Chapter Seventy-One: Primary Election
Elisa Prez was able to get interested in the band by Duran Waco. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoWith the introduction of Duran Waco, Elisa Prez easily searched the Internet for a video of the band Immortals performing on the school anniversary. The song performed by the band in the video is the same theme song from the movie "TeenageVigilantes". The time when the video was uploaded was more than half a month before the movie was released. Before the band started performing in the video, Dean's speech clearly confirmed Duran Waco's statement that the song was created by their student band.
For such an attractive news spot, Elisa Pretz, as a veteran journalist, will not let it go.
After a few days of researching, a report by Elisa Pretz about the band that created the theme song of "TeenageVigilantes" was published in the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Express. To accompany the report, Elisa Pretz also reposted the online video of Immortals performing on her school anniversary on her personal social media platform.
In order to cooperate with Elisa Preitz's report, the official website of the movie "TeenageVigilantes" also appeared some content introducing the band that composed the theme song. Not only did it reprint and corroborate Eliza Pretz's report from the Los Angeles Express, but it also posted a video of the band performing on school anniversary. However, unlike the video reproduced on Elisa Pretz's personal social media platform, which was shot and uploaded by the students on the scene, the video on the film's official website is a version shot by Betty Berlett.
The "Los Angeles Express" and the official website of the movie exposed this eye-catching news, and other entertainment gossip media naturally did not sit idly by, and began to follow up with reprint reports.
After the premiere, the movie with good reviews officially entered the stage of sprinting to the box office, and the theme song was actually the work of a middle school band, which stimulated the box office again. A song by a middle school band was chosen as the theme song for a commercial movie? What kind of song is it? It's a great reason for curious people to buy tickets to the theater.
Although there are videos of the band's performance on the school anniversary on the Internet, these videos were taken by the audience with mobile phones, and both the sound effect and the picture are very rough. I've heard that the film itself is also very well received, so it's a good choice to go to the theater and listen to the official version of the song written by this student band.
"The movie is fun and the theme song is great, it's hard to imagine that this is a composition written by a middle school band. ”
"The plot of the movie is a bit old-fashioned, but there are a lot of brilliant details. Those weird gear is just pretty cool. The relationship between the team members in the film is well handled, the theme song matches the plot very well, and the lyrics remind me of my friends, I will be the guard dog of your fanatical dreams... Cool!"
Sometimes the only reward for having faith is in the process of being tested again and again. Both this movie and the song made me feel it. ”
"I try to imagine a scenario where I don't have you, but I can't do it. Ha, I'm going to use this lyric to confess to my girlfriend. Well, I decided to take her to see the movie first and sing it to her. ”
As the release date of the movie increases day by day, the comments of ordinary netizens on the Internet also increase. And under the influence of media reports, whether or not they were attracted to the theater by the term "middle school band", they paid extra attention to the theme song in the movie. In the comments of the audience after watching the movie, in addition to the evaluation of the movie, there are also a lot of comments on the theme song, and some viewers even posted a special evaluation of the theme song. And some of the sentences in the lyrics have also begun to become popular among young people.
So, as the film went all the way to the box office, the theme song composed by the student band became popular in December, at this time of the year, just like the movie.
Keith Craig, who was holding a tablet in his home and watching online comments, smiled and said to his wife: "Let Young's band be a warm-up guest for us for free, I really made a lot of money this time." ”
"Isn't this exactly what you all expected right now?" Betty laughed, "Ron told me the other day that the band that Young hasn't given any media interviews yet, not even the interview they introduced to Elisa Pretz of the Los Angeles Express. Young said that their first public appearance would only be at your "daydream" concert. ”
No wonder there are so many media outlets applying to report live at this concert in Los Angeles. I had guessed that it might be because Young's band would participate, but I didn't expect it to be their first appearance in public. Keith said unexpectedly, "Then let's get the news out, and the remaining tickets for this concert in Los Angeles should be sold out soon, right?"
Of course, that's what Jan wanted. Betty nodded.
It's mid-December, and there's less than a week left before the "Daydream" Los Angeles concert. Naturally, the band Immortals stepped up their rehearsals in preparation for their public debut.
At the same time, Xiao Yao did not completely let go of the hip-hop team.
After more than half a month of practice, the hip-hop dance team has practiced that dance very well. During the rehearsal process of this half month, as Xiao Yao deepened his understanding of the dance team members and better understood their skills, many movements in the dance were modified. Some were proposed by Xiao Yao, and some were proposed by the team members themselves, and after the modification, the effect of the dance has been further improved.
The dance is not exactly the same as the original, and the soundtrack has naturally made some corresponding modifications. In addition to making some changes to the melody rhythm in order to match the modified dance moves, Xiao Yao also added a lot of special sound effects to the soundtrack, such as the third group dance of fighting zombies, Xiao Yao added several sound effects of guns loading and firing, with the gestures of the team members raising their guns and aiming and the zombies shaking and falling, making the whole dance more expressive.
The main competition of the "National Street Dance Competition" will be at the beginning of next year. However, the primaries begin in mid-December at the end of the year. Therefore, before being a warm-up guest for "Daydream", Xiao Yao had to accompany the members of the hip-hop team to Los Angeles to participate in the preliminary selection of the "National Hip-hop Dance Competition".
The primary selection took place in a theater called "Auggs" in Los Angeles. After arriving at the theater, everyone first reported to the workbench to register, and after getting their appearance number, they could enter the audience in the theater and wait for the start of the primary audition.
There were eight zombies in the dance, but they didn't have the personality to swagger directly in the image of zombies, so after entering the theater, they hid in the corner of the audience, and Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi began to put makeup on the eight zombies.
Since Samian and other band members did not come with them, there were only Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi as makeup artists this time, so the makeup took a little longer. Although they hid in the corner, they were inevitably discovered after a long time.
"Look, there are even on-site makeup makers, what are they going to do? Are they playing clowns? Do they dance clown dances?" Several people from other participating dance teams who were also waiting in the audience saw Xiao Yao's situation on their side, and laughed and discussed quietly.
"What's so nice about a team of sissies who have to put on makeup before going on stage? Don't you see that they all consciously hide in the corner?"
At two o'clock in the afternoon, there were already more than a dozen waiting teams in the theater, where they would compete for two places in the main competition.
The "National Street Dance Competition" has set up primary selection sites in eight cities across the United States. The two best teams will be selected from each of the primaries, for a total of 16 teams to enter the main competition.
As the three judges entered the theater and took their seats on the judging table set up directly opposite the stage, the primary selection officially began.
"Welcome to everyone, the Los Angeles preliminary round of the "National Street Dance Competition" is now officially opened, good luck to everyone. Piper Hugo, a silver-haired veteran producer and one of the main judges of the competition, picked up the microphone on stage and turned to the audience to announce it loudly to the contestants in the theater before turning around and sitting down again and exclaiming, "First team, please come to the stage." ”
The first team to take the stage was an all-black young male team, masculine with baseball caps and baggy pants dressed as typical street dancers.
After briefly listening to the captain explain the name of the team and where it came from, Piper Hugo waved his hand and said, "Are you ready?
As the loudspeakers in the theater played loud music, the team on stage began their dance. It was a combination of breakdancing, locking and shuffling, with some of the difficult floor spins eliciting cheers and whistles from the rest of the spectators in the theatre.
"OK, stop!" Piper Hugo didn't let the team on stage perform the whole dance. Because he felt like he had seen everything that this team wanted to show them.
"What do you think?" said Piper Hugo, asking the other two judges next to him.
Piper Hugo is the producer of this TV competition, and has been a judge for four years, Xiao Yao has known him from the competition videos of previous years, but the two next to him are the new judges of this year, Xiao Yao, who is not very familiar with the American entertainment industry, does not know Xiao Yao, or after TJ's popular science, he learned that the black woman is the famous American hip-hop singer Mary Jane, and the brown-skinned curly-haired man is a famous choreographer in the industry, Santos Perez with Latin ancestry.
"Good. Both smiled and nodded.
"Very manly, very imposing, masculine in the face. Mary Jane commented with a smile.
"The movements are in place and the technical difficulty is enough. Santos Pérez also said.
"Ok, you're on our waiting list, please go back to the audience and wait. Piper Hugo said to the team on stage.
"Thank you. The team on the stage was all happy, thanked them, and walked down excitedly.
According to the usual rules of the competition, the teams that are not satisfied with the judges will directly tell you that they have been eliminated, and most of the teams with good performance are pending, and after all the participating teams have performed, the judges will select the best two teams from the pending teams, and only a very small number of teams will be directly announced to advance to the main competition. Now that they are on the waiting list, they have the hope of making it to the main event. (To be continued.) )