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"You are not the first person to be hurt because of this movie!" Xiao Yao smiled and looked at Keith Craig.

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

"My parents, and my friend's parents!" Xiao Yao said, "My friend's parents and I are both star actors in China, and they have also invested in film and television dramas. This time we are making this movie, and they want Investment, as the producer of this film and other behind-the-scenes work, I also want to play a role in it, free of charge, but we have all rejected it!"

"Really?" Keith Craig said in surprise.

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

"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 laughed, "At least, you will still give me the copyright of these two songs created for the movie, won't you?"

"Of course." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "But I have one additional condition. These two songs were created for the movie, so the release of these two songs needs to be coordinated with the promotional activities before the movie's release. Even if we recorded it in advance , I have to wait until the promotional activities before the movie's release begin before I can make a public appearance!"

"No problem!" Keith Craig smiled and waved his hand.

With Keith Craig settled here, Xiao Yao and the four members of the "immortals" band went to the rehearsal room of the recording studio.

The "immortals" band has been in existence for more than four years, and the four members have been learning from the members of "Daydream". The four of them have not only made great progress in playing musical instruments, both Samien and Dean are learning to create, and the other two have also made great progress in music. In the past two years, several people have presented their own music works. Although it is not as good as the songs written by Xiao Yao, it can be regarded as having achieved certain results in this area and has certain abilities.

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

In the rehearsal room, everyone arranges music while discussing and experimentally playing and listening to the effect. If they think it is good, they will record it, and if it is not good, they will discuss it again. With a little play mentality, the atmosphere is quite relaxed.

After playing for a day,

The band has just made an arrangement for a song, and it's still just a prototype, not yet ready for studio recording. But Xiao Yao is not in a hurry for these two songs, let them continue to improve when they have time next week, or try to make an arrangement of another song first, and come over to continue discussing with them when the crew is on vacation next week Sure.

Although Xiao Yao didn't take a break during the plot holiday, it was a kind of adjustment for him to go to the recording studio and play musical instruments with the band members for a day. The crew resumed work the next day, and Xiao Yao also devoted himself to the filming of the movie with a very full spirit.

Xiao Yao is both a director and an actor in this movie, which can be regarded as another shooting experience where he tried to direct and act on his own. The last time I had such an experience was when Xiao Yao made the short film "The Tuner". But this time was very different from last time.

When filming "The Tuner" last time, Xiao Yao was the director alone. During the filming, Xiao Yao just temporarily invited his grandfather to come over to act as the executive director, and help him call the start card. No matter the shooting plan before the shooting, or the decision whether to pass after the shooting, it is Xiao Yao himself. People have the final say.

This time, the Parkour movie is co-directed by Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, both of whom are directors.

Before starting shooting, Xiao Yao and Muying would discuss the specific shooting plan for each scene, such as lighting, positioning, and camera angles. During filming, if there is no role for Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying will sit together in the director’s position in front of the monitor and direct. If there is a role for Xiao Yao, only Mu Ying will control the director’s position in front of the monitor. crew. But even if he has his own part in the scene, Xiao Yao will run over to watch the replay with Muying after each shot is finished. Only after both directors are satisfied can the shot be passed.

This joint directing method was established when the two met at the French Short Film Festival and decided to make this film. The two met at the film festival because their short films were exhibited. Mu Ying's short film is an action film, and Xiao Yao's short film is a thriller drama. One is good at action scenes, and the other is good at literary and drama scenes. This joint direction is exactly a kind of complementarity for the two.

Even after Xiao Yao's own animation film was released, Xiao Yao did not 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 crews, watched a lot, and directed and shot short films by himself, it is the first time to direct a live-action feature film. I'm still a little worried because of my experience, it's safer to get a director to do it together. Muying is not well-known, has a good relationship with Xiao Yao, and has experience, so she is the right candidate.

In the crew, Xiao Yao is not the only one who holds multiple roles. Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, and Chen Xiaoting all have one identity.

The two leading actors, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, also serve as action directors and also design action scenes. In addition to getting a minor supporting role, Chen Xiaoting also has the identity of an executive producer. She has to assist director Mu Ying in arranging specific daily affairs, and also controls the financial expenses of the crew during filming.

It was the first time for Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others to experience this kind of multi-tasking experience in the crew. Although Xiao Yao once had the experience of writing, directing and acting by himself, he will also participate in the design of parkour movements with Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others in the crew this time. In fact, he also needs to do action guidance. Quite a lot.

Since it was the first time for several core members of the crew to shoot like this, in the first week of shooting, the director team led by Mu Ying and Xiao Yao did not have heavy shooting tasks in the shooting plan.

In the second week of filming, the crew of the entire crew became more familiar with each other and got along better with each other. Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and others were also more comfortable with multi-tasking working methods. The amount of shooting tasks.

In the second week of shooting, although the amount of shooting tasks increased and everyone's work intensity increased a lot, the shooting plan for this week was still completed and the shooting progress was guaranteed.

On the weekend of the second week, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying also gave the entire crew a day off.

During the second crew holiday, Xiao Yao still went to the recording studio of "Daydream" and continued to arrange two songs with the members of the "immortals" band.

During this week, the members of the "immortals" band were not idle, and made some arrangements for these two songs. After listening to it, Xiao Yao only made some minor revisions, and then finalized the arrangement of the two songs. After confirming the arrangements of the two songs, there was still some time in the day, so Xiao Yao tried to record the songs.

Since the whole band was recording together, and the revised arrangement had not gone through too much practice, the efficiency of this recording was incomparable to that of Xiao Yao's own recording. Xiao Yao has been recording in the recording studio until night fell, and he has not finished recording a single song.

There is no rush for these two songs, and there is still filming tomorrow, and Xiao Yao doesn't want to stay up all night, so he will stop recording if he can't finish recording, and save it for the rest of the crew next week. After having dinner with the band members, Xiao Yao drove back to the apartment to rest.

The first two weeks of shooting were relatively smooth, but in the third week, the shooting didn't go so smoothly. When filming the action scene of jumping from one roof to the balcony railing of another building, Xu Fei failed to hold on to the railing, fell down and was injured.

It is not uncommon for actors to be injured during action scenes. No matter how proficient the training before, how well prepared the crew is, and how well the work is done, it is impossible to guarantee that it will be foolproof. The crew's investment in security is still very effective. Although there is no guarantee that there will be no accidents, it can play a very good role in protection when accidents occur. When Xu Fei was filming this scene, he was hanging from a steel wire, but he didn’t fall to the ground after falling, he was pulled in the air by the steel wire, but he sprained his wrist when he failed to catch the bar, and his body collided with the wall when he was hanging in the air. There are some scrapes and bruises.

At this time, the ambulance and the two first responders in the crew really came in handy. When Xu Fei was released, the two first responders checked Xu Fei immediately and took emergency measures. Finally, after a comprehensive examination at the hospital, the hospital did not allow Xu Fei to be hospitalized, but sent him back Rest at home.

Xu Fei's injury is not serious, the doctor's diagnosis is that he will be fine after a few days of rest.

Although Xu Fei is not a member of the Screen Actors Guild of America, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying will not let Xu Fei go into battle with injuries, and they forcibly give him a few days off to let him recuperate.

Xu Fei is on vacation to recuperate from his injuries, but the filming work of the crew will not stop because of this. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying adjusted the filming plan for the next few days overnight, and brought forward the scenes without Xu Fei, so as to minimize the loss of the crew. It's just such an adjustment, many aspects need to be adjusted, and the progress of the whole shooting will inevitably lag behind.

Although the filming progress of the crew is a little behind, but the holidays still have to be released. On the weekend of the third week, the crew continued to have a holiday, and Xiao Yao continued to go to the recording studio of "Daydream".

After another week, the "immortals" band has become more proficient in the arrangement of the two songs, so the recording efficiency of this day is not the same as that of the day a week ago. Before the night fell, Xiao Yao recorded all the official versions of the two songs.

Keith Craig heard the band's rehearsal this week after hearing that the arrangements for the two songs had been finalized last week. Knowing that this day's recording could produce the finished song, Keith Craig also came to the recording studio. After the recording of the songs was completed, Keith Craig also listened to the finished products of the two songs immediately.

The official studio version of the song has been recorded, Xiao Yao's next plan is to record the MV of these two songs. Xiao Yao agreed to sell the copyright of the two songs to Keith Craig's "Daydream" studio, so the official release of the songs must be in charge of the "Daydream" studio. The shooting of the mv is naturally related to them. It happened that Keith Craig was present, and after the recording ended, 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 movie promotion, then MV will definitely not let it go. However, when the movie was released, Xiao Yao didn't intend to use these two songs only for the movie, so he didn't plan to make the MV of these two songs into a promotional video for the movie.

Xiao Yao's plan is to use some clips from the movie, plus some shots of the band members, and combine the two to make the MV of two songs. In this way, during the promotional period before the movie is released, the song and the mv are released together, which can boost the promotion of the movie, and when the movie is released, these two mvs can also continue to exist as mvs alone.

For such an MV, Keith Craig has no objections.

Xiao Yao has already thought about the plot and picture of the two MVs. The filming of the movie is still in progress. As for the movie clips, after the movie is all shot, it can be directly cut out and edited into the mv. As for the footage of the band members, it needs to be shot separately.

For the filming of the mv, Xiao Yao does not plan to use the current crew members, but is going to ask Keith Craig to come forward to form the filming crew of the mv. When Xiao Yao recorded his own song mv in Los Angeles before, Keith Craig helped Xiao Yao set up a filming crew for the mv. This time, Keith Craig did not have any support for the music video of his own band. objection.

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

After completing the recording of two movie songs, and finalizing the shooting of two MVs that will be used by Xiao Yao as a "semi-promotional film", Xiao Yao has a great sense of accomplishment, and it can be regarded as finding a place for this week's not-so-smooth movie shooting. some comfort.

After the rest day, the crew resumed filming.

Compared with the troubles encountered in the third week, Xiao Yao and others were in a much better mood in the fourth week. In addition to the fact that no one was injured during the filming this week, Xu Fei recovered from his injuries and returned to the filming crew to resume filming. Another very important reason is that someone finally flew from China to America to visit the filming.

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