1990: Starting from Baojia Street

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 know the market situation, but he knew that it was definitely not that high. Otherwise, Zhang Yimou and the others would not have gone to all the trouble to allocate the money into their monthly wages. .

He also knew about the movie adaptation, and Su Tong only received 4000 yuan, so what he received 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 should be prepared.

In fact, there is nothing special to prepare. Most of the team has been on the set for a long time, and what should 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 a teacher at Zhongchuan. 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.

Before Dong Wenmiao didn't come, a little girl from the costume team often teamed up with Zhou Yan and makeup artist Hong Xin to fight and run away. The little girl has not been seen in the past two days.

In addition to the costume group, there is another group that is quite busy, and that is the soundtrack group.

However, Zhou Yan is the only one in the soundtrack team, and he is busy not with scoring, 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 be so fast when you turn around. There should be a pause. Don't hold your hands on the window sill. Just turn around."

"Don't bend at the waist."

"Why are you so stupid? Give me a little expression and a playful smile... Your smile is too exaggerated. Stop it."

"After saying this line, I have to take back my smile, and this time I have to do it quickly."

"Look downstairs and then lower your head, yes, remember this feeling."

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Before starting the acting training, Zhou Yan thought that Gao Jinwen would guide him on how to act, but the current situation was completely different from what he thought. Gao Jinwen did not want to guide him, but designed all the steps and then asked him to follow them. 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 needed to do was write down these steps, and then Practice without stopping.

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 the expression, and practice accordingly later.

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 this 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 with a mirror.

...That night, Zhou Yan lay down on the bed after dinner, staring blankly at the bed board on the upper bunk with a look of despair. After practicing for a day, he has almost forgotten what laughter is. , what is crying, the muscles on his face are out of his control.

The pain of practicing has completely wiped out the joy of his increased salary.

Previously, Zhang Yimou gave Zhou Yan an additional 300 yuan per month. At that time, he felt that he had made a profit. After all, Chen Feipu only had two scenes together, and it was estimated that they could be filmed in a few hours. The money came too easily.

Only now did he realize that it was true that shit was hard to eat and money was hard to make.

It's better to play the flute before.

He Wuming was reading a book, and he was quite surprised to see Zhou Yan lying on the bed as soon as he returned to the house, because Zhou Yan usually wrote on the desk and would get up very late when he started writing.

Sometimes He Wuming was also curious as to what Zhou Yan was writing. Logically speaking, it wouldn't take that long to just write the soundtrack records, 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 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 to 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 door god didn't play the flute. In the past, there was a flute sound every day, but today suddenly there was no flute. I'm not used to it.Later, someone went up to take a look and saw Zhou Yan alone, acting silly with the air.

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Joy 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 was any problem, he would point it out. If there was no problem, 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 piled up on his face. With a smile that meets the standard, these muscles can be contracted immediately when it is necessary to contract them.

Not to mention, this exam-oriented education does have merit.

A week later, Gao Jinwen announced that Zhou Yan had graduated from this scene and could start the next one.

The next scene was when Songlian was drinking alone in the house on her birthday, and Chen Feipu went to find her and give her a gift.

The requirements for Zhou Yan in this scene are much higher, because there are many more emotional changes than in the first scene, especially Chen Feipu's shy, timid and somewhat hopeful ambivalence which 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.

Chen Feipu's scenes were deleted a lot in the movie script, but he still had to show a lot of things, so a lot of 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)