Chapter 319: Special Adviser
The blind audition stage of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", a one-day recording, is divided into three stages, each stage has three hours.
The first stage of the day, starting at 9 a.m. and lasting until 12 p.m., enters the intermission, the break is two hours, during which the instructor can have lunch and take a nap to ensure that he has enough energy to devote himself to the next recording.
The second stage, which starts at 2 p.m. and lasts until 5 p.m., enters the intermission again, this time for an hour and a half.
The reason why such a long time is set aside is because the audience in the stadium also needs to change the venue, the 3,000 spectators of the last game leave the stadium, procrastinating, and it cannot be completed in 20 minutes, and the 3,000 spectators of the next game will also take half an hour.
In order to ensure the normal and orderly recording and ensure the confidentiality of the recorded content, "Zhenghao Studio" has strictly controlled the belongings of the audience, and all other devices with recording functions except mobile phones are not allowed to be brought into the gymnasium.
In fact, in this era of national self-media, mobile phones have become the main force for candid photography and recording, and "Zhenghao Studio" originally planned to ban mobile phones, but after considering the impact, this decision was not made.
However, when fans are lucky enough to get admission tickets, "Zhenghao Studio" will contact them one by one and sign a confidentiality agreement with them, requiring fans to keep the recording process completely confidential.
This confidentiality agreement has legal effect, if someone violates it, "Zhenghao Studio" has the right to pursue its legal responsibility!
If you are unwilling to sign this confidentiality agreement, you will not be allowed to enter the recording site, and "Zhenghao Studio" will use other ways to make up for the loss of fans.
In practice, everyone is reluctant to sign a confidentiality agreement, and those who are lucky enough to get the "Voice of the Dragon" recording tickets are all loyal fans of Zhao Zhenghao, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao.
In addition, "Zhenghao Studio" has also reached an agreement with the four major video websites, scarves, WeChat and other social platforms, and will conduct the highest level of supervision of possible infringements, and once discovered, necessary measures will be taken immediately!
It can be said that "Zhenghao Studio" has achieved the ultimate in confidentiality work, and what the effect is, wait and see the after-effects.
Two hours of intermission, it seems to be a lot, in fact, it passed quickly, Zhao Zhenghao didn't have time to go home, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, Ju Qinghao also had no time to go back to the hotel, lunch was solved in the gymnasium, and the staff ate a boxed lunch, three dishes and one soup, two meat and one vegetable, balanced nutrition, good taste.
Although Zhao Zhenghao, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao are all big stars at the level of kings and queens, they are not people who do not eat fireworks in the world, and they have no special requirements for food and accommodation.
"Zhenghao Studio" this time accommodation arrangement, although the conditions are not excellent, but also very good, the accommodation arrangement is a five-star resort hotel single-family villa, food during the recording, although the arrangement is a box lunch, but the dishes are also from the hands of the chef of the five-star hotel, there is no grievance to them.
Zhao Zhenghao, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, Ju Qinghao are not people who have not suffered hardships, they are all part-time actors in addition to the singer's own work, when they were in the crew, the conditions were a hundred times worse than now, they have all experienced, compared to that, this recording work is simply not too comfortable!
Moreover, although there are always such and such problems in the recording process, it is a very interesting and enjoyable thing for Zhao Zhenghao and the four of them to be able to dig out a few younger generations in the music industry from among the living beings.
The next two stages, the recording process, than the first stage, more twists and turns, the end of the day's recording, the contestants, just twenty-one, the blind audition stage reserved for the recording time, now it seems, is barely enough.
In fact, not only the contestants who sing on stage will make mistakes, but even the instructors sitting in the mentor's seat sometimes have their heads confused, or they don't speak through their heads, which leads to the interruption of the recording and a lot of jokes.
In the next few days, although the run-in of the entire recording team became more and more proficient, there were more and more tacit understandings, and technical mistakes occurred less and less.
However, due to psychological reasons, the mistakes of the competing singers have been unavoidable, and even intensified.
Especially as the vacant seats of the four mentor teams are getting fewer and fewer, the players who compete in the back are under more and more psychological pressure, and they all want to show their best state, but they often backfire, and the more they want to do a good job, the greater the chance of mistakes.
Later, there were even cases where some contestants could not complete the competition three times in a row, which became more and more serious, and even affected the normal progress of the recording.
If this situation is allowed to continue, all 136 competing singers will complete the stage, and the teams of the four mentors will not be full.
In this case, "Zhenghao Studio" has already planned to arrange a return link after all the competitions are over, giving some players who have good strength but have not been able to play their best level because of on-the-spot reasons a second chance to sing on stage.
However, the return link is only a means of guarantee, and the reserved opportunities are limited, and even fewer can be included in the finished film, according to the plan, there is only half a period.
And with the current state of recording, there is a risk that the plan will be broken.
In desperation, the program team decided to give some competitive singers who failed to play their level normally due to psychological reasons, a little more opportunity - the original three singing opportunities, if the two could not be completed, it was no longer mandatory to sing for the third time immediately, but let them get off the stage to rest, adjust their mentality, and get ready, and then go on stage, this time, the singing opportunity is no longer only once, but twice, give one more chance.
In this way, although it is a little unfair to the contestants who participated in the competition before, due to psychological reasons, they failed to complete the competition in the three singing opportunities, resulting in direct elimination, but, in this world, is there absolute fairness?
"Zhenghao Studio", as the producer of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", has all the power to produce, and what they say is what they say, and the contestants can only accept it, and there is no way to protest.
"Zhenghao Studio" has actually tried its best to do its best in "fairness and justice", although there are flaws, but in horizontal comparison, it is definitely the most benevolent and equal treatment among the producers of all music talent shows!
The seven-day recording time originally scheduled for the blind audition stage was barely enough after many twists and turns, and the recording of the last session on the last day was extended by more than an hour before it ended.
The blind audition recording is all over, and even Zhao Zhenghao, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao, who are just sitting on the mentor's seat, commenting on the competition singers, and don't need to do more movements, are all physically and mentally exhausted.
At the end of the blind audition, the next stage of recording is an intra-group duel between the four mentors, and the competition system is that twelve team members are divided into groups of two and two to perform a song together, and then their mentors decide who goes and who stays!
After the first round of singing, the six finalists will have the second round of singing, and the mentor will eliminate two more from them, leaving four, as the top four of the team, and will fight against the top four of the other mentor team in the third stage of the show.
At this stage, the mentor will give special guidance to the members of his team, and in order to allow the players to have a better performance, the program team will also invite a special consultant to assist the mentor and provide targeted guidance to the players.
The four mentors are people at the level of Zhao Zhenghao, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao, and the special consultants invited by them naturally cannot be too low - this is also one of the highlights of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom".
The special advisor of Zhao Zhenghao's team is Cao Ningyuan!
Cao Ningyuan, who debuted at the same time as Zhao Zhenghao, had a smoother development in the early stage than Zhao Zhenghao's predecessor, and the response of his first solo album was not as good as Zhao Zhenghao's predecessor, but with his solid creative skills, the foundation was much more solid than Zhao Zhenghao's predecessor.
The development of Zhao Zhenghao's predecessor can be said to be high and low, from the beginning of the approaching the first line, to the time Zhao Zhenghao crossed over, it has fallen to the end of the second line, almost to the third line.
And Cao Ningyuan, every step of the way, is down-to-earth, two years of an album, each album is a little better than the previous album, and with the fourth album, won the Grammy Award for "Best Dragon Chinese Album", crowned the king of heaven, the "five kings" of the dragon country music circle at that time, expanded to "six kings".
In the past few years, although his limelight has been strongly suppressed by Zhao Zhenghao - not only him, all Dragon Country singers have lived in the shadow of Zhao Zhenghao in recent years - but his steps forward have never stopped, and his personal five albums and personal six albums have continued the previous trend, one is better than the other, and he has successfully gone abroad and expanded his influence to the world.
According to the latest fan vote, Cao Ningyuan's support rate among male singers in the Dragon Country music circle is only a little lower than Liu Runze, surpassing Ju Qinghao, Wang Mingyuan and others, and the upward momentum is very strong.
Not long ago, he had just successfully held a real world tour, and more than a dozen concerts were successfully held in Europe and the United States, and the box office results were quite good.
At present, Cao Ningyuan still has a certain gap with Zhao Zhenghao in terms of popularity and international influence, but it is almost the same as Liu Runze, Ju Qinghao and other old kings, and even has the tendency to catch up.
Zhao Zhenghao asked him to be the special advisor of his team, which is definitely a gift to fans!
In the follow-up "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", if there is a change in the mentor lineup, Cao Ningyuan is definitely a candidate for the first place.
The special advisor of the Anshuyi team is Peng Jieshan.
Peng Jieshan's situation does not need to be said, An Shuyi is now the top female singer in the Dragon Country music circle, and Peng Jieshan is second only to her.
In terms of popularity and influence alone, Peng Jieshan is much stronger than Min Lan.
Min Lan's personality is even more distinct than Zhao Zhenghao, not only does she not accept commercial performances, but even makes public appearances, there are only a handful, every time she releases a new album, she doesn't even do publicity, and lets it ferment on its own.
Min Lan's creative talent is recognized by the world, but this alienated personality makes many fans unable to accept it, even if they like to listen to her songs, it is difficult to like her as a person.
Peng Jieshan is much more active than Min Lan in terms of interaction with fans, and even more popular with fans than An Shuyi.
Peng Jieshan's music style, mainly dance music, coupled with a hot body and bold dressing, has been the leader of the otaku gods and goddesses since her debut.
In the past two years, although Peng Jieshan intends to adjust her style, in addition to hot dance, she also wants fans to pay more attention to her singing skills that are not inferior to others, and in the new album, the proportion of dance music is reduced, and there are more lyrical songs, but it has not affected fans' love for her.
The personal friendship of An Shuyi, Peng Jieshan, and Min Lan, the "three queens" of the Dragon Country Music Circle, is well known in the circle and is a good story in the Dragon Country Music Circle.
An Shuyi asked her to be the special advisor of her team, which was appropriate.
The special advisors of Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao's respective teams are also well-known musicians in the circle, and their popularity may not be as high as Cao Ningyuan and Peng Jieshan, but their professional strength is not inferior at all.
There is a half-month preparation period between the blind audition recording and the recording of the mentor's intra-team duel.
Of course, the four mentors, of course, can't be in this half a month, the whole process, they are all busy people with a lot of schedules, and it is not easy to be able to take a week out of the blind selection stage according to the requirements of the contract.
After the blind audition, among the four mentors, except for Zhao Zhenghao, all flew out of Sanya and dispersed to Tiannan and Haibei to carry out their own work trips.
Before the duel within the mentor team, it was said that the mentor would give special guidance to the team members, but in fact, there were not many opportunities for personal guidance, as far as An Shuyi was concerned, she deliberately took out two days during the half-month preparation period to fly to Sanya and guide the members of her team one by one.
The mentoring and guidance of Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao's two teams was completed by the "Zhenghao Studio" when the members of their teams were collectively sent to their place of work.
At this stage, the happiest are the members of Zhao Zhenghao's team.
During the recording of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", Zhao Zhenghao did not arrange other jobs for himself, stayed in Sanya throughout the whole process, and spent all his time outside the recording on accompanying his family.
Although he has to spend more time with his family, he can't stick to Diandian's side all day long, sleep at Diandian, or when he is accompanied by Yu Yabin and Zhao's mother, he will be idle.
During this period, he perfected the script of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the official shooting was still far away, and the rest of the time was spent on guiding the team members.