Entertaining Children

Xiao Yao used to run around with Xiao Chengru for a long time. He has been to many TV drama crews and movie crews several times, but he has never been to a drama crew. This time he participated in "Happy Terminal" with Sun Zhihao. The first time I saw the drama crew. The stage, intuition, comprehensiveness and dialogue of drama are very different from film and television works. The props, costumes, choreography, and lighting are completely different from those I have seen in film and television crews before. Xiao Yao, who thinks he already has a good understanding of the crew, seems to have seen a completely different new world.

Xiao Yao has watched a lot of movies and TV shows in his previous life, but he has never been to a theater to watch even a play, which can be regarded as completely zero experience.

There is a big difference between drama performance and film and television drama performance. Movies and TV are meant to restore real scenes in reality, and the audience should feel as real as possible. The audience's comments on the film and television dramas will be "too fake" by the actors, but no audience will criticize the "authenticity" of the drama because of the exaggerated stage scenery and actors' performances. The world of drama is an exaggerated world that has been abstracted and condensed, so drama performance is also abstract and condensed. Compared with real life, it is exaggerated.

When Sun Zhihao brought Xiao Yao to the rehearsal site of the play and announced that Xiao Yao would play the role of Chen Fang, the son of the hero Chen Jianjun in the play, everyone in the crew was shocked. Originally they thought that Sun Zhihao would find a shorter and experienced adult actor to play the important role of Chen Fang.

Children rarely appear on the stage of real commercial dramas. Because in addition to more exaggerated requirements for performances, drama performances also have two great characteristics, one is solid basic skills, and the other is that there is almost no fault tolerance rate.

In drama performances, the lines need to be particularly articulate and powerful. When the mood is low or high, it is necessary to express the full emotions with actions and words that are much more exaggerated than real life. This requires very solid line skills and Accurate movement expression ability, and because the drama performance is continuous and one-time, every action in the drama performance must be carefully designed, and the actors' positions, expressions, and lines must be rehearsed many times in advance. There is no room for correction, so absolutely nothing can go wrong. Unlike film and television dramas, which are filmed first and edited later, if the performance is not good once, you can start over with NG.

This also determines that the actors cannot relax for a moment during the one- or two-hour performance. They must concentrate on the whole process, devote themselves to the role wholeheartedly, and make no mistakes in the middle. Solid line skills, accurate movement expression ability, long-term concentration, and no mistakes in the middle, these points are difficult for children to achieve, and the script is more exaggerated, and the requirements for reality If it is lower, it is often the case that an adult plays the role of a child.

In view of Xiao Yuan's maturity and intelligence beyond that of children of the same age, Sun Zhihao is still very confident that Xiao Yao will not make mistakes halfway. As for the previous points, the accuracy of lines and movements is the content of Sun Zhihao's training guidance for Xiao Yao.

Faced with everyone's doubts, Xiao Yao dispelled everyone's doubts about his line ability on the first day, not only slightly shocked the rest of the crew, but even Sun Zhihao was pleasantly surprised.

A few years ago, when Xiao Yao and Xiao Chengru were in the crew, they were very curious about the vocal training of "three-chamber resonance" because they learned that actors who graduated from a certain film academy had to perform morning exercises every day when they were studying, so they pestered Xiao Yao Cheng Confucianism taught him. In the past few years, when he was exercising in the morning, besides running and practicing martial arts, he also practiced hanging his voice and "three-chamber resonance".

Although it is not like Xiao Chengru who has become a habit for decades and even speaks with that kind of resonant voice unconsciously, but when he does it deliberately, his "three-cavity resonance" voice method combined with The breath, tone, and

It is also enough for him to speak the kind of powerful and penetrating "drama accent" that is not inferior to ordinary actors.

Sun Zhihao even felt that the headset microphone originally prepared for Xiao Yao was no longer needed during the official performance. The lines Xiao Yao uttered on the stage can be heard directly by the audience in the entire theater.

And a few days later, Xiao Yao's terrifying memory also dispelled everyone's second worry about him. After several days of rehearsal, not only did Xiao Yao never miss or make mistakes in his lines, but even his movements and movements on the stage were all very accurate without a single mistake.

What Xiao Yao lacks is pure acting, such as breathing, articulation, pauses, rhythm, tone of voice, facial expression, emotional expression and so on. And these require Sun Zhihao to guide and train him continuously.

In this way, at least everyone is not too worried that there will be a performance accident because of Xiao Yao, ruining the whole show. The rest depends on how exciting the show can be through the efforts of everyone, including Xiao Yao.

Compared with the penetrating power of sound and the accuracy of positioning movements, which are visible to the naked eye, such as "external skills", and pure "internal skills" such as acting skills, Xiao Yao's performance is not very impressive. This is also because Xiao Yao’s two lifetimes have only watched film and television dramas, and he has never watched even a drama. He is too unfamiliar with this kind of exaggerated performance in dramas, and his psychological acceptance is also very high. Limited, so progress is unusually slow.

Under such circumstances, Sun Zhihao could only be forced to give Xiao Yao a small fire. After rehearsals, he took advantage of the opportunity to live together, and at night he and Hu Xuena gave additional guidance to Xiao Yao's acting skills at home.

Hu Xuena also came from a serious film school, and she is also very enthusiastic and good at drama performances. She just faded out of the showbiz, and didn't completely retire. When she came across a good book she was interested in, she would act in some. Therefore, when at home at night, Hu Xuena can also guide Xiao Yao with Sun Zhihao.

After the bean bag incident, Xiao Yao also became ruthless. Faced with the difficult problem of drama performance, he showed a very tenacious side. Whether it was in the rehearsal field or at Sun Zhihao's house at night, he studied hard and practiced repeatedly. Those things taught by Sun Zhihao and Hu Xuena. Even so, Xiao Yao was just able to catch up with the rehearsal progress of the whole play.

"Dad! Help!" Accompanied by a shrill cry, Xiao Yao, who played Chen Fang, rushed onto the stage from one side of the stage, and rushed desperately to the other side of the stage. Chen Fang, played by Xiao Yao, is staggering and waving his arms exaggeratedly. Accompanied by a few barking dogs in the stereo and a black shadow in the shape of a dog projected on the back curtain, he acts out the scene of being chased by a dog in embarrassment.

Chen Fang, who was running, stumbled on the heel of his right foot with his left foot, immediately lost his balance and fell flat on the stage with a "crack". With no time to get up, accompanied by the approaching black shadow and the more rapid dog barking, Chen Fang only had time to turn around on the ground, and began to push and kick the black shadow in the air with his hands and feet. The panic on Chen Fang's face and eyes was clearly visible, his hands and feet were waving wildly, and he shouted in a crying voice: "Dad!"

Finally, Chen Jianjun played by Sun Zhihao appeared on the other side of the stage. Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Jianjun's eyes were about to burst, he picked up a brick on the ground and threw it over. It's a pity that it was still a step late after all. Just when Chen Jianjun bent down to pick up bricks, Chen Fang's right leg, which was kicking randomly, suddenly stretched straight forward, as if being pulled by something, and Chen Fang let out a scream.

"Crack!" Brick landed next to Chen Fang and the wild dog and made a loud noise. The black shadow on the curtain turned and moved, accompanied by the sound of fleeing away, indicating that the wild dog was startled, let go of Chen Fang, and turned his head. escape.

Chen Jianjun ran over with a face full of shock, sat down next to Chen Fang, and hugged Chen Fang who was still crying with his right leg on the ground. Being embraced by his father, Chen Fang immediately looked up at his father and cried, "Dad, I was bitten by a dog! My leg hurts!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Chen Jianjun comforted the son in his arms with a face full of anxiety, "Dad will take you to the hospital right away, get bandaged, tetanus, and rabies vaccine, you will be fine, you will be fine. "Speaking, Chen Jianjun struggled to stand up with Chen Fang in his arms, and staggered to the side of the stage in a panic.

The stage lights dimmed, signaling the end of the scene.

The lights came back on, Sun Zhihao had put Xiao Yao down, and the two stood on the side of the stage, panting. Xiao Yao was crying and shouting just now, he was overly agitated and was recovering. Sun Zhihao just ran a few steps with Xiao Yao in his arms, feeling a little tired. Due to regular exercise, Xiao Yao's body is relatively strong, regardless of height and weight, he is higher than the average eight-year-old child. At present, the height has grown to 142 cm, and the weight has reached 40 kg. For Sun Zhihao, who is in his forties, it is still a bit difficult for him to run while holding Xiao Yao like this.

"Okay! Very good!" The executive director who was standing and watching in the audience shouted "Hello", and took the lead in applauding twice. The other actors who were not involved in the performance of this scene and the staff who were watching by the scene and the script manager also applauded a few times.

Since the next scene is in the hospital, there will be more scene props and characters, so the preparation time will be longer, and before the official rehearsal of the plot, each actor will have to rehearse and move, so Xiao Yao can rest for a while . Because he was in a coma in the next scene, except being held in Sun Zhihao's arms, he was lying on the emergency bed in the hospital.

"Director Sun, your physical strength is not good enough. After running for a few steps with Xiao Yao in your arms, you become gasped like this. You need to exercise more." Taking advantage of the preparation time for changing props on the stage, Sun Zhihao also ran to the auditorium below the stage He was sitting and resting, but he couldn't catch his breath, so he was ridiculed by his deputy, executive director Xie Kai.

"That's because Xiao Yao is too heavy, okay?" Sun Zhihao glanced at his deputy, and said pantingly, "Don't look at Xiao Yao, who doesn't seem to be heavy, but the muscles on his body are well trained. It looks heavy, and it's hard to hold it. In addition, he is tall, so it's hard to hold it. If you don't believe me, try it yourself. Don't think you are younger than me. You may not be as good as me when you hold it. .” In rehearsals, he didn’t call Xiao Yao by his nickname.

"I'm not going to ask for trouble." Xie Kai quickly smiled and shook his hands.

"Little friend, you did a really good job. Come on, I'll reward you." Xiao Yao was sitting in the first row of auditorium to rest, when a girl in her twenties wearing a nurse's uniform sat next to him, and handed over a tube to open. potato chips.

"Thank you, I won't eat." Xiao Yao glanced sideways, shook his head and said.

The girl sitting over is the girl who will play the role of nurse in the next scene, named Su Chengying. She is now a junior in the Acting Department of the Film Academy, a student in Sun Zhihao's class. In this play, she played a minor role as a nurse, only appearing in two acts in total, with one serious supporting role.

Sun Zhihao has been a teacher at the Film Academy for more than ten years, and he is a senior actor, director, and screenwriter. With his connections and influence in the industry, most of the people recruited on the crew are leading figures in the industry. This time, Sun Zhihao brought her into this group to experience and learn because she is doing well in her profession and has great potential. At the same time, this role is not important and her age is suitable. As a third-year student who is still studying at school, Su Chengying dare not be presumptuous in front of her seniors, so with her lively nature, when she is bored, she can only tease the only kid in this group who is younger than her.

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