The performance was scheduled to be recorded a week later, but in the following week, the SARS situation in Yanjing continued to develop.
Among them, the first case of infection occurred in Yanjing University. A student at a science and engineering university was confirmed to be infected with SARS. However, no one expected that one case would be cross-infected in the school, resulting in dozens of suspected cases. Coupled with other new cases in the society, it suddenly put huge pressure on several designated hospitals.
Three days before the performance, the health department decided to activate Xiaotangshan Hospital and urgently build a hospital specifically to deal with SARS.
At the same time, the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong and Taiwan was becoming increasingly serious. There were reports of hospital closures and medical staff dying of infection. For a time, people in Hong Kong and Taiwan were panicked.
The increasingly severe epidemic has brought inevitable haze to the people. The country has been sparing no effort to control and treat SARS. However, from the outbreak to the control of the disease, it always requires a process and is not achieved overnight.
Therefore, the Yangma’s charity gala to fight against SARS is even more important. It not only bears the heavy responsibility of calling on the whole people to fight SARS together, but also shoulders the mission of encouraging and giving confidence to the people. If it can also make the people who are already anxious It would be great if the tense nerves could be relaxed a little.
Li Mu also realized the important role of this charity gala at this time. People's panic about the epidemic can no longer be appeased by publicizing scientific epidemic prevention, so this gala will be a timely rain to relieve the public's anxiety.
This is also the key reason why Li Mu agreed to participate, give a speech, decide to donate money, and also agreed to perform as a guest singer.
Since he couldn't think of a better inspirational song for the time being, Li Mu submitted the song "Sunshine Always After the Storm" to the organizing team of Yangma's party.
Originally, Li Mu deliberately reminded them to prepare a down-tuned version of the accompaniment that suited their voices. After all, the original singer of this song was a woman. However, the director who prepared the song personally called Li Mu and thanked him first. Then he told Li Mu that it would be no problem to prepare a down-tuned version of the accompaniment, but before the rehearsal, Li Mu would have to go to their recording studio to record in advance.
Li Mu had heard of rehearsing in advance, but recording in advance was a bit confusing.
But thinking about it carefully, Li Mu quickly understood the meaning and recorded it in advance, which meant that they wanted to lip-sync at the party.
Only then did Li Mu realize that in variety shows these days, in order to ensure that the performance is not affected, most singing programs are lip-syncing.
But this is not surprising. After all, this is an unspoken rule of the national TV stations, and the rule against lip-syncing has not been officially introduced. Of course, TV stations tend to use lip-synching to reduce the probability of accidents.
Many celebrities in this era are also accustomed to and tend to lip-sync performances, because this can avoid car accidents and save a lot of effort. It is said that many celebrities also lip-sync when singing.
However, Li Mu didn't want to lip-sync.
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When a celebrity goes out, he or she represents himself or, at most, the agency behind him. But when an entrepreneur goes out, he or she represents the employees, products, and brands of his entire company, or even an industry. In this case, he just opens his mouth and makes blind gestures, and the backstage is in advance. The recorded accompaniment really goes against Li Mu’s principles.
So Li Mu told the director: "Just prepare the accompaniment. I will sing live when the time comes. There is no need to record in advance."
The other party was suddenly embarrassed: "Mr. Li, we all use recording methods..."
Li Mu said: "I know. I don't care how other people sing. When it comes to my song, you just play the accompaniment for me and I will sing it live."
"This..." The other party hesitated for a few words and then pleaded: "It is easy to have problems when singing live, such as poor microphone reception, mixing effect problems, microphone howling, etc., and if you lose your voice, are out of tune, or It is also very difficult for us to remedy the situation of wrong shooting... "
At this point, the other party said in a pleading tone: "Mr. Li, I hope you can consider the effect of the program and record it in advance so that problems can be avoided on site."
Li Mu saw that the other party had been promoting this operation, and said with a bit of anger: "As for the equipment problem, I will work hard for you to debug it and try to avoid problems on site. If I don't perform well, I will report it to you on site." I apologize to the national audience. I would rather show my bad side to the audience than cheat in front of the audience. After all, I am different from celebrities. I am a business owner. The most important thing for a business owner is to be honest. If I also According to your thinking, if the company goes public in the future and its operating conditions are not very good, will I have to make false accounts to deceive shareholders?"
The other party was complaining in his heart, and he was still trying to persuade him: "Mr. Li, you should not be too strict about the launch. A performance is only for the performance effect, which is naturally not the same thing as business management, and it is not easy to put it together. Compare."
Li Mu lost his patience and said, "Let's discuss it. Either I will sing or I won't sing."
After saying that, Li Mu hung up the phone.
More than ten minutes later, the program director called Li Mu back, but Li Mu didn't answer the call again. The other party had no choice but to call Li Ziwei and said to Li Ziwei: "Assistant Li, please communicate with Mr. Li and tell us We will do on-site audio debugging for him to meet all his needs. If Mr. Li has no objection, we will start preparations."
Li Ziwei had no choice but to go back and confirm with Li Mu. Although Li Mu was unhappy, he did not make any more demands. She didn't want to interfere with whether others were lip-syncing, but she must not lip-sync when the time came.
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As soon as Li Mu confirmed the issue of real singing with Yang Ma's party director, he received a call from Chen Wan.
As soon as they came up, Chen Wan asked Li Mu: "Bad boy, I heard that you are going to participate in the anti-SARS charity gala held by CCTV?"
"Yes." Li Mu said, "For such an important and significant thing, I must support it."
After saying that, Li Mu asked her with a smile: "The news reached you so quickly."
Chen Wan smiled and said: "The chief director in charge of CCTV called our station and hoped that I could go over and support this party."
Li Mu asked in confusion: "Why do you still need to come to support me?"
Chen Wan said: "Maybe it's because I just finished the first Super Girl and it's quite popular now, so Mother Yang wants me to come over and help."
Li Mu nodded.
Yangma is the number one media in the country. Because of its great significance, its entertainment quality is somewhat inferior. Although the charity party is also a performance of great significance, it is still an entertainment party in the final analysis, so it naturally needs a market. Highly recognized singer, actor and host.
The Spring Festival Gala sometimes borrows people from local stations, and usually they borrow the first brother or the first sister from the local station to create a separate hosting team, in order to increase their own entertainment.
Chen Wan said: "What CCTV means is that there should be two sets of hosts at the scene. One is CCTV's own. They are mainly responsible for serious aspects, such as the opening, announcing government decisions, and announcing the progress of the fight against SARS. When the time comes, the company They are responsible for giving speeches on stage and publicizing donation information. The other team is mainly responsible for the entertainment part, responsible for announcing the performance, interspersing dialogue, and setting the atmosphere. Now they want me to be the host of the entertainment part.”
Li Mu understood and asked her: "Then who are you partnering with?"
Chen Wan said: "Teacher He and I..."
Li Mu asked in surprise: "How embarrassing?"
"yes."
Li Mu said: "That means that when the time comes, there will be one host for CCTV and another for your Hunan Satellite TV?"
"Yes." Chen Wan said, "Our leader has agreed to let us both prepare and go there the day after tomorrow."
"Oh my God." Li Mu teased her, "You guys at Xiangnan Satellite TV are so awesome. CCTV has two hosts across the country, but they are all occupied by your station."
Chen Wan said jokingly: "To be honest, the hosts of other stations are probably lucky. They all say that the epidemic in Yanjing is developing faster now and it is not safe."
Li Mu said: "It is developing relatively quickly, but there is no need to worry too much."
After saying that, Li Mu asked her: "Why are you here?"
Chen Wan said: "The only option is to fly."
Li Mu immediately said: "Then I'll contact the business jet company and ask them to pick you up the day after tomorrow."
"No need!" Chen Wan said, "We can just take the civil aviation there."
Li Mu said: "For safety reasons, it is better to charter a flight."
At this point, Li Mu added, "I don't want you to take any risks."
Chen Wan smiled sweetly and said, "I know you feel sorry for me, but there is really no need to charter a plane. There are only six of us together with the assistant."
Li Mu couldn't help but said: "I will ask Ziwei to contact the charter company later. If you don't agree, then I won't allow you to come to Yanjing. Just find an excuse to push this matter away."
Chen Wan said: "You are the most domineering. I am just afraid of the negative impact of flying on a business jet."
Li Mu said: "I will communicate with the charter company. They will find the airport to cooperate when the time comes. Your privacy is guaranteed. When you land in Yanjing, I will ask the driver to pick you up and have a meal at home. My parents are also there. In Yanjing."
Chen Wan agreed without hesitation and said, "Then I will prepare some gifts for my uncle and aunt tomorrow."
Li Mu said: "No need to bother, just come home. You can stay at home during the few days you come to Yanjing."
Chen Wan said: "That would leave Teacher He alone."
Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's invite Teacher He to join us for dinner when the time comes. My mother quite likes him."
"Okay, let me tell him that Teacher He really admires you and has always said that he wants to get to know you if he has a chance."
(End of chapter)