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    "You can't imagine how much harm muscle spasms and physical tension can bring to the artistic creation process. When these spasms and tensions form in people's vocal organs, even those who are born with a good voice, their voices will deteriorate.  Begins to become hoarse and even lose the ability to speak.

    When the actor's legs are tense, he will walk like a paralyzed patient; if his arms are tense, they will freeze as if frozen and turn into wooden sticks, which will look exactly like the wooden railings at the crossing when lifted.  Such tensions and their consequences are also often found on actors' backs, necks and shoulders.  In any case, these cramps and tensions can embarrass actors and disrupt their performance.

    But the worst case scenario is that this tension occurs on the face, which will distort the face and make the expression numb and dull.  At that time, the eyes will protrude, and the spasmed muscles will give the face an unpleasant expression that does not match the emotion the actor wants to express at that time.

    ??Tensions can occur in the diaphragm and other muscles involved in the breathing process, disrupting the normal functioning of these processes and making breathing difficult.  All of these conditions are bound to have a negative impact on the actor's experience, the outward manifestation of the experience, and the actor's general sense of self.

    ¡­Before creating, the muscles should be in a normal state in order not to restrict the freedom of action.  If we fail to do this, then when we are on stage we will behave like those described in My Artistic Life.  In this book, he writes: Because of nervousness, actors will clench their fists, clasp their fingers deeply into their palms, or hook their toes tightly, placing all their body weight on them.  ¡±¡»

    ¡ª¡ªStanislavsky, "The Actor's Self-cultivation"

    The afternoon sun shines on the grass in front of Wexford Art School. During break time, there are students in twos and threes walking, playing or chatting.

    Ye Wei sat under a lush oak tree on the edge of the adjacent campus, looking at the book in his hand with concentration on the part about muscle relaxation.

    Because he was in the tenth grade when he came here, he fell behind in the basic theory of performance course, so he consciously made up for it.

    It doesn't matter if you don't understand theory. You can do it well with experience, but that's often the only way it can be. Actors who are not enterprising will naturally disappear after eating their youth meal. They may have been stars and idols, but they will last a lifetime.  Little actor.  If you have learning theories, extract the ideas of predecessors, and stand on the shoulders of giants, your vision will become wider and you will be able to identify problems and find solutions to them.

    ??????????????????? He often acts like N even though - Tae also seems immature and jerky, with a lot of acting marks. He can barely pass in spoof comedies, but he is out of place in serious dramas.

    ¡°In addition to lack of skills and lack of perception of performance, it is also due to shallow basic training, such as how to relax and control muscles. He is not very good at it. Only by doing this well can he have a mature performance.

    People who don¡¯t understand acting don¡¯t know how important it is and how difficult it is.  "Your body is yours" is a lie. Try making a straight face expression with the left side of your face raised and the right side of your face lowered?  For those who have not been trained, the muscles on both sides of the face will definitely tremble constantly and they will not be able to do it at all.

    This is why even if ordinary actors create characters and invest huge emotions, their performances are stiff and give people a very fake feeling. This is muscle control.

    Performance is a reality that transcends reality. To control it, you must first relax, not just the face, but every muscle in the body.  To relax, you must first find it. It is easy to find obvious high muscle tension, but it is difficult to find a tiny tension that cannot be felt immediately even if it appears somewhere. It is very difficult.

    It¡¯s like that at that moment, when you know your performance is not good, but you don¡¯t know how to perform it well. You can¡¯t find the problem, let alone talk about solving it.

    The director is the one who helps the actors complete these tasks, so why a director who understands acting is a better director, this is just one of the aspects.

    But in the final analysis, no one knows his or her performance better than himself. A great director cannot make a young actor great. A great actor can only become great because of himself.

    "Well" Ye Wei was reading and thinking. After reading another page, he put down the book, lay down on the grass, and started practicing according to the training methods in the book. He relaxed his body and silently observed each piece.  The condition of the muscles, let them relax, relax again

    Fortunately, he is not a rookie in this regard. It is the same as sports training. He has experience in relaxing and using muscles.

    Through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the big tree, looking at the blue sky, gradually, the whole body relaxed, but there was still a faint tension in one place, the diaphragm?  Chest?  It's the heart.

    Today is September 14th, two months ago.

    The two months of youth are so precious.

    The unblurred face flashed before his eyes. He closed his eyes slightly and concentrated.?Imagine a cat curled up and sleeping, and then imitate its sleeping position.

    ?This is probably like a 12-digit math problem for Meryl Tripp, but it is not an easy thing for him. The muscles have to move, and the muscles cannot be tense, nor can any one of them be tense.

    Observe which muscle is tense, and go to eliminate its tension. However, like a groundhog machine, if you successfully eliminate one muscle, you will find that the second and third muscles appear. He faces all the smallest problems.  Changes, try to make the body reach a state of use but overall relaxation.

    Find, determine, eliminate, the other side, determine, eliminate, and there

    After a while, Ye Wei made himself a little dizzy. As the book said, he couldn't tell which muscle was which. It seemed as if his nose had grown to his belly, like his neck and ankles were connected together. He even lost consciousness.  In the blur, a feeling of sleepiness came to my mind.

    Damn it, isn¡¯t it just a performance? I won¡¯t be stumped

    "Look, Nina, look over there, your weird neighbor boarder"

    "Huh? Yesit's him."

    "He looks so painful. Could it be that he ate some poisonous weeds and was poisoned?"

    When Nina heard this, she was shocked and shrank like that. Although she looked like she was completely disappointed with Yunick, at this time, she still hurried over and saw a book called "The Self-cultivation of Actors" beside him.  ", there was no pain on his face, he suddenly opened his eyes and let out a hey.

    She rolled her eyes, walked back to her friends and said, "He's fine, he's just doing some kind of performance practice."

    "Really? You don't even take a break at noon. You work really hard."

    Nina agrees with this. Hard work may be Yunike's only advantage as a person. I don't know why he went to live with relatives in Aijing Pavilion. When he lived at her house, he always worked too hard and seldom  When I go out to play, I watch Sunday¡¯s childish drama on TV. The rest of the time I spend almost all my time reading, practicing drawing and so on.

    He seems to know how to draw very well. He often holds a strange drawing book, as if he is drawing comics, which is a hobby.

    She could see from the window of the room that he worked hard every night until he went to bed at 10:3 on time and got up on time at 6:6 the next day. His life was monotonous and he slept a lot.

    Because after that time, they didn't go out for morning exercise together anymore. She didn't know what happened. His football level was really improving rapidly. This morning he was playing in the woods. She watched it accidentally and quietly for a while. Either this idiot was originally a football player.  A football master, or a football genius.

    His footwork is just like that of those on the school team, but football is not table tennis, it is a team game, so why is he such a coward and a sissy nerd?

    ¡°VIY I¡¯m here in Toronto, there¡¯s a show, do you want to come out for a drink?¡±

    "Oh, I want to go. How can I say no to such a beautiful and charming girl like you? But I'm too busy. I have homework and work to do. Sweetheart, I'm sorry.

    "Oh, okay, call me when you have time in the next few days."

    Night shrouded Toronto. In the simple and elegant small room, Ye Wei put down his mobile phone and continued to immerse himself in the painting work on his desk. The call came from a female model he had met at New York Fashion Week. She was eighteen or nineteen years old?  He couldn't even remember her age or name because there were many models who exchanged numbers with him that day.

    Some things are just different. We can be friends, but I have no interest in anything else for the time being.

    And he is really busy with work. The first creative meeting with the art department will be held at the end of the month. He needs to prepare enough concept images for the meeting, such as scene illustrations, important scenes (key frames) and storyboards.

    Scene illustrations are drawings of empty shots, showing the appearance requirements of interior and exterior scenes, which are very important for all surreal films that require scenery; key frames take the most important nodes of the story and depict them with fine light and shadow.  Usually the size of the picture is not the normal size of the storyboard. It is used for display, to attract investment, various lobbying, and to provide the crew with accurate painting atmosphere and film style. In the end, it may not be shot that way.

    In fact, these tasks can be done by others. Usually, one or more original artists are hired to draw some concept sketches, and then the director decides whether to use which sketches. After using them, the director will explain it to the artist in detail.  According to his own ideas and requirements, the artist then highly renders the sketch into an original painting and provides it to the art team and film crew for use.

    Thank you, I will do it myself

    Ye Wei holds the pencil and draws on the drawing paper, not to save money. Since he has this ability, he knows best what effect, style and tone he wants.

    But this time it is indeed different from "Dance of Angels" and "Wedding Day is Coming". Even if he is a control freak, he still has to work with the art director. In the future, some storyboards will be determined together, and the detailed storyboard will be determined by  A team of storyboard artists will do it, or they won¡¯t.

    Because storyboarding (black and white, not color yet) is not suitable for a low-cost reality-themed projectIt's not very important, but it's also a bit extravagant.

    I want luxury.  Ye Wei thought, this is his real debut feature film. It was so difficult and lucky to get the opportunity. There is no reason not to do the best and do the best.

    ¡°Compared to acting, these tasks are much easier for him, full of passion and aura.

    The pencil is drawing lines one after another. He is doing his best to learn what he has learned and to the best of his ability. He draws sketches one after another and renders them carefully

    "In this performance training class, we are going to play a game called the puppet game."

    Time gradually passed, and the 2nd Toronto International Film Festival came to an end, reaching the end of September.

    Wexford, in a performance room on the first floor of the school building, more than twenty students were sitting on the floor in a circle, and the white female teacher Rochelle standing in the middle was smiling and saying something.

    Puppet play combines imaginary body stretching, control and relaxation, changes in form and posture with necessary muscle tension and psychological feelings, the relationship between body state and vocalization, etc. It has multiple training items and is a medium for muscle relaxation and control.  basic training

    While giving the demonstration in person, Teacher Rochelle said: "Now, everyone, stand up first, relax your shoulders, let your hands hang down naturally, feet apart, shoulder width apart, cervical spine and lumbar spine naturally stand straight, body  Relax, close your eyes naturally, relax your face, open your mouth slightly, and relax your jaw.¡±

    The students around are following the instructions, but not everyone can relax their whole body, and their green faces are more unnatural, and the more they pay attention, the more nervous they become.

    Ye Wei didn¡¯t. After training hard during this period, if he just stood without performing, he could easily put himself into a state of relaxation.  Looking at the people around him, even though he was directly studying in tenth grade and often asked for leave, he thought he was not far behind.

    "Now, imagine that there is a thread on the top of your head, elbows, wrists, fingertips, knees, and ankles. I am holding it in my hand. Your head feels like a balloon on your neck. It is very light.  , Piaozhong, are you okay? "

    Teacher Rochelle looked around the students with a smile, raised her hands, waggled her fingers, and said: "I am a puppeteer. You see my gestures and follow my instructions."

    The students nodded in agreement. Suddenly, Gu You, who was standing there relaxedly, began to twitch like an epilepsy, with his hands and feet moving wildly.

    Everyone immediately looked at him in astonishment. Even Teacher Rochelle was stunned. Then some boys and girls laughed out loud: "Haha", "What is he doing?", "Gu?"

    The teacher's hand stopped, and so did Ye Wei. Teacher Rochelle, if she had any understanding, raised her right hand slightly. Ye Wei's right hand was immediately lifted up, and the teacher pulled his face again, and Ye Wei's  His face was immediately pulled. Although he could not fully control the muscles, the corners of his mouth and mouth were all pulled according to the thread.

    "Great, great." Teacher Rochelle understood and couldn't help but praise, and laughed with everyone: "Look at Yunique Gu, what do you think he is doing? After I said I was a puppeteer, he already started  It was a great show.¡±

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    "Yunique, thank you for your demonstration. Next, let's follow my instructions with everyone."

    The teacher signaled to Ye Weishi that not every student is a genius, so take your time.  She nodded her fingers, and Ye Wei nodded lightly.  The teacher continued to demonstrate: "Now, imagine that your hands are lifted up by the thread, above your head, and your arms slowly straighten -"

    The students raised their hands in accordance with the instructions. The person who looked and acted the most like a puppet was Ye Wei.

    Teacher Rochelle walked around to help find and eliminate those students who had unnecessary nervousness. She walked around, looked at Ye Wei for a few times, said "very good" and walked away.

    genius?  Ye Wei prefers a saying, no pain, no gain.
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