Entertaining Children

   Chapter 739

  After shooting the part of the parking lot, the task of the shooting team has been completed. Xiao Yao settled the remuneration with the filming team. After thanking everyone for their hard work, the filming team disbanded. Xiao Yao only left the camera holding the shooting material, and returned to his recording studio with Keith Craig.

In the recording studio, Xiao Yao found an empty practice room, arranged it, took some shots of his own computer with a fixed-point camera, saved all the material in his computer, and saved Keith. The professional video camera that Craig rented out was also returned.

  Although Keith Craig was also very interested in what Xiao Yao did to do at night, Xiao Yao did not intend to let Keith Craig, who had been running with the shooting team for a day, continue to participate. Not only Keith Craig, but Fang Wei and Pei Minyi were sent back to the hotel by Xiao Yao after dinner. At night, Xiao Yao is going to do it himself, only a cameraman is needed. And this cameraman, he has long been a candidate.

  After sending Fang still and Pei Minyi away, Xiao Yao, who got in the car, called the cameraman he had found: "Brother Ying, I’m Xiao Yao, where are you now? I’ll come and pick you up!"

   "I'm at school, come by yourself, call me at the school gate." The person on the phone replied.

  The cameraman Xiao Yao looked for was not someone else, but Mu Ying, who he met at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He is not only the co-writer and first director of the BMW series of short films created by Xiao Yao, but also one of the main creators of parkour films prepared by Xiao Yao's team. He has a very close relationship with Xiao Yao.

  Muying is a graduate student of USC, and the school of USC is located in downtown Los Angeles. Muying also lives in Los Angeles. After seeing reports of Xiao Yao's accident on the TV news, Mu Ying also called Xiao Yao. At that time Xiao Yao had already escaped from the robbers. Xiao Yao told the other party that he was okay and did not let him go to New York.

  This time in Los Angeles, Xiao Yao had planned to meet with Mu Ying. After watching some videos sent by netizens yesterday, Xiao Yao, who was not satisfied, planned to make some videos by himself tonight. The protagonist of the video is Xiao Yao himself, who needs a cameraman, but what he does is not suitable for the unfamiliar cameraman invited by Keith Craig to participate. Xiao Yao thought of this person who was going to Professionals who meet. I contacted Mu Ying on the phone last night. Knowing that Mu Ying had nothing to do tonight, Xiao Yao made an appointment with him to come out tonight to take some "fun" things.

   Twenty minutes later, Xiao Yao arrived at the gate of the University of Southern California. Called Mu Ying to inform him of her arrival. After a while, Mu Ying came out and got into Xiao Yao's car with a small handheld HD DV machine.

After the two people who hadn't seen each other for a long time, Mu Ying couldn't help but complained: "I watched the video of recruiting actors that you sent using your YRF account. Did you shoot the MV during the day? You didn't even call me. , You are not interesting enough!"

   Mu Ying, as the main creator of parkour movies, naturally follows YRF’s account and knows that Xiao Yao recruited people to shoot the MV. It's just that he has only been in parkour for about half a year, and he is still a rookie at all. In addition, he knows Xiao Yao and feels that if Xiao Yao needs him, he will call him directly, so he didn't send an email to join in the excitement.

"It’s just a MV. Isn’t it an overkill to use a director who has already made a feature film as a videographer? My friend has helped me find a shooting team. There was already a videographer in it, and in fact today’s shooting In many cases, I robbed you of the work of a videographer, and there is no need to dispatch you, the great director." Xiao Yao explained with a smile, "And I didn't completely exclude you from the MV shooting. What we are going to shoot tonight is also the material for this MV. It’s just that what I did tonight seems to be illegal, and it’s not convenient to let irrelevant people know. Don’t you think of you right away?"

  "Look for me to do things that break the law?" Mu Ying stared, "You really take care of me!"

   "Why? Scared?" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Aren't you still there? You are not afraid, what am I afraid of?" Mu Ying smiled and shook his head.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about it at all," Xiao Yao said. "I do everything that breaks the law. You are only in charge of filming. Even if you are caught by the police, you will be fine. What I want to do is not serious about murder and arson. Crimes are at most damaging public property. Even if caught, it’s not a big deal. Because of the two cases a while ago, the relationship between me and the U.S. police is getting better. Then I will ask someone from the FBI to help me talk about it. Love, at best, is a warning that I will not be detained and the criminal record will be kept."

   "Anyway, I listen to you. Something happened. You with the big head are in front of you." Mu Ying smiled.

   "That's not necessarily the case," Xiao Yao smiled deliberately, "I am good at running faster than you, if I really run into the police, I ran away, you were arrested, don't blame me!"

   "Huh?" Mu Ying stared again.

   "Well, just kidding, I will definitely not leave you behind." Xiao Yao smiled, "Now tell us what we are going to do tonight, first go to the subway station..."

  In the United States, not counting the light rail, there are only seven cities with subways, and Los Angeles is just one of these seven cities. Unlike the cities such as New York and Boston, which were built in the 19th century, the subway in Los Angeles was built in 2002. It was 139 years later than New York, where similar subways and railways first appeared. It is the latest subway in the seven cities. Yes, it is also the latest and most modern, which coincides with the quite modern style in Xiao Yao's MV.

  At the 5th Avenue Station on the Blue Line, which is less crowded, Mu Ying, who has passed the subway gate, held the DV and pointed the camera at Xiao Yao on the other end of the gate.

Xiao Yao, still dressed in a black hood and mask, started a run-up from about ten meters outside the gate. When he ran to the gate, he jumped up, put his hands on the gate, and jumped over the gate of the entrance with a King Kong. Arrived on the platform on the other side of the gate. Taking out his mobile phone and taking a look, Xiao Yao quickly ran to a car that was closing, and rushed in before the door was closed.

Mu Ying held the DV and looked around, and found that there were no people on the platform, and no one noticed Xiao Yao's behavior. She couldn't help but found a place to sit down and waited for the next train to arrive. The station merges with Xiao Yao.

  At the next stop, Xiao Yao, who had gotten off the train, boarded the train where Muying was and joined him. Seeing that the car he was in was almost empty, Xiao Yao asked Mu Ying to take some shots of him looking around in the subway car alone.

After the shots on the subway were taken, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying found a place to rest and chat, and talked about the parkour script by the way. They waited until the early hours of the morning when they drove to San Pedro Street and Second Avenue. Interchange.

After getting off the car, Xiao Yao was still dressed in black and masked, carrying a bucket of white paint and a large long-handled paint brush and walking in front. Mu Ying who followed behind except occasionally patted the street sign next to him. Most of the time, I was patting Xiao Yao's back and the things in his hands.

  Xiao Yao walked to the middle of the intersection, dipped the paint brush into the paint, and wrote words on the ground in the middle of the intersection. Mu Ying also recorded this process completely. In the original MV, the word for this scene is "WalkerJoin", which not only corresponds to the last name in the name Alan Walker, but also takes the meaning of the word "Walker". Xiao Yao didn't call Walker, so he wrote "YoungGather" and also used a word in his name as a pun.

  "Is this done?" After returning to the car, Mu Ying asked curiously, "Are you not afraid that these words will be crushed by passing cars?"

"Then we can't stand here to stop the passing vehicles, then the police are really invited." Xiao Yao said, "I use quick-drying paint, and it is early in the morning. There are very few cars on this section of the road at this time. Yes, there should be no problem."

"But this is completely settled." Xiao Yao continued, "Tomorrow morning rush hour, I will have to take some shots of vehicles and pedestrians passing by here. I have chosen the location, and it is on the roof over there. , You leave the DV to me and don’t have to come together tomorrow. I will find you in the afternoon, return the machine to you, and take my parents to visit the University of Southern California by the way."

  In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Yao took a DV camera and appeared on the roof of the building where the United Bank was located on Second Avenue. While he was holding a DV filming the traffic and people passing by this intersection, the sound of a helicopter suddenly sounded above his head. Xiao Yao, who had some guilty conscience, was taken aback. He quickly looked up and found a helicopter flying above his head. However, judging from the appearance of the aircraft's fuselage, this is not a police helicopter, but a helicopter printed with a TV station logo, belonging to a certain TV station for news reporting.

   "Damn, I knew this a long time ago, so I don't have to wake up so early today." Xiao Yao thought of a possibility and quickly turned off the DV and drove off. Anyway, the necessary material has been taken, Xiao Yao didn't want to be discovered by the news reporter on the helicopter.

   When Xiao Yao returned to the hotel, Ye Jiaying, Xiao Siqi and others were already up. Several people gathered for breakfast. When Xiao Yao was about to discuss today's itinerary with his parents, Keith Craig came over with a tablet computer.

   "Young, did you do this last night? Did you know that vandalism of public property is illegal?" Keith Craig deliberately pretended to be serious.

   "Huh?" Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying were startled, and looked at Xiao Yao nervously, "What did you do last night?"

   "What are you talking about? I don't understand!" Xiao Yao deliberately pretended to be stupid.

   "Pretend!" Keith Craig turned on the tablet in his hand and called up a video of the morning news, "Don't tell me you didn't do this!"

In the video, a news anchor in the studio is broadcasting the large graffiti at the intersection of San Pedro Street and Second Avenue. The upper right corner of the screen shows the real-time situation of the intersection taken by helicopter. The news anchor speaks of this news with the attitude of broadcasting anecdotes, guessing that this is the performance art of some young people, but because this is a more prosperous intersection, rather than the walls and floors of any art district. At the end, I reminded that it is illegal to damage public facilities casually, and I hope that young people who play performance art will pay attention to the occasion of graffiti.

   "Where do you see that I did this?" Xiao Yao smiled. Although the news anchor didn't make the matter very serious, Xiao Yao didn't intend to admit it that way.

"The police released a surveillance video of this intersection. At that time, there were two people, one graffiti and one filming, all dressed in black and masked in your MV." Keith Craig pointed to the last section of the news released by the police. Surveillance video channel.

"You also said that it is black and masked, and you can't tell that it is me." Xiao Yao smiled, "Yesterday there were at least a hundred people dressed like this in Los Angeles, so it must be me. I asked netizens to help. I filmed the video, and didn’t say let them go to the bustling intersection to do graffiti. Even the instigation is not counted on me.”

Xiao Yao also knew that there were traffic surveillance cameras in many places in the city. When he appeared under the surveillance cameras, Xiao Yao not only masked himself, but also asked Mu Ying to cover his face and parked the car deliberately for surveillance. After walking past the blind spot, even the license plate number was not photographed by surveillance. With this outfit alone, many people would indeed think that he did it, but without substantive evidence, Xiao Yao could be beaten to death without admitting it.

   "You..." Keith Craig pointed at Xiao Yao speechlessly. In fact, this is not a big deal in itself. The main reason why Keith Craig found him was to confirm his conjectures and express to Xiao Yao by the way that such a fun thing would not bring his dissatisfaction, but he did not expect Xiao Yao. Actually refused to admit it.

"Do you know why that guy didn't call you?" Xiao Yao naturally knew Keith Craig's purpose, and smiled and clicked on the tablet's screen. "You are a rock star who has children. It’s not appropriate to play this!"

   "You mean I'm old?" Keith Craig stared. Xiao Yao's remarks belonged to the recognition of the change, but on the surface, they still wouldn't let people grasp any handle.

"That," Xiao Yao scratched his head, changed the subject, and turned to his parents. "We went to Southern University in the afternoon. I have a friend there, who is a graduate student majoring in directing. I went to see him and introduce him to Get to know you, and let’s go to this world-renowned university by the way."

   "Okay!" Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying both nodded. Their itinerary had always been arranged by Xiao Yao, of course, there was no objection. It's just that they all saw that Xiao Yao did this thing, and when they nodded, their faces were holding back a smile.

"Kees, our trip is almost over. We will return to China tomorrow. I will tell you in advance." Xiao Yao turned to Keith Craig and said, "Please also speak to Betty and Ellie on our behalf. Individually. The song of Liv and I will be handed over to Times Records for release. I will bring it back to China for the post-production of the MV. After it is finished, I will give it to them to contact the broadcast channel.

   "Well," Keith Craig nodded helplessly and opened his arms, "Next time you come to America, remember to come to us!"

   "Definitely!" Xiao Yao and Keith Craig gave a hug.

   In the afternoon, Xiao Yao took Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying to USC to meet Mu Ying. Under the leadership of Mu Ying, the group strolled around the University of Southern California and got a good taste of this world-famous institution.

  After returning to the hotel in the evening, Xiao Yao edited a few videos shot the night before and this morning to make a whole video clip and posted it to the Internet through his YRF account. In the video, Xiao Yao also deliberately added a snippet of American morning news found on the Internet and added it. In the introduction below the video, it is stated that this is the MV material produced by someone for YS’s MV, but it does not say who the specific producer is.

  Now, both netizens and the media know the cause of the "graffiti incident" in the morning news. Although the video does not indicate who the producer is, everyone can only guess that this person is most likely YS himself. It is impossible to say for sure that the person doing those things in the video must be YS himself, but since it is said that the video was made To provide material for YS's MV, then these things are inseparable from YS anyway.

  The next day, many local media in Los Angeles checked Xiao Yao’s whereabouts and wanted to interview him about this incident, but found out that his family had actually boarded the plane back to China and returned to China.

  Whether you can be sure that YS himself did this, since YRF posted this video, it means that this video is what his MV needs. As a result, many parkour people around the world who want to contribute material to the MV began to follow suit. In the next few days, Xiao Yao's emails began to receive some similar videos, and some of these videos appeared directly on the Internet.

Those shots on the subway did not have any impact, but a large area of ​​English word graffiti suddenly appeared at the crossroads of the bustling section, which would have a relatively large impact. Some local news media are also the same as the Los Angeles media. There were news reports on such matters.

  Can graffiti be on the news on busy roads? This is a very attractive point. After netizens put together these news events and posted them on the Internet, the incident gradually became a movement and a new trend of performance art. Many people who don't play parkour and have no idea about YS's MV have joined in purely because of following the trend and fun. More and more graffiti of these two English words appeared at the bustling intersections of the city.

  (End of this chapter)