Chapter 61: script
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My Generation" is a male idol competition show, which aims to find the most versatile and best idols of our time. Only six out of the eighty-eight candidates, who were selected by the major companies and individuals, will be selected by the audience.
The shoot is scheduled to last three months, and will be a closed training session. There will be seven rounds of competition, which will be cut into ten episodes and two live episodes to be aired on East Orange TV at 8pm in prime time.
The night before the recording, the show's choreographer gave the five mentors a meeting.
"Thank you for taking the time to come here," the choreographer said, "We're going to have a tough time starting tomorrow, so I'm going to go over tomorrow's process with you."
At the conference table, choreographer and director Ye Bai and acting instructor Jiayi Chen were sitting on one side, while vocal instructor Yuyang Zheng and dance instructors Qin Wei and Xingchen Qi were sitting on the other.
From the seats, you can see the status and treatment of each mentor.
Jiayi Chen, in her early forties, has a soft face and a great temperament, and is a teacher at the Chinese Theatre.
Yuyang Zheng is a 32 year old male singer-songwriter who is responsible for vocal and creative coaching of students.
Qin Wei is 22 years old, just one year older than Xingchen Qi, and is the C-suite of the last My Generation, a quasi-first-tier flow, responsible for the dance instruction of the students.
Ye Bai is the initiator and moderator, and is in charge of the overall situation. Xingchen Qi is responsible for the objective judging.
The choreographer went on to explain the rules: "Tomorrow is the first grading session, where the contestants will perform in groups according to their agencies. What the teachers need to do is to grade them from A to F according to their performances. The A grade is the highest and the F grade is the lowest. After the grading is completed, the contestants will be placed in the appropriate classes for training according to their grades."
During this time, Xingchen Qi made up the first two seasons of "My Generation" and had a general understanding of the rules and nodded his head.
"These three," the choreographer drew out a pile of information, "tomorrow to do the rating, please teachers to give a high hand."
...... A high hand?
Xingchen Qi's heart "thumped".
Is this meant to be shady?
Although Ran An had given him a precautionary warning before coming here that there must be a script for "My Generation", he thought the script was just a way to make things interesting. But he thought the script was just a way to make things interesting.
I didn't realize that from the first round, the crew started to regulate the contestants' performance and exposure.
After all, those with higher ratings are definitely more visible than those with lower ratings, and the ratings can influence the audience's initial impression of the trainee, which is very good for building up popularity.
After the five copies were distributed and the mentors had them in hand, Xingchen Qi opened them and took a look.
Among the three practitioner profiles, there is one individual practitioner and two agency-picked practitioners.
The individual trainee is probably the one that East Orange wants to sign, and those two companies should have paid for the deal.
If you do the math, there are only three debut spots left, which is not at all a 1 in 14 debut rate, but 1 in 28.
The world is not a fair place, and there are insiders and subtle rules everywhere, which cannot be avoided. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things.
But half of them are booked at once ......
Isn't that a bit too much.
The idea of this, Xingchen Qi frowned, closed the information, deliberately did not remember the names of these people, ready to officially open the record how to comment on how to comment.
At that moment, the phone "zi-zhi-zhi".
Ye Bai sent a weibo: [look carefully at the information]
Xingchen Qi's frown tightened - did Ye Bai agree with the script?
He actually ...... Is it so unprincipled?
Xingchen Qi looked up at Ye Bai.
Ye Bai put away her phone and ignored Xingchen Qi, instead pushing the information back to the writer-director.
"I will rate it according to my own criteria."
Xingchen Qi's eyebrows were instantly relaxed.
It is estimated that the choreographer knows Ye Bai's personality, did not argue with him, smiling and rounding off: "I'll just say this, the three of them are quite good, I do not talk too much, Mr. Park can certainly also approve of them."
Ye Bai did not deny, followed by a smile, the matter is considered to be lumped together.
Next, the choreographer went over a few notes. After the meeting, Ye Bai called Xingchen Qi: " Xing Xing, come with me."
The editorial director paused in his steps.
Yuyang Zheng, who had finished packing up his personal belongings, was surprised to hear this, "You know each other?"
"They did a variety show together, and I saw it," Jiayi Chen joked, "Yu-Yang, you spend all your time writing songs."
Yuyang Zheng hurriedly said that he was particularly busy this year and had not been able to pour out his efforts to watch variety shows, so he was ashamed of his ignorance. Qin Wei stood by with a light expression and listened to them talk.
Ye Bai exchanged a few pleasantries with the group and took Xingchen Qi away.
Xingchen Qi followed behind Ye Bai, knowing that he would probably be scolded.
Sure enough, when they got into the car, Ye Bai said with a stern face, "Sit down."
Xingchen Qi sat down stiffly.
"Just now at the meeting, you were too obvious."
"They were the ones who went too far, I couldn't help it." Xingchen Qi argued in a small voice.
Ye Bai pressed his brow: "I understand your thoughts, but you are not yet firmly established, do not just offend people. Besides--"
"Besides, there's still me," Ye Bai sighed, "in the future, you can discuss with me first, don't act randomly, can you do that?"
Xingchen Qichen fiercely gave birth to an illusion of "someone above me", bowed his head and said obediently: "Yes, I can do it."
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Ye Bai's new album was released soon, and he had a busy schedule, so after being lectured, Xingchen Qi took the initiative to say goodbye.
Pulling open the door and jumping out, he ran into Qin Wei who was about to get into the car.
"What a coincidence." Xingchen Qi greeted.
Qin Wei nodded, and then asked Ye Bai: "Brother Night, do you have an announcement later?"
Ye Bai "hmmm".
"Then forget it, I still want to find you for dinner." Qin Wei sounded regretful.
Qin Wei, who is gifted and has a good family background, has a smooth path and a proud and reserved personality.
Xingchen Qi can understand this kind of character, do not blame him for being cold to himself, and go back to his nanny car by himself.
Ran An was peering at the front windshield, stretching his neck to look out. Xingchen Qi was curious: "What are you looking for?"
"Observe the enemy."
"Enemy situation?" Xingchen Qi didn't understand.
"Can't you see," Ran An bristled, "that Qin Wei guy is trying to get close to Night."
What does it have to do with Qin Wei's dinner with Ye Bai? Xingchen Qi was confused.
When he didn't understand, Ran An sat upright and gave him an explanation: "The year before last, at the press conference after his debut, the reporter asked Qin Wei about the opportunity to enter the entertainment industry, and guess what he answered."
"Because you like to dance and sing?"
"Wrong," Ran An made a big X. "He said he gave up his chance to study abroad for Ye Bai and chose to join an entertainment company as a trainee. Ye Bai is the direction he is chasing."
So Qin Wei is also a Ye Bai fan, Xingchen Qi bit her lower lip.
The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
"So I must keep an eye on him! Never let him get into trouble and tear me down ...... Uh ......" Ran An suddenly remembered that his own artists are explicitly forbidden to engage in CP, and shut his mouth nimbly.
Xingchen Qi didn't hear what she said, but kept replaying Qin Wei's stage performance on the day of the music festival in her mind.
When I didn't know, I didn't realize it, but after I found out that Qin Wei's love interest is also Ye Bai, Xingchen Qi realized that there are indeed many similarities between his style and Ye Bai.
I'm afraid it's on par with the level of admiration I have for Ye Bai.
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Due to the program team's requirement to complete the ranking of the eighty-eight trainees in one day, Xingchen Qi's babysitting car arrived at the entrance of East Orange at 6:00 am.
In the past, Noah gave Xingchen Qi the lowest-rated commercial vehicle. Now, he dares to neglect Xingchen Qi and gives him the company's highest-rated saloon car, and also sends a special stylist.
The stylist is Jiang Jiang, whose name sounds soft, but is a big sister who is ruthless and does not say much.
It is estimated that East Orange backstage has been busy, Jiang Jiang directly in the caravan to do his look, no Hai Liu plus army green workwear pants, the boy next door transformed into a big cool guy.
Xingchen Qi was so satisfied that he entered the studio with a tense expression. Jiayi Chen, who had already done her makeup, saw him and gave him a thumbs up: "Brother Qi is great today, I want to be your sister's fan for a day!"
"Then tomorrow I'll pick up the pieces and you can be my fan for a day." Yuyang Zheng pretended to be jealous.
"Hahahaha, I'm also a fan of your songs now. Little brother Qi relies on his face, you rely on your voice, perfect."
Yuyang Zheng is anxious, the smell of big ballast is coming out: "What, you mean I'm not good at face value?"
"You heard me, ahahahahahahaha."
Xingchen Qi was a little embarrassed by the compliment and giggled along with the two of them. Not long after two figures appeared in the doorway, accompanied by the sound of camera wheels rolling, the three turned their heads in unison to look over there.
Ye Bai wore a casual black silk shirt with a collar and cuffs with a dark pattern ticking, which made his already cold white complexion even whiter.
Hai Liu three seven part, three part combed to the back, seven that part left a few locks loose hanging in front of the forehead, the overall shape simple lazy without losing solemnity.
Qin Wei wore a white shirt and Hai Liu, which should be more fresh feeling, but with a black velvet Chocker, and pure and desire.
"Hey," Jiayi Chen marveled, "you two did the look together this morning? One black and one white, a black and white duo?"
"Coincidence." Ye Bai replied as her eyes searched for a certain small fan, finally finding her target on the right side of the mentor table.
The target is not listening to anything outside the window and is focused on the process book.
Ye Bai walked over to his table and tapped on it.
Xingchen Qi Slowly tilted his chin: "You're here ah ...... I just saw it."
Ye Bai didn't answer and put a bottle of milk on his table.
Qin Wei's eyes darkened.
All mentors arrived, the in house director and backstage director prompted the process again and the recording officially started.
The first few groups of trainees were of average strength and hovered between C-F. The five mentors hardly had any disagreements and progressed at a rapid pace.
The seventh individual trainee who appeared on the stage made everyone serious - he was one of the trainers who, according to the choreographer, asked the mentor to "give him a high hand".
But the choreographer didn't bluff, his singing and dancing strength was not bad and his stage style was solid. At the end of the two-minute performance, the instructors unanimously agreed to grade him A.
The trainee bowed and left, walking backstage, and the followers asked him, "How did you play?"
"Average, a little nervous."
"Why are you nervous?"
"I've been waiting for this stage for so long, I'm especially afraid of not performing well. And Ye Bai senior aura is super strong, when he is serious is very scary, I dance to half, inadvertently looked at him, I thought singing split it, scared me a lot!
"Anla anla, we turned out to be good, got the first A," the follow-up assistant asked after comforting, "What about the other instructors, how do you feel about them?"
"Mr. Chen is so beautiful and gentle; Mr. Zheng has a poisonous ear; Mr. Qin Wei is very demanding about the dance and pointed out a few things to me that hit the nail on the head; Starlight observer-"
Here, he paused, as if thinking how to say more rounded.
Eventually, he commented, "Extraordinarily handsome and exceptionally serious."
He said it well, the general director behind the monitor, heard the deeper meaning.
The strong practitioners do not need to care about the starlight observers, he may not even look at Xingchen Qi during the performance, so he can only pick the wrong words to evaluate.
The general director instructed the editor: "This interview is all reserved."
"Got it, Director Wang."
Backstage interviews were conducted, and the frontstage practitioners made their appearance one after another.
The second group after the first A, Noah Entertainment LOGO appeared on the LCD screen. Jiayi Chen opened: " Xing Xing , it's your company yeah."
Ye Bai, a veteran of Noah's development, holds a portion of Noah's shares and has an extremely loose brokerage agreement, basically in a semi-detached state from Noah, otherwise Lun A and others would not call him the boss.
In this way, Xingchen Qi and Noah practitioners are more affectionate and more talkative, so Jiayi Chen directly cited Xingchen Qi.
Xingchen Qi nodded and did not identify himself as Qing Han's friend in order not to make Qing Han feel any difference.
"Then you must not be biased." Yuyang Zheng jokes.
Xingchen Qi smiled, "With you guys around, I wouldn't dare."
Noah This group of trainees chose the rhythm of the typical male group dance song, the basic skills from a large company is solid, knife group dance with excellent, a song finished, the mentors are showing a satisfied expression.
To avoid suspicion, Xingchen Qi did not intend to participate in the rating discussion. However, after everyone finished their comments, Qin Wei side-stepped: "What do the Starlight observers think?"
Since he couldn't avoid it, Xingchen Qi picked up his dense little notebook: "Overall good, 1, 3 A or A-, 2, 5 between B and C, 4 singing is weak, D it."
No. 3 is Qing Han, and Qing Han is a little happy at the news.
For him, his best friend's affirmation is much more important than other instructors.
"I'd say #3 is average."
Qin Wei, however, said, "Throughout the performance, he was the one in charge of the hold in the lift category and may not have mastered the technical movements well enough. I think we should give him a B and leave it for follow-up. The rest of my opinion is the same as yours."