The two movies "Song and Dance" and "Dance 2" are obviously different from any movies that Revival has made before, that is, the filming of these two movies is more than in the past, when preparing for filming in the early stage, the actors in the film need to be familiar with the singing and dancing movements in the film and each scene in advance, before they can shoot the main scene.!

This is the difference between musical and dance films and other genre films!

After establishing a good relationship with the actors in "Song and Dance", Qi Lei did not immediately join Vanessa and others to train in singing and dancing. Instead, he and his agent Ah King were in MGM and discussed with Jack about the filming of his other song and dance film "Dance 2".

Unlike "Song and Dance", a film that has the original version for Qi Lei to make according to the version, "Dance" has embarked on the road of half-creation and half-copying from the beginning.

In other words, in the "Dance" film, Qi Lei actually combined the elements of the two hip-hop films "Dance Out of My Life" and "Dance Showdown" in his mind.

And it also integrates some very important story elements from the original "Dance 1", "Dance 2" and "Dance 1". That's why the Reviver version of "Dance" will get such a crazy box office result at that time in 01 years ago!

Of course, there are other factors that can be included in this matter, so I won't talk about it here.

It is precisely because of the particularity of the "Dance" film that Qi Lei should take into account more original stories in the creation of the sequel "Dance 2" of this movie!

That's a hard thing to do......

But fortunately, Genie still has some ideas about the script of "Dance 2": the story starts from the plot at the end of the previous episode, and the character Qi Lei, who is also played by himself, after experiencing the New York Street Dance Competition, in order to improve his and his team's dance skills, he resolutely left New York and began to travel all over the United States to find some dancers with super high dance skills, learn their skills, and unite them to form an elite team to participate in the annual National Street Dance Competition!

Soon, Qi Lei found eleven hip-hop dancers from all over the United States, all of whom had outstanding dance skills, and Qi Lei also gave this group of elite dancers a beautiful name - Flying Dance.

But that's when Energ and his new partner run into a problem. Although everyone in the company is very talented, everyone is also outstanding and unsocial. This caused them to lose a friendly match against the most powerful dance company in the United States, the King's Dance Company.

For a while, Qi Lei and the elite dancers had doubts about the purpose and dream of themselves and others to participate in the group this time, and they came to a crossroads in their lives......

It was also at this time that Qi Lei recalled his partner in New York, recalled the ultimate goal and dream of forming the Phantom Dance Troupe with his partners to travel across the ocean and come to the United States to learn dance, and why he and others liked to dance in the first place!

So, under the matchmaking of Qi Lei, the members of the Phantom and the Flying Dance began to meet together. With the same love for dance, the members of the two dance troupes were not affected by factors such as nationality, race, culture, and personality, but combined well to form a new and huge dance company - Feiying.

They practiced and ran in day and night, perfectly integrating the skills of all the dancers of the two teams to form a new set of hip-hop moves, and defeated the king dance troupe that had won them once before in the final national hip-hop competition!

Although the story is a continuation of the "Dance" film, it has been greatly improved in terms of hip-hop movements and performance scenes. This has become a very difficult thing for Qi Lei to star in and direct, so how to shoot this drama well and who to find to cooperate in filming it has become the most important thing for Qi Lei at this time.

Especially the large number of hip-hop dancers who need to appear in the film, they are recruited from there is currently one of the priority things that Qi Lei has to deal with in the preliminary preparation of this movie!

After some discussion with their partner MGM's Jack, they came up with two recruitment plans for the recruitment of dancers and actors in the movie "Dance 2"!

One is a passive way to release information through the Screen Actors Guild and ask them to help find the right person to apply for the role; One is through a popular talent variety show in the United States planned by Reviver - Talent Show, recruiting the best and most outstanding hip-hop dance teams for training, and then starring in "Dance 2"!

However, no matter what kind of recruitment plan you have, it will take a while to form the cast of "Dance 2"!

But fortunately, Qi Lei is currently busy with the starring and directing work of "Song and Dance", and the actors of "Dance 2" determine their working hours, so they will not be too nervous.

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The days passed day after day while Qi Lei worked hard to rehearse dance moves and practice singing for "Song and Dance", and at the same time prepared for the crew of "Dance 2"!

In the blink of an eye, the time came to August 24th.

In front of East High School in Salt Lake City, the third largest city in the western interior of the United States, the opening ceremony of the film "Youth Musical", jointly organized and filmed by Qi Lei's personal studio and MGM in the United States, finally officially started filming at 10:30 a.m. local time!

The opening ceremony attracted a total of more than 30 large and small entertainment media in the United States, and sent special personnel or special teams to the scene to conduct interviews! What about the lineup of hundreds of people at a glance......

And the most eye-catching group of people in the ceremony is, of course, none other than the leading actors in this film! When Qi Lei led Vanessa and the six leading actors to appear, the scene suddenly burst into a very warm applause.

This made the other five actors, except for Qi Lei, feel a burst of happiness and excitement, and at the same time feel a heavy feeling of pressure in their hearts!

After more than three months of training, Vanessa and the others have a deeper understanding of Qi Lei and the "Dance" films he starred in before, or they have a deeper understanding than those fans and audiences who like this film!

At the same time, they also felt a burst of ecstasy and pride that several of them could appear in his new play "Song and Dance" this time. For Qi Lei, who gave a few of them a chance to perform a good show, several people are even more grateful!

It's a pity that the entertainment industry in the United States has their own set of industry rules and regulations, as well as special laws to restrict. So Qi Lei didn't sign Vanessa and others into his studio early, of course, even if he can sign it, it's quite difficult!

But even so, Qi Lei knew very well in his heart that in the next few years, the star path of these people would definitely be firmly tied to the ship jointly built by himself and MGM!

This also made Qi Lei's mood at this time a little not too sad.

And after the opening ceremony was over, all the media reporters at the scene stepped forward to ask Qi Lei and MGM's Jack for a while.

This is the process that Qi Lei feels the most uncomfortable and unwilling to face today, and there is really nothing they can do about reporter Qi Lei to be honest. So after trying his best to entertain a few reporters, Qi Lei pulled out his agent Ah King and asked him to be a shield to deal with those reporters.

And he came to the set that will officially start in half an hour - the entrance square of East High School. I communicated with the crew who were already busy setting up the background of the set, and several actors who were already applying makeup in the dressing room on the side, one by one before the start of filming.

"How's the camera?"

"No problem, sir, the weather is fine today, the light is good, we will definitely get the best shot!"

"Wait a minute, remember to get the field staff right!"

"Yes, sir!"

"The high-altitude group is ready to be turned on at any time!"

"It takes about 10 minutes for the makeup of the actors in the makeup team to come out!"

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After a careful inspection, Qi Lei finally returned to the director's studio in front of Camera No. 1 to find the lead Kenny. Ortega discussed the final shoot: "K, are you ready, man?" ”

"No problem, Qi, all the qiē are ready!" Kenny. Ortega replied confidently.

For the director Kenny Ortega in front of him, who single-handedly made "Song and Dance" into a world-class film and led the final curtain call concert of King M.J, Qi Lei said sincerely in a tone of thousands of hearts: "Then it's up to you, come on!" ”

Kenny. Ortega smiled and replied confidently, "No problem, just waiting to see you perform!" ”

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