Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1008 Double Degree Master

  The graduation drama of the Acting Department of Yanjing Film Academy is a graduation performance. The performance venue is in the school’s theater, which is an intra-campus activity, mainly for teachers and students of the school. However, although this kind of performance is not a public performance for external ticket sales, it does not prohibit non-school personnel from entering the venue.

  Many friends and relatives came to see Zhao Rui’s graduation performance this time. Four of the five families are actors. Except for Lin Shaohua and his wife, Xiao Siqi and Zhou Lixing, who are far away in Shencheng, two elders who have no interest in acting at all, everyone else is basically here. But such a large group of people could not sit together.

  This is a graduation presentation performance. The leaders and teachers of our school are specially arranged with seats, and they are arranged in a better position in the middle and front row. Sun Zhihao is Yandian's teacher, and the seats are arranged. Others don't have this treatment, so they can only find free seats on both sides and back by themselves.

  When they entered the arena, there were already many students in the audience. Except for the back row, which had a very bad vision, there were no spaces in front of them. The group had to be divided into two more groups. Today is Zhao Rui’s graduation show, and Zhao Rui’s sister Zhao Ru is also here. Zhao Ru is already in her thirties, and she sat with the older generations of Zhao Tao and his wife, Ye Jiaying and Hu Xuena. Xiao Yao, Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan, Nina Aiiguli, Zhou Zhihao and Zhu Zitong were in their twenties. The next-year young man took another seat.

After    entered the field, Sun Zhihao briefly explained to Xiao Yao and the others, watching them find a place, and then went to his seat.

  At this time, the performance had not yet started. After Xiao Yao and others found their seats, they had nothing to do, so they just sat in their seats and chatted casually.

Everyone is mainly discussing how Zhao Rui will behave tonight. Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao even suggested that two girls, Sun Tingting and Nina, help them occupy positions. A few of them sneaked to the backstage to see Zhao Rui who was preparing for the performance. .

  Xiao Yao was also very excited about this proposal, but before a few of them made the trip, they were interrupted by an accident.

   "August 1st!" Sun Tingting patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, pointed behind him and reminded in a low voice, "My dad is here!"

   was meeting with Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao to discuss whether to slip backstage to find Zhao Rui, Xiao Yao looked back, and found that Sun Zhihao came with a gray-haired but spirited old man.

   "Xiao Yao, this is the deputy dean of our Academy of Performing Arts, Shen Hongshu, and old Shen. I heard that you are here, come here to see you!" Walking to the little guys, Sun Zhihao introduced Xiao Yao to the old man beside him.

  The school pays more attention to the graduation drama every year. Today not only the leaders and teachers of the Academy of Performing Arts were present, but even the leaders of the Film Academy appeared in the theater. Sun Zhihao is a teacher of the Acting Department of the Film Academy. He is currently leading the students in the same class as Xiao Yao, who has just finished his junior year. Although the graduation performance was not the students he led, he was not only well-known in the circle, but was also highly qualified and famous in the school. The location for this graduation performance was also quite good. It was far from the Academy of Performing Arts and the school. The leader's seat is not far away.

  Sun Zhihao's position is next to the old Dean Shen. Before the performance, the two chatted a few words, and they accidentally talked to Xiao Yao. Hearing that Sun Zhihao said that Xiao Yao was also here today, this old Shen courtyard wanted to come and see the legendary little evildoer on a whim. Sun Zhihao was a student of Shen Lao. The teacher wanted to see Xiao Yao. Of course, Sun Zhihao had nothing to say. He immediately got up to call Xiao Yao over, but Shen Lao waved his hand and asked them to go there by themselves.

   "Good old Shen!" Xiao Yao quickly stood up, took off the hat he was wearing, and bowed to the old man.

   "Hello Mr. Shen!" Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan, Nina, Zhou Zhihao and Zhu Zitong also stood up and bowed to say hello.

   Although this Shen Hongshu is now the deputy dean, he is not good at doing administrative work. A few decades ago, he was also a very well-known film director in China, and he has been a teacher in Yandian for many years, and brought out a group of star students such as Sun Zhihao. He belongs to the kind of people who are obsessed with academics and devoted themselves to the film industry. artist.

Four of these six are acting and have already become actors. Sun Tingting plans to be an actor in the future. She also knows that this is her father’s teacher in front of him. Even Zhou Zhihao wants to use his brother’s film and television works in the future. Blending and blending in the form of guest appearances. In the face of such an old predecessor who is both moral and artistic in the entertainment industry, several people even feel a little sincere and fearful in addition to respect.

   "Hello!" Shen Hongshu smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be so nervous. It is said that being famous is not as good as meeting, I just come to see the young genius who has been famous for a long time."

   "It's still Bayi Niu! The vice president of Yandian came to see him!" Lin Qisan whispered. Everyone knows who the "young genius" in Shen Hong's book refers to.

   "I can't afford to say that to you." Xiao Yao hurriedly bent over and said, "I have been famous for you for a long time, I should be the one to see you!"

"Why can't you afford it?" Shen Hongshu said with a smile, "Your animation film has a box office of nearly 900 million, right? An acting student who has not yet graduated made a billion-dollar box office animation with a reputation of more than 8 points. Movies, can't you still be called a genius?"

  "Robot Walli" was released last Thursday, and the box office for the first four days was more than 300 million. In the early days of the movie's release, it is normal for Monday's box office to drop by half compared to Sunday. The next two days of Monday and Tuesday, logically speaking, should be two days when the box office fell sharply. However, due to the big box office on the weekend of the first week, the movie’s good reputation spread more quickly. The theaters further increased the number of films. This week, some schools began to have summer vacation, and there was a new force of student groups in the movie market. In the first two days of the second week, the movie actually maintained the same box office as the first two days of the weekend.

  On Wednesday, the single-day box office of the movie finally had a certain decline, but the decline was not very large, and it only fell by about 20% from the previous month. On Thursday, it continued to fall by more than ten percent, but on Friday, the box office fell again, reaching the level of Wednesday. Counting it down, the first nine days of the movie’s release, it was indeed nearly 900 million. There are still more than two weeks to go. Judging from this trend, it is certainly not a problem to break one billion.

   "You've been rewarded!" Xiao Yao smiled, "That's everyone's credit!"

   "Grandpa Shen, sit down!" Sun Tingting let go of her seat and said, "Sit down and talk!"

   "Okay!" Shen Hongshu smiled and nodded to Sun Tingting, waved his hand, "Sit down!"

  Xiao Yao and the others have no other seats nearby. Sun Tingting gave her seat to Shen Hongshu, and Zhu Zitong gave her seat to Sun Zhihao, who was with him, and stood beside him like Sun Tingting. This is the Yanjing Film Academy. Zhu Zitong is the master, and Sun Zhihao took them to the class. Even if she didn't bring her class, she was also her teacher.

"The success of a movie is indeed everyone's credit," Shen Hongshu looked at Xiao Yao after sitting down, "but I heard that you are the planner, producer, director, and screenwriter of that movie. The character image is all designed by you, if you want to count the credit, it must be your greatest credit."

   "Haha!" Xiao Yao smiled and scratched his head, and stopped talking.

   "I didn't hear Lao Xiao mentioning you less," Shen Hongshu continued, "I keep boasting that you are a genius!"

   "My grandfather, which grandfather doesn't praise his grandson?" Xiao Yao smiled, "When I lived with him when I was a child, I always took me to the old man to show it off!"

   "Later, I didn't hear that Zhihao mentioned you less, and they all praised you!" Shen Hongshu laughed again.

"Uncle Sun, this is my future father-in-law, of course I have to praise," Xiao Yao smiled, "otherwise it means that his daughter has a problem with her vision? Her daughter has a problem with her vision, it means he has a problem with his education! "

   "Hey~you kid!" Sun Zhihao glared at Xiao Yao.

  "Future father-in-law?" Shen Hongshu looked at Sun Zhihao and Sun Tingting who was standing by, happily, "It should be generous, not bad!"

"To be honest, I didn't take Old Xiao's words into consideration at first. I have seen many people who may not be better since they are young." Shen Hongshu continued, "A few years ago, you won awards for acting in TV dramas, but I did. My eyes lit up. Unfortunately, you ran to sing again later. Singing was good, but it didn’t have much to do with us making movies, and I didn’t pay much attention. Later, you got the No. 1 pick in Shen Opera and made a short film in France. After winning the prize, Zhihao also started to talk about you from time to time, and I am very interested in you!"

"The movie you played last year was very good," Shen Hongshu continued, "Although the director is your mother, you can see that you worked hard! I heard that you lived with the original characters in order to make that movie. For a few months, I locked myself in the studio and was hungry for two days during the filming. Before shooting, I went to the dark room to find the role emotions. After watching that movie, I believe those things are true and I am sure of you. Will be a good actor!"

  "Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Shen!" Xiao Yao said carefully, "Although you are my grandfather's friend, I don't know why you praised me so much."

   "Because you are indeed worthy of praise!" Shen Hongshu laughed.

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao thanked again, and then secretly glanced at Sun Zhihao who was aside.

  After the old man came over, he screamed, and Xiao Yao was a little puzzled. Although he did a good job, it shouldn't be worthy of this highly respected senior who came here to make such a compliment, right? Even if he is a friend of his grandfather! Xiao Yao didn't want to ask directly, so he wanted to get some tips from Sun Zhihao.

  There was no expression on Sun Zhihao’s face, and Xiao Yao did not see any clues. However, Shen Hongshu had said his intention.

"You are such a good film actor. I feel a little regretful that you are not from our film school." Shen Hongshu said, "You are already studying in Shenxi, you will definitely not be able to come to our film school for undergraduate studies, but graduate students are still possible. After watching that "127 Hours", I had the idea to come out with graduate students next year, and I want you to study as a graduate student in my acting department!"

   "Huh?" Xiao Yao asked in surprise.

"I'm going, isn't this messing up the seniority?" Zhou Zhihao whispered in Lin Qisan's ear, "I heard that this old Shen is a teacher of Uncle Sun. If Bayi becomes a student of old Shen, wouldn't it be Weng? Your son-in-law becomes a classmate?"

   "What nonsense are you talking about?" Lin Qisan glared at Zhou Zhihao and said, "Is this the case?"

"But after watching your animated movie, I was a little shaken again." Shen Hongshu said again, "You have won awards for your short movie, and now I have made such a highly rated animated movie. I don't know. Whether you are most suitable to be an actor or a director, is it a live-action movie or an animated movie."

   "Why can't it all fit?" Xiao Yao smiled confidently.

"After thinking about it, I think so too!" Shen Hongshu nodded and smiled, "Fortunately, I have both the qualifications for a graduate student in the director department and a graduate student in the acting department. Come and take a graduate exam in our school. Director and Acting Department take the exam together. As long as you have passed the cultural courses of both majors, I will be your graduate tutor for both majors at the same time. By then, you will be a double master of director and acting department!"

   "Wow~" There were exclamations around Xiao Yao. These voices came not only from Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others, but also from the students in the seats next to them.

  Sun Zhihao and Shen Hongshu are both famous teachers and celebrities of Yandian Academy of Performing Arts. They walked into the seats of the student group, and it was impossible not to attract the attention of the students. There were many students who asked them and greeted them along the way. The quality and arrogance of the film school students are extraordinary. Even though these two people discovered Xiao Yao in the auditorium, no one came to bother. However, the students did not come to bother, but it did not prevent Xiao Yao and the students next to the group of people from listening to their conversation with curiosity.

  It is difficult to take a postgraduate entrance examination. In addition to the basic requirement for cultural courses, the ability to study for postgraduate mainly depends on the tutor chosen by the student, and the initiative is not entirely in the hands of the student. Generally speaking, many of the tutor candidates are undergraduate students who are familiar with their tutors and have sentimental tutors. Therefore, it is usually easier for students from the same school, while it is more difficult for them to cross-school.

  It is difficult to take postgraduate exams, it is even more difficult to take postgraduate exams across schools, and it is even more difficult to take double degree graduate students across schools. The most difficult thing is to let Shen Hongshu, an associate dean and professor-level figure who can take doctoral students, take a master's degree, and be a double-degree master's degree student.

  This Shen Hongshu has not come out with students for many years. This time, I not only met a student from a foreign school, he wanted to take a master's degree for a student from a foreign school, but also took him two major graduate students at the same time, so that he could study a double degree master's degree in director and acting. But it is definitely not something that a celebrity can do just by being famous.

  Hearing this news, the surprise and envy of the students of Yandian school next to them can be imagined, so it is no wonder that they could not help but exclaim.

  Although the people next to him cast envious glances, Xiao Yao was not too excited about Shen Hongshu's proposal, but hesitated.

  Written examinations in cultural classes are certainly not a problem for Xiao Yao, and Shen Hongshu offered to let Xiao Yao go to his graduate school, so there should be no problems with the interview. Xiao Yao hesitated not whether he could pass the exam, but hesitated whether to read it.

  Master's degree is still pretty awesome. There are fewer graduate students in art colleges than in ordinary colleges, let alone double-degree postgraduates, and graduate school is an experience that Xiao Yao has not experienced in his previous life. This proposal does make Xiao Yao's heart fascinating.

  However, Xiao Yao currently has many plans. In addition to the parkour movie that he immediately set off to shoot in the United States, Xiao Yao also plans to go to casino with a few former Olympic Math training teammates who are now at MIT, and want to make related movies later. Before graduating next year, a film and television production company will be established, and TV series will be filmed before and after graduation.

  If the impact on these plans due to graduate school is too great, Xiao Yao will have some worries. After all, graduate school is just experience, and the degree is just a decoration on the resume. Xiao Yao didn't think it was something he had to accomplish.

  So, Xiao Yao did not immediately agree, but tentatively discussed with Shen Hongshu whether he could have some autonomy in the specific courses and study schedule in the future if he really did graduate school under him. To put it simply, can you let Shen Hongshu take his time?

In the school, the students will always take the time of the tutor. I have not heard of the time that the tutor will take the student’s time, let alone the one who has not even taken the exam at all, and it is not necessarily whether the exam will pass the exam or not. Students, are there actually bargaining with future tutors before taking the exam? Although Xiao Yao's language was relatively euphemistic, showing respect for Shen Hongshu, many students who heard Xiao Yao's meaning, including Lin Qisan and others, rolled their eyes greatly in their hearts.

  However, to many students' surprise, Shen Hongshu not only did not feel dissatisfied at all, but discussed the course and study schedule with Xiao Yao there. The meaning of those words is that they really promised to save Xiao Yao's time!

  (End of this chapter)