Chapter 118: Animal Simulation
After the three trial lists, Nortel officially opened.
Zhang Ran is going to be busy with movies next, and there is not much time for class, but the first class must not be missing no matter what, and he must say something to the students in the class. At the same time, it is necessary to make an overall arrangement for the study of this semester, so that everyone understands what they want to learn this semester.
The class bell rings.
Zhang Ran walked up to the podium and waited for the students to be quiet before saying: "Our learning this semester is divided into three stages, the first month is animal simulation, followed by a month of observation and life practice, and finally the fragment teaching, learning the basic methods of analyzing the script and characters. Listen clearly, if you performed well in the first two months, I will take you to the crew in May, experience life while learning to analyze the script, and then you can communicate with many big names with excellent acting skills!"
When the students in the class heard this, they were immediately excited: "Teacher Zhang, is it really fake?"
"Stupid, of course what Mr. Zhang said is true!"
"Teacher Zhang, what are the big names?"
"It's going to be fun to experience life in the crew!"
Zhang Ran said with a smile: "It's the crew of "Before Dawn", there are many actors you know, Chen Daoming, Chen Baoguo, etc., are all actors with very good acting skills. I'll be going to pick up some clips from the script of Before Dawn for you to rehearse, and you can practice on your own while you can consult with these big names, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But whether you can go or not depends on your performance in the first half of the term, if you perform well, you will be taken there, and if you don't perform well, you will stay at school obediently for me and accept the sanctions of Teacher Zhang!"
"Teacher Zhang, we must behave well!"
"We are so well-behaved, how can we behave badly!"
Zhang Ran said to the students: "Okay, let's get down to business." What we're going to do today is animal simulation! What is animal simulation, simply put, is animal simulation. Speaking of this, Zhang Ran said to Wang Luodan: "Wang Luodan, you play a monkey." ”
Wang Luodan ran to the center of the classroom, scratched his ears and cheeks, and pretended to be a monkey with a grin.
Zhang Ran was very dissatisfied with Wang Luodan's performance, shook his head and said: "You are too fake, your movements, expressions, and demeanor are not in place, not to mention the psychology of animals! Cao Bingkun, play a wolf!"
Cao Bingkun was on all fours, crawling on the ground like a feline. His teeth clenched tightly, his back arched, and his eyes gleamed fiercely. Immediately afterwards, he raised his head and shouted, "Whoa......"
Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction and said, "Now play a monkey!"
Cao Bingkun got up, made a monkey face, squatted on the ground, scratched his ears and cheeks, and grabbed fleas from himself to eat.
Zhang Ran picked up the mineral water bottle on the table and threw it in front of Cao Bingkun: "Go on!"
Cao Bingkun was stupid there, not knowing how to act, and said with a bitter face: "Teacher Zhang, I don't know how to act!"
Zhang Ran waved his hand, motioned for Cao Bingkun to go down, and then said: "Cao Bingkun acted very well and captured the external characteristics of animals, but this is far from enough! Animals also have internal activities." For example, if you throw a bottle of water to a monkey, the monkey will make a move when he sees it. Of course, the monkey's psychological reaction is not as complicated as that of a human, he doesn't think about who throws an empty mineral water bottle, you are kidding me? The monkey doesn't know what it is, it will be curious, and you have to organize the relevant actions according to his reaction. ”
Wang Luodan asked: "Teacher Zhang, why do we learn animals, we don't know how to play animals!"
Zhang Ran explains: "Quite simply, any learning is a gradual process. For example, if we study mathematics, you learn addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division, and then you can learn more complex operations. The same goes for acting. We first learn the training of the basic elements, then do the training of simple movements, then the training of simulated animals, the observation of characters, and finally the learning of shaping characters. The external characteristics of animals are more obvious, and the psychology is relatively simple. After we understand the characteristics of animals, we will arrange sketches with animals as the main characters, which is actually for everyone to do anthropomorphic exercises of animals. This is simpler than directly creating characters, in order to lay the foundation for the creation of real characters later, don't think it's fun, don't underestimate it. Some students have taken pre-exam classes before taking the Nortel exam, and have received a little animal simulation training, and the students who have learned come up to show you!"
There are not too many students in Zhang Ran's class who have taken the pre-exam class, there are seven. They all stood up and walked off the stage to start the show.
The whole classroom suddenly became a zoo, with chickens flying and dogs jumping, so lively.
Among the seven students, Cao Bingkun's performance was satisfactory. Before he entered Nortel, he attended Nortel's training class, and the education he received was quite formal, which was completely different from that kind of grass platform team, and he was a hard-working person, and he played the tiger with both form and god.
The other students were mediocre and had learned animal simulation, but their teacher taught skin, and they themselves simply imitated animal movements. Although everyone can see what they are playing, they are just imitating a bit like it, and they have no soul at all.
After they played for a minute, Zhang Ran understood everyone's situation and shouted to stop. He walked back onto the podium and smiled, "It's about what I expected, what do you think?"
The students in the class have studied with Zhang Ran for so long and know Zhang Ran quite well, and when they see him smiling, they know that they are not acting well, and they don't speak one by one.
Zhang Ran smiled: "I don't blame you. Acting is never achieved overnight, you get a role to definitely study, and if you don't study the role, even Merrill Streep can't play it well. You can't play animals because you don't really study them, so what we're going to do today is go to the zoo and observe the animals!"
The students in the class were stunned for a moment, and then cheered loudly.
Zhang Ran clapped his hands and said loudly: "Target zoo, let's go now!"
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In winter, the streets are a little deserted, and the zoo is even more deserted. However, with a group of children in Zhang Ran's class, it was like a group of sparrows, chirping, and the gate of the zoo was much more lively.
Zhang Ran bought the ticket, took a group of students into the zoo, and stood on the side of the road to discuss what to observe. After discussion, it was finally decided to divide into three groups. Li Xinyue took 10 students to observe black bears, Zhou Zheng took 10 students to Hushan to observe tigers, and Zhang Ran took 10 students to observe monkeys.
The students in the class walked briskly and walked in front, and Zhang Ran followed slowly with a bag of fruit on his back. The students thought that Zhang Ran was walking slowly, so they turned around and urged, "Teacher Zhang, why are you walking so slowly?"
Zhang Ran thumped his back, imitated the tone of the old man and said: "No way, I'm old, my legs and feet are inconvenient, I can't compare with you young people!"
The students in the class were speechless, obviously we are about the same age, why do we always pretend to be mature? Zhang Xinyi and Wang Luodan ran over, and one of them pulled Zhang Ran's arm forward.
Zhang Ran was dragged by the two girls and trotted all the way to Monkey Mountain.
There are a lot of monkeys in Monkey Mountain, large and small monkeys are sitting or standing, some quietly watching tourists, some are chasing and frolicking, eating food, swinging, playing with tires, all kinds of cute postures make tourists laugh. Some of the tourists kept throwing peanuts and fruits into the monkey mountain, which caused the monkeys to rush for a while.
Wang Luodan lay on the edge of the fence, waved the bottle in his hand at the monkey, and shouted: "Come on, come on, little monkey, look here, look here!"
Everyone else also lay on the railing and teased the monkey again, and laughed again: "Dandan, that monkey looks like you!"
"Nonsense, I think it's like you!"
"Seeing the ass without that monkey, it's really red and big. ”
"Jia Niliang, you are staring at the monkey butt, it's too sexy!"
The students in the class made such a fuss, and many tourists who watched the monkeys changed to look at them, but there was no way that the girls in the class were too beautiful. Each one is dressed up very beautifully, although they are dressed thickly in winter and look bloated, but the white faces facing the sky are extremely attractive.
Zhang Xinyi walked up to Zhang Ran, looked at the fruit he was carrying, pulled his hand, and asked, "Teacher Zhang, can you give me an apple, I'll feed the monkeys!"
Zhang Ran glared at her, and raised his voice: "Okay, come over to me, you are here to take class, not to tease the monkeys, now all stand up!"
The students stopped laughing, and one by one they all stood upright, their backs straight like javelins.
Zhang Ran looked at them and said solemnly: "Let me first talk about how to observe animals, when observing, everyone must pay attention to a few points, to observe the skeleton of the monkey, to observe the center of gravity of the monkey's body, and to observe the rhythm of the monkey's action." Be careful, don't just focus on the appearance, look for the internal characteristics of the animal, understand their psychological condition, so that we can show it vividly through body imitation and the use of eyes when we perform. For example, if you throw a banana and the monkey sees it, what is its psychological reaction? What is the look like, you have to catch it, right? If we just imitate its appearance, then the performance will be lifeless. ”
At this moment, a noisy footstep sounded. Then, Zhang Ran saw a teacher-like person walking over with a group of eighteen or nineteen-year-old young people. are all handsome men and beautiful women, all of them have extraordinary temperaments, and they seem to be learning to act.
Zhang Yixin looked at the visitors, suddenly saw a familiar face, and shouted: "Eh, it's a Chinese opera, why did they come here?"
"How do you know it's a Chinese opera?"
"That boy's name is Zheng Xiaodong, he was in a group with me during the art exam, he was admitted to Nortel and Chinese opera, but he went to Chinese opera!"
Chinese opera and Nortel have always been unhappy with each other, one year Yang was obsessed with Shonan Satellite TV, and met the Chinese opera school grass, but Yang Fan almost choked people to death, which made people very faceless. When the students in Zhang Ran's class heard that it was a Chinese opera, they immediately whispered: "The quality of this Chinese opera is not good, it can't be compared with the girls in our class, don't talk about Huang Shengyi, even Zhang Xinyi has beaten them in seconds!"
"That's it, it's far worse than the girls in our class, and Chinese opera is really not as good as a generation!"