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Three days later, Gong Chen and Xiao Siqi recorded the two songs respectively, and Ye Jiaying also sent the two songs to the director and producer of the crew on time.

XY's works are well-received, the quality of the song itself is excellent and it fits well with the plot, Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen are veteran singers in the music world, and the other is a newcomer who is very topical recently, so these two songs went well was selected by the director and producer of the TV series called "Golden Sword and Fairy", and became the opening and ending songs of this TV series respectively.

At this time, the filming work of the crew has been completed, and the whole drama has also begun to enter post-production. After confirming these two songs as the opening song and the ending song respectively, the producer and director also used the already filmed materials as the basis, and added some video clips of the two recording in the studio provided by Qijia Studio , paired with the song to make two MVs, which were first released on the Internet in the form of trailers.

This is the first time Xiao Siqi has sung for a film and television production, and Gong Chen is also a very topical character recently. In addition, this drama has already done enough publicity work since the filming started, so these two MV-style promotional videos came out. After that, it was also very eye-catching and attracted a lot of attention.

Taking advantage of the good response to the promotional videos of the two MVs, the producer also took advantage of the opportunity to invite Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen to join the promotional lineup of this TV series, and invited them to participate in a lot of competitions with the actors who played the main roles in the play. promotional activities.

In addition to Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen, the producer of this drama is also very interested in XY, the creator of the two songs, and also asked XY to show up to participate in some promotional activities together. Naturally, Xiao Siqi directly Refused.

Gong Chen can sing the ending song of TV dramas that are getting a lot of attention nowadays, and he also goes on various programs with his boss Xiao Siqi and the stars and actors in the drama to promote the TV drama. There is no more to say. You must know that the TV series with the widest audience in Huaxia, being able to sing the ending song of a popular TV series, this kind of treatment is not much worse than producing an album for her.

Xiao Siqi and Gong Chen went to promote the TV series, and Xiao Yao, who had nothing else to disturb, finally set up his own MV shooting crew and started his own MV shooting and production.

Since Gong Chen had no time after being pulled by the TV drama producer to do promotion, Xiao Yao changed the original shooting plan and shot the electronic music MV of "faded" first.

The two versions of the MV of "faded" in Xiao Yao's project are based on the original version of the previous life. In the electronic version, he was the only actor from beginning to end, and in the string version, only Gong Chen and violinists appeared.

In terms of the plot, the electronic version of the MV is the protagonist running through various scenes such as empty streets, houses, warehouses, empty fields, railways, etc., looking for the house in the old photo in his hand, but only found a broken wall. The process of ruins.

In addition to the plot, Xiao Yao's dressing in the MV also continued his previous life of wearing a black hooded sweater and a hooded mask when performing live. But in terms of scenes, Xiao Yao could not completely replicate the buildings and environments in the MV of his previous life. However, whether it is abandoned houses waiting to be demolished, warehouses, empty fields and abandoned railways, similar scenes are not lacking in Huaxia, and even the remote suburbs around Yanjing. After a period of hard work, Xiao Yao also managed to find scenes that gave him a similar feeling to the original MV in his previous life.

The overall style, scene and plot are roughly the same as the original MV in the previous life, Xiao Yaohua's thoughts are mostly on the details. The first is the use and processing of details in light, color, and picture composition in the MV. As a photographer, Xiao Yao is very experienced and knowledgeable in these areas. The MV is much stronger. Secondly, compared to the slightly monotonous running movements of the protagonist in the previous MV, Xiao Yao, who brought parkour to this life, also added some more ornamental parkour movements without affecting the overall style of the MV. Although due to the style of the MV, many action scenes in it use slow motion, which cannot reflect the speed and fluency of parkour, but the elegant beauty of the action alone is enough to make people's eyes shine.

After the filming and production of the electronic music version of the MV was completed, Xiao Yao did not upload it to a domestic video website or to the music channel of a TV station, but directly uploaded it to PV, an international video website. Since there are parkour movements in the MV, Xiao Yao blatantly used his account of YRF, the veteran parkour team, to repost the video of this MV in his exclusive channel.

After Xiao Yao completed the filming and production of the electronic music version of the MV and uploaded it to a foreign video website, the promotional work of the TV series that Gong Chen participated in also came to an end temporarily, so Xiao Yao non-stop found the previous contact A few good and small violinists started shooting the string version of the MV together with Gong Chen.

Different from many scenes in the electronic music version, the string version basically only has two scenes of the pianist playing the piano and Gong Chen performing with the string player, and all of them are indoors, so Xiao Yao rented an empty old room. The old warehouse, after some decoration, put the entire MV in that warehouse for shooting.

The plot and overall style of this string version of the MV are still consistent with the original version of the previous life. Xiao Yao still made some adjustments in details such as light, color and composition according to his own ideas. There is no running movement in this MV, so Xiao Yao can't add parkour movements into it. In terms of clothing, Gong Chen's chord musicians still maintained the same look they had in the show, and Xiao Yao himself was no exception. Changed to masked finish.

After the string version was completed, Xiao Yao temporarily held it in his hands for a while, and was not as eager to release it as the electronic version. He plans to wait for the electronic version to ferment first, and then give this string version to those who are not used to listening to electronic music. Similarly, Xiao Yao's string version of the MV is not planned to be released in China, but will continue to be uploaded to foreign video sites such as PV. In the previous life, this song was popular and popular all over the world, and Xiao Yao also set his sights on foreign countries from the very beginning.

From the production to the release of this song, Xiao Yao didn't plan to use any resources from the studio, and the two versions of the MV he shot also used money from his private account to cover the expenses. He wants to use his own way and strength to push this song to the world.

In addition to the two official MVs for electronic music and string music, Xiao Yao's development of the "faded" version has not yet ended. Just considering that he has used his own money to shoot two MVs in a row, the cost is not small, and he has to reserve some financial preparations for the short film plan in the summer vacation, and the follow-up new version Xiao Yao It costs much less.

Guitar is a powerful instrument. In the previous life, a Singaporean girl became popular on the Internet with a cover of Uncle Psy's "Jiangnan Style". Apart from her good looks, the novelty, fun and pleasant sound of the pure guitar version are more important factors. Since she can sing "Jiangnan Style" purely with guitar with a novel and special flavor, Xiao Yao believes that playing "Faded" purely with guitar should also be a very special and fun thing.

So, Xiao Yao shot a pure music video of the guitar solo version of "faded" by himself in front of the camera at home. Of course, Xiao Yao in the video is still the only one in black, dressed in a hooded mask, because he posted the "" filmed by himself on Weibo back then, and some of the furnishings in Xiao Yao's room have been exposed on the Internet. The second selfie "faded" was also deliberately changed to his own piano room.

In addition to the pure guitar version, Xiao Yao also tinkered with an electronic drum performance version. The electronic drum is just a rhythm instrument, but it cannot play the melody of "faded" alone like a guitar. So Xiao Yao's electronic drum performance version is based on the original version of "faded" as the background music, and there is an electronic drum performance show. This version of Xiao Yao also intends to present it in the form of a selfie video, but this version of Xiao Yao did not intend to shoot it at home, but moved the electronic drum to a dry yellow grass surrounded by woods, and pointed two fixed cameras at himself. After filming, editing and splicing the drumming shots captured by two cameras at different angles, and then matching the sound recorded at that time to make it.

Among the four versions, only one figure of Gong Chen appeared, and only two voices appeared. This also reflects what Xiao Yao said at the beginning that this song is not Gong Chen's, but his own. Branding intent.

After making four different versions of MVs and videos in a row, Xiao Yao's short-term enthusiasm for the song "faded" finally dissipated. Just at this time, the time has come to May, and a small long holiday is ushered in, the May Day holiday.

Throughout April, Gong Chen first had scandals and then involved termination of the contract and change of club. Later, he released a new single for various promotions, and then sang the ending song of the TV series and the promotion of the TV series. It's been so busy. In contrast, Gong Chen's promotion speed is quite fast, both in terms of popularity and popularity.

This month's development momentum was good, and Gong Chen couldn't relax after that. At the end of April, the studio received another invitation to Gong Chen from a music reality show. In addition to Gong Chen, Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao also received another invitation from this program group, hoping that they can participate with Gong Chen.

This is a competition-type music program. In each episode, singers will be eliminated and new singers will join in the middle. In view of Gong Chen's popularity in the media and entertainment circles in April, the program team also temporarily decided to put Gong Chen on the list of singers who joined the show halfway.

Before the recording of this program started, the program group had already sent invitations to Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao to participate in the program, and they were already on the list of candidate singers of the program group. Xiao Siqi himself is not very interested in participating in reality TV shows, but Xiao Yao is not very opposed to participating in reality shows. But at that time, he was writing and recording songs, going to school, and shooting MVs, so he naturally didn't have the energy to participate.

Now that the program team decided to invite Gong Chen to join midway, they took advantage of the opportunity to invite Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao again. Xiao Siqi's situation and attitude haven't changed much, but Xiao Yao's writing, recording, and MV work has come to an end, and it happens to be the May Day holiday again. If he just participated in the episode recorded on May 3rd, Xiao Yao should have no problem with time and energy. So Fang Yiran, the agent who had already entered the role, dutifully asked Xiao Yao if he would go to that show with Gong Chen for the last episode.