Chapter 1226

Xiao Yao has his own business to be busy with, so he naturally puts all his energy on the project of TV series.

Almost a week later, after the audition, all the actors of the main characters in the play were confirmed.

Normally speaking, it is relatively early for a film and television project to determine the actors. Because after receiving a role, an actor usually needs a period of time to prepare, and some actors even experience life for the role. Many drama teams begin to select actors in the early stage of preparation.

However, this situation is not absolute. Different producers, different directors and different production groups have different operation and acting styles. Sometimes, in the same play, the time for actors of different roles to be determined may vary a lot.

For example, if an actor who has a good discussion has a temporary problem, and then finds another actor to save the scene, it is impossible to give the actor a lot of time to prepare and let the whole crew wait.

Another possibility is that a certain character can't find a suitable actor all the time, but the crew's preparations are almost ready. After finding a suitable actor, in order not to delay the startup time, it may not give any preparation time.

When Xiao Yao first appeared in a TV play, after the audition, he was filmed on the spot by the director and producer, and then he entered the group to shoot in less than a week, because the crew couldn't find suitable actors until that time, and the boot time was not easy to change. Although it was not a temporary rescue site, it was similar to the nature of the rescue site and was a rare exception.

As far as Xiao Yao's personal habits are concerned, he never likes to audition too early. As long as he personally participates in the audition to select the actors, he prefers to have the audition when the preparatory work of the project is carried out to a certain extent, in addition to individual actors determined in advance.

On the one hand, after the preparation of the cast has reached a certain extent, the shooting environment and conditions are more clear, which is convenient for Xiao Yao to negotiate the contract with the actors after the audition. For example, in the previous project "the donkey gets water", Xiao Yao chose the shooting place because it was expected that the shooting place would be in the northwest. After he decided the shooting place, he came back for an actor audition.

On the other hand, Xiao Yao doesn't really want to change the cast or the boot time. The more complete the preparatory work of the crew, the more certain the start-up time will be. The more certain the boot time is, the less likely it is that there will be conflicts between actors and actresses. So late audition, the boot time will be more accurate, you can also try to avoid this situation.

Finally, Xiao Yao's three current film and television projects in the most core role of the actors are determined very early. For example, three members of the yrf team in parkour movies, sun Tingting, herself and He Ying in donkey gets water, and herself and Yin Xi in the play. Apart from these core roles, Xiao Yao doesn't think other roles need actors to spend a lot of time preparing after the audition is set. Compared with actors who decide their roles in advance and allow an actor to spend a lot of time preparing for a non core role, Xiao Yao hopes that he will have more choices in the audition and let those actors spend time preparing for the audition.

However, Xiao Yao just thinks that the actors in his project don't need to spend a lot of time preparing after the audition. This preparation time is still for others, but it's just shorter.

After all the auditions are completed, there are still some finishing points for the preparations of the cast. Although Xiao Yao worked as a producer this time, except for the audition of actors, he only knew about other work and did not participate in it personally. According to the work progress feedback from the crew, Xiao Yao set the time of starting up in early April.

When talking about this project, Xiao Yao once told Yin Xi that it would not be turned on before the movie was released. It started in early April, and it was almost half a month later when donkey got the water was released. It was more than half a month in the evening after the movie was released a week later. However, what Xiao Yao told Yin Xi at the beginning was that it was started in March at the earliest. It's not that he's not sure. It's not that he broke his promise. There's no problem with Yin Xi.

Xiao Yao does not participate in other work of the crew, so during the period from the end of the audition to the start of the TV series, Xiao Yao has a period of free time.

This time, Xiao Yao plays the role of an it man in the entrepreneurial period. However, this play is a city play that mainly focuses on feelings and life, not a workplace play. At least there are not many workplace plays for men, so Xiao Yao doesn't spend much time preparing for the role. Because the character's occupation is a game designer, Xiao Yao just spent two days in Tongluo's special effects company to spend two days with the technicians in charge of the special effects of the game. After experiencing their work, he spent the rest of his time paying off the debt.

The so-called debt repayment, of course, is the debt owed to fans. Specifically, four songs.

Two of them are "Hu Lu Hu Lu Piao Er" and "grandma said" on this year's Yanjing satellite TV Spring Festival Gala. These two songs only have the live audio version of the Spring Festival Gala on Yanjing satellite TV, but no official version has been recorded yet.

The other two are the two tea picking songs sung in wild kitchen. Now the program has been broadcast, and some fans who have watched the program are calling for Xiao Yao to release the full version of the two songs. As for the song composed of traditional Jino songs and Xiao Yao's Jino language, most people don't know Jino language, but there are no fans calling for that Jino language song.Since it's about recording songs to pay off debts, Xiao Yao plans to record all the four songs.

Among the four songs, "love song of tea mountain" is obviously a popular style in the 1980s and 1990s, and it is more suitable for female singing. Therefore, Xiao Yao does not intend to sing it by himself, that is to say, he has to find another singer for this song.

When you go to the special effects company to experience life, Xiao Yao comes according to the time when others go to work. When people go to work, he also goes to work, so he is free in the evening. With the time in the evening, it's not difficult for Xiao Yao to record four songs in ten days. The main thing is that it takes some energy to find a singer.

However, Xiao Yao knows Hong Wei and has met Su Xiao. One is a singer from the system, and the other is still in the system. It is not a problem to find a singer who is willing and suitable to sing the sweet songs of the last century.

Now Xiao Yao's new single is not publicized, or the publicity has already been done. In the case of no entity, after the song is recorded, talk about the copyright with the music website, deliver the official version of the audio source, and let the music website upload it.

After four songs were launched on the music website one after another, the official versions of Hulu Hulu piao'er and grandma Shuo soon took the place of the live version and leaped to the top of the hot song list. Because there was no music accompaniment in the program, the official version was a new song, and the ranking was even higher than the two songs that were popular during the Spring Festival. Only that "nostalgic" style, and the performance of "tea mountain love song" sung by other singers is slightly worse.

As time goes by, the day when the TV drama crew starts up is getting closer.

Preparations for the theatre are progressing smoothly and it is not expected to delay the start-up. Four songs have been recorded, and the overall score is good after the music website goes online. In addition, the movie "donkey gets water" is about to be released, and the total box office and word-of-mouth score are still gratifying. Xiao Yao is in a good mood during the period before the TV series starts and enters the filming group.

However, it was in a good mood during this period that Xiao Yao received a piece of good news, which was originally good news, but it was not good news at this time.

Two days before the TV series started, Xiao Yao received a video call request from the United States on his mobile phone.

"Big star, long time no see!" After the video is connected, what appears in the picture is a person Xiao Yao hasn't seen for a long time, but this person is no stranger to Xiao Yao.

"Yan Ke! Or should I call you Corell? " Xiao Yao said with a smile, "if you don't feel used to it, I can speak English to you."

The man over there in the video is Yan Ke, whom Xiao Yao met when he was a freshman in the training of the national team of Chinese Olympiad Mathematics. When he was in the training team, Xiao Yao shared a dormitory with him and two other top Chinese high school students, Yu Gang and Chen Jiwei. I have nothing to do in my spare time. Four people often play poker together as a pastime. After playing 80 points and being abused badly, Xiao Yao played 21 points with several people, and then put forward a plan to "capture the gambling city" on a whim.

At that time, Xiao Yao just mentioned it and forgot it, but the other three did. When Xiao Yao got the number one in the art examination of Shen opera, Yan Ke called Xiao Yao to ask if he remembered the original agreement.

All of them are one term higher than Xiao Yao. For the sake of Xiao Yao's plan, and for the sake of entering the best Polytechnic University in the United States and even in the world, they even spent one more year in China. Of course, Yan Ke didn't say this, but Xiao Yao thought of it afterwards. At that time, Xiao Yao was already a junior in senior high school, so they should have gone to university. What Yan Ke told him on the phone was that they were applying for the offer of MIT.

After learning the attitude of the three, Xiao Yao also put it in his heart. However, Xiao Yao just put it in his heart.

Xiao Yao is only responsible for the specific operation at that time, so in recent years, Xiao Yao only occasionally contacted them through e-mail or communication software on the network to ensure that they would not be disconnected. In fact, the number of contacts is not much.

"No!" Yan Ke, on the other end of the phone, said with a smile, "we speak English all day here. It's hard to speak English with others. We can't miss the opportunity. I know your English is good, but you'd better speak Chinese with us. We're not used to it

"You?" Xiao Yao smiles and asks, "are Yu Gang and Chen Jiwei also around now?"

"Yes Yan Ke nodded, two heads next to him came to the picture, waved to Xiao Yao, and said with a smile, "good star, long time no see!"

"Long time no see!" Xiao Yao also said hello with a smile and asked, "what can I do for you? Now March is almost over. Your spring vacation is just over. You don't want to come back to visit me, do you? "

"No!" Yan Ke shook his head and said, "you're a big star now. I know you're busy. When did we come back to China? Looking for your video today, I have something to discuss with you! "

"Something to discuss?" Xiao Yao said, "have you got your card counting model?"

Xiao Yao is in the entertainment industry. He and Yan Ke can be regarded as people of two worlds. The only thing they can discuss is the matter of counting cards. However, in recent years, Xiao Yao occasionally asked about their progress, and they always said that the answer was far from enough, so Xiao Yao didn't immediately think about it when he answered the phone."You can say that!" Yan Kedao.

"If it comes out, it comes out. If it doesn't come out, it doesn't come out. What do you mean to say that?" Xiao Yaodao.

"I'll ask you a question first!" Instead of answering, Yan Ke asked, "have you ever been to MIT? Or any other friends at MIT? "

"None of them!" Xiao Yao said strangely, "why do you ask that?"

"After we came here, we found that we were not the only three people studying card counting in MIT." Yan Ke said, "in fact, there are many people studying card counting in MIT. There are several groups."

"Is it?" Xiao Yao was a little surprised, and then he said, "but you've been to MIT for so many years, and you haven't heard of it before. Did you know it recently?"

"It's not very recent, but it's not long. We only knew it a few months ago." Yan Ke said, "these card counting groups are all secret activities. Maybe it's because we are all undergraduates and others don't like us, so no one comes to us. In the second half of last year, we were all admitted to MIT's master's degree. When a person from the card counting group heard that we were also studying card counting, he invited us to join. From them, I found that many people at MIT are studying card counting. "

"That's right!" Xiao Yao nodded and continued to ask, "and then?"

"Then we joined a card counting group." Yan Ke said, "that group has done a lot of research work, and the three of us have also done a lot. Although we just joined in, we started to study this thing from high school, so we also developed some things, and then the two sides integrated with each other, confirmed the discussion, and worked together for a period of time. Now we think our model has passed the test. "

"Then, we took advantage of the spring break in March and went to Las Vegas for a try!" Yan Ke said, "we operate according to the card counting model and win some money in the casino, which proves to be feasible."

"What? You're going to play without me? " Xiao Yao pretends to be discontented.

"No, we're not going to leave you alone." Yan Ke said, "we're just going to have a little try. If the practice proves that our algorithm doesn't work, we'll go back and continue to study and modify it. If the practice proves that it works, we'll let you have a big fight. We know you are a big star, very busy, time is precious. America is so far away, we don't want you to go for nothing. "

"And we've talked to the counting team about you." Yu Gang added, "we told them that we still have a very good friend in Mathematics in China. Although he is not proficient in mathematical models, he has a very good brain power, strong memory and mental calculation ability, and is a very good candidate to perform card counting. We started to do the mathematical model of card counting in high school. That's your idea. Of course, we didn't say who you are, we didn't tell them you're an entertainment star. "

"I heard that when you were in high school, you wanted to play blackjack in the casino by counting cards. They were also very interested in you." Chen Jiwei continued, "they have promised us that they will train and assess you when you come. If you pass the examination, you will join us in the casino

"Training and assessment?" Xiao Yao frowned slightly.

"The so-called training is to memorize some mathematical models and formulas, and then practice them on the spot." Chen Jiwei said, "all of us are trained first and then tested. Only when we pass the test can we go to the casino for a job. As long as your brain doesn't degenerate, it's no problem. With your ability, I estimate that the training time should not exceed two days! "

"Two days? This is acceptable. " Xiao Yao nodded and said excitedly, "now that your practice has proved that your card counting method is feasible, did you inform me to go to the United States for training and assessment, and then go to the casino with you?"

At this point, Xiao Yao's face suddenly changed, because he suddenly found a problem.

Although Xiao Yao holds a long-term visa to the United States, he can go to the United States at any time, but the TV drama crew will start up in two days. It is estimated that at least two or three months have passed since the completion of the TV series. Now Yan Ke has found an effective way to count cards. When they want to fight hard, will they be willing to wait for two or three months?