The Screen Actors Guild not only requires an eight-hour workday, with overtime pay, but also requires a day off every week. In addition to Zhou Jingyi in this crew, the American Latino actor who played the lead role and some supporting actors are also members of the Screen Actors Guild. There are also photographers and other workers who work in other departments who are members of various unions in the United States, and those unions also have rules on working hours.

A few days after the start of filming, the filming progress of the crew was still very good, so on the first weekend after the start-up, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying announced the suspension of work and gave the entire crew a day off.

I only have one day off a week, and I definitely won't run back to China. Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, Chen Xiaoting and others don't come to the United States much, and even fewer come to Los Angeles, so they went out to play by themselves while the crew was on vacation. Xiao Yao came to Los Angeles when he ran around with Chen Xuan when he was a child, and when he was a sophomore in high school, he was an international exchange student in Calabasas for a year.

Trade unions in the United States stipulate that actors and some crew members must rest, but there is no rule that Xiao Yao, a producer and non-union director, must also rest. On the day of the crew's holiday, Xiao Yao chose to continue working.

The cast and crew are on vacation, and filming will definitely not be possible, but Xiao Yao is not only the producer, director and starring of this movie, but also one of the soundtracks of this movie. The movie has not been filmed, and Xiao Yao is not easy to do in terms of pure soundtrack, but Xiao Yao can do the theme song interlude or something in the movie first.

As early as when the script of this movie was completed, Xiao Yao had an idea of the songs to be used in the movie, but he hadn't made it yet. Now that he has free time during the filming, Xiao Yao plans to use this time to produce the songs of the movie, which can also save some time for future post-production.

This is an action movie, many of the plots in it are more intense and more burning, and the soundtrack at that time must also be more intense and more burning. In terms of movie songs, Xiao Yao is also ready to use two rock songs.

When it comes to rock songs, Xiao Yao's first thought is naturally the "Immortals" band in Los Angeles.

At a party after the All-Star Celebrity Game at the beginning of the year, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying discussed the preparations for the parkour movie crew. At that time, in addition to Mu Ying and several friends of Huaxia, the members of the band "Immortals" and Zhou Jingyi were also present, and they also said that they would invest in Xiao Yao's film at that time. As the co-producer of the movie, the members of the band "Immortals" also knew about Xiao Yao and others coming to Los Angeles to make movies.

On the day Xiao Yao and the others arrived in Los Angeles, the band "Immortals" happened to have a performance mission, so they didn't go to the airport to pick them up. But later, after the crew started filming, several people from the band came to visit the class, and they also knew that Zhou Jingyi was one of the protagonists of this movie.

Although the band members didn't say it explicitly, Xiao Yao knew that they had some ideas in their hearts, so when they came to visit the class, Xiao Yao told them that he wanted to invite them to sing the songs in the movie.

Zhou Jingyi, who was present at the time, has already joined this movie as an actor, and they are naturally not willing to be left behind. The band members can't act, but they're a band and can sing to the songs in the movie. Xiao Yao's arrangement also happened to speak to the hearts of the band members, and he agreed without hesitation at that time.

Sarmien Smith in the band, like Zhao Rui, has just graduated from college, and the other three are like Xiao Yao, who have just finished their junior year. It's summer vacation and I don't have to go to school. They didn't tour this summer, and there weren't many other commercial performances, so they were relatively idle. Xiao Yao planned to give the crew a holiday every Sunday, and in order to take care of Xiao Yao's filming, the band agreed to meet every Sunday in the next few weeks to rehearse and record songs together. As for the location, it was set in the recording studio of "Daydream".

The day before the crew was on holiday, Xiao Yao contacted Dean and others in advance, and after learning that there was no accident on their side, he drove alone to the recording studio of "Daydream" on the morning of the crew's holiday.

When Xiao Yao arrived, the four members of the band were already waiting for him in the studio, and not only the members of the band "Immortals", but even Keith Craig and others of the band "Daydream" were also waiting for him in the studio.

"Keith, why are you there?" Xiao Yao was a little surprised when he saw Keith Craig and the others.

"This is our place, is it necessary to be so surprised to see us?" laughs Keith Craig.

"Uh~ Okay, my bad!" Xiao Yao scratched his head a little embarrassed.

"I didn't expect you to start making movies as a director at such a young age!" Keith Craig asked, as if he was in a guilty position, "but why didn't you tell me and Betty when you made a movie? You know Betty and I have also invested in films." ”

Keith Craig didn't listen to the members of the band "Immortals" about Xiao Yao's filming, but saw the news on the Internet.

"This~" Xiao Yao continued to scratch his head and said, "This movie was filmed by me and a few friends in Huaxia by myself, and we didn't even ask our parents for money, so we didn't find anyone else to invest." ”

"Okay," Keith Craig nodded, "It's okay to make a movie, but you're trying to hide it from me while recording a song in Los Angeles?"

"Why am I trying to hide it from you?" Xiao Yao said amusedly, "We are recording in your studio, Dean will not tell you, do you have to call you?"

"This~" This time it was Keith Craig's turn to be speechless.

"Okay, let's not talk about that. Keith Craig waved his hand, "What about the song you wrote? ”

In Keith Craig's memory, Xiao Yao has never sung or produced songs written by other musicians. This time, Xiao Yao came to the band "Immortals" to record a song, and Keith Craig also decided that it would be a song written by Xiao Yao himself.

The band "Immortals" has been around for more than four years. In more than four years, this band has not only published the songs written by Xiao Yao. During this period, Dean himself has written songs, Keith Craig has helped them write songs, and he has also helped them buy songs, some of which have achieved good results, but when it comes to the best music works of this band, the three songs written by Xiao Yao have the best results.

On the side of the "Daydream" band, none of their music works in the past few years can reach the results of the song "Sugar" that Xiao Yao helped them write. In the eyes of Keith Craig and others, Xiao Yao is an out-and-out musical genius.

Keith Craig doesn't really care too much about Xiao Yao's filmmaking, the main purpose of his visit this time is to see what new works this genius in his eyes has made.

"Here!" Xiao Yao said with a smile as he stretched out his right index finger and tapped his right temple.

"Then write it out!" said Keith Craig, "or go to my office, where I have a spare sheet music book and pencil." ”

"So anxious?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "How good it would be to listen to the finished product directly after we finished recording, what kind of music score should you read?"

"It's all right," Keith Craig laughed, "you're going to write it for them to practice anyway! I'm here, and it's okay, look at the songs you wrote before you go!"

"Okay!" Xiao Yao said with a nonchalant shrug. As Craig said, it's all going to be written anyway.

The group went to Keith Craig's office.

"Come on!" Keith Craig pressed Xiao Yao on his office chair and offered him a pen and paper.

"Thank you, it's such an honor!" Xiao Yao smiled a little flatteredly.

"It's okay," Keith Craig said, waving his hand, "the coffee table on the other side of the couch is too low, and it must be comfortable to write on the desk!"

Xiao Yao nodded and smiled, stopped talking, picked up a pencil and buried himself in writing.

After more than ten minutes, Xiao Yao sorted out the sheet of music sheet on the table and stood up.

"Written?" Keith Craig stepped forward, handed Xiao Yao a cup of coffee, and took the score in Xiao Yao's hand with his other hand, "I'll take a look!"

Xiao Yao didn't care, and lowered his head and drank coffee.

"Great!" Keith Craig first praised after reading it, and then took out one of the scores and raised it, "Young, I think it would be more appropriate for us to "daydream"!

"Poof!" Xiao Yao's sip of coffee squirted.

"Boss, you can't do this!" Xiao Yao, who sprayed coffee, didn't have time to speak, and Sarmyon, who was on the side, stood up dissatisfied.

"yes," Dean said, standing up, "how can you steal our song?"

"Of course I can do that!" Keith Craig said, turning his head to look at the two of them, "I'm not stealing your song, but I think this song really suits us better!" Keith Craig handed over the score in his hand.

Sarmien reached out and took it, and Dean, Mike, and George all leaned over to look at it.

"You're a rock band, of course that song is for you!" Xiao Yao finally recovered from the state of spraying coffee, and said to Keith Craig with a smile, "Actually, what you want to say is that another song may not be suitable for you, right? Otherwise, do you want to pass both songs?" When Keith Craig raised the score just now, Xiao Yao saw the words on the score and knew which song he was fancy.

"No!" Keith Craig said, "I just think that if there were two bands to promote your film, it would be better than one band to promote your film!"

These two songs are Xiao Yao's works, and the decision is naturally in Xiao Yao's hands. When Xiao Yao sells the copyright of a song, he will designate the original singer as an additional condition. When Xiao Yao was a high school student, Keith Craig wanted to buy the copyright of Xiao Yao's "Immortals" and sing it to "Daydream" himself, but he was unsuccessful, Xiao Yao at this time was not the same as at that time, and he was naturally even more afraid of rejecting him, so Keith Craig could only fight for Xiao Yao from Xiao Yao's own vital interests and from the aspect of that movie.

"This~" Dean and Sarmyon Smith, who were about to speak, listened to Keith Craig's words, swallowed back the words that came to their lips, and looked at Xiao Yao together.

"Young, Keith is right," Sarmyon thought about it for a while, and seeing that Xiao Yao did not respond to Keith Craig, he took the initiative to say to Xiao Yao, "I think two songs are better for two different bands to sing for your movie." ”

Sarmien doesn't just say this because they're signed to Daydreams Studios, and Keith Craig is their boss. In fact, Keith Craig, the owner, has always been very good to their band. Even in the current situation, Keith Craig did not threaten or persecute them as a boss, but persuaded them with Xiao Yao's interests, which is already very rare.

And Keith Craig is right. In terms of fame and status, the veteran rock band "Daydream" is still much stronger than "Immortals". Xiao Yao's two songs were written for the movie, so these two songs must be used to promote the movie before the movie is released. Whether in the United States or around the world, the difference in the effectiveness of a movie song sung by "Daydream" and a movie song sung by "Immortals" is obvious.

If you consider it purely from the aspect of movie promotion, in fact, both songs have the best effect of letting "daydream" sing. I don't know if Keith Craig really thinks that one of the songs is not suitable for them, or considering the relationship between Xiao Yao and the band "Immortals", they only need one of the two songs, and propose a plan for the two bands to sing two songs separately. In Sarmien Smith's view, this seems to be the best solution that takes care of all aspects.

But Xiao Yao doesn't think so.

"I'm sorry," Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head, "I don't agree with what you said!"

"First of all," Xiao Yao said, looking at Keith Craig, "Keith, I wrote these two songs for that movie, and I have to sing them myself. I'm a member of the band "Immortals", so it's only fitting that "Immortals" should sing these two songs. If one of the songs is given to you, it becomes Yang feat." Daydream" or "Daydream" feat. Young. I have my own band and I don't like it that way!"

"Secondly," Xiao Yao continued, "this movie about parkour was made by a few of our parkour guys for parkour enthusiasts, and it was a movie that we made and played with ourselves, and it was also to fulfill a wish of several of us." Everyone involved in this film is very young, and the target audience of the film is also young people!" I don't deny that you "Daydream" are more famous than "Immortals", but the young band "Immortals" is a better fit for our young film. ”

"Of course, we want to make a movie as much as possible at the box office, but we don't really set any goals for the box office of this film, and we don't have much ambition. Xiao Yao finally said, "I care more about the youth of the team than the effect of publicity, so..."

"Young?" Keith Craig grinned bitterly as he clutched his chest, "I feel hurt!"