February 5th is Wang Yang's 19th birthday. Birthday parties can be big or small, with Wang Yang's current financial resources, he can find some entertainment companies that specialize in birthday parties to help, and the entertainment companies plan and arrange the whole process, or invite celebrities and celebrities, or invite those beauties who are keen on parties, and carnival all night. But Wang Yang didn't crave such a birthday party, although he hadn't tried it, but it was almost conceivable that the messy quarrel hurt his head, but lost the real meaning of his birthday.

Therefore, Wang Yang just wanted to celebrate with his good friends, but obviously his apartment was not enough to accommodate all his friends, so he rented a daily rental villa for the party and invited his good friends to participate, Jessica, Rachel, Zachary and other leading actors of "Youth Musical...... And friends like Michael Pitt, Harry George, Joshua.

After having a happy birthday party, Wang Yang also received a lot of birthday gifts, all of which were very thoughtful things, like books, treasured souvenirs from movies, etc.

Some people are happy and some are worried, Cole, who has been following Wang Yang, took a picture of who attended the birthday party outside the villa, but did not take valuable photos of which girl Wang Yang kissed and hugged with. The dream of changing cars came to naught, but Cole refused to give up, and he continued to follow Wang Yang every day, believing that he would shoot sooner or later, unless the youngest director was asexual.

Festivals are always one after another, and the traditional Chinese festival of the Lunar New Year came soon after, but Wang Yang did not return to San Francisco, only to greet his parents, relatives and friends on the phone. Because he was too busy to get out of the film during this time, in order not to delay the post-production process of the film, he had to spend a day in the editing room every day, and at the same time take care of the film promotion, make suggestions to ensure the effectiveness of the publicity, and talk to Jessica on the phone every night, of course, this show made him very relaxed.

After countless arguments between Wang Yang and Margaret, the editing of "Youth Musical" finally ended in mid-March, and the final screening version was 100 minutes.

After the editing, the post-production work seems to have just begun, contacting the special effects company to produce the fireworks at the beginning of the film, David Lawrence began to work on the soundtrack of the film, the leading actors who had been trained for a long time also showed their singing voices in the recording studio and recorded the songs, Wang Yang and Margaret "divorced" and came together with Valley Pfister again, and made some artificial adjustments to the color of the film to make it appear more sunny, aesthetic and thick.

When these works are completed, the Flame Film Company sent the completed version of "Youth Musical" to the MPAA for grading review as soon as possible, there is no kissing scene in the 100-minute movie, nor is there any violence, drug abuse, horror, disturbing pictures, 100% healthy sunshine, MPAA has no suspense to give a G rating, all ages can watch it, and there is no need to be accompanied by parents.

The official website of "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth" also released a trailer, and Wang Yang and Margaret did not have any disputes on how to cut this 2-minute trailer. The content of the trailer is very simple, only from the characters' lines, outlining the general plot, more beautiful shots of the leading actors, such as Tom Welling handsomely dribbling, Jessica's sweet smiley face, Rachel's cute expression thinking of bad ideas, etc., of course, there are some wonderful singing and dancing clips.

The whole trailer is youthful, sunny, enthusiastic, and extremely "explosive". This seems to be a new style of school cinema, when you look at the unusually bright picture, students dancing in the clean and beautiful cafeteria, while listening to the light and lively "Wildcats" team song, as a young person it is difficult not to be interested, even feel the blood boiling.

The wonderful trailer has also skyrocketed the expectations of fans of "Youth Musical", and the traffic on the official website has also surged, and several media seem to have changed their attitudes, at least the trailer is not bad, isn't it?

But overall, the media is still not enthusiastic, and now on the film side, the media focus is on the ongoing release of "The Matrix", an unprecedented sci-fi movie that is driving the whole country crazy, and in terms of upcoming movies, everyone's attention is also focused on blockbusters such as "The Mummy" and "Star Wars - Phantom Menace", such as whether Natalie Portman will miss the premiere of "Star Wars: Phantom Crisis" in order to prepare for the final exam of her senior year of high school.

However, the popularity of "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth" is indeed rising, although it is not very visible in the mainstream media, it has been quietly brewing, and now, it is ready to erupt.

As early as the beginning of March, the walls of USC's school billboards and cafeteria were actually covered with a movie poster, and six handsome young and energetic guys and beauties jumped up, all with bright smiles on their faces. This is the promotional poster for "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", which also reads an event: "It's time to show off! Let everyone see your style!", "Do you want to see the singing and dancing masters in the school?

The same is true of schools all over the United States, including New York University, Stanford and other institutions of higher learning, and many more high schools, where overnight, they seem to be able to see the stuff of "Youth Musical" when they look up and down, and even their campus TV channel broadcasts a five-minute show called "Come to Dance" every morning, noon and evening, with a new episode every day.

In the cafeteria of Theossit Public High School, at lunchtime, the latest episode of the "Come to Dance" program was playing on the TV, and the handsome figure of Tom Welling appeared on the screen, and the girls next to several long tables immediately cheered, they stared at the TV screen with great interest, and some people shouted a few times: "Troy, Troy!" Of course, there were also girls who were not interested and continued to bury their heads in the book.

Tom Welling, who was on the TV screen, showed a charming smile and said, "Hi guys, this is Troy Burton, today I'm going to teach you how to do a space walk, yes, just like Michael Jackson, look at it." With that, he demonstrated in a chic manner, and his female fans in the cafeteria immediately had red eyes.

Watching Tom play handsome, the boys in the cafeteria were a little bored, and a white boy with a freckled face complained, "Oh hell, why not Gabriella?" and another blonde boy muttered, "I like Shappei!"

The freckled boy suddenly slapped the table and seemed to have made a big decision, saying, "Man, I'm going to 'Show Myself', maybe I can go to Los Angeles for the premiere of "Youth Musical", so I can see Gabriella up close!" The blonde boy looked at him a few times, and said in a decisive tone: "**! Then I'll participate too, show time!"

At the same time, the "Come to Dance" program can also be seen on the official websites of ShowYourself and "Youth Musical", where Flame Films used viral pyramid schemes to bombard forums in schools across the United States to let everyone know about this event.

Although the students who participated in the event at the beginning were specially asked by the company, it was not long before real participants uploaded their own videos, and then more and more, the punctuation of the promotional map became more and more dense, and finally the participating school students were all over North America. More and more people attended the event, and the traffic of ShowYourself was also rising, so that the company had to rent several sets of servers.

The wonderful trailer, the popularity of the "Show Yourself" event, the "Come to Dance" short film that hit the Internet, and the bombardment of online forums and reality posters are all reasons for the rise in popularity of "Youth Musical". Countless students have been waiting and looking forward to the release of this film, and many have decided that it will definitely be a wonderful movie: "This will be our 'Hot Prodigal'!"

On April 20th, the "Show Yourself" event ended, and the top 10 voted by netizens were also produced, they either have superb dance skills, or they sing like pop stars, and at the same time, they have a good image, which is naturally one of the reasons for the tickets, and 100 lucky winners are also randomly selected by the system, and they can all go to Los Angeles to attend the premiere.

Just when the publicity effect of "Youth Musical" was at its peak, the time soon came to April 28, the premiere date of the movie.

The place where the premiere was held, Wang Yang arranged it in the "Wei Tai Projector" cinema, he had some feelings for it, he and Jessica reunited here, he watched the premiere of "Smart - Ghost Shadow" here, and he was about to watch the premiere of "Youth Musical" here.

The cinema is also the only non-campus cinema to participate in the first round of screenings of "Youth Musical", and Flame Films signed a contract with the cinema to negotiate a guaranteed reserve price, which includes $50,000 for the 19:00-24:00 period in the No. 1 screening hall here, two shows per night for a month. And that's part of the campaign, and for the first two weeks, only a certain campus movie theater will be able to see it, so what about the rest of the students in Los Angeles who want to see it? Of course, the premise is that "Youth Musical" can make students crazy, and there will be a situation where there will be ten, ten and hundred.

At this time, the No. 1 screening hall of the Weitai Screening Electromechanical Cinema was full of 500 seats, in addition to the main creator and crew of "Youth Musical", some relatives, 110 students from all over the United States in the "Show Yourself" activity, as well as students invited from various schools in Los Angeles, and some film critics and media reporters, and the public relations department have all done work, and they can be regarded as having a "good relationship" with Flame Films. If "Youth Musical" is passable, they will not be stingy with their praise, and if the movie is too bad, they will be "gentle" when criticizing.

Wang Yang was wearing a black suit, and walked from the aisle to the front row, he just went to the place where his parents were sitting, and the two old people were very happy, and let him do things by himself.

People on both sides of the aisle looked at Wang Yang and greeted him with a smile: "Director!", "Yang!", "Yang!", "Yang!", "I love you!", some of them are members of the crew, and some invited students, such as the sentence "I love you" was shouted by a female high school student.

"Hi. Wang Yang smiled and waved his hand, responding to their enthusiasm, looking at the audience sitting on each seat with a smile on their faces, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, when the premiere of "Ghost Shadow", the audience was less than 50 people, deserted, and now it is so lively.

While thinking about this, he came to the front row closest to the screen, and the front row seats were occupied by the main creators and stars of the film, Valley Pfister, Anne Fletcher, David Lawrence, Margaret Goodspeed...... There were also Tom Welling, Jessica, Rachel, Zachary and others, all dressed in formal attire, with men in suits and ties, and women in beautiful evening gowns, all carefully dressed by makeup artists.

The interactive part of the premiere has passed, and the film will soon begin to be officially played. Wang Yang sat down in the middle of the first row, Tom Welling on the left, Jessica on the right, she was wearing a white off-the-shoulder evening dress, wavy brown hair shawl down, and a faint blush on both sides of her cheeks, which looked even more beautiful and charming, she glanced at Wang Yang and said, "Yang." ”

"It's almost starting. Wang Yang leaned back in his chair, looked at the big screen in front of him, and sighed again: "It's about to start." ”

Half a year's hard work, everyone's countless sweat and hard work, all in the 100-minute video that is about to be played, "Singing and Dancing Youth" will immediately bite through its own cocoon, dance, and show itself to the world. Will it be a pretty butterfly?

Wang Yang looked at Jessica next to her, today is her 18th birthday, one of the most important moments in her life, if "Youth Musical" can be successful, it will be the best gift he can give her. But in any case, those who have paid for this movie will reap their own beauty tonight.

"At this time last year, I was sitting in the hall of your house, and then Miranda said. Wang Yang looked at her, imitating Miranda's serious tone and said, "Yang, you might as well be an actor." Jessica curled the corners of her mouth slightly and said, "Then she was taken aback, and everyone was taken aback." Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Time flies so fast, it's been a year." I still remember your grandmother's doughnuts, they were sweet and crispy, very tasty. Jessica said a little proudly, "I've learned it from my grandmother, I'll make it for you in a few days!"

"Wow, it's really exciting!" Wang Yang smiled and fell silent. He remembered a lot more than just the delicious doughnuts, the exhaustion of handing out flyers on the street, the struggles at McDonald's, and then getting a call from Rachel to Lionsgate to get a distribution contract...... Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Rachel, who was sitting a few places to the right, and said in his heart, "Thank you, Rachel." ”

Rachel over there seemed to have sensed something, she turned her head to look over, and when she touched Wang Yang's eyes, she smiled slightly, and the expression on her face was very natural. Wang Yang also smiled at her, and then withdrew his gaze.

At this time, the movie was about to start, and the dim movie hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at the big screen in front of them. A flame seemed to arise in Wang Yang's eyes, and he said in a suppressed voice: "It's started." "Next to Jessica, Tom Welling, Rachel, Zachary...... Everyone held their breath for a moment.

A few rows behind, Michael Pitt, dressed in a suit, stared at the screen without blinking his eyes with two dark circles under his eyes, and George Harry, who sat next to him, muttered nervously, "Jesus!" In fact, he was just pushing the rail car, and the camera lens had already been adjusted.

I saw that on the big screen, the opening animation of Flame Film Company appeared.

(To be continued)