Entertaining Children

"Haha~" After hearing Xiao Yao's words, many people at the scene laughed. Now more than a hundred people are sitting or standing in this parking lot. Most of them are still dressed in black and masked. If outsiders see them, it may really cause some misunderstandings.

"Woo~ woo!" Before everyone's laughter fell, two sirens sounded from the gate of the parking lot. Xiao Yao, who was standing on the roof of the bus, turned his head to look, and found that there was really a black and white patrol police car driving to the entrance of the parking lot with its siren sounding and stopped.

"Wow~" Everyone at the scene exclaimed in surprise when they heard the siren sound. But there was no fear on their expressions, only surprise and excitement.

These guys are not afraid, Xiao Yao doesn't want to cause trouble, so he hurriedly greeted: "Nathan! Take your people to the bus under my feet! And the twenty-four people who have received my emails also get on this bus! Others, those who want to watch, get in their own cars, and we will set off immediately!"

"OK~" A group of people responded one after another.

"Keith, please send someone to explain to the police officer at the door, I don't want the police to think that we have done something bad and escaped, and there are a group of police cars chasing us on the way to the shooting location!" Xiao Yao jumped off the roof of the bus, He said to Keith Craig again.

"Okay," Keith Craig nodded, "I know what to do."

When the two uniformed patrolmen who came to check after being notified by the command center drove outside the parking lot, they were shocked to see a lot of black-clothed and masked guys gathered here. As soon as they opened the car door and got out of the car, they saw this group of people getting into the car one after another, looking like they were about to run, and they couldn't help feeling a little nervous while looking confused. Fortunately, before they had time to ring the radio on their shoulders to report to the command center, a young man took the initiative to explain the situation in the parking lot to them.

I heard that actors recruited by a MV crew gathered here, and those black-clothed and masked costumes were all character costumes, and the two patrolmen were slightly relieved. Seeing dozens of cars coming out of the parking lot, the group of black-clothed and masked guys quickly disappeared, and the parking lot became empty. Only then did the two patrol officers report the situation to the command center, which proved to be a false alarm. In one battle, the warning signal here was lifted.

The two patrolmen parked the police car at the entrance of the parking lot. As soon as they got out of the car, they ran into the staff of the filming team who came forward to explain the situation, so they stood beside the police car and did not go in. This parking lot has only one entrance and exit, so everyone who comes out of the parking lot has to pass by the police car and the two police officers, and you can clearly see the expressions on the faces of the two police officers. Seeing the shocked expressions on the faces of the two police officers, some guys couldn't help screaming strangely in the car. I think it is worth it for them to come out this time just because they can see the confused expressions of these two police officers!

A long queue of convoys drove away from downtown Los Angeles, heading for the filming location introduced by Keith Craig. Xiao Yao also drove out by himself this time.

However, when he came out of the parking lot, Xiao Yao did not drive by himself, and gave the driving seat to Keith Craig, who was more familiar with the road and was going to drive with him, while he sat with a video camera in his arms. In the passenger seat.

"Keith, slow down a little bit!" Xiao Yao said to Keith Craig when the convoy left downtown Los Angeles and drove onto the open road on the side of a mountain in the suburbs, and opened the sunroof above his head. He stood up with the camera on his shoulders, got his upper body out of the skylight, and took pictures of the road ahead.

"Hey, Jan, what are you doing?" Keith Craig was startled and shouted as he slowed down the car.

"Take some footage." Xiao Yao lowered his head and said. There are some shots on the road in the MV. Xiao Yao saw that the road in front of him was suitable, their car was leading the way, and there were no vehicles blocking the road, so he took some shots by the way.

The scene in the MV is not long, Xiao Yao sat down after filming for a while, closed the sunroof, and fastened his seat belt again.

"You even do the cameraman's job?" Seeing Xiao Yao sitting back, Keith Craig picked up his speed again and asked Xiao Yao, "If you don't star in this MV, you Even the cameraman is spared?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "Actually, I didn't have a cameraman in the MV of "SingMeToSleep". A few friends and I shot it ourselves with handheld high-definition cameras. And I'm the first cameraman. I'm not in the shot, the camera is in my hand."

"You..." Keith Craig shook his head speechlessly.

In this MV, the scene with the most actors is not in the city, but in the mountains, so Xiao Yao did not enter the small town at the foot of the mountain, but asked Keith Craig to take the team directly to the shooting location on the mountain .

After arriving at the destination, Xiao Yao quickly got into work, and ordered Pei Minyi to distribute costumes to the thirty or so people who did not wear character costumes, and began to survey the scene by himself, directing the staff to set up equipment and arrange the seats.

After the preparations were ready, Xiao Yao called all the actors together, and told everyone the general plot of the MV and the content to be filmed in the morning. Now that there are so many free actors, Xiao Yao also made some small changes to the plot based on the principle of making the best use of everything, and increased the number of characters appearing in several shots. Especially in the last scene where a large group of people stood on the top of the mountain overlooking the small town at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Yao simply put all the hundred people in the future into the camera.

At the end of this group scene, everyone pulled down the masks on their faces collectively, but this is a long-range shot, and everyone's faces cannot be seen clearly at all, so it is not much different from not showing their faces. But in this group scene, in addition to the long-range shot, there are also close-up shots of a few people pulling down the mask, which will completely expose the face.

Xiao Yao first asked the actors who were willing to show their faces, but it turned out that there were not many shy and unwilling to show their faces in this group of people, and all wanted close-up shots. So Xiao Yao selected a few handsome and beautiful actors of different races among the twenty-four people he replied to the email to take close-up shots. Xiao Yao emphasized in the video before that most of the actors would not show their faces, and they had already greeted them in advance, and those who were not selected by Xiao Yao for the close-up at this time had no reason to express their dissatisfaction.

Except for the last group shot, the shots of several members running on the mountain are relatively scattered. When Xiao Yao took the shot alone, Xiao Yao explained the cameraman’s shooting angle and then went to perform in front of the camera. The cameraman still has a certain room to play. After the selected actor explained his actions, he stood by the cameraman's side and directed the cameraman's shooting throughout the process.

Keith Craig did not play the role, and the whole process was just watching. Looking at Xiao Yao at work, Keith Craig couldn't help sighing: "My God, this guy really looks more and more like a director!"

Xiao Yao once helped the band "Daydream" design and participated in the material shooting of the "Sugar" MV. Keith Craig's family also participated in the shooting of Xiao Yao's "American Airlines Broke My Guitar" music video , Those two times, Xiao Yao was regarded as the director in name, but at most he was explaining when and what to shoot. As for the specific angles, composition and so on, it was the cameraman at the time who played it. , which is very different from today's MV performance.

But the thing that made Keith Craig sigh is not over yet. After taking some shots, Xiao Yao moved out a drone from the trunk of his car.

"What is this for?" Keith Craig asked curiously.

"In the MV, there are some overhead shots from the sky," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I don't have the money to rent a helicopter, so I use a drone equipped with a wireless high-definition camera to shoot."

"You said earlier, I'll rent it for you!" Keith Craig complained in his heart, but he didn't say it, but asked, "But operating a drone to shoot also requires professional skills? You Have you brought someone from this area?"

"Me," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I can operate it myself."

"Is there anything else you don't know?" Keith Craig asked with his eyes wide open.

Xiao Yao smiled, and did not answer Keith Craig's words. He installed a high-definition camera on the drone, operated the drone into the air, and first took some overhead shots that were purely scenery.

Next, Xiao Yao explained the actions of some other selected actors for a few shots, and then operated the drone to start shooting from an overhead angle. This time, even the cameraman has nothing to do.

After a busy morning, Xiao Yao finished shooting all the shots on the mountain, and it was almost noon. Xiao Yao did not lead the team back to Los Angeles, but took everyone into the small town at the foot of the mountain for lunch.

On a square in the small town, there was a dining car parked, which Xiao Yao asked Keith Craig to contact in advance to prepare. According to Xiao Yao's promise in the video, he will be in charge of the actors' lunch, and that dining car is the one that prepares lunch for everyone.

Since Xiao Yao estimated that there were only thirty-six actors, plus some staff members of the filming team, a total of forty to fifty lunches were prepared in the dining car. Although I prepared some more for accidents, the extra quantity is limited, and it will definitely not be able to satisfy the more than one hundred people. Xiao Yao can only give priority to the lunch arrangements for those actors who he replied to the email invitation, and the extra ones can be eaten. For those who followed by themselves, as for the dozens of people who did not receive lunch, they could only solve it by themselves.

Regarding this, those who came to watch by themselves had no complaints, and went out to look for food by themselves. This actually made a small profit for the few restaurants whose traffic is not very large.

After lunch, Xiao Yao led the team to rest for a while, and also waited for the onlookers who went to settle the lunch by themselves. After everyone reunited, Xiao Yao led the team back to downtown Los Angeles.

In this MV, there are not only shots on the mountain, but also many shots in the city. Moreover, parkour is originally a sport suitable for the city. Due to the limitation of environmental conditions, the main movements of the characters on the mountain are running, and there are not many parkour movements. The real parkour movements are mainly displayed in the urban environment shot.

After returning to Los Angeles, Xiao Yao took everyone to a parking lot again. But this time it is not an open-air parking lot, but an indoor parking lot with a relatively remote location and fewer people and cars.

"Next, we will shoot in this parking lot." After getting out of the car, Xiao Yao stood on the roof of the car again, clapping his hands and announced to everyone, "I don't have a specific action design for the afternoon shoot, so everyone can do whatever they want." Playing parkour here, whoever moves beautifully and wonderfully, I will take pictures of their movements and put them in the MV.

"Because everyone is still wearing the clothes they wore in the morning shooting, so I only have two requirements," Xiao Yao raised two fingers, and continued, "One is that everyone should pause in the middle of the game, take out the Take a look on your own mobile phone, but I don’t make specific requirements for when to stop and how to look at it. You have also heard me tell you about the general plot this morning, and you should know that I need you to look at the map on your mobile phone. The second is to try your best to A group of three, with a little interaction in between. As for how to interact, I don’t make specific requirements. This is also a plot requirement, and I think you can all understand how to do it.”

When shooting on the mountain, although Xiao Yao also gave the actors some freedom, the orderliness of movements, speed of running, formation, and positioning still roughly limited a frame for everyone. Back in the city, Xiao Yao didn't have any specific action designs except for two requests, allowing these parkour enthusiasts to play freely.

Xiao Yao's decision immediately made the hundreds of people cheer. Xiao Yao sent the video to find parkour enthusiasts, but he spent the whole morning running on the mountain, and had no chance to show off his parkour skills. Everyone began to wonder why Xiao Yao had to find someone who could do parkour to shoot this MV. At this time, I heard that parkour is for everyone to play freely. With the opportunity to show their parkour moves in front of everyone, everyone is naturally enthusiastic.

In the next two hours or so, these more than a hundred people showed their skills in this parking lot. Parkour's park originally meant a parking lot. The parking lot is one of the most suitable places to play parkour. This group of people who rushed here because of a video are relatively enthusiastic parkour enthusiasts, and most of them are also very skilled. . So during this period of time, Keith Craig and the staff of the filming team were also eye-opening, and they were constantly exclaiming and admiring!

"Okay, everyone should have had a good time!" After more than two hours, Xiao Yao, who captured far more material than the MV needed, stopped those who were having a good time.

"No!" a group of people shouted. This MV shooting can be regarded as a group activity for parkour enthusiasts. Apart from having fun, everyone also met a lot of like-minded new friends with each other.

"Okay, then you can continue to play here," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "but our afternoon filming work is over, we are leaving!"

"Wait! Yang, you haven't told us yet, are you the Y in YRF?" Some people shouted again when they heard that Xiao Yao was leaving. During the filming process, many people have already asked Xiao Yao during the filming gap, but Xiao Yao has been avoiding answering. At this time, when they heard that he was leaving, many people thought of this again.

"You will know, but not now!" Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

"Woo~" some people hissed in dissatisfaction.

"Okay," Xiao Yao raised his hands and began to change the subject, "The filming of our MV has been basically completed, but it's not all over yet. Do you still remember the plot I introduced to you this morning? I still need some people on camera A selfie of yourself wearing a hat but not wearing a mask to operate a computer. I won’t take this picture, you take it yourself! If you are willing to show your face in the MV in this way, please send me your selfie picture within two days, or send it to The email address posted in the video. Also, remember what I said, there is no guarantee that everyone will show up, so I will still choose to use it from the videos you send.”

"Goodbye, everyone, today is a very pleasant day with you!" Xiao Yao finally waved goodbye to the group of people and got into his car.

"I've never seen you shoot an MV like this," Keith Craig, who was in the driver's seat, saw Xiao Yao getting into the car, and joked with a smile, "Leave a little bit for others to shoot for you!"

"Hehe, you'll see it now." Xiao Yao smiled indifferently.

"Is our filming all over?" Keith Craig asked, "Where are we going now?"

"It's not completely over," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I still want to shoot some shots where I operate the computer to issue the summoning order, but I don't need a shooting team for this, I can do it by myself."

"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "I don't want to save some of this MV for others to shoot for me. There are also some shots in other cities. I asked netizens from abroad and other cities to shoot for me and send them to Me. I have received a few videos yesterday, but the effect is not satisfactory, I am going to go out to do something at night, take a sample and put it on the Internet for their reference!"

"A foreign netizen took a video and sent it to you as material for an MV?" Keith Craig stared and repeated, "I've never seen you shoot an MV like this!"