As the plot on the stage continues to advance, the protagonist's life is presented to all the audience.
It's just that the way it is performed is completely different from other stage plays.
This perspective relationship between near and far runs through the entire stage performance, which means that the audience always observes everything happening in front of them from a first-person perspective.
The only performers on the stage are Zhang Yiyang and Zhou Yuping from beginning to end. Moreover, the father played by Zhang Yiyang is still relatively biased towards the role of a tool man. Most of the time, it is just a backdrop, and Zhou Yuping is the only one who is actually performing.
She will follow the script and the light effect prompts on the stage, walk to a specific stage location at a specific time, integrate into the perspective relationship of the stage, make specific actions, speak specific lines, and promote the advancement of the plot.
Of course, the protagonist cannot only have his mother in his memory. There will also be other friends, teachers, and big scenes such as school sports games.
But these are all shown using blurred ghost images. As for the content of the ghost images, of course, Lu Zhixing prepared the materials and resources in advance, pre-recorded them and then played them out using holographic projection.
This can also be explained in the setting: because this is the memory of the protagonist and his mother, only his mother is clear in the field of vision, and other classmates and teachers are just blurry images.
Along with the angel's narration, the picture is constantly changing.
From the scene at home, to the scene taking the bus to the city to learn painting and piano, to the scene playing on the playground, and then to the scene in front of the snack shop when my mother comes to pick me up after school...
The existence time of each scene is not very long. It can be as short as one minute, just a simple dynamic loop scene; as long as two or three minutes, it may show a simple event based on the dynamic loop scene.
For example, on the playground, a child in the distance accidentally kicked the ball over, and it landed right at the feet of the protagonist. He looked at his mother in the distance, and encouraged him to play with other children on the playground.
There are also longer ones, which may last for several minutes, but these are generally not simple events, but more like an interactive game scene.
For example, when playing the piano, the scene of playing the piano will be shown at close range from the first-person perspective of holographic projection, and the audience can't help but follow the hand movements of the protagonist playing the piano.
Professor He Cheng in the audience could tell at a glance that this was obviously a special form of expression unique to interactive movie games.
Interactive movie games emphasize the player's immersion in the plot, so they will allow players to perform actions similar to the actions of the protagonist.
But this is a stage play after all, and the audience is all in the audience, so it is impossible to perform unified operations, but Lu Zhixing also incorporated similar expressions into it.
The holographic projection changes on the stage are used to guide the audience's sight, thereby creating an illusion for them that "I seem to control the picture to a certain extent."
Just like in some 2D side-scrolling multiplayer games, many people often mistake their character because when they press the "jump" button, another player's character also presses the "jump" button.
” button, the player will mistakenly think that the other character is themselves.
Another example is that in some highly immersive videos or game recordings, the characters are holding their breath while diving, and the audience in front of the screen will subconsciously hold their breath. At this time, there will be a pop-up prompt: "Friendly reminder: You in front of the screen can breathe."
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These are all examples of creating a sense of immersion through the illusion of the picture and influencing the audience's behavior.
The effect on the stage is similar at this time.
For example, in the scene where the protagonist plays the piano, Zhou Yuping will give a hint at the right time: "The climax of the song is coming, pay attention to your right hand!"
At this time, the audience will subconsciously look to the right hand direction of the stage, and the holographic projection screen on the stage will automatically deflect to the right hand direction.
Or Zhou Yuping would say: "Pay attention to your posture and sit upright!"
The audience will subconsciously raise their heads slightly, and the perspective on the stage will also be slightly adjusted accordingly.
When painting, the viewer's eyes will also be guided from distant materials to the canvas to draw a specific image.
Although the scope of this adjustment is very small due to the limitation of perspective, even a small movement can greatly enhance the audience's sense of substitution and immersion.
The sights of all the spectators in the audience were ruthlessly controlled. They all looked this way, and then looked that way.
This is quite incredible for a stage play, because the traditional stage play format is from a third-person perspective. No matter how guided, most of the audience's sights are scattered and unfocused.
It's impossible to achieve this kind of immersion from a first-person perspective.
Professor He Cheng couldn't help but admire: "Wonderful!"
He can even directly imagine what it would be like to move this scene into the game, and it will definitely be very fun.
But conversely, using an interactive movie game to express a stage play also shows that Lu Zhixing has unconstrained imagination and extremely exaggerated execution.
To achieve this effect, every scene is carefully arranged.
Every time the scene changes, Zhou Yuping will appear in some specific positions on the stage. For example, in the home scene, she will be cooking in the kitchen far away; in the piano playing scene, she will stand somewhere in the distance.
Make actions to cheer and encourage the protagonist.
In addition, she will also interact with the protagonist's perspective, or make encouraging actions, or say a few simple lines.
There is no funny baggage in these contents, and there is no intense plot conflict. They just show the daily life of an ordinary person from childhood to adulthood.
However, this novel format and the plot that is very close to ordinary people's lives still attracted all the viewers' attention.
Through the transformation of these scenes and Angel's narration, the audience gradually pieced together the story that the protagonist told Angel about how he spent his life with his mother:
Although his family conditions are not very good, he has been very sensible since he was a child. He listens to his mother very much. He knows that his family is struggling, so he studies painting and piano seriously. He also actively avoids small shops and does not buy any snacks.
Unfortunately, he had no talent, so he gave up painting and piano, but he fell in love with running. In this way, he kept running, running faster and faster, becoming an athlete, breaking records, and winning gold medals.
, participated in the Olympic Games and organized charity runs.
Until his mother passed away peacefully while lying on the hospital bed, telling him that he had no regrets in this life.
After bidding farewell to his mother for the last time, the curtain slowly closed, and the angel appeared in the projection screen again.
He applauded slowly: "Ah, what a touching story. A kind and gentle mother, a sensible and lovely child, and an athlete lived a very meaningful and extraordinary life.
"But why do I always feel like something is wrong?
"Well, let me think about it, there seems to be some details that are not quite right. Why does the height of the angle of view remain the same when you grow up? It even seems to have become lower.
"Why is it that after you fell down and lay on the hospital bed, the mother you saw in your memory became more and more distant from you and became more and more blurry?
"Child, don't lie in front of the angels. I have said that your mother is a kind, pious, and beautiful person, but only after I get the exact answer from you can I be sure whether she can enter heaven.
"You don't need to explain anything to me. I have seen many situations like yours. You are in a dream now, just a pure consciousness, and your dream may be affected by many things, such as your obsession,
Your troubles...
"Okay, let's eliminate those distractions and do it again. Remember, I want to see the sincere feelings between you, but the premise is that it is real.
"Are you ready? If you are, just look at my hands and let's... do it again."
The angel raised his hand again to the center of the curtain, and the stage curtain slowly opened.
It’s still the scenes that have appeared before, the interior of an old-fashioned unit building, the scene of taking the bus to the city to learn painting and piano, the scene of playing on the playground, the scene of the snack shop when waiting for mother to pick her up after school...
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However, this time, the same scene took on a completely different plot direction.
At home, he did not play quietly by himself, but kept crying to attract his mother's attention; he also did not study piano or painting seriously, and was always half-hearted; he was also a bit unsociable, always alone
I don't want to play with other children in the playground.
When he was waiting for his mother to pick him up at the snack shop, he was greedy for the spicy strips in the store, but he had no pocket money. At this time, he saw other children taking the food and leaving without paying.
I was curious and went up to ask.
"You can get it on credit, but you don't have to pay for it."
"Credit?"
At that time, he was obviously too young to understand what these two words meant. Can he eat spicy strips without spending money?
He asked the boss with the intention of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that the boss actually handed it to him. He happily finished the spicy strips and waited for his mother to pick him up. This lasted until the third day at the snack shop.
The boss was unhappy and held him hostage until his mother came and gave him the money.
It was then that he realized that the original credit did not mean that he did not have to pay, but that he would pay in the future.
Although his mother just smiled and said nothing, he never went to any small store from then on, and stayed away when he saw one.
After the accidental fall, he stayed in the hospital for a long time, and after that, he was in a wheelchair.
At this time, many viewers suddenly realized: Why did they feel weird when watching those running scenes before?
Because those viewing angles are obviously much lower than the normal viewing angle. That is not the perspective of an adult running, but the perspective of a wheelchair.
Because the protagonist in the play has been in a wheelchair since he was very young, he has never experienced the perspective of normal people running. Those scenes were all imagined when he saw the playground in a wheelchair.