Actor: My Entertainment Era

After the annoying 5-minute commercial, the "First Year·College Season" program continues.

"That's not okay, you guys."

Zhang Yuanjun's words brought the atmosphere of the whole room to a freezing point. Before the class started, he just met the students briefly and said no.

Zhang Yuanjun continued: "It was sudden to receive the invitation from the program team. After talking with the directing team last night, I was looking forward to meeting you. I thought about what kind of students I would face. When I came here today, I found that there was something missing. Something. Why aren’t there any fat people among you students?”

"Huh??" All the students were puzzled. How could a fat man enter the drama school to study acting? !

But the four teachers sitting aside understood what Zhang Yuanjun meant.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "For example, if I want to cast "Tea House", who should I cast as Fatty Huang? If I want to cast "Journey to the West", who should I cast as Zhu Bajie?"

Zhang Yuanjun came up and criticized the program team: "I suggest you find all types of actors, from young to ugly, tall, short, fat and thin, so that the drama will be good to watch."

No one thought that Teacher Zhang’s aggressive attack was directed at the program team.

"But it doesn't matter, we will still have the class as it should be. Where have you learned now? Have you arranged the skit?"

Tong Dawei said: "The class just started last week, and it's still a basic training."

Zhang Yuanjun nodded: "That's okay, that's fine." He sat down and said, "Then you read the tongue twister you learned and I listen to it. Which of you comes first?"

All the students in the room stopped talking. Huang Zhizhong smiled and said, "Aren't we all very capable in normal times? But now you are cowardly when I ask you to go to school?"

This program was obviously praising Tong Mengshi, and he stood up and said, "I'll do it.

"If you eat grapes, you won't spit out the grape skins. If you don't eat the grapes, you will spit out the grape skins." Stop.

Zhang Yuanjun was stunned and said with a smile: "No more?"

"Well, no more." Tong Mengshi was honest.

Then the four teachers called a few students to show off their learning results on the stage table this week. However, Zhang Yuanjun frowned more and more as he watched, and randomly selected a student to make comments: "Lu Shaocong, right? Yours The Northeastern accent is very strong. We can speak whatever we want in private, but when we practice acting, we still have to speak standard Mandarin. Practice hard when you go back and correct your accent, otherwise it will be a big trouble in the future. "

After talking about the students, Zhang Yuanjun shared an interesting anecdote about when he first entered the college: "I am from the south. I spent a lot of effort to correct my accent when I entered school. I couldn't pronounce that "er" sound even to death, especially when I entered the college. Nail is nail, rivet is rivet, we pronounce it as nail is nail, rivet is rivet.”

The students, including the four teachers sitting behind them, were all happy.

Tong Dawei communicated softly with the other three teachers and said that he had spent a lot of effort to correct the Northeastern accent.

Time is limited, Zhang Yuanjun must show his true skills.

Lines may be the most direct teaching effect, so Zhang Yuanjun is going to take action on the lines of this group of students.

"I just listened to your lines, and to put it bluntly, they were very poor.

“There are people with accents, people who speak with a mumble, people who have nasal sounds and flat tongues, and there are a lot of problems.

"Who is your line teacher?"

Teacher Huang Zhizhong stood over and Zhang Yuanjun smiled: "Then you have to work hard to teach."

"You need to recuperate me first." Huang Zhizhong smiled.

Zhang Yuanjun then said to the students: "The lines must be heard clearly by the audience. The words must be enunciated and the pronunciation is pronounced. Our lips and tongues must be strong. What is the most important thing? It is to make the meaning of the lines clear. You must say the meaning of the lines clearly. If you are clear, all your other lines will be clear, and you don’t have to worry about pronunciation and pronunciation or your words.”

The four teachers with acting experience can naturally understand what Zhang Yuanjun is saying, but this concept is a bit confusing to this group of inexperienced students. What does it mean to make the meaning of the lines clear and the lines to be clear? When reciting lines, you can ignore the pronunciation and pronunciation of the words, and you can ignore the words?
During the solo recording, some students also asked this question. Song Yanfei said: "I don't understand. Maybe it's because Teacher Zhang is already a very mature actor. He has given us his mature experience, but we can't understand it at once, let alone Digested."

But the four teachers understood it. Yuan Shanshan said: "Teacher Zhang's words go straight to the fundamentals. Reading the lines is to convey the meaning of the lines. Once the meaning of the lines is expressed clearly, the lines will be clear."

"It's all a matter of basic skills. Practicing is very boring, but I hope everyone will bite the bullet and persevere. Come on, let's warm up first, and then I'll teach you some basic methods."

Zhang Yuanjun took the students to do warm-up exercises and warm-up games together.

Zhang Yuanjun explained the purpose of doing this during the apheresis: "The purpose of warming up and playing games is to relax them. After they become active, their voices will not be so tight, and when they speak again, they will be natural and relaxed. It can damage your vocal cords."

Then, Zhang Yuanjun began to teach them how to make sounds.

"Relax your jaw and relax your vocal cords."

"Ah~~~~~" Zhang Yuanjun demonstrated, "Don't exert force, completely relax here, and don't exert force on your vocal cords."

The students followed suit. Zhang Yuanjun kept stressing to them to relax.

"Inhale slowly, come here." Zhang Yuanjun put his hands on his hips, "Don't be conscious, just sink slowly. How to practice, I will teach you, lower your hands and bend over. Inhale slowly, don't huff, Breathe slowly. Still relax."

Zhang Yuanjun was in the group of students and touched their lower backs with his hands: "It's here where you're exerting your strength, right? It's here."

Teacher Zhang took a female student named Xing Fei as an example and told other students: "You didn't relax here in the lower back. You were exerting all your upper body just now, and your breath came to your chest."

When Liu Yifei watched it, she thought to herself: "He actually touched the female student, touching her waist and chin."

Zhang Yuanjun even touched the male students' chests and pointed them to their positions.

"Ah~~~" The students slowly straightened up.

"Relax your jaw, ah~~" Zhang Yuanjun led them to do it together.

The other four teachers actually followed suit.

Liu Yundancai: "It is indeed different from our previous vocal methods. I used to feel that I was quite relaxed, but today I feel that I am still quite tight."

Zhang Yuanjun then taught them a Qi training method, lying on the stomach, with both hands on the ground, belly on the ground, and supporting the upper body.

"Imagine that there is a ten-kilometer-deep hole in front of us, and we want to talk to the people on the other side of the hole. At this time, you will definitely not be able to breathe from the chest, but from the abdomen. Come on."

"Ah~~"

"Keep your eyes on the hole below and don't look up."

Zhang Yuanjun squatted aside and put his hand on Zhang Yuxi's lower back: "Yes, push hard here. Push hard here, come on.

"You see you weren't so angry just now. Relax your chest and exert force on your waist and abdomen. Yes. It's right to sweat."

Zhang Yuanjun went to train another classmate.

It's very tiring after training like this.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "This kind of training is indeed boring, but it is necessary. These are all basic skills."

Yuan Shanshan said to Zhang Yuanjun: "We didn't train like this back then." Yuan Shanshan was three years younger than Zhang Yuanjun.

"I stole this from my teacher." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile, "I learned it from Teacher Yuan Zheng in the theater, and combined it with some of my own experience. It really works, but it's also really tiring. I just lie there motionless despite looking at it, but It consumes a lot.” During the break, some students reported tinnitus.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Tinnitus means that your Qi has not sunk down. If it does not sink, the Qi will rush towards the head, which makes it easy for tinnitus. Most of you have Qi still above the chest. You need to practice more."

"Reciting lines does not rely on shouting with the voice, otherwise after one day of acting, your voice will be dead. You use the breath. I leave the method to you. I hope that even if I no longer teach you, you can continue to practice.

"Okay, then when we speak our lines, the first priority must be to be clear, not like having socks in your mouth. Does being clear mean speaking loudly? No, right?

"Clearness refers to penetration. Our voices, ah, are like this, but our eyes have to look into the distance and imagine where our voices are going to reach. Only when our sight has passed can our voices penetrate. "This technique is relatively simple.

"Come on, let's do it again. Look into the distance, still relax, relax your chin and shoulders, don't squeeze your vocal cords, and breathe from your waist and abdomen."

"I know this kind of class is boring, but the basic skills are like this. When we were practicing, we were scolding and practicing at the same time. At the same time, I wanted to drop out of school. I felt that I had done something wrong to learn acting."

"Find your own place, here." Zhang Yuanjun supported Song Yanfei's waist and put her own hand up, "Yes, look into the distance, the sound will penetrate through."

After practicing speaking and using Qi, Zhang Yuanjun did not forget to encourage them: "These are techniques and have nothing to do with your talent. You can get better at it if you practice more. Once you know how to use Qi, your subsequent learning will be more effective."

"Let's practice a section." Zhang Yuanjun randomly selected a male student and recited a tongue twister: "Eight hundred pacesetters rush to the north slope..."

After reading it, Zhang Yuanjun said: "Okay, this is what the school teaches us, right? Are there any questions?" Zhang Yuanjun asked back.

The students stopped talking because they also read the tongue twisters in this way.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Zhang Yuanjun said: "There are no prefixes, belly and suffixes. Why not? There is no return sound."

Then, Zhang Yuanjun broke down this tongue twister word by word and explained how to pronounce it: "To spit it out, your lips must be strong, eight - one hundred -, spit it out. Or breathe from the belly. Come on, let's do it again. "

"One of the important reasons why we can't pronounce our lines clearly is that we don't have the energy to speak. We just spit it out, bah bah bah, use force and breath. Come on, let's practice."

Behind me, I saw students in the big classroom, talking to each other.

While the students were practicing, Zhang Yuanjun took a sip of water.

Yuan Shanshan said: "Just now I was talking about how great it would be if you taught me like this when I was in school."

"The basic methods are all the same." Zhang Yuanjun said, "Actually, it still depends on the individual's practice.

"Such basic skills are boring. I just don't know if they can persevere."

Liu Yun asked: "You just said that you wanted to drop out of school when you were practicing. Is it true?"

"Really." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile, "There are four of us in the dormitory. Luo Jin and I are from Gan Province, Yawen is from Su Province, and Fang Shengchuan Province. They grew up in Japan. The four of us practiced our lines, and the scene was unforgettable. It's as ridiculous as you want. There were so many classes in his freshman and sophomore years, and they were often scheduled until eleven or twelve in the evening. Luo Jin would call back and say that he didn't want to study anymore and wanted to drop out, saying that his life was gloomy.

"His father scolded him, saying that you are so young that you can only open and close your mouth to live a life. You have never even given birth to a human being."

"Hahahaha!" Several teachers laughed.

After teaching the tongue twisters, Zhang Yuanjun led everyone to practice tongue twisters again, over and over again.

Half an hour passed without realizing it.

Zhang Yuanjun asked the students to sit in a circle. He also sat on the ground and said:

"Tell me why you want to learn acting."

In fact, students are very afraid of teachers asking such questions seriously.

"Why do you want to study liberal arts?"

"Why do you want to study science?"

"Why do you want to learn to draw?"

and many more.

Tong Mengshi was the first to stand up and said: "I like acting, and I want to be an actor as good as you in the future."

Zhang Yuanjun didn't buy this flattery at all and just told him to sit down.

The second person to speak was a man named Shao Mingming. He said, "I like the stage and the camera."

Five or six students expressed their thoughts, and most of them said they liked acting and wanted to be an actor.

But after listening to this, Zhang Yuanjun said: "You have not thought clearly about the performance at all. You are just saying this to make the teacher happy and the audience in front of the camera happy."

"Actually, I don't blame you. You are at your age when you are most confused about your future. Very few people can make lifelong career choices at your age. Some people work for their whole life and don't know whether they really like it. Performance."

"I guess that when you come to learn acting and become actors, some of you really like the performing arts, and some of you like to be a star and want to be glamorous and colorful.

"These are actually correct. In an industry, there cannot be all passionate artists. There will definitely be people who only regard this as a profitable job, and there are many, many such people.

"However, I hope that after you have figured out about acting in the future, whether you want to be a performing artist or a star that makes money, I hope that you can treat this job carefully and cherish your opportunities. Act well and do your best, because the audience can really see it.”

"Okay, that's all for today, get out of class is over." Zhang Yuanjun clapped his hands and ended his first teaching life.

"Goodbye, teacher." The students bowed to Zhang Yuanjun and slowly walked out of the classroom.

Song Yanfei's solo: "I was very moved by Teacher Zhang's last words. They were not chicken soup at all, they were very honest."

In the classroom, the head teacher Tong Dawei said: "Is it too early to tell them this now?"

Huang Zhizhong said: "It's not early at all. I just wanted to say it when I entered school last week. Children today are really different from us back then. They mature very early and know a lot."

Zhang Yuanjun said: "It's okay. It's better to plant such a seed in their hearts early than to get their heads broken and bloody later."

"Too."

"How was my lecture today? I was very nervous preparing for the lesson last night." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.

"It's very good. We all learned a lot." Liu Yundao said.

Several teachers sent Zhang Yuanjun off.

Zhang Yuanjun's work in this program ends here, and the rest is the part that has nothing to do with him.

Liu Yifei turned off the TV when she saw this, thinking that there would be something to watch. It turned out that half of the program was to praise the old artist Zhang.

The teachings are indeed very useful, but performance needs to be learned systematically. Only this session will have a limited impact. Liu Yifei also felt that her husband did not teach her well: "I can do this too." (End of Chapter)