"You're not the first person to be hurt by this movie!" Xiao Yao said with a smile as he looked at Keith Craig.

"Really, who else?" asked Keith Craig with interest.

"My parents, and my friend's parents!" Xiao Yao said, "My friend's parents and I are both star actors in China, and they have also invested in film and television dramas. This time a few of us made this movie, and they wanted to invest, serve as the producer of the film and other behind-the-scenes work, and also wanted to play a role in it, for free, but we all turned it down!"

"Really?" said Keith Craig, a little surprised.

Keith Craig doesn't know Xiao Yao's friends, but he knows Xiao Yao's family situation, and knows that his father is a musician and his mother is an actress.

"Of course it's true!" Xiao Yao said, "This movie has nothing to do with them!"

"That said, I think I'm still better than them. Keith Craig laughed, "At least, you'll still give me the rights to these two songs written for the movie, right?"

"Of course. Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "But I have one condition attached." These two songs were written for the film, so the release of these two songs needed to coincide with the promotional activities before the film's release. Even if we recorded it in advance, we wouldn't be able to make it public until the pre-release campaign begins!"

"No problem!" Keith Craig said with a smile and a wave of his hand.

After getting Keith Craig here, Xiao Yao and the four members of the band "Immortals" went to the rehearsal room of the recording studio.

The band "Immortals" has been around for more than four years, and the four members have been learning from the members of "Daydream". Not only have the four of them made great progress in playing musical instruments, but the two siblings, Sarmien and Dean, are learning to compose, and the other two have also made great progress in music. In the last two years, several people have already come up with their own musical compositions. Although it is not as good as the songs written by Xiao Yao, it can be regarded as a certain achievement in this area, and it has a certain ability.

Xiao Yao only wrote the lyrics and music scores of the two songs at this time, and did not give the arrangement. In terms of arrangement, Xiao Yao has the original versions of the two songs in his mind, not that he can't write them, but he just thinks that since it is a song of the band, it is better to gather everyone's wisdom to make this arrangement.

In the rehearsal room, everyone arranged the music while discussing and experimenting with the playing effect, recording the good ones and re-discussing the bad ones, with a little fun mentality, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

After playing for such a day, the band made an arrangement of a song, and it was only a prototype, and it was not enough to go into the studio to record. However, Xiao Yao is not in a hurry for these two songs, let them continue to improve them when they have time next week, or try to arrange another song first, and come over to continue to discuss with them when the crew is on holiday next week.

Although Xiao Yao didn't rest during the plot holiday, going to the recording studio to play musical instruments with the band's people for a day was also a kind of spice for him. The crew resumed work the next day, and Xiao Yao also devoted himself to the filming of the movie with a very full mental state.

Xiao Yao is both a director and an actor in this movie, which can be regarded as another shooting experience in which he tried to direct and act himself. The last time I had such an experience was when Xiao Yao made the short film "The Tuner". But this time is still very different from the last time.

The last time I filmed "The Tuner", the director was Xiao Yao alone. During the filming, Xiao Yao only temporarily invited his grandfather to come over and make a cameo appearance as the executive director, helping him call the start and card, whether it was the shooting plan before the shooting, or whether the clapper was passed after the shooting, Xiao Yao himself had the final say.

This time, the parkour movie was co-directed by Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, both of whom were directors.

Before starting filming, Xiao Yao had to discuss with Mu Ying the specific shooting plan such as lighting, positioning, and camera angle for each scene. During filming, if there was no Xiao Yao's role, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying would sit in the director position in front of the monitor to command, if there was Xiao Yao's role, only Mu Ying would control the crew in the director position in front of the monitor. But even if he has his own scene, after the shooting of each shot, Xiao Yao will run over to watch the replay with Mu Ying. This scene can only pass after both directors are satisfied.

This kind of joint direction was decided as early as when the two met at the French Short Film Festival and decided to make this film. The two met at the festival because of their short films. Mu Ying's short film is an action movie, and Xiao Yao's short film is a thriller drama. One is good at action scenes, the other is good at literary scenes, this kind of joint direction is just a complement to the two.

Even if Xiao Yao's own animated film was released later, Xiao Yao did not change this idea. The shooting of live-action movies is still very different from animated films, although Xiao Yao has been in a lot of crews, watched a lot, and directed and shot short films by himself, but after all, it is the first time to direct a live-action feature film, and he has no experience in this area, so he is still a little worried. Mu Ying is not very famous, and she has a good relationship with Xiao Yao, and she has experience, so she is the right person.

In the crew, Xiao Yao is not the only one who wears many hats, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting do not have only one identity.

The two leading actors, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, also serve as action directors and design action scenes. In addition to getting a supporting role with a small role, Chen Xiaoting also has the identity of an executive producer, who has to assist director Mu Ying in arranging specific daily affairs, and also controls the financial expenditures of the crew during the filming.

This kind of experience of wearing multiple positions in the crew is the first time for Zhao Rui and Xu Fei and others. Although Xiao Yao has had an experience of writing, directing and acting, he has to participate in the design of parkour movements with Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others in the crew this time, and in fact, he also has to do work in action guidance, which is really a lot of things.

Since several core members of the crew are filming like this for the first time, in the first week of filming, the shooting tasks arranged by the director team led by Mu Ying and Xiao Yao in the shooting plan are not heavy.

In the second week of filming, the entire crew became more familiar with each other and ran in with each other better, Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui and others were more comfortable with the multi-tasking way of working, and the amount of shooting tasks in the shooting plan was also increased.

In the second week of filming, although the amount of shooting tasks has increased and everyone's work intensity has increased a lot, the shooting plan for this week was completed and the shooting progress was ensured.

On the weekend of the second week, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying also gave the entire crew a day off.

On the second holiday, Xiao Yao still went to the recording studio of "Daydream" and continued to arrange two songs with the members of the band "Immortals".

During the course of the week, the members of the band "Immortals" were not idle, making some arrangements for both songs. After listening to it, Xiao Yao only made some small modifications, and the arrangements of the two songs were determined. After determining the arrangement of the two songs, Xiao Yao still had some time that day, so he tried to record the songs.

Because the whole orchestra recorded together, and the revised and determined arrangement did not go through much practice, the efficiency of this recording cannot be compared with the recording efficiency arranged by Xiao Yao himself. Xiao Yao recorded in the studio until nightfall, and not a single song was recorded.

These two songs are not in a hurry, they have to film tomorrow, Xiao Yao doesn't want to stay up late, so he won't record them if he can't finish recording, and leave them for next week's crew rest day to continue. After having dinner with the band, Xiao Yao drove back to the apartment to rest.

The first two weeks of filming went relatively smoothly, but by the third week, the shooting didn't go so smoothly. While filming an action scene where he jumped from the roof of one building to the balcony barricade of another building, Xu Fei did not grasp the barricade and fell down and was injured.

It is not uncommon for an actor to be injured during the filming of action scenes. No matter how skilled the training was before, how well prepared the crew was, and how well the work was done, it was impossible to guarantee that it would be foolproof. The crew's investment in safety and security is still very effective, although it cannot guarantee that there will be no accidents, but it can play a good role in protecting when accidents occur. Xu Fei was hanging with a steel wire on his body when he filmed this scene, and he didn't fall to the ground after falling, he was pulled in the air by the steel wire on his body, but he sprained his wrist when he didn't catch the barricade, and his body collided with the wall when he was hanging in the air, and there were some abrasions and contusions.

At this time, the ambulance in the crew and the two first responders inside really came in handy. When Xu Fei was put down, the two first responders immediately examined and treated Xu Fei urgently, and finally went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, but the hospital did not let Xu Fei be hospitalized, but just let him go home and rest by himself.

Xu Fei's injuries were not serious, and the doctor's diagnosis was that he would be fine with a few days of rest.

Although Xu Fei is not a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying will not let Xu Fei go into battle with an injury, and the two forcibly gave him a few days off to recuperate.

Xu Fei took a vacation to recuperate, but the crew's filming work will not be stopped. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying adjusted the filming plan for the next few days overnight, and advanced the scenes without Xu Fei to minimize the loss of the crew. It's just that with such an adjustment, many aspects have to be adjusted, and the progress of the whole shooting will inevitably lag behind.

Although the filming progress of the crew is a little lagging behind, the holiday should still be released. On the weekend of the third week, the crew continued to take a holiday, and Xiao Yao also continued to go to the recording studio of "Daydream".

After another week, the band "Immortals" had become more proficient in arranging the two songs, so the recording efficiency of this day was not the same as that of the day a week ago. Before nightfall, Xiao Yao recorded all the official versions of the two songs.

After hearing last week that the arrangements for the two songs were finalized, Keith Craig listened to the band's rehearsals this week. Knowing that the day's recording would lead to the finished song, Keith Craig came to the studio. After the song was recorded, Keith Craig also listened to the finished product of the two songs for the first time.

The official version of the song has been recorded in the studio, and Xiao Yao's next plan is to record the MV of these two songs. Xiao Yao promised to sell the rights of the two songs to Keith Craig's "Daydream" studio, so the official release of the songs must be the responsibility of the "Daydream" studio. The shooting of the MV is naturally related to them. It happened that Keith Craig was there, and after the recording, Xiao Yao discussed with Keith Craig about shooting the song MV.

MV is also a way of publicity, Xiao Yao wants to use these two songs for movie promotion, then MV will definitely not let go. However, when the movie was released, Xiao Yao didn't plan to make these two songs only serve the movie, so he didn't plan to make the MVs of these two songs simply into a promotional video for the movie.

Xiao Yao's plan is to use some clips from the movie, plus some shots of band members, and combine the two into a MV for two songs. In this way, during the promotional period before the release of the movie, the song and the MV are released together, which can boost the promotion of the movie, and when the movie is released, these two MVs can also continue to exist as MVs alone.

Keith Craig has no opinion on such a MV.

Xiao Yao has already thought about the plots and pictures of the two MVs. The filming of the movie is still in progress, and in terms of movie clips, it is enough to directly cut them out and edit them into the MV after all the movies are filmed, and in terms of the footage of the band members, it is necessary to shoot separately.

For the filming of the MV, Xiao Yao does not plan to use the current crew members, but is ready to let Keith Craig come forward to form the MV shooting crew. In the past, when Xiao Yao recorded his own song MV in Los Angeles, Keith Craig helped Xiao Yao set up an MV shooting crew, and this time he shot a MV for his band's songs, Keith Craig certainly had no objections.

It takes time to assemble a crew, and it's definitely too late today. Xiao Yao is preparing to shoot the shot part of the band members in the MV on the next crew's rest day. In a week, it was more than enough time for Keith Craig to assemble a MV shooting crew and recruit actors.

After completing the recording of two movie songs and finalizing the shooting of two MVs that will be used by Xiao Yao as "semi-promotional films", Xiao Yao's sense of accomplishment is not small, and it can be regarded as finding some comfort for the not so smooth movie shooting this week.

After the day off, the crew resumed filming.

Compared with the unhappiness encountered in the third week, Xiao Yao and the others were in a much better mood in the fourth week. In addition to the fact that the crew did not have any injuries during filming this week, Xu Fei also recovered from his injuries and returned to the crew to resume filming, another very important reason is that someone finally flew from Huaxia to the United States to visit the class.