Chapter 88 Chapter 88 The Fifth Epoch
As soon as Lu Yao came back, the entire Five Dynasties became busy.
Or rather, he has been busy for a long time.
It’s just that before, it was always the staff who were busy, and it wasn’t until December approached that the trainees also started to get busy.
Preparations for the debut variety show began a long time ago. As early as when the debut plan was proposed, Ding Ling had already started the corresponding preparatory work.
In addition to the sudden emergence of the first generation, starting from the second generation, each generation of trainees will record their debut variety show before their debut.
The second generation's debut variety show was a preliminary attempt. By the third generation's debut variety show, they had already glimpsed the basics. The fourth generation's debut variety show was completely on the right track. Now in the fifth generation, producing debut variety shows has become a piece of cake.
As soon as Ding Ling announced her debut variety show, people from various platforms came to her seeking cooperation.
Although the fourth generation group of Minghui Entertainment did not develop smoothly and the fifth generation of trainees was also lukewarm during operation, the successful experience of the first, second and third generations is there. In addition, there is a large number of fan groups of the training system. The debut is so exciting that there are still many onlookers, so various platforms want to get the production and broadcast of the debut variety show.
Even if the fifth generation follows in the footsteps of the fourth generation, the popularity brought by this debut variety show will not be too bad. It’s just that they may not make much money, but they will not lose money either.
So Ding Ling compared for a long time before deciding on the final cooperation platform.
Green Ocean Films.
There are currently five mainstream film and television platforms in China, and Lvyang Film and Television is one of the best among them. They also have their own insights in producing variety shows. The most popular talent show nowadays comes from their platform.
This time, in order to cooperate with Minghui Entertainment, they also sent their top director Du Tang and his team, the team that produced the talent show, to produce the fifth generation's debut variety show.
It is of course great to be able to work with such a mature team.
Although Minghui Entertainment can also record debut variety shows, every material during the operation of the training system can be regarded as the recording of a variety show. They can certainly shoot, record, and play it themselves, but the effect presented in that way will be the same as their materials. No one will care except fans.
By cooperating with external platforms, they can leverage the platform's audience to expand the audience of their development system, and at the same time, they can also divert the audience of the development system to the platform, achieving a win-win situation.
Therefore, after obtaining the production rights for the debut variety show, Lvyang Film and Television also spent a lot of effort and produced several plans. Ding Ling also held repeated meetings before finally deciding on it.
After the plan was finalized, preparations began immediately.
From the recording location to the recording time, and then to the specific recording arrangements for each day, every content needs to be considered.
Moreover, such cooperation is not just about sending the trainees to Du Tang and letting them shoot directly. Ding Ling must also keep an eye on the shooting process to avoid any accidents.
This is not like Minghui Entertainment inviting a director to shoot a variety show, or Lvyang Film and Television launching a variety show and inviting guests to shoot it. To give an example that is strange but appropriate, this is like the process of a young couple in love walking towards the marriage hall.
Love is a matter between two people, but marriage is a matter between two families.
There are so many aspects involved.
This is the current situation with Minghui Entertainment and Lvyang Film and Television.
So after the quadrant assessment was over, the trainees rested for two months, but the entire fifth-generation staff were really busy for two months without stopping for a moment.
Now Lu Yao has returned to Beijing, and it is the end of November, which means that the debut variety show that has been prepared for a long time is finally about to start recording.
The trainees asked for leave from school through the company, packed their luggage, and set off on this unknown journey together.
Warm-up starts from now on.
@Dahua Entertainment:
The fifth generation trainees of Minghui Entertainment arrived in Yang City today and officially started recording their debut variety show.
[Picture][Picture]”
One picture shows the trainees walking together in the airport, and the other picture shows the recording base with a big logo on it.
The icons of Minghui Entertainment and Lvyang Film and Television are clearly visible above.
Fans rushed to control the comments immediately.
"Looking forward to Wu Yan and Qiu Yu Ge"
Zhu Xiangming, the first singer of the Five Dynasties
"Come on, Yin Hongxue, the fifth generation's number one rapper!"
"The smoky voice rapper Cang Zizhen blows up the stage and wants to become a god"
"Lu Yao, the most handsome lead singer of the fifth generation, is here!"
"Almighty ACE Bai You, come on!"
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Various control comments, colorful emojis, and carefully edited control comment pictures, when the star-chasing girls saw the press release and clicked into the comment area, they were immediately bored and left.
Who wants to see a comment section like this?
But when they read the main content and saw the trainees being @ed one by one by these marketing accounts, they immediately remembered something.
Isn’t this Lu Yao who was @ed the same Lu Yao who was on the hot search list every day some time ago?
Isn’t it Lu Yao whose song suddenly became popular these days?
It turns out that Lu Yao is actually this Lu Yao?
The names I had seen from time to time in the past two months suddenly all came into view at this moment, merging into one person.
So he's the fifth-generation talent from the training system? The royal marketing guy? The Lu Yao who plays chess, sings, dances, and gets injured?
Why haven’t you debuted yet?
The world line converges at this moment, and countless scattered fragments condense into the name being @.
@The Fifth Quadrant - Lu Yao
The years of fame of the training system, coupled with Lu Yao's high exposure in recent times, have combined to make the fifth generation's debut variety show gain a lot of attention before it even started recording.
On Weibo and in forums, you can see people discussing this everywhere.
Most people don't have the time to follow the training system and raise children day by day and year by year, but when they debut, it is very interesting to take a look at the level of the trainees who have been trained for many years, eat a bite of the debut gossip, and spend a few months to understand their every bit over the years.
Posts in the entertainment group were opened one after another, from the inventory of the fifth generation of trainees, to the stage and ranking of each round of quadrant assessment, to the trainees' departure pictures from Jing City and arrival pictures in Luyang City. The quiet November came to an end, and the star-chasing girls welcomed the end of the year with great enthusiasm.
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It was evening when the trainees arrived at the recording base.
They got up early this morning, packed their luggage and went straight to the company, then took a car to the airport together, got off the plane and took a bus to the base located on the outskirts of Yang City.
They spent the entire day on the journey.
Even when sitting, I still feel physically and mentally exhausted.
Now that they have arrived at the spacious and open base, everyone can't help but feel excited.
Although they have been trainees for many years and have a lot of recording experience, they usually record Minghui Entertainment's own materials. This is the first time for everyone to come to the studio to shoot a variety show.
There was a staff member leading the way in front. Zhu Xiangming looked left and right, and was so curious that he immediately went over to talk to him.
"Brother, is there no one else here?"
The base was very large, a fairly large piece of enclosed flat land, with studios neatly built one after another inside. At this moment, the doors of each studio were closed, and apart from their group of people, there were no other figures.
The staff member was a very young man, and he looked a little startled when he was suddenly spoken to.
Of course he has no problem with normal work communication, and he calls him "Teacher" very affectionately. But now a teenager comes up and calls him "brother". How should I put it, it feels a bit intimate.
But he couldn't help but smile. "Yes, we're the only ones filming here right now, so it's relatively empty. You'd better not go outside at night. It might be a bit scary."
Zhu Xiangming asked this question because he felt that the base at dusk was filled with nothing but studios and empty roads, which looked a bit scary. Now that the staff said this, he couldn't help but imagine the scene in front of him as late at night.
There was no human figure, only the high-hanging street lamps, casting a pale halo on the ground. He walked, leaving footprints on the empty road, and then an echo came from somewhere.
!
Even more terrifying!
Zhu Xiangming immediately ran behind Cang Zizhen and grabbed Cang Zizhen's clothes, as if this could dispel the fear in his heart.
A smile appeared on Cang Zizhen's face. He tightened the corners of his mouth to make his smile less exaggerated, and took over the activity of chatting with the staff.
"Brother, can we still order takeout?" What young people can't stand the most is hunger.
The young man understood the trainees very well. He himself couldn't live without food delivery. He nodded immediately and said, "Of course, just write "outside" on your location and someone will deliver it."
Upon hearing this, everyone who had been listening attentively breathed a sigh of relief.
The staff introduced and led the way. It took the group more than 20 minutes to reach their destination in the huge recording base.
There are logos of Minghui Entertainment and Lvyang Film and Television, as well as a studio with a three-dimensional quadrant symbol.
"This is the studio where we record our show. The dormitory is over there." The young man stretched out his hand and pointed to the other side, and a slightly smaller building appeared in front of everyone.
So the group moved to the dormitory.
Including the staff from Minghui Entertainment who came with them, there were more than 30 people in total. But when they got to the dormitory, there were only rooms for two people.
Although there are many rooms, they cannot accommodate more people.
Du Tang and his team have dozens of people in total. Adding Ding Ling and others, there are almost a hundred staff members alone.
This small building really doesn't have that many rooms for everyone to rest.
Fortunately, the rooms were all cleaned up. Everyone chose a room according to the room allocation in the villa, had dinner in the cafeteria, and spent their first night at the base.
This night was both lively and quiet.
Everyone gathered in groups of three or four, running up and down the building, curious about what would be recorded the next day, and discussing today's dinner in the cafeteria, but somewhere in their hearts, there was a strange silence.
Feeling anxious about the coming tomorrow.
The next morning, before dawn, the trainees were called up to put on makeup.
In addition to Minghui Entertainment’s own three makeup artists, the program team also prepared three makeup artists.
There are six makeup artists, so now everyone can be divided into three groups to do the makeup.
Before going to bed last night, Li Qiang had already used lots to let the trainees draw the order for putting on makeup for today. When it was Lu Yao's turn, seeing that Lu Yao had not yet extended his hand, Li Qiang consciously and automatically put Lu Yao in the first group.
How should I put it? I don’t know since when, but everyone seems to have assumed that Lu Yao was the first group to put on makeup.
Thus, accompanied by the dim morning light, Lu Yao, Bai You, Zhu Xiangming, Cong An, Lu Jianian, and Luo Wenbo appeared in the dressing room.
Although the specific program schedule is still unknown, everyone knows what will be recorded today.
When informing the trainees of the recording time of their debut variety show, Ding Ling also gave them a message at the same time.
They need to prepare an initial stage for their debut variety show.
And today is the recording of the first stage.
So throughout November, in addition to daily practice classes, everyone spent their free time thinking about what they would perform on their first stage. Once they had thought it through, they would immediately find the teacher to discuss the performance content and start learning.
After practicing for more than half a month, today is the time to test the results.
Chen Jing and a group of makeup artists were already waiting in the dressing room. When they saw everyone come in, they immediately started putting makeup on each of them.
Chen Jing is still doing Lu Yao's makeup.
Over the past few months, perhaps because Chen Jing was Lu Yao's first makeup artist, Lu Yao almost always asked Chen Jing to do his makeup. Gradually, when other people saw Lu Yao, they would automatically and consciously leave Lu Yao to Chen Jing.
Faced with this situation, Chen Jing felt that apart from feeling a little uncomfortable under Lu Yao's clear gaze, everything else was pretty good.
After all, putting makeup on Lu Yao is really a very worry-free job.
Is there anything about Lu Yao that needs to be changed?
Look, today Chen Jing was the first one to finish her work.
She carefully checked the makeup and made sure there was no problem. Then she led Lu Yao to the dressing room on the other side and took out the clothes that had been prepared long ago for Lu Yao to change into.
Lu Yao's look today was designed for his debut stage performance.
The overall color is lively yellow and white. In order to highlight this liveliness, Chen Jing specially twisted Lu Yao's hair and tied it up behind his head. If you don't pay attention, it will look like a high short ponytail. As Lu Yao dances, it will jump behind him, showing youthful vitality.
The makeup on his face was not heavy, only lightly outlining the contours of his eyebrows and eyes, and the focus was on the blush under his eyes and a touch of yellow graffiti on the side of his face.
What can I say about the blush on her face right now? Any idol with a fancy design should have it welded on their face, okay?
Although Chen Jing knew that apart from his face, there was nothing Lu Yao had to do with "flowers", but unfortunately, all fans could see was Lu Yao's face.
So in the past few months, it has gradually become an indisputable fact in the fan circle that Lu Yao is a character.
Later, when Chen Jing did makeup and styling for Lu Yao, her style was almost lively and cute.
No one who sees it will think that Lu Yao is a melon.
Today, Lu Yao, with rosy cheeks, yellow and white overalls, and a pink doll pinned to her waist, looks like a cute "little girl" just by looking at her appearance.
Ahem, Chen Jing brought her thoughts back to who knows where they were flying. She very restrainedly looked at Lu Yao from head to toe. After making sure that there was no problem from his hairstyle to his shoes, she immediately looked away.
As a makeup artist who has been doing makeup for Lu Yao, Chen Jing is well aware of Lu Yao's taboos.
First, apart from putting on makeup, it is best not to stare at Lu Yao all the time.
Lu Yao's makeup was completed first, and after waiting for nearly two hours, everyone else's makeup was finished.
Once again, they were led by the staff outside the studio, and the recording of their debut variety show was about to officially begin.
The young man from yesterday was still waiting for them outside the studio. Lu Yao saw his work badge today, which had the three words "Fan Mincai" written on it.
When Fan Mincai saw the trainees coming from afar, his eyes were almost dazzled.
Even though he had seen the fifth-generation trainees once yesterday, maybe because of the long journey or because it was getting dark, when he saw these people yesterday evening, he just thought they looked pretty good. But why is it that when he saw them today, each one was more stunning than the other?
Fan Mincai's gaze stopped on Lu Yao, and he forgot to blink.
No, are there such lovely people in the world?
Look at his rosy white skin, the swaying ponytail, the loose hair floating on the side of his face, the picturesque eyebrows, and the watery eyes. It only took a second for Fan Min to become a father painlessly.
He didn't know how long he had been looking at Lu Yao until Lu Yao raised her eyes and looked at him. Then he suddenly came to his senses and looked away.
No, Lu Yao is actually so handsome?
Fan Mincai was simply stunned.
As a member of the team, he started to understand the five generations on the first day the team received the project.
Not to mention that he has watched all the materials of the fifth generation, he has also watched most of them. Now he knows every person in the fifth generation like the back of his hand.
From his name, birthday, and zodiac sign to his hobbies, quirks, and weaknesses, he is in no way inferior to the fans of the five-generation training series who have been following it for many years.
Fan Mincai is very confident about this professional quality.
Of course, he knew Lu Yao very well.
It can even be said that I have heard of your name for a long time.
After all, in the past few months, this name can be said to be a frequent hot search, so much so that those who are doing statistics on public opinion are exhausted.
But, how could Lu Yao be so handsome?
How come he didn’t remember it last night when it was so beautiful?
Didn’t he bring all the trainees in yesterday? How come he doesn’t remember meeting Lu Yao yesterday?
Fan Mincai thought about it for a long time, and suddenly became entangled, and wanted to recall what happened last night.
It wasn't until the trainees walked up to him and stopped that he finally remembered.
I did meet Lu Yao yesterday.
Behind everyone, there was indeed a young man with long hair, following from a distance without getting close.
After realizing that he was not blind and could not see such a big person in front of him, Fan Min immediately felt relieved. Facing the trainees and the staff behind them, he began to talk about the recording process.
Very simple.
"Go in and find a place to sit."
This is too easy.
Bai You couldn't help but look back at Ding Ling, trying to hear more.
But Fan Mincai had nothing else to say. He looked at Ding Ling and signaled her to line up, go in one by one, and start recording as soon as possible.
Ding Ling knew the program process and every step of the recording process. When she saw Fan Mincai's eyes, she took out the program script.
"Enter in order of ranking according to the fourth assessment, with Yin Hongxue being the last one to enter."
Unlike the age convention of the fifth generation, she chose the style of play that would visibly attract the most criticism.
When Ding Ling spoke, everyone turned to look at her. Now that she finished speaking, everyone looked back at the closed studio door in front of them.
Qiu Yuge let out a light breath and walked out.
Whatever is behind the door, it's time to take that step.
He pushed open the door.
The lights behind the door were bright, and a line of large characters on the wall stood out:
Young man, the path of transformation - the Fifth Age.
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Lu Yao was the fourth to enter.
He stepped into the door with his usual smile on his face when in front of the camera.
As soon as you enter the door, the first thing you see is a long corridor with reflective mirrors on both sides. Lu Yao can see a camera with a flashing red light behind it.
He walked straight to the end and turned left. The narrow view suddenly became wide, revealing a very spacious room. On each wall, the words "Fifth Epoch" were written in larger cursive script in the middle. To his left were sixteen chairs, and to his right was a drawn curtain.
Lu Yao walked towards the chair.
Cang Zizhen patted the seat next to him and said hello: "Come, sit here."
The seating arrangement of these sixteen chairs was obviously carefully planned.
Divided into four parts.
There are three parts with five chairs in each. There are two rows of ten chairs arranged diagonally on the ground. There is a platform above with five chairs placed horizontally on the platform. Above this platform, there is another platform with a chair placed there.
If observed from above, this layout would look a bit like the Chinese character six.
At this time, Qiu Yuge, Zhu Xiangming and Cang Zizheng, who had entered first, were sitting on the five chairs on the middle platform, with two seats still empty.
It is very obvious that even without any explanation of the rules, this layout clearly allows the trainees to choose their own positions.
Where do you want to sit? Where can you sit?
Is it the only one who is obviously at the top, or the five in the middle, or the ten who are below the platform and lagging behind?
Facing Cang Zizheng's invitation on the middle platform, Lu Yao smiled, stepped onto the platform, walked past him, and sat on the only chair under the gaze of the three people.
"Wow." Zhu Xiangming exclaimed softly.
It always takes some courage to say that you are the best in front of everyone.
Seeing this, Cang Zizhen looked back regretfully. The other person had already sat in the first seat, so how could he come down and sit with the three of them?
Qiu Yuge also smiled and clapped quietly, applauding Lu Yao's decisive choice.
But they applauded and exclaimed, but no one showed the slightest surprise on their face.
It seemed as if Lu Yao was supposed to sit in that position.
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