Entertaining Children

   Chapter 518

The popularity of short movies is directly reflected in the number of clicks on these four video websites. In just one week, the number of clicks and plays of this short movie on the four websites exceeded 10 million times, which also made it costly to buy the short film network. The three video sites with the right to broadcast feel it is worth the money.

  At first, Xiao Yao made a short film just to satisfy one of his wishes. He originally planned to upload it on the website for free viewing by netizens. Therefore, all the actors he sought were played by acquaintances sought by the relationship for free. But when he came across a video website that he found in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Xiao Yao discovered that this short film is actually profitable. He Xiao Yao really needs a website to spread his work, but the website also needs good and attractive works to attract netizens and earn traffic and clicks.

  Traffic is the foundation of a website's life. When it comes to works that can obviously increase website traffic, even if it is not suitable for channels and sections that can only be watched by paying members, the website will spend money to buy broadcast rights. And his work with the title of Clermont Ferrand International Short Film International Film Festival award-winning short film is undoubtedly the kind of work that can be expected to bring a lot of network traffic.

   Xiao Yao made money with this short film, and has not forgotten the relatives and friends who helped him star in this short film for free. So when he got the copyright fees for the five websites, he also expressed his heart to the actors who appeared in this short film. To friends like Su Chengying, Huang Shi, and Cheng Xi, Xiao Yao simply and directly sent them a red envelope as a thank you. For relatives and elders such as Lin Shaohua, Ye Jiaying, Xiao Chengru, and Tian Fangzhen, Xiao Yao carefully selected a gift that was worth the same amount of red envelopes and gave it out at a high price.

  So when there was a lot of discussion about Xiao Yao’s short film on the Internet, Xiao Yao was hiding in school and racking his brains thinking about what gifts to give to his relatives and elders. You Fang and Pei Minyi can help him with errands, but Xiao Yao still has to decide who to send something.

From the time when the recording was completed and returning to Shencheng to the recording of "Singer", to be precise, before Xiao Yao participated in the recording of "Singer", Xiao Yao still had about three weeks of preparation time. During this period, Xiao Yao except for the short film The actor prepares red envelopes and gifts, attends classes at school, and discusses the script of parkour movies with Mu Ying, Zhao Rui and others once a week. The most important thing is to prepare to participate in the "Singer" program.

As the first kick-out singer, Xiao Yao will not appear until the third period. However, even if the short film became popular on the Internet recently, the program team did not disclose Xiao Yao in advance. As the first kicking club singer to participate in "Singer" news, it can also be seen how strict the "Singer" program has done to keep the singer's identity confidential. Similarly, Xiao Yao cannot know in advance who the seven starting singers on the show are. In addition to guessing that he might have his father Xiao Siqi, he knew nothing about the other six players before the show was broadcast.

  However, "Singer" is also a program that is recorded and broadcasted. The recording time and the broadcast time are about two weeks apart. It was not until the week when Xiao Yao set off to record the third episode of the show in southern Hunan that Xiao Yao saw the first episode on TV and knew who the first seven singers were.

Xiao Yao guessed that Xiao Siqi was indeed in the starting list of seven. In addition to Xiao Siqi, there are two singers from Treasure Island, one from Hong Kong Island, two singers from the Mainland and one singer from South Korea. . Among these people, the youngest is also the Mesozoic in their 30s, and the older ones are all the veterans who have been in the music industry for nearly 30 years, and the lineup can be said to be very strong.

  Among these people, what Xiao Yao pays the most attention to is of course the performance of his father Xiao Siqi. In the first qualifying session, Xiao Siqi finally got the third place with an adaptation of "The Night I Miss You". This is a relatively safe ranking. As long as the performance in the second episode of the program is not too disproportionate, their father and son should be able to appear on the same stage at the same time.

  On the morning and afternoon of the recording of the "Singer" program, there are arranged rehearsals of the singer and the live band of the program. Each singer can have more than half an hour to an hour. At night, the program is officially recorded. Therefore, Xiao Yao did not leave on the day of the recording of the show like a fast recording, but arrived in Shonan one day in advance.

  At around nine o'clock in the morning on the day the program was recorded, the door of the hotel room where Xiao Yao was staying was knocked.

   Xiao Yao opened the door and found that standing outside the door was a beautiful girl in her twenties. Behind her, there was a man carrying a camera.

  "Agent?" Xiao Yao asked.

  Like the show in the previous life, the "Singer" of this world also arranges an agent for each singer, usually by the host of the Shonan TV station. Seeing the camera, Xiao Yao immediately guessed the identity of the girl in front of him.

   "Hello Xiao Yao, I am Shen Man, and your agent on the show." Sure enough, the girl smiled and stretched out her hand to Xiao Yao.

   "Hello." Xiao Yao stretched out his hand and shook Shen Man, and said with a smile, "Isn't it ten o'clock? It's early enough!"

   "We were afraid of traffic jams, so we set off early." Shen Man asked with a smile, "Uh...can I go in? Or should we wait outside for a while?"

  In addition to broadcasting the performance of the singers on stage, this program will also record some behind-the-scenes content interspersed in the program. The first contact between the singer and the program crew is usually the content that must be filmed. The program director group originally planned to send the film crew directly to Xiao Yao’s school to take pictures of Xiao Yao’s dormitory, but Xiao Yao thought that he didn’t want to disturb his classmates. Since I refused, after discussing with the program director group, I changed it to start from the hotel. This is one of the reasons why he arrived in Shonan one day earlier.

   More than nine o'clock in the morning is not too early for ordinary people, but for singers and artists, there are many people who are still sleeping at this time. Before Shen Man came, he was a little worried that Xiao Yao would not get up, but he didn't expect that he would open the door as soon as he knocked on it. However, she was also afraid that Xiao Yao was just getting up, and the chaos in the shooting room would affect his image. That's why she asked.

   "Ah! Come in!" Xiao Yao quickly opened the door without hesitation, and invited Shen Man and the cameraman into the room.

  Shen Man walked into Xiao Yao's room with a hint of curiosity, and looked around. Because I was staying in a hotel room, the pillows and quilts on the bed were scattered and kept as they were after waking up. Other than that, other places were relatively neat.

"What is this? Is the song score to be sung today?" Shen Man suddenly noticed a few pieces of white paper and a pencil lying on the desk, and then smiled and guessed, "I got up early in the morning to prepare? Saying why you got up so early, it seems that you attach great importance to today's performance. Huh? Why does it seem that there are still paintings?"

   "Uh..." Xiao Yao touched his nose in embarrassment, "That's not a song score. I'm currently writing a script. I'm revising and improving it just now. Those paintings are sub-shots of paintings."

   "Huh?" Shen Man and the cameraman behind him were a little dumbfounded. A singer is still writing a script on the day of the competition? Is this to say that he is big-hearted or did not put this show in his eyes, and did not put the first singers he was going to challenge in his eyes?

   "Actually, I have already prepared the song to be sung tonight." Xiao Yao certainly couldn't let them think about the latter, and then quickly explained.

  The agent and the singer are tied together. If the singer is eliminated, then his agent in this show will not appear again, so of course Shen Man hopes that Xiao Yao can go as far as possible. Then Shen Man wants to ask the director team to cut the previous paragraph. Stop broadcasting. But after coming in, there was nothing left, so Shen Man started to talk to Xiao Yao on other topics.

   "I think your hair seems a little wet. Did you get up in the morning and take a shower?" Shen Man noticed Xiao Yao's hair.

   "Well, I went to the hotel gym in the morning to exercise for a while, and then ate breakfast. After you came back, you came soon after taking a shower. If you were a while early, I might not have come back yet." Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Good living habits!" Shen Man exclaimed with a smile. This is no problem, you can use it to broadcast.

"The rehearsal for your joint training session with the band is arranged in the afternoon, but in the morning you have to record a pre-match interview with a kick hall singer. Can you leave now?" Shen Man briefly chatted with Xiao Yao and said to him Started today's itinerary.

   "Wait a minute, my agent may not get up yet, I will ask first." Then, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and started calling Fang.

  Although most of the time in this show is the agent and the singer in the show, when the singer is performing, the scene of the actual agent standing together with the agent in the show will also be fixed. Therefore, Fang still followed Xiao Yao in this recording of the show. Since the director team said that the meeting time was ten o'clock, Fang still most likely hadn't gotten up at this time.

   "Sorry, please wait for 20 minutes." Putting down the phone, Xiao Yao apologized to Shen Man. Fang still hadn't gotten up yet.

   "It's okay, we were here early." Shen Man quickly waved his hand. Although I was surprised that the agent got up later than the artist, but his face was forced to endure it and didn't show it at all.

   More than twenty minutes later, Fang who had been packing up still knocked on Xiao Yao's door. After introducing each other with Shen Man, a few people set off for the Shonan Television Station building.

  The interview is not in the studio, but in a special interview booth. The recording time is not very long. The main thing is to ask some questions such as the mood and feelings when I am sure I will become the first singer of the season, my understanding and evaluation of several other starting singers, and whether I can play in the hall. Questions such as expectations of success. Xiao Yao's answer was quite satisfactory, and there was nothing unexpected. Considering Xiao Yao's age and his first time PK with the big names in the industry, Xiao Yao's calm expression and well-preserved answer were actually quite unexpected when interviewing the director on-site.

Only by becoming a regular singer can you enter the numbered singer preparation room. Kick Hall singers cannot enter the Kick Hall until they become regular singers. So after the interview, Shen Man took Xiao Yao and Fang to the temporary lounge. The environment of the temporary lounge is also very good. The program team not only prepares a guitar for Xiao Yao, but also an extra gift.

After entering the temporary rest room, Xiao Yao picked up the guitar in the room and started playing. Shen Man pointed to a box on the table and said: "The program group has given the Kick Hall singer a privilege, do you want to know."

   "Think, you can help me see it." Xiao Yao smiled while plucking the strings.

   "Okay." Shen Man opened the box, took out a card from it, and said, "You can watch the rehearsal performance of the other six starting singers live, once!"

   "How? Do you want to see it?" Shen Man smiled and raised the card in his hand.

   "Yes." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, then continued, "I can go to see them rehearsal, then can they look at me?"

"Of course not, otherwise what is called a privilege!" Shen Man said, "Except for the host now, other singers don’t know who the kick hall singer is. If they can go to watch your rehearsal, then they know what kick hall singer is. Who else is there? Although the host knows that the kicking hall singer is you, he must keep the other singers a secret and can’t tell him. Later, when they rehearse, we will sit in the audience seats. Because on stage The lights are very bright, the audience is very dark, we can see them, they can’t see us."

   "That's it." Xiao Yao suddenly realized, "Then I won't go!"

   "Huh?" Shen Man was dumbfounded again, and asked a little anxiously: "Why don't you go? A good opportunity to investigate the enemy's situation, don't you wonder what song they will sing?"

"Curious, I want to watch it too. But I think I can watch their rehearsal, but they can't watch my rehearsal. It feels a bit unfair, and I think that after watching their rehearsal, I might be psychologically affected. Maybe it will. I'm nervous or something. I thank the program group for the privilege, but I'll just stay here and play guitar." Xiao Yao shrugged.

   "Director, what should I do?" Shen Man got up and asked the director of the camera crew in the room. The part of picking up Xiao Yao from the hotel just now was relatively simple. Shen Man took the cameraman and the two of them. Now there is a camera crew in the room who is following the filming director. Shen Man can't make his own decisions, so he can only ask the director.

  The director of the film crew can't be the master either. Xiao Yao is planning to watch other singers' rehearsals but they will be edited and played. If he doesn't go, there will be a lot of broadcast material missing. But insisted on him to go? The director of the film crew simply took out the phone and called the chief director and producer Tao Ran, asking him for instructions.

   "Okay." The film crew director hung up the phone and reluctantly said to Shen Man, "Director Tao said, just take him."

"Before the show starts recording, can I pretend to be a videographer and go to the singers' lounge?" Xiao Yao put down the guitar and asked, "They will definitely guess who the kicker singer is. I want to hear what they will say. Would you guess it was me."

   "Huh?" Shen Man and the film crew director were dumbfounded again, "What the **** are you guys trying to make?"

   "Yes!" This time the film crew director did not ask for instructions again, but directly made the decision. The same is peeking. This is just a substitute for Xiao Yao's peeking at the footage of the singers' rehearsal, and the nature of eavesdropping on others behind them is different from peeking at the rehearsal. When I talk about it later, the expressions of other singers are definitely It's more exciting than knowing that I was peeked at the rehearsal.

  (End of this chapter)