Chapter 484 Conversation Structure

"How about we go together tomorrow, Mr. Huang?" Tian Youliang asked, pulling Huang Dingyu's arm.

Huang Dingyu said with a smile, "Of course I can go, but if all of us in the acting department go, should we ask Mr. Liang?"

He was talking about Liang Bolong, the head teacher of the 95th acting class.

Huang Dingyu thought that since all three grades of students went to Zhou Yan's studio to visit, it would be a bit bad to leave them alone.

"It's okay, Mr. Liang, I'll talk to him later." Chang Li said.

"Okay, then it's settled." Tian Youliang smiled.

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll be waiting for you in the studio tomorrow."

...

They chatted for a while, and Xiao Can had almost said the same thing to the students.

Like the students of the 93rd class, everyone was very interested in this new movie.

And it can be seen that their enthusiasm is even stronger than that of the seniors of the 93rd class.

This is understandable, because they have just entered college, most of them have not really been exposed to filming, and are full of infinite curiosity and desire for acting.

More importantly, because they are freshmen, the school is very strict and does not allow them to go out for filming.

Once the time for students to go out for filming exceeds the time stipulated by the school, they will be expelled, and none of these freshmen dare to violate the rules.

Although they have only been in school for a few months, many people have received a lot of invitations, but because of the school rules, they cannot agree.

But now their class teacher Chang Li has personally brought the directors to the classroom, which at least shows that the class teacher has no objection to their participation in this movie. This is a rare opportunity for them, and they must seize it.

Xiao Can also said just now that the filming time of the movie is likely to be during the summer vacation next year, so that it will not conflict with the school rules.

Even if the final filming time is not in the summer vacation, they can't participate, but they still want to join in the fun.

Even if they just go for an audition, it can be regarded as accumulating experience.

Since they want to be actors, they will experience these things in the future.

Besides, their roles may not be very long, so they don't need to shoot for too long. They can probably take a weekend and then take two days off to finish.

The school is strict, but it doesn't mean that they can't shoot any scenes. If they just spend some time to make a cameo appearance, it's fine as long as it doesn't exceed the maximum time left by the school.

Class monitor Zhang Tong got the contact information from Xiao Can and made an appointment to contact him later. The 96 class was over.

"Teacher Gao, I'm sorry to waste your time. We'll leave now and leave the class to you." Zhou Yan smiled and said goodbye to Gao Jinwen.

Gao Jinwen asked, "Are you going back now?"

Tian Youliang hurriedly said, "No, Director Zhou and the others have already agreed to watch our class rehearse a drama."

He was also afraid that Zhou Yan and the others would forget about it, so he reminded them again when Gao Jinwen asked.

"Is it the play "No Name"? "

Gao Jinwen also taught the 93 class acting class, so he naturally knew the play "No Name" that they had been rehearsing. He had also instructed the students many times.

Tian Youliang nodded and said, "Yes, that's the one. Wang Qianyuan and the others want to perfect this drama. Maybe there will be a chance to perform it commercially later."

"Of course it's a good idea." Gao Jinwen pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "How about this, I'll go with you to take a look."

Chang Li was surprised and said, "Teacher Chang, if you go with us, the students in the class..."

Gao Jinwen waved his hand, "Of course you'll go with me. It's rare that Qianyuan and Naiwen are going to stage "No Name". Take this opportunity to take these kids in your class to learn and see what the level of the seniors is like. Some students can cry because of homework for a semester. It's just right for them to find the gap and the direction."

Hearing Gao Jinwen say this, Chang Li couldn't help but glance at Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi. The two hugged each other and cried because of the semester homework.

Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye also knew that Gao Jinwen was talking about them, and they were a little embarrassed, because they hadn't finished their homework yet, and the semester was about to end, and their pressure was getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, if everyone is like this, they are not bad, mainly because they can't hand in one homework, while Qin Hao has already handed in five or six homework.

So when Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi were together, they not only cried, but also scolded Qin Hao for being too pretentious.

This is Gao Jinwen's class. Gao Jinwen has the full authority to decide what to do, even if Chang Li is the class teacher.

And Chang Li also thinks that Gao Jinwen is right. Taking students to see the performance of seniors can also learn something.

The students were very happy to learn that they were going to watch the seniors of the 93rd grade rehearse a drama. No matter what they do, it is more comfortable than staying in the classroom.

…

When everyone arrived at the small theater, Wang Qianyuan and others had not started formal rehearsals yet, and they were still gathered together to discuss something.

Originally, according to the plan, they had already started rehearsing, but just now they heard Tian Youliang say that he would bring Zhou Yan and others back to watch, so Wang Qianyuan decided to take the students to wait until Zhou Yan and others came back before rehearsing.

However, Wang Qianyuan and the others did not expect that not only Zhou Yan and the others came, but also the junior brothers and sisters from Class 96 were brought by Teacher Gao.

Seeing the junior brothers and sisters of level 96 and level 93 are very happy, especially the senior brothers, because the junior brothers and sisters of level 96 are indeed very good-looking.

Tian Youliang walked over and gave Wang Qianyuan a few instructions, and the students began to formally rehearse.

It is said to be a rehearsal, but in fact it is more like a formal performance, and the audience is Zhou Yan and the others.

…

"No Name" was better than Zhou Yan expected, and the performance of these students exceeded his expectations.

Tian Youliang's introduction has indeed been simplified a lot. There are many good details in this drama, and some lines are also very interesting.

But unfortunately, this is not a mature work.

Zhou Yan could see that the students were very conflicted during the process of creating this drama.

At a certain time, they probably wanted to make an experimental drama that would make people watch it in a fog.

But at another time, they seemed to want to make the content of this drama more substantial and story-telling to prevent the audience from being too confused.

The final result is that they have neither completed an experimental work, but also lacks in storytelling, and the main theme of the story is somewhat confusing.

They want to express so much that they can actually express less.

More than an hour and forty minutes later, when the play ended, the audience applauded, and Xiao Can and Huo Jianqi also began to congratulate Tian Youliang.

Facing Xiao Can and Huo Jianqi's congratulations, Tian Youliang smiled and nodded. Then he looked at Zhou Yan, wanting to hear what Zhou Yan had to say.

Zhou Yan didn't give any special suggestions, just like Xiao Can and others, he smiled and congratulated, "Teacher Tian, ​​congratulations, the students have produced such an outstanding work, you must be very happy. This play is not only the script Well, the actors’ performances were also very good.”

Although Zhou Yan and the others were indeed praising them, Tian Youliang was slightly disappointed. That was not what he wanted to hear.

Tian Youliang is just an acting teacher. He can't really help his students in terms of creation.

Of course, students in the performance department don’t pay much attention to creation in their studies.

The actor's task is to interpret the role well. As for the creation, it is the responsibility of the director, screenwriter and other behind-the-scenes workers. Although the actors also need to pay attention, they do not need to invest too much energy.

At least this is the case when studying in school. If a student becomes interested in creative writing, it will only happen after graduation.

However, since the Grade 93 students have created such an original drama and put a lot of thought into it, Tian Youliang still wants to help the students improve this drama.

China National Theater also has a directing department, and Tian Youliang has also asked teachers from the directing department to help guide him. However, Zhou Yan and the others are here today, and he also hopes that Zhou Yan and the others can give valuable advice.

It's just that Zhou Yan and the others are unwilling to talk in depth, and Tian Youliang can't ask for help.

But then Gao Jinwen suddenly said, "Director Zhou, Director Huo, and Director Xiao, you should not just give praise, but also give some real criticism. The drama they created is indeed not bad, but I also I believe that in your eyes, there are still many problems with this drama.”

Zhou Yan and the three of them looked at each other, and then Huo Jianqi spoke first, "If we want to talk about problems, most works around the world have problems. First of all, we have to admit that a work with flaws is a good work. This drama perfectly showcases the students’ current talents, which is better than the work itself.”

"Director Huo, you are a bit too official." Obviously Gao Jinwen was not satisfied with Huo Jianqi's answer at all.

Huo Jianqi looked at Xiao Can with a smile, "Old Xiao, give Director Gao an unofficial one."

Xiao Can smiled and said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with the students' acting. Maybe there are some imperfections in the script."

In fact, it's not that the students' performances are so perfect that no faults can be found, but it's just impossible for Xiao Can to say it. There are several acting teachers here. If he mentions acting, it's not like he's trying to do what he does best.

"What are the imperfections?" Gao Jinwen continued to ask.

It can be seen that he is not ready to let Xiao Can and the others go.

Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Xiao Can carefully considered his words and said, "In the first scene, there were too many exchanges between the protagonist and the villagers. It can be seen that you want to show that the protagonist is not familiar with the villagers in this village." Strange. But this is obviously self-defeating. If you just want to highlight that they are not strangers, you need to reduce communication..."

Hearing Xiao Can's words, Gao Jinwen nodded frequently. He felt that Xiao Can's words were very reasonable.

In fact, Wang Qianyuan and the others have been thinking about the lines for this section for a long time, because they wanted to use the lines to reflect the relationship between the protagonist and the villagers that is not unfamiliar, but not very familiar either.

So their dialogue had a lot of lines, but it was a bit polite.

Wang Qianyuan and Li Naiwen looked at each other and felt that Xiao Can was right.

In fact, they also felt that there was something wrong with the lines in this section, but they always felt that there should be better lines, but they didn't think of it now.

Now it seems that they are going in the wrong direction. There is no need to think of better lines. They can just reduce the lines in this paragraph. Sometimes, the frequency of lines itself can express many things.

"What I said is just my personal opinion and for reference only. Please forgive me for any inaccuracies." Xiao Can added.

Tian Youliang laughed and said, "The ancients said that if you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. Although we do not have the spirit of seeking knowledge like the ancients, we are naturally very happy to get guidance from professionals like Director Xiao and find out the shortcomings. This drama , the students spent a long time, and everyone hopes that it will continue to develop in a good direction. They do not expect to make a perfect work, but only hope that they can learn by themselves in the process of constantly revising the work. to something.”

I have to say that Tian Youliang is very good at talking. This paragraph not only helped the students speak well, but also gave Xiao Can face.

It's just that, for him, it's Gao Jinwen who is the bad guy, because Gao Jinwen is the most familiar with Zhou Yan here.

At this time, Gao Jinwen looked at Zhou Yan again, "Director Zhou, what do you think? What else can you say to your classmates?"

"I think..."

"If you are complimenting them, don't say it anymore." Gao Jinwen gave Zhou Yan a vaccination in advance.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "No matter what, I still have to praise where praise is due. The students' performance was better than I expected, especially Wang Qianyuan, Liu Mintao, and Xin Baiqing, whether it was their lines, body shape or stage walk." There is nothing to criticize about them. I believe that the three of them have the ability to go on stage no matter which theater company they join.”

"Of course, the other students are not bad either. Although some of them don't have many roles, their performance is remarkable..."

When Zhou Yan was commenting, Tian Youliang raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect Zhou Yan's memory to be so good. Just now, Zhou Yan only glanced at the cast list and remembered Wang Qianyuan and the three of them.

And Zhou Yan can remember these three people, which means that he has remembered more people.

After praising the actors, Zhou Yan praised the script again, "A standard drama, nearly two hours long, is still an original drama, and the workload is very heavy. It is not easy to achieve this point, let alone a performance. It is difficult for students in the class, even the directing class and the screenwriting class, to do better than this. There is no big problem with the integrity of the drama and the overall rhythm. Apart from anything else, it is enough to control the time within the range. Very powerful.”

For many grass-stage troupes, the duration of a play is always not fixed, and there may be a gap of more than ten minutes between two adjacent performances.

Therefore, Zhou Yan said that it is already very good if he can control the time well after performing the entire play.

After talking about the advantages, Zhou Yan changed the subject, "Next, let's talk about the shortcomings of the script. We all know that a work cannot be perfect, it will inevitably have various problems. If we just talk about In general, I think it is too broad, time-consuming, and may not be useful to you. Why not start with a certain aspect and share my thoughts with you, which may be of some small use to you.”

"Director Zhou, just say it, we are all ears." Gao Jinwen said with a smile.

Zhou Yan nodded, "Director Xiao just mentioned the issue of dialogue. I thought it would be appropriate to follow this topic and talk to you about the issue of conversation structure."

Many people were stunned for a moment because they felt that Zhou Yan was going to tell them something different.

In fact, their feeling was right, Zhou Yan really wanted to give them a little more intensity.

Just listen to him continue, "Alan mentioned in "The Theory of Dramatic Symbols" that theater audiences are faced with a symbolic world, and the reason why they can recognize this symbolic world is because they assume that in this symbolic world Everything that happens basically follows the laws of the real world and the laws of nature.”

"In other words, the drama world is a simulation of the real world, and the dialogues in it are also a simulation of daily conversations in real life. Although the two are different, they are closely related. Let's first talk about what is daily dialogue and what is dramatic dialogue , what is the relationship between the two..."

After talking about daily dialogue and drama dialogue, Zhou Yan began to extend it to the back, "Next I want to introduce you to a concept - conversational wheels. Does anyone know what this concept means?"

Everyone looked confused. This was the first time they heard this concept.

This was also expected by Zhou Yan, because the analysis of conversational structure developed very late in China. The domestic academic community only had some contact with it in the 1990s, and it was not until the 21st century that systematic research was conducted.

There are no professional articles in China at all, and even relevant foreign literature has not been translated. How do they know these things?

Not to mention those from their acting department, even the directing class and screenwriting class, most likely don’t know about it.

"Talk turns were proposed by the famous linguist Levinson, which means a period of time when a speaker speaks alone in a typical, orderly, multi-person conversation."

Everyone suddenly realized that this was the meaning of Hua Lun, it was so simple. (End of chapter)