June 14th, Wednesday, was the day the first episode of "Superstar on Studio" was launched.
Although everyone arrived at Building 3 early as usual to start rehearsals for the second round of competition, as Guan Ruoying said, most people were a little out of shape.
The "Spring Garden" group was the first group to be guided by Guan Ruoying, who was wearing clean sportswear today and rehearsed the play for them energetically.
"Fan Xue, your posture is completely different from that of an eighty-one-year-old man!" Guan Ruoying put one hand on her hip, holding the script in one hand, and sighed heavily, "Have you read the original work?"
Fan Xue said submissively: "I haven't had time to see it yet..."
"Then why didn't you watch it when you went back last night? The program team didn't confiscate your mobile phones. I know you were forced to choose this role, and it was indeed a bit difficult for you, but it's just because it's difficult that you have to take the time to study, right? ?"
Guan Ruoying rolled the script into a tube and patted his chest: "Doesn't it mean that an eighty-one-year-old man has to be hunched over like a right angle? How many such old men have you seen in real life?"
He patted his forehead again: "The eyesight of the elderly is not as good as that of the young, which does not mean that they will squint all day long."
Patted his neck again: "Don't talk in such a half-dead or spitting way! It's too weird!"
"Think about what a real living person would look like in this situation. It's impossible for his footsteps to be particularly heavy. In reality, except for seriously ill patients, who would walk like this? It's also impossible to jump around. Who will buy one? It's just like having a party, you know? The most important thing in acting is 'normal'!"
Fan Xue was shaken by the photo, and his face turned red.
Guan Ruoying was very happy for him: "But you still have some problems. Let me ask you, when you first watched this movie, where did you focus your eyes?"
Guan Ruoying: "This is the 'sad but not sad' in the first half of the play, but the 'sad but not sad' in the second half of the play is different."
Fortunately, his mind was relatively clear and he knew what he should do and what he could do now. After returning to the dormitory last night, he found the original work and watched it over and over again to learn the role.
When Xue Xiao was watching the movie, he completely substituted the two fathers in the movie as his parents, and also substituted the grandparents as his own grandparents.
Having said this, she raised her head and said to everyone: "Everyone in your group must remember that the entire play "Spring Garden" is sad, but not too sad."
When performing a play with a similar style and theme, the most fearful thing is that the performer will act like "I have something on my mind" and "a tragedy has happened to me", as if he is afraid that the audience will not be able to lift their hearts.
Huang Xiaolin thought about it actively and asked tentatively: "Do you want to sink again and again?"
Xue Xiao nodded honestly.
"It is also destined that people from these four families gathered in the cemetery business hall will have their own stories. Stories related to tombs and death cannot be blindly happy. I think it will be a bit sad, but you also You’re not here to show your sadness, are you?”
Guan Ruoying: "In other words, your focus is on the 'elders', right?"
After Guan Ruoying watched his performance, she praised: "Xue Xiao, you have improved a lot from the problems you had in the first round of performance!"
Guan Ruoying's face improved a lot when she guided him: "You still lack a little bit of the flavor of being a father, and a little bit of the flavor of being a father and then losing a son. Do you know what it feels like to have these two feelings superimposed? "
Xue Xiao, Dou Mingjian and Gu Ling looked up from the script and listened to her carefully.
Dou Mingjian nodded heavily, deeply convinced.
After much deliberation, he felt that he could not control the latter two. He made this choice in a daze, and regretted it as soon as he stepped out of the choice room - this role was too wrong.
Guan Ruoying is a typical "two independent" faction.
Guan Ruoying nodded: "Didn't Teacher Shen say that your performance was a bit boring in the first round? The detailed design had no soul, but you are much better now!"
For three whole hours, he seemed to have developed a new logic for understanding characters without even realizing it.
Xue Xiao listened to Guan Ruoying's words and thought about it secretly.
Guan Ruoying nodded: "But this kind of 'shen' is not obvious."
"At the end of the movie, no matter what the mood of these characters was when they first entered the cemetery business hall, in the end they all accepted death and learned to face death."
After Guan Ruoying gave them a brief analysis, he said: "You must re-view the characters you play with this understanding, and try to figure out their behaviors, expressions and lines."
Xue Xiao and the others nodded.
Some actors will do the opposite and act very lively, but when the plot turns around, they will start to feel heavy and cry. This kind of acting method of great joy and great sadness is actually very controversial.
Guan Ruoying taught him to observe, while Shen Tingyan told him to keep thinking and thinking.
"This is the 'sad but not sad' aspect of the second half. You should be sad, but you have learned to face it."
Xue Xiao memorized all their words in his mind, superimposing "observation" and "thinking" together.
Guan Ruoying sighed: "Nothing is right. You should hurry up and do some observation work these two days to see what the old people outside look like! Your acting is too outrageous!"
Xue Xiao's eyes lit up: "Really?"
Except for this one role, the remaining roles for him at that time were a role that required a lot of martial arts scenes, and a disabled person with a high amputee.
Xue Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said happily: "After doing the observation homework, I seem to understand a little bit how to make the acting more 'live'."
"Death must be like a shadow to the living, right? But the name of the movie is "Spring Garden", and the word 'spring' already indicates the movie's attitude towards death. This is the most natural thing in the process of life. "Death and life are the same and need to be viewed in a normal way."
Huang Xiaolin, like Fan Xue, is a young actor who has signed a contract with an entertainment company and has played many supporting roles before. This time he also had no choice but to choose the No. 4 role in "Spring Garden", a father who lost his son.
"This movie tells the story of four families who come to the cemetery to buy a tomb. If you have done relevant homework, you should know that living people are not allowed to buy tombs at will. To buy, they must meet relevant requirements. ”
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world.
Looking at a brand new script with this kind of thinking logic, Xue Xiao feels like he has opened the door to a new world.
The four words "Too outrageous" completely shattered Fan Xue. He clutched the script and returned to his corner without saying a word.
That day, he went out with a large army to do observation work. He sat on the street, watching the people coming and going in front of him, while using his brain to think about what career this person would have and what that person was planning to do.
Xue Xiao was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "... Two fathers? And the grandparents in the movie."
"You learned from this movie that you should cherish your family. You hope that your parents, grandparents, and grandparents can live healthy and happy lives. You also hope that you will not make your cherished family members sad in your limited life, so you You also want to live a healthy and happy life, but now you are playing the role of this young man who is about to die!"
Xue Xiao was startled.
"It is certain that this young man does not want his parents to be sad, but you seem to be putting too much emotion on this point now. And at the beginning of the play, what about this young man's fear and pain when he faced death? It seems to be weakened. This involves the issue of how afraid people are of death."
Xue Xiao lowered his head and pondered.
"If you play the role of Fan Xue, an eighty-one-year-old, healthy old man who is simply entering the last stage of his life, then I think it is right for you to focus on making your family feel at ease. But. A twenty-year-old terminal cancer patient?”
"-Whenever cancer pain attacks and you clearly feel that death is getting closer to you step by step, are you really not afraid? Your life has just reached the most brilliant stage, but it is about to end. You really are not afraid. Will you be unwilling?"
Xue Xiao fell into deep thought.
There is no big problem with Dou Mingjian's performance. His many years of acting experience have made him so stable that Guan Ruoying kept calling him "Teacher Dou", which made Dou Mingjian feel embarrassed.
After Guan Ruoying went to instruct Gu Ling, Dou Mingjian walked up to Xue Xiao and said, "Why don't we play together, son?"
He made a joke, but Xue Xiao glanced at him blankly and shouted sincerely: "Dad."
Dou Mingjian: "..."
This is really unbearable!
Seeing that Xue Xiao's eyes were still a little blurry, he quickly waved his hand in front of him to summon him, dumbfounded: "Are you so into the drama?"
Xue Xiao sighed and said, "I'm still thinking about what Teacher Guan just said to me."
"You're not distracted," Dou Mingjian sat down next to him, "I'm actually a little nervous. The first issue will be online soon. Aren't you nervous?" Xue Xiao said very sincerely: "I might be more nervous. I’m nervous about getting invitation cards from several teachers in the second round.”
Dou Mingjian: "Very good, I'm X2 nervous now."
Xue Xiao finally laughed.
Dou Mingjian also smiled and teased: "You must want Teacher Shen's invitation card, right?"
Xue Xiao's eyes wandered a little, and then he nodded secretly.
He thought about last night.
Before they finally parted ways last night, I don't know if it was Shen Tingyan's rarely revealed awkward side that emboldened him.
He looked at Shen Tingyan's expression and said, "Teacher Shen, if I get your invitation card in the second round, I will definitely join your team."
He felt that Shen Tingyan was like a majestic lion who looked down upon all things, but no matter how majestic and noble he was, a lion was still a lion, a feline, and he had to obey when his fur was blown.
He didn't know if he had succeeded in coaxing people, but when Shen Tingyan heard these words, his unhappy face finally changed a little.
Before getting into the car, the man glanced at him, raised his lips, and smiled intriguingly: "Then wait until you get my card."
He must get Shen Tingyan's card!
Xue Xiao secretly set a goal for himself.
He turned his head and said seriously to Dou Mingjian: "Brother Dou, let's play against each other!"
Dou Mingjian smiled: "Okay, okay, come on."
Just as he finished speaking, Guan Ruoying's puzzled voice suddenly came from the other end: "What do you mean you can't speak out?"
The two of them turned their heads and unexpectedly found that the atmosphere between Gu Ling and Guan Ruoying was a bit off.
Guan Ruoying stood in front of Gu Ling in disbelief: "You are the first place in the first round of the competition, and you are also the first person to choose a role in the selection process. Fifty roles are placed in front of you for you to choose from. You choose "It's Luo Sheng."
Luo Sheng is exactly the character played by Gu Ling, a man who lost his wife at the age of thirty and wants to buy a tomb for the couple to be buried together.
"Everything you are acting feels wrong. I ask you what you like about this character, and you tell me you can't tell me?"
Gu Ling was silent.
Xue Xiao and Dou Mingjian were a little surprised.
Did Gu Ling encounter any problems
Gu Ling frowned slightly: "Teacher, can't you just tell me where the acting went wrong?"
Guan Ruoying looked at him and said, "I can tell you, based on your basic understanding of this character."
Gu Ling said calmly: "Fan Xue doesn't understand the character at all. Why don't you tell him where he went wrong?"
Guan Ruoying: "You compare Fan Xue with yourself?"
Fan Xue: "..." I want to swear.
Guan Ruoying frowned and said, "What I said to Fan Xue is completely different from what I said to Huang Xiaolin and Xue Xiao."
Fan Xue's problem lies in the basics. He has not even passed the most basic physical level.
The problems of Huang Xiaolin and Xue Xiao are both in the depth of the characters and about understanding.
Gu Ling's problem is also the latter - but if the actor does not have a basic understanding of the role itself, how can she guide the students from the understanding level
Guan Ruoying suddenly asked: "Have you done your observation homework?"
"Done."
"Any insights?"
Gu Ling was silent again.
After being silent for about a minute, he raised his eyes, looked at Guan Ruoying and said, "I think everyone lives naturally."
Does everyone live naturally
What is this conclusion
The classroom was quiet for a moment.
Guan Ruoying said slowly: "Gu Ling, you have always relied on instinct in acting, right?"
Gu Ling did not refute.
Xue Xiao and Dou Mingjian were even more surprised.
Gu Ling relied on instinct to act...
When he performed that astonishing one-man act in the first round, didn't he even think about it and it just happened naturally to that extent? !
Guan Ruoying knew what was going on.
She said: "Acting relies on instinct. Some talented actors can perform very amazingly when playing specific roles and performing specific situations."
"It would be better if this kind of actor knows very well what kind of role he is suitable for. Once he doesn't know how to make a choice, he will run into huge trouble."
"Are you the type with very accurate intuition? To be honest, the role of Luo Sheng is indeed suitable for you. But the fatal problem of an instinctive actor is that even if you choose a role that is very suitable for you, if you are not 100% consistent, As long as there is one percent problem, it will become difficult to overcome it. "
Gu Ling's eyes darkened.
"Gu Ling, you may think that too rational thinking will hinder your perception of characters, but art and rational thinking are by no means mutually exclusive."
Guan Ruoying finally said: "Go back and think about it carefully. When we meet again in this classroom tomorrow, I will tell you what your problem is."
The first day of rehearsals has come to an end.
In the afternoon, the program team temporarily assigned some other tasks to the students.
After the first episode of the program goes online, all publicity efforts will be made together. In order to increase the popularity, the program team requires each student to shoot a daily vlog. The time limit is until 9 o'clock tonight.
After sending the vlog to the staff's email address, it will be reviewed and re-edited by the program team, and then the students will send it out via Weibo.
Of course, the top priority right now is to go back and watch the first episode!
All the students rushed to the cafeteria, finished their lunch and then went back to their dormitories.
During the process, Xue Xiao and Dou Mingjian wanted to express concern for Gu Ling several times, but they didn't know how to start the topic.
Gu Ling's temperament is a bit cold, and sometimes people don't know how to talk to him.
Gu Ling noticed the expressions of the two people and said, "I'm fine. Don't worry about me. If you need help, I will tell you."
Having said so myself, Xue Xiao and Dou Mingjian were relieved.
At twelve o'clock sharp, people from the three dormitories of Jin Xiaochen, Dou Mingjian, and Huang Xiaolin gathered in Xue Xiao's dormitory.
A total of sixteen boys gathered in front of Gu Ling's laptop.
"Refresh, refresh, refresh... Yes, yes! The first issue is out!"
Gu Ling clicked on the first episode.
Everyone looked attentively.
(End of chapter)