Chapter 661: MTV's Production
The song has cartoon characters such as Optimus Prime added to the song's MTV, which is a pioneering feat that was not possible before, and the technical side of the work was naturally handed over to Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic, as well as Chengxian and Cattermole.
ILM's technology is improving every day, especially after Cheng Xian, a computer genius, joined, he and his team have made a lot of improvements on the basis of Photoshop1 software, the new program can process vector actions on pictures, Cheng Xian calls this improved program Move Photoshop.
This kind of software has a little bit of a prototype of motion capture processing, if Cheng Xian and his subordinates are constantly improving his move photoshop, then Cattermor is constantly trying to integrate film shooting into the computer, the two of them cooperate very perfectly, and the results achieved surprised Liu Lang, Sheng Tang's plan is to make the movie "Toy Story" in eight or nine years, and now it seems that maybe this movie will come out next year, four years ahead of Liu Lang's previous life.
Of course, at this stage, the effect of special effects is still very rough in Liu Lang's eyes, and it is still far from the degree of fakeness, but in this era, the technology of industrial light and magic is now the world's top, and no company can compare with them.
Everything is ready, the MTV recording officially begins, an MTV has to record a song first, then record the location, and finally add up to a full MTV.
Now it's the recording of the song, Liu Lang, the choir kids and the band are all gathered in the recording studio, it is said to be a recording studio, but it is actually very spacious, like a small auditorium, surrounded by more than a dozen machines, all of which are Dolby's sound processing equipment, Dolby is the best sound processing production company in the United States and even the world, even after 30 years, they are the world's first in this field, no one can compare with them.
Of course, renting such a studio is expensive, costing $3,000 a day.
The symphony orchestra began to play according to the previous rehearsal, and Liu Lang and the children in the choir sang together.
An MTV song has both a plot and music, and the sight and sound are pleasing to the eye, but the recording process is not so easy, and the performance on the plot is easier, just like making a movie, just follow the script, but the recording of the song is too troublesome.
Maybe for those excellent singers, recording a record is a very simple thing, isn't it singing, just keep up with the melody without going out of tune, as long as you have deep singing skills and musicality, you can do these two things, when they hold a concert, it is more difficult than recording a record, but it is not easy for some actors with poor singing skills to record records, they need to record the lyrics repeatedly, and the voice also needs to be processed, the original hoarse voice can finally sing the sound of nature, this is the power of technology, so in Liu Lang's previous life, there are some actors who can't sing at all who have also released records, but they can't hold concerts。
Liu Lang's singing is actually very good, at least his voice is pure children's voice, plus his IQ is too high, and his grasp of the rhythm is still a little wrong at the beginning, but as long as he is reminded, he can be corrected immediately, giving people the feeling that he was a layman one second ago, and became a professional in the next second, and there is no skilled process in the middle, this ability makes those professional musicians amazed.
Even so, the recording process is not so easy, the reason is that those eleven or twelve-year-old choir children, although they have undergone a certain amount of training, but this is very simple training, and the accompaniment is only the piano, which does not require much cooperation, but the recording is different, they have to cooperate with a symphony orchestra of more than 20 people to achieve perfection, which has a lot of requirements for the grasp of rhythm and melody, and it needs to be constantly running-in.
At the beginning, the specially hired song director polished each performance and each singing a little bit, and re-recorded it if there was a slight mistake, Liu Lang had no problem, and he didn't know how many times he had practiced this set of procedures with the band, but this group of children didn't understand this, and they were very curious at first, but after an hour or two, they couldn't stand it, several black children became very irritable, and other children were also listless and out of energy.
They didn't listen to the adults, and in the end they didn't even listen to the nun's words.
"Everybody, rest and rest!"
The conductor of the Carnegie Orchestra frowned and said loudly, and the members of the band all put down their instruments one after another, and they were upset for a few hours, not because of the difficulty of playing, this song was very simple for them, but they couldn't handle it with those children!
The Carnegie Band is famous, and there are too many stars to work with them, even Michael Jackson has invited them to participate in the production of records, but it is the first time to work with a group of amateur children, and the results are obviously not very ideal, but Liu Lang, a child who has recently become famous, is impressive.
"Look, that little guy is discussing something with Damir! Damir guy still seems to be nodding, what the hell is that old stubborn guy would listen to a little kid!"
Damir, the conductor of the Carnegie Band and a famous American conductor, is 60 years old this year and is extremely strict with music, but at this time he is discussing various details of the song with Liu Lang.
There is nothing wrong with the melody of the song "Something Just Like This", but the melody is just a melody after all, and the symphony orchestra can play it, as well as the national instruments, but the effect is different, even the symphony has to focus on different instruments when playing.
Liu Lang decided that the song should be played mainly on the piano, with the violin concerto as the main auxiliary, and the instruments such as trumpet, trombone, French horn and saxophone only stand out in certain syllables.
That's right, this is Liu Langding, although he doesn't know how to play, but he listened to this song hundreds of times in his previous life, in order to show the effect of his previous life, he deliberately entered the depths of his memory to recall all the details of the original song.
Liu Lang and Damir discussed these details before the performance, and also marked them out in detail on the score, Damir didn't think so at the beginning, but he was the owner of the fund, since he proposed it, he naturally had to do it, and the result was that the effect after the performance was really much better than when they rehearsed before, and he couldn't help but be unconvinced.
"Mr. Liu, what do you think of those children?
At this time, Ye Jinsheng on the side came over, the children couldn't beat and scold, they could only coax, but now it was useless to coax, the children were tired and lay on the ground and didn't want to get up again.
"Give this a try!"
Liu Lang suddenly clapped his hands and said to everyone.
"Now you're all tired, but it's not time to eat yet, so how about I'll play two tunes for everyone to relax?"
"Okay!"
Everyone looked at Liu Lang.
Liu Lang walked to the piano, took a breath and began to play.