Entertaining Children

  Chapter 496 Press Conference begins

  After finishing the cover photo of Tang Jingjing's single, Xiao Yao went to the construction site of the press conference in the afternoon to check and accept the layout of the press conference. After several days of hard work, the layout of the site has basically met Xiao Yao's requirements, and the rest of the finishing work is enough to complete in half a day.

  The press conference will be held in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, so after setting up the scene today, Xiao Yao and the whole team still have one and a half days to practice and rehearse.

The focus and novelty of this conference, in addition to the clothing with LED lighting system, is the cooperation between the models and the complete scene formed by the T stage floor and the back background wall during the catwalk, so as to show a certain degree. The story.

The catwalk models are not actors. In general fashion catwalks, the fashion models are basically expressionless. It is impossible for Xiao Yao to let them learn to act at once, so that they can show rich facial expressions during the catwalk. And look. Wanting to make the performance of the press conference have storytelling, Xiao Yao put his idea on the background, and wanted to show the storytelling through the scenes on the ground and the background wall. This idea actually originated from the performance mode in which the program team made him a pair of "fire wings" on the big screen behind him when he performed the jump of "The Great Wall" during the Spring Festival Gala to match his leap of Chen Chen.

In order to achieve the desired story effect, most of these background scenes are not static pictures, but high-definition dynamic pictures or videos. This also requires that the speed of the models' steps and the playback speed of the dynamic pictures or videos must be matched. Very good. In a day and a half, it was also a challenge for the models to train the catwalk speed to be highly consistent with the playback speed of the background scene.

  In addition, Xiao Yao prepared four songs as background music because he divided the seventeen sets of costumes from this conference into four parts for display, which means that there will be four short stories. On average, a story only shows four sets of clothes, that is, there are only four models and four characters.

  For some stories, four characters are enough, for some stories, the number of characters is too small. Therefore, Xiao Yao also intends to use projection to directly project some supporting roles in the story onto the background scene. The position of these projections will also move with the movement of the model during the catwalk, so operating the projector has become a certain difficult task. As the planner and story writer of the press conference, Xiao Yao is most familiar with the environment and storyline of the press conference, so he took this job as his own. Therefore, in addition to handling possible emergencies as the person in charge of the scene, Xiao Yao has to operate the equipment that controls the projector in the operating room and become an operator.

   Taking part in several positions, Xiao Yao became the busiest person during the whole rehearsal period. Fortunately, his brain is much better than others. He has been exercising with good physical quality and strong energy, and he can still sustain it.

  After a day and a half of practice rehearsal, Yin Xi and Xiao Yao's first fashion show for the co-branded brand finally took place as scheduled.

  Fashion conference is not an award ceremony, and there is no red carpet show. However, because Yin Xi's publicity work is relatively well done, before the launch of the conference, a lot of media and fans have gathered outside the studio's conference to see his star.

  The celebrity guests present were mainly concentrated in three areas, namely the fashion circle, the film and television circle and the music circle. Among them, the star models, designers, editors of fashion magazines and others in the fashion circle are mainly Yin Xi's personal connections. Although Xiao Yao is also a fashion photographer, he was born abroad with Chen Xuan since he was a child. Whether it is his photographic works or his identity as a photographer, they are better in foreign fashion and photography circles than in China. Well-known. Yin Xi is very conventional, slowly step by step from the domestic to the international. Although he has become an international supermodel in recent years, and his endorsements are also international first-line big names, but in terms of the popularity and personal connections in the domestic fashion circle, Yin Xi is still stronger than Xiao Yao, so people in this area are all There are more people who are saving Yin Xi's face.

  People in the fashion circle must look at the conference to be more professional, but in terms of popularity and popularity, these models, designers, and fashion magazine editors are definitely not comparable to the stars of the entertainment industry such as actors and singers. The fans who gathered outside the scene also came to see these people.

  Although Yin Xi has already played the role of vase in the movie, but when it comes to his connections in the film and television industry, Yin Xi is not as good as Xiao Yao, not to mention the music industry. So for the stars in these two aspects, Yin Xi was looking for a star who had a good relationship with Xiao Yao, and he still contacted and invited him through Xiao Yao's agent.

  Xiao Yao’s personal brand press conference, his own studio artists are naturally all present to support. Both Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying have been famous in their respective circles for more than ten or twenty years. If they come forward to invite people, the celebrity guests present at this conference will probably be no less than any well-known domestic awards. ceremony.

   However, Xiao Yao and Yin Xi both think this is their own brand release, and they don't want to play the signs of Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying. Yin Xi was unwilling, and Xiao Yao didn’t want to give people the impression that Xiao Yao’s personal brand development conference was supported by his parents. Therefore, all the celebrities invited have had cooperation with Xiao Yao, and the relationship is relatively close. Yao's own face can be invited, and those stars who are not familiar with Xiao Yao but have good relations with Xiao Siqi or Ye Jiaying, neither of them are on the invitation list.

  Even so, the star guest lineup is already very eye-catching.

In terms of actors, although Xiao Yao only made one TV series and one short film, "Ling Yun Zhi" was a great success at the beginning. In the crew, Huang Shi, Chen Feng, Su Chengying and others have won awards or nominations for this drama and developed They are all very good, and now they are the backbone of the domestic Mesozoic actors, and they are among the first-line stars. Back then, they all said that the performance was due to the stimulation of Xiao Yao. Therefore, when Xiao Yao wanted to organize a personal brand development conference, they were very "stimulated" to face.

Not to mention the singers. Although Xiao Yao is cooperating with young new singers such as Gong Chen, Xu Yuan, and Fan Linxuan, the wonderful performances in several shows have also made Chen Huan, Shen Na, Sha Zhou, and Wan Peiling. The veteran mentor-level singer was very impressed, and he had a good year-end relationship with him, so when Fang still contacted them on behalf of Xiao Yao, they also showed up to cheer.

Coupled with the celebrity artists in my studio, the close-knit personalities of the three families of Lin Qisan, Zhao Rui, and Zhou Zhihao, and Sun Zhihao and his wife, such a lineup of celebrity guests is enough to help this conference attract enough media to report. Up.

After being led into the press conference venue by the on-site staff under the astigmatism of many reporters, while the press conference had not officially started, the stars who were arranged to sit in the front row also gathered together and chatted quietly. The content of the chat is naturally about Xiao Yao who is related to them.

"Old Xiao, your son is okay. This person's brand has been established." Shen Na smiled and said to Xiao Siqi beside her. "The one he helped Chen Yuhan in "Good Voice" made other students I was very envious. I thought he was a good designer at that time."

"Yes, and the costumes designed for Gong Chen and the Green Apple girl in "Cool Electronic Music" are also very beautiful." Sha Zhou and Wan Peiling also came over, "I don't know what he gave to himself this time. What kind of clothes the brand has designed."

"This time the clothing was not designed by him." Xiao Siqi smiled. "This brand is a joint brand of him and Yin Xi. I heard him say that he just provided a patent for a lighting system. Here is the clothing design. Yin Xi and his designers are in charge. Actually, I don’t know much about fashion. I just come to join in the fun, but we all play music. You can listen to the background music later. He’s here. I wrote four new songs for this conference this time, I helped record two of them, and I haven’t heard two of them myself."

  No matter how Xiao Yao’s career develops, Xiao Siqi always cares most about Xiao Yao’s performance in music, so when chatting with several music friends, he unconsciously brought the topic to music-related aspects.

"What, Xiao Yao wrote four new songs for the press conference as background music?" Sha Zhou was taken aback, then shook his head and smiled, "He is also very good at writing songs, as if anytime, as long as he needs it, he can do whatever he wants. Write a song. In this regard, I think it’s really hard for someone to match him."

"Who said no," Xiao Siqi said, "I always think he is lazy. If he hadn't participated in a "Good Voice", he wouldn't know when his first album would be released. But I found out last year. Later, he wrote a lot of songs, even more than the ones I wrote last year, and this also includes the half a year of his senior year in high school. The problem is that he writes songs too casually, and writes for himself for a while , I will write to others in a while. I tried to send him a second album last year but couldn’t make up enough, which made me very helpless.”

"Isn't it easy?" Sha Zhou laughed, "Since he made his first album after participating in "Good Voice", let him participate in another music show. Doesn't he love to sing new songs on the show? Participate in a few episodes of the show, and then put together those songs from last year, won’t there be a second album?"

  "This is a good idea." Xiao Siqi said brightly, "You can think about it. I think of some way to get him on another music show."

   "I have to think of a way?" Shazhou said strangely.

"Yes," Xiao Siqi said with a wry smile, "this kid has a big idea. It's not that he will do whatever I told him to do. The time I participated in "Good Voice" was when he came back from the United States during the summer vacation of the second year of high school. . And he is very picky about the program, not all programs are willing to go on. At that time, in addition to "Good Voice", I also told him a piece of "Happy Boys" by Shonan Satellite TV, and asked him to participate in the audition, you know him Tell me what? What am I going to do? Be a judge?"

"Ha, your son really has a personality." Sha Zhou smiled, "In that case, you can wait for him to find a music show for him when he can't be free during summer vacation, isn't it over? You see that he promised me to participate in that electronic music Is the show very refreshing."

"How can it be that simple?" Xiao Siqi said, "During the third year of high school, he was too bored and even pushed the Spring Festival Gala. I promised you to go to "Cool Electronic Music" in order to fight for the face of Chinese musicians and fight against Korean groups. In the summer vacation of high school, he took the title of No. 1 in a puzzle program, then made a short film, and then went to see his girlfriend in the United States. This year, at least the Spring Festival Gala during the winter vacation this year, and then he played a photography project, giving the "Poetry Conference" "Taking promotional photos. Who knows what he will play during the summer vacation, maybe he will go to filming, but he hasn't filmed a TV series in years."

  On the other side, several film and television stars surrounding Ye Jiaying talked about Xiao Yao and quickly moved from this press conference to other places.

   "Sister Jiaying, Xiao Yao hasn't been filming for several years, right? He won't have to wait until he graduated from the Department of Performing Arts in Shenxi before taking the show?" Chen Feng asked Ye Jiaying curiously.

"Chen Feng, your news is too unclear." Before Ye Jiaying could answer, Huang Shi smiled and said to Chen Feng, "Who said Xiao Yao hadn't filmed in a few years? He made a short movie last summer. I'd better write and direct myself as the leading role, but I didn't ask you to act."

   "Xiao Yao is still a director by himself?" Chen Feng really didn't know this.

   "Yes, I, Cheng Xi, Huang Shi, Cheng Ying, and Shao Hua all performed in his short film." Ye Jiaying smiled and nodded.

"This kid is really not interesting!" Chen Feng immediately said unhappy, "I won't say anything about you, Cheng Xi, and Brother Shaohua, but since he even looked for Huang Shi and Chengying, he just didn't look for it. Me? It's a shame that I took care of him so much in the crew."

"Come on," Huang Shi smiled and waved his hand. "Back then, he used himself as a "shadow" in the crew. He didn't play tricks on all of us. He was only polite and respectful to you. Where is he? You take care of him, obviously he takes care of you. This time the short film should not have your share."

"Don't listen to Huang Shi," Ye Jiaying explained with a smile, "It's just that there is no role suitable for you in his short film, so I didn't find you. In fact, you don't need to envy Huang Shi and Chengying, you know they are acting in the short film. Is there any role in this? Especially Huang Shi, let me tell you quietly..."

"By the way, Sister Jiaying," Huang Shi interrupted quickly, "What's the situation with Xiao Yao's short film? Didn't it say that it was in post-production? It's been almost half a year, why didn't I see any movement? What? Didn't he forget it?"

"He hasn't forgotten, nor is there no movement, but waiting for a big movement." Ye Jiaying said, "He sent the short film to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival to participate in the selection and was shortlisted for the international competition. He plans to Let the short film appear at the film festival first. Regardless of whether it is awarded or not, the short film will be released after the festival is over."

  "Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival? Short film Cannes?" Huang Shi was surprised, "This is his first short film, so it was shortlisted? This little guy is too awesome!"

"Now, you are telling Chen Feng what Cheng Ying and I did in the short film. He will be envious." Huang Shi continued with a smile, "None of our previous performances of film and television works have appeared in France. After that, we can all be regarded as one step ahead of him to go international."

   "The short film Cannes?" Chen Feng was also surprised, then looked up and said, "By the way, what about Xiao Yao? Why didn't you see him as the master at this conference?"

   "No need to look for it." Ye Jiaying said, "He went behind the scenes to work today. You won't be able to see him until the press conference is over."

  Ye Jiaying was talking, the lights on the scene suddenly dimmed, and the audience gradually became quiet. Then, Xiao Yao's voice came from the speaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming to this brand launch! The launch will begin now!"

  (End of this chapter)