Chapter 1021

"You're not the first one to get hurt because of this movie!" Xiao Yao smiles and looks at Keith Craig.

"Yes? Who else? " Keith Craig asked with interest.

"My parents, and the parents of my friends!" Xiao Yao said, "my friend's parents and I are both Chinese star actors and have invested in films and TV dramas. This time, several of us want to make this film. They want to invest, act as the producer of this film and other behind the scenes work, and also want to play roles in it. It's free, but they are all rejected by us! "

"Really?" Keith Craig said with some surprise.

Keith Craig doesn't know Xiao Yao's friends, but he knows Xiao Yao's family, his father is a musician and his mother is an actor.

"Of course it's true!" Xiao Yao said, "this movie has nothing to do with them!"

"So I think I'm better than them." Keith Craig said with a smile, "at least, you will still give me the copyright of these two songs for the film, won't you?"

"Of course." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "but I have an additional condition. These two songs are created for the film, so the distribution of these two songs needs to cooperate with the publicity activities before the film is released. Even if we have recorded it ahead of time, we will have to wait until the publicity campaign before the film is released

"No problem!" Keith Craig smiles and waves.

This way, Keith Craig is finished. Xiao Yao and the four members of "immortals" go to the rehearsal room of the recording studio.

Immortals has been established for more than four years, and the four members have been learning from the members of daydream. The four of them have made great progress not only in playing musical instruments, but also in learning to compose. The other two have made great progress in music. In the last two years, several people have produced their own music works. Although it is not as good as those songs written by Xiao Yao, we have made some achievements in this respect and have certain ability.

What Xiao Yao wrote at this time was only the lyrics and music scores of the two songs, not the arrangement. In terms of music arrangement, Xiao Yao has the original versions of two songs in his mind. It's not that he can't write them. He just thinks that since they are the songs of the band, it's better to gather everyone's wisdom to do the music arrangement.

In the rehearsal room, everyone arranges music while discussing and experimenting with the effect of playing. If you think it's good, record it down, and if it's bad, discuss it again. With a little playful attitude, the atmosphere is quite relaxed.

After such a day's playing, the band just made a song arrangement, and it was only a rudiment, which did not reach the level of recording in the studio. However, Xiao Yao is not worried about these two songs. Let them continue to improve them when they have time next week, or try to arrange another song first, and come back to discuss with them when the crew is on holiday next week.

Although Xiao Yao didn't have a rest during the plot holiday, playing musical instruments with the band in the studio for a day was a kind of adjustment for him. The next day, when the crew returned to work, Xiao Yao also devoted himself to the shooting of the film with a very full spirit.

Xiao Yao is not only a director but also an actor in this film, which can be regarded as his shooting experience of trying to direct and act himself again. The previous experience was when Xiao Yao made the short film "tuner". But this time is quite different from last time.

Xiao Yao was the director of "tuner" last time. In the shooting, Xiao Yao just invited his grandfather to come to the theater to perform the director, and help him start calling and card. No matter whether the shooting plan before filming or after the shooting, he was the one who has the final say.

This time, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying co directed parkour, both of whom are directors.

Before shooting, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying discuss the lighting, position and camera angle of each scene. When shooting, if there is no Xiao Yao's part, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying sit together in the director's position in front of the monitor to direct. If there is Xiao Yao's part, only Mu Ying controls the crew in the director's position in front of the monitor. However, even if they have their own scenes, after each shot is finished, Xiao Yao will run to watch the playback with Mu Ying. Only after the two directors are satisfied, can the scene pass.

This kind of joint direction was decided when they met at the short film festival in France and decided to make this film. At the beginning, they met at the film festival because of their own short films. Mu Ying's short film is an action film, and Xiao Yao's short film is a thriller. One is good at action scenes, and the other is good at literary scenes. This kind of joint guidance is just complementary for the two.

Even after Xiao Yao's own animated film was released, Xiao Yao didn't change his mind. There is still a big difference between the shooting of live action movies and animated movies. Although Xiao Yao has been with many crew members, watched a lot of them, and directed and shot short films himself, after all, he is directing live action movies for the first time. Without such experience, he is still worried. It's safer to pull the upper directors together for practical operation. Muying is not well-known. She has a good relationship with Xiao Yao and has experience. She is the right person.In the crew, Xiao Yao is not the only one with multiple roles. Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting all have more than one identity.

Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, two leading actors, also act as action director and design action scenes. In addition to getting a supporting role, Chen Xiaoting is also an executive producer, who helps director Mu Ying arrange specific daily affairs and controls the financial expenses of the crew during filming.

This is the first time for Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others to have the experience of having multiple roles in the crew. Although Xiao Yao once had the experience of editing, directing and acting by himself, he still had to participate in the design of Parkour with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. In fact, he also had to do the work of action guidance. There were a lot of things.

As several key members of the crew are shooting like this for the first time, in the first week of shooting, the shooting task arranged by the director team led by Mu Ying and Xiao Yao is not heavy.

In the second week of shooting, the whole crew became more familiar with each other and had a better run in with each other. Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui and others were more adapted to their multi role work style, and the shooting plan also increased the number of shooting tasks.

In the second week of shooting, although the number of shooting tasks increased and everyone's work intensity increased a lot, we still completed the shooting plan of this week and ensured the shooting progress.

At the end of the second week, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying also gave the whole crew a day off.

While the second crew was on holiday, Xiao Yao went to the studio of daydream and continued to compose two songs with the members of immortals.

During this week, the members of "immortals" band did not spare time to make some arrangements for the two songs. After listening to Xiao Yao, he just made some minor changes and determined the arrangement of the two songs. After confirming the arrangement of the two songs, Xiao Yao tried to record the songs with some time left on that day.

Because the whole band recorded together, and the revised arrangement didn't go through much practice, the efficiency of this recording can't be compared with Xiao Yao's own recording. Xiao Yao recorded a song in the studio until night fell.

Xiao Yao doesn't want to stay up late. If he can't finish recording the two songs, he won't record them until the rest day of next week. After dinner with the band, Xiao Yao drove back to his apartment to have a rest.

The shooting in the first two weeks was relatively smooth, but in the third week, the shooting was not so smooth. When shooting the action scene of jumping from one roof to the balconies of another building, Xu Fei didn't hold the bars firmly, fell down and was injured.

It's not uncommon for an actor to get hurt when he's making a play. No matter how skillful you have practiced before, how well the crew has prepared and how well the work has been done, it is impossible to guarantee that everything will be safe. The crew's investment in safety and security is very effective. Although it can't guarantee no accidents, it can play a very good role in protecting when accidents happen. Xu Fei was hanging a steel wire when he was shooting this scene. After falling, he didn't fall to the ground. He was pulled in the air by the steel wire on his body, but he sprained his wrist when he missed the bar. In addition, when he was hanging in the air, his body collided with the wall, and there were some bruises and bruises.

At this time, the ambulance and the two first-aid workers in the crew are really useful. When Xu Fei was put down, the two first responders immediately checked him and gave him emergency treatment. Finally, they went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination. The hospital did not let Xu Fei stay in the hospital, just let him go home and have a rest.

Xu Fei's injury is not serious, the doctor's diagnosis is to rest for a few days.

Although Xu Fei is not a member of the American actors' Union, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying will not let Xu Fei fight with injuries. They forced him to take a few days off to recuperate.

Xu Fei has a holiday to recuperate, but the filming work of the crew will not stop. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying adjusted their shooting plans for the next few days in a row, so as to reduce the loss of the crew as much as possible. Just such an adjustment, many aspects have to be related to the adjustment, the progress of the whole shooting will inevitably lag behind.

Although the filming progress of the crew has lagged behind, what should be on holiday still needs to be released. At the end of the third week, the crew continued to have a holiday, and Xiao Yao continued to go to the studio of daydream.

Another week later, the band immortals has been more proficient in the arrangement of the two songs, so the recording efficiency of this day is not the same as that of a week ago. Before nightfall, Xiao Yao recorded all the official versions of the two songs.

After hearing last week that two songs had been arranged, Keith Craig heard the band rehearse this week. Knowing that the recording of the day could record the finished song, Keith Craig also came to the studio. After the recording, Keith Craig also listened to the finished products of the two songs for the first time.

The studio version of the song has been recorded. Xiao Yao's next step is to record the MV of the two songs. Xiao Yao promised to sell the copyright of the two songs to Keith Craig's "daydream" studio, so the official release of the songs must be in the charge of the "daydream" studio. Shooting MV is naturally related to them. It happened that Keith Craig was present. After the recording, Xiao Yao discussed with Keith Craig about shooting the song MV.MV is also a way of publicity. If Xiao Yao wants to use these two songs for film publicity, MV will certainly not let it go. However, when the film was released, Xiao Yao didn't plan to make the two songs serve the film only, so he didn't plan to make the MV of the two songs into a promotional film of the film.

Xiao Yao's plan is to use some movie clips, plus some band members of the lens, the two will be combined into two songs of MV. In this way, during the publicity period before the release of the film, songs and MVs are launched together, which can boost the publicity of the film. When the film is released, these two MVs can continue to exist as MVs alone.

Keith Craig has no problem with this kind of MV.

Xiao Yao has already thought about the plot and pictures of the two MVs. The shooting of the film is still in progress. In terms of film clips, after all the films have been shot, it's OK to directly cut them out and clip them into the MV. In terms of lens clips of band members, they need to be shot separately.

For the shooting of MV, Xiao Yao is not going to use the current crew members, but is going to let Keith Craig set up the shooting crew of MV. In the past, when Xiao Yao was recording his own songs in Los Angeles, Keith Craig helped Xiao Yao set up an MV shooting crew. This time, he filmed his own band's songs. Of course, Keith Craig didn't have any objection.

It's going to take time to set up a crew. It's definitely too late today. Xiao Yao is going to shoot the band members in the MV on the next rest day. A week is more than enough time for Keith Craig to set up a MV crew and recruit actors.

After completing the recording of two movie songs and finalizing the shooting of two MVs that will be used as "semi promotional films" by Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao's sense of achievement is not small, which can be regarded as some consolation for the film shooting which is not so smooth this week.

After the rest day, the crew resumed filming.

Compared with the third week, Xiao Yao and others are in a better mood in the fourth week. In addition to this week's shooting crew did not appear any injury accidents, Xu Fei also recovered the injury, returned to the crew to resume shooting, there is a very important reason is that someone finally flew from China to the United States to visit.