Basic knowledge of acting skills
The verisimilitude of film and television performances on the screen is often achieved under great assumptions in real shooting. What are the basic knowledge about performance? Come with me to take a look at the basic knowledge about performance. I hope it will be helpful to everyone!
1. Eliminate tension and relaxation in the body
Before an actor starts performing, his muscles must be in an appropriate state. Only in a relaxed state can he produce normal thinking, gradually gain the correct experience, and clearly express the inner life of the character, so that Inner emotions flow freely to the outside. In other words, creative freedom cannot be achieved through unnecessary tension. In order to eliminate tension, relax the body, restore instinct, and liberate nature, students majoring in performing arts perform the following exercises and games:
A Game of musical chairs: Four people grab three chairs and guess the leader? Let one person leave , the rest of the people nominate a leader, and everyone will follow his actions, and then let the people who left out come in to guess who the leader is.
B Puppet practice: Relax your whole body, stand with your feet apart and parallel, and let your hands hang down naturally. You feel like a puppet, and each part is manipulated with threads. Lift your hands up, slowly open your fingers, and try to move as far as possible. Lift up, then the thread breaks, and lower your hands down piece by piece. The head, neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, thighs, and calves are all relaxed. Finally, you fall to the ground, like a cat lying on the beach, with your whole body very relaxed.
C Zoom exercise: Stand with your feet apart, control your strength starting from your toes, slowly go up to your calves, to your head, face, and all parts of the body, from your fingers to your palms, that is, your entire body becomes tense. , his face tightened, and his eyes widened, assuming that he was a very proud and great person imitating a lion, in a very powerful state.
D Shrinking exercise: Contrary to the resting exercise, slowly relax step by step from head to toe until you shrink into a ball on the ground, like an ant eager to get into the cracks in the ground. Find this kind of shrinking at this time Physical feelings, such as cold, hungry, dark, etc.
2. Practice without real objects
To correct the problems of beginners who are prone to being overly nervous, lack of belief, lack of concentration, lack of imagination, etc., first practice without real objects and Simple movement exercises. Why do exercises without objects? When doing exercises with objects, many actions are instinctive and pass by naturally according to the mechanical nature of life. The practice of action without physical objects is another situation. You have to focus on every smallest component of the big action. The absence of physical objects will prompt you to pay more detailed and deeper attention to the nature of physical actions.
Examples of practice questions: killing chickens (ducks), making dumplings, washing (drying) clothes, cooking (eggs), killing fish, cooking fish, repairing lamps, cleaning glass, lighting stoves, fishing, cleaning ( Repairing leather shoes, sewing (ironing) clothes, repairing bicycles (pumping gas)
3. Simple action exercises for a certain purpose
There are three elements in dramatic actions. If it is just? Just? What to do? (Task), movement for the sake of movement itself cannot become art, and it does not conform to the reality of life. If you act with ), you will actually sit down, enter the door, say hello to everyone, stand, etc. If you act with purpose (i.e. why?), action with a task and purpose is the artistic action needed in drama, and it is also in line with the authenticity of life.
A is sitting: 1) For Take a break. 2) To hear what is going on in the next room. 3) Sit in the waiting room and wait for the doctor to see you. 4) To protect the sick or sleeping baby. 5) To read a book, read a newspaper or cut your fingers. 6) To think about the problem. 7) To observe the surrounding situation.
B comes in: 1) To see relatives or friends. 2) To live in isolation. To avoid unpleasant meetings. 3)4) To peek into the room.
C greets everyone: 1) To express welcome. 2) To show one's superiority. 3) To express closeness, intimacy, and kindness. 4) To win favor, to flatter.
D Stop: 1) In order to hide yourself from others. 2) To wait for your turn. 3) Don’t let anyone go. 4) To express one’s protest or grievance.
E walks around: 1) To kill time. 2) To think about or recall something. 3) To warm yourself up. 4) In order to hinder the rest of the neighbors or tenants downstairs.
4. Simple actions specify three elements of situational action
In the following "what if" and in the specified situation logically derived from it, do the specified action.
1) When? Suppose it happens during the day (clear sky, cloudy day), summer (clear sky, thunder, spring (cold, warm)), winter, autumn (clear sky, showers)
2) Where? On a ship, on the deck, in a cabin, on a passenger ship, if it happens on the sea, on a lake, on a river (north or south) on a cargo ship. In cities, in rural areas, in various houses, in your own home, in the homes of relatives and friends, in strangers' homes, in hotels, theaters, factories, streets, squares, etc.
3) For what purpose? To scare people, to make people feel pity, to seduce people, to make people angry, to get angry, to arouse sympathy, to gain friendship, to cause conversation, to attract the other person's attention, to teach people, to comfort people, to call people. Happy, embarrassing, embarrassing, etc.
Simple movement exercises
1) The movements must be organized in a real, accurate and delicate manner, and have a basis in life;
2) It must be gradually developed and enriched with regulations Situations, events, and conflicts;
3) It is necessary to develop artistic imagination and have a certain interest in life and visibility.
Performance exercises: poking a hornet's nest, catching mice, going to the wrong door, returning, catching butterflies, searching, reading at night, crossing a single-plank bridge
5. Sensory performance exercises
Sensory performance exercises include human hearing, taste, smell, skin, etc. The presence or absence of feelings in performance creation is an important indicator of the quality and depth of the performance. Only by mastering the external sensations can we gradually and deeply grasp the internal physical sensations, psychological sensations, subtle emotional sensations and emotional sensations.
Requirements: The performance must be real, the feeling must be accurate, delicate, vivid, and full of image, life and details. It is necessary to have simple prescribed situations, develop artistic imagination, and use emotional memory. Waiting for the car (wind, rain, snow, spring, summer, autumn, external sense practice: eating fruits (sour, sweet, bitter, astringent, spicy); looking for people on the barren mountains in hot summer (heat, thirst, hunger, fear, skin Itching, pain, burning) winter)
6. Propositional improvisation
Propositional improvisational performance practice is an important means of cultivating actors' understanding, imagination and expressiveness in performance. When students improvise ideas at the designated time, they must mobilize their understanding of life and accumulation of life, and use their artistic imagination; when performing, they must mobilize their emotional memory, sense of belief, sensibility, emotion and expression, which is a comprehensive training performance Elements and a great way to transform life into art.
1) Environmental proposition exercises: photo studios, drink shops, restaurants, dance halls, outside cinemas, parks, woods, caves, bookstores, hospitals, post offices, supermarkets.
2) Prop proposition practice: suitcase, photo, umbrella, letter, kite, headscarf, birthday cake, bottle of wine.
3) Prescribed situation proposition exercises: before a date, New Year's Eve, lost while camping, graduation eve, after being stolen, long separation, enemies on a narrow road, wisdom arises from haste, good news comes, self-defeating, sorrow and joy.
4). One-sentence proposition exercise: ? Ridiculous date? Never do it again? The happiest moment?
5) Single-person proposition exercises: mother’s birthday, college entrance examination notice, return from prison, before going abroad, discovering that the home has been stolen, confession in front of the cemetery, going to the wrong house on a date, visiting a doctor on a rainy night, wedding Before (lover changes heart)
6), two-person proposition exercises: farewell, recognition, dating, retention, comfort, recognition, interview, chance encounter, breakup, reconciliation, debt collection, care, revenge, connection, Welcome, visit, expel, obstruct.
7) Multi-person task practice: pick-up, birthday, photo taking, reunion, shelter from rain, list reading, camping, getting lost.
7. Animal and human imitation exercises
In addition to excessive and false problems, beginners can’t let go and are not confident. Therefore, we must help them overcome their undue mistakes. Self-esteem, shyness, shyness, liberating nature, restoring instinct, and allowing students to do animal imitation exercises are of great help in cultivating actors' creative freedom, bravery, determination and innocence. Animal imitation exercises use human-like techniques to capture the most important characteristics of animals' activities in various situations. Not only do they look like and have the right form, but they also express their demeanor to achieve physical expression and imagination. Training with faith. This kind of practice can cultivate meticulous observation, realistic imitation, rich imagination, physical expression, psychological similarity, and also cultivate a sense of humor. The practice of imitating characters can start with familiar people around you and gradually transition to imitating celebrities, great people, leaders, etc. You can also imitate clips performed by famous actors. This kind of imitation can cultivate the actor's external expression and ability to capture character traits.
Here are a few examples of students majoring in performing arts practicing animal imitations:
1) Cat and girl: A girl and cat living on the street, homeless, They became a family, looking for food in the trash can together, and each found their own delicious food; the cat was very hungry, and the girl fed the cat with her own food; at night, they found a sheltered corner, and the girl held the cat in her arms. sleep.
2) Eggs hatching chickens: The hens who hatch eggs go out to look for food when they see that the chicks have not hatched yet. The two chicks gradually developed inside the egg shell. The little rooster's head came out and finally squeezed out the egg shell. The hen grew up, and the little rooster tried his best to squeeze out the egg shell. When the chicken heard the little rooster crow, he couldn't wait to come out. He tried his best to peck open the egg shell, and finally squeezed his head out from the crack of the egg, which was wet. With his head shaking due to the wind, the little rooster came to help and finally came out. The hen came back from looking for food and saw only egg shells. She screamed anxiously and suddenly turned around and hid the chicks behind the tree without fear. The hen screamed happily and put the food in front of the chicks. The chicks were not afraid of the food. . The hen happily spreads her wings and holds the chicks in her arms.
3) Dependent on each other: A 70-year-old man and his dog were in a hut. The dog was eating, and the old man was sitting on a wicker chair reading the newspaper. The old man had a heart attack and wanted to call the dog, but he vomited blood and died. The dog ate all the bones. The old man brought a pipe, thinking that the old man was asleep. He brought bed sheets for the old man. He smelled blood and asked for medicine. He yelled at the old man crazily and failed to respond. He banged on the door frantically and dragged the old man from his chair. At the door, exhausted, he hit the door again and hit his head on the door frame. His head bled and he was about to die. He sobbing and crawled towards the old man, lovingly licked the blood from the old man's face and mouth, and lay down on the old man to die. There are many more animal-like exercises of this type, so I won’t introduce them one by one.
8. Passionate performance practice
Passionate performance is divided into two types: one is the actor's creative passion, which refers to the actor's psychological state when entering creation. The other is character, that is, the passion of the character. The actor uses internal and external techniques to create the character's emotions and emotional high points - passion. Passion is the breaking point of emotions and emotions in life, and often has strong artistic appeal and impact. It is also an effective means to show the development of character and personality and to show the theme of the plot. Creating excitement is one of the important skills in performing arts. Passion is not about forcing emotions or strong external actions.
Passion must rely on the enrichment and exploration of character-defined situations, especially internal and spiritual situations, on the emotional memory of life and life, on the stimulation and promotion of positive actions, on real and immersive communication with opponents, and on The gradual accumulation of situations, moods, and emotions. And all this must be tempered through various exercises:
1) Passion caused by death information: suddenly receiving a letter or phone call that a relative has passed away; rushing to the hospital morgue to say goodbye to relatives; going to the cemetery of relatives Deep condolences?
2) Passion caused by great joy: the joy of happiness on the eve of marriage; the joy aroused after realizing a wish and receiving an admission notice; the ecstasy aroused by winning a huge lottery prize in poverty; The great joy that comes from a successful career.
9. Dialogue performance practice and wordless performance practice
Dialogue practice is not a simple dialogue practice, but to organize prescribed situations, organize character actions, especially inner actions, and explore subtext, The communication performance practice of inner monologue is based on specific character relationships and the deep meanings between lines, developing rich artistic imagination, richly exploring prescribed situations, and organizing a series of actions and conflicts. These dialogues can conceive of different plots and styles? Comedy, drama, tragedy, and even tragedy:
The subtext in a drama has much richer potential meanings than the lines. The characters' different personalities, rich emotional worlds, and strong psychological movements are often hidden behind the lines. Only by exploring the subtext and finding the rich psychological actions between lines can the spiritual world of the characters be expressed. The important role of dialogue practice is to explore subtext, psychological actions, and predetermined situations in the foreground and background. In artistic creation, there is often a state where "silence is golden". Although there is not a single line of dialogue between the characters, they are full of rich and profound subtexts, inner monologues and prescribed situations. This requires strong imagination and conception skills, especially the ability to create situations prescribed by characters, especially situations prescribed by the mind. . For example; a pair of lovers silently say goodbye before saying goodbye; another example is a pair of lovers silently walking towards death before committing suicide; another example is like returning from prison, speechless. Without saying anything, a series of actions conveyed the prescribed situation in the past, and finally they left silently, leaving both of them filled with emotion. The wordless performance actually replaces verbal actions with external actions and psychological actions, suggesting many... ;