After getting Shidi at the start

Chapter 24: Self-cultivation of Actors

Since they decided to go to the audition two days later, in order to avoid the trouble of running around, they simply found a hotel nearby and stayed here for another two days.

Then Li Mingji started retreat in the hotel room.

To be honest, it is a bit unrealistic to want to improve how much acting skills in such a short period of time.

Li Mingji wanted to set aside more time to summarize his filming experience these days.

After all, failure is fucking success. Watching my performance from the perspective of a bystander, discovering problems, and then finding ways to solve them must be helpful to improve my acting skills.

However, although there are a lot of materials shot in the past few days, he has seen them all. After reading them again, it is difficult to find new problems. In the end, he can only summarize his own characteristics.

If the predecessor had three major flaws in his acting skills, including facial paralysis, staring, and roaring, then the current Li Mingji can be said to have no skills at all in his performance, and it is all about emotion.

How did you say that word?

"Original ecology" is basically the best way to summarize it.

Of course, the original acting skills of some characters are worthy of praise. For example, if a director wants to shoot a rural scene, he directly finds a few uncles in the village to play himself, which is better than a real performance.

But some roles cannot be measured by realistic standards, and it depends on the actor's own control.

If the acting is too far removed from reality, it will appear exaggerated, and if it is too close to reality, it will easily make people feel that it does not fit the original work.

So why some male actors with good acting skills are in a mess when they play the bully boss in idol dramas, it is because they can't grasp this degree.

And Li Mingji's original ecology is different from these. He has no acting skills like those who perform in his true colors, and he is just as incapable of grasping the scale as those who act badly.

In the end, the performance can easily become a poor imitation, because he is actually acting according to a certain type of role in his own impression.

After all, there are special competitions for imitation, so it can be seen that it is not an easy task.

Although in the last few scenes of the crew, his performance was passable, but on the one hand, the director of this kind of idol drama has low requirements, so he can do passable, and on the other hand, he found some roles by mistake, Some are substituted in.

But if you switch to a new play and a new character, it's impossible to get the original one.

After quickly flipping through the "collection" of his last role, Li Mingji summed up the gains and losses, and immediately began to invest in the new role, which is the next highlight.

In fact, when neither Brother Wang nor Xiaoguang could see it, Li Mingji had already studied that script in private these days.

He is also considered ignorant and fearless, and he is not afraid of splitting himself. He plays one role during the day and studies another role in the room at night. The key is that these two roles are really quite different.

He has even written some biographies for the role of the bodyguard, which he forgot where he read it from, the habits of some acting schools in his previous life, he doesn't know how those people's biographies are written, anyway, he thinks Come.

Acting is a kind of self-expression of an actor, and it can also be regarded as a kind of creation, so just like writing, to stand a character, you must first give him a personality.

The so-called personality of a character is what he will do when he encounters something, and what he does is in line with his performance, making people believe that this is the character himself. This is in the script, and he just needs to express it as much as possible.

Where he can express himself lies in some daily habits of the character, including some small movements and small expressions, such as raising the little finger unconsciously when holding a cup to drink water, such as rolling eyes and raising eyebrows.

These things will not be in the script, but through the character's experience and lines in the script, his character can be deduced, and according to this character, these details can be matched.

This should be often used by the method school, and the experience school will also show it unconsciously. It can be said that the acting skills have reached a certain level, but in fact the same goal is reached by different routes.

People with good acting skills are often those who win in the details, just like some people will only stare when they are surprised, while others can act with a sense of hierarchy from surprise to thought and then to relief.

"Although this character looks paralyzed, his heart is actually quite rich." This is Li Mingji's personal understanding of the role of bodyguard after reading some content of the script.

In the play, he does not actually have a name, or his name cannot be tested. Since he joined the security company, he has only one code name, "No. 2".

He was once an elite in the army. He was obedient to the core, but he was also proud of the things he was good at, such as shooting and sneaking.

According to the setting in the play, before he met the heroine, he was a cold person because of his past experience; but after meeting the heroine, he would start to laugh, just like a robot, smiling very stiff.

He will also do things that look straight but are actually gentle...

"I can write it, but how will I perform it?"

This is a big problem. As he was writing, Li Mingji suddenly felt that he had written this role too deeply, and it was not easy for him to act.

In this regard, he has absolute self-knowledge, and will not be as confident in himself as his predecessor.

So the question is, should we continue to follow this understanding and try to improve ourselves, or delete most of it and only take some superficial things?

"First of all, facial paralysis is still facial paralysis. I just keep a straight face like this, occasionally frowning... Don't stare! Don't stare! Don't stare! Say important things three times...

"Then the eyes are a little dull. I should be able to do this. I usually seem to be quite dull. I just try to show it in front of the camera. It looks like I'm in a trance, but I'm actually listening. It's like doing two things at once.

"After completing these two points, add some small actions that I personally understand—he is from the army, so he will have some habits, such as walking, sitting, and talking more properly and loudly. Of course, it depends on the occasion..."

Li Mingji suddenly realized that there were quite a lot of things he could think of, and after adding these, he began to act out a few passages facing the script and the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the room, which looked quite similar.

Of course, you can't put all your energy on this. When you relax appropriately, you can also read some books and change your mind.

Connect theory with practice...

In the previous life, because of Zhou Xingxing, many people who didn't understand acting skills and art could just read "The Actor's Self-Cultivation" by Stanislavsky, but many people knew this author and this book. book, but few people have read it.

Some people may even think that this is just a stalk in Zhou Xingxing's movie, but they never thought that it also exists in reality, and the status is quite high.

This book can be regarded as a classic of the experiential school, and it almost clarifies the performance concept of "experiential school".

Although Li Mingji didn't want to take the route of experience school, there is no harm in reading books as a reference.

In addition to this book, Li Mingji also searched for many books related to acting, including several other works by Stanislavsky, some books on acting introductory, and even the complete works of Shakespeare!

To be honest, Li Mingji has never been exposed to so many professional books. Even when he was studying, he covered various subjects.

So it is no wonder that some people say that the time when a person has the most extensive knowledge may be when he is in high school, because after college, he chooses a major, and after entering the job, he basically has to specialize in a line of work. Isn't it the most extensive knowledge after high school?

(End of this chapter)