Chapter 55: Practice before shooting
Every year on the founding anniversary of the Shanghai Senior Experimental High School, a large-scale cultural performance is held. Students who are good at singing and dancing can show their talents at this time. On this day, the school is open to the students' parents, and parents are also happy to come to the school to enjoy the performances of their children or their children's classmates.
Last year, the program prepared by Class 1, Grade 2, for the school's founding day performance was a piano solo by Duan Nanfeng. He stole the show at that cultural performance and was awarded the title of "School Prince".
No students signed up for new programs this year, because no one had the confidence to beat the sensation caused by Duan Nanfeng last year. The head teacher originally planned to submit Duan Nanfeng's piano performance, but suddenly remembered that Ji Ning's admission profile said she was good at piano.
So Duan Nanfeng's piano solo turned into a duet between a man and a woman, and the song they played was called "The Sound of the Wind".
There is a grand piano in the school's music classroom. Liu Lan arrived at the music classroom early at 6:30 in the evening. Perhaps because she arrived too early, there were only two crew members chatting in the classroom.
Liu Lan greeted the two of them and came to the piano. She opened the piano cover, ran her fingers over the familiar black and white keys, and tried a few notes first.
She placed the music score on the music stand, sat down at the piano, and began to play "The Sound of the Wind".
As the melodious tune sounded, the two staff members stopped talking and began to listen carefully to Liu Lan's piano playing.
Compared with the classical piano pieces composed by famous musicians, the melody of "The Sound of the Wind" does not have too many techniques, nor does it have those complex rhythms and timbres. It is more like a popular song that conforms to the aesthetics of modern people. The melody is smart and fresh but contains a hint of sadness, as if implying that the short life of the character Ji Ning is as fleeting as the wind.
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After Liu Lan finished playing the piece completely for the first time, someone applauded behind her.
She turned around and saw Tang Tu had arrived without her noticing. Not only him, but also Ye Zian and several staff members. Liu Man stood up quickly.
Next to Ye Zian stood a young man wearing glasses, slightly short in stature, with a small beard. The man looked at Liu Lan with some surprise, and looked her up and down, "Hey, hey, hey, aren't you the goddess of Hanfu?"
Ye Zian was puzzled, "What Hanfu goddess?"
"Director Ye, you really don't care about the Internet. These past few days, there's a video that's been very popular on Weibo. This girl is the protagonist of the video, and people on the Internet call her the Hanfu Goddess," the young man was deeply impressed by Liu Lan.
Ye Zian also has a Weibo account, which was registered for him by his assistant. He never manages it and rarely posts anything in several months. If he didn't have more than one million fans following him, his Weibo would be like a dead zombie account.
"Oh," Ye Zian nodded to show that he understood, and asked the young man, "What do you think of her playing?"
"That's great. I told you I don't have high demands."
Tang Tu introduced this man to Liu Lan at the right time, "He is the composer of The Sound of the Wind, ** Yun."
Liu Lan also guessed that ** Yun was not good-looking and had a bad figure, but he had an artistic aura and looked like a composer.
"Hello, Teacher Xue," Liu Lan stepped forward and greeted.
"No, no, no, I don't deserve your call of teacher. I'm just a music seller," ** Yun said modestly. He looked at Liu Lan carefully and was amazed in his heart that this girl was even more beautiful in person than in the video.
Later, Liu Lan learned from the Internet and other people that ** Yun is a now popular gold medal composer and a top student who graduated from the Berklee College of Music in the United States. As the saying goes, you can't judge a book by its cover.
"Since you think there's no problem, let her and Tang Tu work together a little more. If they can catch up, we can start the official shooting tomorrow morning," said Ye Zian.
**Yun made an OK gesture,
"By the way, have you found the words I asked you to find?" he asked Ye Zian.
Ye Zian said with a headache, "I've been busy with the filming of the movie recently and don't have time to take care of this. Let's talk about it after the filming is over."
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