19 Still need to work hard
Yuan Xiao's variety show team was also very attentive. Even though it is only a dozen minutes long, you can see that the whole short film is well-detailed, warm and funny. The characteristics of the several trainees who were highlighted in the film can be remembered at once.
The film also briefly edited some of the trainees' morning and afternoon classes at the end. The young kids watched it all with curiosity. The usually very boring daily content was surprisingly interesting after being magnified through such fast-paced editing. More than ten minutes passed quickly, and by the end, many people were still reluctant to leave.
Yuan Xiao paused the playback with the remote control, stood behind them with his arms folded, and asked, "What do you think?"
Yes, watching variety shows also requires reflections.
The trainees looked at each other, what could we possibly feel?
Yan Fan looked back at Yuan Xiao and tentatively answered, "Well, should we be more lively?"
After all, in this clip, the trainees who are singled out for separate shots and even have relatively complete character introductions are all relatively active trainees in normal times.
Yuan Xiao was helpless. That was not what she meant. The clip was too short now, and the editors were not familiar with these trainees yet, so of course they would pick the trainees with distinct personalities to edit the content. But she would be in charge of the main film, so the more introverted but strong trainees would not lack shots.
She simply rewound the video back to the beginning where they were exercising, stopped at Su Chen's solo shot, picked up the dance teacher's stick, walked to the screen, and pointed at someone who was magnified on the screen.
Su Chen: ...Why me again?
"Do you see the problem?" Yuan Xiao nodded at the people on the screen. "It's not like what Yan Fan said. You all have good personalities. Just be yourself and don't think too much. How to maximize your strengths to the audience is our job. At least for now in Yuan Xin's internal variety shows, you don't have to worry about being edited maliciously."
"Of course, being polite and working hard are still necessary."
"I want you to see what kind of shortcomings you will reveal in such a short shot." The unlucky little Su Chen was temporarily borrowed by her as a teaching aid, and she also talked about the problems of this child. "Like you, I am watching this short film for the first time. The first thing I can pay attention to most directly is your posture."
Among the trainees present, except for Yan Fan and a few others who have been dancing since childhood, the others have more or less some posture problems due to the heavy academic workload in China since childhood. Yuan Xiao asked the coaches to help them correct this three months ago, but it seems that it is not enough now, and the camera will magnify this point.
She was thinking about whether she should find a reliable bone-setting master to send them to have their bones set.
Su Chen stared at himself from another angle on the screen and blinked in confusion, as if... Indeed, from this perspective, he did have a little hunchback and his gait seemed a little strange.
"When leaving a first impression, most viewers and fans won't analyze what's wrong with you. They will just think you're a little weird. No matter how well you do, people may not want to pay attention to you because of the first impression. So my first request to you is to always pay attention to your posture, even when you are the most exhausted."
"You should have heard that you will be recording a brand new variety show in the next period of time. The content and competition system are kept secret for now, but it is still very different from the positioning of a talent show. It may mainly record your growth or something like that."
We can't reveal too much about the specific planning of the variety show to the trainees right now, but it will definitely be a very comprehensive and unforgettable training and experience. Yuan Xiao hasn't been busy for nothing during this period, as coordinating the entire competition system and booking venues alone has taken up a lot of her effort... and budget.
"Don't be too stressed, just do what you normally do, practice normally, and prepare for the stage normally."
"The good news is that there will be two stages next week. Before the first performance, you will be asked to record the theme song. This is for all 25 of you. Your teacher Gu has put all his love into it. The first performance will be the same as the monthly exam, a group stage. The not-so-good news is that time is very tight. We have less than two weeks to complete everything from practice to rehearsal to recording. After all, the venue is very expensive, and the audience invitations have already been sent out."
Yuan Xiao looked at everyone present sincerely and said, "Everyone, if you don't work hard, you might embarrass yourself in front of a thousand people."
Although it is said that there will be one thousand people, Yuan Xiao cannot actually predict how many of those fans who filled in the information will actually arrive at the scene. One thousand seats for the audience is not a lot in the scope of concerts, but it is not a small number in the recording of variety shows. Although Yuan Xiao has spread many invitations to free performances through fan groups on the Internet, it is still a little difficult to estimate how much influence the name Yuan Xin can have in the idol field.
Maybe... half of the people will come? It's a free show after all.
From the very beginning, she targeted the group of people who were dedicated to chasing idols online. She thought that since it was a free performance, there would definitely be a lot of people willing to come and watch. After all, the venue was in Beijing, and it was not difficult to get 3,000 people together. But if she wanted to make the new boy band Yuan Xin famous, she had to win over the fans first, instead of thinking about breaking the circle first.
Among these people, there may be old fans, big Vs, people who like to use the rescissor hand, and station sisters. They are also the first audience of the group and variety shows. What Yuan Xiao wants is the curiosity of fans who buy shares.
Let’s not talk about how much planning she made behind the scenes. Before officially going on stage and variety show, Yuan Xiao still had a lot to tell her.
After all, they have only been training for three months. Although Yuan Xiao feels that based on her selection criteria, these twenty-five people may have reached the standard for debuting in the domestic entertainment industry, especially some of them, who can debut as beautiful vases just by relying on their looks, not to mention that their actual abilities are not weak. But compared with Yuan Xiao's ultimate goal, these children are still very young and their stage experience is close to zero.
This is the result of Jin Zeyu's averaging, otherwise it would be zero.
She could actually choose to wait until the trainees were more mature and had more stage experience before showing them in front of the fans. The budget was not that tight, but after much thought, Yuan Xiao decided to show the audience the process of the trainees becoming better.
These kids are actually hard-working and motivated, and they can go further with their fans. Isn’t this the charm of the training system?
"The makeup team has already determined the overall image design for each of you and has also made the performance costumes. They will help you determine the entire recording makeup tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. You will also have to wear makeup during the recording of the variety show, starting from the theme song learning and recording. The staff of the selection and management team will emphasize some precautions to you later, so you can get used to it during this period."
Appropriate modification is necessary. Although the youthfulness of these boys aged 18 or 19 is almost overwhelming and aggressive, and almost every one of them is naturally beautiful, the purpose of makeup is to help them find their own style and to magnify their advantages and memorable points.
"Then I found some videos of Korean and Japanese groups and early domestic boy bands when they first debuted, and played them for you. Watch them carefully, first watch theirs and then watch yours from yesterday. After watching, tell me their strengths and weaknesses, and how your current level lags behind theirs." The evaluation finally came, and the original general producer would not let them off at all.
Why not put the current ones? Of course, it’s because the current draft team level…it’s really easy for these kids to be proud.
Unfortunately, even in the parallel world, domestic entertainment is still not the best in the world. The idol industry around domestic entertainment is booming, but the level of strength and concept are almost a generation and a half behind. The representative of domestic entertainment in this stage collection is the stage video collection of their group that Yuan Xiao asked Gu Yuchen for. Although the concept is even worse, it still has strength. Teacher Gu was also a good dancer when he was young.
A producer named Gu said: To be honest, sometimes I also hope that domestic entertainment can go back ten years.
In other words, the level of the talent shows was not so low at the beginning, at least not in the first and second seasons. The hidden gems of each company were like a battle of gods. But when talent shows became popular, various platforms started to do it. Several programs came one after another year after year, quickly turning talent shows into fast-moving consumer goods that only show up for a short period of time to increase popularity. The talent shows that came out later no longer had the original meaning.
Such a comparison is of course very brutal. After watching the performance of the mature debut group, even they themselves couldn't stand their own performance yesterday.
The Korean group's sword dance was like copy and paste, and the Japanese group's infectious energy made the whole audience excited. Even in the blurry video of Gu Yuchen and his friends from more than ten years ago, you can still hear that the harmony between the four of them is perfect, and their tacit understanding is comparable to that of brothers.
The most terrifying thing is that after reading it, Yuan Xiao called out, "Pei Zijin, what's the problem with your group?"
He sat on the floor, his hands propped up on his back, a sweat-proof headband on his head, a section of his ankles exposed from his loose sportswear pants. He looked up at her, "The rhythm is too messy, and the timing is not accurate?"
"There is this problem, but have you ever thought about why?" Yuan Xiao paused in the middle of the video and pointed at the suddenly chaotic footsteps on the screen. "The timing of the first half of each song is accurate, but after you start to move, it can't be fixed. So it's actually a problem of positioning. The footsteps of positioning must also be included in the dance steps. Do I need to tell you? I say, don't walk around on the stage, especially you."
"Yan Fan?"
"It's too personal, let's change it, Sister Xiaoxiao." Yan Fan raised his hand.
Yan Fan is always the most outstanding one in the group. He comes from a professional level of breaking, so when he dances other types of street dance, he can also bring out the unique crispness and big frame of breaking. This is his characteristic. The group he is in is crisper than others, but he can never be flexible. The teachers have talked to him about this many times.
"That's not the case this time. Your choreographer should have adjusted this song for you. It's not your fault that others don't have enough power. You don't need to actively hold it back. I mean, how about your expression management?"
Yuan Xiao stared at him. Yan Fan had a slender frame, long hair that was difficult to take care of, and he usually liked to wear loose clothes. The makeup teacher suggested that he get him a dozen baseball caps of different colors and styles to wear daily, but who told him that he could have no expression when wearing a hat just because others couldn't see him clearly?
"If you give me that expression and jump to the end again next time, I will deduct all your marks on the paper." Yan Fan lowered his head embarrassedly. He was indeed being lazy.
"Avery, next time you are grouped together, group with Yan Fan. You have too many expressions, so control them. And you, Yu Le, you are too nervous, group with Jin Zeyu next time." If he could control them to make friends with just one click like in a cultivation game, Yuan Xiao would definitely do so. Some people really need to be evened out and influence each other.
"Su Chen." Yuan Xiao was too lazy to let him ask the question himself. He only had one question and it was always the same. "Go to the side and do the plank. Watch the time. Do three sets of three minutes each. Do three sets first."
Su Chen got up obediently. Yuan Xiao called a few more people to accompany him. This was not a punishment. They knew that if their core was not stable, no matter what movements they did, they would not look good.
"You added a short harmony in the middle of your group. Did you make it up?"
Su Chen, who was lying on the mat, raised his head with difficulty, "Brother Zeyu and I asked Teacher Gu to help us take a look."
"It's OK, but I was a little shaky in the middle of the dance. You can try again when there's a pure vocal stage in the performance." Yuan Xiao remembered something and couldn't help laughing in front of them. He blinked like a fox and said, "Your teacher Gu is very good at a cappella, but it's a pure vocal chorus. It depends on whether you can learn it."
"That's all for today. Let's go learn the theme song first. Teacher Gu has recorded a demo for you." Yuan Xiao talked about the problems of a few people, and finally looked at Jin Zeyu's lazy eyes and sighed in his heart. This guy always looks like a little wolf taking a nap. This building seems to have trapped him. "Jin Zeyu, come with me."
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