After announcing the list of outstanding graduates and awarding honorary certificates on the spot, the next link was for representatives of various groups to speak on stage. The moderator first invited the representatives of the teachers of the school to the stage, and then the alumni representatives who came to attend the graduation ceremony to speak on the stage.

Regardless of whether it is an ordinary university or an art school, there may not be alumni representatives speaking at the graduation ceremony, but it is essential for faculty representatives to speak and graduate representatives to speak. Normally, the two are next to each other, and even if they are separated, only one alumni representative will speak in the middle.

After the speeches of the faculty representatives and alumni representatives, the next step should be the student representatives. As a teacher representative, a professor from the School of Acting is represented, and the alumni representative is a well-known director who graduated from Shen Opera. The candidates for these two are unknown to the students in advance, but when it comes to this year's graduate representatives, everyone knows that there can be no one other than Xiao Yao. After the speeches of the first two men, many people were also looking forward to what Xiao Yao, a young man who had spoken at the United Nations, would say at the graduation ceremony.

However, what most people at the scene did not expect was that the graduation ceremony of this year's Shenju actually skipped the speech of the student representative, and directly entered the later graduation certificate awarding link after the teacher representative and alumni representative spoke.

The presentation of the graduation certificate at the graduation ceremony is also a very important part. Because at the graduation ceremony, the school leaders not only handed over the graduation and degree certificates to the graduates, but also had a ceremony to pluck the tassel and crown.

It is a kind of etiquette and ritual for college students to graduate and confer degrees. The top of the hat is square, and the front parallel to the forehead is a square corner instead of a whole side, and tassels hang from the side. Before the degree, the tassel hangs from the middle of the front right side of the brim of the bachelor's cap, and after the degree, the tassel hangs from the middle of the front left side of the brim. At the time of graduation, the university leader who awarded the degree will move the tassel on the degree cap, that is, the tassel, from the right side of the hat to the left to symbolize the graduation of the graduate, and then confer the degree certificate and graduation certificate.

It is a very meaningful ritual, but it is not something that every student can experience and experience.

Although the number of students enrolled in art colleges is much smaller than that of most ordinary colleges and universities, and the total number of undergraduates in Shenju is less than 2,000, there are more than 500 graduates in this class after all, and it is impossible to carry out this ceremony for all graduates at the graduation ceremony, so this link can only select some students as representatives to accept the graduation certificate issued by the school leaders.

After the moderator invited several school leaders who presented graduation certificates to the stage, he read the list of student representatives who were selected to go to the stage and the school leaders personally presented the graduation certificates.

There are a total of 20 undergraduate majors in Shenxi, and there are a total of 40 student representatives who come to the stage to receive their graduation certificates, which basically means that each major chooses two students as representatives.

There are a total of five school leaders who present graduation certificates on the stage, and it is impossible for 40 student representatives to rush to the stage at once, but to take turns in groups of five. Except for the student representatives who presented their graduation certificates in public at the graduation ceremony, the other students have already received their graduation certificates and degree certificates, so whether they will come to the stage and let the school leaders give them a crown, the students themselves know in their hearts. In order to save time, some of the students who did not read their names also got up early and walked to the steps on the side of the podium to wait.

Although the performance department is a big department, there are only two places in this link, and the department leaders gave these two places to Xiao Yao and Nina Aiyiguli respectively.

In fact, judging from the performance in the past four years, Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan are the two most prominent students in the performance department. However, due to gender reasons, the leadership of the college had to choose one boy and one woman, so the other place was given to Nina Aiyiguli. Anyway, Lin Qisan has already been on stage as an outstanding graduate, and Nina Aiyiguli is Lin Qisan's girlfriend, and Lin Qisan has no opinion on this arrangement. When Xiao Yao and Nina Aiyiguli got up, Lin Qisan also gave a thumbs up to the two.

Xiao Yao's name is not in the first group, but the time when he was called is also quite high, and the third in the second group is him.

When Xiao Yao came to the stage, it happened to be the principal of Shen Opera who gave him a certificate. Bowing and hanging his head, the old principal dialed his hat tassel from the right side to the left, Xiao Yao, who had never experienced this in his previous life, also felt a special emotion in his heart.

After plucking the tassel, Xiao Yao took the graduation certificate and degree certificate handed over by the principal, and bowed deeply to the old principal in front of him. The old principal patted Xiao Yao's shoulder kindly, and praised and encouraged Xiao Yao with a few gentle words.

After the ceremony was completed, Xiao Yao and the other four graduates walked off the podium from the other side. After stepping off the podium, Xiao Yao did not return to his seat like the other four, but handed the certificate in his hand to Nina, who was in the same group as him to receive the graduation certificate, turned around and ran to the backstage of the auditorium.

Backstage in the auditorium, four musicians who had changed into their bachelor's uniforms were ready to fiddle with their instruments. Xiao Yao quickly took off his bachelor's hat, took off his bachelor's gown, handed it over to a junior girl from the student union on the side, reached out and tidied the hair that was deformed by the bachelor's hat a little, picked up his guitar, and looked at the degree ceremony still going on on the podium from the entrance of the passage.

After the eight groups of graduates went through the tassel crown in turn, and got their degree certificates and graduation certificates, the five school leaders also walked off the podium amid the applause of all the students.

The moderator re-stepped onto the podium and said to everyone in the audience: "Next, I would like to invite the representatives of the graduates to speak!"

"Hmm, why did you move the student representatives' speeches here?" Many people at the scene had a question in their hearts, "Shouldn't it be together with the speeches of the faculty representatives and the speeches of the alumni representatives?"

"Why are the representatives of the graduates speaking here?" the host explained, as if he was aware of the doubts in everyone's minds, "because our graduation ceremony also has a theatrical performance, and our graduate representatives are also performers of today's program. He said that he sang better than he spoke, and put everything he wanted to say to everyone in his song, so he didn't say it, and he would use the following song as his speech. ”

When the host was introduced, several students also moved musical instruments such as drum kits, keyboards, and microphone stands to the podium. As soon as the students below saw this formation, they immediately understood what the host meant.

"Oh~" Some students couldn't wait to let out a burst of cheers.

After the students on the podium quickly set up various musical instruments and equipment, the host made a gesture of invitation to the passage on the side of the podium, and said loudly: "Next, I will invite our graduate representatives, Xiao Yao from the Performance Department, Liu Kun from the Recording Department, Xu Can from the Literature Department, Chen Yifang from the Director Department, and Zhou Wenshen from the Performance Department to bring his original new song, "Dream Chasing Pure Heart"!"

"Wow~" Hearing that it was really Xiao Yao, and it was really the original new song, the students all applauded and screamed.

Amid the applause and cheers and screams of the students, five people in civilian clothes took to the stage. Three of them had guitars and basses on their backs, while the other two sat behind the drum kit and stood behind the keyboards, respectively.

Xiao Yao walked to the microphone stand in the middle of the front, raised his hands to everyone in the audience, and slowly pressed down.

The students below thought that Xiao Yao was going to say a few words before singing, and immediately fell silent. Xiao Yao turned around and nodded to the keyboardist, signaling that the keyboardist could start.

After the keyboardist saw Xiao Yao's movements, his fingers pressed the keys of the keyboard and began the prelude to the song.

On the background wall behind the podium in the auditorium, a huge screen is pulled. Before the graduation ceremony, the screen showed clips about the history of theater. When the music tuned to the piano tone sounded, the screen behind it lit up again.

During live performances, the screen behind the performers is usually played so that the audience who is far away behind can see it more clearly, but what appears on the screen at this time is not the real-time picture of Xiao Yao and others performing, but a clip of a famous movie. It's just that the movie clips shown by the school at the beginning of the graduation ceremony are different, these clips are silent, and only the sound of the band playing instruments on stage is on the scene.

After the prelude to a piano melody, the drummer struck a few drum beats, and Xiao Yao waved his hand to pluck the guitar strings in front of him while leaning in front of the microphone and singing:

"Where the hell is the world full of flowers? If it really exists, then I will definitely go. I want to stand on the highest mountain there, I don't care if it's a cliff or not!"

"Wow~" is just the first four lines of the first main song, and some exclamations are heard below.

As a famous music creation talent, it is not surprising that Xiao Yao sang at the graduation ceremony, and it is not surprising to sing original new songs, but at this time, Xiao Yao's performance form still makes people feel some surprises. Because while Xiao Yao was singing, the screen behind him was playing the picture of the movie clip all the time. Just a prelude and four lines of the first main song, several different clips from five classic inspirational movies play on the screen at the back.

At the graduation ceremony of film and television schools, clips of classic movies are edited together as backgrounds, combined with live band performances, which also reflects the characteristics of film and television schools. Such a form of expression also made some school leaders sitting in the audience nod frequently.

Another thing that is different is that Xiao Yao used to sing new songs, and he has always sung like this. This time with a background screen, Xiao Yao also put the lyrics of this song in front of those movie clips. And unlike the general subtitles located at the bottom of the screen, Xiao Yao also placed these lyrics directly above the screen, so that everyone in the audience can see them clearly.

"Is this the music video for the song for us too?" muttered to some people.

"Live hard, love hard, even if your liver and brain are smeared, don't ask anyone to be satisfied, as long as you are worthy of yourself. I never chose to give up on ideals, even in the days of disgrace!"

The first four lines of the first paragraph of the main song of the song were sung by Xiao Yao alone, and in the last four sentences, the guitarist and bassist next to him also approached the microphone and sang harmony, adding some momentum to the whole song. Although the harmony between the two sounds a little out of tune, in this situation on the scene, it is not very unpleasant.

"Maybe I don't have the talent, but I have the naivety of dreams, and I'm going to prove it with my whole life. Maybe my hands are stupid, but I am willing to keep exploring and give all my youth without regrets~"

"Woo~"

When Xiao Yao sang the second main song, several other musicians were still harmonizing, but this time their harmony was not to sing the lyrics with Xiao Yao, but to hum instead, and this time it was not the guitarist and the bass player who were in harmony, but the four musicians humming the harmony together, as if they were accumulating some kind of strength.

"Run Forward~"

At the beginning of the chorus, Xiao Yao roared hoarsely in the first three words, and in the third word, there was a broken sound.

"I'll go!" the students at the scene heard their scalps tingle.

This sentence is where Zhao Rui proposed Xiao Yao's broken sound during the previous rehearsal. There are many students who understand music in Shenju, and many students have also heard Xiao Yao's singing in this place. However, as Xiao Yao said, the broken sound of this song in this place is not inconsistent at all. With those movie clips on the screen, the students felt a burst of excitement.

"In the face of cold eyes and ridicule! How can you feel the vastness of life without going through hardships. Fate can't make us kneel and beg for mercy, even if、Blood is sprinkled all over the arms~"

In the chorus part, Xiao Yao completely let go of his voice, and the students below also heard bursts of excitement. To say that Xiao Yao has had a lot of rock songs before, but it is the first time to sing like this.

"Keep running~"

In the second stanza of the chorus, the beginning is still a hoarse broken sound, and the students below listen to it with a tingling of scalps.

"With the pride of a child! How can you see the sparkle of life if you don't stick to it to the end. Instead of lingering, let's indulge in burning, and one day it will sprout again!"

"Ah~" Hearing this, the students who felt their blood boiling couldn't help but wave their arms and scream in cheer.

After the chorus, the song is followed by an interlude. In the original version of the GALA band in the previous life, there was a violin in the accompaniment of this song, and this interlude was dominated by the sound of violins, but in this live performance, Xiao Yao did not ask Sun Tingting or other violin classmates in the school to help, but made an all-rock instrument arrangement soundtrack, showing a very pure rock band performance. This interlude was also changed to an ensemble of drums, keyboards, and guitars.

"The future is charming and gorgeous, always beckoning to me~"

"Want me to summon~"

"Even if you only have pain as a companion, you have to move forward. I want to sail in the bluest sea there~"

"Sail on the sea~"

"I don't care if I can give it back or not. ”

After the interlude, the song moves into a new main song. When Xiao Yao was singing this paragraph, the other musicians did not harmonize for Xiao Yao again, but repeated the chorus at the end of the two sentences in unison.

"Depression after defeat is a sign of cowardice, as long as there is a breath left, please clench your fists. Before the dawn breaks, we must be braver and wait for the brightest moment of sunrise!"

"Woo~"

In the next section, the other musicians did not sing along, but switched back to humming, and everyone gathered strength again.

An inspirational song with images from those classic inspirational movies. The following graduates who are in their youth and full of ambition have long been stimulated by Xiao Yao's performance, and they can't wait to stand up and roar with Xiao Yao. It's just that this is not a concert after all, and he is still wearing a bachelor's uniform, so many people inevitably still have some scruples in their hearts.

"Run Forward~"

Coming to the chorus part again, Xiao Yao's hoarse voice came out, and some students finally couldn't bear it anymore, and stood up from their seats excitedly waving their arms and shouting this sentence with Xiao Yao.

"In the face of cold eyes and ridicule! How can you feel the vastness of life without going through hardships. Fate can't make us kneel and beg for mercy, even if、Blood is sprinkled all over the arms~"

It's the same chorus as before, and there are lyrics on the screen. When Xiao Yao sang, the students who opened their mouths and shouted the first three words simply sang along. Hearing that someone was taking the lead, more students were eager to try.

Xiao Yao keenly heard the singing in the group of students below, and knew that everyone's emotions had already risen. After singing this paragraph, Xiao Yao's hands left the guitar in front of him, turned around and pointed to the big screen behind him.

"Keep running~"

At the beginning of the second section of the chorus, Xiao Yao did not sing hoarsely, but waved his arms rhythmically upwards to the students in the audience. As early as when Xiao Yao turned around and pointed to the big screen, the students below had already understood Xiao Yao's meaning, and shouted out the opening sentence very cooperatively.

"With the pride of a child! how can you see the sparkle of life if you don't stick to the end!"

Then, the sound of drums, guitars, and bass suddenly stopped at the same time, leaving only the keyboard sound that was not too loud, and the sound of the live music was clear, and the atmosphere was a little quieter. Xiao Yao still didn't speak, but the other four musicians on the stage were still singing into the microphone. The students in the audience also sang the next two sentences with the four musicians on the stage under the command of Xiao Yao.

"Rather than lingering, it's better to indulge in burning~"

The chorus of the students in the audience continued, but when they sang "lingering", the sound of drums and other instruments resounded, and the atmosphere of the scene became enthusiastic again. And when it came to "indulging in burning", Xiao Yao's roaring voice also sounded again.

"For the beauty of the heart~"

In the next sentence, Xiao Yao once again exerted all his strength. Because the lyrics of this place were different from the previous chorus, some students also stopped singing, and Xiao Yao's voice came out through the microphone, which instantly overwhelmed the voices of everyone in the audience.

"Uncompromising Till I Get Old~"

It wasn't until the last sentence that Xiao Yao's voice slowed down a little again.

After this sentence, there is a performance to end the song. However, in this paragraph, Xiao Yao, who was carrying the guitar on his back, did not participate, but looked at the students below with a firm face, and raised his right hand into a fist.

Although the music at the end of the song was more soothing and gentle, looking at Xiao Yao's movements, most of the students at the scene who knew that the song was about to end stood up from their seats with their arms raised, letting out a deafening cheer and scream.

The song is over, and the screen behind it fades into darkness. Xiao Yao bowed deeply to the audience.

"Ah~" At this time, almost all the students at the scene stood up, clapping and screaming with cheers. Even in the non-student seating area, several teachers and alumni stood up from their seats to applaud Xiao Yao and others on the stage.

After several students came up to help Xiao Yao and others remove all the musical instruments and equipment, the graduation ceremony entered the last item, and the principal of Shenxi Opera took the stage to address all the graduates.

"I don't think I need to say anything to you anymore. The old principal looked at the graduates in the audience and said, "I hope you will keep a pure heart, chase your dreams, and run forward bravely!"

The principal's words fell, and the students, who had just calmed down, once again gave a round of warm applause.