() The opening ceremony of the first International Tourism Festival in Yunnan Province was held in the open space by Baiyukou Lake, which is lush with lush forests and clear water.

When Ye Zi and the others arrived, the waterfront stage had already been built. The sound and lighting are in the final stages of debugging, and everyone is busy with all the excitement.

The place where the stage is set up is facing a wide water surface, looking at the blue sky from afar, the distant mountains are like daisies, groups of birds are soaring between the blue sky and clear water, the water surface is smooth like a mirror and the waves are traceless, and it is really picturesque.

The stage is built against the water, a traditional rectangle, with a small recess in the middle of the left side, and four wooden steps leading to the ground, which is used by leaders to get on and off the stage when they give speeches. The stage is covered with a light gray membrane floor made of rubber, which is very conducive to lighting and creating a dreamy lighting shape. At the front of the stage, there are three rows of colorful potted flowers, adding a touch of bright color to the whole stage. Light music was playing in the speaker groups on both sides of the stage, and a sound engineer assistant was walking around the stage with a few wireless microphones, while feeding the microphones one by one. Offstage, the tuner is busy working on the mixer with headphones on.

Due to financial constraints, no large video wall was built on the stage. That thing is very expensive, and if you don't debug it, it won't necessarily be much better. On the stage, three layers of modeling baffles were built on the left and right sides, so that the stage was not so empty and monotonous, and secondly, it could also hide the passage for the actors to go on and off the stage.

Above the stage was a long banner that read "Opening Ceremony of the First Yun Province International Tourism Festival". This line of words is neat and atmospheric, not an art font, but a calligraphy work with great skills. There are several barrel lights on the stage booth that are positioned to illuminate the banner.

Although the whole stage is not beautiful and exquisite, it is better because the area is large enough, and the construction is extremely stable. For the opening ceremony of the Yun Province International Tourism Festival, this stage is very suitable.

Facing the stage, this large open space. By this time, the temporary seats were already filled. The front five rows are all tables and chairs, and the tables are covered with white tablecloths, and teacups with lids are placed in the position of the chairs. Later, there will be specific people's name brands placed one by one. These five rows are the seats of the leaders and invited guests.

After five rows. It was rows of wooden folding chairs, neatly arranged like a theater, that seemed to seat at least two or three thousand people.

In the middle of the auditorium and around the perimeter, the cameras are in place, and the cameramen are shooting some empty shots. For the live broadcast director to choose and standby. Behind the auditorium and on the left and right sides, a small "tower" with a height of about three meters was built, and on each "tower" there was a high-power light chasing on it, and the three chasing lights pointed to the direction of the stage.

Starting from the lake on both sides of the stage, a circle of red ropes was tied to the moving pillars that were separated by two or three meters, and the group surrounded the central performance area, including the audience. Tonight, more Comrade Police will come here. They are responsible for maintaining order at the show. Audiences who do not have an invitation can freely watch the evening performance outside the red string, and they can applaud and cheer for the actors, but they just can't enter the inner circle inside the red string.

For tonight's performance, the cadres and policemen of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department and the Chuncheng Public Security Bureau must have canceled their vacations all day today and are ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

The bus stopped outside the red circle, and the actors got off the bus one by one, following Li Zhifei to several makeshift tents on the left side of the stage. There, it will be a place for the actors to rest, put on makeup, and change clothes. The door to each tent is guarded by two Policemen. So as not to stray into it and cause unnecessary trouble to the actors.

Ye Zi and the three of them hung their passes around their necks, followed behind the actors, and slowly walked to the tent. Ye Zi walked in front. Zeng Chun took his hand and dragged it slightly, and Xie Yun walked behind.

The little girl Zeng Chun slept in the car, and the whole person was already more energetic at this time, but there were still a little dark circles around her eyes. Fortunately, she and Xie Yun don't need to really sing in tonight's performance, as long as they lip-sync and move to the position, otherwise in her current state. The evening gig is sure to sing very badly.

Tonight's opening ceremony performance was broadcast live, and the program team was very tight on time, and the rehearsals began immediately after the actors arrived, and there was no time to rest.

After finding his and Zeng Chun's positions in the tent and putting away the costumes, Ye Zi took his accompaniment CD to the waiting area below the entrance on the left side of the stage. Immediately, a member of staff came to receive him and handed over things such as the microphone for singing, and the accompaniment CD.

Ye Zi's show tonight is relatively high, and the fourth one is going to perform on stage, so he is also at the front during rehearsals. Li Zhifei discussed with him again yesterday whether to lip-sync directly according to the requirements of the program team, so as to avoid some possible mistakes.

This is a common practice for large-scale performances, but Ye Ziwan declined such a request.

As a singer who sings for a living, if you don't even have the confidence and courage to sing, then you don't need to continue to survive in the music world. The forced lip-syncing singing at the group worship performance a few years ago made Ye Zi feel awkward for a long time. Since then, he has made up his mind that even if he stands on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the future, even if the sound engineer is so bad that he can't record a satisfactory voice, even if his voice can't keep singing that day, he will not do any lip-sync performance again.

This will be the bottom line requirement for Ye Zi to participate in any performance in the future. I can quit the performance without participating in it, but as long as I participate, the singing must be real!

Li Zhifei repeatedly dissuaded him to no avail, and could only reluctantly agree to his request, but he also proposed to see Ye Zi's real singing strength in person during rehearsals before making a final decision.

Ye Zi readily agreed to him. Want to see my singing prowess? Let's take a look. There's nothing unsavory about this.

Ye Zi's rehearsal was very smooth.

In order to completely reassure Li Zhifei and the live broadcast director, Ye Zi was very serious in this rehearsal. He didn't use his half-voice to pass casually like before, and walked the stage to rehearse, but sang it exactly like a formal performance.

After the rehearsal, Li Zhifei and the on-site director never asked Ye Zi to lip-synch.

Ye Zi's persistence was victorious.

Hmm, there are a lot of things that come to mind when I write here, so let's play a few sentences.

Lip-syncing, this is almost a "standard" requirement when holding various large-scale performances in mainland China, as well as holding every heavy dà party. This has been criticized for decades, but it has never been able to change completely.

Why?

It seems to make a lot of sense. One excuse is to ensure the integrity and brilliance of the singing. Every show is complete and exciting, and the whole performance and the whole party are naturally complete and exciting. Another strong excuse is that we don't have the right level of live recording.

Makes sense, right? Well-intentioned, right? In fact, these words are all farts!

Let's just talk about the first excuse.

As a singer who really sings for a living, how unconfident it must be to dare to go on stage and sing for real! Doesn't it seem ridiculous and ridiculous for a person who sings to perform on stage but can't let others hear your real singing? Play the recording to match the performance, so do you still need to find a singer to sing on stage? In this case, the cross talk actors can also play recordings, and dancers can also play videos, which is the safest.

This practice violated, reversed, and suppressed the singers' duties and their nature from the very beginning. At the end of the day, some people are afraid that even the slightest mistake on stage will affect their own interests. This is one of the reasons.

Again, for really good singers, their live singing tends to be better than the original sound. And every time they sing, they will have a variety of different singing characteristics due to the ups and downs of the singer's mood at the time, the state of the voice, the situation of the band (accompaniment), the quality of the sound, the feedback of the audience, and so on. It's something you can't possibly have in a CD soundtrack, and it's one of the most touching qualities of live singing.

Why are live concerts by singers popular? That's a big reason. No matter how well the CD is recorded, it is still "dead", even if there are some small problems in the concert, but the singing itself is "alive".

So from another point of view, lip-syncing is a kind of protection. But this kind of protection measure does not protect those really good singers, but those actors who participate in the show for various reasons have a deep background or have the courage to dedicate. They don't have the ability to sing, and they want to participate in performances and programs to gain popularity, so lip-syncing is the best way.

Let's talk about the technical issues.

If it is said that in the 70s and 80s, Huaxia's live recording technology was indeed not very good, and it was understandable that it had to use lip-syncing performances at the party. But after the 90s, such technical limitations have long since ceased to exist.

So from a technical point of view, what is the reason for the existence of lip-syncing?

One word - lazy!

Two words - arrogance!

Three words - not confident!

Everyone can understand these words, so they will not continue to explain, lest they will not be able to accept it.

Therefore, as long as these reasons still exist, lip-syncing, which is criticized and despicable as a way of "singing", will always be maintained, and it is still very marketable today.

(To be continued.) )