Entertaining Children

Once the parking lot was filmed, the filming team was done. Xiao Yao settled the payment with the shooting team, and after thanking everyone for their hard work, the shooting team disbanded. Xiao Yao only left behind the camera that kept the shooting material, and returned to his recording studio with Keith Craig.

In the recording studio, Xiao Yao found an empty practice room, arranged it, took some shots of himself operating the computer with a fixed-point camera, saved all the materials in his computer, and recorded Keith. Craig also returned the professional video camera that Craig had rented.

Although Keith Craig was also very interested in what Xiao Yao was going to do at night, Xiao Yao had no intention of letting Keith Craig, who had been with the filming team for a day, continue to participate. Not only Keith Craig, but even Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi were sent back to the hotel by Xiao Yao after dinner. For the evening work, Xiao Yao is going to do it himself, and only needs a cameraman. As for the cameraman, he already had a candidate.

After sending Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi away, Xiao Yao got in the car and called the cameraman he had found: "Brother Ying, I am Xiao Yao, where are you now? I'll come pick you up!"

"I'm at school, come here by yourself and call me at the school gate." The person on the phone replied.

The cameraman Xiao Yao found was none other than Mu Ying, who he met at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He is not only the co-screenwriter and first director of the BMW series of short films initiated by Xiao Yao's creative project, but also one of the main creators of the Parkour movie prepared by Xiao Yao's team. He also has a very close relationship with Xiao Yao.

Mu Ying is a graduate student at USC, and USC is located in downtown Los Angeles, and Mu Ying also lives in Los Angeles. After seeing the report of Xiao Yao's accident on the TV news, Muying also called Xiao Yao. At that time, Xiao Yao had already escaped from the robbers. Xiao Yao told the other party that he was fine and did not let him go to New York.

When he came to Los Angeles this time, Xiao Yao originally planned to meet Mu Ying. After watching some videos sent by netizens yesterday, Xiao Yao, who was not satisfied, planned to shoot some videos by himself tonight. The protagonist of the video is Xiao Yao himself, who needs a videographer, but what he does is not suitable for the participation of an unfamiliar videographer invited by Keith Craig. Meet the professionals. I had a phone call with Muying last night, and knowing that Muying had nothing to do tonight, Xiao Yao made an appointment with him to go out to shoot some "fun" things together tonight.

Twenty minutes later, Xiao Yao arrived at the gate of USC. He called Muying to inform him of his arrival, and not long after, Muying came out and got into Xiao Yao's car with a small handheld high-definition DV machine in his arms.

After the two who hadn’t seen each other for a long time exchanged pleasantries, Mu Ying couldn’t help complaining: “I saw the video of recruiting actors you posted with your YRF account, did you go to shoot the MV during the day today? You didn’t even call me , you are not mean enough!"

As the main creator of the parkour movie, Mu Ying,

Naturally, he also followed YRF's account, and knew about Xiao Yao's recruitment of people to shoot the MV. It's just that he has only been in touch with parkour for about half a year, and he is still a rookie at all. In addition, he knows Xiao Yao and thinks that if Xiao Yao needs him, he will call him directly, so he didn't send an email to join in the fun.

"It's just for MV shooting. Wouldn't it be overkill to use you, a director who has already made feature films, as a cameraman? My friend has already helped me find a shooting team. There are already cameramen in the team, and in fact, today's shooting In many cases, the job of the cameraman was taken over by me, and there is no need to dispatch you, a great director." Xiao Yao explained with a smile, "And I didn't completely exclude you from the MV shooting. What we are going to shoot tonight is also the material for this MV. It’s just that what I did tonight seems to be against the law, and it’s inconvenient to let irrelevant people know. Doesn’t this immediately remind you of you?”

"Ask me to do things that violate the law?" Mu Ying stared and said, "You really take care of me!"

"What? Scared?" Xiao Yao smiled.

"Isn't there still you here? You are not afraid, what am I afraid of?" Mu Ying smiled and shook her head.

"Actually, you don't have to worry at all," Xiao Yao said, "I do all the illegal things, you are only in charge of filming, even if you are caught by the police, you will be fine. What I want to do is not serious about murder and arson. The crime is at most damage to public property. Even if you are caught, it is not a big deal. Because of the two cases a while ago, I have a good relationship with the US police. I will ask someone from the FBI to help me talk about it. It's just a warning at best, I won't be detained and I won't have a criminal record."

"Anyway, I'll listen to you. If something goes wrong, your big head will stand in front of you." Mu Ying laughed.

"That's not necessarily true," Xiao Yao smiled deliberately, "I'm good at running, and I can run faster than you. If I run into the police, I run away and you get caught, so don't blame me!"

"Huh?" Muying stared again.

"Okay, just kidding, I'm sure I won't abandon you." Xiao Yao smiled, "Now let's talk about what we are going to do tonight, first go to the subway station..."

In the United States, there are only seven cities with subways, not including light rail, and Los Angeles happens to be one of these seven cities. Compared with cities such as New York and Boston, which were built in the 19th century, the subway in Los Angeles was built in 2002, 139 years later than New York, where similar subways first appeared, and it is the latest among the seven cities to build subways It is also the latest and most modern, and it just matches the modern style in Xiao Yao's MV.

At the 5th Avenue Station on the blue line with less traffic, Mu Ying, who had already passed through the subway gate, held up the DV and pointed the camera at Xiao Yao at the other end of the gate.

Xiao Yao, who was still dressed in black with a hood and a mask, started his run-up from about ten meters away from the gate, jumped up when he reached the gate, put his hands on the gate, jumped over the entrance gate with a king kong, and landed. On the platform on the other side of the turnstile. Taking out his mobile phone and taking a look, Xiao Yao quickly ran to a carriage whose doors were closing, and jumped in before the doors closed.

Holding up the DV, Muying looked around and found that there was no one on the platform, and no one noticed Xiao Yao's behavior at all. She couldn't help being slightly relieved, found a place to sit down, and waited for the next bus to arrive. Stand and meet Xiao Yao.

At the next stop, Xiao Yao, who had already got off the train, boarded the train that Mu Ying was on, and joined Mu Ying. Seeing that the carriage was almost empty, Xiao Yao asked Mu Ying to take some shots of him looking around in the subway carriage alone.

After the shots on the subway were finished, Xiao Yao and Muying found a place to rest and chat, and talked about the parkour script by the way. They waited until the early hours of the morning before driving to San Pedro Street and Second Avenue of the intersection.

After getting out of the car, Xiao Yao was still dressed in black and masked, carrying a bucket of white paint and a large paint brush with a long handle and walking in front. Most of the time, he was photographing Xiao Yao's back and the things in his hands.

Xiao Yao walked to the middle of the intersection, dipped the paintbrush full of paint, and just started writing on the ground in the middle of the intersection. Mu Ying also recorded the process completely. In the original MV, the word for this scene is "WalkerJoin", which not only corresponds to the surname in the name, but also takes the meaning of the word "Walker". Xiao Yao's name is not Walker, so he wrote "Young Gather" and also used a word in his name as a pun.

"That's it?" After returning to the car, Muying asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid that the passing vehicles will destroy these words?"

"Then we can't stand here and stop the passing vehicles. That would really call the police." Xiao Yao said, "I use quick-drying paint, and it's early in the morning, so there are very few cars on this section of the road at this time Yes, it should be fine."

"However, this can be considered completely settled." Xiao Yao continued, "Tomorrow morning during the rush hour, I will come to take some shots of vehicles and pedestrians passing by here. I have chosen the location, and it is on the roof over there. , you leave the DV to me, and you don’t have to come together tomorrow. I will go to you in the afternoon, return the machine to you, and show my parents a tour of USC.”

In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Yao appeared on the roof of the building where Union Bank was located on Second Avenue with a DV player. Just as he was holding up the DV to film the flow of traffic and people passing through this intersection, the sound of a helicopter suddenly sounded overhead. Xiao Yao, who was a little guilty, was taken aback, and quickly looked up, only to find that a helicopter was flying overhead. However, judging from the appearance of the aircraft fuselage, this is not a police helicopter, but a helicopter with a TV station logo printed on it, belonging to a certain TV station for news reports.

"Damn, if I knew this, I wouldn't have to wake up so early today." Xiao Yao thought of a possibility, and quickly turned off the DV to escape. Anyway, the necessary material has been captured, Xiao Yao doesn't want to be discovered by the journalists on the helicopter.

When Xiao Yao returned to the hotel, Ye Jiaying, Xiao Siqi and others were already up. Several people had breakfast together, and when Xiao Yao was about to discuss today's itinerary with his parents, Keith Craig came over with a tablet computer in his arms.

"Yan, that's what you did last night? Do you know that vandalism of public property is illegal?" Keith Craig said with a serious face on purpose.

"Ah?" Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying were taken aback, and looked at Xiao Yao nervously, "What did you do last night?"

"What are you talking about? I don't understand!" Xiao Yao pretended to be stupid on purpose.

"Pretend!" Keith Craig turned on the tablet in his hand and called up a video channel of the morning news, "Don't tell me you didn't do this!"

In the video, a news anchor in the studio is broadcasting the large-scale graffiti at the intersection of San Pedro Street and Second Avenue, and the upper right corner of the screen is the real-time situation of the intersection taken by the helicopter. The news anchor reported this news with the attitude of broadcasting anecdotes, guessing that this is another performance art of some young people, but because this is a relatively prosperous intersection, not the walls and ground of some art district, At the end, I reminded that it is illegal to damage public facilities casually, and hope that young people who play performance art pay attention to graffiti occasions.

"How did you know that I did it?" Xiao Yao laughed. Although the news anchor didn't take the matter seriously, Xiao Yao didn't intend to just admit it.

"The police released the surveillance video of this intersection. At that time, there were two people, one graffitied and the other filmed, both of whom were dressed in black and masked in your MV." Keith Craig pointed to the section released by the police at the end of the news Surveillance video channel.

"You also said you were wearing a black mask, but you couldn't tell it was me." Xiao Yao smiled, "There were at least a hundred people dressed like this in Los Angeles yesterday, so it must be me. I asked netizens to help I shot the video, and I didn’t tell them to graffiti at the bustling intersection, even instigating it, it’s not my fault.”

Xiao Yao also knows that there are traffic surveillance cameras in many places in the city. When he appeared under the surveillance cameras, Xiao Yao not only covered his face, but also asked Muying to cover his face, and deliberately parked the car in the surveillance camera. Walking past the blind spot, even the license plate number was not captured by surveillance. With this attire alone, many people would think that he did it, but without substantial evidence, Xiao Yao can be beaten to death and refuse to admit it.

"You..." Keith Craig pointed at Xiao Yao speechlessly. In fact, this is not a big deal in itself. The reason why Keith Craig came here was mainly to confirm the conjecture in his heart, and express to Xiao Yao that such a fun thing would not bring his dissatisfaction, but he did not expect Xiao Yao Unexpectedly refused to admit it.

"Do you know why that guy didn't call you?" Xiao Yao naturally knew Keith Craig's purpose, smiled and tapped the screen of the tablet computer, "You are a rock star, and you have children , it’s not appropriate to play this game!”

"You mean I'm old?" Keith Craig stared. Xiao Yao's words are also an admission of a change of direction, but on the surface, there is still no way for people to grasp it.

"That," Xiao Yao scratched his head, changed the subject, and turned to his parents, "We're going to USC in the afternoon. I have a friend there who is a graduate student majoring in directing. I'll go see him and introduce him to him. Let’s get acquainted, and let’s also visit this world-renowned university by the way.”

"Okay!" Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying both nodded. Their itinerary has always been arranged by Xiao Yao, so of course there is no objection. It's just that they all could see that Xiao Yao had indeed done this, and when they nodded, they suppressed a smile on their faces.

"Keith, our itinerary is almost over, and we will return to China tomorrow, so I will say goodbye to you in advance." Xiao Yao turned to Keith Craig and said, "Please also say to Betty and Ellie for us Individually. The song about me and Liv will be handed over to Times Records for release, and the post-production of the MV will be brought back to China to complete, and when it’s done, I will also hand it over to them to contact the broadcast channel.”

"Okay," Keith Craig nodded helplessly, and opened his arms, "Next time you come to the United States, remember to come to us!"

"Sure!" Xiao Yao and Keith Craig hugged.

That afternoon, Xiao Yao took Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying to University of Southern California to meet Muying. Led by Mu Ying, the group took a stroll around USC and had a good look at this world-renowned university.

After returning to the hotel at night, Xiao Yao edited a few videos shot the night before and this morning, made a whole video clip, and posted it online through YRF's account. In the video, Xiao Yao also intentionally added a segment of the American morning news found on the Internet and added it. In the introduction below the video, it is stated that this is the MV material made by someone for the MV of YS, but it did not say who the specific producer is.

Now, netizens and the media all know the cause of the "graffiti incident" in the morning news. Although the video does not specify who the producer is, everyone can only guess that this person is probably YS himself. It is impossible to say with certainty that the person who did those things in the video must be YS himself, but since it is said that the shooting of this video is In order to provide materials for YS's MV, then these things are inseparable from YS anyway.

The next day, many local media in Los Angeles found out about Xiao Yao's whereabouts. They wanted to interview him about this matter, but they found out that his family had already boarded the plane back to China and returned to China.

Regardless of whether it can be confirmed that it was done by YS himself, since YRF posted this video, it means that this video is what his MV needs. As a result, many parkourers from all over the world who wanted to contribute material for the MV began to follow suit. In the next few days, Xiao Yao began to receive some similar videos in his email, and some of these videos appeared directly on the Internet.

Those shots on the subway did not have any impact, but the sudden large-scale graffiti of English words at the intersection of the bustling road will have a relatively large impact. Some local news media are the same as the media in Los Angeles. There was news coverage of such things.

Can graffiti on busy roads make news? This is a very attractive point. When netizens compiled these news events and posted them on the Internet, this incident gradually turned into a movement and a new trend of performance art. Many people who don't play parkour and have no idea about YS's MV joined in purely because of following the trend and having fun. Graffiti of these two English words appeared in more and more bustling intersections of cities.