Chapter 315 Guiding Young Actors
The opening scene of the movie filmed today is also a scene where characters appear.
Xiao Liu Jiao flew a paper plane on the window of the classroom. Qiao Zhengfei's folded paper plane could fly for a long time, which caused the children on the playground to snatch it. Liu Jiao called Qiao Zhengfei to see it, but Qiao Zhengfei did not come over and continued to work. Liu Jiao ran over and watched him make a model plane with admiration. This scene mainly shows the personality characteristics of the two characters, Liu Jiao's liveliness, Qiao Zhengfei's silence, and the characteristics of being good at doing things.
According to the plan, he should have taken the scene of Zheng Xiaoshuang first, but when he arrived at the scene, Zhang Ran found that the child was in a bad mood, so he decided to take the scene of Qin Junjie first. Let Zheng Xiaoshuang go to play with other children. The child's emotions come and go quickly. As long as he plays with other children for a while, he should be happy.
Soon, the shooting began.
Qin Junjie sat in his seat and slowly did the handicrafts. Zhang Jingchu, who was playing with the burden of the bearer, stood by the window and shouted: "Qiao Zhengfei, come and see, come and see, they are grabbing the plane you made!"
Qin Junjie's face did not fluctuate at all, and he did not raise his head, and continued to do his own handicraft: "That's just a paper plane!"
Zhang Ran smiled behind the monitor. This kid is such a cool little cool guy, so cool!
After ending this period, Zhang Ran couldn't help but clap his hands. Qin Junjie deserves to be the future men, and the entire shooting started well.
Children are prone to nervousness when filming. In order to avoid a bunch of people surrounding them, Zhang Ran specially arranged the monitor and dit in the classroom next door. After the first shot, Zhang Ran called Qin Junjie over: "Junjie, I did a good job just now. I'll give you a reward and let you see the scene I've acted just now!"
Zhang Ran turned out the monitor screen and showed it to Qin Junjie twice: "Junjie, just act in this state and keep it! You can get 80 points in this performance, which is very good. We strive to get very high points in every game, okay?"
Qin Junjie said "happy", still looking cold, but his eyes were shining, and it was obvious that he was very happy.
In fact, the directors usually don’t show the cameras in the movie, which will interfere with the actors’ performances, and of course there are exceptions. When Zhang Yimou was filming "Love of Hawthorn Tree", Zhou Dongyu was a complete newcomer. At first, she didn’t even know what it was to play the board, and she was completely confused. Every time Zhang Yimou finished shooting a camera, he called Zhou Dongyu over, let her watch it, and then gave her a score, making her believe that every performance she performed was the best. Halfway through the film, Zhou Dongyu began to get better, and the final effect of the movie was also quite good.
Zhang Ran used the same method, letting Qin Junjie watch his performance and then gave him a score to improve his self-confidence.
Qin Junjie is a very smart child, and his personality is very similar to Xiao Qiao Zhengfei, so he can only act like himself. Therefore, the whole shooting went very smoothly, and several scenes of Qiao Zhengfei were quickly finished.
However, when filming Zheng Xiaoshuang's scene in the afternoon, the crew encountered trouble. Zheng Xiaoshuang could not relax in the face of the camera. Her performance seemed a bit deliberate, and her whole performance became stiff and clumsy, and she was not as natural as it was in private. Zheng Xiaoshuang was very serious and wanted to act well, but this kind of psychology caused her performance to be unnatural enough.
After taking pictures three or four times, Zhang Ran called Zheng Xiaoshuang aside and took her to do puppet exercises and zoom in and out exercises, trying to relax her, but it was useless. Instead, she became more nervous and her performance was even more unnatural.
During the last audition, Zhang Ran and Zheng Xiaoshuang had a conversation. She seemed nervous and not good enough. When she danced, she was completely relaxed and looked very lively and lit up. This shows that the child has a lively side in his personality. As the director Zhang Ran must guide him to let Zheng Xiaoshuang walk on a normal path.
There are no bad actors in this world, only bad directors who can't teach actors well. As a director and acting teacher, if Zhang Ran can't even teach a child well, then he might as well find a piece of tofu to kill him.
However, Zhang Ran always feels that there is something hidden in the child Zheng Xiaoshuang, and he is always a little depressed. It’s just that eleven or twelve-year-olds should be carefree. What are the concerns?
I can only talk to her!
Zhang Ran called Zheng Xiaoshuang aside and kept a smile on his face. He didn't want the children to feel dissatisfied and didn't want to put pressure on them: "Xiaoshuang, what's wrong with you? I always feel that you seem unhappy. Do you like acting?"
Zheng Xiaoshuang shook her head.
Zhang Ran was a little surprised and asked, "You don't like acting, so why do you want to act?"
Zheng Xiaoshuang lowered her head and said nothing.
Zhang Ran had a headache. The most difficult thing to communicate with the young actor was to ask softly: "What is that? I am the director, and the director on the crew is the biggest. If you tell me, maybe I can help you!"
Zheng Xiaoshuang was silent for a while before saying, "Mom wants me to be an actor, but Dad said that as long as I play this drama well, I can go home and not let me learn dancing in Rongcheng."
Zhang Ran kept staring at Zheng Xiaoshuang's expression, and when she saw her talking about learning to dance in Rongcheng, her eyes were particularly dim. Zhang Ran heard Li Xinyue say that Zheng Xiaoshuang had left home in September last year and went to the dance school in Rongcheng to learn dancing.
He suddenly remembered that Liu Yifei came to audition during the audition of "Time and Space Warriors" last year. Liu Yifei wanted to escape because her classmates isolated her. He immediately understood: "The children in the school don't like you, are they not playing with you, right?"
Zheng Xiaoshuang's eyes widened. She didn't even know about this. How could the director know about it?
Zhang Ran knew that he had guessed correctly when he saw her expression. Now he completely understood what was going on. No wonder when Zhang Ran asked Zheng Xiaoshuang to play with other children when filming Qin Junjie's scene in the morning, but she did not do that. Instead, she stuck to her father and played with her father. The child lacked a sense of security.
In fact, Zhang Ran didn't know much about Zheng Xiaoshuang. She watched "Painted Wall" in her previous life and thought that this little girl was very aura and her face was particularly suitable for the big screen. Zheng Xiaoshuang also won the Best Newcomer for the Academy Awards because of "Painted Wall". However, after that, Zheng Xiaoshuang had no roles that she could show, and later went for plastic surgery. The reason for her plastic surgery was actually inferiority. Zhang Ran was a pity when he saw this news. Such a spiritual girl destroyed herself. At the same time, she was also very surprised. How could such a beautiful girl feel inferior? Now he completely understands it.
This matter must be discussed with Zheng Xiaoshuang's father. If the parents do not pay attention, the child will repeat the old path of his previous life. However, Zheng Xiaoshuang's lack of security cannot be solved in the short term, and Zhang Ran cannot solve it. However, he already has an idea about how to film.
Zhang Ran came to the next room, discussed with the director team, and called Zhang Jingchu over to make arrangements.
After all the preparations, Zhang Ran came to the classroom with a stack of white paper and took Zheng Xiaoshuang to play the game of the wooden man for a few minutes. Next, Zhang Ran put the white paper in front of Zheng Xiaoshuang and said with a smile: "Xiaoshuang, let's take a paper plane, fold five first, and then compare to see whose plane flies higher and farther."
Zheng Xiaoshuang said: "I can fly far away if I turn the plane."
Zhang Ran laughed and said, "I am Qiao Zhengfei, a master of origami airplanes, and I will definitely win!" As he said that, he took a few pieces of paper and put them in front of Zheng Xiaoshuang: "Let's compare first, who will fold five frames first. I count three, two, and then start folding!"
"Three, two, one, one-five..." Zhang Ran folded up while counting.
"You are so naughty, you broke it before you even shouted!" Zheng Xiaoshuang quickly broke it while protesting.
Zhang Ran quickly folded the plane, raised his hands high, and shouted: "I won, I won, the winner is Qiao Zhengfei!"
Zheng Xiaoshuang protested: "You are cheating, you will get it first!"
Zhang Ran said, "Then let you pay first this time. Even if you pay first, I will win in the end."
This time, Zhang Ran asked Zheng Xiaoshuang to fold first, and when he started folding, he deliberately slowed down. In the end, Zheng Xiaoshuang won. She also raised her hands like Zhang Ran and cheered: "I won, I won!"
Zhang Ran's mouth raised slightly, the child was really coaxing! What Zhang Ran has to do now is to introduce Zheng Xiaoshuang into the prescribed situation bit by bit, so that she could unknowingly say Liu Jiao's lines. He looked at Zheng Xiaoshuang and said in a disdainful tone: "Let's compare and see whose plane flies higher and farther. Do you dare?"
"I dare!"
Zhang Ran and Zheng Xiaoshuang each stood in front of a window and flew paper planes to the playground below. Zheng Xiaoshuang's cheerful voice soon came to mind over the classroom: "Haha, it's my plane, mine flew farther than yours!"
"It's mine again, it's me who won again!"
On the playground, Zhang Jingchu took a group of children to play below. She had studied as a kindergarten teacher before going to the Central Academy of Drama, and it was not a big deal for her to take the children to play.
At this moment, Zhang Jingchu saw Zhang Ran standing at the window and gestured to herself. She immediately replied with an OK gesture. Then she clapped her hands and said to the child in front of her: "Children, let's play a game. After a while, you will see the sister upstairs fly down and then rob it. If anyone grabs it, I will send him a little red flower. OK?"
The children said in unison: "Okay!"
In the classroom, Zhang Ran folded five paper planes and placed them in front of Zheng Xiaoshuang, and said with a smile: "Xiaoshuang, let's change the gameplay. There are five planes here, you can fly to the playground, and I will sit here. There are many children on the playground. After the plane flies out, if a child grabs my paper plane, you turn around and call me, Qiao Zhengfei, come and see, they are grabbing the plane you made. If they don't grab it, you say they don't grab it, okay?"
Zheng Xiaoshuang thought Zhang Ran was still playing games with him, and said without thinking: "Okay!"
Zhang Ran sat on the stool and closed his hands: "Let's start!"
Zheng Xiaoshuang picked up a paper plane and went to the window, breathed a sigh of relief in her mouth, and threw it hard. The paper plane flew out, drew a graceful arc in the air, and slowly landed on the ground.
The children downstairs were waiting for this moment, and before the plane could land, they rushed up. When the plane landed, they snatched it into a ball and shouted: "It's mine, it's mine!"
Zheng Xiaoshuang didn't expect that the children downstairs would really grab the plane. Seeing that the children were snatching into a ball, it was very funny and couldn't help but giggle. Next, she turned her head and shouted at Zhang Ran who was sitting on the stool: "Qiao Zhengfei, come and see, come and see, they are grabbing the plane you made!"
Zhang Ran smiled, the child was smiling so brightly! He stood up and walked to the window: "Let me see, haha, how amazing it is!"
At the same time, behind the monitor next door, Ning Hao slapped his thigh, and this shot was amazing.
"! This child smiled so brightly, so real that he could not see any trace of performance!" Ding Sheng couldn't help but exclaim from the bottom of his heart.
Huang Lei's play was originally going to take more than a month later, but as soon as the camera was turned on, he joined the group, saying that he wanted to learn from Zhang Ran's advanced experience. At this moment, he stared at the camera, but his eyes were bigger than eggs: "The effect is surprisingly good! When you look at her eyes and state, she is not acting, she is really thinking that way. Zhang Ran created a similar situation and let her act it!" (~^~)
Chapter completed!