Chapter 624: Film Screening

"It's just a video video script for a few minutes, not a movie script or a TV drama script. Xiao Yao smiled, "It's not long in total, and half a day is not too fast!"

"But you just said that you would give me the lyrics and music score of the song before noon," Liu Youyuan said, "Give me the script in the afternoon, how can you have half a day?"

"When you have something in your head, it's easy to put it into words. Xiao Yao nodded his head with a smile and said.

"Now let's settle the song thing first. Seeing that Liu Youyuan still had an expression of disbelief, Xiao Yao didn't bother to care, and changed the topic, "I'll write out the lyrics and music scores for you to see, whether the song works or not, whether you want to buy this song or not, you must have to watch it before you can decide, right? ”

"That's right," Liu Youyuan nodded and asked Xiao Yao, "Are you going to write it now?"

"Of course," Xiao Yao looked around and asked Liu Youyuan, "Do you have a pen and paper?"

There is definitely no shortage of this kind of thing in entertainment companies, and Xiao Yao did not carry it with him.

"Do you need us to stay away and give you a separate and quiet space?" Liu Youyuan took out a blank sheet music book and pencil from the cabinet in the recording studio and handed them to Xiao Yao.

"No, just don't talk. Xiao Yao took the pen and paper and began to write.

The Korean song that Xiao Yao decided to give to Liu Youyuan was "Because It's a Woman" by Kiss in his previous life. Although this song was released in 2001 in his previous life, it has been a long time, but Xiao Yao was very impressed by the MV of this song, and he remembered the song very clearly, and after about ten minutes, he wrote the lyrics and handed it to Liu Youyuan.

Liu Youyuan didn't care about sighing at Xiao Yao's speed again, and took the score and read it seriously, and couldn't help but hum quietly in the process.

"I think it's great!" After Liu Youyuan finished reading it, he first gave Xiao Yao a thumbs up, and then handed the music score to the three girls next to him and said, "You guys can also take a look." ”

"Is this really written by the big boy in front of you?" After reading it, the three girls all looked at Xiao Yao a little strangely, and did not express any opinions at the first time.

Liu Youyuan understood the thoughts of the three students, and knew that they were wondering how Xiao Yao, a big boy in his early twenties, could write such a "woman" song. To be honest, Liu Youyuan was also surprised when he saw the lyrics of this song. But after all, he is the one who saw Xiao Yao's new song thrown out every week on "Singer" more than a year ago, and he knows Xiao Yao's diversity in creation, so he is much less surprised.

"What do you think of this song?" Liu Youyuan saw that the three girls didn't speak, so he had to ask.

"Great, we like it so much!" the three girls replied.

"That's good!" Liu Youyuan nodded, turned to Xiao Yao and said, "Our company has accepted this song! In terms of arranging and soundtrack, have you already thought about it?"

"Well, I can work on some ideas with you. Xiao Yao nodded.

"Now that you've thought about arranging the soundtrack, then one day should be enough!" Liu Youyuan turned to the three girls and said, "You go and copy the lyrics and music in your hands, and leave the original to us." Get acquainted with this song today, and start recording tomorrow!"

"Yes, teacher!" said the three girls happily.

After the three girls left, Xiao Yao and Liu Youyuan began to record the soundtrack accompaniment.

Xiao Yao and Liu Youyuan are both instrumental and recording engineers. However, this is in Liu Youyuan's recording studio, the song was written by Xiao Yao, the arrangement was made by Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao has more musical instruments than Liu Youyuan, so in terms of division of labor, it is natural that Liu Youyuan is the recording engineer, and Xiao Yao enters the recording room to play the soundtrack of various instruments.

Xiao Yao just copied the original arrangement and soundtrack of his previous life, and almost no changes were made, so the process of recording the soundtrack accompaniment was also quite smooth.

After the soundtrack of each instrument was recorded, the post-processing aspects such as sound correction and track synthesis were handed over to Liu Youyuan, the recording engineer, and Xiao Yao took time to write the script of the song MV in the afternoon.

After Liu Youyuan completed the post-production of the soundtrack, he also immediately read the script written by Xiao Yao. After reading the script, Liu Youyuan said that he liked this story very much and would try his best to fight for the company and shoot this MV.

In the matter of buying songs, Liu Youyuan, as the company's music director, has the right to make decisions on the spot, but making MVs not only involves music, but also involves many matters in acting. You need to hire a shooting crew and actors, you need to prepare the shooting location and props, and you need to make a shooting budget. These things are not something that Liu Youyuan can decide alone.

Although Liu Youyuan personally likes the story written by Xiao Yao, he can't buy Xiao Yao's MV script for filming on the spot, but needs to show the script to the boss of the company and the heads of other departments to discuss and decide together.

Xiao Yao also knew that Liu Youyuan was not up to Liu Youyuan alone in the matter of filming the MV, but he didn't care too much about it. Whether it is KM or YPL, they are both Korean entertainment companies, and YS is not an artist under him, it is best to be popular when he debuts, and whether he is popular or not does not have much impact on Xiao Yao. His main target market and direction of development is also not in South Korea.

After handing over the script, Xiao Yao's task today is over. Before Xiao Yao said goodbye and left, Liu Youyuan also continued to send Xiao Yao a job invitation for tomorrow: "Xiao Yao, I will record a song for SYS tomorrow, and you can come along." ”

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded first, and then added, "But I can only come tomorrow in the morning for half a day." Tomorrow afternoon is the screening time of the film I starred in at the film festival, and YS's debut is still being prepared, so the recording should not be so urgent, right? I'll accompany you to record tomorrow morning, and in the afternoon, how about you go with me to the film festival and give me the film platform?"

"You're so popular in South Korea now, do you still need me to help you stand on the platform?" Liu Youyuan first laughed and teased Xiao Yao, and then nodded, "But I also want to see what the movie you play is like, I'll go tomorrow afternoon!"

"Okay, then it's decided!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

The next morning, Xiao Yao came to YPL as promised and recorded the three girls of SYS with Liu Youyuan. Through a morning of recording, Xiao Yao once again felt that in terms of singing alone, the three girls of SYS were stronger than the five girls of Gstar, and he was a little more optimistic about the prospects of this song.

The screening time of "127 Hours" was at half past two in the afternoon, and Xiao Yao recorded it at eleven o'clock in the afternoon and left. In addition to the fact that it was almost lunchtime, he also had to go back to the hotel in advance to make some preparations.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Yao came to the screening hall with Ye Jiaying and the relevant personnel of the crew. At this time, there was still some time before the movie was screened, and there were only some reporters in the theater, and there was no audience yet.

According to the public screening process, there will be a live exchange meeting after the film is played, leaving the main creators of the film to communicate with the audience, and will also receive questions from reporters on the spot. However, that exchange meeting was after the film screening, and now that I see Ye Jiaying and Xiao Yao, some of the media reporters who entered the venue in advance still came over and asked for a brief on-site interview.

As the director of this movie, he is also a well-known senior actor in the world, and Ye Jiaying is the core personnel of this movie, but because of the two events the day before yesterday, the number of reporters who came to interview Xiao Yao at this time was about the same as Ye Jiaying.

If it was an interview about movies, of course Xiao Yao was willing, but when he heard that the questions asked by the reporter were related to the two things the day before yesterday, Xiao Yao had no interest in answering the questions. If he had been willing to be interviewed about the two events the day before yesterday, he would have already done an interview, and he wouldn't have to wait until the film festival screening to be interviewed.

"Xiuyan is angry!" Xiao Yao saw a familiar figure appear at the door of the theater, and immediately waved his hand to the door.

"Sorry, my friend is here!" Xiao Yao took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement of reporters and greeted Hong Xiuyan.

"Xiao Yao, I'm here to enjoy your movie!" Hong Xiuyan said with a smile, "Originally, Yuni and a few of them also wanted to come to cheer you on, but they have been too busy with their schedules recently, and they really can't take a break, let me convey their best wishes to you, I hope your film can achieve good results in this film festival." ”

"Thank you, thank you, and thank them!" Xiao Yao thanked him, then turned to the man beside Hong Xiuyan and said, "Park Ji-hyun, hello, welcome!"

"Hello!" Park Zhixian didn't know Xiao Yao very well, so he greeted him politely.

"This way, please!" Xiao Yao invited the two of them to the seats reserved for them in the front row of the audience.

"That's Hong so-yeon and Park Ji-hyun? They also came to see this Chinese movie?" looked at the two who were greeting Xiao Yao, and a reporter was a little surprised.

"I heard that Hong Xiuyan has a good relationship with Xiao Yao, and she has also cooperated with director Ye Jiaying in Huaxia!" another reporter broke the news.

"It's not surprising that Hong Xiuyan came, but what about Park Zhixian? He doesn't seem to have anything to do with director Ye Jiaying and Xiao Yao, right? It can't be that KM Company sent Park Zhixian here, right? With Park Zhixian's current status, KM Company will send Hong Xiuyan out to help the film platform because he has a good relationship with the two main creators of this movie?" another reporter said.

The reporters saw that Xiao Yao was talking to the two, and they didn't rush up to interrupt casually, but this did not affect their discussion on the sidelines.

Ye Jiaying also saw Hong Xiuyan's arrival. After dealing with the reporters in front of her, Ye Jiaying also sat on the seat next to Hong Xiuyan and greeted her. After Hong Xiuyan greeted Ye Jiaying, she also introduced Park Zhixian to Ye Jiaying.

At this time, Xiao Yao left the audience and went to the door to greet the arrival of another Korean friend.

"That's Liu Youyuan, why is he here too?" said a reporter who recognized the person in surprise.

In fact, there are some big-name star audiences at the film festival screenings, and some reporters and fans will even pay attention to and compare which movie can attract more star audiences. However, most of the big-name stars who appear on such occasions are directors and actors, and there are also many behind-the-scenes technicians and producers such as cameramen and editors, as well as representatives of film companies, but there are few pure singers to support the scene, especially a local star singer to support a foreign movie.

After Xiao Yao greeted Liu Youyuan, he led Liu Youyuan to Hong Xiuyan and Ye Jiaying. Hong Xiuyan, Park Zhixian and Yoo Woo-won all knew each other, so Xiao Yao arranged the seats of the three together. Although Ye Jiaying also participated in the finals of "Singer" that year, she did not have much contact with Liu Youyuan, and Xiao Yao introduced Ye Jiaying and Liu Youyuan to each other.

Not all the stars present at this movie screening were from Xiao Yao. Ye Jiaying has been developing in the film and television industry for much longer than Xiao Yao, and her status is much higher, and she also has her own resources and connections. This screening not only came to the core members of the two other Chinese crews who also came to the festival to cheer, but also two Korean directors and actors, a Thai actor and a Danish director came to the stage to support Ye Jiaying.

Although these people who came to Ye Jiaying are also very big names, these people are all from the film industry, and in comparison, it was Xiao Yao who came forward to greet the stars that surprised the reporters.

Hong so-yeon and Park Ji-hyun are both actors, but their careers as actors are mainly in TV dramas. Although these two people are famous and have high traffic, in the eyes of the average Korean audience, there is still a big difference between the two of them and professional film actors, and it is a little strange for these two to appear at the film festival, let alone the screening of a non-local film. As for Liu Youyuan, that's not to mention. Therefore, such a star audience lineup, not to mention in the screening activities of this film festival, is extremely rare in the history of the Seoul International Film Festival.

However, the surprise of the reporters did not last long, because soon the film began to be screened, and everyone turned their attention to the movie.

The story of a man who was buried underground for 127 hours and then broke his leg to save himself is very attractive in itself, and whether it is Ye Jiaying's direction or Xiao Yao's performance, it is very good, and it quickly made the audience at the scene fully engaged, and the mood fluctuated with the encounter of the protagonist in the movie. When the film screening ended, there was a round of applause, and some audience members stood up excitedly.

In the applause of the audience, Ye Jiaying, Xiao Yao and several main creators of the crew came to the stage and bowed to the audience, and the applause that was originally small was much bigger.

The next step is the on-site exchange, that is, the audience and media reporters ask questions to the creators on the stage. As the director of the movie, Ye Jiaying was asked the most times, followed by Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao answered the questions about the movie seriously, and really talked about some of the themes that the movie wanted to express and his feelings and feelings during and after filming. But just like before the movie was released, many of these questions were about his singing shows on Korean TV and catching anti-Japanese meals, and Xiao Yao basically refused to answer these questions on the grounds that they had nothing to do with the movie.

In addition to only answering questions related to movies, Xiao Yao also showed his character again in another aspect at this exchange meeting.

Xiao Yao has been on Korean TV shows, in addition to singing on stage, in the special introduction of the program, he talks to the host in fluent Korean, and his ability to speak Korean is not a secret to Korean journalists and even many Korean viewers. In the on-site exchange session after the screening, some Korean reporters also asked Xiao Yao questions directly in Korean.

Xiao Yao had already experienced this situation once when he was interviewed on the red carpet, and this time he still answered in English. However, on the red carpet at that time, Xiao Yao faced the host arranged by the film festival, but this time Xiao Yao faced reporters with many fewer scruples.

A South Korean reporter heard that Xiao Yao had been speaking English, and couldn't help but ask Xiao Yao a question in Korean, and then emphasized that he asked Xiao Yao to answer the question in Korean.

Xiao Yao did not avoid the question that he knew Korean, and answered the reporter directly without waiting for the on-site interpreter. However, Xiao Yao's answer was still not in Korean, but in English.

Xiao Yao especially emphasized that this is the screening of the Seoul International Film Festival, they are the Chinese crew who came to participate in the international film festival, and they are Chinese people. Not only Korean audiences and reporters, but also Chinese and other countries, he felt that it was more appropriate for him to speak English directly than to ask the interpreter to translate his Korean into English!

As soon as Xiao Yao's answer came out, it caused a lot of discussion at the scene.