other colors such as black or white cannot appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage. In fact, there are also many show actors’ costumes in the Spring Festival Gala that are black or white. It’s just that the director group feels that "The Great Wall" is a group dance show, if it is red, It seems that the effect may be better. However, the director team of the Spring Festival Gala also stated that this is just a suggestion. If it can be changed, the original black costume is acceptable. After all, one of the highlights of this show is the lights on the clothes. If there is a problem with the lighting system due to changing clothes, it is a small loss.

  For this proposal, Xiao Yao gladly accepted it. Xiao Yao himself didn't think much about wearing the same costumes as in previous shows. Not to mention that Rick has come to China, even if Rick is not here, he can remove those sets of lighting systems from his original clothes and put them into new clothes. But now that Rick is here, Xiao Yao won't waste it. He simply asked Rick to rebuild a few new lighting systems and install them in his re-customized dark red costumes. This is nearly a year later, and Rick has made many improvements to the lighting system. Not only is the light bulb used smaller and brighter, there are also more options for operation and light conversion. Xiao Yao can also use it to perform in the spring evening.

  On the issue of clothing colors, the director team only suggested, and did not make strong demands. However, in the performance of the action, the director team explicitly forbids Xiao Yao to fly out from behind Chen Chen, and the action of sprinkling talcum powder in the air for freeze-frame modeling must be changed. The Spring Festival Gala is live broadcast, Xiao Yao's other actions are okay, but what if you sprinkle talcum powder on the Spring Gala? They don't want to send staff to the stage in front of so many audiences to clean up the white dust. The director team only banned Xiao Yao from sprinkling talcum powder. It did not cancel that action. On the contrary, they also made other articles on this action.

  Xiao Yao’s lighting suits are very technological and have great visual effects. Then the Spring Festival Gala stage will cooperate in these two aspects. Xiao Yao still flew into the air, but without sprinkling talcum powder, he directly gave Xiao Yao a pair of fire wings special effects on the big screen at the back, which was also very technological and had better visual effects.

  But in this way, Xiao Yao also put forward higher requirements, that is, the coordination with the special effects pictures on the large screen on site. If it is sprinkled with talcum powder, Xiao Yao can control the height of the jump himself, as long as he crosses Chen Chen, it doesn't matter if it is taller and shorter, but it should be combined with the special effect wings on the big screen of the Spring Festival Gala. There are also specific requirements for position and speed when taking a freeze-frame motion in the air.

This is a bit difficult, and the director team of the Spring Festival Gala don’t know if it will be able to cooperate successfully. Anyway, sprinkling talcum powder will definitely not work. This plan is to examine the effect of the rehearsal. If it can work, if it can’t cooperate, Then let Xiao Yao just fly out from behind Chen Chen. Of course, Xiao Yao hopes that the performance can be as perfect as possible, so this is one of the key points of his early practice.

  In this show, in addition to the two singers Xiao Yao and Chen Chen, there are backing dancers and harmony. In terms of dancers, the dancers of the "Chenxi" dance troupe, Xiao Yao and Chen Chen are all under the Qi Jia studio of Xiao Yao’s family. They cooperated tacitly. Xiao Yao would not agree to change, and the director group of the Spring Festival Gala did not want to change. But as for the harmony actors, it is different.

  At the beginning of the program, the four harmony singers were temporarily found by Wan Peiling to help Xiao Yao, and they were not familiar with Xiao Yao and Chen Chen, so they were not the only ones. Of course, the resources on the Spring Festival Gala are not comparable to Wan Peiling’s. Not only did she directly recruit professional opera actors from the National Opera to help them sing harmony, but she also found eight people at once, which was the harmony in the original program. Twice the number of singers. Therefore, Xiao Yao and Chen Chen have to practice with these eight opera actors to cultivate a tacit understanding between each other.

  And Gong Chen and Xu Yuan’s "Songs Not for Whom", apart from Xu Yuan’s costume is not suitable, the way they sang in the show was not suitable for the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. The Spring Festival Gala is not a musical TV program that needs to fully demonstrate the singing skills of the singer. The singing style of the entire stage performance must be much more "gentle". Those who hear the scalp tingling treble should be appropriately reduced, and overall it is even more It's close to the style of the version scored in the MV of this song made by Xiao Yao.

  This style of singing, Gong Chen and Xu Yuan only sang when they recorded the official version in the studio. They sang this in a live performance and had to be accompanied by a stage performance. They both had to practice again. This song was written by Xiao Yao for the two of them. Xiao Yao was responsible for the arrangement and recording of the studio version used in the MV. Therefore, in addition to the practice of "The Great Wall", Xiao Yao had to find time to instruct Gong Chen and Xu Yuan's practice.

  After more than a week of practice, Xiao Yao, Chen Chen, Gong Chen, and Xu Yuan participated in the first makeup rehearsal of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala as scheduled.

  In the two groups of artists, the song by Gong Chen and Xu Yuan was ranked first, and they also took the stage for rehearsal first. When the two of them were singing, the video of the song made by Xiao Yao was also played on the big screen as the background. Because the videos in this MV were all processed into black and white by Xiao Yao, the director team asked Xu Yuan and Gong Chen who sang on the stage to dress in black and white. Gong Chen was still in the white gauze dress that was "fairy fluttering" in the show, Xu Yuan changed into a more conservative black silk evening dress. Although it looks a bit less sexy, it is also beautiful. clatter.

  The two are very familiar with the song, and their performance during the rehearsal did not make any major mistakes. They completed the rehearsal smoothly, and then sat aside and waited to see the performance of Xiao Yao and Chen Chen.

  There are several other shows between the two programs, so they both waited in the audience for a while before seeing Xiao Yao and Chen Chen on stage for rehearsal.

"Xiao Yao, when you do that aerial maneuver in a while, hang up Wia and try it?" Before the rehearsal of Xiao Yao and Chen Chen began, the scene director Wen An suddenly proposed to Xiao Yao, "We can With the help of Avia to control your flying height, you can also help you stay at a specified height. In this way, the wings on the screen and your movements in the air will cooperate much better."

Wen An is still worried about Xiao Yao and the special effect wings on the big screen. It happened that the previous show was acrobatics. In order to ensure safety, several movements of the acrobats were performed while hanging Via. Wen An did. Suddenly thought of this method. Although Xiao Yao is the youngest performer on stage, this show was originally created by Xiao Yao, and the most dangerous and difficult moves were also made by Xiao Yao. Obviously he was the person in charge of this show, so Wen An also directly interacted with Xiao Yao. Dialogue and communication.

  It’s worthwhile to hang Wei Ya Xiaoyao, but the overall effect is...

Xiao Yao said to the chief director Wen An, "The director, if you use Wia to control it, it will probably disrupt the overall rhythm of the song. And no matter how inconspicuous these two wires are, the sharp-eyed audience can still see it. Acrobatics The actor hangs Wia for safety, and the audience can understand it. But we have a song and dance show, to hang Wia to give me wings on the screen, which seems too deliberate."

   "Do you mean to follow the previous one?" Wen An said.

"Yes, just follow what we used to do," Xiao Yao said, "have you already told me where the wings appear on the big screen, and the specific height I need to vacate? We have been practicing well during this period of time. Let's try it the same way."

"Then you try it first. If it doesn't work, let's hang WIA again." Wen An thought about it and said, "The overall rhythm problem, we will discuss it later. After all, there are still more than ten days. There will be a second dress rehearsal."

   "Okay." Xiao Yao nodded helplessly.

  Xiao Yao, Chen Chen and several dancers standing in line, the lights on the stage are slightly dimmed, the accompaniment music sounds, and the rehearsal of the show begins.

When Xiao Yao and Chen Chen performed this song for the first time, Gong Chen watched it live. Xu Yuan also watched the video of the song several times, but once again saw Xiao Yao and Chen Chen in the CCTV studio. When performing this song live, the two of them felt deeply shocked just like the other staff on the scene.

  "They never want to cross~"

   Accompanied by a loud roar, Xiao Yao rose into the air from behind Chen Chen. This time, Xiao Yao stood upright like a javelin while he was ascending, his arms were tightly attached to the sides of his legs, and he waited until he felt almost reached the specified height before Xiao Yao's waist and abdomen were fierce. Forced to stop the upward trend, the whole person had a short pause in the air, and then both hands were lifted up to the armpits, and then quickly opened to the sides. At this time, on the big screen behind Xiao Yao, two red flames appeared on the place corresponding to Xiao Yao's shoulders. As Xiao Yao opened his arms horizontally to both sides, a pair of wings emerged from the two flames. , Following his arms spread out to both sides.

   "Beautiful!" Many people on the scene exclaimed in their hearts.

  Xiao Yao began to fall, and his arms began to rise from the horizontal position. The roots of a pair of wings on the big screen moved down synchronously with Xiao Yao's whereabouts, and remained behind Xiao Yao's shoulders and back, while the wingspan also changed to waving upward following Xiao Yao's upward movement of his arms.

When Xiao Yao was about to fall to the ground, the pair of flame wings that had turned upwards were also quickly retracted into the flame at the root, and when Xiao Yao’s feet fell on the ground, the two flames also appeared from the big screen. On the disappearance.

   "Okay!" Although the rehearsal performance on the stage is not over yet, many people on the scene can't wait to stand up and applaud Xiao Yao on the stage.

   "This effect is amazing!" The deputy director beside Wen An couldn't help but clapped and said, "This cooperation is simply perfect!"

"Yeah, I didn't expect the first rehearsal to be successful," Wen An was also applauding, nodding his head and smiling, "There is a mark on the jumping position on the stage. As long as you go straight up and down, you don't have to jump. It is not easy for them to grasp the height of the air so accurately. I told him that the height of his shoulders when he reached the highest point was three meters and eight meters, and his error was definitely not more than five centimeters."

   "Wen guide, how effective is it? Don't you need to try again?" After the performance, Xiao Yao smiled and asked Wen Andao to the applause of everyone.

   "The effect is great!" Wen An gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "If you can maintain this level during the second rehearsal, I won't let you hang WIA!"

  (End of this chapter)