Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1202 The award ceremony that cannot be missed

  Whether it was before or after the screening, there was no publicity plan for the road show of the film, so after the film premiere, Xiao Yao's publicity work for the film was basically over.

During the film’s release period, theaters and distributors naturally have various ways and means to promote the box office. However, as the producer and producer, except for the stars of the main creative team, they posted some relevant information on their social media accounts. There is no other work arrangement outside of the occasional shouting of the news.

  Since this is the first film Sun Tingting starred in, and it is also the first film collaboration between Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao also pays special attention to the box office and word-of-mouth situation after the movie "Donkey Deshui" was released.

  In the Internet age, it is easy to understand the box office and reputation of a movie after it is released, even if it is not a film-related producer or other unit.

  In terms of box office, there will be various ticket platforms, public accounts related to the movie or movie box office, and movie Weibo bloggers to announce the box office status of the movies that are currently in theaters daily. In terms of word-of-mouth scoring, there are also several movie scoring websites. Movie ratings will be opened after the movie is released, and various long and short comments from ordinary viewers will appear soon.

  So Xiao Yao cares about the box office and word-of-mouth situation of this movie, as long as he goes online more frequently to learn about this information.

  The box office announcement is the box office of the previous day, and you only need to watch it once a day. As for the scoring website, it shows the average score of all the audience participating in the scoring. The daily changes are relatively small. No matter how much you care about it, you don’t need to stare at it all the time. It is a simple matter to learn about the movie on the Internet and it will not affect Xiao Yao's other things.

  After the movie "Donkey Gets Water" was released, Xiao Yao's next important thing was the project of the TV series he collaborated with Yin Xi. This project was initiated before the Lunar New Year, and the crew is currently in preparation.

  This TV drama project is led by Young People's Film and Television Company and invested by Yin Xi Studio. Young People's Film and Television Company is the producer and the main producer. This project was proposed by Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao is naturally the producer and producer of this TV series. However, in this project, Xiao Yao did not act as the director, so many of the preparatory work was handed over to others by Xiao Yao.

  For example, in the formation of the crew behind the scenes, Xiao Yao did not intervene at all. Even though TV series is the art of screenwriting, when filming, the entire crew is still the largest director, and it depends on the director. So at this point, Xiao Yao left it to the executive producer and director selected by the film and television company to discuss and decide.

  But if you don’t be a director, Xiao Yao doesn’t have to do nothing during the preparation period. The whole script idea of ​​this TV series was provided by Xiao Yao. The script outline and the general framework of the script were also written by Xiao Yao. It was only in the later stage that the group of newcomers from the Shen Opera literature department who wrote the TV series of the new Shen Opera team were found. Two new screenwriters were recruited from the screenwriting team to help Xiao Yao perfect the various details in the script. Even with the signatures of the two new writers, Xiao Yao is also the well-deserved number one screenwriter of this TV series.

  As a screenwriter, he has a certain say in the choice of actors, not to mention that Xiao Yao is also the producer and producer of this TV series. Xiao Yao has been a director, an actor, and an audition. Therefore, the construction of the crew behind the scenes does not matter, but in the area of ​​the cast audition, the director of the play strongly requested Xiao Yao to participate.

The director of this TV series is one of the several directors of the previous TV series with the brand-new team of Shen Opera, and he is still a new director. If you are faced with an audition by an actor with a big card, you may not be able to suppress it. . The script was written by Xiao Yao. He knows every role in the play very well. He is also a director and actor. He is also very familiar with performances. He is indeed the most suitable candidate for an audition interviewer.

Xiao Yao started this project for Yin Xi. Naturally, he hopes that this TV series can be filmed as well as possible, and no matter what the scene, no one wants to run into that kind of particularly uncomfortable actors, so Xiao Yao agreed to the director of the show, Participate in casting auditions for actors.

  Due to the movie "Donkey Gets Water", the casting audition time for this TV series was scheduled after the movie was released. However, Xiao Yao was not involved in the casting and audition work of TV dramas immediately after the movie was released. Before that, Xiao Yao still had an event to participate in. He will also participate in this year's "Golden Dragon Award" awards ceremony.

  "Golden Dragon Award" is the most authoritative and important film award in China in the world. The time of the annual "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is not necessarily the same, but they are all scheduled to be held in February or March at the beginning of the Chinese New Year. This year's "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is scheduled to be held in early March, less than a week after the movie "Donkey Gets Water" was released.

   Xiao Yao has never been a carpet star. Generally, Xiao Yao would not go to any award ceremony without being nominated. Even if he was nominated, Xiao Yao would not necessarily go. However, if it is a more important award, Xiao Yao will usually go as far as he can when he is nominated.

  "Golden Dragon Award" is a relatively important award in Xiao Yao's mind. Last year's "Golden Dragon Award", Xiao Yao and Tongluo's animated film "Wali" was nominated for the best animated feature film, and finally won this award. Xiao Yao originally wanted to go, but because he was going to accept the appointment of the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme and participate in the World Youth Forum, Xiao Yao was absent in the end.

  This year’s "Golden Dragon Award", Xiao Yao was nominated again. If time permits, Xiao Yao will not be absent this time.

  This time, Xiao Yao was nominated for the "Golden Dragon Award" from the parkour movie "Parkour Boy" filmed with Zhao Rui and others.

  The "Golden Dragon Award" is held once a year to appraise and commend the films that have been publicly released in China in the past year. Although the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is held at the beginning of the lunar new year, February and March of the Gregorian calendar, the award scope of the "Golden Dragon Award" is not calculated according to the lunar year or the time between the two "Golden Dragon Awards". It is from January 1st to December 31st of the Gregorian calendar of the previous year.

The parkour movie made by Xiao Yao and others was released during the Spring Festival last year. Although the movie's release time was before the last "Golden Dragon" awards ceremony, it did not participate in the last Golden Dragon Awards, but within the scope of this year's awards. This award does not require active application for selection like a film festival. As long as it has been screened in China's cinemas, it will automatically be considered according to the time of the screening.

  According to the practice, before the award ceremony of each award, the shortlist or nomination list of each award will be announced some time in advance, and the "Golden Dragon Award" is naturally no exception. In February, the "Golden Dragon Award" announced the list of nominations for each award on its official website. After this list came out, it also caused some minor controversies on the Internet.

  After the nomination list for each award is announced, there will be some discussions, and some controversies are inevitable. However, this time the "Golden Dragon Award" nomination list is a bit surprising for netizens to discuss the most. Because everyone is not talking about whether the nominated film has done well enough in the nominated award, but whether the whole film is eligible for the "Golden Dragon Award".

  The movie everyone was talking about was the "Parkour Boy" filmed by Xiao Yao and others.

  The "Golden Dragon Award" is a Chinese film award, and the object of the award is Chinese film. The "Parkour Boy" filmed by Xiao Yao and others is not a Chinese movie, or at least not a pure Chinese movie.

  Xiao Yao and their parkour movie part of the funds came from crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is carried out on foreign websites, so the crowdfunding funds basically come from abroad. The film was made in the United States, and many of the staff in front of and behind the scenes are foreigners. Regardless of the source of funding or the composition of the production team, this movie is not a pure Chinese movie, but should be regarded as a joint venture or co-production.

  Are joint venture films and co-produced films eligible to participate in the "Golden Dragon Award" selection? Of course there is!

The   "Golden Dragon" award is indeed the Chinese film, but the joint venture film co-production is also within the scope of the award. The "Golden Dragon" award does not necessarily have to be the production team of All China Capital Investment and All China's staff, as long as there is China's capital investment, China's film and television company participates in the production, or the production team of China's staff occupy a certain percentage. Will be able to obtain the qualifications to participate.

  The production cost of "Parkour Boys" was 8 million U.S. dollars. Xiao Yao and others invested 6 million personally, and the crowdfunding accounted for only a quarter. Xiao Yao and others are from Huaxia, and the bulk of this fund naturally comes from Huaxia.

  As for the production team, the staff behind the scenes are indeed mainly foreigners, but that is because the filming location is in a foreign country. It’s not uncommon for Huaxia’s movies to go abroad for filming in recent years. Basically, people will find local staff abroad.

  More importantly, Xiao Yao of the two directors needless to say that although Mu Ying has been developing in the United States for a long time, he is still a Chinese national and a Chinese native. The screenwriter is Xiao Yao and several parkour veterans, all of whom are Chinese. In terms of actors, the protagonist and supporting roles are all Chinese. The protagonist's seven-member team has three Chinese summers, one Chinese American, and only three pure foreigners. Even if it counts as a fraction, the ratio is not low.

  Calculated in this way, the film is definitely dominated by Huaxia Capital and Huaxia’s staff, and it fully meets the criteria for the "Golden Dragon" award.

  As some netizens carried out the voluntary science popularization of the "Golden Dragon Award" related rules on the Internet, these disputes were quickly settled. Because netizens are mainly questioning the composition of the film, and there is basically no objection to the award nomination for this film.

  The rating of this movie on the China Film Rating website is also good, but among all the film and television works that Xiao Yao starred in, the rating of this movie is not very high. But the nominated awards for this film are not heavyweight awards such as actress, actress, male and female, best director, best film, but more technical awards.

  This film received three nominations, namely "Best Action Design", "Best Editing" and "Best Movie Soundtrack".

  This is a parkour movie, in which the parkour action is the biggest feature of the movie. Many people really understand and love this emerging extreme sport from this movie. With the bonus of this kind of movement, everyone feels that it is a matter of course that this movie won the nomination for "Best Action Design".

  This is a very burning action movie. Although there are not too many fighting scenes, those running scenes that incorporate parkour action can definitely make people look excited. Excellent editing and background music are absolutely indispensable for making audiences feel this way when watching movies. Under the condition that there is no problem with the qualifications for the awards, it is surprising that this film has not been nominated for "Best Music", "Best Sound Effect" and so on. If there is no nomination for "Best Editing", it will be It's surprising.

  This movie did not get the nomination for "Best Music". Many people analyzed that it was because the jury nominated the "Best Film Soundtrack" for this movie.

  The original soundtrack of this film, Xiao Yao participated in the production, and the soundtrack of the film also has Xiao Yao’s name, only after the name of an American soundtrack. The American soundtrack only has a certain reputation in the United States, and is not particularly well-known in China or even in the world. Therefore, when the jury made the nomination for this award, the factor of Xiao Yao was more considered.

  Although Xiao Yao is now well-known in the music world, and his influence is not lost on the long-established king and queen-level figure, he still has a certain distance from the title of music master and soundtrack master. Xiao Yao himself is a singer-songwriter, and he is also in the pop music circle. To nominate him for "Best Soundtrack" and "Best Music" to others is also a kind of balance to some extent.

  There are two original songs in this movie, both of which are works by Xiao Yao, and both have achieved very good results on various music charts abroad. However, if you make a serious comparison, whether in terms of performance or word-of-mouth evaluation, the song "It\'sMyLife" is better, so the song "It\'sMyLife" is also nominated.

   However, despite the good results, high evaluation and great influence of this song, the industry is generally not optimistic about this song's ability to win awards. There is no other reason, this is a Chinese award, and this song is an English song, the singer is also Xiao Yao and a foreign young band. Basically, getting the nomination is already the limit, and winning is basically impossible.

  Compared with the “best original soundtrack”, the prospect of winning the award is slim. The two nominations for “best editing” and “best action design” are more likely to win.

  Nothing about Xiao Yao in editing. Although Xiao Yao was involved in the later stage, it was mainly done by another director, Mu Ying, and the editor of the film, and only the two of them were signed in the end. In terms of action design, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei are the main ones. In the signature of the action design, the names of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei are relatively high, and the action director invited by the crew is behind.

  If this movie can win the award for "Best Action Design", then three young people, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, will be able to stand on stage to receive the award at the same time. For their parkour team, such a scene is of extraordinary significance, and Xiao Yao must not miss it. So don’t say there’s nothing going on during this period. Even if there is a chance to go to the United Nations like last year, Xiao Yao will not hesitate to turn down the opportunity to go to the United Nations and go to the "Golden Dragon" awards with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. ceremony.

   "Wali" won the award and missed it. The animated film can be filmed in the future, and there is a chance to win the award. But from forming a team, launching a sport, and then working together to create a movie, the whole team can finally come to the stage to receive awards. This situation is basically impossible again.

  (End of this chapter)