The Director's Road of Airflow

Chapter 10 Preliminary Preparations

There is a big problem with Lu Ming's lines. The TV series that have been aired are dubbed, but the movie is his original voice.

The film uses the original sound to hold the bottom line, and also shows the audience how bad his lines are.

The box office of the bad film "Space Walk" closed at 4 million. As a movie that claims to invest 3 million, such a box office result is undoubtedly a hit, and the investors have lost a lot of money.Whether it is the director or Lu Ming, the next film journey will be difficult, and it can be said that they have been half-returned by the film industry.

How can fans not know, don't know, don't understand?

They are more soberly aware of the damage to Lu Ming's career caused by the collapse of "Space Walk"'s reputation and box office hit.

They just pretended not to know, and tried their best to plead Lu Ming's respect, saying: No. 95 in the box office of 4 students broke 1 million.

But you can control comments, but you can't control people's hearts.

Even though the front row of comment sections on Weibo, Douban, and Douyin are occupied by fans praising the achievements, don’t everyone think that "Space Walking" is a bad movie and Lu Ming is a star with negative acting skills?

impossible.

If you want to turn the situation around, you can only rely on solid new works to speak.

The show "I Am an Actor" is quite controversial.

Since waking up, Lu Ming went back to Nortel to attend classes when he was not working.The recording of "WeGeek" started at five o'clock in the morning. After the recording was over, at two o'clock in the afternoon, he rushed back to school to attend the evening class of "Western Film History".

Once in class, their lines teacher, in the middle of the script, suddenly changed a sentence and mentioned the very popular variety show during this period - "I Am an Actor".

Their line teacher this semester is a little old man with a mustache. He is honest and high-spirited. He said bluntly: "This kind of fragmented performance, which separates the causal connection and puts aside the paragraphs of the context, can you do it?" What kind of acting skills to show? Acting skills have also become a fast-moving consumer product?

I know that many of you here have signed with a brokerage company, and many of you have acted in online dramas or become Internet celebrities before the art test.I'm not saying it's good, and I'm not saying it's bad.Today is different from the past, and the post-zero generation is indeed different from the previous generations.Ten years ago, our film school teachers emphasized that freshmen and sophomores should not take TV dramas or movies, because your basic skills are not solid enough to present a complete performance.But what is the situation now?Before you entered college, you may have acted in TV series.

You are now in your senior year. The three and a half years of teaching at the Film Academy should teach you a lot, but this is idealized. You have to know what you have learned.I don't like to criticize you, but I still want to point it out, because you will soon accept the scrutiny of more people as Nortel graduates. I hope you are worthy of the school's brand, and more importantly, you are worthy of yourself.Could it be that when you entered school, you only wanted to be popular and famous, and you didn't have any love for movies?Should not.Because we were consciously screened during the interview, and you successfully passed the three tests, which shows that some of your characteristics impressed the teachers at that time, and they saw more possibilities in you.

I hope you don't forget this: if you don't work hard once, you will never know where the ceiling of your talent is.You are still very young, you are only 21 or [-] years old, you must not give up on yourself, or underestimate yourself, you must have a fire in your heart, at least leave a flame for yourself, you must burn the last little love for acting, The same is true for other aspects of life. You should have expectations other than fame and wealth, some more sincere and better expectations.Alright, that's all I have to say today, let's continue to look at the paragraph we just analyzed, the emotion here..."

Lu Ming sat in the first row of the classroom. When he heard these words, he could clearly see the worried expression on Teacher Wan Yemin's face. He completely understood the teacher's mood, and he had already thought of the limitations of this kind of acting show sex.

Performance variety shows are popular, and similar shows emerge in endlessly.

Everything can be turned into a variety show, and variety shows must emphasize conflicts and attract people's attention.

How to do it?Labels such as "Explosive Acting", "Peak Showdown", and "Traffic Prove Yourself".

But is acting the more intense the better?Crying, laughing, and full of emotion in the lines, is acting good?This is too deliberate.

A truly successful performance should be a complete characterization, hide the traces of the performance, and let people immerse themselves in the story you want to tell through the performance, instead of appreciating how good your acting is with a sense of distance.

Lu Ming also thought about this, thinking about the loss of mystery of an actor in acting variety shows.

But he couldn't afford to wait.

He needed too much to prove himself in time.

He doesn't get rid of the label of "still at the bottom of the traffic where the acting skills are bad", and his fans are at the bottom of the forum's contempt chain.

When he saw them arguing with others on the forum, he felt distressed, blamed himself, and asked himself why he put his supporters in such an embarrassing situation.

"Screenshots are not necessarily reliable acting skills" is true, and "his acting skills are really bad, he sucks in everything" is also true.

He can no longer carry these burdens into the new year. Before 2022, he will let the audience see a brand new him, so that his fans will not be pitifully punished during the New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. Man flicks the figure to taunt.

At least you should do something to prove that you are really working hard, not just hard work that exists in the review, let alone "hard work for nothing".

Lu Ming calmly analyzed the situation he was currently facing.

His outstanding weak lines actually play a very important role in an acting variety show. For a segment of about 20 minutes to make the audience enter the state, the lines must first be in place, which is crucial to creating the atmosphere of the story.

Lines are by no means a breakthrough in a day or two. To say a good line requires years of persistent and unremitting efforts.

But that doesn't mean that doing nothing now won't help.There is less than a month before the recording of the program. From now on, improve the lines as much as possible. No matter what level you can reach in the end, it will be better than now.

Regardless of whether a satisfactory result can be achieved in the end, if you have done your best, you can say with a clear conscience: This is the best result I can get for myself now.

The second biggest obstacle Lu Ming faces in improving his acting skills is his one-sided understanding of life.To express an emotion and bring a character to life, you must first understand the behavioral logic behind the character, which requires a solid understanding of life.But Lu Ming grew up being protected. Before his debut, he saw the world from the perspective of a child from a middle-class family. After his debut, his father's social status rose sharply, but that didn't have much to do with him. He and his father hardly ever see each other.

After their debut, only two or three months later, their group became popular, and it became very popular. It became popular all over the country. The guava love songs they sang were heard in shopping malls and restaurants, and their faces were treated by many strangers. people remember.Since then, there has always been a barrier between him and the world. He can rarely take off his mask and hat, because once he is recognized, no matter where he is, he will be overwhelmed by a crowd. When he was 17 years old, he went to London to watch the spring show of A’s family. When he came out of the show, he wanted to walk alone in the streets of London. As soon as he took off his hat, he was recognized by the foreign students on the street. The stranger greeted and put on his hat and mask again.He has seen too many people, but he has no chance to get close to and observe others. When he sees a crowd, he subconsciously dodges. This is not a habit that an observer of life should have, but he has no other way.

Can traffic shape a good character?With a busy work schedule, working 14 hours a day and 25 days a month, under such a work intensity, can a young person really still have the ability to observe the world and love life?

Lu Ming always felt very tired. This kind of exhaustion made him bored with life for the first time in his life. When he realized this, he panicked and began to enlighten himself consciously.

The sci-fi world is the utopia he found. He constructs his own view of the universe and places the most grotesque imaginations in it.During his most difficult time, Liu Cixin, Asimov, and Ted Jiang once held him up to prevent him from falling all the way down.

After Lu Ming started to gain insights into life and observe people, he began to feel uncomfortable.He studied music when he was a child. The practice environment of instrumental music is that you are alone in a closed space with a metronome, watching the clock, repeating it over and over again, forcing yourself to explore the power of life inwardly.

And acting is completely different.If you want to play a role well, you must first open yourself up and be able to digest different emotions.Liberating nature should be a compulsory course for freshmen at Nortel University, but Lu Ming has to admit that he hasn't mastered this lesson yet.

Lu Ming started to take notes again. He recorded his lines and listened to them repeatedly.

If you don’t listen, you don’t know. When you hear it, you will be shocked. Some key words in his lines are ambiguous. If you act in this state and the finished product does not have subtitles, the audience may not know what he is talking about.

After spending one night in the apartment, he recorded seven versions of his lines. On the second day, Lu Ming took the last version and knocked on the door of teacher Wan Yemin's office.

"Lu Ming, what's the matter?"

"Teacher, I was practicing Xiangzi's lines in the drama "Camel Xiangzi" yesterday. I recorded several versions, but I can't find the feeling."

"You go back and try to figure out the words 'Sir, find someone else! You can save this month's wages to clean up the car: the handlebar is broken, and a piece of glass is broken in the light on the left; everything else is fine'." Think about it for a moment, if you can get this sentence right, you can hope to grasp the feeling of the lines of the character Xiangzi. Do you remember the tone of this sentence in Lao She's novels?"

"He said, 'Xiangzi lowered his head, and his voice was very low, but very powerful'."

"That's right. Why is that? Because Xiangzi has complicated feelings towards Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao is a socialist who helped Xiangzi. In Xiangzi's eyes, he is almost a saint. Now, Xiangzi is not careful when pulling the rickshaw. Mr. Cao fell, he said this, you have to think about this mood again. So, are you free tomorrow at [-]:[-] pm? After you practice, come to me at this time. I just come back from a meeting in the city. I'll change it for you."

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Wan. Then I'll go first. Goodbye, Teacher."

"Eh, good."

Just as Lu Ming was about to open the door to leave, Wan Yemin called him back again.

"Lu Ming, let me ask the teacher, why did you suddenly remember to practice this line?"

Originally, there was nothing to say about the plan to participate in the show, but two days ago, Mr. Wan just criticized this kind of acting variety show, and when he said that he wanted to participate, it seemed that he would not listen to persuasion.

But Lu Ming still bite the bullet and said: "Teacher, I'm going to participate in the recording of "I'm an Actor" in one month. I'm practicing by myself now."

"Oh," Wan Yemin pondered for a while, and then said, "It's okay. I said in class two days ago that this is not good. You are stressed now, right? I said why are you so nervous today. It's okay. I criticize It is also to criticize the entire industry for pushing this kind of variety show in front of the audience. This is an irresponsible behavior, but you are still young, and you don’t have that much right to speak at the moment. The first classmates who came to me said that they would participate in the competition. In fact, there are also freshmen who want to participate in the competition. There is also a girl from the director department who came to me and Teacher Wu and said that she went to the program group to participate in the filming of short dramas. This is also an opportunity. You can make a difference if you grasp it yourself. If you think about it yourself, you can come to me, your head teacher, or other teachers if you have any problems. I still emphasize that sentence, I hope you can go Talk to the students from the directing department and the photography department, this is a unique resource of our film school, and there is no such condition in the show or in the middle of the show, so you should cherish it. Okay? If you have nothing to do, you can go back and practice on your own."

"Ah."

"Lu Ming, let me tell you one more thing. At that time, you had three art exams, and I was the main judge in the audience. I was optimistic about you. I think your performance has aura. In the past two years, your works have been released, and there are There are a lot of critical voices, including I saw that you also wrote your own reflections in the small paper you handed in this semester. Reflection is good, but you should not lose confidence. You must have a sense of faith, that is, I will definitely be able to perform better than Hello. There are critical voices, listen reasonably, and work hard to improve, but you are not reconciled, you have to catch up, you can't just feel 'ah, I am really like this', and then keep feeling down, like 'I'm sorry The party, I'm sorry for the country, I'm sorry for the people', I don't deserve to continue acting, I can't do it. I heard someone criticize my students in front of me. Prove yourself. I believe in you, and you also have to believe in yourself. If you lose your memory, you will lose your memory. Don’t panic, don’t be confused, remember it when it’s time to remember.”

"Well, I know. 'A man can be destroyed, but never defeated'. I know."

"Okay, it's good to have this energy. Go, it's getting late, let's go to dinner quickly."

"Well, goodbye, Teacher Wan."

The author has something to say: The time required for this review is too confusing, I don’t know when everyone will see it after I update it every day.But if I don't ask for leave, I should update it every day.Thank you for letting me stop updating the text on a single machine!

Originally, I used the lines of a movie released in 17 to practice the lines. After thinking about it, it may be suspected of infringement, so I changed it to "Camel Xiangzi".