Entertaining Children

"Make up for the morning exercises?" Wang Jiayi asked, "Senior, do you want us to do the morning exercises that we usually do in school?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "But it's not mandatory. I said I don't care if you perform morning exercises or not. Letting you perform morning exercises is just a way to wake you up. If you feel that you are already awake, you can You can not do it!"

"I'll do it!" Wang Jiayi immediately said, "I've never done morning exercises after breakfast! I want to try!"

There are still cameras in the rehearsal room. How could they miss such good material?

"Well, we do too!" The other two newcomers also said.

"Senior!" Zhou Feng and a boy named Ding Yuyang raised their hands at the same time.

The two glanced at each other, and the boy named Ding Yuyang said, "Senior, I'm not an acting major, so I don't know what to do in the morning!"

"I'm a dancer, and the content of the morning work is different from that of the acting department, and I don't know!" Zhou Feng followed.

"You've been here for so long, haven't the teachers taught you morning exercises?" Xiao Yao asked a little surprised.

The teachers in this program are all professional backgrounds, many of them are teachers from the performance department of Huaxia Film and Television Academy, and the teachers who lead the team are even in-service teachers from the performance department of Chinese opera.

"The teachers didn't ask us to perform morning exercises, nor did they teach us!" Zhou Feng shook his head.

"Senior, can you please teach us two?" Ding Yuyang said to Xiao Yao.

"I don't care what I said!" Xiao Yao shook his head, looked at Zhang Yunlan and said, "Yunlan, I saw that you did a good job in morning exercise, you can teach them both!"

Zhang Yunlan looked at Xiao Yao, then turned to look at the two boys, nodded and said, "Okay!"

"Thanks, Yunlan!" the two boys said to Zhang Yunlan.

"I'll give you half an hour, start by yourself!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, found a chair and sat down.

"Hey, ha! Hey, ha! Yay! Ya! Hey! Whoa!"

After Xiao Yao sat down, several people stood apart, and the sound of singing and practicing four-tone rhyme soon sounded in the rehearsal room.

The morning exercise of the performance department consists of two parts: voice training and physical training. Xiao Yao didn't say a word during the whole process, seemingly indifferent, but in fact he secretly paid attention to everyone's performance.

Zhang Yunlan has done morning work in the morning, and now she mainly teaches two non-major students. Regardless of Zhang Yunlan's words, among the five new actors, the one who impressed Xiao Yao the most during the vocal training stage was a boy named Bai Zicheng. After opening the voice and four-tone rhyme, the others basically only practiced tongue twisters. Only he took out his mobile phone and read a poem after practicing the tongue twisters.

After voice training, there is physical training. At this stage, the person who impressed Xiao Yao the most was Zhou Feng, who was a dancer. It's easy to talk about splitting legs and knees, not to mention the other boys can't do it, even the girls can't do it as easily as he does.

"Okay, stop!" As soon as the time was up, Xiao Yao stopped the six people.

"Yeah!" The six of them stopped.

"Open up your voice, do some stretching, and you'll feel much more energetic!" Wang Jiayi tore away the messy hair from physical training, tied it into a ponytail again, and said with a relaxed smile.

"Rest for five minutes, and then start rehearsal." Xiao Yao announced without answering.

Five minutes later, the crew began to rehearse.

In today's rehearsal, Xiao Yao began to pay close attention to the details of the performance, so the number of calls to stop was obviously much more than last night.

Although the roles of the six characters in this script are not much different, and all of them are outstanding, there are still differences in the difficulty of performing the roles.

The two roles of "Zhao Meilan" played by Zhang Yunlan and "Lin Jianjun" played by Lin Kaijie are middle-aged, and they are the parents of the other three characters. roles. Followed by "Hai Pi" played by Bai Zicheng and "Lin Qiuyang" played by Wang Jiayi. One is a youth and the other is a middle school student. The age gap is not too big, but both have scenes that require strong emotions.

The difficulty is not small.

Finally, "Zhou Chenxi" played by Zhou Feng and "Zhou Jianyu" played by Ding Yuyang. A "high six" and a college student, both of whom are college students, have the smallest age gap with the actors, and do not show any intense emotions. They are the two least difficult of the six roles.

I don't know if it's because of the non-major background, but the two characters with the least difficulty in this play are the ones who were stopped by Xiao Yao more often during the morning rehearsal.

"Stop!" Xiao Yao stopped Zhou Feng's performance again, walked over and said, "Zhou Feng, your expressions and lines are all rigid, and you can't see or hear any emotions at all!"

"I'm sorry, director..." Zhou Feng lowered his head and said.

"Don't apologize, listen to me," Xiao Yao waved his hand, "You are a dancer, so your physical expressiveness is nothing to say. When dancing, your stage expressiveness is very good. Even if you don't have lines, your expression is very good. I can see your dancing skills and stage experience. Dancing is also a kind of performance. When you dance, I feel that you are fully invested in the role, but when you are acting, you don’t!"

"I've done everything in the script," Zhou Feng said, "I don't know how to invest in it!"

"The teacher taught it, no, do you know what it means to dig out the prescribed situation?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I don't know!" Zhou Feng shook his head.

"Okay, then let me ask you," Xiao Yao said, "Zhou Chenxi helped Lin Qiuyang make the trophy and returned the insufficient money to her. Did he not want to collect money at all or give it to her when she really has money?"

"This~" Zhou Feng hesitated, "Maybe he didn't want to collect money?"

"Then let me ask you again," Xiao Yao said again, "Zhou Chenxi didn't want Lin Qiuyang's money at all, was it just because they were neighbors, or because Zhou Chenxi liked her? Zhou Chenxi liked her, the way a brother likes a younger sister , or the kind of love between a man and a woman? If it is between a man and a woman, is it unrequited love or mutual love? If it is unrequited love, is it open love or secret love? Has Zhou Chenxi told Lin Qiuyang? Does Lin Qiuyang know? Lin Qiuyang What kind of feelings do you have for Zhou Chenxi? The brother next door? Buddy? The boy you like? Does Zhou Chenxi feel what kind of feelings Lin Qiuyang has for him?"

"Ah?" Zhou Feng was dumbfounded by Xiao Yao's series of questions, and said in a somewhat confused way, "I don't know, it doesn't seem to be written in the script, right?"

"It's not written in the script, so you haven't thought about it?" Xiao Yao said, "The so-called prescribed situation is the plot of the script. It includes two aspects, one is external, such as the events described in the script, and the occurrence of events. The time, place, environment, etc. The one is internal, which refers to the internal mental and psychological state of the characters in the script, such as the characters' pursuits, goals, desires, thoughts, emotions, motivations, and attitudes towards things, etc. "

"The so-called excavation of the prescribed situation is to infinitely magnify the character situation provided by the script." Xiao Yao continued, "In theory, if the situation of a fictional character can be infinitely magnified and then magnified, and magnified to a reality If the whole life and life experience of a person completely overlap, a new real "person" will appear in the artistic imagination. In this way, you are not playing a fictional character, but playing a character created by yourself. Out of it, the one who has merged with yourself."

"Then what exactly should I do?" Zhou Feng asked.

"Write a biography of a character." Xiao Yao said, "You don't know how to play it now, because the role of Zhou Chenxi is still too vague and not specific enough for you. If you have the answers to the questions I just asked you, Is it easier for you to turn yourself into Zhou Chenxi? You only know that this girl is your neighbor, and you have to help her. In terms of other details, you know too little, and you are not sure about anything. If you are familiar with all aspects of this character If you understand yourself as well as you understand yourself, you can naturally give the most authentic response. If the person in front of you is not Lin Qiuyang, nor Zhou Chenxi, but a girl you like or your sister, let Go help him make a trophy, you won't still behave like this, will you?"

"It seems to be!" Zhou Feng nodded, then quickly shook his head and said, "I said you are right, I should know how to do it, it won't be like this."

"But," Zhou Feng said again, "From the script alone, I can't find the answers to these questions. Director, can you tell me in detail what kind of relationship the two of them have?"

"No!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "If you look at the script alone, you can't find the answer, and I can't find it, because the script is indeed not written in such detail. I have an answer to each of the questions just now. , but those answers are the answers I gave as an actor, not as a screenwriter or director. When I spoke to Wang Jiayi yesterday, I acted according to my understanding and the prescribed situation I discovered. But as far as this script is concerned, it’s not just the situation I acted in yesterday.”

"As I said just now, digging out the prescribed situation is to infinitely magnify the character's situation provided by the script." Xiao Yao continued, "So it's good for us to amplify the character's situation according to the script, but this is the job of an actor, not a screenwriter or a scriptwriter. directed."

"For example, me," Xiao Yao pointed to himself, "I used to act in plays to dig out the prescribed situations, and when I wrote biographies, I would record everything I could imagine about the characters. Name, age, place of birth, family, hobbies, Height and weight, left-handed or right-handed, what is the name of the person he loves, how many times he has been in love, whether he likes sweet or spicy food, whether he likes to wear dark or light-colored clothes, shoes and hats, what foods he is allergic to, When I was studying, was I a top student or a scumbag, did I ever get into a fight with someone, did I have a crush on my teacher, etc. etc. Which screenwriter would write a character in such detail when writing a script?"

"Huh? So detailed?" The six newcomers exclaimed.

After listening to Xiao Yao's long series of biographies, not only Zhou Feng, but even the newcomers who were listening beside him were dumbfounded.

"Of course, I'm just giving an example. I didn't ask you to write biographies to that level." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "And that's what I used to do. Now even if I write biographies when I'm acting, I can't write well. So detailed."

"What I want to say is," Xiao Yao looked at Zhou Feng again and said, "If you have doubts about the prescribed situation you discovered, whether it fits the role set by the screenwriter and director, you can discuss your prescribed situation with the screenwriter and director. Is it reasonable, right, but you can’t ask the screenwriter and director to give you such a detailed character situation.”

"Yes, I got it, director!" Zhou Feng nodded and said, "I will write the biographies myself!"

"We often say that screenwriters write scripts to create, directors to film are to create, and actors to act are also to create. There is nothing to say about the first two, but I have heard people question that an actor's acting is what the script writes and acts, and the director can act as he says. Acting, is acting an actor’s creation?” Xiao Yao said, “It’s our actors who are creating when we dig out the prescribed situation! As actors, I hope you all have excellent creative abilities.”

Compared with film and television works, the director's control over the final presentation of stage works is very weak, and he relies more on the on-site performance of actors. No matter how good the rehearsal is, the actor's performance on the stage cannot be exactly the same as when he was rehearsing. Basically, every time a stage actor performs on stage, it is a creation, so in terms of stage plays, the actor's creative ability is particularly important. This is also one of the reasons why Xiao Yao took the trouble to talk so much and give them such an unplanned acting class.

Of course, what Xiao Yao is talking about is performance, not stage performance. Even if they don't act in stage plays in the future, what Xiao Yao said will be very useful for these actors to appear in film and television dramas in the future.

"Understood, thank you director!" This time not only Zhou Feng, but also the other five people said seriously.

"Director," Wang Jiayi asked, "You said just now that you can't write biographies in such detail now, so how do you write now? How far do you usually write?"

"What I said just now is that even if I write biographies, I won't write them in such detail!" Xiao Yao laughed, "Actually, I don't write biographies anymore when I'm filming."

"Ah?" Ding Yuyang said, "Director, you've said so much, so it's a method you don't use! Does it really work? You won't fool us, will you?"

"Of course it works!" Zhang Yunlan said, "Prescribed situation is a performance science term proposed by Stanislavsky. Excavating prescribed situations and writing biographies of characters have also been taught by the teachers of our school's acting class! It's just that writing biographies , It’s not really necessary to actually write it out, you can write it in your heart and know it in your heart!”

"Oh!" Ding Yuyang nodded.

"That's not bad!" Xiao Yao looked at Zhang Yunlan, turned his head and said to everyone, "However, there is not only one school of acting, and there is not only one way and method of acting. I just talked about one that I think is more suitable for the present. It’s just your method. The method I use more now is the method-based experience method, which is to believe easily like a child, without hesitation in my heart, I believe that I am the role I want to play, and turn myself into the one I said in my heart. The person who thinks. I say this, can you learn?"