"What about you, are you crying?"
Looking at Bae Zhuhyun, whose head was rounded with a hat, Chi Jingyuan laughed and shrugged: "That's not true. Although I am very excited to win the Newcomer Award, I don't feel like crying... Maybe it was because the other brothers cried too fiercely, which made me feel a little funny and took away some of the emotion."
At the end, he thought for a while and added: "If I can't help crying, the most touching moment was when we EXO debuted and won the first place. The memory of that time was really deep. The other members were crying in the background, and I was only a little bit closer..."
EXO's "Wolf and Beauty" won the first number one song after their debut. Ji Jingyuan is still very surprised in his mind. His debut was not smooth, and it took a year and two months to get his first song. The mixture of satisfaction, sense of accomplishment, and sourness caused by one person's hardships made him vividly remember it now.
Looking back now, it is certainly great to get one within a few days of debut, and it can be called a monster newcomer, but after going through difficulties, it took a long time to get what you dreamed of through hard work and persistence. This experience is more powerful than the previous one. A little more aftertaste and mellowness.
"The first one..."
Hearing this achievement that seemed far away from redvelvet, Bae Zhuhyun looked up at the sky with some longing.
They have made two comebacks since their debut, and their best result is that they were only one candidate for the debut song. In other aspects, they are basically miserable.
To be honest, given the current situation of redvelvet, several members, including Bae Zhuhyun, are a little afraid to expect the first place trophy.
"The last comeback did not achieve the expected results, and we have not been able to receive any schedules since November. Everyone in the group was very disappointed and worried during the previous period, fearing that the last comeback would be the last comeback of our group. "
Bae Zhuhyun recalled the torturous state of mind during that time, the focus in her eyes was a little unfocused, and she murmured as if she was confiding: "This year, the company suddenly announced that a new member Yelin has been added, and at the same time there is a new comeback plan, and today we got a new member I don’t know why it suddenly became smoother, and now my mood is much better every day... I won the prize when I was eating just now, and they all felt a little emotional, and they all felt that there was hope."
"Joohyunxi, you just won a Newcomer Award, so don't be proud. There will be the Seoul Music Awards in a few days, and the gold content is also very high. You can be happy after you get the Newcomer Award."
Chi Jingyuan glanced at her, but instead of comforting her, he curled his lips and complained. He changed his sitting position, leaned on the back of the chair, and said lazily: "And didn't I tell you before at the riverside? Well, it’s been less than six months since then and we can see the sunrise. Now if we convert the time, there are only three months left.”
Chi Jingyuan's tone sounded very confident, but Pei Zhuxun couldn't help but think of the scene that night and the conversation between the two, and then thought of "Let It Be" not long after, and thought of the shock and excitement of that night. Touched, I felt my body suddenly become warmer. The corners of my mouth curved into a beautiful arc and smiled happily. I turned my head to look at him with watery eyes.
Before Chi Jingyuan could turn her eyes away, she took the lead to retract her gaze, raised her head and continued to look at the sky, slightly pulled the brim of her hat on both sides, and said in a lively voice: "Seoul Music Awards? I hope so... Actually... I have always liked watching the night sky. When I was a kid, I used to sit on the swing near my house at night. I especially liked watching the planets in the sky. After I came to Seoul and worked as a trainee in the company, I also liked to go to the rooftop to watch the sky from time to time. The eyes are really beautiful and can make people feel very relaxed..."
"..."
After hearing her words, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but look up at the night sky. He couldn't help but twitching the corner of his mouth after just looking at it for a few seconds. The sky was a little gray now, not to mention the stars, even the moon looked at it. The light was a little dim, and he didn't realize what Bae Zhuhyun said: "It's really beautiful and makes people feel relaxed."
He glanced at her strangely. She didn't know how she saw the beautiful night sky through the haze. She felt that after she won the Newcomer Award, she suddenly changed tonight.
Gotta be a little emotional.
It's just that this kind of sentimentality doesn't quite match the smiling bear pattern on her clothes, as well as the cute, chubby look she wears in a sweatshirt and hat.
After several attempts, he still couldn't get into Pei Zhuxun's state of mind. Chi Jingyuan tilted his head and looked at the night sky for a while, then breathed out softly: "Actually, I used to like watching the night sky, but I don't like it anymore tonight."
"Why?" Pei Zhuxuan turned to look at him curiously.
"..." He looked back at the night scene with some lack of interest. Chi Jingyuan spread his hands towards Pei Zhuxuan and said matter-of-factly: "Because I have something I like more to watch now."
After a pause, Pei Zhuxuan felt a warm current welling up in her heart. Her mouth opened slightly as if she wanted to laugh, but she quickly tried to hold it back. She was not shy at all. She smoothed her bangs that popped out from the brim of her hat. She looked at Chi Jingyuan with gleaming eyes. She involuntarily raised her feet that were on the ground and stepped on a pair of small cotton slippers. He cocked his head happily twice, and his heart was obviously a little excited and emotional.
"Well..." After looking at each other for two seconds, Chi Jingyuan stretched, stood up on his own initiative, and waved to her: "Let's go, it's getting late. If you don't go back, your manager will wait for you later." People may have to do ward rounds."
"..."
The heat and impulse in his heart were suddenly interrupted. Pei Zhuxuan couldn't help but curled his lips and glanced at Chi Jingyuan, and then stood up, with a suppressed slight dissatisfaction in his tone: "Sheng You will cover for me later."
"You two live in the same room?" Chi Jingyuan took the lead and took the initiative to walk back. He asked curiously.
"Yeah, she's good at everything, but sometimes she gets a little bit noisy." After trying to regain her composure, Bae Zhuhyun chuckled as she seemed to think of Sun Shengwan's private appearance.
"Tch, maybe people still think you are boring..." Chi Jingyuan, however, said something fair to his relative who was the same age as him. He actually liked Sun Shengwan's character.
The two walked back indoors and got on the ladder together.
As the elevator door closed, the two people inside seemed a little silent, as if they had brought the silence in the park back here.
The elevator door opened again with a "ding" sound. EXO's floor arrived, and redvelvet's room was still a few floors above.
Pei Zhuxuan pursed her lips, and just when she was about to say goodbye, Chi Jingyuan had already walked out, stood outside the elevator, nodded to her, and waved goodbye: "Let's go, good night."
"Well..." Seeing that the other party was so free and easy, but what he was about to say was blocked back. Pei Zhuxuan also nodded slightly, smiling and looking at the other party's face through the slowly closing elevator door, until both sides After the elevator doors were brought together to isolate the sound, she still maintained the same posture. She didn't wake up until the next time the elevator opened again and walked down quickly.
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Early the next morning, everyone who came to participate in the Golden Disk Awards, including other SM artists, all took flights back to Seoul. Only EXO was called up by their manager early in the morning and sat down after having breakfast. We took the bus and rushed to the Water Cube.
Youku-Full Video Night Party will be held there tonight.
2014 was a year of great explosion of image and video data. During the year, the divine song "Little Apple" swept every corner of the mainland. The "Ice Bucket Challenge" in the popular world provided a powerful sample for charity communication, including on the peninsula. Several Korean dramas that were continuously delivered have attracted widespread attention, and the skyrocketing number of clicks is jaw-dropping. Reality shows on TV stations and video websites have also ushered in a golden age.
In order to review last year's images, videos and related figures, it is the first time that the video industry has conducted a cross-platform full content inventory. As the largest video website in Xiaguo, Youku hosted this party and has been releasing news since November last year. During the voting, there was constant publicity, and the location was chosen at the Water Cube. All aspects were done well.
EXO is one of the more popular performers. It is very famous that it still performs three songs on stage. The Chinese version of the three title songs "Wolf and Beauty", "Roar" and "Addicted" caused quite a stir. restlessness.
After the event on the 16th, EXO returned to the peninsula overnight, but they had not stayed in Seoul for half a day. After the company held a morning production meeting, half of the members boarded a flight with SM's filming team. Flying to Europe.
They are going to officially start filming the title song of this single album "E", which is named "arseille in Marseille, France, Edinburgh in England, Berlin in Germany, alty Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, barebaby".
Moreover, these ten areas are all recorded in history, where rumors of residents and tourists witnessing strange space phenomena such as UFOs happened to correspond to one of the concepts of the EXO group this time. In the trailer, they will explain their uniqueness. Super-powered aliens, solar eclipses and the inextricable connection between EXO members.
What's even more coincidental is that if these ten places are connected with a line on the world map, they will just be the official LOGO of EXO's regular second album that has been designed this time.
The connection of all kinds of coincidences can't help but make people think about it with horror. I am shocked at the same time and can't help but sigh at the ingenuity of the people who designed this plan. They actually connected so many seemingly unrelated cities together, and they just matched each other. The theme and concept of EXO's comeback this time is really awesome.
It can be said that EXO's comeback trailer is all amazing in terms of planning, quality, concept, style, plot and metaphors. It is completely different from ordinary male idol groups. distance.
Even if you are not a fan of EXO, you are just an ordinary passerby, or even a black fan, you can’t help but be surprised and emotional when you see this trailer video that is very different from other groups. Subjectively, you will naturally associate EXO with other boy groups in your heart. A clear grade is distinguished.
At that time, Chi Kyung-won got the information given to him by Lee Soo-man. When he saw this plan that had not been adopted yet, he felt that it was really well done and looked very impressive, so later he took the initiative to mention the trailer design and hoped that It can be applied to XO’s comeback this time.
In order to shoot this trailer video, SM Company also invested a lot of resources. Because there are too many regions and cities to visit and they are in several corners of the earth, the company designed to shoot in batches. This time, the first shooting was in Europe. members of the side.
At the same time, because I have to return to Seoul on the 21st to attend the Seoul Music Awards, my schedule is very tight this time and my schedule is very full. If the progress is not good, I may not be able to finish filming, and I will have to fly over to continue filming.
After a connecting flight, they finally arrived in Berlin after twelve hours of continuous flight. When Chi Jingyuan got off the plane, his feet were weak and he was so dizzy that he had no strength at all.
This plan was really good, but the flight time for filming was really a bit long. Thinking of flying for so long when he returned in two days, his scalp felt a little numb.
They arrived in Berlin in the early morning. The trailer video here was Kim Min-seok's part and it happened to be shot at night. The group went to the hotel reserved by the company staff for a short refreshment and then started working directly.
Because the length of the trailer is only a little over a minute at most, including the 10 seconds or so of EXO and SM company logo displays, the duration is very short and the shooting is not too difficult, so the progress is quite fast, busy. After spending a whole night filming Kim Min-seok's trailer, they went back to take a rest, and then everyone moved directly to the next city.
"Click." Standing in front of Saint-Nizier Church, Chi Jingyuan took two selfies with his mobile phone at the door with gorgeous reliefs outside the church behind him. The light next to it was not too bright, and it was solemn and mysterious behind him. The church background makes the photo look very atmospheric.
It’s hard to come here after flying for so long, so I definitely want to take some photos as a souvenir.
"Jingyuan, come here."
The staff was setting up the filming equipment, and the PD waved and shouted over there.
"Wait a minute and slowly walk up this long staircase. We will shoot from behind you, from a long shot to a close shot. Remember not to look at the camera." The PD began to give him instructions.
The director waited for a while to explain the shooting process. In fact, Chi Jingyuan had already read the split shots in the script before, so this time he emphasized it one last time.
"I got it." Chi Jingyuan gestured to indicate "ase."
This kind of preview video is really not difficult for him, a representative of the young actors of the Peninsula.
In the planning done by SM Company this time, there are many concepts for EXO's regular second album, but the main concept is to take over the second mini-album "Addicted".
The general concept of "Addiction" is that the twelve members of EXO lost the superpowers they once relied on and became ordinary people. They were locked in a maze with no way to find an exit.
This time in the regular second album "EXO-L", the remaining nine members of EXO escaped from the maze and gradually recovered their superpowers. At the same time, the superpowers of the three members who left the team were transferred to With other members, they also had subtle collisions and connections with UFO aliens, solar eclipses and other strange phenomena.
It sounds a bit mysterious, but this is also one of the core selling points of EXO to attract fans. From the debut song "MAMA" to the present, "olf", "roar", and "addicted", every album actually tells a concept and stories, and they are all coherent and echoing each other.
SM is also the entertainment company that likes to play this thing the most. Most of their groups have their own "concepts" when they debut and come back.
These things will generate a strong interest in discussion among many fans, and to some extent will greatly increase the appeal, style, and fan stickiness.
The shooting went smoothly. After the church was completed, the group quickly transitioned to a nearby alleyway and began to rearrange.
"Jingyuan, are you cold?" Assistant Nuna Li Youzhen asked with concern when he saw Chi Jingyuan sitting on the folding chair and rubbing his hands.
"It's so cold, Nuna..." Chi Jingyuan nodded vigorously.
For the purpose of shooting, he was wearing a thin black jacket, a crew-neck shirt and jeans. Even though he was wrapped in a down jacket, the temperature in the middle of the night was still freezing and made him shiver.
Li Youzhen jogged a few steps, brought a hair dryer over, plugged in the cord and stood behind him, and began to blow air on Chi Jingyuan's neck. The warm air spread from the top into the seams of his clothes, making him warm instantly. He drank a lot, took a long and comfortable breath, and a white mist spread forward from his mouth.
A hair dryer is an artifact used by artists to keep warm during winter shooting breaks. It is really comfortable to be blown by the hot air in the extremely low temperature in winter.
Chi Jingyuan was enjoying the service of his assistant Noona while listening to the PD's explanation. In order to cover up the sound of the hair dryer, the other party even amplified his voice.
The plot of Chi Jingyuan's personal trailer is probably that he appeared at the door of Lyon Church, walked into the church and walked into the nearby alley. Suddenly, the surrounding street lights began to flicker, and then went out continuously. He started running in the alley in a panic. , all the lights in the passing places were extinguished one after another, and all the light in the entire city began to disappear and became pitch black.
The origin of the plot is because Chi Jingyuan was given the super power "Light" in EXO. He had just regained his super power but fell out of control for some reason.
At the end, Chi Jingyuan broke into a room. Starlight suddenly appeared in the dark surroundings, illuminating the surrounding area. The tables and chairs in the room in front of him all floated due to the special effects. Chi Jingyuan quietly said Breathing softly in the half-dark room, his face expressionless.
This is a hint to Luhan who has quit the team. The super power "controlling objects with thoughts" that Luhan once possessed has been transferred to Chi Jingyuan to a certain extent, which can be regarded as continuing the concept and setting of the retired members. .
Including Taoy who also left, their abilities will also be transferred to other members in the video.
Presumably XO fans, when they see these scenes and the superpowers of the members who have left the group, may be filled with emotion, and then smile knowingly.
