The official version of the girl group's song has been recorded, so it is natural to release it.

Xiao Yao is a wonder in the music world, although Xiao Yao is not the only one who has thrown out brand new songs in various programs or other public occasions, most of the songs have a live version and then an official version, and Xiao Yao is definitely the only one.

Although Haiyan Entertainment and the agency they cooperated with planned to let the 101 girl group perform Korean songs at the concert of Chinese and Korean stars, they did not plan to let them learn from Xiao Yao and use the concert as the stage for the premiere of new songs. Haiyan Entertainment wants the 101 girl group to fight for the company's face at the concert, and it has quite high requirements for the effect of the scene. A new hit or a brand new song that hasn't been released, which will achieve better results in the concert, the results are self-evident. After all, the 101 girl group is not Xiao Yao.

Haiyan plans to release this new Korean song created by Xiao Yao for the girl group on the Internet before the concert starts, so publicity is naturally indispensable.

However, the publicity has nothing to do with Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao has always had little interest in music promotions. After the release of his own album, he didn't run publicity, let alone write a new song for someone else. What I promised on the stage last year was to write songs and choreograph, and what I negotiated with Haiyan was also to write songs and choreograph, which did not include cooperating with Haiyan to help the girl group do publicity.

Haiyan also understands Xiao Yao's personality and style of acting, and knows that it is impossible for Xiao Yao to run various promotional activities with the members of the girl group, so she started Xiao Yao's idea behind the scenes.

The music video is a promotional tool to accompany the release of the song. Xiao Yao wrote, directed and acted in the MV for his own songs, and the level and popularity of the MV are quite good, and he has made remarkable achievements in shooting MVs. Although there have been two films directed by Xiao Yao in the past two years that have achieved good results at the box office, Xiao Yao already has the title of film director, but in terms of Xiao Yao's character, it seems that he is not the kind of person who does not make MVs when he is a film director.

Please Xiao Yao be the director, Haiyan is full of sincerity. After the recording of the official version of the song was completed, Haiyan officially sent Xiao Yao an invitation to direct the MV shooting of the song, and the conditions given were quite generous. How to shoot and what to shoot is up to him, the screenwriter can come by himself or ask someone to write it, Haiyan pays the bill, the degree of freedom and power are very high, and the resources in terms of manpower and material resources are quite sufficient. But unfortunately, Xiao Yao did not agree.

It's not that Xiao Yao can't watch the job of shooting MVs after filming the movie. After learning about the conditions offered by Haiyan, Xiao Yao was still moved. However, as soon as he said that he would shoot the MV for this song, Xiao Yao remembered the original MV of this song in his previous life.

Xiao Yao, the original MV of this song, has seen it. To be honest, at first glance, it feels pretty good, but after watching too much, Xiao Yao feels that the MV is just like that. The plot story of several beauties stealing diamonds is not very consistent with the song itself, and the effect after filming is relatively average. Xiao Yao is more impressed by a few shots of climbing ventilation ducts, throwing whips, and passing through infrared rays. In addition to the appearance and figure, there is really nothing to see.

What's more, the original song singing group was a group of seven people. A one-minute MV with seven main female characters and one male character is enough to scatter, and now with eleven female characters, a one-minute MV is even more difficult to assign shots. Unless it is made into a movie like "Ocean's Eleven" in the previous life, it is better to tie up the male protagonist directly than the kind of male bodyguards in the MV!

If you want to write a new script, it's not impossible to shoot a completely different MV, but Xiao Yao has released a lot of new songs that have not made MVs in the past two years, so how can he be interested in writing a MV script for this idol girl group?

There are very few live performances with headsets and singing and dancing, and most of them are half-open, especially idol groups. Once the official version of the song was recorded, the girls' main task was to practice the dance.

Musically, Xiao Yao is a good creator and a good vocal teacher. In dance, Xiao Yao is a good choreographer, but not a particularly good dance teacher. When the main practice task of the women's group was placed on dance, Xiao Yao's task became much easier. After determining all the dance moves and positions during the performance, Xiao Yao seems to have changed from an instructor to a corrector, telling them where they didn't get it right, but rarely telling them how to dance better. And if it's just a correction, it seems that girls can do it by looking in the mirror while practicing.

At this time, Xiao Yao suddenly found that the one-month practice time he had expected before seemed to be a little too long. In the third week, that is, the fourth all-staff practice class, Xiao Yao brought Pei Minyi to watch the complete performance of the women's group together, and asked Pei Minyi to design the styling and costumes of the performance stage for them, Xiao Yao ended the singing and dancing practice guidance of the women's group in advance.

After ending the affairs of the women's group ahead of schedule, Xiao Yao put his focus on the preparation of the film project.

Xiao Yao first went to the casting studio that commissioned him to help him cast, and took a look at the list of actors that the casting studio had prepared for him. There are about ten main roles in this movie, in addition to the three that Xiao Yao has already decided, there are seven roles that are more important.

For these seven roles, the casting studio has been in contact with many actors and has some alternatives. After reading the information of those candidate actors, I found that most of them are actors with rich acting experience but not very famous, and there are many drama actors, Xiao Yao is still quite satisfied.

However, because Xiao Yao told the casting studio that the pre-casting time was one month, the casting studio explained to these actors that the audition time was at least a week later. Xiao Yao is not in a hurry, and some actors also have problems with their current schedules, so Xiao Yao, who was free in advance, did not plan to audition in advance. He came over this time, that is, to see the shortlist prepared by the casting studio, and after reading it, he felt more satisfied, and Xiao Yao left.

The actors in front of the screen had a casting studio to help him screen in the early stage, and most of the crew members behind the scenes were found by Xiao Yao himself. Of course, people such as field management, drama management, lighting, and props were all entrusted to the experienced producers in the company to help him find them, but the heads of some major technical departments still have to be checked by Xiao Yao himself.

Since the matter on the women's group side ended ahead of schedule, and the casting of actors went smoothly, Xiao Yao also began to look for the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew.

The first candidate Xiao Yao was looking for was art director.

The art department is a very important department in the composition of modern films, and it is also a large department after the director department. It not only has to do the most fundamental art design for the color sense and scene of the movie, but also includes three sub-departments of Fuhuadao.

When shooting MVs and short films before, Xiao Yao didn't invite a special art director, and he came by himself. There is no animated movie "Walli" either, because all the things about art design, Xiao Yao basically came according to the original version of his previous life. The parkour movie invited an art director, but it was Mu Ying who found it in the United States, and the art design was completed by the three of them. This time he made his own live-action movie in Huaxia, and Xiao Yao could only find it by himself.

Speaking of art direction, Xiao Yao found that Lin Qisan had great potential in this regard. When he was filming parkour movies in the United States before, Lin Qisan did a lot of things in this regard. However, on the one hand, Lin Qisan is not studying art, and he still lacks experience in this area, on the other hand, he is also busy with the TV drama crew of the Shen Opera students, and said that no matter what Xiao Yao's movie is, he will definitely not be able to help this time.

Although Huaxia does not have as strict and meticulous trade unions in various industries as Hollywood, there are various associations or societies in the film and television industry. Although Xiao Yao doesn't have many works, and he doesn't know too many behind-the-scenes workers in the film and television industry, since he is in this circle, he can't find someone.

According to the type of movie and the effect he wanted to present, Xiao Yao quickly screened out the art director candidates who met the requirements in his mind, and then contacted them one by one.

Among these people, Xiao Yao's favorite object is a very famous art director named Lin Jingliang. Lin Jingliang is a native of Hong Kong Island, in his forties, has worked with many big-name directors, won many awards in film art design and costume design, and is currently transformed into a director, but for the time being, he has only made short films, and has not yet made feature films.

Don't look at Xiao Yao, who already has two box office hits, but as a director, he is still just a complete newcomer. Generally speaking, an art director of Lin Jingliang's level can't look down on a rookie director like Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao just looked at the other party's schedule, so he contacted the other party with the mentality of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that after the other party received Xiao Yao's invitation, he didn't directly refuse, but asked to read the script first.

Although he was not directly rejected by the other party, Xiao Yao did not have much hope. Because judging from the experience of the original version of the movie in his previous life, this movie has not won any awards at all in terms of technology, and it seems that he has not even won a nomination, and Xiao Yao does not think that the script alone can impress this big-name art director. But this time, Xiao Yao didn't plan to play any tricks to fool others, the other party wanted to read the script, so Xiao Yao happily sent the script.

The day after the script was sent, Xiao Yao received a call back from the other party, saying that he was interested in this movie and wanted to meet and discuss it in detail.

For such a reply, Xiao Yao was of course overjoyed. After learning that the other party was at home on Hong Kong Island recently, Xiao Yao didn't let the other party work hard, and under the pretext that he hadn't been to Hong Kong Island yet, he flew to Hong Kong Island to meet Lin Jingliang the next day. Of course, Xiao Yao has not been to Hong Kong Island, but he has never been there publicly as a star because of his work, so this reason makes sense, at least on the surface.

Xiao Yao really rarely goes to Hong Kong Island. He has been to Hong Kong Island less than a third of the times he has been to the United States, and the most recent time was when he was in junior high school, and he followed Chen Xuan to Hong Kong Island to take pictures of a fashion brand during the holidays. Now that so many years have passed, Hong Kong Island has naturally undergone great changes, but Xiao Yao has no heart to explore the changes that have taken place in the city over the years.

Arriving on Hong Kong Island and going to the hotel to drop off his luggage, Xiao Yao contacted Lin Jingliang, and after learning that the other party was at home, he went directly to Lin Jingliang's residence to visit.

Lin Jingliang has won an international art design award, belongs to an internationally renowned art design master, and his net worth is naturally expensive. His residence on Hong Kong Island is located in the very famous Mid-Levels villa area, and Xiao Yao also took this opportunity to see the Mid-Levels villa area on Hong Kong Island for the first time in his previous life, which he had heard about countless times in Hong Kong dramas.

Although the mainland of China is developing rapidly, and many Hong Kong Island film and television people have gone north to develop in the mainland, as far as the rich are concerned, the top rich people on Hong Kong Island are still very good. When he went up the mountain all the way, Xiao Yao saw almost all the top luxury cars on the road.

Because he hasn't been here for many years, he is not very familiar with the route of Hong Kong Island, and the car on Hong Kong Island is right-hand driving, so he is a little unaccustomed, so Xiao Yao did not rent a car this time, but asked the hotel to call a taxi for him. Sitting in the taxi, watching the road full of luxury cars back and forth, Xiao Yao unconsciously remembered the scene when he was an exchange student in the United States and took a taxi to Keith Craig's house in Beverly Hills.

"Dude is rich now, why don't you also come to the Mid-levels of Hong Kong Island to buy a villa to play?" Looking up at the villas on the mountain through the taxi glass, Xiao Yao couldn't help but touch his chin and think.

"Forget it. Now that filmmakers on Hong Kong Island are heading north, there should not be many opportunities to work on Hong Kong Island in the future. If you really want to invest in real estate, it is better to ask Keith to help buy a house on Beverly Hills, wouldn't it be more bullish to say that?" But as soon as this idea arose, Xiao Yao dispelled it himself.

"Sir, are you here?" the taxi stopped, and the driver turned around and asked, interrupting Xiao Yao's thoughts.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao turned his head to look at the nameplate on the doorpost, nodded to the driver, took out the fare and said, "Well, please wait! If my friend is not in the house, please take me back to turn my head!"

It's not easy to hail a taxi in this half of the mountain, and the taxi that stops it will definitely not be stopped, in case Lin Jingliang has something to go out, Xiao Yao doesn't want to stand here and wait stupidly!

"Yes!," the driver took the bill and nodded with a smile.

Xiao Yao got out of the car and rang the doorbell, and soon Lin Jingliang's voice came from the intercom at the door: "Mr. Xiao is here, I'll come out immediately." As Lin Jingliang's voice fell, the big iron door also rang, and then slowly slid open to both sides.

That's when someone is home. Xiao Yao turned around and said hello to the taxi driver and asked him to leave.

When Xiao Yao turned around again, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties already walking out of the main hall. The person who came was slightly fat, wearing a pair of rimless metal glasses on his face, and the whole person looked gentle and elegant, it was Lin Jingliang.

"Hello Mr. Xiao, welcome, welcome!" Lin Jingliang, who came closer, stretched out his hand to Xiao Yao and greeted him.

He worked with mainland directors almost 20 years ago, and although he still speaks Mandarin with a certain Hong Kong Island accent, it is relatively standard and sounds very comfortable.