Chapter 36: Imagination is not enough
The lights of the Huxin Stage have not been turned on again for a long time, and the audience immersed in the music has gradually recovered, and everyone has a sense of anti-expectation.
Until Gu Mojie's voice came out of the speaker.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the following is the break, and the staff will hand out drinks and this year's year-end red envelopes. Please calm down, all colleagues. Ten minutes later, we will move on to today's finale. โ
"Onboard~"
Countless scumbag house programmers cheered, and dozens of hostesses took care of each stand in turn under the lights, and distributed the red envelopes that the company had prepared in advance and sealed with their names written on them one by one, which was quite delayed for a while.
Many programmers' girlfriends or wives snatched the red envelopes from their boyfriends/husbands as soon as possible, pinched the thickness, and showed a happy smile.
The coolest should be the employees of the two subsidiaries of Hatsune Network Technology and Hatsune Entertainment, the former was rewarded for the recent "overtime and QQ80 days", and the latter is because it has made the most profits for Hatsune this year, and it deserves so.
In these two subsidiaries, programmers who have been in the company for 2 years have also received at least 50,000 yuan in red envelopes this year, and the year-end bonus is calculated separately.
No one cares how long the time drags on, and no one pays attention to what is happening on the dark mid-lake stage at the moment.
Ten minutes later, when the noise in the audience had dispersed and darkness returned; And when the stage lights were rendered again, everyone's attention was unsurprisingly redrawn.
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Lin Xuanyan sat on the painting boat, and she could clearly see that on the stage in the middle of the lake dozens of meters away, a huge cross with a hollow metal structure was erected, about ten meters high. The stage at the bottom of the cross is still immersed under the surface of the lake, but the projection lighting takes out the projection effect of the wishing pool that Jolin Tsai used when she sang "The Greek Girl in the Wishing Pool" again.
Before the prelude sounded, Lin Xuanyan knew what song it was.
"It's definitely "Merry Christmas"! I knew it! No wonder, it turned out to end with this song, but unfortunately it was two days late. โ
"ใกใชใฏใช" is a song released by Quan Baoer at the end of 2004, and it has been 3 years since then. The title of the song is translated into Chinese, which can be written as "Merry Christmas". The style of the song is still the graceful lyricism of winter, but it is not as sad and sadistic as "Winter Love", but it is closer to Jolin Tsai's "The Greek Girl in the Trevi Fountain", describing the scene of a young girl silently praying for her lover in the snowflakes of Christmas.
Because it is Quan Baoer's famous song, and Lin Xuanyan has always secretly regarded the other party as one of her cousin's enemies, so the MV of this song Lin Xuanyan has naturally watched it many times, and she can be regarded as knowing herself and the enemy.
The original music video for Merry Christmas shows Boa strolling through a small pool in front of a church with a huge cross in the middle of the pool for people to look up to. The set of the pond trail is basically similar to today's "Impression West Lake" stage, using shallow water to block the eyes in order to play 'Lingbo Weibu'. And in the distance by the pond is a circle of birch forests with branches covered with snow.
Moving to today's scene, the small pond in front of the church has been replaced by West Lake, and the birch forest in the foreground has been replaced by Yiyi willow trees on the Su Causeway.
The scenery can be described as meticulous, and the artistic conception is natural. makes everyone who has watched the MV feel that it seems that the MV should not be shot in the studio, but should be shot at this moment and on the surface of West Lake.
"Why isn't there a prelude?" , The music didn't sound for a long time, and Lin Xuanyan was suspicious in her heart.
As the stage lights illuminated a curved area behind Quan Bao'er, a puzzle was revealed. Four musicians with violins and violas line up in a semicircle four or five meters behind Bao'er. Obviously, this is not going to be accompanied by a band from the shore, but directly with a live violin quartet.
The style of "Merry Christmas" is more traditional, there is no electronic music, and the style is very holy and soothing. In previous years' concerts, Kwon has also tried to perform with a violin quartet or a church-style pipe organ. At the moment, the organ is useless, so it can only be a violin quartet.
The melodious violin prelude sounded, and in the projection of several huge water screens, one of them suddenly changed the camera and cut to a close-up of the backing band.
Dressed in Giorgio Armani's custom-made trench coat, Gu Mojie was dressed in a neutral formal suit, with a piece of pure white flannel around his neck, and an 18th-century Italian violin, playing flutteringly. His gaze did not focus in a specific direction, but it did not affect its depth and profundity in the slightest. It seems that he is a thinker of the times, immersed in his own world of re-creation and re-deconstruction.
There was an uproar.
"It's the boss!"
"O male god! Mr. Gu will still do this? โ
"No culture! I don't know if Mr. Gu was still in high school, and he was already playing musical instruments to kill all sides! He just didn't bother to make a move in the past few years. โ
"That's that, there are a few people in the world who deserve to let Mr. Gu take action personally."
Countless employees fell into a frenzy of admiration, which also created many disputes between programmers and their girlfriends.
"Ah......hh You! Look at you! Every time I say that you can't even take out KTV, you still have a hard time with me. What do you say that you have a specialization in the art industry, and successful men don't have time to sing and play the piano - are you more successful than Gu Nanshen! โ
"The lady is wronged! There are a few people like him in the world. A certain incomplete ape wailed and begged for mercy, but he still couldn't help but be embarrassed by his girlfriend.
The girl was impatient, and immediately used the killing move of twisting the soft flesh on her waist to quiet her boyfriend: "Don't howl!" Be quiet! โ
Then, in an instant, it turned into a starry eye.
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Gu Mojie originally decided to let Wen Wanqing play the second violinist; I searched among the company's employees again and found two relatively reliable guys to use violas. A gorgeous quartet reverberated with the help of loudspeakers, and soon enveloped the lake. In the back section, there will also be tuning technicians to help deal with the concealment on the spot, and the kneading effect that is not done during the performance can be completely supplemented by back-end tuning.
Since deciding to invite Quan Bao'er to come, Gu Mojie has personally practiced for this piece for five days. "Merry Christmas" is very soothing, the difficulty is not high, with Gu Mojie's IQ and skills, even if he hasn't touched the piano for a long time, five days is still enough to practice to the point of being like a god.
The lyrics and arrangement were carefully rearranged by Bao'er with a lot of effort, and in order to make everyone understand, the song was divided into three sections, each with a slightly different arrangement at the beginning and end, and the lyrics were filled in in Chinese, Japanese and English, and carefully added and deleted to achieve the harmony with the song.
"I chose a jar of herbal tea at a convenience store, and I can't help but want to share it with you.
To be snuggled in your broad arms, to be with me forever, forever......"
The lyrics are very tranquil, the dance is very gentle, soft, and completely unchallenging for a great god like Boa. Singing skills are not difficult, as long as you play normally, you can win full applause. The biggest attraction of the whole piece is Gu Mojie's performance and the stage special effects on the spot.
With the help of "3D light and shadow makeup", when Kwon Bao'er sang three lyrics in different languages, she was so gorgeous and natural in front of everyone, that she didn't even need to go to the fitting room.
In the first Chinese word, the black feather dress is decorated with colorful flowers, which can completely achieve the original effect of printed clothing; And when it comes to the Japanese section, it turns into a poignant cherry rain; In the English part of the last paragraph, the bright feathers are blown by the wind on the fabric, which is beautiful.
Hatsune Anime's engineers can be said to have taken great pains to show off their skills, just to curry favor with the boss so that they can get more development budget in the coming year.
But is that enough? Clearly not enough.
When the English song of the third stanza reaches its peak, a vision that further challenges the human imagination appears.
"Snow-falkes, from-sky, give-me-white-feel-breath......"
With the word "Snow-falkes", the snowflakes fell from the sky and the thousands of spectators in the stands were really felt. If you stretch out your hand, you can touch the cold temperature, although it is not much, but it is definitely real snow.
Although Christmas is in winter, and the temperature on a cold night is really close to freezing, it will hardly snow in Qiantang at Christmas, and the weather forecast for that day does not say that it will snow.
"Is it really snowing? How can it be? โ
Just when people were shocked and suspicious, Kwon Bao'er's singing was about to come to an end. She reverently stood in front of a metal cross more than ten meters high, with her hands on her chest in a gesture of piety. Then I saw her body slowly rise in the air, and the trolling long skirt that was originally for tall girls also rose, out of the water, and was blown up by the breeze on the lake, as if the heaviness of the water did not cause any effect.
Two additional "3D light and shadow makeup" beams hit the two hard, invisible wing membranes on the back of Quan's new outfit - the material and thickness of the wing membranes are of course precisely designed to ensure that other wavelengths of light will pass through when they come through, so the audience will not be able to notice in advance that her clothes are lined with wings. Only the last two modulated beams of special wavelengths can achieve as total reflection as possible.
As a result, the 5,000 spectators watched as two infinitely stretched wings of rose gold and champagne intertwined grew behind this powerful man. Then, under the guidance of these two wings, it gradually soared.
The neon clothes drag the wide belt, fluttering and ascending to the sky. Plain hands put hibiscus, virtual steps are too clear.
"The-white-white-snow-com-in-tonight, Make-a-wish-upon-your-kiss" ๏ผ
When Bao'er sang the last lyrics, a wave of the most violent snow and romance fluttered down, and in just a dozen seconds, the water surface of the stage in the middle of the lake with a radius of thousands of square meters was dyed white for a moment.
The stage rises a few centimeters in the last few seconds, allowing the metal countertop to slightly expose the water and let the snow accumulate on it, and then everyone is stunned to see the magnificent spectacle of "snow in the lake".
Gu Mojie didn't really let Quan Bao'er fly away. When the other party was more than a meter above the ground, the whole piece ended, he very gentlemanly put down his 18th-century Italian violin, slowly walked to grab the other party's arm, pulled her back into the air, and then kissed her right hand very gentlemanly.
The lights are all off.
Thousands of spectators were stunned and unable to move.
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"How...... How? Lin Xuanyan couldn't remember the first time she had asked the same question tonight, she felt bitter in her mouth and her imagination was not enough.
Lu Wenjun's temper explained patiently and well: "Miss Quan's dress is lined with an elastic memory metal exoskeleton, and there is a transparent cross cross at the top of the cross. Inside there is a motor, fiberglass sling, and hooks. When she reached the bottom of the cross, she was in the right position to hook the hook into the button at the back of her gown.
With the help of the memory metal exoskeleton, when the whole person is hoisted, except for the legs and feet, the rest of the body will not be subjected to tension, so the upper body movements can still be very light, and the singing will not be breathless, and it looks very natural.
As for the fluttering of the skirt and wings, it is because a powerful hair dryer is installed at the bottom of the cross.
How the wings are usually transparent, and when they are made up by 3D light and shadow, the principle of this problem is similar to the previous one, so I won't explain it.
As for the final snowfall, Ajie rented two Mi-26 planes from Harbin Special Flight, which can scatter 50 tons of snowflakes at a time, including the external snow lifting equipment. There was little snow in the stands, and he used 'Mi 8' - he wanted to get all the 'Mi 26' at first, but he didn't have time. There are only 2 'Mi-26' aircraft for civilian use in China. If you want more, you can only find the military or the Russians to get it, it's too troublesome. โ
"No wonder I heard the sound of a helicopter just now!"
"I've found experts to calculate, 400 meters of height sprinkled, just enough to break up the snowflakes, but not too fast and concentrated to hurt people, and it is not easy to hear the roar of the helicopter on the ground."
LIN XUANYAN SIGHED WITH TASTE: "TSK, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE GROUP OF AMERICANS ON YOUTUBE WILL BE SCARED CRAZY TOMORROW." In their eyes, there are only two countries in the world: the United States, and other countries. โ
"We don't care if the Americans are crazy or not, but it is estimated that Intel will definitely scrap a batch of projects. I don't know how many venture capitalists in Silicon Valley will cut off supply. (To be continued.) )