Entertaining Children

  Chapter 75 Drama Rehearsal

Xiao Yao used to run around with Xiao Chengru for a long time. He has been in the crews of many TV dramas and the film crews several times, but the drama crews have never been there. This time he participated in the "Happiness Terminal" with Sun Zhihao. Meet the drama crew for the first time. The stage, intuitiveness, comprehensiveness and dialogue of drama are very different from film and television works. The props, costumes, stage art, and lighting are also completely different from what I have seen before in the film and television crew. Xiao Yao, who thinks he has a good understanding of the crew, seems to have seen a completely different new world.

  Xiao Yao has watched a lot of movies and TV in his previous life, but he has never watched even one drama in the theater, which can be regarded as completely zero experience.

  The performance of drama is very different from the performance of film and television drama. Movies and television are to restore the real scenes in reality, and the feeling to the audience should be as true as possible. In the audience's comments on film and television dramas, the actors will act "too fake", but no audience will criticize the drama's "authenticity" because of the exaggeration of the stage setting and the actors' performance. The world of drama is an exaggerated world that has been abstracted and condensed. Therefore, drama performance is also abstract and condensed. Compared with real life, it is exaggerated.

  When Sun Zhihao brought Xiao Yao to the rehearsal site of the play and announced that Xiao Yao would be the actor of the lead actor Chen Jianjun’s son Chen Fang, everyone in the crew was taken aback. Originally, they thought that Sun Zhihao would find a short and experienced adult actor for Chen Fang's heavy role.

  On the performance stage of a real commercial drama, children are rarely seen. Because in addition to the more exaggerated requirements for performance, drama performance has two great characteristics, one is solid basic skills, and the other is that it has almost no fault tolerance.

In a drama performance, the lines need special articulation, sonorous force, and when the mood is low or high, it is necessary to use much exaggerated movements and words to convey the full emotions, which requires very solid line skills and Accurate action expression ability. At the same time, because the drama performance is continuous and one-off, every action in the drama performance must be carefully designed. The actor's position, expression, and lines must be rehearsed many times in advance. Once an error occurs There is no room for correction, so there must be no mistakes. Unlike film and television dramas, which are filmed first and edited later, you can do it again if you don't perform well once.

  This also determines that the actors cannot relax for a moment during the one or two-hour performance. They must concentrate all the time, devote themselves to the role, and must not make any mistakes in the middle. A solid foundation in lines, accurate expression skills, long time concentration, and no mistakes in the middle. These points are difficult for children to do. In addition, the script is inherently exaggerated and demanding of reality. If it is lower, there will often be cases where adults play children.

  In view of Xiao Yaoyuan's maturity and intelligence beyond children of the same age, Sun Zhihao is confident that Xiao Yao will not make mistakes halfway through. As for the previous points, the accuracy of lines and movements are the content of Sun Zhihao's training and guidance to Xiao Yao.

  Faced with everyone's doubts, Xiao Yao dispelled everyone's doubts about his ability to speak on the first day, not only slightly shocked the rest of the crew, but even Sun Zhihao was pleasantly surprised.

A few years ago, when Xiao Yao and Xiao Chengru mixed the crew, they were very curious about the vocal training of "three-cavity resonance" because they learned that an actor who graduated from a film academy had to do morning work every day when he was studying. Cheng Confucian taught him. In the past few years, in addition to running and martial arts training, he has also been practicing his throat and "three-cavity resonance" during his morning exercises.

Although it is not like Xiao Chengru, who has been accustomed for decades, will unconsciously bring that kind of resonance in his usual speech, but when he deliberately does it, his "three-tone resonance" way of speaking is added. The breath and tone that he has trained for a long time are enough to make him speak the powerful and penetrating "drama tone" that is not inferior to ordinary actors.

  Sun Zhihao even felt that during the formal performance, the headset microphone originally prepared for Xiao Yao was no longer needed. Xiao Yao's lines on the stage can be heard directly by the audience in the entire theater.

   And a few days later, Xiao Yao's terrifying memory also made everyone's worry about his second point disappear. After a few days of rehearsal, Xiao Yao not only never missed his lines, but also made a mistake. Even his movements and movements on the stage were all very accurate, and he never made a mistake.

  What Xiao Yao lacks is pure acting skills, such as breathing, biting words, pauses, rhythm, tone of voice, facial expressions, expression of emotions and so on. And these need to be guided and trained by Sun Zhihao continuously.

  In this way, everyone is at least not too worried that Xiao Yao will have a performance accident and ruin the whole show. The rest depends on how exciting the show can be through the efforts of everyone including Xiao Yao.

  Compared with the penetrating power of the sound, the accuracy of the position movement, the "outer door kung fu" visible to the naked eye, and the pure "internal strength" of acting, Xiao Yao's performance is not very eye-catching. This is also because Xiao Yao and the two generations together have only watched film and television dramas, and have never watched even a drama. They are too unfamiliar with such exaggerated performances in dramas, and their psychological acceptance is also very high. Limited, so progress is unusually slow.

  In this case, Sun Zhihao could only be forced to set up a small stove for Xiao Yao. After rehearsal, taking advantage of the opportunity to live together, he and Hu Xuena at home in the evening to guide Xiao Yao's acting skills.

  Hu Xuena also came from a serious film school, and she herself is very keen and good at drama performances. She just faded out of the showbiz and did not fully retire. Whenever she encounters a good book that she is interested in, she will also play some. Therefore, when at home at night, Hu Xuena can also guide Xiao Yao with Sun Zhihao.

After going through the Doubao incident, Xiao Yao was also cruel. Faced with the problem of dialogue drama performance, he showed a very tough side. Whether it was in the rehearsal field or at Sun Zhihao’s house at night, he studied and practiced hard. Those things taught by Sun Zhihao and Hu Xuena. Even so, Xiao Yao just happened to be able to catch up with the rehearsal schedule of the whole show.

   "Dad! Help!" Accompanied by a stern cry, Xiao Yao, who played Chen Fang, rushed onto the stage from one side of the stage, and rushed to the other side of the stage desperately. Chen Fang, played by Xiao Yao, staggered and waved his arms exaggeratedly. Accompanied by a few dog barks in the stereo and a dog-shaped black shadow projected on the back curtain, he performed an embarrassing scene of being chased by a dog.

   While running, Chen Fang stumbled with his left foot on the heel of his right foot. He immediately lost his balance and slammed down on the stage. Before he could get up, Chen Fang turned around on the ground with the dark shadows getting closer and the barking dog. He started pushing and kicking with his hands and feet against the dark shadows in the air. The panic in Chen Fang's face and eyes was clearly visible, his hands and feet were waving wildly, and he cried out, "Dad!"

  Finally, Chen Jianjun played by Sun Zhihao appeared on the other side of the stage. Seeing the scene before him, Chen Jianjun's eyes were distraught, he picked up a brick on the ground and threw it over. Unfortunately, it was still a step too late. Just when Chen Jianjun bent over to pick up a brick, Chen Fang's right leg kicked and stretched straight forward, as if being pulled by something, Chen Fang also let out a scream.

"Pop!" The brick fell next to Chen Fang and the wild dog and made a huge noise. The black shadow on the screen turned and moved, accompanied by the sound of running away, indicating that the wild dog was taken aback. Let go of Chen Fang and turn his head. Run away.

  Chen Jianjun ran over in shock, sat down next to Chen Fang, and hugged Chen Fang, who was still on the ground holding his right leg and crying. Being hugged by his father, Chen Fang immediately looked up at his father and cried out, "Dad, I was bitten by a dog! My leg hurts!"

"Don't be afraid or not," Chen Jianjun comforted the son in his arms with anxious expression, "Daddy will take you to the hospital, bandage, break the cold, and get a rabies vaccine. You will be fine, nothing will happen. "Speaking, Chen Jianjun struggled to stand up with Chen Fang in his arms, and ran to the side of the stage in a panic.

  The lights on the stage dimmed, showing the end of the scene.

  The lights turned on again, and Sun Zhihao had already put down Xiao Yao. The two stood on one side of the stage, both panting. Xiao Yao was crying and shouting just now, his emotions were too agitated, and he was calming down. Sun Zhihao just ran a few steps holding Xiao Yao, a little tired. Because Xiao Yao exercises regularly, his body is relatively strong, regardless of his height and weight, he exceeds that of ordinary children over eight years old. At present, the height has grown to 142 cm, and the weight has reached 40 kg. Sun Zhihao, who was in his forties, still had some difficulty in running with Xiao Yao like this.

   "Okay! Very good!" The executive director who was standing watching the audience yelled hello, and took the lead and gave two slaps. Other actors and staff who watched the scene without participating in the performance also applauded a few times.

Since the next scene is in the hospital, there will be more props and characters in the scene, so the preparation time should be longer. In addition, before the formal rehearsal of the plot, the actors will have to rehearse and move around. Xiao Yao can take a little more rest. . Because he was in a coma in the next scene, except for being held in his arms by Sun Zhihao, he was lying on the emergency bed in the hospital.

"Director Sun, you are so physically weak. You can breathe like this after running a few steps with Xiao Yao. You have to strengthen exercise." Taking advantage of the time of replacing props on the stage to prepare for the work, Sun Zhihao also ran to the audience seat under the stage. He sat down and rested, but he didn't breathe well, so he was teased by his deputy, executive director Xie Kai.

"That's because Xiao Yao is too heavy, okay?" Sun Zhihao glanced at his deputy and gasped and said, "Don't look at that kid Xiao Yao doesn't seem to be heavy, but his muscles have been strengthened. Looks heavy, but he is hard to hold. In addition, he is tall and it takes a lot of effort to hold it. If you don’t believe me, try holding it yourself. Don’t think you are younger than me. You may not be as good as me if you hold it. ." On rehearsal occasions, he did not call Xiao Yao by his nickname.

   "I'm not going to ask for hardship." Xie Kai quickly smiled and shook his hand.

"Children, the performance is really good. Come and reward you." Xiao Yao was sitting in the first row of auditoriums to rest. A girl in her twenties wearing a nurse costume sat next to him and handed it over and opened it Potato chips.

   "Thank you, I won't eat." Xiao Yao glanced sideways and shook his head.

  The girl sitting here is the girl who will play the role of a nurse in the next act, named Su Chengying. She is now a junior in the Acting Department of the Film Academy and is a student in Sun Zhihao's class. In this drama, the role of nurse she played is not very important, she only appeared in two acts in total, and she played a serious supporting role.

  Sun Zhihao has been a teacher in the film academy for more than ten years. He is also a senior actor, director and screenwriter. With his connections and influence in the industry, most of the people recruited into the crew are also leaders in the industry. This time, Sun Zhihao brought her into this group to experience and learn because of her good professional performance and great potential. At the same time, the role is not heavy and her age is suitable. As a junior at school, Su Chengying did not dare to be presumptuous in front of the seniors, so she was lively by nature. When she was bored, she could only provoke the only child in this group who was younger than her.

  (End of this chapter)