Friday, December 12th, the day of filming of "Dance of Angels"!

Today's start time is scheduled for about 9:oo, the crew gathering time is 8:oo, Ye Wei got up at 6 o'clock, and after the usual morning sports and other activities, he took the lead in taking action, moving the required equipment from the hall to the back garden, and arranging the dining table, rest area, makeup area, etc......

Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao both helped from the side, the two of them were very happy for their son, in their opinion, this achievement is already very remarkable, what more do you ask for?

Ye Wei's mood is different, in the midst of high morale, he holds his breath, a mouthful of evil that can only be expressed by filming this short film!

"Little Miss Sunshine", Willis, "It's All Daisy's Fault", Focus Movie, Lily's Mother, Everybody, Movie Dreams......

You're running out of time to underestimate me!

After 7:3o, eight college students, including Darum, Pareira, Pete, and Susan, arrived6, and under the command of Ye Wei, they immediately began their respective work, with the assistant director and cinematographer setting up the camera, the gaffer adjusting the lighting, and the art and prop master setting up the set......

On the set, the 15-year-old director is also a director, and realizing the director's intention is the highest purpose of the cast and crew!

Then Ye Wei will patiently explain clearly, with jokes, so that everyone's enthusiasm for work will increase.

"It looks like it's okay, but you can really direct. At the back door of the house, Ye Haogen's face was full of relief, with a look that he had never seen before, it was his son!

"God knows how he learned it, but it looks good. Gu Qiao also looked happy.

Duoduo and Toto were temporarily isolated by a wooden board inside the doorway, and one person and one dog looked curiously, so that they wanted to run up and play a movie with their brother.

Near 8:00, Anna's family came to the set, because David was back in Denver after the weekend, so he and Janet would take care of their daughter for the show.

As soon as Anna arrives, stylist Amy Kate can start working, all the characters have been put on makeup for the first two days, "Anna" looks with a lively, cute, and affinity focus, the princess skirt is over, but the pleated skirt is good, a small coat, a T-shirt, small dancing shoes, a shoulder-length gold drape, and a small plastic clip on the forehead.

In terms of makeup, of course, the makeup is very light, the eyebrows are drawn a little longer, the face is powdered, and the eyelashes are brushed a few times......

At the same time, Pupton Green, Claire Giles, who play Anna's parents, also arrive.

The group performers who are going to appear today are also gradually arriving, and they stay in the group performance rest area on the side, reading scripts, reading books, playing with mobile phones, and chatting...... It's okay, as long as you don't run around, when you hear the assistant director shouting your name and need to perform, you can pounce immediately.

At 8:3o, the takeaway food truck from the Good Taste Restaurant arrived, bringing a truckload of delicious snacks, bread, hot dogs, and Polish dumplings. The food delivery person is the fat and thick Bud's father, who has not wanted to leave for a long time, and is also full of curiosity about this middle school student directing the set.

And Ye Haogen specially gave himself a day off today.

The preparation of the set continues, and this is what most of the shooting time looks like: everyone is busy with something, noisy, walking around.

The photographer fiddles with the camera, the gaffer holds the reflector to test the amount of light, the recording engineer plays with the mixer like a dJ DJ......

Everyone is looking for the director for advice, and the director also has his own things to do, directing the actors!

Before starting the film, the director must take the actors to do a good job of rehearsal, otherwise NG continues, and the memory tapes of digital shooting can be used repeatedly, but film shooting can't afford to spend that time and money. But if you want to be efficient and achieve the planned 5:1 ratio, it's best to rehearse actively.

Determining the stage position and warming up the performance are the two major tasks of the actors during rehearsal.

"Hahaha, Bella, you idiot, have you forgotten what I taught you before......?

In the performance area, Anna is playing with Bella, spinning around according to the marked position, as if dancing. Her movements and expressions are very exaggerated, and her voice is full of contrived tones, as if she is a character from some Shakespearean comedy.

Ye Wei stood beside her, holding her chin with her right hand and her right elbow with her left hand, observing her performance attentively.

Physical performance, facial performance, eye performance, voice performance, these four parts, all overdone!

If the normal screen performance strength is 5, and the normal stage performance strength is 8, then she is now 1o, full firepower, but very bad.

But it's not surprising to her at all, firstly because of her young age, and secondly, she only has stage experience. At this time, it is time when the director is more important than the food, and he wants to reduce the intensity of her performance to 5 in the remaining 2o minutes of rehearsal time.

It can also be said that let her perform in a completely new way that is completely different from the past! Not just one or two shots, but to complete the transformation from the stage to the screen, turn her talent and potential into a good-Take, let her shine, let her shock Wang Ying's gang!

But if you can't do it in 2o minutes, 7, 8, 9, 1o...... He has to accept it all, and then find other ways to solve it, time waits for no one.

After Anna finished performing this part, Ye Wei suddenly walked up, made a lower gesture, and instructed: "Anna, lower your performance intensity, just do it as usual, be natural." ”

The surrounding Darum, Pete and others all looked at each other, retracted their gazes, and continued their work, they all knew that Ye Wei's guidance was right, and Anna acted like a weirdo.

"Oh, but ......," Anna smiled wryly in confusion, "I think I'm doing it well, how do I lower it?"

Janet, who was standing behind the camera, couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is Anna's biggest problem, almost all auditions are eliminated for this reason, she doesn't understand when she lowers it, she doesn't even know the concept of performance strength, some children don't need to be taught, maybe this is the level of talent.

She thought that she couldn't solve it, so she could only wait for Anna to grow up and see if anything changed.

And David, Ye Haogen, Gu Qiao and others have similar ideas, they are more curious than expectant, but is there any way?

"Okay, you think you acted very well...... Ye Wei looked at her, analyzed her psychological situation, remembered that she had said that she had taken a lot of acting classes, and couldn't help asking: "What did you learn in those acting classes? What theories, what methods? ”

Anna's eyes rolled up, thinking, "Well, there are a lot, voices, movements, mental ...... I don't remember the names of the theorists. ”

Ye Wei asked, "Stanislavsky, Grotowski, Brecht, Peter-Brooke?" Anna was a little dizzy when she heard this list of names: "How many people are here? I really don't remember, Mom, what kind of acting theory did I study?"

"No, I don't. Ye Wei raised his hand to stop Janet from coming over, he felt that he had found the crux of the problem, Anna had learned too much, but at her age, she couldn't understand it deeply, she only remembered a lot of superficial skills, and she used everything in acting, thinking that it would be good, but it was not as natural as a young actor who had never learned anything.

It's easy to solve, and he laughs, "Anna, whatever you've learned, I'm going to let you forget them all now! Forget the technique, forget the stage, this is not the stage, you don't have to think about the way to play, break the fourth wall or something, that's my job, understand?"

Cool! Darum looked at each other a few times, it's good to return to nature, this kid really has a few hands, but can Anna understand?

Anna nodded as if she didn't understand, and asked, "If I forgot about jì, how should I perform?"

"You know, the best performance is not to perform!" Ye Wei looked at the people around him, "In fact, in life, everyone is performing every day, we hide our thoughts, we want others to see what they want, so how do you think everyone performs?"

"Really?" Anna blinked wide, seeming to be ......

"You don't think about what is not performing, whether it is real or not, because when you think about it, you are already wrong, you can't 'perform' real, just like you can't 'perform' crying, once you cry, you are really crying. The emotion behind that is real, when you focus on the process of experiencing the emotion, you are experiencing, not acting, you will naturally present something, something real. ”

Ye Wei's theoretical directing was even more profound than just now, and Anna's brows furrowed even higher.

And the people around me are really a little puzzled when they hear it, especially professional college students, because of these psychological teachings, even if you talk to a 3O-year-old or 2O-year-old actor, the other party may not understand it, and it is likely to listen to it: "What nonsense are you talking about? Just tell sù what facial expressions I want to do, you are not a poet!"

Most of the time, most of the actors just need mechanical instructions, and it doesn't matter if they can't read the script, Bella can't even read a letter, she can still be a good actor.

Shirley Temple said that when she was a child, she didn't understand what acting was at all, just walking, laughing, and saying lines as usual, but everyone said that she was an excellent actor, but she didn't know, what is an actor?

This is actually the highest level of performance, of course, after drifting away from innocence, no one can perform exactly like that.

Top actors often need these ethereal psychological points, and the director talks nonsense, and they have their own gains.

But Anna is just a little girl who has just turned 1o! Is it useful to tell her these emotions, real, experiences, and does she understand?

This is a big question mark in everyone's hearts.

"Oh, not acting is the best performance......" Anna thought thoughtfully, "don't think about acting...... Director, you're so profound, but I understand!" she grinned.

"That's right. Ye Wei also smiled, just thinking that she could understand, so she needed to be guided, "Ana, you are smarter than many people think." ”

He looked at the people around him with deep meaning, causing a chuckle, and the college students were skeptical, not by speaking, but by acting.

Ye Wei said again: "But you also have to pay attention to the details, think about it, we don't usually have so many expressions, and the conversation will not be as clear as the lines, maybe it will take ten sentences to have the effect of one line." Everything in the script is polished, it's not real, so is the acting.

The 'truth' we pursue is a kind of more real truth, which is expressed by precise details, every look, every action, every pause, you can neither think about it, but also find it, remember my words: less does not mean bad, more does not mean good, the key is precision!"

"I think I kind of get it......" Anna nodded repeatedly, and the more she listened, the more she felt the difference.

She has auditioned so many times, acted in a one-man show, acted in script fragments, and acted in improvisation, but no one has ever said that to her, and they all see her as a childish little girl, coaxing children to talk like that. But I really see her as an actor!

This makes Anna feel full of energy, and she must act to the satisfaction of Wei.

"Then let's do it again, don't be in a hurry, we have time. Ye Wei encouraged her, in fact, time is running out, Anna must seize it, otherwise the short film will lose a lot of color, and it will be difficult for her to change the casting decision of the crew of "It's All Daisy's Fault......

At the moment, under the attention of many people, Anna rehearsed again, and the result surprised Darum and others, this time her performance details were much less, but naturally more!

"It's not enough, come down a little more, do it again...... Down, and down, Ana, why is your face so naughty, it's all about to twitch, this is not a Disney children's show...... Pay attention to your hands, yes, don't swing so much...... Now you're a little stunned, smile! I'm going to smile......"

In rehearsals again and again, Ye Wei directed and directed, constantly adjusting the intensity and details of Anna's performance, including many poisonous words.

This made the college students, Purton and Claire, who starred in Anna's parents, all look weird, Bella was even whining, and if she changed to another 1o-year-old actor, she would probably have cried a long time ago, or she would have to praise her mother next to her and give her a candy or something after a rehearsal, but Anna didn't, she studied seriously, worked hard, and felt it, again and again.

"If you just pass, it's just now, if you want to be good, it's not good! No one is perfect, unless it's me Ye Wei's actor, do it again!"

"Hahaha, Bella, forgot what I told you......"

Janet and David over there couldn't help but hug each other, very heartache and worry, I was really afraid that before the camera was turned on, my daughter would suddenly collapse and cry......

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