Chapter 255 Don't Waste Video Evidence
"What? was hired by Eva Show to be a photographer at the age of ten?" the reporter interjected in even more disbelief, "How is that possible?"
"Don't worry, I'm not done!" Xiao Yao waved his hand and said, "I know, you want to say that it is very illogical for Eva Show to hire a ten-year-old child photographer, right? The reason why Eva Show asked me to be a photographer that year was because it was Eva Show who came up with a very strange idea for the 10th anniversary event. The pen "Fun" www.biquge.info they wanted to hire a photographer to specialize in secretly shooting backstage or capturing photos of the models when they were preparing or changing their outfits. Because models may appear naked when changing clothes backstage, the models asked the photographer not to be an adult male, either a woman, or a child photographer under the age of thirteen.
The organizers felt that the backstage photographer was to capture some fun and interesting photos, the more real the better, as long as the basic skills were passed, and did not require too advanced skills, compared to female photographers, the things taken from the perspective of children may be more interesting and fun, so they decided to use a young photographer under the age of thirteen. There are only a handful of photographers under the age of 13 whose photographs can be featured in professional photography magazines, and on the recommendation of my photography teacher, I was selected by the Eva show. During the rehearsal the day before the Eva show, I had already gone backstage to the Eva show and met the models. I was the only photographer qualified to go backstage, to capture or secretly shoot the models, and I was just a 10-year-old. Betty Bellette was the big opening and FB of that Eva show, and she was Eva's signing angel, so it was logical that she invited me to dinner?"
"When I was ten years old, I went backstage to work as a photographer on the Eva show and snapped a picture?"
"That's the backstage of the world's top underwear show!" Some of these male reporters unconsciously changed the three words "out of the light" in their minds, and began to envy Xiao Yao, who had such a good eye at such a young age.
"But as far as I know, for so many years, the Eva Show has never released the backstage photos you mentioned. A male reporter stood up and said.
"Well, that's because on the day of the official Eva show, there was some accident and the backstage photographer was canceled. Xiao Yao said with a bitter face, "So I didn't take a sneak peek or capture in the background that day." ”
"Hehe~" There was a chuckle from the audience.
"This kind of thing is so weird, I know that people may not believe my side of the story, so I invite you to watch another video!" Xiao Yao picked up the remote control on the table again and pressed it on the projector.
A video of the lingerie show appeared on the white curtain of the scene, which was the fifth part of the catwalk video of Xiao Yao saving the scene as the keyboardist of the band Binoxie on the Eva show that year. This show was recorded and broadcast by CBS TV in the United States, because Xiao Yao, a keyboardist, appeared very suddenly, and the on-site director and cameraman at the time also specially gave him a close-up of his face, and Xiao Yao also pressed the pause button when the video played to his close-up.
"One of the guest performers was a band called Binoxi," Xiao Yao said, pointing to the freeze-frame shot on the screen, "Before the catwalk began, the band's keyboardist accidentally slipped in the bathroom and injured his wrist and couldn't perform." Betty Bellette had seen me play the piano the night before when she invited me to dinner, so she suggested to the head of the Eva Show that I should be the keyboardist in the band, so I didn't become a backstage photographer. ”
The appearance of the child on the freeze-frame screen can clearly see the shadow of Xiao Yao sitting on the stage at the moment, and the reporters can basically conclude that the child should be Xiao Yao himself. The video has the CBS logo of the United States, which is obviously transcribed from the TV program that was broadcast, and it is indeed the Eva show nine years ago, and Xiao Yao has described the matter so clearly, it is easy to investigate and verify, Xiao Yao probably will not lie about this kind of thing.
It was also a hot topic in the United States that the keyboardist of the band Binoxi was temporarily replaced by a child with an Asian face on the Eva show, and it also brought out a speculation that Eric, the lead singer of the band, was pursuing Yin Xi, and the entertainment media here in China also reported that some veteran reporters present still had a vague impression of the news ten years ago. What they never expected was that this mysterious Chinese young keyboardist on the Eva show turned out to be Xiao Yao. Even the rookie reporters who didn't know much about the news were shocked at the moment.
It turns out that Xiao Yao has not only been a guest performer at the Oscars, but has already been a guest performer on the Eva Show as early as the age of ten! A nine-year-old professional photographer and a ten-year-old guest performer on the Eva Show, it seems that it is not so difficult to accept that he can compose and write nursery rhymes at the age of five. After all, this is a demon who can bargain with the vegetable seller in the vegetable market at the age of five for a dime!"
After the video was played, no reporter stood up to ask questions at the scene for a while, and it seemed that they were digesting the incredible reality in front of them.
Seeing that no reporter stood up to ask questions, Xiao Yao could only continue: "I still have a video here. It was when I was playing "Daydream" and "Childhood Memories" for Betty Berette in the restaurant that Betty Berette recorded the video and later showed it to Horn Bernie. It just so happens that this video was recorded at the time of recording, and you can tell that this is the day before the '08 Eva Show, and half a year before the Los Angeles recital where Horne Bernie first played those two pieces. ”
Today, Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao have a simple division of labor. Xiao Siqi is responsible for combing the timeline of XY's works, and Xiao Yao is responsible for putting video evidence out. Since he got this video from Betty Bellette, Xiao Yao didn't want to waste it.
At that time, Xiao Yao did not play these two pieces consecutively, so Betty Bellaite was also shot in two parts, and there were naturally two videos. The scenes, shooting angles and Xiao Yao's dress in these two videos are exactly the same, the only difference is that Xiao Yao's action of playing the piano and the sound of music in the video are different. The three pieces that caused the plagiarism controversy are already so popular that the media reporters who came to the scene are familiar with the three tunes, and the two piano sounds in the video are indeed two of the three pieces that caused the controversy, "Daydream" and "Childhood Memories".
"You wrote both of these pieces when you were 10 years old?" asked a reporter sitting in his seat after the two videos played.
The reporter who asked the question did not have doubts in his tone, his attitude was not as aggressive as standing up, and his face also had an expectant expression of hope for an affirmative answer. Because at this moment, the media reporters on the scene have basically believed Xiao Yao, and their hearts have begun to turn to the direction of touting musical geniuses to conceive and prepare news reports.
"'Daydream' is, but 'Childhood Memories' isn't. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yao shook his head, and then smiled, "'Memories of Childhood' was composed when I was seven years old, and the first time I played this piece in a public place was for my mother Ye Jiaying, not Betty Bellet. Coincidentally, it was also in a Western restaurant that time, and it was not my mother at the time, but my godmother's Ye Jiaying invited me to dinner, and I went to the piano in the restaurant to play this piece for her in order to thank her. Even more coincidentally, the restaurant where I played this piece twice was, in a sense, the same restaurant. That restaurant was originally in Yanjing, but then the owner closed the restaurant in Yanjing, moved to the United States, and opened an identical one in New York. And I played twice in three years, once in Yenching and once in New York, both at that restaurant. ”
"Wow~" Hearing Xiao Yao's words so coincidentally, the media reporters below also cooperated and let out an exclamation with happy expressions.
"When I was seven years old, I also had a video of Ye Jiaying's performance when I was not yet my mother. Xiao Yao picked up the remote control again, "But this video was not taken by my mother Ye Jiaying, when she patronized and listened to me play the piano, she didn't care about filming, this is what I found on the Internet, it should have been taken by a guest who was dining in the restaurant at the time." This video of Xiao Yao, Fang Yiyi, and Pei Minyi finally turned over from the Internet, Xiao Yao certainly didn't want to waste it.
"And the video?" The media reporters at the scene were a little speechless. With so much video evidence at once, Xiao Yao obviously made very full preparations for this press conference. However, this is in line with Xiao Yao's usual style, just like the press conference on the clarification and Gong Chen's scandal last time, almost all the questions that reporters may ask have been taken into account, and he looks completely confident.
The song in this video is really the song "Memories of Childhood", the layout of the restaurant in the picture is really the same as the first two, although Xiao Yao in the picture is younger, but Xiao Yao's shadow can still be seen. Because this video was taken by ordinary diners, it was not just Xiao Yao who was filmed the whole time, but also swept to a young woman sitting on a table in the corner of the restaurant. Because the distance was too far, the face was not too clear, and the photographer only whispered that it was the mother who was playing the pianist and moved away from the camera, without paying too much attention. But the media reporters who are very familiar with the entertainment industry at the scene have much more vicious eyes, and with Xiao Yao's prompt, they can still vaguely distinguish that the young woman seems to be Ye Jiaying.
"This is a video from my face and height that is earlier than New York," Xiao Yao said, "so I don't need to look at any timestamps." And this is a video I found on the Internet, if you are interested in journalist friends, you can also search on the Internet, and you should be able to find it. After the video was played, Xiao Yao continued.
Looking at the expressions of the reporters below, Xiao Yao felt that today's purpose should have been achieved, and finally concluded: "Based on all our explanations and video evidence today, I think it is enough to prove that I did not plagiarize Mr. Horn Burney's works, right? Do any other journalist friends have questions?"
Hearing Xiao Yao say this, it seems to indicate that today's press conference is coming to an end. At this moment, the media reporters on the scene just want to go back and send out the big news that Xiao Yao is XY is XY as soon as possible, and there is indeed no reporter who still has questions to ask, so everyone shook their heads in unison.
"Okay, that's the end of today's press conference! Thank you for your attendance, thank you for your hard work!" the host stood back on the stage and announced.
Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao also stood up together and bowed slightly to the media reporters at the scene.