"Okay, you have also heard the casting requirements. Everyone, just relax and show your usual training status. Don't cause flaws due to being too nervous."
The teacher in charge of acting training is also comforting the trainees.
After all, she has been teaching step by step for so long. She is also looking forward to the performance of the trainees and does not want them to make too many mistakes. If they all perform poorly, it also shows her lack of personal ability. She naturally hopes that everyone will perform well.
If done well, it can leave a deep impression on Chen Mubai's heart.
"This time I will give you a clip. You can act it out yourself. You have half an hour to prepare. I will send the script to you now. You should work hard!" Chen Mubai gave the selection rules.
It's a bit like the standard for auditions. They are given the roles they need in the play and let them choose and then act.
The male and female protagonists have been decided, and the remaining key roles are vacant, such as Sun Xiaoxiao, a rich second-generation female colleague who has a relationship with Liu Yiyang, his good friend Dong Gua, Tong Jiaqian's cousin, etc.
The original candidate for Dong Gua was a somewhat chubby character, and he also had some characteristics in terms of personality. He was a funny person, and he was a relatively independent person. He was very shrewd. He was friends with Liu Yiyang and would help him solve problems and make suggestions. However,
There will be my own Xiao Jiujiu in my heart.
He is a reliable person, but he does not trust Liu Yiyang blindly. In short, he is a very self-aware and famous person who is willing to fight hard.
Chen Mubai decided not to give Qian Duoduo the role because the role was similar to Xiang Nanman. He wanted Qian Duoduo to play a different role and achieve a breakthrough for himself.
So he gave Qian Duoduo another role, Du Yi.
This character is a classmate of Tong Jiaqian, and he is also the person who competes with Liu Yiyang for Tong Jiaqian in the play.
This man is almost a perfect model of a man, with a good family, a car and a house.
She is good-looking, has a career and money, and is devoted to her feelings. She has always liked Tong Jiaqian and watched her silently for eight years.
It wasn't until later that I learned that she was not doing well, that she was willing to accept a single mother with a child, and was able to convince her own mother. This is something that many successful people cannot do.
Compared to Liu Yiyang, Du Yi's role is more like a template for a protagonist. He is more likable than Liu Yiyang, who has a cowardly personality and is able to play both sides. It is also difficult to play this kind of role.
First of all, in terms of temperament, Qian Duoduo is quite suitable for this. After all, he is a second-generation rich man, so he seems to be acting in his true colors.
Another thing is that this kind of man has a higher desire for love, but he will not show it obviously. The gaze he looks at the person he loves has depth. It needs to be expressed more from the eyes. Actions and eyes are two different things.
aspects.
A character that can't be supported solely by lines or actions requires the use of eyes to express depth.
This is the reason why Chen Mubai gave Qian Duoduo the role. Although there are not as many scenes as Dong Gua, the performance of the character is more profound, allowing Qian Duoduo to try a deeper interpretation.
As for Lin Xue, Chen Mubai wanted to give her the role of Sun Xiaoxiao, an eccentric rich second generation who had conflicts with Liu Yiyang in the early stage, but later fell in love with Liu Yiyang and ended up with Dong Gua.
The performance of this role is not particularly difficult, mainly due to the several changes in mood. Chen Mubai believes that Lin Xue can play it well.
There are differences between this role and the last time she played Yang Xiaoyun, in terms of character background, demeanor, actions and behavior.
Dong Gua is a character with a lot of roles, so Chen Mubai decided to publicly select one, which can be regarded as training new people.
The rest, such as Tong Jiaqian's cousin Chen Jiaojiao, will be played by Shang Ran, and Chen Jiaojiao's lover Huang Youwei and husband Cui Bin will choose their roles from here.
In addition to parents and grandparents, middle-aged and older people will be chosen to play the roles, and the rest of the young people will be selected from trainees.
"There are several scripts, and the corresponding characters have different personalities. You can choose the role you think you are qualified for. You only have one chance. If you don't perform well, you will have to wait for the next chance." The acting teacher said.
This was something Chen Mubai had communicated with her in advance, otherwise if everyone had to play every role once, there would not be enough time.
Choosing roles is not only a test for Chen Mubai and others, but also a test for the trainees themselves.
After a year of practice, everyone knows their own strengths and weaknesses, so they will roughly know what kind of role they are suitable for. If you can't grasp this, then you can only practice more.
If you have to rush to perform in a role that is not suitable for you, then if the results are not good, you will have to pay for your actions.
"You guys start with these scripts and introduce the characters' backgrounds."
"After you choose the one that suits you, just try to figure it out, and then you can act one by one."
Generally speaking, character background introductions are basic introductions, and deeper things, such as the characters' habits and inner emotions, require the actors themselves to deeply understand and figure out the characters.
The various aspects of the character of the same character may be performed in different ways according to the perceptions of different actors. Everyone will perform according to their own perceptions.
But the time is tight, and there is definitely not enough time for these trainees to figure it out. Chen Mubai can only give a standard answer and let everyone interpret it, which can be regarded as the same starting point.
Trainees who have won a role can figure out the role based on the script and then add some of their own things when they play subsequent roles. Chen Mubai will not object to this, as long as it does not violate the character's own behavior.
All the trainees came forward to check out the scripts. After reading all the scripts, they chose the one that suited them.
It's said to be a script, but it's actually a performance, and I finished it very quickly.
When the time comes, the trainee will perform the role, and Chen Mubai and the acting teacher will be responsible for accompanying him in the scene, just like an open casting call by the crew.
Chen Mubai and the acting teacher went out to give the trainees their own space to immerse themselves, so that they can more comfortably figure out the characters.
As the examiners, the two of them in the room will definitely affect the trainees' state and put pressure on them.
The trainees were each in a corner, looking at the script, memorizing a few lines, and then rehearsing the performance in their minds, thinking about a more appropriate way to perform the performance.
"Is there anyone you like?" the teacher asked Chen Mubai after going out.
The script was also written by Chen Mubai, so each character should have a rough impression in his mind, that is, the basic actors and roles are more consistent.
Appearance, demeanor, body, etc. can all be things that fit the role and the actor, and are not measured in terms of acting skills.
If an actor fits the various settings of the role very well, then there is a high probability that this person will be chosen to play the role.
It's like choosing three actors. One has superb acting skills but is completely opposite to the role he needs to play. One has average acting skills and partially overlaps with the role. The other has no acting skills but is highly suitable for the role. In this case, it depends on how the director chooses.
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Some people will choose one, big directors will choose three, and basically no one will choose the second one, it’s too mediocre.
Because the image is more in line with his setting, he is also confident that he can train the actor well to make him more suitable for the role in his heart.
That's why the teacher asked this question.
"Yes." Chen Mubai nodded decisively.
After hearing this, the teacher nodded, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chen Mubai smiled and said: "But I value acting skills more, and the person I liked also chose the role I had in mind, so I guess he didn't let me down."
The teacher was surprised and said, "Is it Xia Fan?"
"Yes." Chen Mubai admitted decisively.
It makes sense to say that Xia Fan played the role of Gao Qiang in "Struggle", and Chen Mubai later asked him to come back to study acting, mainly literary and opera aspects.
As a martial arts actor, Xia Fan is relatively weak in literary and dramatic aspects, and his acting skills are all superficial. He cries when he needs to, laughs when he needs to laugh, and is not outstanding yet.
Martial arts actors with good acting skills have long been signed away by others, so how can they get Mubai Entertainment's turn?
Generally speaking, the requirements for acting skills are appropriately lower for martial arts actors. After all, their roles are mainly about fighting, and it is easy for the audience to ignore the acting aspect, as long as they are good at it.
Martial arts actors have excellent acting skills, and they are all top stars in the industry. They are very popular.
Most of those who are not good at acting can only be used as special actors or martial arts instructors.
As for Xia Fan, he was discovered because Chen Mubai felt that he had the potential to be shaped. When he was inspecting the filming location before filming "Struggle", he happened to see a crew filming, and Xia Fan was one of the special actors.
The middle man has martial arts.
Chen Mubai watched one of his plays and felt he had potential, so he asked him if he had signed with the company, and then signed him back.
"Xia Fan chose the role of Winter Melon." The teacher recalled with a frown.
"Um."
Winter Melon's character looks a bit fat, a bit dark, and not very tall.
Xia Fan is not very tall because of his martial arts training. In addition, due to his years of filming, his skin is dark and has a bit of a bronze tone.
Although he is not fat, he has muscles and looks relatively strong, which is in line with the appearance of winter melon.
Chen Mubai just wants to hone Xia Fan's acting skills and train him so that he can play roles in scripts with martial arts scenes and improve his acting skills.
Martial arts requires long-term practice and is difficult for laymen to photograph.
Either a stand-in is used for filming, or if the actor does it himself, it will have to be filmed many times and done slowly, one move at a time.
But martial arts actors are different. In many cases, filming is very convenient. This is an advantage that other actors do not have, so Chen Mubai chose Xia Fan and spent time to improve his acting skills.
It takes much faster time to improve literary opera than martial arts, and it does not require Xia Fan to reach a high standard, at least it must exceed basic acting skills.
The time required to train Xia Fan is much shorter than training an actor who is good at literature and theater and then practicing martial arts. It is still quite difficult to get started with martial arts.
"Xia Fan was very serious when he was studying, and his progress was much faster. Moreover, he has more acting experience than those students, so he is a good prospect." The teacher agreed.
Xia Fan is the one who stands out among the trainees. He is older than them all, in his 30s, with dark skin and a bit fierce appearance. He doesn't look like someone who can be a trainee.