Entertaining Children

  Chapter 779 Experiencing Characters

   "You guy, it's really not a bit awkward!" Ye Jiaying said helplessly, "Well, then you can spare the summer vacation and wait for me to notify you to join the filming."

   "Why? Do you plan to shoot during the summer vacation?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Writing the script, preparing the crew, selecting actors, selecting the scenes, making the shooting plan, making props and sets, all these preliminary work takes time." Ye Jiaying said, "It is now in early March. Wait until these preliminary preparations are done. It will take a few months, and it will almost take until summer vacation to start the machine."

"Of course, if all the preparations go smoothly, if we rush, it is not impossible to start in May." Ye Jiaying continued, "but it's not that you took part in "Singer" last year. You spend one or two every week. It’s okay to record in a day’s time, and you can go to school at ordinary times. You have to join the group to make a movie, and you are still the lead role. It’s impossible to go back to class halfway. Can you ask the school for a month or two to come out for filming? And then take a summer vacation after the filming?"

   "It doesn't seem appropriate." Xiao Yao said, "Then summer vacation."

  After entering the university, Xiao Yao has always tried to keep a low profile in school no matter how he plays outside, not wanting to be too different. Since the filming of Ye Jiaying has progressed normally this time, it will be shot in the summer vacation, Xiao Yao certainly will not insist on Ye Jiaying to advance to May.

  China’s three major film and television schools are not very supportive of acting students who go out to pick up movies during their freshman year and sophomore year. Because in the freshman year and sophomore year, there are not only a lot of theoretical courses, but also a lot of basic skills learning and training, which is a period of solid foundation. By the time of the third and fourth years, practical courses will increase. It is also a practice for students to enter the crew to film, and the school's attitude will be relaxed accordingly.

  Schools can’t decide whether or not to take the show for students. They mainly achieve their goals by restricting students from taking long vacations. If the student does not appear in the school class without asking for leave or the leave is not approved, it will be handled as absenteeism.

  The school has a whole set of punishment system for students' absenteeism. The number of class hours for absenteeism ranges from short to long, and the corresponding penalties range from deduction of usual performance points, deduction of final grades, suspension of courses and retakes, warnings, demerits, compulsory repetition and dismissal.

  Usually, the filming cycle of a film and television work must be at least one month or more. Except for the small characters who run the trick, the filming of the main characters will generally last for more than one month. If the school does not approve leave, it will be difficult for students to stay on the crew for a long time to film. Absent from class for one month is at least a penalty for demerit. If there are a lot of class hours during this period, it is not impossible to force a grade or to be dismissed.

  In this way, between filming and remembering, repeating a grade, or even being dismissed by the school, students will be weighed carefully. Few student associations don't even want the student status of film and television colleges for a play, and the school naturally achieves its purpose of controlling students from taking the play prematurely.

  However, the original intention of the school is to not want students to waste their studies because they go out to pick up the show too early. At the same time, it is controlled by means of restricting long vacations, so the winter and summer vacations are not within the control of the school.

  Zhao Rui is one year older than Xiao Yao, Lin Qisan and others. When Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan graduated from high school the year before, Zhao Rui had finished his freshman year at Yanjing Film Academy. At that time, Zhao Rui was able to participate in the filming of the TV series "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky". One of the important reasons was that the series was filmed during the summer vacation.

  After Xiao Yao entered the Shenxi Acting Department, he took a total of three long vacations for more than a week, all of which were last year. They went to France to participate in the short film festival, went to the United States to find Sun Tingting to shoot "ThinkingOutLoud" when participating in the "Singer" and participated in the New York Fashion Week.

  The three times Xiao Yao had taken a week off. Although the two trips to France and the fashion week were extended by nearly a week, the time in France was because of the short film awards, and people had to talk about copyright. During the New York Fashion Week, there were robberies and kidnappings. All are considered for good reasons. The reasons for these few leave requests were not for filming, and the duration did not exceed half a month. Strictly speaking, it was not a violation of the school’s rules. The school was more painful and agreed to Xiao Yao’s leave and extension. Application for vacation.

  Xiao Yao currently has no bad records in school, so naturally he did not want to put a stain on his files in the last two months of his sophomore year.

  It’s the beginning of March. It’s not long since school started, and there are still four months before the summer vacation, a whole semester. Although Xiao Yao said that he didn't do anything except filming the movie of Ye Jiaying, but during these four months, Xiao Yao didn't plan to do nothing except go to school. With his current brain power and energy, doing nothing but going to school for four months is too boring.

  The first thing Xiao Yao planned to do was still related to Zhan Youcheng.

After    finished talking with Ye Jiaying, Xiao Yao also called Zhan Youcheng, telling him that he had agreed to play his role, and that the conditions he had set had been met. In the next step, Ye Jiaying would go to him to discuss specific authorization matters.

  After that, Xiao Yao stopped for a week or so. When I heard the news from Ye Jiaying that she and Zhan Youcheng had already negotiated the authorization, the screenwriter she and she were looking for also had preliminary contact and conversation with Zhan Youcheng. One weekend after the script had been written, Xiao Yao appeared again. In front of Zhan Youcheng.

  This time, Xiao Yao directly found Zhan Youcheng’s shop.

   "Brother Cheng, have you ever applied for a passport?" After some greetings, Xiao Yao asked Zhan Youcheng Dao.

   "Huh? Why are you asking this?" Zhan Youcheng curiously asked.

   "I want to invite you to go to Germany with me." Xiao Yao smiled.

  "Why are you going to Germany?" Zhan Youcheng became more confused.

   "Go and install the prosthesis." Xiao Yao said, "I know that there is a prosthesis manufacturing company in Germany that has a kind of prosthesis that can be used for rock climbing and mountaineering after being installed."

  "A prosthetic limb that allows people to climb and climb?" Zhan Youcheng's eyes lit up.

   "Sure enough," Xiao Yao smiled, "It's not that you don't want to pretend to be prosthetic, but you just don't want to pretend that you can't climb mountains."

"Actually, I originally wanted to order one for you directly." Xiao Yao scratched his hair embarrassedly, and continued, "I even sent the leg circumference and photos of the wound on your severed limb, but people say you have bare legs. The girth data is useless. They not only need to know the leg girth of your wound, but also the length of the missing leg and your own height and weight. They also need to do a series of tests on the healthy right leg to make it. The prosthesis that fits you."

"No wonder you had to take pictures of my injured leg that day. It was for this. You had that thought at that time, right?" Zhan Youcheng said, "I said earlier, you want to go to the prosthesis company for prosthetics. Just send a data like this, of course not."

"Yes, this is my blind spot of knowledge, but it has now been filled." Xiao Yao said, "I heard you say that you can't climb the mountain with a prosthesis, and I didn't believe it. After I went back, I checked it and found that there is already It is a prosthetic that can assist mountaineering or even rock climbing. At least this point, my judgment is correct. I compared it and found that a German company’s product is the best-known, but they have no branch in China, so we can only go Germany."

  "Thank you." Zhan Youcheng said gratefully, "I am very grateful if you tell me this. You can tell me about the German company. I can go to Germany by myself."

  "Do you know German?" Xiao Yao asked.

  "German is not good, but English is still barely possible." Zhan Youcheng is enlightened.

  "Then have you been to Germany? That company is in Munich, do you have any acquaintances there?" Xiao Yao asked again.

   "No, I have only traveled to Asian countries such as Thailand and Japan." Zhan Youcheng shook his head, "I haven't been to Europe, and I don't know anyone abroad."

  "Your legs and feet are not very convenient, and you have never been to Germany, so let me accompany you." Xiao Yao said, "I can speak German and I know people in Munich."

  "This..." Zhan Youcheng hesitated.

"Okay, don't do this." Xiao Yao said, "Since you have traveled, you must have a passport. Depending on your age, the passport should not have expired. You have to apply for a visa to Germany, and my visa for Germany is also I haven't done it yet. I'm waiting to do it with you. I'll make an appointment online soon. When the appointment is completed, I will pick you up to Yanjing, and we will go face-to-face together."

   "So thoughtful?" Zhan Youcheng smiled bitterly, "I don't know what to say."

   "Then don't say anything, then just follow me." Xiao Yao smiled, "I won't take you to Germany and sell it."

   "Why are you helping me like this?" Zhan Youcheng suddenly looked at Xiao Yao and said.

   "Then why do you have to designate me to play you?" Xiao Yao also looked at Zhan Youcheng.

   "Does it matter?" Zhan has enlightened.

   "Of course," Xiao Yao said, "I do this, and there are conditions."

  "What conditions?" Zhan Youcheng asked.

  "Do you know the character experience?" Xiao Yao said.

  "What role experience?" Zhan Youcheng shook his head blankly.

"It's the role that the actor experiences to play." Xiao Yao said, "I want to play you, and the role to experience is you. I want to be in your environment, see what you see, do what you do, and experience you. Your life, feel your feelings. I will live in your house if I don’t go back tonight. Also, in the next four months, as long as I have time, I will come here to feel your life at any time. Live in the house you live in , Do what you do, such as help you see the store. When the prosthesis is ready, I want you to take me to climb the mountain. I hope you don’t refuse."

   "So you took me to Germany to order prostheses, also to act in that movie?" Zhan Youcheng.

   "You can understand that." Xiao Yao nodded and smiled.

   "Although I don't believe it very much, but okay," Zhan Youcheng said, "I accept everything you say."

"Okay, now the first step, you first introduce to me the products and prices in your store, and later I will first feel how you manage this store." Xiao Yao pointed to the products on the shelves in the store. Tao.

   "Is this starting to enter the role?" Zhan Youcheng stared.

   "I said I won't go back tonight, of course it will start now." Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Okay," Zhan Youcheng stood up with crutches, took a booklet from the counter and handed it to Xiao Yao, "This is the list of goods. You can introduce it to me while you look at it."

  "Boss, are there any tents for sale here? The kind that is suitable for outdoor camping." A couple of young people walked into the store, and the young man among them asked.

  Zhan Youcheng sat still, and did not answer the young man, but turned his head to look at Xiao Yao.

  "Why are you looking at me?" Xiao Yao, who was also sitting still, looked at Zhan Youcheng, "If someone wants to buy something, why don't your boss greet the guests and stare at me?"

  "Didn't you say you want to be a clerk? Go up and greet the customers." Zhan Youcheng said, "I just told you the list of goods. People asked about the tents. Let them introduce the tents in our store."

  "You have to do it for me first," Xiao Yao said of course, "If you don't show it to me, how do I know how you do business to greet customers? How do you learn?"

   "You..." Zhan Youcheng opened his mouth, but was speechless, and finally stood up with his head helplessly shaken.

   "Oh, awesome clerk!" The young man asked in surprise, "Do you want the boss to demonstrate in person when you sell things?"

"I can't afford such an awesome salesperson." Zhan Youcheng shook his head and muttered to the young couple, "There are some camping tents, depending on which one you need. Please come here with me, each. All price ranges..."

  The business of outdoor goods stores is relatively average. In the whole afternoon, a total of four groups of guests come in. After the first demonstration, Xiao Yao himself greeted the guests who had dialed in and asked. However, Xiao Yao only greeted two groups of guests, and after screaming with Zhan Youcheng, he left the store. Zhan Youcheng asked him what he was going to do, but he didn't say anything. When Zhan Youcheng was about to close, Xiao Yao returned with two things.

   Seeing the two things in Xiao Yao's hand when he came back, Zhan Youcheng was speechless for a while. He pointed to the two things and said, "Why are you doing this?" It turned out that Xiao Yao didn't know where to get back with two crutches.

   "Experience the role!" Xiao Yao said solemnly, "You just said that you accepted me to experience the role. Don't you think I'm spoofing you? I definitely don't mean that."

  "Do you want to experience this too?" Zhan Youcheng said, "I have discussed the script outline with your mother and the screenwriter. The movie will end when I am rescued. There is no need to experience this!"

  If it weren’t for Xiao Yao’s words and tone of voice when greeted customers in the store just now, he was very similar to him, and he was indeed learning to imitate him. Zhan Youcheng would like to use a crutches to pass it.

   "This can help me feel your psychology." Xiao Yao said.

   "I can't stand you anymore!" Zhan Youcheng rolled his eyes helplessly, "I'm going to close the door and go home. The car at the door belongs to yours. Go drive."

"What kind of car?" Xiao Yao said, holding the crutches under his arm. "Don't you usually walk back? Of course we also walk back. The car will be left in front of your store. I will drive it tomorrow when I get back. "

   "Whatever you want!" Zhan Youcheng dropped a sentence and began to close the shop.

  Zhan Youcheng first locked the glass door, and then pulled down the rolling iron door to lock it. During this process, Xiao Yao, who was on crutches, stood by and watched, without any intention of stepping forward to help.

   Xiao Yao and Zhan Youcheng walked home, and ran into Jiang Yan who was going home downstairs.

   "Brother Cheng, I'm back." Jiang Yan first smiled and greeted Zhan Youcheng who was walking in front, and then found that there was a person behind Zhan Youcheng.

   "Hey, Brother Xiao, you are in Wuyou County again!" Jiang Yan said in surprise. Xiao Yao was wearing a hat and glasses and was not recognized by customers when he was in the store just now, but Jiang Yan was much more familiar with Xiao Yao than the customers who came to the store to buy things, and he recognized him immediately.

   "Hmm." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

"Why don't you come with me..." Jiang Yan suddenly noticed that Xiao Yao was also holding a pair of crutches, and his left foot was still lifted up and suspended. Without even finishing the previous sentence, she exclaimed, "Your legs what's happenin?"

   "It's okay!" Xiao Yao said.

   "It's okay, why don't you use crutches!" Jiang Yan said in confusion.

   "What does he say he wants to experience the role, what I do, what he learns to do, he even learns to walk on crutches!" Zhan Youcheng said angrily, "Do you think he is insane?"

   "When I played "Cheng Ying" back then, I was always experiencing the role, and many people said I was crazy, and I won a newcomer award." Xiao Yao laughed. There was no one else downstairs at this time, and Xiao Yao talked about his past without any worries.

   "Really?" Zhan Youcheng said, "The first time I went home on crutches, I fell three times when I went upstairs!"

   "Uh~" Xiao Yao's smile solidified on his face.

  (End of this chapter)