The reason why Keith agreed to sign this band was not without his own considerations, in addition to Xiao Yao's lobbying. In addition to Xiao Yao, the band also has some things that he values. First of all, the beautiful drummer Sarmidon is a big attraction. In a rock band, a cold beautiful drummer is quite eye-catching, and when they warmed up for their Los Angeles concert, when the close-up of the big screen showed Sarmyon, the audience's reaction was the craziest.

Secondly, George, a black man, is also a big highlight. In the American music scene, the majority of people who play rock 'n' roll are white. Blacks, on the other hand, either play jazz, R&B and hip-pop, rock and roll are rare, and people like George are also scarce resources.

Although Keith was also very interested in the band Immortals, the terms of the contract were discussed and confirmed by the entire band one by one, and it took more than a week to confirm the terms of the signed contract.

During the period when the future of the band was confirmed and Keith's studio was tied together, the "Riptide" hip-hop team also experienced the second elimination round, successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, and broke into the final round.

In the quarterfinals, Xiao Yao did not provide any special effects for the hip-hop team, but further inspired them in dance moves. This time, Xiao Yao showed them not parkour, but martial arts that he had practiced for more than ten years.

Zhou Jingyi once said that Xiao Yao can play three of them like TJ, and this sentence was remembered by TJ. Although he didn't want to die and wanted to fight Xiao Yao alone, he also pestered Xiao Yao several times to see his Chinese kung fu. Xiao Yao was impatient with TJ, so he casually showed him a few routines in Bajiquan. And TJ's sentence "This action is so cool!" also inspired Xiao Yao.

Since it comes to movements, Xiao Yao naturally thinks of hip-hop. Although "Riptide" retains some of the new moves created from parkour in the first game, they are not enough to sustain the entire race. In his previous life, Xiao Yao had also seen the integration of martial arts such as Tai Chi into hip-hop dance in film and television works, so why couldn't "Torrent" do this? In this world, like in his previous life, the deepest impression of Huaxia's film and television works on Americans is Huaxia's kung fu movies. In the United States of the world, Chinese kung fu also has a high reputation and a lot of admirers.

So, Xiao Yao gathered all the hip-hop dance team members and demonstrated to them the three sets of boxing techniques he knew - Tai Chi, Shaolin Changquan and Bajiquan, and then worked together with everyone to consider how to adapt these kung fu moves into cool movements in hip-hop.

After several days of hard work, some results were achieved. Then, in the second knockout round, the new moves inspired by parkour and Chinese kung fu easily won over the audience and the three judges.

Now in front of the "Riptide" hip-hop team, only the last final is left. Before the finals, two good news came one after another, and everyone's nervousness in facing the finals dissipated a lot.

The first piece of good news was that Mary Jane had found the hip-hop team "Riptide" and decided to ask them to be part of the filming of the music video for her latest single, as well as to be her backup dance team at the concert that will be held this summer.

The second one came from another judge, Santos Pérez. He has a hip-hop film project in hand, and he has been invited to be the movement director, and he is recommended to be suitable for the role of dancer in the film. After watching the three performances of "Riptide", he has successfully persuaded the producer to invite the whole team of "Riptide" to star in this movie, in which Paul and TJ will be small supporting roles with a certain weight, and Zhou Jingyi has obtained a big supporting role similar to the status of the female number three because of her outstanding appearance and proficient in two different kinds of dance: modern dance and street dance.

As a result, the future of the entire hip-hop dance team is also clear. Before the finals began, they had already achieved their goal of participating in the "National Street Dance Competition". Then before they participate in the finals, they will naturally be less nervous and their mentality will be much more relaxed.

Although the "Torrent" hip-hop dance team, which achieved the purpose of participating in the finals in advance, relaxed their mentality to participate in the finals, they did not relax at all in their preparation for the finals, on the contrary, they were still holding back their big moves for the stage performance of the finals.

This big move is naturally inseparable from Xiao Yao, strictly speaking, this is Xiao Yao's idea again. It's just that this big move this time, in terms of prior preparation, Xiao Yao alone can't complete it.

After finalizing the band's contract, Xiao Yao threw himself into the preparation for the final of "Riptide". And the big move he prepared for the "Riptide" final was the kind of clothes with color-changing LED lights that brightened the blinding eyes in the last dance in the previous life "Dance Out of My Life 3". In this world, fluorescent clothing has long appeared, but that kind of fluorescent clothing has only one color, and it can only be effective in a very dim environment. But this kind of clothing with LED lights that is not affected by the environment has never appeared before, so if they want to surprise the eyeballs, the premise is to design and make it themselves.

In his previous life, as a science and engineering otaku, Xiao Yao studied the principle of this kind of clothing after seeing the movie, but his major is purely theoretical. He understood the principle, but he could let him make one by himself, but he couldn't do it. Fortunately, there is no shortage of talents in the hip-hop team. He put forward his idea, and some team members who were proficient in electronic equipment excitedly began to work on turning Xiao Yao's idea into reality. And this team member is none other than Rick, who is resentful of Xiao Yao always having trouble with their clothes because he has played zombies.

Rick is an avid fan of electronic devices, and he offers to make it himself, and Xiao Yao himself has no intention of being a hands-off shopkeeper. So, in addition to the rehearsals of the hip-hop dance team, Xiao Yao and Rick spent their spare time on the production of this kind of variable LED lights that can be installed on clothes. Xiao Yao's hands-on ability is average, at best, it is to give Rick a hand, but he has theories and ideas, plus Rick's superb technology and rich hands-on experience, after dozens of continuous attempts, Xiao Yao and Rick finally got this kind of LED light that meets the requirements, and also made a wireless control equipment that can control the color conversion of lights.

In addition to LED lights, clothing is also an aspect that cannot be ignored. This kind of LED light is not something that can be loaded into any garment. So Xiao Yao specially ordered a batch of clothes made of special materials for them to try to install this LED light according to the figure of the team members.

Although the power supply voltage required by LED is not large, Xiao Yao's customized clothing still uses relatively safe double-layer fabrics. The inner layer is made of nylon coated fabric material used to make insulating clothing, the mezzanine layer is used to install those LED lights that they make themselves, because there is no lack of floor movements in the dance, and the outer layer is made of transparent PVC material to protect the light bulbs on the clothes and facilitate the display of LED lights.

This aspect is not difficult for Xiao Yao. Because of his identity as a photographer, Xiao Yao is quite familiar with several custom-made clothing brand companies in the United States, and he also has a considerable degree of understanding of clothing fabrics and styles. Therefore, he designed a very high-tech style costume based on the astronaut uniform in the science fiction movie, with those cool LED lights, which can definitely blind the eyeballs.

It's just that the design of the LED light needs to be kept secret for the time being, so Xiao Yao just asked for some openings to be reserved in the middle of the double-layer material of each main part of the garment, and the LED lights in the mezzanine had to be installed by themselves.

It took more than ten days to finally turn the props in the movie in his previous life into a reality in front of him in this life, and Xiao Yao's heart was full of a sense of achievement. But that's not all, the LED light costume is made, and it also needs to be matched with dance, music and precise control of the lights during the dance.

Dance and music are relatively easy to solve. With the dance and music in his previous life as the foundation, it is not difficult for Xiao Yao to adapt the dance movements that the members of the dance team are good at. The difficulties are mainly focused on the control of the LED lighting and the overall coordination of dance and music.

Xiao Yao and Rick racked their brains and devised two methods: the first is to use computer programming to set the order and time of the color change of all lights in advance, so that the team members only need to focus on the dance and don't care about the LED lights on their bodies. But there is also a problem involved in this, that is, hip-hop still has some degrees of freedom, although there is music to cooperate, but it is difficult to achieve the accuracy of every second. Once there is a slight deviation in the timing of everyone's dance movements, most of the audience may not be able to see it on the stage except for the judges, but with the lights on the body, this mistake will be magnified to a very obvious point.

The second way is to send someone else to take care of the color conversion of the light. This method seems to be more reliable, and Xiao Yao, who can't come to power, is also a ready-made and excellent candidate.

But this time, the competition was not in a theater as in the primaries, but in the performance hall of a luxury hotel in Los Angeles, which would be broadcast live on television, and the live control was much stricter than the original theater. It is impossible for Xiao Yao to find a condescending and relatively quiet environment to operate. He can't go on stage, and he can't even stay backstage when his vision is not very good, so he can only stay in the audience. But in order to fully mobilize the emotions of the audience watching this final, the producer did not set up seats for the audience, and all of them were crowded together to stand and watch. Considering the live environment, as long as any audience member accidentally touches or bumps into Xiao Yao's arm or even body, it may cause a mistake in the lighting conversion and dance movement coordination.

In the end, Xiao Yao and Rick had to devise a third method, which was to install a controller on the gloves of one of the team members, so that one of the team members could control the light conversion while performing on stage. The advantage of this is that the team members avoid the uncontrollable factor of audience collision, and at the same time, they are the performers on the stage, and they can adjust the speed and rhythm of the lighting transformation at any time according to the performance progress on the stage, so as to avoid the problem of asynchronous cooperation. The disadvantage is that both the dance and the lighting must be controlled, so the requirements for this player who masters the controller are relatively high.

After looking at the whole team, Xiao Yao still decided to let Paul, who seemed to be the most reliable, be the lighting controller on the stage, and the team members had no opinion on Xiao Yao's choice, so it was decided. This thing was designed by Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao took Paul's place and demonstrated it to Paul in advance.

The soundtrack of the whole dance was made by Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao also participated in the design of the dance movements, and the LED lighting costume was also Xiao Yao's idea, and then he made it out with Rick, so Xiao Yao knows every aspect of the whole dance very well, plus he is now very good at dancing skills and his memory is far beyond ordinary people's heads. Therefore, when Xiao Yao demonstrated to Paul, whether it was the individual dance moves, the dance cooperation with the whole team, or the control of the conversion of LED lights on the whole team, they were all done very accurately, which gave Paul confidence at the same time, but also gave him a lot of pressure. (To be continued.) )