Chapter 868 Rehearsal

Xiao Yao didn't say who his mentor was, and the conversation between him and Yuan Jiang ended accordingly.

Although everyone was very curious about Xiao Yao and sat around Xiao Yao's table one after another, none of these new actors had contact with Xiao Yao before, that is to say, none of them were particularly familiar with Xiao Yao. After all, it was the first time we met, and Xiao Yao's current coffee position was far from theirs, and they simply asked some common questions, expressing their interest in Xiao Yao, and the conversation could not be so deep.

Speaking of relationships, of course the six newcomers in Xiao Yao’s group have the closest relationship with Xiao Yao. It’s just that Xiao Yao didn’t use his vicious tongue like he did in “Creation 101” the year before last, complaining about his crew’s weight and make-up. Those newcomers They also had no intention of discussing the script with Xiao Yao during the meal, so Xiao Yao didn't talk too much during the meal.

Without talking much, the speed of eating is naturally fast, and Xiao Yao's eating speed has always been very fast.

"I'm done eating, eat slowly!" Xiao Yao took out a tissue box from the tissue box on the table and wiped his mouth, greeted someone, and stood up holding the tray.

"I'm leaving first, and rehearse at 8 o'clock in the evening, don't forget!" Xiao Yao lowered his head and said to the six newcomers in his group.

"I'll never forget it!" The six of them nodded in unison.

"Senior, you have to rehearse tonight, you sure won't leave now, right?" Zhang Yunlan asked again, "Where are you resting?"

"Why don't you go to our dormitory?" Lin Kaijie also took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, "I'm done eating too, I'll take you there!"

"No need," Xiao Yao smiled and waved his hands, "I'm going to the studio where you will be performing tomorrow to see the stage of the performance, and I also want to see the props used on the stage tomorrow. Don't worry about me, take your time Eat, go back to read the script after eating, see you in the rehearsal room at 8 o'clock!"

Since Xiao Yao participated in this show, he naturally hoped that his group's stage plays could be performed well, and that the members of the group would have good results in this big assessment.

Generally speaking, most of the rehearsals of the drama are carried out on the stage of the performance. But this time there are six production crews in the big stage play assessment, and there is only one stage. Naturally, it is impossible to hand over the studio and stage to a certain crew for rehearsal, so the program team can only arrange for each crew to rehearse in their own rehearsal room .

The size and shape of the rehearsal room is different from the stage, and the placement of props may also be somewhat different. No matter how well rehearsed in the rehearsal room, after going on stage, it will be affected by the change of environment.

According to the arrangement of the program group, each crew will have on-stage rehearsal time for about half an hour tomorrow afternoon. These differences and influences between the rehearsal room and the real stage depend on each crew making adjustments during the rehearsal time of about half an hour.

Although the program group gave Xiao Yao a lot of freedom and power, he did not intend to use this degree of freedom and power to buy more time for his crew to rehearse on the stage, which would affect the new actors of several other crews. It's just too unfair. However, in other aspects, Xiao Yao can and is willing to do some things.

The performance stage is currently vacant, and Xiao Yao wants to take advantage of this time to inspect the performance stage on the spot. If possible, he also wants the staff to move those props to the stage and instruct them to put them on first.

If he can roughly know the size and shape of the stage, the position of the props on the stage, and the perspective of the audience, he can guide the newcomers to perform and move as much as possible according to the real stage situation at night. It can greatly reduce the adjustment and difficulty of tomorrow's on-site rehearsal, and it seems that the rehearsal tonight and tomorrow morning will be more effective.

Strictly speaking, Xiao Yao’s actions may still be unfair to the newcomers of the other five groups, but this does not occupy the time of other groups using the stage, and any other director can also Doing this, so this kind of unfairness is within Xiao Yao's acceptable psychological range.

"Senior, you've worked hard!" Zhang Yunlan and the six newcomers said.

"Goodbye, senior!" Other newcomers also waved goodbye to Xiao Yao.

After sending the dinner plate to the recycling place, after leaving the restaurant, Xiao Yao asked the director of the production team who followed him. After learning that Ke Jun, Jin Wenbo, and Chen Qiuyue had finished today's filming and had left, he asked I told the filming director about my plan and asked him to ask the chief director Meng Yafang for instructions.

Although Meng Yafang said to let Xiao Yao decide his own actions, at most it means that Xiao Yao can go to the studio to watch the stage by himself if he wants to. But Xiao Yao still wants to place props on the stage, which requires the cooperation of the program staff. Not to mention that Xiao Yao doesn't even know where those props are stored, even if he knows, those props can't be moved to the stage by himself. If you want to order the staff of the program group, it is better to talk to the chief director after all.

I contacted the chief director Meng Yafang with the filming director and got a reply soon.

"Mr. Xiao Yao, Director Meng agrees! Let us take you to the studio first, and someone will move the props of your group there soon! How to arrange them at that time, I will listen to your command!" The filming director said to Xiao Yao .

"Okay, thank you! Thank you for your hard work too!" Xiao Yao thanked with a smile, and went down to the studio under the guidance of the film crew.

This studio is the place where Ke Jun and the other three announced the big assessment questions to the new actors. At that time, Ke Jun and the three were standing on the stage, and the place where the new actors sat was the auditorium. The first assessment and the second division assessment of the newcomers in the previous program were also announced here and performed on this stage. The first stage of the big assessment is the film and television drama performance. Although it is not performed on this stage, the audience and newcomers are also here to watch everyone's film and television works on the big screen.

This studio has appeared many times in the show, and Xiao Yao is no stranger to the layout and stage shape here, but the feeling on the screen is still different from that on the ground. Xiao Yao had never been there before, at least he didn't have a more specific and intuitive feeling about the size of the stage.

Since he had to wait for the staff to deliver the props, Xiao Yao went on stage and walked around. Although he didn't use a ruler to measure it, after walking around like this, Xiao Yao already had a relatively intuitive feeling for the size of the stage, and even estimated a rough length and width data in his heart.

After walking around the stage slowly, the staff of the program group successively delivered the props he needed for this group of stage plays. The script was written by Xiao Yao himself, and the props were also made according to Xiao Yao's requirements, so Xiao Yao is also very clear about the purpose of these props. After the props were delivered, Xiao Yao directed the staff to set them up on the stage.

Tables and chairs, pergolas, simple walls with doors, sofas, cabinets, door curtains, all kinds of props were quickly installed and placed in the same way. Xiao Yao tried the same in the past and confirmed that it was stable and safe, and there was no problem .

After all the props were arranged, Xiao Yao first walked through the action routes of each character according to the plot, made some adjustments, and went to the auditorium to take a look, feel the audience's perspective and imagine the audience's perspective. The places that may have been noticed and ignored during the viewing process, and then ran to the stage again to make some adjustments.

After confirming the positions of all the props, Xiao Yao walked around the stage a few more times, and finally went to the audience to watch for a long time before finally nodding in satisfaction.

After all this work, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening. Xiao Yao checked the time, said his hard work to the staff again, and went to the rehearsal room of his group.

According to the arrangement of the program group, Xiao Yao's crew is not the first to come to the rehearsal tomorrow, but it does not rule out the possibility that the program group may make temporary adjustments to save trouble, so should these props be dismantled and put back, and the stage should be emptied again? I don't care about it.

When Xiao Yao entered the rehearsal room, he found that all six people had arrived. What made him even more satisfied was that when he came in, the six people were correcting their own words, and none of them had a script in their hands, and all six scripts were thrown on the ground aside.

"Hi director!" Seeing Xiao Yao coming in, the six people stopped and said hello together.

"Hello!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Already correcting the words? It seems that there is no problem?"

"That must be!" Lin Kaijie laughed.

"Okay, let's start rehearsing!" Xiao Yao said, "But before we start, let's make some adjustments, and then I have some suggestions for you!"

"What?" All six asked curiously.

"First of all, let's adjust the direction during rehearsal. We used the short side of the rehearsal room before, but now we use the long side. I will stand by the wall with the door to watch." Xiao Yao pointed to the rehearsal room Two sets of simple tables and chairs said, "A few boys, please move the tables and chairs!"

"Hey!" Several boys agreed, rolled up their sleeves and went to move the tables and chairs.

"Because our performance stage is relatively wide?" Wang Jiayi asked Xiao Yao, "Is this the result of the director going to the studio to watch the stage live?"

"That's right," Xiao Yao nodded with a smile. "Before, I was mainly talking to you, and the meaning was enough, so I didn't bother to move. Of course, it's better to be closer to the real stage. But even if you don't Going to the scene, I can also know from previous shows that your performance stage is relatively wide."

"The director, what did you gain from going to the studio to watch the stage live?" asked another newcomer actress Zhang Yunlan.

"The harvest is," Xiao Yao paused, then turned his head and said to the two boys who moved the table, "Lin Kaijie, Zhou Feng, the distance between the two tables is about ten steps, just take a normal step, don't stride too much, Slightly stagger front and back, don't put them in a line."

"Yunlan, the Ms. Zhao Meilan you play can only run so far from the courtyard into the house. There is a slight break after entering the door!" Xiao Yao looked at Zhang Yunlan again and said.

"Ah?" Several people stopped and stared at Xiao Yao.

"Director, these are not in the script!" Zhang Yunlan said.

"Of course not," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "When I write scripts, I only write about someone running into the house in a hurry from the yard. A broken line? I just went to the studio to place all the props on the stage, determined the positions of those props, and then walked around a few times by myself. This is what I tried out on the stage of the studio just now!"

"You put all the props on the stage, and then tried them all?" Zhang Yunlan pointed to the plastic table in the hands of Zhou Feng and Lin Kaijie, "So, director, you want to replicate the props on the stage in the rehearsal room. Let's go, let's rehearse exactly what happened on stage?"

"Not exactly!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "The length of our rehearsal room is still not as wide as the stage of the studio, so it is impossible to copy it completely. Telling you this is just to let you know! For example, you About how many steps and how long does it take to run from the yard into the house, how long does your expression last during this process, how long does the expression change in the middle, and what speed should you speak the lines? It's more appropriate. In case there are too many changes in the rehearsal in the future, you won't be able to adjust all at once."

"What about the rest of us?" Lin Kaijie asked.

"You played Lin Jianjun, a man with big steps. The distance from the door to the chair in the yard is about five steps. Wang Jiayi's Lin Qiuyang, it takes about three steps to go to the back to pour water props and return to the table. Zhou Feng, you Zhou Chenxi played the largest range of activities. When she first appeared on stage, she was at the front edge of the stage, three steps vertically and four steps horizontally away from the chairs in the courtyard in the middle of the stage, and Zhang Yunlan had to run about ten steps from the courtyard to the house. Calculate the difference in stride length between you and Zhang Yunlan..." Xiao Yao looked at the six people and said one by one.

"In just such a short while, you have memorized everything?" The six exclaimed.

"Then have you all written it down?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

"Ah?" The six were dumbfounded.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't remember it for now, if you don't remember it, you can ask me anytime." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "You should probably have a feeling for these things. I'm just telling you this to reduce the amount of adjustment you need to make in rehearsals in the future The difficulty and difficulty are minor details. We are rehearsing a stage play, not soldiers going forward, the most important thing is performance. I hope you will not affect your performance because of these steps and distances, that is to chase after the end!"

"Yes, I got it, director!" The six said in unison.

"Okay, let's officially start rehearsal!" Xiao Yao retreated to the wall and stood against the wall. "At the beginning, Zhou Feng and Wang Jiayi performed Zhou Chenxi and Lin Qiuyang. Others who appeared in the middle of the stage found their own positions."

"Okay!" The six people stood or squatted down in the rehearsal room.

"Get ready, start!" Xiao Yao stretched out both hands, slapping up and down in the same way as if dressed, and shouted loudly.

"Okay, that's it for today!" At around eleven o'clock in the evening, Xiao Yao announced the end of tonight's rehearsal.

The rehearsal that night only lasted about three hours in total.

It's not that Xiao Yao is satisfied with the results of the rehearsal. Although it was only a 20-minute stage play, it was still very difficult for these rookie actors, especially since they only got the script early this morning. Even at the end, the scene rehearsed by these rookie actors was still incompetent in Xiao Yao's eyes.

The reason why the rehearsal ended was not that Xiao Yao thought it was too late and wanted to rest, nor was it that these new actors were tired and did not want to rehearse, but that after a day of tossing, especially the long interview in the afternoon, these new actors After we rehearsed for three hours at night, our physical strength and energy were almost to the limit. Xiao Yao felt that forcibly continuing to line up would not have a good effect. Instead of this, it is better to let them rest early and arrange tomorrow.

Of course, these three hours of rehearsal were not without reward. Although these people still have many problems in Xiao Yao's eyes in terms of performance, the six of them have already rehearsed quite well with the basic lines, movements, and positioning on the stage. As for the remaining pure performance issues, Xiao Yao felt that a daytime tomorrow should be enough to solve them.