Entertaining Children

  Chapter 200 Director

  Everyone saw Xiao Yao's modeling process of the eight of them. Although I don't know how his blood was made, scissors, sandpaper, and burnt wooden sticks are too simple, not to mention that in the end he let his clothes be put on the ground for everyone to step on. This whole process made everyone feel that Xiao Yao's handling was like a joke. As for makeup? A big boy's makeup skills are not very confident.

  But the actual effect is to surprise everyone.

  First of all, the clothes on these eight people. Although they are all tattered zombie outfits, Xiao Yao did not simply use a template to copy eight pieces. The clothes on each of the eight of them are different, whether it is the location of the damage, the degree of wear, the smoky area, or even because of Xiao Yao’s words to let everyone vent their personal grievances, everyone’s focus is also different. , So even the degree of dirt is different.

After these clothes are put on them, they are matched with the same different zombie makeup on their faces, not to mention that they look like real zombies. After all, everyone has never seen this thing, but there is definitely a kind of zombie in the movie. The sense of sight.

  The music only continued for half a minute, and Xiao Yao turned off the speaker. From everyone's facial expressions, Xiao Yao has received the most satisfactory feedback.

"Man, this body is so cool!" After the music stopped, the "zombies" also stopped. Rick looked at his body, then looked at the other seven companions, and said to Xiao Yao happily. .

"OK, since everyone is very satisfied with this suit, then during the official competition, the eight of you will use this look." Xiao Yao smiled, "That's it for today. You won't be able to rehearse in the future. This is the image this time. Today is the makeup look for you. Everyone remember their current image, and try to imagine what they look like when rehearsing in the future. The effect will be better."

   "Young, I have a question." Rick raised his hand and asked.

   "What?" Xiao Yao looked at Rick.

"We are still half a month away from our first audition competition. How should we keep our clothes? We must not be able to wash them like this. But just let it go for half a month, and then take it out. Will it smell? Can I still wear it at that time?" Rick said worriedly.

   "Why can't you put on your upper body?" TJ joked with a smile, "After half a month, you will not only look like zombies, you will even smell like zombies, how realistic!"

   "Go to hell!" Rick glanced at TJ contemptuously.

   "I don't know, I haven't considered this issue." Xiao Yao spread his hands together, a little embarrassed.

   "What?" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao, "What should I do during the game?"

   "It's very simple," after thinking about it, Xiao Yao smiled helplessly: "I will destroy your set of clothes at that time. Let's make one set again. Anyway, I have experience."

   "Very good, I like the feeling of stepping on Rick's clothes with my foot." TJ laughed.

"Okay, enough jokes, now it's time to do business." Xiao Yao greeted the people who were still laughing, took out another handheld DV from the **** bag, and said to everyone: "Now give it to this place." It’s not realistic to install a mirror. I will record your rehearsal and send it to everyone. After the rehearsal, you can see your performance in the rehearsal. If you don’t do well, you can do targeted exercises. . Now we start to practice together."

  Speaking, Xiao Yao put the DV on the speaker at the right height and angle to turn it on.

  Paul and Zhou Jingyi walked to the middle of the venue to prepare, and the dancers retreated. Seeing that everyone was ready, Xiao Yao turned on the speaker and played the soundtrack of the dance again.

  As the music sounded, Paul and Zhou Jingyi in the middle of the venue started the first part of the duo dance. It's just that the first action of two people kicking at the same time is not particularly neat. Considering that this is the first joint training, any problems are normal, so Xiao Yao did not interrupt the two of them, but let them continue to jump like this.

  Except for some of the same dance moves that are not neatly done, Paul and Zhou Jingyi in the first stage of the dance have several mistakes. Either the movements are not in place or the cooperation between the two has been misaligned. Paul even fell straight to the ground once. However, because Zhou Jingyi didn't catch his head after leaning back, instead of directly slapped on the ground after flying into the air, Paul was not injured either.

  Although Xiao Yao made a mistake, Xiao Yao did not call to stop, so Paul had to get up and continue doing the following actions.

  After the first dance, the eight zombies danced mechanical dances from one side of the venue and walked to the center of the venue. Paul and Zhou Jingyi just took a look and then retreated from the other side in a slippery manner.

The biggest problem with the group dance in the second segment is that it’s not neat. Xiao Yao doesn’t care too much about it. He just touched his chin and looked at the eight zombies in the middle, wondering what more interesting mechanical dance movements could be added to them. .

  The third stage of the group dance is the climax of the whole dance, with the largest number of people, and it also makes the venue look a little messy. The performance of these people is still somewhat different from what Xiao Yao imagined in his mind. Xiao Yao is also watching and thinking about how to improve.

  The fourth stage of the dance is again Paul and Zhou Jingyi, but it is different from the first stage. The first paragraph is that there are only two of them on the field, and the last paragraph is that there is still a "corpse" lying on the field as a background for them. While doing dance moves, they must be careful not to step on the group of "corpses" on the ground.

"Stop!" Seeing the two jump to the difficult action that worried Paul and himself, Xiao Yao finally pressed the pause button on the speaker and shouted to stop, "This action will not be done for now. Wait for you to practice well on the soft cushion before doing it in the co-training. Let’s skip this action first and continue with the rest."

   "Huh? But in this case, our actions and music will not be able to match." Zhou Jingyi said a little embarrassed.

"No problem, you follow my command." Xiao Yao replied, pressing the play button on the speaker again, and following the rhythm of the music, he tapped the ground with his feet. After more than ten seconds, Xiao Yao opened his mouth and commanded: "Three, two, one, go!"

  Hearing Xiao Yao's call, Paul and Zhou Jingyi started moving at the same time. They were surprised to find that the actions that followed were in line with the rhythm of the music.

As the "zombies" lying on the ground showed signs of activity again, Paul's eyes showed a trace of anxiety. After a fierce personal dance, Paul held his hands together, and followed a heavy drum. On his chest, then the whole person fell backward.

   "No!" Zhou Jingyi made a yelling mouth silently, ran towards Paul a few steps, and finally slid directly towards the fallen Paul with his legs on the ground, and hugged his fallen upper body into her arms. And as the music turned from sadness to gloomy again, the three zombies lying on the ground stood up again in the form of mechanical dance, and slowly walked towards Zhou Jingyi...

   "OK!" As the music stopped abruptly, Xiao Yao also yelled, and the first joint exercise of the whole dance ended.

  Although there were a lot of problems in the first joint practice, the audience members of the band still understood the whole dance.

   "Huh~" Dean exhaled. His attention to this dance had long since turned from those zombies to the plot. He turned to George and Mike and said, "I feel like watching a movie."

  George and Mike nodded in sympathy. Mike said directly: "Yes, it's the first time I have seen such a complete story from a dance. I feel that Young is not a choreographer, but more like a film director."

"The first time I practiced together, there must be a lot of problems. I think you all felt it yourself just now." Xiao Yao smiled at everyone, "But before I talk about the problems, what I want to say is, this is the first time. The results of the joint training are already good. You can check it out for yourself."

  Speaking, Xiao Yao adjusted the video that he had just recorded to the playback mode, so that everyone could watch it on the small screen that came with the DV.

Similar to the feelings of several band members, after watching the video of their first joint practice, the dancers felt that there were too many errors, but from this video they still really felt what Xiao Yao wanted to express. story. Have a little feeling of watching a movie. So what will the effect be after they are proficient in cooperation? When you think about it, everyone feels very excited.

  After watching the video, Xiao Yao also said to a group of dancers with excited expressions: "I believe you not only saw the mistakes, but also felt the charm of this dance."

   "Yes, it was only by imagination before, but now after watching it, I actually found that this dance is really great. Even though our performance just now was very rubbish." Paul started.

   "Then, what we have to do now is how to make this dance better." Xiao Yao nodded.

"I won't talk about dance movements. Everyone has been dancing for many years. Basic skills and skills are better than me. Go back and watch your performance in the video for targeted practice and improvement. I will talk about some dances. Problems beyond skills."

Xiao Yao continued, "In addition to skills, there is another very important aspect of the eyes and expressions in dance. Dance is also a kind of performance. Since it is a performance, in addition to movements, your eyes and expressions are also very important. Without the expressive power of these entire dances, the appeal to the audience will be greatly reduced. The story is very simple. I hope you can immerse yourself in the plot and enrich your characters. During the dance, your expressions and eyes will be greatly reduced. All come alive."

   "How do you feel like let us be actors instead of dancers?" Several team members asked with puzzled expressions.

"There is no problem with what Yang said." Zhou Jingyi stood up and said, "The teacher in our school also said the same. Dancers are also performers. Eyes and expressions are also part of dance. Like movement skills, we need to be on stage. Has the right display."

"Well, we have all seen what Yang can do, so let's practice as he said. Just pay attention to the expressions and eyes in the dance, and it's not really asking us to be actors or say lines or something." Paul also began to support Xiao Yao, "We have to believe him."

"Look, don't care about the dance moves, but pay attention to the expressions and eyes of the dancers, and guide their performance." Mike looked at this scene and smiled, "This guy really looks like a movie director. "

   "No, it's not the film director (FilmDirector), but the artistic director (ArtisticDirector)." Samien, who had been silent, suddenly corrected McDaw, "In professional art groups, there is already a position of Director."

  (End of this chapter)