Chapter 973: Just the right program
On this trip to Germany, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting not only determined the venue of the wedding, but also determined the date of the wedding. The hardware and material preparations for the wedding can be handed over to the people in the studio planning department to be responsible for and handle, and the guest list to invite is decided by the parties themselves.
After returning from Germany, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's next task is to draw up a guest list to invite to the wedding. The wedding is not a matter of two people, but a matter of two families, and this guest list is not entirely decided by Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, and the parents and elders of the two are also involved.
Normally, the wedding guest list of the Chinese family is drawn up separately according to the man and the woman, while the wedding of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting is drawn up separately according to the generation. Once the wedding venue is decided, the number of guests who can be invited is naturally determined. Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting divided the total number of guests, they listed the guests they wanted to invite, Xiao Yao's parents and Sun Tingting's parents each planned the relatives of each side and the guests they wanted to invite, and finally summarized and sorted them out.
With the current fame of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting and the current status of Xiao and Sun families in the Chinese entertainment industry, even if Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's wedding is not planned to be reported live by the media, it is not worrying that no one will come. On the contrary, because of the venue and the wishes of the two families themselves, the two families did not plan to invite too many guests, so the selection of this guest still had to be carefully selected.
Both families are entertainers in the Chinese entertainment industry, and the number of star artists in the shortlist is naturally the largest.
Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan, Zhou Zhihao's kind of small dead friend family, Xu Fei, Chen Xiaoting, Xu Liang, Qin Hao's friends and roommates for many years, and even the artists under Qi Jia Studio, needless to say, such as Hong Wei, Liang Xueying, He Ying, Huang Shi, Su Chengying, These stars who have cooperated more times and have better personal relationships are naturally on the list, and in the future, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting will have some difficulties.
The dilemma between Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting is mainly due to those stars who Xiao Yao has only met once or twice in variety shows or events, and there is no follow-up cooperation and there are not too many personal relationships. Xiao Yao's debut has not been for a short time, and there are a lot of stars who can be called general acquaintances when they meet in programs or activities.
If you want to say that you want to invite them all, Xiao Yao is not worried that people will not come, but the wedding venue and resources are limited, they can't invite so many people, and Xiao Yao doesn't really want to invite half of the people in the entertainment industry. On the whole, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's wedding must be larger than Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying's wedding, in addition to those who must be invited, there are indeed some extra places.
In fact, there is a simple way, that is, among these celebrity candidates with more general personal relationships, they are ranked according to their fame and the size of the coffee seats in the circle, and they are invited from front to back, and if they can't attend if they have something, they will be added later, but Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting don't want to adopt this seemingly "utilitarian" approach.
Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting have already included newcomers such as Xu Liang and Qin Hao, who have better personal relationships and lower reputations, on the list, but the practice of sorting among people with ordinary personal friends is actually not so "utilitarian", but the two still don't want to adopt it.
"Why don't we invite some ordinary people to come?" After discussion, when the two decided not to come down, Sun Tingting suddenly made a suggestion.
"Ordinary people, you mean fans?" Xiao Yao immediately understood what Sun Tingting meant.
"Yes!" Sun Tingting said with a smile, "Your life events, how nice it would be to invite some fans who support you to witness it live!"
"Not good!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I don't think it's a good idea to put fans and celebrities together!"
"Why?" Sun Tingting said with a little surprise, "Haven't you brought fans to offline activities?" Besides, we have all been to your fans' weddings, and it should be no problem to invite some of your fans to our weddings, right?"
"I haven't done a few offline events, and the important thing is that I am the only star in those events. Xiao Yao said, "Our wedding is not just me or our two stars. I can guarantee that I don't even have a celebrity frame in our two families and don't mind being with fans, but what about other celebrities?"
"We go to the fans' weddings to help the fans perform, and we can leave after watching their ceremony, but when the fans come to our wedding, we let them leave after watching the ceremony, and don't let them participate in the other parts?" Xiao Yao continued, "If they want to participate in the whole wedding process, there will always be free time, first of all, I can't guarantee that every fan who comes is very restrained and disciplined, and does not go to other stars." Even if my fans are doing well, there's no guarantee that the other celebrity guests won't mind watching their fans running around there. ”
"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "our wedding is in Germany, and we need a visa to go to Germany. We can package round-trip air tickets and accommodation, and we can't even do visas on their behalf, right? Most of the fans are ordinary people, and the pass rate of visas should not be as high as that of celebrities. Even if they can find a travel agency or something like that to apply for a travel visa, but after they go, what if they leave the team and go it alone, they have to stay there for a few days, and can they adapt to it in Germany at the rest of the time? We can't be nannies and take care of them for days, right? How do we choose fans? Is it only among fans who can go to Germany? Will it make them feel unfair? There are too many questions, so let's forget it!"
"Yes!" Sun Tingting thought about it and nodded helplessly.
"I know, you always remember that year when we went to the wedding of that pair of my fans, we received a bouquet thrown by the bride," Xiao Yao looked at Sun Tingting's expression and said with a smile, "Do you feel blessed by them and want to show it?"
"Yes!" Sun Tingting nodded in acknowledgement.
That time from the wedding scene of the pair of fans, Sun Tingting took the bouquet all the way home, and showed a certain state of envy at that time. Sun Tingting knew that Xiao Yao had noticed it at that time, and later even thought that Xiao Yao had the first idea of proposing to her at that time, so she was not afraid to admit it at this time.
"If you really want to thank them or repay them, we can do it another way!" Xiao Yao said.
"How to reciprocate?" asked Sun Tingting.
"Artists repay fans, of course, they give them performances!" Xiao Yao said.
"At the wedding?" Sun Tingting said in surprise, "just ask the two of them to find someone to accompany them, and then perform for them at the wedding as a thank you?"
"Of course it's not suitable!" Xiao Yao smiled, "I said that if I changed the way, of course I wouldn't invite them to the wedding." ”
"We go to their weddings to put on a show for them, to accompany the groom, to surprise them with gifts. Xiao Yao continued, "We don't need them to give us any surprises at our wedding, so why do we have to invite them to the wedding scene? We are newlyweds, and we can specially perform for fans at the wedding scene? That would be too hypocritical! We can prepare a special performance for fans in China, not only can we invite the two of them to the scene, but also invite a lot of fans to the scene." ”
"When?" asked Sun Tingting.
"Before the wedding!" Xiao Yao said, "There are still almost two months before the wedding, and we don't have to do a lot of things personally, in fact, we still have a lot of free time, and the time to prepare for a performance is more than enough, even more than one, and it is not impossible to hold eight out of ten." ”
"Eight out of ten?" Sun Tingting said, "You're not going to go on a concert tour before the wedding, are you?"
"No!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "It's enough to have a concert tour in two months, but it's definitely not enough to go from preparation to progress, and we didn't have any plans and preparations for this before." I'll just say that, I'm just going to do it. ”
"Then where are you going to do it?" Sun Tingting said, "You have a lot of fans, why do you have to have an entire open-air stadium, right? This is not easy, do we have enough time and energy?"
"Why do you have to hold a concert in an open-air stadium?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "The largest venue for our Huaxia concert is only tens of thousands of seats, right? It's not that I'm boasting, I'm just holding a concert alone, and 100,000 tickets are not enough to grab, let alone with you." Since it is always impossible to satisfy all fans, it is better not to engage in such a large scale. ”
"I've always thought that although the atmosphere of a concert is good, it is not as good as a small venue such as a livehouse in terms of audio-visual effects and interaction with the audience. Xiao Yao continued, "So I plan to do it in a small venue such as a livehouse, and ask a professional film crew to record the whole performance and put it on the Internet for fans and netizens to watch for free." ”
"Just like your livehouse tour that year?" Sun Tingting smiled, "Do you really like livehouse!
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "But in the future, I don't care, I'll leave it to you to take care of!"
"But this time it's a little different from the last tour," Xiao Yao continued, after laughing, "We only have one show this time, just to have fun with the fans before the wedding, so I think this time we won't sell tickets, and all on-site tickets will be given away for free." In addition to sending two tickets to the couple who received the bouquet of flowers, the other tickets will be sent randomly. We asked everyone who wanted to come to sign up online, and then we were randomly drawn, and whoever was drawn gave a ticket. ”
"Okay, I like this idea!" Sun Tingting smiled, "Let's do this, the fans will definitely be happy!"
"Actually, free tickets are also a compensation for them!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Huh?" Sun Tingting was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you saying that the two of us are married, and some fans will be sad?" I thought that we had been together for so many years, and the fans had already accepted it. ”
"No, I mean, it's compensation for their stuffed dog food!" Xiao Yao smiled, "We're getting married, how sweet and happy it is, so in this performance, I plan to sing all sweeter love songs." I guess there will be a lot of people saying that we are spilling dog food again!"
"Ha!" Sun Tingting also laughed, "Then should we state that only the other half can register for tickets online?"
"I think if we really state that, your words may hurt the single more than our performance!" Xiao Yao laughed.
decided to put on a show for the fans, so it was natural to make some corresponding preparations. For Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, there is no need to do things such as contacting the venue and issuing notices in person, just hand them over to the people in the studio to deal with.
In terms of musicians, Qijia Studio has signed a band that specializes in live performances for its singers, and Xiao Yao has also worked with them, which is a ready-made choice, but Xiao Yao doesn't know if the band will have a schedule at that time. But even if the band has already taken over the job, there will be no schedule at that time, and it will not be difficult to find other musicians. Although Xiao Yao Studio and Qi Jia Studio are opened by a family, on the surface, the cooperation will still follow the formal process. Determining the schedule of musicians in Qijia Studio or finding another musician can also be handed over to the person in the studio.
All Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting have to do is decide which city the performance venue will be, what time it will be, what repertoire to perform at that time, and free up time to rehearse with the musicians after determining the musicians.
The city of the performance venue is basically a choice between Yanjing and Shencheng. In order to facilitate the discussion of the wedding with the parents of the two at any time, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting stayed in Yanjing during this time, and the city chose Yanjing. As for the time of the performance, it was chosen in late August before the start of school, mainly for the convenience of student fans.
After the contact party still told the plan, and told the selected city and approximate time, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting refocused their energy on drawing up the guest list and deciding on the repertoire.
Just a day later, Xiao Yao received Fang Zhen's reply. Although Fang is still very capable of working with the people in Xiao Yao's studio, he can get the performance venue, equipment and musicians in just one day, and this efficiency is still beyond Xiao Yao's expectations, which makes him a little surprised.
After listening to Fang Ying's reply, Xiao Yao knew the reason why Fang still handled these things so quickly. It turned out that Xiao Yao's studio didn't actually do much work, but someone came to the door with these initiatives.
After Fang still received Xiao Yao's planned task, he assigned the work to the relevant personnel in the studio.
In terms of musicians, due to the relationship between Xiao Yao and Xiao Siqi Ye Jiaying, the people in the studio were the first to contact the musicians of the band in Qi Jia Studio, which specializes in accompaniment for singers on the spot.
One of the drummers of the band had a job on hand, but the time was not entirely certain, so the drummer discussed it with his employer.
The drummer's employer is a program group under Haiyan's video. The program produced by this program group is called "The Voice of Big Things", and the content of the program is to promote original and independent music in China through high-quality live performances.
There are a total of 12 episodes of this show, and each episode will invite a well-known or lesser-known original singer or independent musician with strong live performance ability to record a performance and broadcast it on Haiyan Video. The production cycle and broadcast cycle of this show are very long, and the interval between recording and broadcasting of each episode ranges from half a month to a month, and it will last about ten months.
The singers invited to this show are all very capable on the spot, but some have their own backing bands and some don't. The drummer in Qijia Studio is a drummer hired by the program team for a long time, and as long as there is no drummer of his own, the drummer is the drummer during the live performance. The program team has not recorded the program in August, but there are plans to record it. According to the plan, the singer of this episode does not have a drummer, and the drummer must be on it at that time, but the specific recording time of that episode has not yet been determined, so the drummer still has to discuss with the program team.
Xiao Yao is an original musician, and he is a leader among the younger generation, and his ability to perform live has also been tested and proven countless times, there is no doubt about it. In the planning stage of this show, Xiao Yao was the ideal single-episode guest candidate for the program team, and the program team once had the idea of inviting Xiao Yao.
It's just that compared with the music talent shows of some TV stations and video websites, this show is not very well-known and influential, although there are some well-known musicians among the invited guests, but because of the relationship between creators and independent musicians, the overall popularity of the guests is not very high. On the other hand, since the beginning of the year, Xiao Yao's affairs and news have continued, first the movie "Donkey Gets Water" was released and promoted, then the TV series project was approved, then he joined the group for filming, and then went to the United States, and the program team has not contacted Xiao Yao.
This time, after hearing that the drummer of Qi Jia Studio said Xiao Yao's plan, the program team immediately added Xiao Yao to the guest list of their show.
Xiao Yao only performs once, and their show is originally a performance for every musician or singer to do a show. Xiao Yao needs venues, equipment, and musicians, and these program groups are ready-made. Xiao Yao wants to record the performance and put it on the Internet to watch fans for free, their show was originally a Haiyan video program, and it is a free program, no need to pay, you can watch it without members, except for dozens of seconds of advertising in front, there is no difference between free videos for netizens. As for Xiao Yao's statement that the performance time would be in August, the program team felt that it would not be a problem to do one more issue and postpone the recording time of the next few singers, so they took the initiative to find Fang and still put forward this invitation.
Fang still listened to the introduction of the program team, and also learned about the program, and found that almost all aspects met Xiao Yao's requirements. If Xiao Yao agreed to record this show, he didn't need to spend time and effort on the studio to help him prepare for the performance, not to mention, the effect might be better, so he immediately fed back the situation to Xiao Yao.