Chapter 414 Graduation Drama
In the blink of an eye, Jin Qixuan has been filming in Daejeon Filming Park for more than half a month.
For more than half a month, regardless of wind or rain, the crew has been filming intensively every day.
Jin Qixuan was very satisfied with this fulfilling life, and after being abstinent for a long time, his whole temperament became tougher.
……
July 15th.
clear.
The maximum temperature is 32 degrees.
Afternoon.
Filming location.
Round lighthouse building, glass factory inside.
With the arrangement of the staff, this place has been transformed into a game place for giant one, two and three wooden figures.
Rest room.
Huang Donghyuk is telling a play to Zheng Haoyan.
Jin Qixuan was also by his side.
On the surface, she kept nodding her head and looked like she was listening attentively, but in reality, she was just rubbing against the umbrella...
Since Zheng Haoyan is a new actress, ng is a common thing for her.
However, Huang Donghe was not angry about this.
After all, as a newcomer, you have to give her time to grow.
If it were actors who have been around for many years and still behave like this, then he would not be so polite.
After the scene was finished, the set manager also informed that the shooting location had been set up.
So, the group headed to the shooting location under the scorching sun.
“Are you all ready?”
Huang Donghyuk looked at the more than two hundred extras crowded at the starting line and asked loudly with a loudspeaker.
"Ready!"
The assistant director replied quickly.
“Okay, all units are in place.”
"Action!"
As Huang Donghyuk gave the order, the camera pushed from behind.
Follow the script.
At this time, the actor who was supposed to be playing the wooden man turned his head, and then everyone started running forward.
However, when the "wooden man" turned around halfway, a certain extra actor ran straight away, not knowing whether he was nervous or something.
Then, involving the herd effect, the other group performers started running away.
Huang Donghyuk: "..."
"Kakaka!"
"Do it again!"
Huang Donghe looked at the noisy crowd and rubbed his swollen temples.
Actually, this plot is quite simple. As long as the extras follow the pre-rehearsed instructions, run when they should run and stop when they should stop, there will definitely be no problem.
However, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Because there are too many people, there will always be a few group performances that go wrong.
In addition, the weather was already hot, and the extras were crowded together, and the smell of sweat and body odor came out, which was very overpowering.
We filmed seven or eight times in succession, but none of them met Huang Donghyuk’s expectations.
Although he knew that these extras were not professional actors, it was normal for this kind of situation to occur in group scenes with a large number of people.
But understanding is understanding, and irritability is really irritation.
At this time, Huang Donghe discovered a serious problem.
Because the weather was so hot, many of the extras seemed a little listless, and some even had dull eyes.
This cannot continue!
Huang Donghe thought in his heart, then turned to the assistant director behind him and said:
"Go and talk to the props team and ask them to take out the fans. In addition, ask the venue attendant to buy some iced drinks."
The assistant director was stunned for a moment and said: "But in this case, The budget may be..."
"No need." Huang Donghe interrupted, "If the progress is delayed for one day, the loss will be greater."
The assistant director thought so, and after responding, he quickly ran to inform.
A few minutes later.
The staff of the props team brought several large fans over, and the field management team also quickly drove to a nearby convenience store to buy iced drinks.
After the fans and iced drinks were all in place, Huang Donghyuk asked everyone to rest for another ten minutes before starting to shoot again.
Finally, after several attempts, Huang Donghyuk finally captured a satisfactory picture.
“Passed!”
"Change the venue for the next play."
Hearing this, Jin Qixuan also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the large fan will make the temperature slightly cooler, the odor of sweat and body odor from other extras will inevitably be blown over.
The taste is simply amazing!
......
After filming the scenes of Jiang Xiao slipping and Cheng Qixun hero saving the beauty, Huang Donghyuk announced the end of the work and will continue to shoot the scenes of everyone playing games tomorrow.
After the show, Jin Qixuan returned to the hotel and met Li Zhien who came to visit the cast.
The main purpose of her visit was to talk about Jin Qixuan's application to cancel the evening video chat.
Sometimes when Jin Qixuan shoots night scenes, it’s three or four in the morning after the show ends.
As a result, Li Zhien was awake and waiting for him...
One or two days was fine.
But for a long time, Jin Qixuan was worried that her body would not be able to bear it.
After all, Jin Qixuan's side has resumed work, and so has Li Zhien's side.
With her current situation, there is absolutely no need to work as hard as she did when she was young, sleeping only three or four hours a day.
But Li Zhien didn’t think so.
She feels that she is fully capable of balancing career and love.
As a result, the two had differences over this matter.
There was also the scene of her attacking Jin Qixuan at night.
"Yeah! What? How long have you been married and you start to dislike me?"
Li Zhien sat on the sofa with his arms crossed, his eyebrows raised.
“I dare not.”
"Are you afraid or already disgusted?"
"That's what you said." Jin Qixuan took off his coat and sat next to her, "I don't care about your body. You can have the video, but it's not necessary. "Every day."
Hearing this, Li Zhien's expression softened slightly and said: "But I just want to see you every day..."
"It's the same when looking at photos."
"Do you not love me anymore?"
Jin Qixuan: "?"
No, isn’t this topic a bit too harsh?
Seeing Li Zhien's tendency to be able to argue whether he was right or not, Jin Qixuan knew that whatever he said would be in vain.
Only by feeding her can she talk to you well...
Thinking of this, Jin Qixuan directly executed her on the spot.
Three quarters of an hour later.
Li Zhien lay on Jin Qixuan's chest with a flushed face, and drew circles on his chest with his fingers.
"The time I play is not fixed every day, so I will video chat with you as soon as I finish the movie, okay? I won't video chat in the early morning or even after that."
"I understand..."
< br>Li Zhien pouted and responded reluctantly.
After the two of them chatted for a while, Li Zhien got dressed and left.
Due to epidemic prevention reasons, and because she has to prepare new songs recently, accept new endorsements, and run offline activities, she doesn’t have much free time.
So, I only stayed for more than an hour and left.
The next day.
Jin Qixuan came to the crew early.
Today, they are going to take pictures of people playing games.
There were more people in this scene than yesterday.
In addition to the players, there are also people betting and watching the excitement. In total, there were three to four hundred people.
Because the progress was much slower than expected, Huang Donghyuk had to change the originally planned five days of shooting game footage to eight days.
As a result, there is very little time left for everyone to take pictures of transition scenes.
You know, although the game screen is the top priority in this drama, the transition screen between games is also very important.
If the transitional scenes are deleted, the plot will become incoherent, which will affect the viewing experience.
This is unacceptable to Huang Donghyuk.
So, in order to speed up the progress, Huang Donghyuk changed the shooting time from nine hours a day to twelve hours.
Time passed slowly while filming.
In the blink of an eye, it’s the end of July.
On this day, Jin Qixuan had to ask for leave from director Huang Donghyuk.
He has to go back to school to take the graduation exam and graduation defense.
It is naturally impossible for Huang Donghyuk not to criticize this kind of fakeness.
Just like this, Jin Qixuan’s role will be moved back.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of filming, the progress has not only caught up, but has also gone faster than expected.
With permission, Jin Qixuan returned to school.
The graduation drama he chose was "Oedipus the King".
This work is a model work of ancient Greek tragedy. It is called a "perfect tragedy" and has had a profound impact on the development of Western drama.
Its theme is about the conflict between human will and destiny.
Oedipus was cursed after he was born, saying that he would kill his father and marry his mother in the future.
So his father nailed his ankles with nails and asked the servant in charge to throw him into the barren mountains.
As a result, the servant couldn't bear it, so he gave it to the shepherds of Corinthus.
The king of Corinthus took Oedipus in because he had no sons.
When Oedipus grew up, he learned about the divine prophecy and fled the country of Corinth to avoid its fulfillment.
As a result, when he was wandering on the road, he had a conflict with an old man because of his youth and arrogance and accidentally beat him to death.
And this old man is his biological father.
Later, he answered the riddle correctly, got rid of the banshee, and was declared king by the people of Thebes.
And married the former queen, his biological mother, and gave birth to two children.
Finally, Oedipus learned the truth. Unable to accept the reality, he blinded himself and exiled himself.
In order to perform this scene well, Jin Qixuan began research a year ago.
I even went to the musical theater to watch the version of "Oedipus King" performed by Huang Zhengmin.
The clip chosen by Jin Qixuan is a one-man show performed by Oedipus after he learns the truth.
Although the content of this drama is not much, the emotions are extremely complex, and it is difficult to act.
Because this requires the actor to express Oedipus's shock, anger, shame, despair, sadness, madness and many other emotions after knowing the truth in just a few minutes.
Such a difficult performance segment is a big challenge even for Jin Qixuan.
In a blink of an eye, the day of the exam came.
Jin Qixuan stood quietly on the stage, lowering his eyes slightly, adjusting his breathing and brewing his emotions.
After a while, he slowly raised his head and started performing.
When he learned the truth that was like a bolt from the blue, his eyes widened instantly, as if his eyes were about to break out of their sockets, and a storm full of shock and despair was raging crazily inside.
His face was as pale as paper, bloodless, and his lips were trembling uncontrollably, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
Then, Jin Qixuan staggered back a few steps, raised his hands helplessly, and his fingers trembled slightly.
"Alas, alas! Everything has come true! Heavenly light, I now look at you for the last time! I became the son of my parents who should not have given birth to me, married a mother who should not have married, and killed a father who should not have been killed."
As the voice fell, two lines of hot tears slid down his cheeks at just the right time, his chest also rose and fell violently, and his breathing became as rapid as the drums in the wind
Gradually , there was madness in his eyes, that madness was like a burning flame, hot and dangerous. Then he squatted down suddenly, tore his hair with both hands, and shouted hysterically:
"I am a person abandoned by God. My fate has been determined. I will endure endless pain and torture."
Perhaps Jin Qixuan's performance seems to be a lunatic to those who don't know how to do it.
But from the perspective of insiders, his performance is full of tension, full of emotions and progressive.
Especially when the truth is revealed, the change of expression from disbelief to anger to pain and despair is very natural.
The school graders in the audience could not stop nodding, with admiration in their eyes.
At this time, the performance on the stage continued.
Jin Qixuan was groping towards the props while murmuring in a crying voice:
"With my eyes, you never want to see the ugliness and misery in this world again. I am willing to use yours to We turn to darkness to gain inner peace.”
At this time, the stage lights completely focused on the props in Jin Qixuan’s hands, making them sparkle and increase the visual impact.
At the same time, the background music also reached a climax, and the tearful melody echoed in the theater, which was moving.
After saying that, Jin Qixuan stabbed his eyes hard with the prop.
Of course, it’s not really a prick, it’s just a look.
In order to further increase the visual effect, when the prop is about to pierce his eyes, Jin Qixuan will tilt his head back violently to show the body's instinctive reaction to pain.
At the same time, there will also be light and shadow rendering and smoke effects on the stage to make the scene more realistic.
After "blinding" his eyes, Jin Qixuan's body was unable to stand still due to the tremendous pain, and he staggered and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
Then, he lay on the ground, gripping the ground tightly with both hands, his fingers turned white from the force, the veins on his arms popped out, and his body couldn't stop shaking.
After a while, Jin Qixuan stood up with his trembling hands on the ground, groped his way forward, and began his self-exile.
"Let my destiny go wherever it goes. I will no longer resist or struggle. I accept the punishment of all this..."
Jin Qixuan's voice became smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely.
And his figure also disappeared in the fog and dim lights on the stage.
This kind of darkness and silence is completely different from before the performance.
Before the performance, the darkness and silence on the stage were lifeless and empty.
But now, the darkness and silence on the stage are filled with endless sorrow and despair, which makes people feel extremely depressed and suffocating.
After a while, the stage lights came back on, illuminating the entire stage.
Jin Qixuan, who was at the center of the stage, was bowing to the scorers.
At this time, he could clearly hear the applause and cheers from the junior students who came to watch Jin Qixuan's graduation drama.
“Wow, as expected of a senior, the performance was great.”
"Yes, it can be regarded as a textbook version. He performed Oedipus's struggle and helplessness in the face of fate so realistically."
"Yes, that's right, I even cried when I saw it. "What about you?"
"I...can I cry now?"
"..."
Hearing these praises and applause, Jin Qixuan was not complacent.
Because he didn’t know how much of the applause and cheers came from the heart, and how much was given because of his identity.
In the audience, the scorers were whispering among themselves based on how they rated Jin Qixuan's performance according to their own standards.
Each rater is responsible for different scoring directions.
They are: performance skills, line expression, body language, emotional investment, work interpretation, and stage coordination.
Jin Qixuan's tutor, Professor Lin, saw that the dean had given him 80 points for his acting performance, and couldn't help but argue:
"Dean nim, isn't it good for you to give him 80 points? His children have all scored three." He’s an actor, wouldn’t it be a bit funny to spread the word?”
Hearing this, the dean glanced at him lightly and said:
“It’s because I won three Best Actors that I gave it 80 points.”
“In the history of our college, there are only a few people who won Best Actors during their school years. What does a one-man show mean to them?”
“Jin Qixuan’s performance today was indeed good, but it did not break away from the framework of “Oedipus the King” and the traces of his performance were a bit heavy.”
"If you put aside his status as an actor, I would give him 95 points."
"However, people's expectations for him are not just 95 points. He must do more than 95 points." Well, it is in line with people’s expectations of him.”
“You should also understand that if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, right?”
Hearing this, Professor Lin opened his mouth, swallowed the words on his lips, and sighed helplessly.
Although the acting skills were only given 80 points, after taking the six subjects together, Jin Qixuan’s graduation drama score still reached a high score of 93 points.
After the results were announced, the graduation defense session began.
The paper prepared by Jin Qixuan is "Practice and Research of Experiential Performance System in Performance".
The PPT not only lists the performance clips of many experiential performance masters, but also combines his own performance experience, from the theoretical explanation, specific practice, effect evaluation of the experiential performance system, and the comparison with other performance systems. Starting from many aspects such as comparison, he elaborated on his own views and opinions.
Thesis defense went very smoothly.
Jin Qixuan has clear logic and quick thinking, and can answer questions asked by professors fluently.
At this point, Jin Qixuan successfully obtained a doctorate in art.
I am just waiting to attend the graduation ceremony in September to receive my degree certificate and graduation certificate.
Afterwards, Jin Qixuan's decision to stay at Central University as a teaching assistant was also put on the agenda.
(End of this chapter)