Gao Jinwen and Xiao Can have worked together for a long time and are familiar with each other. He was also happy for Xiao Can when he heard that Xiao Can was going to be on his own.
Speaking of which, the directors who followed Zhou Yan are getting better and better, and most of them can stand alone.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Teacher Gao, I may delay your class time for a while."
"It doesn't matter." Gao Jinwen waved his hand generously, "I will give you this class. It’s okay. You can find time to make up for it later.”
“It won’t take too long. I just came here for a quick look. Teacher Chang is already here.”
Gao Jinwen nodded, "Okay, in that case, let's go in."
After that, he walked into the classroom first, followed closely by Zhou Yan and the others.
The students had already learned in advance from Chang Li that directors Zhou Yan and the others were coming, so they were not too surprised when they saw Zhou Yan and the others.
Looking at Zhou Yan's expression, the students were more curious. They were very curious about Zhou Yan, who was only a few years older than them but was already famous internationally.
They were looking at Zhou Yan, and Zhou Yan was looking at them.
Unlike the two classes he had seen before, the faces of students from the class of 1996 were indeed more familiar to Zhou Yan.
Not only are there many big stars in this class, but other students, even if they are not famous, basically have works that everyone can see all the time.
For example, actors such as Dang Hao, Chen Minghao, Zhao Huinan, Niu Qingfeng, and Song Yunhao, although most people have never heard of their names, they will feel familiar when they see their faces, and then they will recall that they were there Which drama have you seen in it?
Relatively speaking, the girls in their class have developed better. Zhang Ziyi, Yuan Quan, Zeng Li, Hu Jing, Mei Ting, and Qin Hailu are all well-known female stars.
Among the boys, Qin Hao and Liu Ye have developed better, while the others have fared worse.
But Zhou Yan looked around and suddenly raised his eyebrows, because this class was different from what he remembered.
First of all, he didn't find Zeng Li.
Forget it, after all, it is possible that Zeng Li did not come to class today, but the problem is, Zhou Yan also found two people who should not be here, a boy and a girl.
The boy was thin and sitting in the corner. Zhou Yan was very sure that this boy was Lu Yi, because Zhou Yan was very impressed by Lu Yi's appearance at this period.
Another girl was sitting in the front row. Zhou Yan thought she looked a bit like Hao Lei, but he was not sure.
Logically speaking, these two people should not appear in Zhongxi opera, but now they appear in Zhongxi opera, which surprised Zhou Yan.
In this way, this generation of China Drama will be stronger than the previous generation.
Even if Zeng Li is no longer in this class, it would definitely not be a loss if Hao Lei and Lu Yi switch to Zeng Li.
While Zhou Yan was thinking wildly, Chang Li had already told Xiao Can about the general situation. She turned to Zhou Yan and said, "Director Zhou, it's rare for you to come to the Chinese opera. Do you want to give it to your classmates? Are you going to teach me your experience?"
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Teacher Chang is too flattering to me. I'm just trying to teach you my experience."
"Director Zhou, you are too modest."
"Not modest at all." Zhou Yan waved his hand, "Speaking of which, my performance is also learned from your Chinese opera."
As he said that, he half Turning to look at Gao Jinwen, "Teacher Gao is the first acting teacher in my life. When I was filming "Raise the Red Lantern" in Qiao's courtyard, I was so excited I was a music assistant, but Director Zhang entrusted me with the important task of playing the role of Chen Feipu. Fortunately, Teacher Gao taught me carefully, otherwise I would have betrayed Director Zhang’s trust.”
Gao Jinwen has never told anyone this. Naturally, the students in the audience didn't know that Zhou Yan and Gao Jinwen actually had such a past, and they all showed curious expressions.
“Don’t listen to Director Zhou’s nonsense. I didn’t help him much back then. At that time, I just wanted him to follow the steps step by step and copy the gourd, but he was very pursuing and even went to recruit Gong Li. I acted opposite him in the past. At that time, I was surprised by his talent. It only took less than a month for him to grow from an amateur who had never acted before to a young actor with great potential."
Speaking of what happened to Zhou Yan back then, Gao Jinwen couldn't help but start to work hard on his students, "In order to perform those two scenes well, Director Zhou practiced from morning to night every day. If you had half the efforts of Director Zhou, I would save the money." If you have more worries, you, Teacher Chang, will have less worries."
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, this old man always praises others, so why do he praise others and put others down?
However, the students were used to teachers talking like this, and they were more interested in Zhou Yan dragging Gong Li into the scene.
"Senior Sister Gong Li is so good, she even accompanies the newcomers to practice." Chen Minghao said with a smile.
"Well, Sister Li is very good." Zhou Yan nodded, "So I said that my acting apprenticeship is also related to Sister Li. On the road of my performance, Sister Li has been very important to me. The impact is very large.”
What he said was not a compliment. After all, Gong Li was not here, so there was no need for him to compliment her.
It was Gong Li who made him feel the charm of acting for the first time. It was also the first time that Gong Li brought him into the state of acting.
Zhou Yan still clearly remembers the feeling of acting opposite Gong Li to this day.
Whether Zhou Yan was a compliment or not, all the Chinese actors present felt very comfortable and felt that the relationship between themselves and Zhou Yan had become closer.
"Director Zhou, will you and Senior Sister Gong Li collaborate again in the future?" Qin Hailu, who was sitting in the first row, asked.
"Cooperation depends on fate. Of course, I personally hope to cooperate with Sister Li again. If there is a suitable role for Sister Li in my future movies, I will definitely find him as soon as possible."< br>
"Director Zhou, what do you look for when choosing actors? Appearances or acting skills?" Qin Hailu asked again.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "I mainly rely on my feelings."
"It's like talking about a partner, right?" Hu Jing said with a smile.
As soon as she finished speaking, Chang Li's sharp eyes flew over, and she immediately lowered her head and stopped talking.
It can be seen that the students in his class are in great awe of Chang Li.
“Actually, it’s true to say that. Finding an actor is the same as talking about a partner. Although there are many conditions in mind, whether the negotiation can be successful in the end depends on your feeling. This kind of thing seems to be illusory, but in fact It is composed of real standards Composition. Such as appearance, such as acting skills."
After answering Hu Jing's question, Zhou Yan continued: "Your class is only a freshman, and many of you have little exposure to movies. If you have time, you can go. Check it out in our studio. In the studio, you will be exposed to a complete set of film post-production processes, and may also be exposed to the pre-production process. Although you are studying acting, it will not hurt you to become familiar with these things early.”
After Zhou Yan finished speaking, he learned Before the students responded, Tian Youliang opened his eyes and said, "Director Zhou, what you said is not only valid for students in grade 96, right?"
"Of course, our studio is open to your school. Welcome to visit us anytime. ”
Chang Li and Huang Dingyu also looked at each other. They didn't expect that there would be an unexpected surprise today.
If China National Theater can establish cooperation with Zhou Yan's studio, it will be a good thing for their school. China National Theater is too small and its infrastructure is very rudimentary.
But they heard that the equipment of Zhou Yan Studio is more mature than that of Yanjing Studio.
Most people may think that they are leading an acting class and the students only need to focus on the performance. How much do the equipment and processes for making movies have to do with them?
In fact, the relationship is huge.
As an acting student, if you don’t know how to make a movie, you won’t be able to act it out well. If you don’t know the angle at which the actor is shot by the camera, it will be impossible to accurately find the position and movement in front of the camera. It is impossible for the director to tell you everything on set.
Zhou Yan didn’t say anything else after that, and Xiao Can began to tell the students the general requirements of the role.
While Xiao Can was speaking to the students, Zhou Yan turned his head and asked Chang Li, "Teacher Chang, are all your class here?"
Chang Li nodded, " Well, we are all here. When our class started, there were originally twenty people, but two left, and now there are eighteen people.”
"Oh, that's it."
It seems that Zeng Li is indeed gone.
There may be other people who are different from the previous life, but Zhou Yan doesn’t know that, and he doesn’t know everyone in this class.
“The overall quality of the students in our class is pretty good, but the character of many of them needs to be polished.”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, “The overall physical condition of this class is good.”< br>
"I don't deny this. The girls are indeed pretty. As for the boys, Liu Ye and Lu Yi are also good. But in the actor industry, looks are a double-edged sword. I am also worried that they pay too much attention to their looks. Some The student looks good "Look, I feel that as long as I look good, I can get everything. There are some students who are average in appearance and tend to feel inferior."
Zhou Yan noticed that Chang Li looked at her when she said the next sentence. Qin Hailu in the front row.
Objectively speaking, Qin Hailu should be the least beautiful among the girls in this class.
She is not ugly, but compared with Hu Jing, Yuan Quan, Zhang Ziyi and others next to her, she is really too ordinary.
However, Zhou Yan did not expect Qin Hailu to have low self-esteem. In Zhou Yan's impression, Qin Hailu has always been a generous and straightforward person.
Now that I think about it, when Qin Hailu asked him what his criteria were for selecting actors, she might have been waiting for a certain answer. Qin Hailu probably wanted to hear from him that looks are not important.
Zhou Yan very much agrees with Chang Li's point of view. If an actor is too beautiful, it will not be easy for him to achieve success in film art.
On the one hand, if an actor is too beautiful and receives too many preferential treatment and temptations in life, it is easy for him to relax in thinking about his acting skills.
On the other hand, if the actors are too beautiful, it is easy for the audience to focus too much on their faces in the camera.
Of course, a beautiful actor has a wider acting career, because as long as the actor is willing to let go of his baggage, it is easy to become ugly.
But it is difficult for an ordinary-looking actor to become good-looking.
Many beautiful actors starred in some high-grossing movies when they were young. When they got older and their appearance deteriorated, they began to pursue art.
“Everyone’s appearance is born, and it’s useless to think too much.” Zhou Yan said.
Chang Li smiled and said, "Director Zhou, you are a bit sarcastic. As a person with an appearance that most people think is good-looking, it is difficult for you to feel that we ordinary-looking people People's mood."
"Uh..."
"Haha, I'm kidding you." Chang Li said she was just joking, and then asked Zhou Yan, "Director Zhou, where is the specific location of your studio?"
"Next to the Third Ring Road, It’s not far from the Yanjing Factory.”
“Is it very big?”
“It’s quite big now. Do you know the state-owned electronics factory next to the Third Ring Road?”
“Yeah, I know.”
"Now the entire factory belongs to our studio."
Chang Li's eyes widened, "The electronics factory is not small."
"Well, more than three hundred acres."< br>
“It’s a dozen or so bigger than our school.”
China National Theater only has more than 20 acres, so the electronics factory can’t be as big as China National Theater, which is more than a dozen.
Chang Li was very shocked. She knew very well what it meant to have more than 300 acres of land on the edge of the Third Ring Road. Moreover, the electronics factory not only had open space, but also had many buildings.
“I will definitely visit if I have the opportunity.”
Zhou Yan said with a smile, “Welcome Teacher Chang to come and give us guidance. Later I will prepare a comprehensive theater in the park. When the time comes, Teacher Chang Please give me more advice.”
“I don’t understand this.” Chang Li waved her hands.
While waving her hands, she was even more envious. Their school had no place to hold a performance, but Zhou Yan's studio actually wanted to build a comprehensive theater. It was really infuriating that there were so many people.
But this is also good news for them. If they can really build a good relationship with Zhou Yan, maybe the theater in Zhou Yan's studio can be used by them in the future.
She has made up her mind to take the students to visit when she is free for a while.
The two of them were chatting here, and Tian Youliang came over again, "Director Zhou, do you have time in the past two days? I can take our classmates to your studio to study?"
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I have time in the afternoons these days."
"How about we go there tomorrow afternoon?"
"Tomorrow?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised, "Don't you have a holiday tomorrow?"
Tomorrow is New Year's Day, so I have a day off.
“I just have time during the holidays.” Tian Youliang said with a smile.
Zhou Yan also laughed, "It's already a holiday, and students may not be willing to participate in such group activities."
"They don't act like they have a holiday every day now. Anyway, I don't Don’t force it, I’ll ask them for their opinion soon.”
Now that Tian Youliang said this, Zhou Yan nodded, "Okay, as long as they want to go, I will definitely receive them."
Chang Li rolled her eyes, "Since you are going, then our class will also follow. Go over and have a look.”
“Okay, let’s go there together, but If there are a lot of people, it won’t be too troublesome for Director Zhou.”
Zhou Yan waved his hand, “No, let alone your two classes, I can handle the entire school.”
He didn’t make any big claims. There are only a few hundred people in the Chinese opera, so the studio can definitely handle it. (End of chapter)