Su Ze's eyes lit up. After more than half a year, he finally passed the first stage and began to walk out of Novice Village.
"Movement and Purpose Exercise"
"Please host to complete the sitting state."
"Training Begins"
A chair appeared in front of him, just sitting there alone. It seemed simple, but Su Ze understood the key to it.
Three elements of performance!
What to do? Why? How to do it?
This is the basis that supports all actions of the character.
Su Ze was sitting on a chair, constantly designing the character's background and personality. If he was a student, he might be busy writing homework, or he might be bored in class and secretly zone out, or cover up comic novels with books...
If you are an office worker, you may work on the computer, chat and gossip with your colleagues, or silently play on your phone and watch videos...
If you are an old man, you may be sunbathing comfortably, recalling the past with a photo album, or just looking out the window in silence...
Compared with performances without physical objects, any action now requires the design of the character's heart, including age, gender, educational background, family situation, personality traits, work experience, emotional life...
You must know that all actions have a purpose in the final analysis, and even subconsciously they can reflect the truest inner state of the character. This is also the most touching moment for an actor.
Really listen, really see, really feel!
Su Ze suddenly felt enlightened, as if he had been climbing the stairs and suddenly came to another level, so natural and natural.
Enter... stand... walk around... stand up and sit down again... wait... just say a simple greeting...
A seemingly ordinary action contains many joys and sorrows.
"After this period of time, your recitation of vocal music has passed the test, and there is no problem with your normal performance on the spot." Liu Tianyi looked at the six students and said seriously: "From today on, the topic performance will officially begin."
Everyone straightened their backs, it was finally here.
Liu Tianyi glanced at everyone, paused for a moment on Su Ze's face, and continued: "You are taking the exam for the Chinese Opera Performance Department. If you want to become an outstanding professional actor in the future, no matter how beautiful you are and how powerful your resources are, you still have to rely on your acting skills in the end!
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"Especially today, with the development of the Internet, every year there are examples of low-cost works that rely on word-of-mouth from the audience to become popular. What do these three-no works rely on?"
"Solid script, excellent director, and most importantly, solid acting skills!"
"I will tell you one thing from the moment you enter the studio: being an actor is hard!"
"Especially good actors need to experience life, feel the warmth and warmth of human relationships, and even need to experience birth, old age, illness and death."
"Behind every great actor is a history of blood and tears!"
After speaking, he looked at Han Fei and said word by word: "I have never seen a good actor who is aloof and detached from life, do you understand?"
Feeling the complicated gazes of everyone, Han Fei gritted his teeth and remained silent, and a certain obsession in his heart became more deeply rooted.
After saying what needed to be said, Liu Tianyi clapped his hands vigorously and said: "Today we start the topical performance. This is also the key to selecting students for the Chinese Opera. After all, vocal form can be improved through training. You have four years to work hard slowly."
"But acting is different. Chinese opera needs a spiritual potential. Those candidates who seem to be social and experienced are the least popular. Do you know why?"
Su Ze curled his lips and said, nonsense, students know everything about what they want the teacher to do!
"So you must be truthful when you are on the scene, and you must show your most sincere self." Liu Tianyi said earnestly: "The examiners have seen too many students, who are thin, fat, thin, and fat in all kinds of ways. Don't be clever and try to deceive their sharp eyes.
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"Let's talk about the preliminary proposition performance first. Basically, there are ten people in a group, and the presentation time is about three minutes. It is considered a group performance."
"The examiner gives you a scene and usually gives you five minutes to prepare. You can form a team or perform alone. However, in recent years, there are too many candidates, and many times they ask you to start directly."
"No way?" Zhao Yuncheng shouted in confusion: "How can we act if we don't prepare for it!"
"Hmph, why can't you act?" Liu Tianyi snorted coldly: "The exam is all about improvisation, do you understand?"
Seeing the student shut up, he continued: "I have seen too many failed performances to attract the examiner's attention, all kinds of sensationalism, shouting and even crying for the mother. This is the most annoying behavior for the examiner!"
"Good performances are all restrained!"
"People know what you're doing without even having to speak a line!"
“Do you think that the examiner’s decades of experience are all fake!”
Su Ze nodded secretly, the more professional the better, the so-called first test is to eliminate people, at least 90% of them will be eliminated.
"I will give you an example. I have seen many candidates competing for others' attention to gain attention, or simply disrupting the rhythm and performance of other candidates. This kind of thing happens every year."
"I can tell you something"
"The drama is the character!"
Liu Tianyi said with a serious face: "No matter how good his acting skills are, no matter how talented he is, he can't get into the Chinese drama market!"
"The second test is basically a multi-person performance. The examiner will then give a question and let the candidates form a team to freely assign roles. Of course, it can also be performed by a single person."
"The examiners who can enter this link will have an impression of it, and it is also the focus of the examination. The difficulty will naturally increase a lot, especially imagination and creativity."
"As for the last three exams, it is the stage where you really show yourself. The examiner will also set aside ten or even twenty minutes to fully understand your personal experience, including oral exams and on-the-spot additional exams."
"Don't be afraid of adding extra drama at last minute. Giving more opportunities is the proof of your success in attracting others. Do you understand that whether you are in the examination room or on the set?"
"I'm so nervous!" Hu Lei's pretty face turned pale. Not to mention being on the spot, it was frightening to hear it now.
"Okay, just talk and don't practice your speaking skills." Liu Tianyi came to the middle of the classroom and said to Su Ze, "Come up here."
He brought a chair over and said to Su Ze: "Give them a sample. The scene is a bus."
Su Ze sat down without saying anything, clasping his hands tightly on his abdomen as if protecting his briefcase, and looking out the car window with no focus, as if he was in a daze in the morning.
The body is still shaking slightly from time to time, and one glance can tell the audience that it is a bus. Suddenly he frowns and glances back to the side, as if he is disturbed by some noise?
Gradually, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, his head gradually came closer to the car window, his hands loosened little by little, and his body leaned to the right, looking drowsy.
Suddenly, he slumped forward and almost hit his head on the front seat. This simple movement instantly made everyone present understand:
Brake hard!
"Okay!" Liu Tianyi couldn't help but applaud, great job!
The simple performance of just a few minutes seems to see the epitome of a struggling young man in a big city, confused, reserved, hesitant, tired, and lost about the future...
"Su Ze is so awesome!" Seeing her best friend Hu Lei whining, Jiang Jie secretly complained: "You're so awesome, isn't it just a basic operation?"
I was shocked at Su Ze's acting skills at the beginning and now I am used to it. I don't know when people started to imitate or even study his performances. Are you still a student?