Chapter 42: Four Versions

Three days later, Gong Chen and Xiao Siqi recorded these two songs respectively, and Ye Jiaying also sent the two songs to the director and producer of the crew on time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

XY's works have a good reputation, the quality of the songs themselves is excellent and they match the plot very well, Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen are veteran king-level singers in the music world, and the other is a powerful newcomer with a high topicality recently, so these two songs were successfully selected by the director and producer of the TV series called "Golden Sword", and became the opening and ending songs of this TV series respectively.

At this time, the filming work of the crew has been completed, and the whole drama has begun to enter post-production. After confirming that these two songs were the opening and ending songs, the producer and director also used the already filmed materials as the basis, added some video clips of the two of them recording in the studio provided by Qijia Studio, and made two MVs with the songs, which were released on the Internet in the form of trailers.

Xiao Siqi is singing for film and television works for the first time, Gong Chen is also a very topical figure recently, and this drama has done enough publicity work since the start of filming, so after these two promotional videos in the form of MVs came out, they were also very eye-catching and attracted a lot of attention.

Taking advantage of the good response to the promotional videos of these two MVs, the producer also took advantage of the situation to invite Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen to join the promotional lineup of this TV series, and invited them to participate in a lot of promotional activities with the actors who played several main roles in the play.

In addition to Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen, the producers of this drama are also very interested in XY, the creator of the two songs, and also took the opportunity to ask XY to appear and participate in some promotional activities together, but Xiao Siqi naturally rejected it directly.

Gong Chen was able to sing the ending song of the TV series that has attracted a lot of attention nowadays, and also appeared on various programs with the boss Xiao Siqi and the star actors in the play to promote the TV series. You must know that the widest audience in China is still TV series, and being able to sing the ending song of a popular TV series is not much worse than releasing an album for her.

Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen went to promote the TV series, and Xiao Yao, who had nothing else to disturb, finally set up his MV shooting crew and started his own MV shooting and production.

Since Gong Chen had no time after being pulled by the TV series producer to do publicity, Xiao Yao changed the original shooting plan and first filmed the electronic music version of "faded".

The two versions of the MV for "faded" in Xiao Yao's plan are based on the original version of the previous life. From beginning to end of the electronic music version, he is the only actor, and the string version will have Gong Chen and the violinists.

In terms of plot, the electronic music version of the MV is the process of the protagonist running in various scenes such as empty streets, houses, warehouses, empty fields, and railways, looking for the house in the old photo in his hand, only to find a broken wall.

In addition to the plot, Xiao Yao's dress in the MV also continues the dress he wore in a black hooded sweatshirt with a hood and a hood when he was performing live. But in terms of scenes, Xiao Yao can't completely replicate the buildings and environments in the MV in his previous life. But whether it's abandoned houses and warehouses waiting to be demolished, or empty fields and abandoned railroads, similar scenes are not lacking in China, even in the remote suburbs around Yanjing. After a period of hard searching, Xiao Yao also succeeded in finding those scenes that could give him a similar feeling in the original MV in his previous life.

The overall style, scenes, and plot are roughly the same as the original MV in the previous life, and most of Xiao Yao's thoughts are placed on the details. First of all, the use and processing of the details of light, color and picture composition in the MV, as a photographer, Xiao Yao is very experienced and experienced in these aspects, and the beauty and appeal of the picture are much stronger than the MV in the previous life. The second is that compared with the slightly monotonous running action of the protagonist in the MV in the previous life, Xiao Yao, who brought parkour to this life, also added some more ornamental parkour actions without affecting the overall style of the MV. Although many of the action scenes in it use slow motion due to the style of the MV, which cannot reflect the speed and smoothness of parkour, but in terms of the elegant beauty of the action, it is enough to make people shine.

After the filming and production of this electronic music version of the MV was completed, Xiao Yao did not upload it to a domestic video website or send it to the music channel of the TV station, but directly uploaded it to the international video website PV. Due to the parkour action in the MV, Xiao Yao also used the account of his parkour veteran team YRF to reprint the video of this MV in his exclusive channel.

When Xiao Yao completed the filming and production of this electronic version of the MV and uploaded it to a foreign video website, the publicity work of the TV series that Gong Chen participated in came to an end temporarily, so Xiao Yao immediately found several violinists and violinists who had been contacted before and Gong Chen to start the shooting of the string version of the MV.

Different from many scenes in the electronic music version, the string version basically only has two scenes where the pianist plays the piano and Gong Chen performs with the string player, and all of them are indoors, so Xiao Yao rented an empty and idle old warehouse, and after some decoration and care, the entire MV was filmed in that warehouse.

This string version of the MV is still consistent with the original version in the previous life in terms of plot and overall style, and Xiao Yao still has some adjustments according to his own ideas in details such as lighting, color, and composition. There is no running action in this MV, and Xiao Yao can't add parkour action anymore. In terms of dress, Gong Chen's chord players still maintain the same appearance as they were in the show, and Xiao Yao himself is naturally no exception, even the part where the pianist plays the piano in the original version originally showed his face, but Xiao Yao also changed it to be masked.

After the string version was completed, Xiao Yao temporarily held it in his hand for a while, and was not in a hurry to go out public like the electronic version. He plans to wait for the electronic version to ferment first, and then give it to those who are not used to listening to electronic music. Similarly, Xiao Yao's string version of the MV is not planned to be released in China, but is going to continue to be uploaded to foreign video sites such as PV. In his previous life, this song was popular and popular all over the world, and Xiao Yao's eyes were also aimed at foreign countries at the beginning.

From the production to the release of this song, Xiao Yao did not plan to use any resources from the studio, and the two versions of the MV were also used to spend the money on his private account. He wanted to use his own way and power to bring the song to the world.

In addition to the official MV of the two versions of electronic music and strings, Xiao Yao's development of the version of "faded" has not yet ended. It's just that considering that he has already used his own money to shoot two MVs in a row, the cost is not small, and he still has a plan to shoot a short film in the summer vacation, so he has to reserve some financial preparations for the plan of the short film in the summer vacation, and the subsequent new version of Xiao Yao will cost much less.

The guitar is a powerful instrument. In her previous life, a Singaporean girl once became popular on the Internet with a cover of Uncle Bird's "Gangnam Style", in addition to her appearance, the novelty and fun of the pure guitar version and the sound are the more important factors. Since she can sing "Jiangnan Style" purely on the guitar with a novel and special taste, Xiao Yao believes that playing "faded" with the guitar alone should also be a very special and fun thing.

So, Xiao Yao shot a pure music video of the solo guitar version of "faded" in front of the camera at home. Of course, Xiao Yao in the video is still the only black and hooded and masked dress, because he posted his own shooting "TheLazySong" on Weibo, some of the furnishings in Xiao Yao's room have been exposed on the Internet, and Xiao Yao's selfie "faded" was deliberately changed to his piano room.

In addition to the pure guitar version, Xiao Yao also made a performance version of an electronic drum. The electronic drum is just a rhythm instrument, and it can't play the melodic tune of "faded" on its own like a guitar. Therefore, Xiao Yao's electronic drum performance version is based on the original "faded" as the background music, and there is an electronic drum performance show. This version of Xiao Yao is also intended to be presented in the form of a selfie video, but this version of Xiao Yao does not plan to shoot at home, but moves the electronic drum to a dry yellow grass surrounded by woods, shoots it with two fixed cameras, and then cuts and splices the drum shots taken by the two cameras at different angles, and then matches it with the sound recorded in the performance at that time.

Among the four versions, only one of Gong Chen's figures appeared, and only two voices appeared, which also reflected Xiao Yao's intention to brand this song as his own.

After making four different versions of the MV and video in a row, Xiao Yao's enthusiasm for the song "faded" finally dissipated in a short time. At this time, the time came to May, and a small long holiday was ushered in, the May Day holiday.

Throughout April, Gong Chen first made a scandal and then involved the termination of the contract and changed the owner, and then released a new single for various promotions, then sang the ending song of the TV series and the promotion of the TV series, and also helped Xiao Yao shoot a MV, which can be regarded as non-stop. On the other hand, whether it is popularity and popularity, Gong Chen's improvement speed is also quite fast.

This month has a good momentum of development, and Gong Chen has not been able to relax and rest in the future. At the end of April, the studio received another invitation to Gong Chen from a music reality show. In addition to Gong Chen, Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao also received another invitation from this program group, hoping that they could participate with Gong Chen.

This is a competitive music program, and every episode will have singers eliminated and leave, and new singers will join halfway. In view of Gong Chen's popularity in the media and entertainment industry in April, the program team also temporarily decided to put Gong Chen in the list of singers who joined him halfway.

Before the recording of this show began, the program team had sent invitations to Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao to participate in the show, and they were already on the list of alternative singers in the program group. Xiao Siqi himself has little interest in participating in reality TV shows, but Xiao Yao is not very reluctant to participate in reality shows. But at that time, he was writing songs, recording songs, going to school, and filming MVs, so naturally he didn't have the energy to participate.

Now that the program team decided to invite Gong Chen to join halfway, they took the opportunity to invite Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao again. Xiao Siqi's situation and attitude have not changed much, but Xiao Yao's work of writing songs and shooting MVs has come to an end, and it happens to be the May Day holiday again. It's just that if you participate in this episode recorded on May 3, Xiao Yao should have no problem in terms of time and energy. Therefore, Fang Yi, the agent who had already entered the role, asked Xiao Yao very responsibly if he was willing to go to that show with Gong Chen to play the last episode.