In the applause, Xiao Yao stood up and bowed to the audience. Then he went to the piano and gave his guitar back to the musician named Jack. After thanking him softly, he was ready to step down.
"Wait, young man, don''t you want to hear what I think of you?" Louis Joseph stopped Xiao Yaodao.
"To be honest, I don''t think so." Xiao Yao shook his head and said with a smile, "in fact, I''m not a real jazz fan. I just listen to some music. I''m not good at jazz, and I don''t want to write about it, so it won''t change me if I listen to your comments. "
"Never thought of writing jazz? What about your song? " Louis Joseph said strangely, "in my opinion, it''s really a jazz style song."
"That''s my improvisation." Xiao Yao said, "when I first wrote this song, it was actually a folk song. When I came on stage, I thought it was a jazz performance. It was not good to sing a folk song, so I changed it to jazz."
"Wow, temporary adaptation? No wonder you only play with the guitar. " Louis Joseph exclaimed in surprise, "it seems that I met a very talented young man. Can you listen to the original version of your song? Don''t worry about jazz. The enjoyment of music is the most important thing. "
"Well, since you don''t mind, I don''t mind giving you a few more minutes off." Xiao Yao blinked and nodded with a smile.
The Jack handed the guitar to Xiao Yao again. After Xiao Yao took it, he went back to the chair in front of the center of the stage and said to the microphone with a smile, "at Mr. Joseph''s request, I will give you another version of the song just now."
The conversation between Xiao Yao and Louis Joseph just now did not rely on the help of the microphone. Only some front row audience close to the stage heard their conversation in the concert hall, so most of the audience were very curious when they saw Xiao Yao go back, and there were also some comments. Xiao Yao gave such a simple explanation.
"Starry, starry night..." this time, Xiao Yao directly omitted the prelude he added when he recorded the song. He performed it completely according to the version of Don McLean in his previous life, and began to sing the lyrics while plucking the guitar strings.
"It''s really the style of the ballad. Is this the original appearance of the song?" Clara and the others all looked at Fang.
"Er... Almost," Fang still said, "he took out the prelude of the song, but the melody, rhythm and singing style are the same as before."
"Now I believe that he is really a very talented composer." Clara said, "but such a guy, the short film can be shortlisted in the Short Film Festival... It''s unimaginable!"
"Even if his short film didn''t win the prize, I think he was a genius!" Andrew and Kira nodded together.
After Xiao Yao performed the folk version of the song, the audience again gave a burst of warm applause.
"Thank you," Louis Joseph went directly to Xiao Yao this time. "Since you don''t want to hear my evaluation, I just want to say thank you for your performance. By the way, may I know your name and origin? "
"My name is Xiao Yao. I come from China." Xiao Yao introduced himself with a smile.
"Let''s thank Xiao Yao again for his wonderful performance." Louis Joseph picked up the microphone on the microphone stand, pointed to Xiao Yao and said to the audience.
"Thank you In the applause of the audience, Xiao Yao bows again, returns the guitar to Jack, jumps off the stage and returns to his seat.
In the process of coming back, some of the audience along the way also gave Xiao Yao a thumbs up with a smile. Xiao Yao naturally nodded back with a smile while walking.
After the episode, Jack moves his chair back to the middle of the band, and Louis Joseph moves the microphone stand back to the piano to continue the later performance.
Half an hour later, Louis Joseph''s performance ended, and the six of them got up and walked out like the audience. As they walked out, the audience talked about Louis Joseph''s wonderful performance, which was also mixed with some comments on Xiao Yao. Some of the audience who walked out with Xiao Yao and other six people also warmly welcomed Xiao Yao and praised his performance on the stage just now.
It''s eleven o''clock in the evening when I come out of the concert hall. Xiao Yao just told me that he had to go to the film festival tomorrow, so they didn''t go anywhere else. They got into the car and sent Xiao Yao and other three people back to the hotel.
"Shaw, is the song you just wrote about Van Gogh?" Back in the car, Kira bea can''t help but ask Xiao Yao.
"Er... Yes." Xiao Yao nodded. In his previous life, Don McLean wrote this poem in memory of Van Gogh. Naturally, Xiao Yao could only nod his head and admit it.
"Sure enough," cheered Kira, "you must like Van Gogh, too, don''t you? How else would you write songs for him? ""This is a fan of Van Gogh?" Xiao Yao''s secret way, can only continue to nod.
"I heard the lyrics of your song just now. It seems that it has something to do with Van Gogh''s paintings. Can you tell me what Van Gogh''s works are in your lyrics?" Gera bea continued.
"Er... How many works do you recognize?" Instead of answering, Xiao Yao asked Kira bea with a smile.
Xiao Yao didn''t know much about Van Gogh and his works. He only knew that he was a great impressionist painter. When he heard Don McLean''s song in his previous life, he knew it was about Van Gogh. The first sentence "starry, starry night" refers to his famous "the starry night". As for some of Van Gogh''s works in the song, Xiao Yao really didn''t know.
However, although Xiao Yao didn''t know it, he was sure that Kira BEA, a fan of Van Gogh and an art major, could hear a lot. What should singers do when they forget their words? In addition to the embarrassing direct jump, you can also extend the microphone to the audience, so Xiao Yao simply asked Qila to say that she said a few, and Xiao Yao intended to admit that there were a few.
"First of all, there must be" starry night ", then" daffodils in the bowl ", and his self portrait, as well as..." Gera bea began to count one by one. Xiao Yao listened with a smile and nodded his head. At the same time, he was sweating wildly: "I''ll go, Don McLean wrote so many Van Gogh''s paintings in a song?"
"Anything else?" After Qila finished counting, she asked Xiao Yao.
"No, you''re great! You can hear that. " Xiao Yao pulled the corner of his mouth and gave a thumbs up with a smile.
"I don''t know what it is. It''s really great that you can write such a song." Gera bea announced happily, "I love you so much! In order to thank you for writing songs for my favorite idol, I decided to vote for your short film at the film festival tomorrow! Besides, I can be your tour guide for free
"Thank you," Xiao Yao said, pointing to Clara Willa with a smile, "but we already have a guide."
"Gera, I treat you as a friend, but you want to rob me of my job?" Clara Willa also said with a smile, and then looked at Xiao Yao.
"Then I''ll be their guide with you." "There are three of them," said Gera bea? If they act separately, Fang and Pei will be handed over to you, and I will be in charge of Xiao. "
"We''re really ready to move separately." Xiao Yao said, "in the next few days, their task is to play, and my task is to watch movies at the film festival. If you follow me, you may feel bored except for watching movies
"Anyway, you have a car. You can take Xiao from the hotel to the scene of the film festival." Clara Willa thought is also, simply to Qira. Bea assignment way, "anyway, you also have a car."
"No problem!" Gera bea immediately nodded happily and agreed.
"This girl won''t pull me all the way back and forth to talk about Van Gogh and Impressionism, will she?" Xiao Yao is a little worried.
"Shaw, if you have time, you can come and play with our band." Andrew also warmly invited.
"Well, I''ll go if I have a chance." Xiao Yao promised verbally, but actually he didn''t have much interest. There is still a band hanging in the United States. Xiao Yao doesn''t want to have another one in France.
Send the three back to the hotel, Clara and they make an appointment to meet tomorrow, and then leave with friends.
The next morning, Kira bea followed Clara Willa to the hotel to meet them. Originally, Qila wanted Xiao Yao to ride in her car, but Xiao Yao was afraid that Qila would talk to him about Van Gogh. He firmly shook his head and refused, saying that the three of them had not moved separately now, so it was better to sit together.
Keira didn''t insist either. She drove to the venue of the film festival with Clara Willa.
After arriving, Clara Willa and Xiao Yao went to the office of the Organizing Committee of the festival to help them handle the identification documents of the participants, and then took them to the venue of the festival for a complete tour, focusing on the process of the festival and the screening plan of each exhibition hall.
Xiao Yao''s "tuner" is scheduled to be shown in the No. 3 screening hall. The screening time is 3:00 p.m. on the second day, 10:20 a.m. on the third day and 3:40 p.m. on the fourth day. The duration of the film is a little more than 13 minutes. With the introduction before the screening and the audience interaction after the screening, it takes almost 20 minutes each time. That is to say, Xiao Yao''s short film will not be shown this afternoon. Fang and Pei Minyi still don''t have to follow Xiao Yao.
After lunch, Xiao Yao gave Fang still and Pei Minyi a holiday, and asked Clara Weila to take them to the volcanic Geopark near Mount DOM, while he went to several exhibition halls of the festival to watch free movies with his work card.
Although Clement Ferrand International Short Film Festival is known as "short Cannes", it is not Cannes after all. There is no red carpet show full of famous stars. Just a simple opening ceremony is officially opened. Each exhibition hall begins to show the entries, and everyone can freely choose to watch them.Xiao Yao spent the afternoon of the first day in the projection Hall of each exhibition hall. First of all, I would like to see the introduction of the short films to be shown in the exhibition hall, and then write down the schedule of the screening, and then I would like to go to each screening hall to see the films according to my own preferences.
After watching two short films in exhibition hall 1, Xiao Yao felt that there was no attractive short film works, so he strolled to exhibition hall 2.
In the work introduction section of hall 2, Xiao Yao was quite surprised to find the name of a seemingly Chinese director. In the spirit of supporting his compatriots, he went to see the short film of the director named "muying".
This short film is called "tough guy". It is an action short film. The plot is relatively simple, but the action scenes are very characteristic. Xiao Yao doesn''t know any of the actors in the film. He should be a little-known actor, and there are white faces and Asian faces in the actors. This short film also competes in the international competition unit, which only shows that the work is not native to France, so Xiao Yao can''t judge whether this muying is Chinese or not.
In front of the two short films in hall 1, Xiao Yao got up and left immediately after watching them. However, after watching this short film, Xiao Yao stayed and wanted to see the director with his own eyes.
After the screening of the short film, a young man, who looks less than 30 years old and has an East Asian face, steps onto the stage, introduces himself briefly, and bows to the audience in the screening hall. If the audience have any questions about the short film and want to ask the director publicly, they can take the initiative to ask them at this time. If you don''t want to communicate, the audience can leave quietly, which is what Xiao Yao did when he watched the first two short films. If no one asks questions, or no one asks questions after the communication, the director will leave on his own.
Xiao Yao didn''t have any questions about the film. He wanted to communicate with the director openly. He waited for the audience to leave one after another. After the director turned around and stepped down, he went over and said hello.
"Hello, director mu, I''m Xiao Yao," Xiao Yao said in English.
"Hello The Mu director shook hands with Xiao Yao with a smile. After seeing Xiao Yao''s face clearly, he said with some doubts and surprise, "are you Xiao Yao? That... Xiao Yao
"Yes, I''m Xiao Yao." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile and then asked, "are you Chinese?"
"Yes, my name is Mu Ying, wood of wood, hero''s Ying." Muying not only changed her language into Chinese, but also changed her way of introduction into the Chinese habit. "I''m a Chinese, and now I''m a graduate student in the Directing Department of the Academy of film arts at USC. By the way, USC is... "
" I know that the University of Southern California in the United States, or USC for short, is famous for its Academy of film arts. " Xiao Yao also changed to Chinese and said, "the director department of USC is a graduate student. It''s amazing that he can make such a wonderful short film."
"Thank you," muying nodded, then said with some doubts, "by the way, why are you here? The last time I saw you was at the Spring Festival Gala on the Internet. " Although the domestic audience rating of the Spring Festival Gala is declining year by year, it still has a very important position among overseas Chinese.
"I''m here, too!" Xiao Yao picks up the certificate hanging on his chest and shakes the way.
"Are you a director, too?" Mu Ying looked at Xiao Yao''s certificate in surprise, and then said, "what hall is your movie in? I''ll show you when it''s released. "
"Good. Then I''ll thank you first! " Xiao Yao said with a smile, and then told Mu Ying about his film exhibition hall and time.
"It doesn''t conflict with my movie showing time. I will go tomorrow!" Muying assured.