Entertaining Children

Several star mentors agreed, and Cai Zhijie lined up for everyone. If you don't dance, but just stand still or raise your legs high, you can still arrange twelve people in a practice room.

After Cai Zhijie gave an order, everyone followed him and started his physical training.

Chen Ziwei dared to suggest that Xiao Yao and Cai Zhijie should go one-on-one, and ask Xiao Yao to help them fight for the benefits of not doing physical training in the future, because the sober activity that Xiao Yao took them to do this morning was to do high leg exercises. Although they only did it for two minutes, Xiao Yao was only out of breath when they were tired and paralyzed, and he didn't even bend his waist. Chen Ziwei had very strong confidence in Xiao Yao.

Facts have also proved that Chen Ziwei's confidence is indeed very correct.

From the very beginning, Xiao Yao maintained the same movement speed as Cai Zhijie. During the training, Cai Zhijie stopped for a while to be lazy for a while with the excuse of instructing others and dragging them to continue. Xiao Yao only slowed down the frequency of movements a little at that time, and did not stop. When everyone else couldn't hold on to stopping, Xiao Yao was the only one left in the audience who could follow Cai Zhijie's commands.

In the end, this training turned into a PK between Cai Zhijie and Xiao Yao. After about four minutes, finally Cai Zhijie couldn't hold on and stopped first.

"You're awesome!" Cai Zhijie bent down and supported his knees, took a few breaths, and stretched out his thumb to Xiao Yao, "Your physical strength is simply a monster."

Xiao Yao smiled, but did not answer.

In the charity star basketball game that year, Xiao Yao and Guo Qi went to practice the secret weapon of the alley-oop dunk after participating in the training class. During that training, Guo Qi gave Xiao Yao an evaluation, not to mention basketball skills and dunks, but in terms of physical fitness, Xiao Yao is also at the level of a professional athlete.

"Of course, our senior is a monster!" Xiao Yao didn't speak, but Chen Ziwei interrupted.

"Go, do you talk like that?" Xiao Yao glared at Chen Ziwei.

Chen Ziwei lowered her head, looked at Cai Zhijie again and said, "Mr. Zhijie, it's agreed, our group won't have to do physical training like yours in the future!"

"Okay, I'm willing to bet!" Cai Zhijie nodded, "I won't ask you to do this exercise again for at least this week." His training was also thought of on a whim for the effect of the program. It doesn't make much difference.

"Don't worry, we practiced three times a day, and their physical fitness will definitely not regress!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Chen Ziwei's weight will probably increase this week, and I accept the punishment!"

"Ah?" Chen Ziwei screamed.

"Haha~" Several teachers laughed happily.

After laughing for a while, the instructors left and Xiao Yao and the girls resumed dance practice.

After this time, several instructors seemed to recognize Xiao Yao's ability very much. In the next two days, whether it is the two dance teachers or the two vocal music teachers, they always like to visit Xiao Yao’s group when they are free. Only the rap teacher came less frequently because there was no rap in Xiao Yao’s performance repertoire. . However, after the four teachers came, they usually just watched from the sidelines, and did not intervene to guide this group of exercises, and let Xiao Yao let go.

Two days later, Xiao Yao felt that the singing and dancing of the six people looked good. On the morning of the fourth day, Xiao Yao brought six trainees into the recording studio to record the vocal accompaniment required for the half-open mic performance. In the afternoon, he called Pei Minyi to the practice room.

Calling Pei Minyi over, of course, let her design stage images and costumes for the trainees. After the six trainees greeted Pei Minyi, Xiao Yao asked the six trainees to perform the dance for Pei Minyi.

"Boss, are you serious? Or is it to satisfy some kind of evil taste of yours?" After watching the dance performed by the six people, Pei Minyi pulled Xiao Yao aside and asked in a low voice.

"What kind of bad taste?" Xiao Yao asked puzzled.

"The name of the song is meowing, the lyrics are meow meow, and the dance moves are cat-imitating," Pei Minyi said, "Do you want me to give them costumes that have cat ears on their heads? There's a tail in the back, and a pair of fluffy cat claw gloves on your hands? Are you trying to get six cats on stage?"

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head quickly, "it's enough to have a cat in the lyrics and dance, but it's enough to dress up as a cat in the costume. And this performance is not six of them, but seven of them, and I want to be on stage too For acting, I don't want to wear a cat costume!"

"That's it," Pei Minyi said, "Then what do you think?"

After listening to this song and watching this dance, the first thing that popped up in Pei Minyi's mind was the cat costume. But as soon as Xiao Yao said that he would also perform on stage, Pei Minyi, who knew that Xiao Yao would definitely not accept performing on stage with that image, knew what Xiao Yao said was true. After all, if seven people perform together, the style of image modeling must also be unified.

"I don't want a cat costume, that's too exaggerated." Xiao Yao said, "The song is sweet and cute, and the dance is cute and cute, so the style I want is that of a fresh and cute girl next door. , preferably the kind of image that can make people feel like first love at a glance."

"Okay, I see!" Pei Minyi nodded.

After working in Yin Xi's studio for so long, this kind of image modeling is not too difficult for Pei Minyi.

After discussing with Xiao Yao, Pei Minyi went to chat with the six trainees, and collected some of their body data by the way. Xiao Yao pointed out the style he wanted, and Pei Minyi was responsible for the specific image design and clothing matching, which is why Xiao Yao called Pei Minyi.

After having a general and detailed understanding of the personalities and figures of the six trainees, Pei Minyi said goodbye and left.

The program group has a strong clothing department. Xiao Yao did not plan to order performance costumes for the six trainees this time. He only needed to choose from the massive costumes provided by the program group and make some minor modifications. So one day later, Pei Minyi The costumes for the performance were prepared for the six trainees.

The costumes for this show are only relatively uniform in style, but it is obviously not a series. The six girls wear long skirts, short skirts, trousers and shorts, shirts and T-shirts, and their hairstyles are both single ponytail, double ponytail, black, long and straight. The feeling is very fresh and girl-next-door style.

Although there are loli and queens among the six, they are not all the type of girls next door, but the six girls are very satisfied with the stage image that Pei Minyi designed for everyone, comparable to Xiao Yao's song and dance It takes a lot to get used to.

The problem of costume styling for the performance was solved. Xiao Yao and the six girls got more and more tacit understanding, and the practice progress was also good. Generally speaking, the preparations for the performance of Xiao Yao's group went very smoothly. In this smooth situation, Xiao Yao also accomplished another thing.

This incident is also related to the performance songs of Xiao Yao's group, but it is not related to the performance. When Xiao Yao decided to perform the song on the first day, he once told several trainees that he would make a gesture dance for this song, and let the six people turn this song into a divine song for the Internet. When I was talking about this, there were filming crews in the practice room. This incident was quickly reported to the program director team by the follow-up director of the film crew.

The fact that Xiao Yao is going to upload a video of several trainees clapping and dancing to one of the sponsors’ short video app has nothing to do with the performance, but the trainees are part of the show, and it involves the show’s sponsors products, the matter quickly turned from a private matter to a public one. After hearing about this incident, the program director team and the representative of the sponsor called "Mars Short Video" found Xiao Yao together.

Of course, they came to Xiao Yao not to prevent Xiao Yao from doing this, but because they were afraid that Xiao Yao would just talk casually and wanted to finalize this matter. Originally, Xiao Yao just wanted to recreate a fun Internet Divine Comedy, by the way, to help a few trainees in the group get nominated, and then use this as an excuse to reduce some practice time that was lost due to filming commercials. Seeing that the program group and sponsors attached so much importance to it, Xiao Yao took advantage of the situation and put forward some conditions.

The first condition is for several trainees in the group. The six trainees in Xiao Yao's group are all very popular, but there are always high and low points. Not all of them are favored by sponsors. Only four of the six trainees have taken sponsor advertisements. Xiao Yao's first condition is that all six trainees will shoot gesture dance videos, and the videos of the six must be broadcast in the behind-the-scenes segment of the show, and the short video software of the sponsor must also be recommended to the homepage without discrimination.

The second condition is for yourself. Xiao Yao’s own reputation is enough. Having rejected two short video software endorsements of the same type, Suipai and Yinchuang, he doesn’t care whether he can appear on the homepage of “Mars Short Video”, but his Animated films are currently in the promotion period, he himself does not need promotion, his films do.

Now that mobile phone short video software is more popular, Xiao Yaoben included "Mars Short Video" together with "Suipai" and "Yinchuang" in his promotion plan. The length of a single video of "Mars Short Video" is limited to about 20 seconds, and Xiao Yao also specially cut a 20-second ultra-short movie promotional video. All kinds of mobile application software have promotional advertising spaces that can be bought, but Xiao Yao’s plan is only to operate in the form of individual user uploads, and does not intend to spend money to buy promotional advertising spaces for these mobile video software.

This time, the sponsor representative of the "Mars Short Video" took the initiative to come to the door, and Xiao Yao was going to use this to win the recommended advertising space on the software's homepage. Therefore, Xiao Yao's second condition is that at the expense of the trainees choreographing gesture dances, the short video software will post the ultra-short movie promotional videos he uploaded on their homepage for a month.

As for the program group, since Xiao Yao talked with Haiyan about some cooperation in promoting movies when he agreed to participate in this program as a star senior, this time he didn't make any additional demands for himself.

These two requests from Xiao Yao are not a problem for the program group and sponsors. It didn't take long for the three parties to discuss, and the program team and sponsors agreed. Then, the program team and sponsors were waiting for the freshly released gesture dance that Xiao Yao made up for several trainees.

During the first few days of practice, Xiao Yao didn't mention anything about gesture dancing. Not only the trainees asked curiously, but the program team and sponsors also urged. However, Xiao Yao said that everyone hasn't even practiced the dance for the stage performance, and they don't have the heart to choreograph the gesture dance, which can be regarded as stimulating the enthusiasm of the girls to practice.

During the lunch break on the fifth day, Xiao Yao finally took out the gesture dance of that song. A video of "Mars Short Video" is only 20 seconds at most, so Xiao Yao's gesture dance is only based on the first music of the song, and the whole section is only about 15 seconds.

Gesture dance only has hand movements and no foot movements, so the design is relatively simple. Due to the relationship of the song, the movements of this gesture dance are also completely changed from the dance movements of the stage performance. A 15-second hand gesture dance is a simple version born out of stage dance moves, and it is easy for trainees to learn. During a lunch break, the six trainees learned everything.

Under Xiao Yao's instruction and inspiration, the six trainees still had some of their own performance, and changed some of their movements and expressions when shooting the gesture dance video. The six gesture dance videos were shot, but not all of them are exactly the same.

After watching the six gesture dance videos with the same song, generally similar, and different details, netizens will definitely think that they can have their own performance and add their own creativity. This will stimulate the enthusiasm of netizens to follow suit and shoot videos, and will naturally bring more users and topics to the short video software.

The program team and the sponsors are very satisfied with the cute and emotional videos that Xiao Yao made for the six trainees. After watching them, they even want some other popular trainees to also shoot one.

Xiao Yao didn't object to this extra idea of ​​the program group and sponsors, but he didn't participate either. Simply put, he wants to shoot whatever he wants, but he is not in charge of teaching, and he learns from the video by himself.

This is a recorded program, and this week's practice will be broadcast in one episode. The background music of the gesture dance is the performance song of Xiao Yao's group. Due to the need to keep the performance of the song confidential, although the video of the gesture dance was filmed, it was not uploaded to the short video software and Haiyan Video immediately, but had to wait until It will be announced after the show airs.

Although the gesture dance video has not been uploaded and published, but with Xiao Yao, the golden sign who has created two online divine comedies and dances, several trainees have very positive expectations for the increase in popularity after the video is uploaded and made public.

The video of the gesture dance video is done, and the rest is the public performance on the weekend. In the next few days, the enthusiasm of the trainees in practice also increased a bit. But even though they attach great importance to this performance and are very enthusiastic about practicing, they still strictly abide by Xiao Yao's rules, and they only practice until about eleven o'clock at the latest every day, and never stay up late to practice.

The days passed day by day in everyone's practice, and before we knew it, it was the day of the performance.

The location of the performance is not in the filming base of Haiyan Group, but in a professional performance venue in Hangzhou that hosts concerts and other activities. The performance time is in the evening, and the staff of the program team went to set up the performance venue in the morning. The performers set off after lunch, and the on-site rehearsal took place in the afternoon.

The six groups of trainees and star seniors rehearsed in turn, and Xiao Yao's group was arranged in the penultimate place. The rehearsal of their group went very smoothly, and it didn't take long to complete the rehearsal.

After the rehearsal was over, generally everyone went back to the lounge to rest and recharge their energy for the evening performance, but Xiao Yao, who was relaxed and restless, slipped out quietly and went outside to have a look.

Although there is still a long time before the official performance starts and the audience enters the arena, there are already a lot of spectators waiting to enter the arena gathered at the entrance. Looking at the huge group of excited fans holding all kinds of support items in front of him, Xiao Yao was also taken aback by the array of fans of most of the trainees who hadn't officially debuted yet.