Chapter 18 Exam-oriented Training
After Zhang Yimou told Zhou Yan how the licensing fee was distributed, Zhou Yan was quite satisfied. He didn’t understand the market, but he knew that it was definitely not that high, otherwise Zhang Yimou and the others would not be able to It also takes a lot of trouble to allocate the money into the monthly salary.
He also knew about the movie adaptation, and Su Tong only got four thousand yuan, so what he got this time was not much less.
Zhang Yimou also announced a piece of news that day, that is, the movie will officially start shooting in ten days, so that all teams can be prepared.
Actually, there is nothing special to prepare. Most of the team has been on the set for a long time, and what needs to be prepared has been prepared. The only one who may be a little busy is the costume team.
There are quite a few people in the costume team, four or five of them, but the core member is the costume designer Dong Wenmiao. Many of the clothes are designed by Dong Wenmiao himself, and Dong Wenmiao still needs to grasp the general direction.
Dong Wenmiao is Yan Guang’s teacher. He was delayed by some work at school, so he only arrived at the scene yesterday. Many of the issues left over from the early stages of clothing had to wait for her to be solved. The clothing team has been particularly busy since yesterday.
When Dong Wenmiao didn't come here, a little girl from the costume team often teamed up with Zhou Yan and makeup artist Hong Xin to fight and run away. I haven't seen that little girl in the past two days. .
In addition to the costume team, there is another group that is quite busy, and that is the soundtrack team.
However, Zhou Yan is the only one in the soundtrack team, and he is busy not with the soundtrack, but with performance learning.
Because Gao Jinwen was even busier after turning on the camera, he took advantage of this time to play surprise for Zhou Yan. After Zhou Yan played the flute for a week, Gao Jinwen finally pulled him upstairs to continue teaching the rest of the play.
"Don't turn around so fast. There should be a pause. Don't hold your hands on the window sill. Turn around directly."
"Don't bend at the waist."
"Why? You are so stupid, put on some expression and give a playful smile...the smile is too exaggerated, so stop it."
"After saying this line, you have to take back your smile, and this time you have to be quick." br>
"Look downstairs and then lower your head. Yes, remember this feeling."
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Before starting performance training, Zhou Yan thought Gao Jinwen would guide him how to act , but the current situation was completely different from what he thought. Gao Jinwen didn't want to guide him, but designed all the steps, and then asked him to act according to the design.
When to turn, how to turn, how many times to turn, how fast to turn... Gao Jinwen divided this small scene into at least thirty steps. All Zhou Yan needs to do is to turn these steps Write it down and practice it over and over again.
In order to deepen Zhou Yan’s impression, Gao Jinwen also prepared a small mirror for Zhou Yan. As long as Zhou Yan’s expression was correct, he would ask Zhou Yan to look in the mirror and remember this expression for reference later. Keep practicing.
This kind of teaching method made Zhou Yan a little disappointed. He originally wanted to take advantage of this guest appearance to learn acting. With a famous acting teacher like Gao Jinwen here, Zhou Yan would feel sorry for himself if he didn't learn some acting.
But now this kind of mechanized performance gives him very few opportunities to absorb knowledge.
Gao Jinwen only told him where to smile, where to bow his head, and where to put away his smile, but he didn't tell him why he did so.
Knowing what is happening, but not knowing why, this feeling makes Zhou Yan, who has been a teacher for more than ten years, very uncomfortable.
But he understood this, because Gao Jinwen's task was not to let him learn to act, but to enable him to complete Chen Feipu's scenes. This approach was obviously effective.
After taking Zhou Yan through the "first encounter" scene for half a day, Gao Jinwen went to do other things, leaving Zhou Yan alone upstairs to practice according to the process.
In the following time, Zhou Yan practiced over and over again alone with a mirror.
... That night, Zhou Yan lay down on the bed after eating, staring blankly at the bed board on the upper bunk, looking as if he was hopeless. After practicing the drama for a day, he was now He almost forgot what laughing and crying were, and the muscles on his face were no longer under his control.
The pain of practicing has completely wiped out the joy of his increased salary.
Previously, Zhang Yimou gave Zhou Yan an extra 300 yuan a month. At that time, he felt that he had made a profit. After all, Chen Feipu only had two scenes in total, and it was estimated that they could be filmed in a few hours. The money came too easily.
Now he realizes that shit is hard to eat and money is hard to make. This is true at all.
It’s better to play the flute before.
He Wuming was reading a book. He was quite surprised to see Zhou Yan lying on the bed as soon as he returned to the house, because Zhou Yan usually writes on the desk and gets up very late when he writes.
Sometimes He Wuming was also curious as to what Zhou Yan was writing. Logically speaking, it wouldn't take that long just to write a soundtrack record, and there were several piles of stationery written by Zhou Yan.
Even if someone told He Wuming that Zhou Yan was writing a masterpiece, he would believe it.
“You seem very tired today.”
Hearing He Wuming’s words, Zhou Yan sighed, “Teacher He, please don’t talk to me. I don’t want to use any of my facial muscles right now. They urgently need a rest."
He Wuming smiled. He knew that Zhou Yan was probably too tired from practicing today.
The whole crew knew that Zhou Yan was practicing crazily on the second floor. Everyone was curious in the morning. Today, the doorman did not play the flute. In the past, there was a flute every day, but today suddenly there was no flute. Get used to it. Later, someone went up to take a look and saw Zhou Yan alone, acting foolishly with the air.
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Happiness is temporary, pain is the main theme.
For the next few days, Zhou Yan lived in the pain of practicing alone. Gao Jinwen occasionally came over to take a look. If there were any problems, he would point them out. If there were no problems, he would let Zhou Yan continue practicing.
It was indeed difficult at first, but as he practiced, Zhou Yan found that his control of facial muscles was much smoother than before. When he needed to smile, his facial muscles reflexively A standard smile appeared on his face, and when it was time to tighten these muscles, he could immediately tighten them.
Not to mention, this exam-oriented education does have its merits.
A week later, Gao Jinwen announced that Zhou Yan had graduated from this scene and could start the next one.
The next scene is when Songlian was drinking alone in the house on her birthday, and Chen Feipu went to find her and give her a gift.
This scene is much more demanding for Zhou Yan, because there are many more emotional changes than the first scene, especially Chen Feipu's shy, timid and somewhat hopeful ambivalence that is very difficult to express.
What’s more important is that there are many lines, which is also a big test for Zhou Yan’s lines.
A lot of Chen Feipu's scenes were deleted from the movie script, but he still had to show a lot of things, so a lot of the content was compressed into this scene.
This scene took a long time. It took Gao Jinwen a whole morning to take Zhou Yan through the scene, and told Zhou Yan that Zhou Yan should practice alone for two days, and then he would find someone to play with him for two days. .
The reason why we need to find someone to co-star in the scene is because unlike the previous one, this one is basically the same scene between Chen Feipu and Song Lian.
(End of this chapter)