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Chapter 127 Weird Wind (please subscribe)

"A ghost marriage?"

In the dance studio, Yang Liying, wearing ballet clothes, had just finished filming the MV for "My Place".

At this time, when I heard that the theme of another dance to be filmed turned out to be ghost marriage, my joyful heart immediately calmed down. After thinking about it again and again, I still declined Zhou Dingran’s invitation: “I’m sorry, Brother Ran, there is a taboo about this in our family. ,so……"

"Understood." Zhou Dingran said with a smile.

But Wang Ke was anxious: "Liying, do you know how popular Lao Zhou's Douyin is..."

"It's really taboo in my family."

Yang Liying's fair face was a little embarrassed, and she hurriedly explained: "Otherwise, even if I appear for free, I would be willing to..."

She looked at Zhou Dingran again and said apologetically: "Brother Ran, I'm so sorry."

"You're welcome, it's not a big deal."

Zhou Dingran waved his hand very generously. Although he did like Yang Liying at the moment, she was not indispensable. Girls who knew a little bit about street dancing would basically have a chance to give it a try.

Perhaps out of guilt, Yang Liying declined Zhou Ding and immediately recommended a hip-hop girl to Zhou Dingran.

"Her name is Zhou Yi. She is a teacher in my senior sister's hip-hop training class. She used to be part of various major dance groups all year round and her hip-hop skills are very good."

Zhou Dingran became interested: "Which school did you graduate from?"

"Well, she didn't come from a major and graduated from high school. She worked in Rongcheng for a few years for her hobby, and later became a Beidiao. Because she was well-known in the industry, she was recruited as a teacher in my senior sister's hip-hop training class."

After hearing these words, Zhou Dingran also nodded.

At present, he really didn't have any suitable candidates. After hearing Yang Liying's introduction, he asked for Zhou Yi's contact information and called him immediately.

When the girl on the phone heard Zhou Dingran introduce herself, she thought she was a liar and almost hung up the phone. Fortunately, Yang Liying explained in time, and the two parties finalized the appointment time.

……

Not long after, Zhou Yi rode a bicycle and rushed into the Peking Academy of Drama. After asking about the route, she pedaled her bicycle and headed straight to the Kuku milk tea shop next to the college cafeteria.

At that time, Zhou Dingran was wearing a mask and baseball cap, sitting in the milk tea shop waiting.

The filming of the "My Territory" MV has been completed. It is already afternoon, and the legend of Zhou Dingran has begun to spread throughout the campus of Peking Academy of Drama.

Just because when Zhou Dingran was filming the MV for "My Land", his figure appeared in almost every corner of the campus. If the school had not sent security to follow him, Zhou Dingran's current popularity among young college students would definitely have caused riots.

Especially when filming the basketball scene in the playground, the students passing by were shouting Zhou Dingran's name excitedly.

At the same time, the shouts of "moonwalk" became more and more enthusiastic.

Obviously all the students wanted to see Zhou Dingran perform the rumored moonwalk on the playground of the School of Drama.

However, due to the tight shooting schedule, Zhou Dingran ultimately failed to realize the students' wishes.

Under the cover of Wang Ke and others, the trip was quickly ended and went to meet the hip-hop girl Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi is not particularly stunningly beautiful, but she is relatively delicate and fair-skinned. Although she has single eyelids, her eyes are clear and translucent, and she seems to be ignorant of the world.

According to Zhou Dingran's understanding, Zhou Yi left campus as early as high school and worked alone in a strange city. He formed and participated in four or five dance troupes, but unfortunately none of them were very attractive. Now Zhou Yi, who is 24 or [-] years old, He is still a penniless drifter from Beijing.

Although she works as a teacher in a hip-hop training class, her salary is not high and she can barely make ends meet. If she wants a high salary, she must introduce students to the training class. Like many training classes, the teachers can only divide the students by recruiting them. Commission bonus.

However, Zhou Yi's social circle is not broad, and she is new here, so after three months of internship, Zhou Yi's work still has not improved much.

Therefore, when she heard that Yang Liying, a classmate who studied dance at the same art high school, introduced her to a big deal, she almost did not hesitate, put down what she was doing and quickly rode her bicycle to her destination.

Are you kidding, is that Zhou Dingran?
After arriving at the place, Zhou Yi saw Zhou Dingran sitting in the milk tea shop at first sight. Even though he was wearing a mask and a baseball cap, Zhou Yi still recognized him. He couldn't help but get excited and walked forward quickly. , took a deep breath, and then asked politely: "Is it Mr. Zhou?"

Zhou Dingran turned around and asked, "Miss Zhou?"

"Yes, I'm Zhou Yi. Hello, nice to meet you!"

Staring at those starry eyes, Zhou Yi's heart almost jumped out of her chest. She quickly bent down, stretched out her hands, and respectfully greeted Zhou Dingran.

Zhou Dingran shook hands with the other party in surprise, and then said with a smile: "Don't be too nervous. I didn't make it clear on the phone. I came to you to ask you to help me shoot a short TikTok video."

"Ah?" Zhou Yi was stunned, but immediately responded: "Okay, I must be lucky to live up to my fate."

She didn't dare to ask out loud if there was any labor fee for shooting the short video, so she had no choice but to agree.

Then she saw Zhou Dingran take out his mobile phone and a pair of Bluetooth headphones and handed them to her.

Zhou Yi felt a little strange, but still took the headphones and put them on.

The next moment, I heard the erhu, suona and other musical instruments sounding in my ears like stars exploding in the sky.

When the rhythmic music appeared in her ears, Zhou Yi subconsciously began to imagine the dance of this song.

And when Zhou Dingran's singing sounded in her cochlea, Zhou Yi was gradually attracted, and then she was helplessly immersed in it.

"What kind of song is this..." Zhou Yi looked up at Zhou Dingran in shock.

Zhou Dingran smiled and said: "囍"!

The word "囍" appeared clearly in Zhou Yi's mind.

Because almost all the lyrics of the song echo the title of the song.

And, obviously, this song describes a... ghost marriage!
Looking at Zhou Yi's expression, Zhou Dingran immediately knew what the other person was thinking, so he said bluntly: "I need a dance partner to interpret this song with dance. I don't know if Yang Liying has mentioned this to you. The theme of the song is ghost marriage, and you can also hear the general meaning of the lyrics. If you don’t mind, we can try to complete this work together today.”

"Who is choreographing the dance?" Zhou Yi asked in confusion.

"I."

Zhou Dingran said decisively.

Zhou Yi looked at Zhou Dingran's confident eyes and was a little stunned for a moment.

Can Zhou Dingran choreograph?

Isn't it?Did I hear that correctly?Are you kidding me?
Zhou Yi has also seen Zhou Dingran’s moonwalk video, but she believes that there must be expert guidance behind this short video.

Otherwise, with Zhou Dingran's performance in "National Idol", how could he perform such a cool and great dance?

But now hearing Zhou Dingran speak so confidently, Zhou Yi felt goosebumps instantly.

Could it be that the works and dances in Zhou Dingran’s Douyin videos were all completed by Zhou Dingran alone?

"How's it going? Are you interested in working together?" Zhou Dingran asked again.

Zhou Yi came back to her senses and nodded quickly without even thinking: "Okay!"

She didn't ask about the labor fee. In her opinion, Zhou Dingran's Douyin work itself has huge exposure.

If Zhou Dingran's short video can be seen by some parties, it will definitely not be comparable to hundreds or thousands of yuan in labor fees.

Furthermore, she has no taboos about ghost marriage. Her whole family is atheist.

Ghost marriage and so on are all art.Seeing Zhou Yi's willingness to agree, Zhou Dingran nodded with satisfaction and handed the contract he had prepared to Zhou Yi: "Let's take a look. If there's no problem, we'll sign it."

The contract was made in two copies. Although one copy only had two or three pages, Zhou Yi still read it carefully and clearly. Soon she nodded with satisfaction and wrote down her name, ID number and After writing the bank card number, hand it to Zhou Dingran.

In the contract, everything Zhou Yi wanted was met.

As long as she helps Zhou Dingran rehearse this dance, she will receive an appearance fee of 1 yuan.

In addition, Zhou Yi also has the right to use the song "囍".

She can use this song and dance to participate in some commercial performances, and for each performance, Zhou Dingran only takes [-]% of the copyright fee.

"With such good conditions, why not choose Liying?" Zhou Yi asked the question in her heart.

Zhou Dingran said calmly: "Their family believes in ghosts and gods, but you don't. That's the difference."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

But to be honest, although she didn't say it verbally, she was actually a little scared about the subject of ghost marriage.

But when she thought that her dance partner was Zhou Dingran, she threw everything behind her.

Starting from four or five o'clock in the afternoon to two or three o'clock in the night, Zhou Dingran and Zhou Yi were rehearsing the dance of the song "囍". Zhou Dingran taught Zhou Yi every move step by step, making Zhou Yi blush and feel at the same time. I was deeply impressed by Zhou Dingran's dancing skills.

"Amazing!"

"Simply better than the famous teachers in the training class!"

She marveled again and again.

Not only the dance, but also the expression control, Zhou Dingran personally demonstrated it, allowing Zhou Yi to learn from it.

During the learning process, Zhou Yi understood some choreographic things from time to time, which made her very happy.

Wang Ke came to provide food and drinks for the two of them during the practice, and Wang Ke will also be responsible for photography and post-editing.

Finally around four o'clock in the morning, the first Douyin short video accompanying the song "囍" was officially recorded with the cooperation of the three people.

"What a great piece of work."

Wang Ke watched the video, which lasted for about 10 minutes, and was filled with emotion. He had witnessed the whole process of the birth of this work with his own eyes, and he clearly knew the circumstances under which every dance step and every expression was completed.

And these two 10-minute videos, after a little editing, will become a real short video work.

It's more of a MV than a short video work.

Wang Ke inherited his father's skills as a top photographer. He has first-class talents in camera operation and shooting, and he is proficient in special effects editing. It can be said that in this shooting, Wang Ke completely made this short video into a masterpiece.

“I can’t imagine how popular this TikTok will be after it’s released!”

Wang Ke looked at it and suddenly uttered an ouch and looked at Zhou Dingran: "Oh no, there is no advertising placement!"

“This is the practice room version.”

Zhou Dingran wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel and said: "The official version will naturally include advertisements. I have already explained this to Zhou Yi. We will reshoot it in two days."

"What about this practice room version?" Wang Ke asked.

"Edit it and send it." Zhou Dingran said casually.

Wang Ke hesitated and asked, "Will that affect the traffic of the official version?"

"will not."

Zhou Dingran smiled and said: "The official version will be more powerful than the practice room version."

Wang Ke believed it and immediately took out his notebook, sat down in the rehearsal hall and started editing the video.

Zhou Dingran originally wanted to submit the song "囍" to the National Style Cup competition.

But when I thought about it carefully, I felt that it was inappropriate. Let’s not talk about whether this song “囍” fits the category of Chinese style. Just because the genre is similar to “Three Worships of the Red Dust”, Zhou Dingran felt that it was not acceptable.

There will definitely be a crash by then.

Even if it is released a few days in advance, there is still a suspicion of a crash.

But Zhou Dingran didn't care.

Although "Three Worships of the Red Dust" is technically my own work, the key point is that the singer is not myself at all, but a little-known two-star singer, Han Xiyue.

Zhou Dingran has never heard of this name, so naturally he will not show mercy.

So I am planning to release the song "囍" in advance before the start of the Guofeng Cup to blow the weird wind in the Chinese music scene.

If you want to do it, be the first to eat crabs.

……

The next day, Zhou Dingran woke up and asked for leave again from the crew of "Fireworks in the World".

Counting this day, Zhou Dingran took three days off in total.

This made the director Lu Tao so angry that he immediately made a fatal chain link and roared loudly: "Zhou Dingran, didn't you say that you will go and come back the same day? What's the matter with you? It's the third day and you're still coming back Not coming back? Do you still have this crew in your eyes? Do you still have me as the director?"

Zhou Dingran held the handset of his mobile phone far away, and after Lu Tao finished his rant, he replied: "Director Lu, there is a reason for this, but don't worry, I won't delay the progress of the crew. You let the male and female protagonists shoot first, and it's just me. That little scene can be filmed in just three or two days, so you don’t have to worry at all.”

Director Lu scolded: "Do you think everyone is as perverted as you and can be at full strength every day? Because of your absence, Huang Junsheng has yelled several times, saying that you have no artistic ethics and wants to expose your behavior on the set. .”

"I'm not urging you. I know your strength, but others don't have your strength. If you come back one day late, the crew will have to stay in Qiantang for another day. It's all money..."

When Zhou Dingran heard this, he was really speechless.

This Huang Junsheng really takes himself seriously and even accuses me of not having artistic ethics...

"I will return tomorrow." Zhou Dingran said firmly.

"I believe in you asshole."

Lu Tao said: "Anyway, the sooner you come back, the better. I'll take care of it here first! Before the movie is released, you starring actors started fighting!"

"How am I the leading actor? I don't even have a few lines." Zhou Dingran said with a smile.

Lu Tao laughed angrily: "I asked the screenwriter to add lines to you overnight, but you yourself refused. What do you want now?"

"It's okay, just kidding, Director Lu, I will be back tomorrow, don't worry." Zhou Dingran gave him a careless look.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Dingran looked at Zhou Yi who looked curious and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Yi swallowed and said, "Director Lu...is he Lu Tao? The director Lu who filmed "Meteor" and "Garden of Eden"? Brother Ran, it turns out that you and Director Lu have such a good relationship!"

Her heart was beating very fast at the moment, and she already had the urge to hug her thighs.

Who said Zhou Dingran was suppressed and blocked by the industry?
Lu Tao, the famous romantic drama director, is so familiar with Zhou Dingran, so why worry about not being able to film?

(End of this chapter)