Entertaining Children

No matter before or after the screening, there is no road show promotion plan for this film, so after the film premiere, Xiao Yao's promotional work for this film is basically over.

During the film release period, theaters and distributors naturally have various ways and means to promote the box office, but as producers and producers, in addition to the stars of the main creative team posting some related news on their social media accounts. Apart from shouting out the news occasionally, there is no other work arrangement.

Since this is Sun Tingting's first film, and it is also the first film collaboration between Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao is also particularly concerned about the box office and word-of-mouth of the movie "Donkey Gets Water" after its release.

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

In terms of box office, there will be various ticketing platforms, public accounts related to movies or movie box offices, and movie Weibo bloggers who will announce the box office of movies that are being screened every day. In terms of word-of-mouth ratings, there are several movie rating websites. Movie ratings will be opened after the movie is released, and various long and short comments from ordinary audiences will also appear soon.

So Xiao Yao is concerned about the box office and word-of-mouth of the movie, and he just needs to go online more frequently to learn about this information.

The box office shows the box office of the previous day, so you only need to watch it once a day. As for the rating website, it shows the average rating of all the viewers who participated in the rating. The daily changes are relatively small. No matter how concerned you are, you don’t need to stare at it all the time. It is a very simple matter to learn about movies online, 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 to work with Yin Xi on the TV drama project. This project has been approved and started before the Lunar New Year, and the crew is currently in preparation.

This TV drama project is led by Young People Film and Television Company and co-invested by Yinxi Studio. Young People Film and Television Company is the producer and the main producer. This project was proposed by Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao is naturally the producer of this TV series and also serves as the producer. However, in this project, Xiao Yao did not serve as the director, so Xiao Yao handed over a lot of preparatory work to others.

For example, Xiao Yao did not intervene in the formation of the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew. Even if it is said that TV dramas are the art of screenwriting, when filming, the entire crew is still the biggest director, and they have to listen to the director. So in this part, Xiao Yao completely left it to the executive producer and director selected by the film and television company to discuss and decide.

However, if he is not a director, Xiao Yao does not have to do nothing during the preparation period. The entire script idea of ​​this TV series was provided by Xiao Yao, and the script outline and general script framework were also written by Xiao Yao. It was only in the later stage that I found the group of newcomers from the Shenxi Literature Department who wrote the TV series with the new cast of Shenxi. The screenwriting team recruited two new screenwriters to help Xiao Yao perfect various details in the script. Even with the signatures of two new screenwriters, Xiao Yao is the well-deserved first 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 had already been a director, cast actors, and auditioned. So it doesn't matter what the crew behind the scenes is, but the director of the show strongly asked Xiao Yao to participate in the audition of the actors.

The director of this TV series is one of the several directors of the previous TV series with a new team in Shenxi, and he is still considered a newcomer director. If he faces too big a famous actor to audition, he may be overwhelmed . The script was written by Xiao Yao. He knows every character in the play very well. He is also a director and an actor. He is also very familiar with acting. He is indeed the most suitable candidate for the audition interviewer.

Xiao Yao started this project for Yin Xi, so he naturally hopes that this TV series can be made as good as possible.

And no matter what kind of drama, no one wants to meet that kind of particularly uncomfortable actor, so Xiao Yao agreed to the director of this drama and will participate in the actor's casting audition.

Due to the relationship between the movie "Donkey Gets Water", the casting audition time for this TV series was arranged after the movie was released. However, Xiao Yao did not immediately devote himself to the casting and audition work of the TV series after the movie was released. Before that, Xiao Yao still had an activity to participate in. He will also participate in this year's "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony.

The "Golden Dragon Award" is the most authoritative and important film award in China in the world. The time of the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is not necessarily the same every year, but it is always scheduled to be held in February or March at the beginning of the lunar calendar. This year's "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is scheduled to be held in early March, less than a week after the release of the movie "Donkey Gets Water".

Xiao Yao has never been a blanket star. Generally, Xiao Yao would not go to any award ceremony without being nominated, even if he was nominated, Xiao Yao might not necessarily go. However, if it is a more important award, Xiao Yao will generally try his best to go if he is nominated.

The "Golden Dragon Award" is a relatively important award in Xiao Yao's mind. Last year's "Golden Dragon Awards", the animated film "Wall-E" co-produced by Xiao Yao and Tong Luo Company 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 a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Environment Program 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. As time permits, Xiao Yao will not be absent this time.

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

The "Golden Dragon Awards" are held once a year to award and commend films that have been released publicly in China in the past year. Although the "Golden Dragon Award" awards ceremony is held at the beginning of the lunar calendar every year, in February and March of the Gregorian calendar, the scope of the "Golden Dragon Award" is not calculated according to the lunar calendar year or the time between two "Golden Dragon Awards". It is from January 1st to December 31st in 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 film was released before the last "Golden Dragon Awards" ceremony, it did not participate in the previous Golden Dragon Awards, but was within the scope of this year's awards. This award does not need to actively apply for selection like a film festival. As long as it has been screened in China's theaters, it will automatically be considered according to the release time.

According to the usual practice, each award will announce the shortlist or nomination list of each award some time in advance before the award ceremony, and the "Golden Dragon Award" is no exception. In February, the "Golden Dragon Award" announced the nomination list 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 has caused the most discussion among netizens, which is a bit surprising. Because what everyone is talking about is not whether the nominated film is good enough for the nominated award, but whether the entire film is eligible for the "Golden Dragon Award".

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

The "Golden Dragon Award" is China's film award, and the objects of the awards are China's films. And the "Parkour Boy" filmed by Xiao Yao and others is not a Chinese movie in everyone's eyes, or at least it is not a pure Chinese movie.

Part of the funds for Xiao Yao's parkour movie came from crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is conducted on foreign websites, so crowdfunding funds basically come from abroad. The movie was shot in the United States, and many of the staff behind the scenes are foreigners. Regardless of the source of funds or the composition of the production team, this film is not a purely Chinese film, and should be regarded as a joint venture film or co-production film.

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

The object of the "Golden Dragon" award is indeed Chinese films, but joint venture films and co-productions are also within the scope of the award. The winners of the "Golden Dragon" award do not have to be all Huaxia capital investment, all Huaxia staff production team, as long as there is Huaxia's capital investment, Huaxia film and television companies participate in the production, or the production team has a certain proportion of Zhongxia staff You will be eligible to participate.

The production cost of "Parkour Boy" was 8 million US dollars, Xiao Yao and others personally contributed 6 million, and the crowdfunding accounted for only a quarter. Xiao Yao and others are from Huaxia, so the bulk of the funds naturally come from Huaxia.

In terms of the production team, the behind-the-scenes staff are indeed mainly foreigners, but that's because the filming location is in a foreign country. In recent years, it is not uncommon for Huaxia's movies to go abroad to shoot, and they will basically find local staff abroad.

More importantly, among the two directors, Xiao Yao needless to say, although Muying has developed in the United States for a long time, he is still a native of China and a native of China. The screenwriter is Xiao Yao and his fellow parkour veterans, all of whom are Chinese. In terms of actors, the protagonists and supporting roles are all Chinese. In the seven-person team of the protagonists, there are three Chinese, one Chinese-American, and only three pure foreigners. Even if it is a small half, this ratio is not low.

Overall, this film is definitely dominated by Huaxia's funds and Huaxia's staff, and fully meets the criteria for the "Golden Dragon" award.

These controversies were quickly quelled as some netizens conducted compulsory science popularization on the rules of the "Golden Dragon Award" on the Internet. Because netizens mainly questioned the composition of the film, and there was basically no objection to the award nominations for this film.

The rating of this movie on the Huaxia movie 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 awards that this film was nominated for were not heavyweight awards such as best actor and actress, best actor and best actress, best director, best film, etc., but more technical awards.

The film received three nominations for "Best Action Design", "Best Editing" and "Best Soundtrack Song".

This is a parkour movie, in which the parkour action is the biggest feature of the movie. It is from this movie that many people really understand and like this emerging extreme sport. With the addition of this kind of movement, everyone thinks it is a matter of course that this film won the nomination of "Best Action Design".

This is a very hot action movie. Although there are not many fighting scenes in it, those running scenes combined with parkour movements can definitely make people's blood boil. To make the audience feel this way when watching a movie, the excellent editing and background music are absolutely indispensable. In the case that there is no problem with the qualifications for the awards, it is already surprising that this movie did not receive nominations such as "Best Music" and "Best Sound Effects". It will be surprising.

This film did not get nominated for "Best Music". Many people analyzed that it was because the jury nominated the "Best Original Soundtrack Song" to this film.

Xiao Yao participated in the production of all the original soundtrack of this movie, and Xiao Yao's name is also included in the soundtrack of the movie, but it is behind the name of an American soundtrack composer. The American soundtrack artist is only well-known in the United States, not particularly well-known in China or even internationally, so when the jury nominated for this award, it still considered Xiao Yao's factors more.

Although Xiao Yao is now flourishing in the music world, and his influence is not inferior to the long-established king and queen, there is still a certain distance from the title of music master and soundtrack master. Xiao Yao is a singer-songwriter himself, and also works in the pop music circle. Giving him the nomination of "Best Original Song" and giving others the nomination of "Best Music" is a kind of balance to some extent.

This movie has two original soundtracks, both of which are Xiao Yao's works, and both of them have achieved very good results in various foreign music charts. But if you compare them carefully, no matter in terms of performance or word-of-mouth evaluation, the song "It's My Life" is better, so the song "It's My Life" was also nominated.

However, despite the song's good performance, high evaluation, and great influence, the industry is generally not optimistic that this song will win an award. There is no other reason, this is a Chinese award, and this song is an English song, sung by Xiao Yao and a young foreign band. Basically, getting nominated is already the limit, and it is basically impossible to win.

Compared with the slim hope of winning the "Best Original Song", the two nominations of "Best Editing" and "Best Action Design" are more likely to win.

Xiao Yao had nothing to do with editing. Although Xiao Yao participated in the later stage, it was mainly done by another director, Mu Ying, and the film editor, and only the two of them signed the final signature. 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 "Best Action Design" award, then the three young people Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei will be able to stand on the 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 that there is nothing to do during this period, even if he had the opportunity to go to the United Nations like last year, Xiao Yao would not hesitate to reject the opportunity to go to the United Nations, and go to the "Golden Dragon" award with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei ceremony.

If "Wall-E" wins an award, he will miss it. Animated films can be made again in the future, and there is still a chance to win an award. But from forming a team, launching a campaign, to the team working together to create a movie, and finally the whole team can collectively accept the award collectively, such a situation is basically impossible again.

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