"Then why don't we go there together tomorrow from the Performance Department? Teacher Huang, what do you think?" Tian Youliang pulled Huang Dingyu's arm next to him and asked.
Huang Dingyu said with a smile, "Of course I can do it, but if we all go to the performance department, do we have to ask Teacher Liang?"
He was talking about Liang Bolong, 95 The head teacher of the performance class.
Huang Dingyu thought that since all three of their grades had gone to visit Zhou Yan’s studio, it would be a bit bad to leave them grade 95 alone.
"It's okay, Teacher Liang, I'll go talk to him later." Chang Li said.
"Okay, then it's settled." Tian Youliang smiled.
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Okay, I will be waiting for you in the studio tomorrow."
......
They chatted for a while, Xiao Chan also told the students about the same thing.
Like the students in class 93, everyone is very interested in this new movie.
And it can be seen that their enthusiasm is stronger than that of the 93-level brothers and sisters.
This is understandable, because they have just entered college and most of them have not really been exposed to film shooting, so they are full of infinite curiosity and desire for acting.
The more important thing is that because they are freshmen, the school is very strict and does not allow them to go out to film at all.
Once a student goes out to film for more than the time specified by the school, he will be expelled from school. No one like them, the freshmen, dares to violate the rules.
Although they have only been in school for a few months, many of them have already received many invitations, but due to the school's rules, they cannot agree.
But now their class teacher Chang Li has personally brought the directors into the classroom. This at least shows that the class teacher has no objection to them participating in this movie. This is a rare opportunity for them, and of course they must seize it. .
Xiao Can also said just now that the filming time of the movie will most likely be during the summer vacation next year, so that it will not conflict with the school's rules.
Even if the filming of the final film is not during the summer and they are unable to participate, they still want to join in the fun.
Even if you just go to try out a mirror, it can be regarded as gaining experience.
Since they want to be actors, they will have to experience these things in the future.
Besides, their roles may not have many scenes, and they don’t need to be filmed for too long. They may take a weekend and then take two days off, and they can get it done.
The school's strict management doesn't mean that you can't film any scenes. If you just spend some time to make a cameo and it doesn't exceed the maximum time away from school stipulated by the school, it's no problem.
Monitor Zhang Tong took the contact information from Xiao Can and made an appointment to contact him later. It was considered over for Level 96.
"Teacher Gao, I've wasted your time. Let's leave now and leave the class to you." Zhou Yan said goodbye to Gao Jinwen with a smile.
Gao Jinwen asked, "Are you going back now?"
Tian Youliang said quickly, "No, Director Zhou and the others have already agreed to watch the students of our class rehearse a play."
He was also afraid that Zhou Yan and the others would forget about it, so he reminded him again while Gao Jinwen asked. .
"Is it that "No Name"?"
Gao Jinwen also teaches the 93-level acting class, so he naturally knows the drama "No Name" they have been rehearsing, and he gives it to the students We have guided many times.
Tian Youliang nodded and said, "Well, that's the one. Wang Qianyuan and the others want to perfect this drama, and there may be opportunities for commercial performances in the future."
"Of course it's a good idea." Gao Jinwen pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Well, I'll go over with you and have a look."
Chang Li said in surprise, "Teacher Chang, come with us, that class These students here..."
Gao Jinwen waved his hand, "Of course you come with me. It's rare that Qianyuan and Naiwen are going to rehearse "No Name". This is an opportunity to take the kids in your class to study and see what the level of the senior brothers and sisters is like. Some students can hold back their tears during a semester’s homework, and it’s a good time for them to look for gaps and directions. "
When Gao Jinwen said this, Chang Li couldn't help but glance at Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi. The two hugged each other and cried about their semester homework.
Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye also knew that Gao Jinwen was talking about them, and they were a little embarrassed, because they had not completed their homework yet, and the semester was about to end, and their pressure was increasing. .
In fact, if everyone was like this, they would be fine. The main reason was that they couldn't hand in one assignment, and Qin Hao had already handed in five or six assignments.
So when Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi were together, they not only cried, but also scolded Qin Hao for being too pretentious.
This is Gao Jinwen's class. Gao Jinwen has full authority to decide what to do, even if Chang Li is the class teacher, he can't control it.
And Chang Li also thinks that Gao Jinwen is right. Taking students to see the performance of their senior brothers and sisters can also learn something.
The students were very happy when they learned that they were going to watch a play rehearsed by the senior brothers and sisters from Grade 93. No matter what they did, it was always more comfortable than sitting in the classroom.
...
When everyone arrived at the small theater, Wang Qianyuan and the others had not yet started formal rehearsal, and they were still gathering together to discuss something.
Originally, according to the plan, they had already started lining up, but just now they heard Tian Youliang said that he would bring Zhou Yan and the others back for a visit, so Wang Qianyuan decided to take his classmates and wait for Zhou Yan and the others to come back before lining up.
But Wang Qianyuan and the others did not expect that not only Zhou Yan and the others would come, but the 96-level junior brothers and sisters would also be brought by Teacher Gao.
Seeing the junior brothers and sisters of Level 96 and Level 93 are very happy, especially the senior brothers, because the Junior Brothers and Sisters of Level 96 are indeed pretty good-looking.
Tian Youliang walked over and gave Wang Qianyuan a few instructions, and the students began to formally rehearse.
It is said to be a rehearsal, but in fact it is more like a formal performance, and the audience is Zhou Yan and the others.
......
"No Name" was better than Zhou Yan expected, and the performance of these students was beyond his expectations.
Tian Youliang's introduction is indeed a lot simplified. This drama has a lot of good details in handling, and some lines are also very interesting.
But unfortunately, this is not a mature work.
Zhou Yan could see that the students were very conflicted in their hearts during the process of creating this drama.
At a certain time, they probably wanted to make an experimental drama that would make people watch it in a fog.
But at another time, they seemed to want to make the content of this drama more substantial and story-telling to prevent the audience from being too confused.
The final result is that they have neither completed an experimental work, nor the story is lacking, and the main theme of the story is somewhat confusing.
They want to express so much that they can actually express less. More than an hour and forty minutes later, when the play ended, the audience applauded, and Xiao Can and Huo Jianqi also began to congratulate Tian Youliang.
Facing the congratulations from Xiao Can and Huo Jianqi, Tian Youliang smiled and nodded. Then he looked at Zhou Yan, wanting to hear what Zhou Yan had to say.
Zhou Yan did not give any special suggestions, just like Xiao Can and others, he smiled and congratulated, "Teacher Tian, congratulations, the students have produced such an outstanding work, you must be very happy . This play not only has a good script, but the performances of the actors are also very good."
Although Zhou Yan and the others were indeed praising it, Tian Youliang was slightly disappointed. That was not what he wanted to hear.
Tian Youliang is just an acting teacher. He can't really help his students in terms of creation.
Of course, students in the performance department don’t attach much importance to creation in their studies.
The actor's task is to interpret the role well. As for the creation, it is the responsibility of the director, screenwriter and other behind-the-scenes workers. Although the actors also need to pay attention, they do not need to invest too much energy.
At least this is the case when studying in school. If a student is interested in creating, it will be after graduation.
However, since the Grade 93 students have created such an original drama and put a lot of thought into it, Tian Youliang still wants to help the students improve this drama.
China National Theater also has a directing department, and Tian Youliang has also asked teachers from the directing department to help guide him. However, Zhou Yan and the others are here today, and he also hopes that Zhou Yan and the others can give valuable advice.
It’s just that Zhou Yan and the others were unwilling to go into details, and Tian Youliang couldn’t ask for help either.
But then Gao Jinwen suddenly said, "Director Zhou, Director Huo, and Director Xiao, you should not just give praise, but also give some real criticism. This drama they have created is indeed Not bad, but I also believe that in your eyes, this drama must have many problems."
The three of Zhou Yan looked at each other, and then Huo Jianqi. He spoke first, "If we want to talk about the problem, most of the works around the world have problems. First of all, we have to admit that a work with flaws is a good work. This drama perfectly shows the current situation of students. His talent is better than the work itself."
"Director Huo, this is too official." Obviously Gao Jinwen was not satisfied with Huo Jianqi's answer at all.
Huo Jianqi looked at Xiao Can with a smile, "Old Xiao, give me an unofficial one for Director Gao."
Xiao Can smiled and said, "I don't think there is anything wrong with the performances of the students. Maybe there's something wrong with the handling of the script. It’s perfect.”
In fact, it’s not that the students’ performances are so perfect that they can’t find faults, but it’s just impossible for Xiao Can to say it. There are several acting teachers here. If he mentions the performance, That's not just a trick.
"What are the imperfections?" Gao Jinwen continued to ask.
It can be seen that he is not ready to let Xiao Can and the others go.
Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Xiao Can carefully considered his words and said, "In the first scene, there were too many exchanges between the protagonist and the villagers. It can be seen that you want to show that the protagonist is not familiar with the villagers in this village." Strange. But this is obviously self-defeating. If you just want to highlight that they are not strangers, you need to reduce communication..."
Hearing Xiao Can's words, Gao Jinwen nodded frequently. He felt that Xiao Can's words were very reasonable.
Actually, Wang Qianyuan and the others have been thinking about the lines for this section for a long time, because they wanted to use the lines to express the relationship between the protagonist and the villagers that is not unfamiliar, but not very familiar either.
So their dialogue had a lot of lines, but it was a bit polite.
Wang Qianyuan and Li Naiwen looked at each other and felt that Xiao Can was right.
In fact, they also felt that there was something wrong with the lines in this section, but they always felt that there should be better lines, but they didn't think of it now.
Now it seems that they are going in the wrong direction. There is no need to think of better lines. They can just reduce the lines in this paragraph. Sometimes, the frequency of the lines itself can express a lot of things.
"What I said is just my personal opinion and for reference only. Please forgive me for any inaccuracies." Xiao Can added.
Tian Youliang said with a smile, "The ancients said that if you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. Although we don't have the spirit of seeking knowledge like the ancients, we can get guidance from professionals like Director Xiao and we can naturally find deficiencies. I am very happy. The students have spent a long time on this drama and everyone hopes that it will be completed. They don’t expect to make a perfect work, they just hope that they can learn something in the process of constantly revising the work.”
I have to say, Tian Youliang is very good at talking. This paragraph not only helped the students speak well, but also gave Xiao Can face.
It's just that, for him, it's Gao Jinwen who is the bad guy, because Gao Jinwen is the most familiar with Zhou Yan here.
At this time Gao Jinwen looked at Zhou Yan again, "Director Zhou, what do you think? What else can you say to your classmates?"
"I think..."
" If you are complimenting them, stop saying it." Gao Jinwen gave Zhou Yan a vaccination in advance.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "No matter what, I still have to praise where praise is due. The students' performance was better than I expected, especially Wang Qianyuan, Liu Mintao, and Xin Baiqing. There is nothing to fault about their lines, body shape or stage moves. I believe that the three of them have the ability to go on stage directly no matter which theater company they join."
"Of course, the other students are not bad either. Although some of them don't have many roles, their performance is remarkable..."
When Zhou Yan commented, Tian Youliang raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect Zhou Yan His memory is so good, Zhou Yan just took a look at the cast list and remembered Wang Qianyuan and the three of them.
And Zhou Yan can remember these three people, which means that he has remembered more people.
After praising the actors, Zhou Yan praised the script again, "A standard drama, nearly two hours long, is still an original drama, and the workload is very heavy. It is very impressive to be able to do this. Easy, let alone the students in the acting class, even the directing class and the screenwriting class would find it difficult to do better than this Okay. There is no big problem with the integrity of the drama and the overall rhythm. Apart from anything else, it is already very good to be able to control the time within the range."
Many Caotai troupes perform a drama. Down the road, the duration is always not fixed, and there may be a gap of more than ten minutes between two adjacent sessions.
Therefore, Zhou Yan said that it is already very good if he can control the time well after performing the entire play.
After talking about the advantages, Zhou Yan changed the subject, "Next, let's talk about the shortcomings of the script. We all know that a work cannot be perfect, it must have various question. If we just talk about the big picture, I think it’s too broad. It is time-consuming and may not be useful to you. Why not start from a certain aspect and talk to you about my ideas, which may be of some small use to you."
"Director Zhou. Just say it, we are all ears." Gao Jinwen said with a smile.
Zhou Yan nodded, "Director Xiao just mentioned the issue of dialogue. I thought it would be appropriate to follow this topic and talk to you about the issue of conversation structure."
Many people were stunned. After a while, they felt that Zhou Yan was going to tell them something different.
In fact, their feeling was right, Zhou Yan really wanted to give them a little more intensity.
Just listen to him continue, "Alan mentioned in "Drama Symbol Theory" that theater audiences are faced with a symbolic world, and the reason why they can understand this symbolic world is because they assume , everything that happens in this symbolic world basically follows the laws and natural laws of the real world.”
“In other words, the drama world is a simulation of the real world, and the dialogues in it are also based on daily conversations in real life. simulation, two Although they are different, they are closely related. Let’s first talk about what is daily dialogue and what is dramatic dialogue, and what is the relationship between the two..."
After talking about daily dialogue and dramatic dialogue, Zhou Yan began to extend to the back, "Next, I want to introduce a concept to you-talking wheel. Does anyone know what this concept means?"
Everyone looked confused, but they were still First time hearing this concept.
This was also expected by Zhou Yan, because the analysis of conversational structure developed very late in China. Domestic academic circles only had some contact with it in the 1990s, and systematic research was not conducted until the 21st century.
There are no professional articles at all in China, and even relevant foreign literature has not been translated. Where do they know these things?
Not to mention those from their acting department, even the directing class and screenwriting class, most likely don’t know about it.
“Talk turns were proposed by the famous linguist Levinson, which means a period of time when a speaker speaks alone in a typical, orderly, multi-person conversation.”< br>
Everyone suddenly realized that this was the meaning of the wheel, it was so simple. (End of chapter)