Chapter 536 Alternate Performer Candidates
After chatting a few words and getting to know each other, Master Hong began today's kung fu teaching. Master Hong is only in his thirties, not very old, his English level is still good, he can communicate with several supermodels in English, and he doesn't need Xiao Yao to help him translate.
Xiao Yao instructed the cameraman of the shooting team to find a camera angle to shoot by himself, and then retreated to the wall with Zhou Zhihao and Lin Qisan. The three of them sat against the wall on the floor, chatting quietly while watching Master Hong teach the four models Huaxia Kung Fu in the center of the hall.
In the center of the hall, Master Hong first gave the four models a set of boxing, and then explained and taught one action after another.
"Bayi, what kind of punch did this Master Hong fight just now?" After watching Master Hong's demonstration, Zhou Zhihao asked Xiao Yao in a low voice.
Zhou Zhihao and Xiao Yao have been fighting since childhood, and they are also very interested in martial arts. Xiao Yao kowtowed to his master in martial arts, although he only learned Shaolin Changquan and Bajiquan, but he also knew something about various types of boxing.
"Born from Hong Boxing, there is the shadow of Hong Boxing, but it is not exactly the move of Hong Boxing. Xiao Yao said, "This Master Hong said that he went to the film and television crew to do action design and martial arts coaching, and had experience in guiding actors. This is a set of movements specially designed by him for the models, which not only has the appearance of traditional Chinese martial arts, but also takes care of the ornamentality. ”
"No wonder!" Zhou Zhihao nodded, "Finding someone who has been a martial arts instructor to teach is indeed more ornamental than what those masters teach." ”
"That's," Xiao Yao said proudly, "Brother has crossed so many borders, why do you have to have a little advantage, right? This is what I asked Master Hong to design for them, and I also helped with ideas yesterday! ”
"Have you increased your workload?" Lin Qisan said funny, "Aren't you sitting here and watching a play with us?"
"Yesterday, I communicated with Master Hong, and asked Eva and the people from the planning company to help contact the venue, isn't it all work to bring you here today?" Xiao Yao retorted, "Why hasn't the workload increased?"
"Hey, Master Hong's fight is indeed quite ornamental, but these supermodel sisters..."After looking at it for a while, Zhou Zhihao turned Xiao Yao with his elbow, and said to the middle of the hall, "Don't you care?"
Several supermodels are new to Chinese kung fu, although they are very curious and very energetic, but the actions are not too standard. But Master Hong doesn't know if it's because he can't let go of the camera, or because he can't let go of a few unfamiliar and particularly big-name international supermodels, or because he thinks it's almost enough to do a show, and the requirements for several supermodels are not strict. Even if the supermodels made movements that were so deformed, he just smiled and nodded yes.
"Stop!" After Xiao Yao was reminded by Zhou Zhihao, he stood up and walked towards the middle of the hall, "Not good enough!"
"What's wrong?" several models turned their heads to look at Xiao Yao who walked over.
"You didn't do well just now!" Xiao Yao said bluntly to the four models.
"The punch just now, the direction in which Zoe and Sally's fists went out was crooked," Xiao Yao said as he demonstrated, "And the slap on the ground just now, the squatting horse step is basically not in place, the left leg is not tight, the right leg is not straight, and the arm is not from the top of the head, but directly from the front, this is too ugly, right?"
"Master Hong, you have to be strict and show your apprentice's style!" Xiao Yao got up and said to Master Hong, "Your apprentice has practiced like this, will you also say okay? There is still a camera filming this, it may be broadcast on American TV in the future, and the world does not know how many people will see it! You have to let them make accurate movements and do it in place!"
"This, how can you treat these people like apprentices?" Master Hong said embarrassedly, "I can't do it!"
"Can't do it?" Xiao Yao said in surprise, "I didn't let you beat them either!
"This..."Master Hong hesitated.
"You won't be embarrassed to touch them, will you?" Xiao Yao looked at Master Hong and blushed a little, guessed a possibility, and said in surprise.
"It's just that there is a camera filming, so Master doesn't dare to touch it!" A young man behind Master Hong suddenly interjected, "Our master is very powerful!"
"Hey~" everyone else laughed.
"Shut up!" Master Hong turned around and shouted in annoyance, "It's against you!
"Ah~" The disciples behind let out a miserable scream.
"If you don't dare to touch them, don't promise me yesterday!" Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "How can this be taught?"
"Why don't you come?" Master Hong looked at Xiao Yao and said, "You have also practiced martial arts since childhood, I have all these basic moves, you have seen them all yesterday, why don't you teach them!"
"Me?" Xiao Yao pointed to his nose in surprise, and complained in his heart, "If I am willing to teach myself, why do I invite you to come?"
"I mean, I'll demonstrate, and you regulate their movements. Master Hong seemed to guess Xiao Yao's thoughts, and continued, "It seems that the direction of the punch is crooked, and the movement is not in place, you can help them adjust the norms." You know them so well, you shouldn't have any of these concerns, right?"
"It means to be your teaching assistant!" Xiao Yao nodded helplessly, and at the same time sighed in his heart, "What kind of wonderful master did I invite!"
"Haozi, San'er, you two come together!" Xiao Yao beckoned to Zhou Zhihao and Lin Qisan.
Master Hong taught some very basic boxing moves, Lin Qisan and Xiao Yao learned Shaolin Changquan for more than two years, Zhou Zhihao and Xiao Yao have fought many times, not only Xiao Yao learned a lot of boxing knowledge and movements from Zhou Zhihao, Zhou Zhihao also learned some basic knowledge and movements of martial arts from Xiao Yao. Both of them have a good understanding of martial arts, know the basic points of movements, and in the case of Master Hong's demonstration, it is also possible to help several models standardize their movements.
"Okay!" Xiao Yao and Master Hong did not lower their voices in the conversation, and the two people sitting by the wall watching the play also heard the conversation between the two. They didn't have a problem with the work, and they got up and walked over.
As a result, what was originally a one-to-four teaching became a four-to-four teaching. Whenever the model's movements are not in place, Master Hong, Xiao Yao and others will stop at any time. Xiao Yao and the three of them often guide them hand-in-hand to standardize their movements, and sometimes teach some power skills. After this adjustment, the movements made by the models looked much better.
After learning the breakdown movements and moves, the four models practiced all the movements together from beginning to end several times, and a teacher and three teaching assistants helped them point out some problems in the movement connection and taught them some skills in this regard.
After the exercise, the four models were asked to face the camera in pairs for the final presentation of their learning results. The others all stepped aside to make room for the models in the middle of the hall.
"Okay, now let's see how well you learn!" Xiao Yao clapped his hands, and reminded with a smile by the way, "Pay attention to your eyes, I hope you can be murderous!"
Zoe and Rosa were the first to stand up, first clasping their fists with one hand and bending down with their palms in the other, and then watching each other rush out with sharp eyes.
Of course, Xiao Yao will not let the two really fight, but adopts a dislocated way to display boxing routines to create an illusion of fighting. Although the two didn't really fight together, the overall movements were standard and smooth, and it was still very ornamental.
"Great!" everyone applauded as the four-person group finished their presentation.
"I think it's great, too!" Zoe shook her fist excitedly, "I feel like I'm so good right now!"
"It's really amazing!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.
"Then am I very good at fighting now?" Zoe looked at Xiao Yao provocatively, "Can you be your opponent?"
"Hehe," Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile, "If you want to fight, it's better to go to other models to compete!
"Ah~" Zoe said with some deflatedness.
After the demonstration of the routines is completed, the martial arts teaching is all over. After thanking and bidding farewell to Master Hong's master and apprentice, Xiao Yao and his entourage left this antique building and returned to the city.
The martial arts teaching lasted only half a day, and in the afternoon, everyone returned to their original itinerary and continued to visit some landmark buildings and attractions in Shencheng.
The visit to Shencheng City and the shooting of Eva's model's daily tidbits were combined by Xiao Yao, which lasted a total of a week. A week later, the two shoots were completed together.
It's December, and there's less than a week left before the Eva show. The models have almost arrived and started training and rehearsals, and the four models who shoot the documentary such as Zoe still have some tasks to attend commercial events in the past few days, all of which do not need Xiao Yao to follow the shooting. Xiao Yao is a guest performer, and he also has to prepare and rehearse for the show, so the two groups of people are temporarily separated.
After the filming ended, Xiao Yao was ready to focus all his energy on the preparation of the performance repertoire of the Eva show. However, when Xiao Yao had just contacted the band and had not officially started rehearsals, he was approached by the person in charge of this Eva show.
Xiao Yao first participated in the Eva Show more than ten years ago, and Dunn Guinia, the director of the Eva Show at that time, although he had not retired, had already taken a back seat. However, Elbert Goodman, the person in charge of this year's Eva show, is the person in charge of this year's swimsuit special, and he is also an old acquaintance with Xiao Yao, so after meeting Xiao Yao, Elbert also directly told Xiao Yao the reason for coming to him.
"Jan, there are some unexpected situations on our side, and we need to adjust our performance schedule for this year. Elbert Goodman said to Xiao Yao, "I came to you to hear your opinion!"
"Oh, what an unexpected situation!" Xiao Yao asked curiously.
"Nicole Ao Dai had some problems with her visa, her visa was not approved, she could not come to China, and it was determined that she would not be able to participate in the Eva show held in Shanghai this year. Elbert said.
Each year, the Eva Show features six units with different themes. As is customary in previous years, Eva usually invited three groups of guests to perform in four of the sections. One group of guests will appear twice, while the other two groups will only appear once. This year's Eva Show was no exception, and three groups of performers were originally invited. In addition to Xiao Yao, a star in China, the other two groups are all stars in the United States, and there is no band, they are all solo singers.
These two solo singers are both popular star singers who have won more than one Grammy award in the United States this year, one is a black male singer named Jamie Smith in his thirties, and the other is Nicole Audrey, a white female singer who has just turned 30.
"I'm sorry. Xiao Yao said, "Then how are you going to adjust?"
The visa issue is definitely something that Xiao Yao can't solve, so Xiao Yao waits for Elbert's next step.
"Of course, we can only invite one other guest performer. "It's less than a week before the Eva show, and if you invite celebrities from European countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom, you will also face visa problems." Since we are holding an Eva show in China, we are going to invite another star singer from China. ”
"Good idea!" Xiao Yao smiled and asked tentatively, "So you called me here to ask me to recommend you a guest performer to replace Miss Ao Dai?"
"Not exactly," says Elbert, "in fact, we've been in contact with some of the entertainment companies in Huaxia and we've received a lot of recommendations. After our initial comparison and selection, I now feel that there are two more suitable candidates, but who to invite has not yet been finalized, and it is difficult to decide, so I would like to hear your opinion. It's not about asking you to recommend a candidate, but knowing which of the two you think is a better fit. ”
"Understood!" Xiao Yao nodded, "Who are these two?"
"As you know, our Eva headquarters are in the United States, and the TV broadcaster of The Eva Show has always been NBC in the United States, so we first consider the popularity and influence in the United States and the world when selecting the performers. Elbert said, "The two Chinese star singers we included in the selection are Zhuo Zhiyuan and Liang Xueying. Zhuo Zhiyuan has previously lived in the United States and participated in the Masters Game of the American Professional Basketball All-Star Weekend for two consecutive years. Liang Xueying has held concerts in the United States, and last year a song hit the billboard in the United States, and the results were very good. ”
"These two!" Xiao Yao said in his heart, "Sure enough, they are both international resources!"
"They're all well-known in the United States. Elbert continued, "In comparison, Zhuo Zhiyuan has more fans, but Liang Xueying is better in terms of acting, so we have a little difficulty in choosing and would like to hear your opinion." ”
"Have you investigated their relationship with me?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I wrote for Liang Xueying the song that hit the billboard, and we have not only worked together, but also had a good personal relationship." And Zhuo Zhiyuan and I only met in a star charity basketball game in China, and we were still opponents. Although not an enemy, the relationship is ordinary. Aren't you worried that I'm giving an unfair opinion for personal reasons?"
"We all know this!" Elbert nodded, looked at Xiao Yao with a smile, "The question is, will you?"