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

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "but it's not mandatory." I said that I don't care if you can do morning exercises or not, letting you do morning exercises is just a way to make you sober, if you feel that you are already sober, you can not do it!"

"I'll do it!" Wang Jiayi said immediately, "I've never had breakfast and then do morning exercises!

There are still cameras filming in the rehearsal room, how could they miss such good material?

"Well, we do it too!" said the other two rookie actors.

"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 a student in the acting department, I don't know what to do in the morning!"

"I learned to dance, and the content of morning gong is different from the acting department, and I don't know!" Zhou Feng followed.

"You've been here for so long, haven't the teachers taught you to do morning exercises?" Xiao Yao said with a little surprise.

The teachers in this show are all from professional backgrounds, including teachers from the Performance Department of Huaxia Film and Television Academy, and the teachers who lead the team are in-service teachers from the Department of Chinese Opera Performance.

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

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

"I said it doesn't matter!" Xiao Yao shook his head, looked at Zhang Yunlan and said, "Yunlan, I saw that you did a good job in the morning, you go teach the two of them!"

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

"Thank you, Yunlan!" the two boys said to Zhang Yunlan.

"Give you half an hour, let's start by yourself!" Xiao Yao waved his hand and found a chair to sit down.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, yes! hey!"

After Xiao Yao sat down, several people scattered and stood apart, and the sound of opening their voices and practicing the four rhymes soon sounded in the rehearsal room.

The morning exercise of the performance department has 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 had already done morning exercises in the morning, and now he mainly teaches two non-undergraduate students. Regardless of Zhang Yunlan's words, among the five rookie actors, the one who impressed Xiao Yao the most in the vocal training stage was a boy named Bai Zicheng. After opening his voice and four rhymes, others basically only practiced tongue twisters, only after he practiced tongue twisters, he also took out his mobile phone and recited a poem.

After the vocal practice, there is physical training, and the most impressive thing for Xiao Yao at this stage is Zhou Feng, who was born in dance. Splitting the leg and lowering the waist or something, not to mention that the other boys can't do it, even the girls are not as easy as him.

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

"Hmm!" all six stopped.

"Open your voice and stretch, the whole person is more energetic!" Wang Jiayi dismantled his hair that was a little messy because of physical training, tied a ponytail again, and smiled easily.

"Take a five-minute break and start rehearsing. Xiao Yao didn't answer and announced.

Five minutes later, the crew began rehearsals.

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

Although the roles of the six characters in this script are not much different, and they all have outstanding points, there are still differences in the difficulty of the character performances.

Zhang Yunlan's "Zhao Meilan" and Lin Kaijie's "Lin Jianjun" are both middle-aged and the parents of the other three characters, and the actual age difference between them and the actors is the largest, which are the two most difficult roles in the whole play. followed by "Haipi" played by Bai Zicheng and "Lin Qiuyang" played by Wang Jiayi. One is a young man and the other is a middle school student, the age gap is not very large, but both have plays that require strong emotions, and the difficulty is not small.

Finally, Zhou Feng played "Zhou Chenxi" and Ding Yuyang played "Zhou Jianyu". A "high school six", a college student, is the age of a college student, the actual age gap between them and the actor is the smallest, and there is no play that shows very intense emotions, which is the two least difficult of the six roles.

I don't know if it's due to reasons from non-professional backgrounds, but the two relatively least difficult characters in this play were stopped by Xiao Yao many times in the morning rehearsal.

"Stop!" Xiao Yao stopped Zhou Feng's performance again, walked over and said, "Zhou Feng, your expressions and lines are stiff and dull, 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 learn to dance, and you don't have to say anything about physical expression." When dancing, your stage performance is very good, even if you don't have lines, your expression is very good, and you can see your dancing skills and stage experience. Dance is also a kind of performance, and when you dance, I feel like you're fully engaged in the role, but when you're acting, you don't!"

"I did everything in the script," Zhou Feng said, "I don't know how to put it in!"

"The teacher has taught, no, do you know what it means to dig a 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 trophies and returned the insufficient money to her, did she not want to collect money at all or really let her give it when she had money?"

"This~" Zhou Feng hesitated a little, "I don't think I want to collect money, right?"

"Then I'll ask you again," Xiao Yao said again, "Zhou Chenxi didn't want Lin Qiuyang's money at all, just because they were neighbors, or because Zhou Chenxi liked her? Zhou Chenxi liked her, is it the kind of love that my brother likes for my sister, or the kind of like between men and women? If it is like between men and women, is it unrequited love or mutual like? If it is unrequited love, is it open love or secret love? Has Zhou Chenxi told Lin Qiuyang? Does Lin Qiuyang know? What kind of feelings does Lin Qiuyang have for Zhou Chenxi? Brother next door? Buddy? Favorite boy? Did Zhou Chenxi feel what kind of feelings Lin Qiuyang had for him?"

"Huh?" Zhou Feng was stunned by Xiao Yao's series of questions, and said a little ignorantly, "I don't know, it doesn't seem to be written in the script, right?"

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

And the so-called excavation of the prescribed situation is to infinitely amplify the character situation provided by the script. Xiao Yao continued, "Theoretically speaking, if the situation of a fictional character can be infinitely magnified and magnified to the point that it completely overlaps with the entire life and experience of a real person, a new real "person" will appear in the artistic imagination. In this way, you are not going to play a fictional character, but to play a person that you have created yourself and become one with yourself. ”

"Then what should be done?" Zhou Feng asked.

"Write a short biography. 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 what I just asked you, would it be 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 are not sure about anything. If you know every aspect of the character as well as you know yourself, you will naturally be able to give the most realistic response. If it wasn't Lin Qiuyang in front of you now, and you weren't Zhou Chenxi, but there was really a girl you liked or your sister standing there, and asked you to help him make a trophy, you wouldn't still behave like this, right?"

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

"But," Zhou Feng added, "I can't find the answers to these questions just from the script." Director, can you tell me more about the relationship between the two of them?"

"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 really 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 explored, but as far as this script is concerned, it is not the only situation I played yesterday. ”

"As I said earlier, digging out the prescribed situation is to infinitely amplify the character situation provided by the script. Xiao Yao continued, "So it's good that we amplify the situation of the characters according to the script, but this is the job of the actors, not the screenwriter or director." ”

"For example, me," Xiao Yao pointed to himself, "I used to act to explore the prescribed situation, and when I wrote a character biography, I would record everything I could imagine about the role. 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 has he been in love, whether he likes to eat sweet or spicy food, whether he likes to wear dark or light colors in clothes, shoes and hats, which foods he is allergic to, whether he is a top student or a scumbag when he is studying, whether he has ever fought with someone, whether he has ever had a crush on his teacher, etc. What screenwriter writes a script that writes a character in such detail?"

"Huh, so detailed?" exclaimed all six rookie actors.

After listening to Xiao Yao's long list of character biographies, not only Zhou Feng, but even several rookie actors listening next to him were dumbfounded.

"Of course, I'm just giving you an example, and I don't ask you to write a short biography to that extent. Xiao Yao smiled, "And that's what I used to do, now that I'm acting, even if I write a character biography, I won't write it in so much detail." ”

"What I want to say is," Xiao Yao looked at Zhou Feng again, "If you have doubts about the prescribed situation that you have excavated, and you are not sure whether it is in line with the screenwriter and director's setting of the role, you can discuss with the screenwriter and director whether your prescribed situation is reasonable, right, but you can't ask the screenwriter and director to give you such a detailed character situation." ”

"Yes, I know, director!" Zhou Feng nodded, "I wrote the biography myself!"

"We often say that a screenwriter writes a script is creation, a director is a creation when filming, and an actor is also a creation when acting. The first two have nothing to say, but I have heard people question that actors' acting is what is written in the script, and the director says how to act, and is the actor's acting creation?" ”

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 live performance of actors. No matter how well you rehearse, you can't behave exactly the same on stage as you did during rehearsal. Basically, every time a stage actor performs on stage, it is a creation, so in the aspect of stage play, the creative ability of the actor 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 lesson.

Of course, Xiao Yao is talking about performance, not stage performance. Even if he doesn't act in stage plays in the future, these things that Xiao Yao said are also 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 the other five people were also right.

"Director," Wang Jiayi asked, "You just said that you can't write a character biography in such detail now, so how do you write it now?

"What I just said is that even if I write a character biography, I won't write it in such detail!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Actually, I don't write character biographies anymore when I'm filming." ”

"Huh?" Ding Yuyang said, "Director, you said so much, it turns out that you don't need it!

"Of course it works!" Zhang Yunlan said, "the prescribed situation is Stanislavsky's performance term. Dig out the prescribed situation and write a character biography, these are also taught by our school acting teachers! It's just that you don't really have to actually write a character biography, you can write it yourself in your heart, and you can know it in your heart!"

"Oh!" Ding Yuyang nodded.

"That's not bad!" Xiao Yao looked at Zhang Yunlan and turned his head to the crowd, "But there is not only one genre of acting, and there is not only one way and method of acting, I just talked about a method that I think is more suitable for you now." The way I use acting more now is the methodological experience method, which is to believe easily like a child, and believe in the role I want to play without hesitation in my heart, and turn myself into the person I think in my heart. I say, 'Can you learn?'