Chapter 919: Finishing and going to the United States

Xiao Yao did not feel unhappy about Gao Jianming's frequent improvisation when playing against him, but felt a little excited.

In a film and television work, actors, especially the leading actors, also belong to the creators, so they naturally have room to create and play. Gao Jianming's improvisation can be said to be the actor's on-site improvisation, so his reaction to the actor is also the improvisation on the spot.

Whether it's improvisation during filming or when an actor revises the script during filming, it's an actor's recreation. Xiao Yao once talked about his attitude towards actors changing scripts without permission when chatting with Zhao Rui, Zhu Zitong and others. But the point of Xiao Yao's statement that time was not that the actor could not change the script, but that he could not change the role of the character at will, such as changing the fourth female to the second female, changing the plot structure and general plot direction, and almost making the whole play unrecognizable. That kind of situation is what Xiao Yao can't accept.

Before the crew started filming, Xiao Yao also talked to director Chen Jun about this issue and reached an agreement on this point. Therefore, in this crew, there is a prerequisite for the director to allow the actors to improvise during filming, that is, the actors can perform something different from the original script, but it must conform to the character setting of the role, and it must be a reasonable performance in the scene, and at the same time, it must not affect the development of the subsequent plot.

Gao Jianming is an experienced veteran actor, not the kind of traffic actor who pursues exposure of scenes, and he also plays a supporting role in this drama. He played on the spot during the shooting, completely out of interest, not wanting to change and increase his role, so he improvised during the shooting, and most of them were accepted and adopted by the director.

If you don't change the development of the plot later, don't change the number of roles of the characters, and don't follow the script, it is improvised in a certain scene or a certain scene, which requires that the improvisation part of the character must not only meet the character setting of the character, but also conform to the scene at the time, and not affect the subsequent plot development, which is actually quite difficult. At the very least, the actor is required to study the entire script and the characters played quite thoroughly.

Gao Jianming dared to improvise during filming, so he naturally understood the script thoroughly, and the content of the improvisation was in line with the character setting he played, as well as the plot and scene at that time. And Xiao Yao wrote the outline of the script of the play by himself, participated in the writing of the script, and ate the overall plot and the role he wanted to play very thoroughly. After having the psychological preparation that Gao Jianming might improvise, Xiao Yao's on-the-spot reaction was also quite good.

In the crew, Gao Jianming is not the only one who likes to improvise. Under the influence of Gao Jianming, other actors, such as Yin, also played a temporary role in a scene with Xiao Yao. However, in general, Gao Jianming has the most improvisations.

Xiao Yao also improvised, but he will not take the initiative to improvise out of the script. Whether it is Gao Jianming or Yin, he is going to pick up the opponent's play. If the other party doesn't follow the script, he naturally can't respond according to the script. Because it didn't follow the script, it was naturally improvised.

Although Xiao Yao never takes the initiative to improvise during filming, this does not mean that Xiao Yao will always be a passive party when shooting.

To put it simply, if an actor improvises and makes a reasonable performance in a live situation that is not described in the script, as an opponent actor, he naturally has to detach himself from the script and react reasonably according to the opponent's improvisation. However, this reasonable response is not the only one.

Sometimes, when Xiao Yao is faced with the other party's improvisation, he will give a reasonable reaction that is also in line with the role setting and the scene scene, but this reaction is also unexpected by many people, including the opponent's actors. In this way, it is equivalent to kicking the ball to the opponent and asking the opponent to react temporarily to pick up his play.

Yin only tried to improvise under the influence of Gao Jianming, and most of it came according to the script and the director's requirements. Gao Jianming is the one who improvises the most times in the entire crew, and Xiao Yao's ingenious reaction in the face of improvisation is mostly given to Gao Jianming.

When an actor acts, he hopes to meet an opponent of equal strength. In this way, both sides stimulate each other, and the performance will be more enjoyable and better. Reflecting in the eyes of the audience and even onlookers, it is the so-called feeling of watching "Soaring Drama".

The rivalry between Gao Jianming and Xiao Yao gave the crew a feeling that the two were "playing". Moreover, the "drama" of these two people is not quite the same as the ordinary "drama". While appreciating the acting skills of the two, the crew can often see the various improvisations and on-the-spot reactions of the two in the case of putting aside the script but conforming to the character setting and plot direction.

Gao Jianming's improvisation is basically a sudden moment during filming, not to discuss with the director in advance to revise the script. In addition to Xiao Yao and Gao Jianming's acting skills, another aspect of Xiao Yao and Gao Jianming's drama is to improvise and react on the spot, which is not needed and cannot be prepared in advance. Therefore, although Xiao Yao and Gao Jianming's "racing" is very cool, it will not affect Xiao Yao's time outside the set.

Yin no longer cares whether Xiao Yao has a scene to shoot or not, he pulls Xiao Yao to go to the set with her, and when there is no shooting task, Xiao Yao still puts his time on the OST songwriting of the series.

Within two weeks after the crew came back from their first vacation, Xiao Yao sent the lyrics and music scores of the two OST songs to Liang Xueying and Lian Yiling respectively.

Xiao Yao's songs for the two were Zhang Liangying's "Finally Waiting for You" and Lin Yilian's "At Least There's You" in his previous life. These two songs are one of the masterpieces of two well-known singers in their previous lives, and in addition to the popularity, the quality of the songs must not be said.

After receiving Xiao Yao's lyrics and music scores, the two female singers were naturally very satisfied. If it weren't for the fact that both of them had read the script of this drama and felt that the lyrics of these two songs matched the plot of this drama, and they were indeed very suitable for OST songs in the series, both of them wanted to buy the copyright and release it directly as their new singles.

Theoretically, it would be fine for the episode's OST songs to be recorded during post-production, but Xiao Yao asked for it to be recorded in advance, and neither of them refused.

After getting a reply that both female singers agreed to sing these two songs, Xiao Yao quickly arranged and accompanied the two songs, and sent them over. In view of the fact that both of them are senior professional singers, Xiao Yao will not record the sample.

The accompaniment audio files sent to the two singers through the Internet, Xiao Yao also used music software on the computer to make them, just to make the two familiar with the arrangement and soundtrack of the songs. When it was time for the official recording, Xiao Yao still re-recorded the accompaniment with real instruments.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to not have to film for more than half a day in the next two times, Xiao Yao went to the recording studio to do a formal accompaniment, and then took advantage of the opportunity of the next two crew holidays, Xiao Yao invited Liang Xueying and Lian Yiling to the recording studio and completed the recording of the official version of the song.

When Xiao Yao recorded a song for Yin, Yin went to the recording studio twice, with a gap of several days. Liang Xueying and Lian Yiling are both senior professional singers, and they got the lyrics and music accompaniment of the song long in advance, so it only took Xiao Yao one day to record these two, and they were done at one time.

However, the crew will only take a vacation every once in a while, and Xiao Yao, as an actor who plays the male lead, does not have many opportunities to not have to film for more than half a day. During this period, Xiao Yao occasionally took advantage of his free time to visit Sun Tingting's program or something. When Xiao Yao recorded these two songs, Sun Tingting's show had been recorded, and the filming of the crew was about to come to an end.

Although Xiao Yao is one of the producers and producers of this TV series project, he has a lot of power, but this does not mean that no one dares to make demands on Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao is a musician-songwriter who has already written three OST songs for the series, and has brought in two star singer-songwriters to write OST songs for the series, and the director and Yin will naturally ask Xiao Yao to participate in the soundtrack work during post-production.

In this drama project, Xiao Yao has a lot of identities, and he originally did not plan to participate in the post-production of the TV series, but later had a plan to go to the United States after the scene was completed, and he would not want to stay in Huaxia to participate in the post-production of the TV series. However, since director Chen Jun and Yin asked together, Xiao Yao did not completely refuse.

Xiao Yao does not plan to participate in the post-production of this TV series, and of course, he does not plan to be the soundtrack of this TV series. However, he did not refuse to help the soundtrack of this TV series as much as possible.

The job of the soundtrack is to score the required video images, and this soundtrack can be specially composed for film and television works, but it does not have to be music specially composed for the work, and it is also possible to choose other music that already exists.

Music is a very important part of film and television productions. This music is not only OST songs, but also a lot of pure music. The vast majority of the soundtracks who have won awards such as Best Score are not because of the songs in the works, but more because of pure music.

Xiao Yao wrote three OST songs for this TV series, and also invited two star singer-songwriters to write OST songs for the TV series. In total, he has contributed five OST songs to this TV series. But purely musically, the series has not settled yet. Later, the crew entered the stage of the end of filming, and when Xiao Yao was not filming, he nested in the hotel room to write pure music for this TV series.

The soundtrack is the work carried out in post-production, and now the crew has not yet finished and the filming work has not yet ended, can Xiao Yao write the soundtrack? Of course he can. Xiao Yao is the producer and producer of this drama, and he can see the video materials that the crew has shot before. Looking at those materials, Xiao Yao can write.

Xiao Yao is not a soundtrack, how can he ensure that his music will be selected by the soundtrack for use in post-production? Or even further, he is not a soundtrack, how can he ensure that the three songs he recorded before and the songs written by the other two male singers will be selected by the soundtrack as the OST songs of this show? Or is it because Xiao Yao is the producer and producer of this show.

The three songs written by Xiao Yao were all heard by director Chen Jun, and the two also determined that these three songs were suitable for TV series episodes. Later, when Xiao Yao wrote pure music, he also looked at the materials filmed before, and naturally chose the appropriate plot, and after writing it, he would also show and listen to it to director Chen Jun.

When a soundtrack artist is working on a soundtrack in post-production, he or she needs to listen to the director or producer and consult with the director or producer. If there is a conflict of opinion between the soundtrack artist and the director or producer on the soundtrack, the first thing to try to convince the other party is to try to convince the other party, and if it really can't be convinced, the director or producer will make the final decision. Here, as a professional musician, both the producer and the veteran director are sure, and the soundtrack is unlikely to raise objections.

Xiao Yao not only created music for this drama, but even found a place where the music appeared. In a sense, Xiao Yao can actually be regarded as completing part of the work of the soundtrack. However, a TV series does not necessarily use only three songs, and the number of pure music is not necessarily, so Xiao Yao has only completed part of the work, and in the later stage, the crew has to find another soundtrack.

In addition, the OST songs of Rong Jun and Ling Chengjie have not yet been written. However, the fame and strength of the two are no problem, and they have also created OST songs for other film and television works before, Xiao Yao is very confident in them. Whether their songs meet the plot requirements of the TV series will be left to the director Chen Jun and the soundtrack to judge at that time.

Of course, Xiao Yao would not tell director Chen Jun that he was going to an American casino, but he told Chen Jun and Yin that they would go abroad after the scene was completed, and they could not participate in the post-production of this drama. Chen Jun naturally had nothing to say, Yin saw that Xiao Yao not only wrote songs for himself, but also wrote a few pieces of pure music for this TV series, and he didn't force it in the end.

In the crew, not all actors have the same shooting time. Because of the different roles of the role, some actors with few roles will be "finished" in advance. Xiao Yao, as the male lead of this drama, of course will not finish it in advance. In fact, the last scene of the last day of filming had Xiao Yao's role, and he stayed with the entire crew until the last moment.

On the night of the crew's finalization, the production company arranged a finale banquet. Because the date of the crew's completion was known in advance, the producer also contacted all the actors who left the crew in advance on the same day, inviting them to come back as much as possible to participate in the crew's finale banquet.

Due to schedule or work, not all actors came back to participate in the finale banquet. However, on such an occasion, people who can usually come will basically come, so there are quite a few people at this finale banquet.

The atmosphere at the finale banquet was very lively, and Xiao Yao, who has multiple identities, is one of the well-deserved protagonists of the crew, and naturally one of the main targets for everyone to drink. Although he didn't get drunk, Xiao Yao also drank a lot at this finale banquet.

The estimated filming time of this drama is about three months. The estimated number of episodes of this drama is about 30 episodes, and without group shooting, it can be regarded as a very good efficiency to shoot in three months. The filming efficiency of the crew was good, and it was even completed a few days earlier than originally planned, but overall, the crew still took more than three months to shoot.

Although the filming experience this time was slightly easier than the previous few times, after all, it was also a scene that had been filmed in the group for three months, and I drank a lot at the finale banquet the night before. So after leaving the group, Xiao Yao did not leave immediately, but rested at his residence for two days before flying to Boston, USA.

Before going to Vegas, Xiao Yao had to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find Yan Ke and the three of them in the card counting group to learn the mathematical model of card counting, practice card counting skills, and accept their assessment. Cambridge, where the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located, is located in the Boston metropolitan area, so the destination of Xiao Yao's flight to the United States this time is not New York or Los Angeles, but Boston, which he has not been to before.