Chapter Seventy-Five: Drama Rehearsal
Xiao Yao has followed Xiao Chengru around for a long time, and has been in many TV drama crews, and movie crews have also been there a few times, but the drama crew has never been there, and this time he and Sun Zhihao participated in "Happiness Terminal" for the first time he saw a drama crew. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The stage, intuitiveness, comprehensiveness and dialogue of INFO drama are very different from those of film and television works. The props, costumes, choreography, and lighting are also completely different from what I have seen in the film and television crew before. Xiao Yao, who thinks he already knows a lot about the crew, seems to have seen a completely different new world.
Xiao Yao has watched a lot of movies and television in his previous life, but he has never been to the theater to watch even one drama, which can be regarded as a complete zero experience.
The performance of a drama is very different from the performance of a film and television drama. Movies and TV are to restore the real scenes in reality, and the feeling to the audience should be as real as possible. The audience's comments on the film and television drama works will have the actors acting "too fake", but there will be no audience who will criticize the "authenticity" of the drama because of the exaggeration of the stage set and the actors' performances. The world of drama is an exaggerated world that has been abstracted and condensed, so drama performance is also abstract and condensed, and it is exaggerated compared to real life.
When Sun Zhihao brought Xiao Yao to the rehearsal site of the drama and announced that Xiao Yao would be the actor of Chen Fang, the son of Chen Jianjun, the actor in the play, everyone in the crew was taken aback. Originally, they thought that Sun Zhihao would find a relatively short and experienced adult actor to play the role of Chen Fang.
On the performance stage of real commercial dramas, children rarely appear. Because in addition to the need for more exaggerated requirements for performance, drama performance also has two great characteristics, one is solid basic skills, and the other is almost no fault tolerance.
In the drama performance, the lines need to be particularly clear, sonorous and powerful, when the mood is low or high, it is necessary to use much more exaggerated actions and language than real life to convey the full emotion, which requires very solid line skills and accurate action expression ability, at the same time, because the drama performance is continuous, one-time, every action in the drama performance must be carefully designed, the actor's position, expression, The lines have to be rehearsed many times in advance, and there is no room for correction if a mistake occurs, so there must be no mistakes. Unlike film and television dramas, which are filmed first and then edited, you can do it again if you don't perform it well.
This also determines that the actor must not relax for a moment during the performance of one or two hours, and must concentrate throughout the whole process, devote himself to the role, and not make any mistakes in the middle. Solid line skills, accurate action expression ability and long-term concentration, and no mistakes are difficult for children to do, plus the drama is relatively exaggerated, and the requirements for truth are low, so there are often adults playing children.
In view of the maturity and intelligence of Xiao Yaochao's 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 and guidance for Xiao Yao.
In the face of everyone's doubts, Xiao Yao dispelled everyone's doubts about his line ability on the first day, not only shocked the rest of the crew a little, but even Sun Zhihao was pleasantly surprised.
A few years ago, when Xiao Yao and Xiao Chengru were mixed in the crew, they were very curious about the vocal training of "three-cavity resonance" because they learned that an actor who graduated from a film school had to do morning work every day when he was studying, so he pestered Xiao Chengru to teach him. In the past few years, in addition to running and practicing martial arts when he was exercising in the morning, he has also been insisting on practicing his voice and "three-cavity resonance".
Although it is not like Xiao Chengru, who has been accustomed to talking for decades, he will unconsciously bring that kind of resonance to his usual speech, but deliberately, his "three-cavity resonance" vocalization method coupled with the breath and tone he has exercised through long-term vocal practice are enough for him to say the kind of "drama tone" with a sense of power and penetration that is not inferior to ordinary actors.
Sun Zhihao even felt that during the official performance, the head-mounted microphone originally prepared for Xiao Yao was not needed. Xiao Yao's lines on the stage can be directly heard by the audience in the entire theater.
And a few days later, Xiao Yao's terrifying memory also made everyone's second worry about him disappear. After a few days of rehearsals, Xiao Yao not only never missed his lines or made mistakes, but even the positions and movements on the stage were all very accurate, and he did not make a single mistake.
What Xiao Yao lacks is only the problem of pure acting skills, such as breathing, articulation, pause, rhythm, tone and intonation, facial expression, expression of emotions, etc. And these need to be continuously guided and trained by Sun Zhihao.
In this way, everyone is at least not too worried that there will be a performance accident because of Xiao Yao, which will ruin the whole play. The rest depends on how exciting this play can be through the efforts of everyone, including Xiao Yao.
Compared with the penetrating power of the voice, the accuracy of the movement movements, these "external kung fu" visible to the naked eye, and the pure "internal strength" of acting, Xiao Yao's performance is not very eye-catching. This is also because Xiao Yao has only watched film and television dramas, and has never seen even a drama, and he is too unfamiliar with this more exaggerated performance method in dramas, and his psychological acceptance is also very limited, so the progress is unusually slow.
In this case, Sun Zhihao could only be forced to reluctantly open a small stove for Xiao Yao, and after rehearsals, he took the opportunity to live together and gave Hu Xuena additional guidance on Xiao Yao's acting skills at home at night.
Hu Xuena also came out of a serious film school, and she is also very enthusiastic and good at drama performance. She just faded out of the showbiz, and she is not completely retired, and when she encounters a good book that she is interested in, she will also act in some. Therefore, when she is at home at night, Hu Xuena can also guide Xiao Yao with Sun Zhihao.
After the bean bag incident, Xiao Yao was also ruthless, and in the face of the problem of drama performance, he showed a very tenacious side, whether it was in the rehearsal room or at Sun Zhihao's house at night, he studied and practiced the things taught by Sun Zhihao and Hu Xuena very carefully. Even so, Xiao Yao was just able to catch up with the rehearsal progress of the whole play.
"Dad, help!" With a terrible shout, Xiao Yao, who played Chen Fang, rushed onto the stage from one side of the stage and desperately rushed to the other side of the stage. Chen Fang, played by Xiao Yao, staggered and waved his arms exaggeratedly, accompanied by a few dog barks in the stereo and a black shadow in the shape of a dog projected on the back curtain, performing the embarrassing scene of being chased by a dog.
Chen Fang, who was running, tripped on the back heel of his right foot, and the whole person immediately lost his balance and fell on the stage with a "snap". Before he had time to get up, with the black shadows getting closer and closer and the more rapid barking of dogs, Chen Fang only had time to turn around on the ground, and he began to push and kick with his hands and feet against the black shadows in the air. The horror on Chen Fang's face and eyes was clearly visible, his hands and feet were waving wildly, and he shouted with 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 torn, and he picked up a brick on the ground and threw it over. It's a pity that it's still a step too late. Just when Chen Jianjun bent down to pick up bricks, Chen Fang's right leg that was kicking indiscriminately suddenly stretched straight forward, as if he was being pulled by something, and Chen Fang's mouth also let out a miserable scream.
"Smack!" The brick landed next to Chen Fang and the wild dog and made a loud noise, and the black shadow on the curtain turned and moved, accompanied by the sound of running away from the distance, indicating that the wild dog was startled, let go of Chen Fang, and turned his head to escape.
Chen Jianjun ran over with a shocked face, sat down beside Chen Fang, and hugged Chen Fang, who was still crying on the ground with his right leg. Hugged by his father, Chen Fang immediately looked up at his father and cried and shouted: "Dad, I was bitten by a dog!
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Chen Jianjun comforted the son in his arms with a worried face, "Dad, I'll take you to the hospital, go to bandage, go to tetanus, go to rabies vaccination, you will be fine, you will be fine." With that, Chen Jianjun struggled to stand up with Chen Fang in his arms, and staggered to the side of the stage in a panic.
The lights on the stage dimmed, indicating that the scene was over.
The lights came back on, Sun Zhihao had already put down Xiao Yao, and the two of them stood on the side of the stage, both panting. Xiao Yao was crying and shouting just now, he was too excited and was calming down. Sun Zhihao ran a few steps with Xiao Yao in his arms just now, a little tired. Xiao Yao's body is relatively strong due to regular exercise, and his height and weight are a little more than that of ordinary eight-year-old children. At present, he has grown to a height of 142 cm and weighs 40 kg. Sun Zhihao, who is in his forties, still has some difficulty running with such Xiao Yao.
"Good! very good!" the executive director, who was standing in the audience and watching, shouted and took the lead in applauding twice. Other actors and crew members who did not participate in the performance but watched from the sidelines 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 the actors will have to rehearse or something before the official rehearsal of the plot, Xiao Yao can rest for a while. Because in the next scene, he is in a coma, except for being held in his arms by Sun Zhihao, he is lying on the emergency bed in the hospital, and he doesn't have to speak or move, so he doesn't have to move to the right lines or anything.
"Director Sun, your physical strength is not good, you can pant like this after running a few steps with Xiao Yao in your arms, you have to strengthen your exercise. Taking advantage of the preparation for the removal of props on the stage, Sun Zhihao also ran to the audience to sit and rest, but he didn't catch his breath, and was ridiculed by his deputy, executive director Xie Kai.
"That's Xiao Yao is too heavy, okay?" Sun Zhihao glanced at his deputy, gasped and said, "Don't look at Xiao Yao, that kid doesn't look heavy, but the muscles on his body are strong, not only are they heavier than they look like, but they are also hard to hold, plus he is also tall, so it can be difficult to hold him." If you don't believe it, try it yourself, don't look at you younger than me, maybe it's not as good as me when you hug it. "In rehearsals, he doesn't call Xiao Yao by his nickname.
"I'm not going to ask for myself. Xie Kai hurriedly smiled and shook his hand.
"Kid, it's really good, come, reward you. Xiao Yao was resting in the first row of the audience when a girl in her twenties dressed as a nurse sat next to him and handed over an open tube of potato chips.
"Thank you, I don't eat. Xiao Yao glanced sideways, shook his head, and said.
The girl who sat down was the girl who would appear as a nurse in the next scene, named Su Chengying. She is now in her third year in the acting department of the film academy and is a student in Sun Zhihao's class. In this drama, she plays a nurse role that is not heavy, and only appears in two acts in total, with one serious supporting role.
Sun Zhihao has been a teacher in the film academy for more than ten years, and he is a senior actor, director and screenwriter. This time, Sun Zhihao saw that she performed well professionally and had great potential, and at the same time, the role of this role was not heavy, and the age was also suitable, so she was brought into this group to feel and learn. As a junior who is still in school, Su Chengying does not dare to be presumptuous in front of her predecessors, so she has a lively nature, and when she is bored, she can only provoke the only child in this group who is younger than her.