Chapter 375 Dartmouth

Although Matthew Knowles was thick-skinned, he knew how to read people's faces.

He knew that Zhou Yan didn't want to talk to them at this moment.

So after chatting with Zhou Yan for a while, he took the initiative to say goodbye and left the backstage with Beyonce.

After the father and daughter left, Zhou Yan ran to prepare for the performance with the band.

…

The atmosphere in Houston is really good, and the theater entrance is spacious and can accommodate many people.

The weather is very good today, so from about four o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of fans slowly gathered at the entrance.

Felipe and Kante had already made preparations and built a temporary stage at the entrance of the theater.

Not only did they equip the stage with valuable equipment, they also built some "stands" on the edge of the square.

These stands are not high, only two or three floors, but they cover a large area, which greatly improves the experience of the audience in the back row watching the performance.

They made a calculation in advance that the theater entrance can accommodate a total of 12,000 to 16,000 people to watch the performance at the same time.

Based on this calculation, they also made several plans.

Houston is also the only city that has officially promoted the outdoor performance. Although the previous cities also promoted the outdoor performance, they only mentioned it in passing. After all, outdoor performances do not charge tickets, and there is no guarantee that they will be held.

Just like those days in Taiwan, the rain directly delayed the outdoor performances later.

But Felipe and his team were not worried about this at all. After all the tickets were sold out, they promoted today's outdoor performances crazily.

There are even many people who don't even know about the concert. They only know that there is a free outdoor performance in front of the theater today.

In this case, there are naturally many people who come to join in the fun.

At 6:30, when the concert hall began to check tickets, there were already four or five thousand people gathered in front of the theater, not including the audience who had already bought tickets.

Matthew Knowles appeared at the entrance of the concert hall at 6:30 with several members of Destiny's Girl.

The reason for choosing this time is naturally because there are many people now, and it is a good time for several girls to show their faces.

In order to ensure that there were reporters to take pictures of them, Matthew Knowles even hired two people. When they got out of the car, the two people held cameras to take pictures of them.

There were many other reporters at the scene. Seeing two people holding cameras to take pictures of four girls, they were of course very interested. Even if they didn't know who these girls were, they still came over.

There were constant flashes at the scene. After a reporter took a few pictures, he asked another reporter next to him.

"Who are these girls?"

The other party shook his head, "I don't know."

Both parties were a little confused, and they followed and took pictures in a daze.

At this time, someone suddenly shouted, "This is the True Name Tiannu group, and the girl is the girl who sang in "We Are Young."

Upon hearing this, the reporters immediately understood and accelerated the speed of pressing the shutter.

They may not have heard of True Name Tiannu, but "We Are Young" has been very popular recently.

Especially the reporters who can come to the concert today must know this song.

At first, they didn't recognize Beyoncé as the girl in the MV, but after being reminded, they looked carefully and recognized her.

Matthew Knowles had already told several girls to take advantage of this opportunity to show their faces, so they all walked forward slowly and asked reporters to take more photos of them.

Facing the interviews of reporters, they all responded excitedly.

Seeing this, Matthew Knowles was also very satisfied. He still had to take advantage of what he should take advantage of, and this time he was very successful.

…

After the two concerts in Houston, Zhou Yan rested for a day, and then went to Canada with Zhang Youan to meet James Cameron and others.

On the way, Zhou Yan held a local Houston newspaper, which reported the grand occasion of the two concerts.

[The two concerts held at the Houston Grand Theater had a total of more than 30,000 people outdoors. Y-chou has undoubtedly become a phenomenal musician. His ten concerts in the United States this time showed people his unparalleled box office appeal. 】

【Local TV stations receive many calls every day, all asking about Y-chou's concerts. Everyone wants to know if he has other performances. No doubt, if there are other performances, the tickets will be snapped up soon. But unfortunately, the piano youth orchestra's tour in the United States has officially ended...】

After reading the report, Zhou Yan smiled and asked Zhang Youan next to him, "Are there 30,000 people outdoors in these two performances?"

Zhang Youan nodded, "Almost. The first performance seems to have more than 14,000 people, and the second performance is more than 16,000. This data was told to me by Felipe himself, and it should not be false. It can be seen that he is very happy. In a few days, it will be the opening day of the Houston Theater District. They must take the opportunity to do a wave of publicity."

In the report, the opening day of the theater district was indeed mentioned, and it was even specifically mentioned that the members of the piano youth orchestra would also participate.

The purpose is also very clear, that is, to use this event to attract more tourists to participate in the opening day activities of the theater district.

"The atmosphere in Houston is indeed better than that in New York." Zhou Yan affirmed the atmosphere in Houston.

"It's a bit crowded over there in New York. The theater area here is very well planned. At least it can be used outdoors, which is incomparable to Radio City Music Hall." Zhang You'an smiled and added, "But the addition of outdoor performances , even if we are willing, other bands may not be willing.”

Zhou Yan actually felt that the outdoor venue was getting bigger and bigger, and the development was a bit different from what they thought before.

In the early days, the outdoor extra scenes were very small, and there were not so many outdoor audiences. Zhou Yan just led a few people out to play a few simple songs.

However, as more and more concerts are held, the scale of outdoor venues is also getting larger and larger. Nowadays, it seems that it is not unusual for a single outdoor audience to exceed 10,000 people.

With so many people, naturally there is no way to be as simple as before.

In these two concerts in Houston, nearly 20 pieces of music were played outdoors, and each concert lasted more than 40 minutes.

Coupled with the preparation time, Zhou Yan and the others had to put in an extra hour or two every night, which was actually very tiring.

As for outdoor performances, all are free, and they don't get a dime.

Zhou Yan sometimes wonders whether he should remove the outdoor part and spend more time on the formal events.

But for the time being, at least the popularity of outdoor performances is good for the band.

Without outdoor performances, there would certainly be fewer relevant news reports, and word-of-mouth among music fans would be significantly reduced.

"When I have time next year, I will do some pop special performances. I will not play songs like "Flow·Wind" and "Eternal Night", so I can consider performing in an open-air venue."

"This is also very good. We can also take out folk music and do special performances separately and divide it into several series."

"Let's go back and plan."

…

Nova Scotia is located in the southeastern corner of Canada, which is also in the northeastern corner of the United States.

Zhou Yan and the others traveled from Houston and basically walked half of the coastline of the United States, which was a very long distance.

If Zhou Yan had known that he was going to Nova Scotia instead of Mexico, he would have reversed the order of the concerts.

If they set out from New York, it is much closer to Nova Scotia.

The crew of "Titanic" is currently in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This city is next to the provincial capital of Halifax, and the two cities are separated by a bay.

When Zhou Yan and the others arrived at Turtlemouth, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Sebastian was very happy to see Zhou Yan, "Y, you are finally here."

Zhou Yan was a little surprised to see him so happy. After all, they didn't know each other very well, and the current work of the crew had little to do with him as a scorer.

"How was your recent filming?"

"It's not bad. As you know, there aren't many scenes here."

Although Sebastian said he was doing well, his expression was not very good. It could be seen that he was not having an easy time during this period.

But he didn't tell, and Zhou Yan didn't ask.

"As long as it goes well." Zhou Yan just smiled.

Sebastian also laughed, "Have you eaten? Do you want me to take you to eat something?"

"Already had it on the plane."

"That's good. In fact, at this time, I really can't find anything for you to eat."

The crew of "Titanic" eats packaged meals, which are provided at a fixed time and in a certain amount. It is not easy to get food after missing the time.

The neighborhood is also relatively desolate, and there are not many shops. It is probably wishful thinking to go out at this time to get a meal.

Zhou Yan and Zhang Youan knew this, so they chose to settle their dinner on the road.

"Is the protagonist here?" Zhou Yan asked.

"You mean Kate and Leonardo?"

"Um."

"Of course not. The filming here is a modern plot, and there is no part of the two of them. If you want to see them, you can wait until the filming here is finished and go to Mexico with us."

Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, "After the filming here, I should go back to China. When will the filming here be finished?"

“It’s going to be the end of August.”

"Then I definitely won't be able to make it this time, but I should go to the United States after a while, and I should be able to go to the venue by then."

"Then you have to hurry up."

"How many people are there in the crew now?" Zhou Yan asked again.

"Including you, eighty-six people."

"so much."

What they are filming here is a modern plot, but actually there are not many scenes. Many of the scenes were shot on site by Cameron and the others when they went to the Titanic wreckage.

This part of the movie scene is not big, so Zhou Yan did not expect that there would be so many people in the crew.

"It's nothing. When I went to Mexico to shoot later, there were more than a hundred stuntmen alone." Sebastian laughed.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh, it was indeed a big scene.

Looking at it this way, it's not impossible that there were thousands of crew members on set during the filming in Mexico.

Zhou Yan also went to the big crew, and there were many people during the filming of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

But in fact, when "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was being filmed, there were not many crew members. The main reason was the large number of extras, and other conditions were relatively limited.

Sebastian chatted with Zhou Yan for a while and then left.

Zhou Yan didn't have any work that night and went to bed at half past ten.

If you go to bed early, you will naturally wake up early.

The next morning, he got up at half past six, washed up and went out at exactly seven o'clock.

He originally thought there wouldn't be many people at this point, but when he opened the door, he found a lot of people in the corridor, and most of them were holding equipment, and it seemed they were about to start working.

A young man recognized Zhou Yan and greeted him proactively, "Hi, Y, you're here."

"Hello." Zhou Yan responded with a smile, and then asked, "Are you guys going to start work?"

"Yes, we are about to shoot a scene where the elderly heroine sees the news about the survey team."

"Where to shoot?"

"It's nearby, about a mile."

The young man tried to point out the direction of the filming location to Zhou Yan, but he couldn't tell the difference between south, east, north and west in the corridor, so he pointed blindly and finally gave up.

"If you want to go, you can come with us."

Zhou Yan originally wanted to go after breakfast, but faced with the current situation, he decisively gave up breakfast and nodded, "Then please give me a ride."

"It's an honor." The young man smiled, "Actually, I also like your music very much."

Another young man next to him smiled and said, "I can prove it for Lori."

On the way to the shooting location, Zhou Yan chatted with three young people for a while and learned that they were in charge of props. Before today's shooting started, they had to deliver the props to the scene.

Going with them was another car with members of the camera crew on top.

The shooting location is indeed not far from the hotel and is a single-family house.

"If you are interested, just go shopping by yourself. We need to start working." Lori said to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan nodded, "You guys should be busy and don't worry about me."

Then he wandered around the house by himself. It was a simple house. The reason why it was chosen as the residence of the elderly heroine was probably because it was relatively close to the hotel and was convenient for filming.

Because it is a modern plot, there is not much to pay attention to in the layout, but Zhou Yan can still tell that a lot of thought was put into the layout of the house.

The paintings on the wall and the pottery products that can be seen everywhere in the house are obviously not from the original house. All these furnishings reflect the aesthetics of the owner of the house.

There may not be a standard for this aesthetic, but it must be unified.

Just looking at these furnishings, Zhou Yan already had an image of a character in his mind. He knew that this was the effect James Cameron wanted.

To create a character, it is not only the performance of the character itself that is important, but the environment in which the character lives is also an important part.

Especially in this modern scene in "Titanic", the elderly heroine appears for so little time, and what she can express is very limited. The audience wants to know how she has been living for so many years, and it is through her environment. (End of chapter)