I was just thinking about taking the arts exam and you said I've been playing supporting roles

Chapter 14: First time on stage, amazing performance! [4500 words]

Li Xian!

A top domestic actor who will be very popular in the future.

He became famous for starring in the phenomenal TV series "Dear, Loved" with Yang Zi, and successfully became one of the top stars. He also starred in "Go Where the Wind Is" with Liu Yifei and was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor.

This person appeared many times in the future autobiographical movies that Chen Jin watched.

It’s not that he is famous, but that he took the same art exam as Chen Jin, and was also a repeater, but failed the first year.

So the future Chen Jin will pay special attention to him.

It’s like a template that can be learned. If others can repeat the grade and pass the exam, then I should be able to do it too.

And then... no more.

But what is different from the impression in Chen Jin's video is that Li Xian is now a little fat and dark. It's not that Chen Jin is narcissistic, but he is not as handsome and fair-skinned as him. I don't know if he had some plastic surgery or his fame made him famous.

Chen Jin could only attribute it to the latter.

But celebrity plastic surgery was a normal practice in 2010, let alone in later generations.

"Did you hear what mom said?"

Su Wanyu couldn't help but ask when she saw Chen Jin looking curious.

"I heard you, don't worry!"

"Definitely take it!"

Chen Jin said with confidence that Su Wanyu couldn't bear to hit him and was determined to win. She just pricked up her ears and listened around, and almost all the students around her who were taking the art exams took pre-exam training classes.

I don’t know how long I took to train for the poetry recitation in the preliminary exam of the art examination.

Given his son's level, no matter how much Su Wanyu thought his son was a genius, he was not so conceited that he could defeat these people.

There is a huge difference between attending class and not attending.

Otherwise, why would his students come to school?

As a teacher, Su Wanyu understood this better, so she tidied up Chen Jin's appearance and said nothing.

Squeak!

The door of the examination room suddenly opened, and a group of handsome and beautiful candidates, both men and women, walked out one after another.

Different from the good spirits they maintained when they first entered the school, many candidates looked dejected and probably did not perform very well.

Chen Jin looked at the time and knew that it was time for their group to enter.

Sure enough, a teacher at the door was shouting, "Candidates No. 3180 to 3199, get ready!"

Chen Jin stood up immediately. His test number was 3198.

Li Xian also came to his senses and found that he was in the same examination room as Chen Jin. Each examination room, regardless of gender, could only hold 20 people. The examination lasted for 1 hour and everyone had to go on stage to recite a poem.

That is to say, a candidate has a maximum of 3 minutes for the initial test.

This includes introducing oneself, standing up, etc., and time is still very tight.

"Son, come on!"

Su Wanyu encouraged Chen Jin again, and other parents also cheered for their children.

Chen Jin smiled, made an OK gesture, took a deep breath, and walked into the art exam classroom.

"Face to face, 10 people sitting on each side, no test number required!"

An examiner who was already sitting in the examination room was talking. There were two teachers sitting on his left and right. If nothing unexpected happened, he was the main examiner, and the other four should be the four grading teachers.

They are acting, vocal, dialogue and body shape teachers.

The final total score of the five people is the candidate's preliminary examination score for the art exam.

Except for the chief examiner who gives an overall score, the other four teachers only give individual scores, 10 points each.

So the total score is 50.

They sat in the middle of the back of the examination room, with a large empty area in front of them where they would go on stage. Chen Jin sat on the left side by the window, and by coincidence, Li Xian came up to him.

Number 3180!
He will be the first to go on stage, and Chen Jin will be the second to last.

At this time, after the students came in and sat down one by one, Chen Jin began to observe the five examiners.

He was unfamiliar with the four teachers, but very familiar with the examiner.

In his future autobiographical film, Chen Jin's several art examinations will have the same scene, but the examiner is not the same. The examiner for his first art examination was the vice president of the Beijing Film Academy's Performance School.

The second time was Yang Mi, yes, that Yang Mi...and this time, I experienced it myself, and the examiner was actually Huang Lei!
The actor who played the leading male role Lu Bu in the film "Lü Bu and Diao Chan" directed by the famous director Chen Kaige.

Chen Jin didn't expect that the other party was actually a teacher at Beijing Film Academy?

This role left the deepest impression on him.

It seems that in the future autobiographical movie, this teacher is also very famous. He participated in a variety show and made the future Chen Jin laugh so hard that she had a stomachache.

There is also a popular meme: "How can these beans be old? They are so great."

Because there are more and more candidates for art examinations in each session, more examiners are needed. Major art examination schools such as Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama will call many teachers and even outstanding graduates to the school to serve as examiners temporarily.

Before entering the examination room, candidates have no idea who the examiner is, which greatly eliminates cheating.

Of course, there is room for maneuver here, but it is relatively not easy.

Beijing Film Academy is recruiting 120 students this year. In addition to those who have been selected internally, there are also many second-generation film stars who have used backdoors and those with vested interests. Only about half of the places are left for normal students.

So for ordinary art students, you have to be good enough to get into the top three. No wonder some people say that the probability of getting into the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing Film Academy and Shanghai Theatre Academy is similar to the college entrance examination, which is even harder than 985.

Indeed, in the art industry, these three colleges are comparable to Peking University and Tsinghua University.

"Starting from No. 3180, each person will have a maximum of 3 minutes to take the test!"

"You know the test questions, right? Poetry recitation!"

“No restrictions on subject matter or genre!”

Chief examiner Huang Lei looked at the 20 candidates sitting on both sides and said, "Let's start. 3180, come to the stage and only state your height and weight. Don't report your name or admission ticket number!"

Swish!
Li Xian, who was sitting next to Chen Jin, stood up immediately with his back straight.

He didn't seem too nervous, probably because he had taken the test once before. Instead, he was somewhat confident and walked to the center of the stage with a relaxed look on his face.

"Hello, teachers and examiners. I am candidate No. 3180, 185cm tall, and weigh 75kg!"

"The poem I'm going to read is 'When You're Old' by Yeats!"

This is a very classic foreign poem. The Chinese version was later adapted into a very famous pop song, which was performed on the Spring Festival Gala, with Mo Wenwei as the lead singer.

"When...you are old!"

"Hair... gray!"

Li Xian recited with full of emotion in a rhythmic manner.

It can be seen that he has some basic knowledge of vocal music and lines, so many candidates listened very carefully.

Comparing myself there.

Very stressful.

The first person to go on stage was so amazing that many people in the following rows became nervous.

It is said that the first person to go on stage is the most unlucky. In fact, if you meet a powerful person, he doesn’t care whether he is in front or behind. Instead, those who are behind will have more pressure, which leads to poor performance.

That's pretty much it now.

Li Xian is worthy of being the top star in Chen Jin's future autobiographical movies, and he does have some strength.

But... Chen Jin was a little confused.

Because he felt that Li Xian's poetry recitation was just like that, and it might be better if he went on stage to read the poem.

Really, this feeling is strange.

He just felt that Li Xian could be even better, for example in terms of breath, tone, and emotion... You know, reciting poetry is not something you can just do casually.

It includes the four basic aspects of performance: voice, stage, actions and expression, so you can be smart in choosing poetry for the art exam.

In other words, some poems are not suitable for art examinations.

On the contrary, some are very suitable.

Li Xian must have attended a performing arts class, and this poem was specially chosen for him by his teacher. It is a poem that can bring out the four major strengths of art exam candidates: reputation, stage presence, and performance.

Because it’s easy to understand!
As long as the art candidate understands what the poem means, he can perform better.

And "When You Are Old" is a poem describing emotions.

As long as you imagine the mood of the song when you read aloud, and read it out with that warm and sincere emotion so that the examiners can resonate with it, then you will succeed in this preliminary examination.

But Li Xian's reading was just average in Chen Jin's opinion. He had some strength, but not much.

"Next!"

Chen Jin heard Huang Lei's words, but found that he seemed to be quite satisfied with Li Xian just now?

"Strange, it's obviously not that good..."

Chen Jin muttered to himself, feeling Li Xian sitting down beside him, and he let out a long breath.

He looked very relaxed when he went on stage just now, not nervous at all, but in fact, he was just pretending.

How could you not be nervous?
This was his second time taking the exam, and the pressure he felt was actually greater than that of the candidates who were taking the exam for the first time.

"Hello, examiners and teachers. I am candidate No. 3181..."

"..."

The second person to go on stage was a girl. She recited Pushkin's "If Life Deceives You", but Chen Jin frowned as he listened.

too poor.

The breath, the rhythm... even the vibrato, it's obvious that he's nervous.

"Fuck, this is what happens after attending the art exam class?"

"Isn't it?"

Chen Jin was really a little dumbfounded. He always thought that the art exam class was an awesome place. After the training, he probably thought that the students’ abilities would be similar to his, right?

I didn't expect the gap to be so big.

The value of the rewards from this old system has increased infinitely!

Chen Jin felt a little inflated. He actually felt a little bit resentful about not attending the art exam class. But after seeing the performance of the second and third candidates, he began to doubt whether these people had worked hard.
It shouldn't be like this if I read a poem over and over again for half a year, right?

But in fact, this is not the case.

Reading poetry also requires talent, and this talent is the voice, stage, and expression.

The sound is natural.

Lines need to be practiced.

Body shape and performance require more practice.

This is why Beijing Film Academy always includes poetry recitation in the preliminary examination of the arts examination every year.

Reading poetry is not that easy in the eyes of experts.

One by one, the candidates went on stage. Except for Li Xian, Chen Jin didn't feel that anyone was better than him. However, he didn't look around. Instead, he sat up straight and listened very attentively.

His back was very straight, his neck was neither too high nor too low, and he had a smile on his face the whole time.

There was no way, there was a camera right in front of him.

The entire process is being recorded.

When entering the examination room, you should pay attention to your appearance.

You are not allowed to make weird faces or laugh at others. Any small action will result in a point deduction.

Chen Jin looked up relevant art exam information. The moment they entered the waiting area, different people were watching them from all directions, so they had to stay positive at all times.

Although I don’t know whether it is true or not, it will definitely go right if I do it.

Soon, more than half an hour had passed and most of the candidates in the examination room had finished the exam. Chen Jin had been maintaining the same posture and his whole body was actually very relaxed.

He was confident to begin with, and after listening to the previous recitation, he basically had an idea of what to expect in the art exam.

This is like a graduated actor coming to take an arts exam, with a sense of déjà vu of a dimensionality reduction attack.

Chen Jin's previous premonition was not wrong. His current ability was similar to that of many young actors. He could even hear the flaws and some shortcomings in the recitation of art exam candidates.

Finally, after candidate No. 3197 finished reading, it was Chen Jin's turn to go on stage.

Hearing Huang Lei's voice, Chen Jin stood up very quickly. Huang Lei glanced over and smiled at him.

An expert will know if there is one as soon as he takes action.

With just one glance, Huang Lei could see Chen Jin's strength.

He interviewed almost 100 candidates today, and Chen Jin's standing up gave him the best impression.

Natural, relaxed, without any tension at all.

This is the state an actor needs most, and Chen Jin looks good too.

A physical education teacher next to her also raised her head slightly. From the moment Chen Jin stood up to the moment she stood in the center of the stage, she seemed very confident; not too fast or too slow, her steps were straight and her rhythm was good.

This is a good physical foundation, and you can tell at a glance that he has practiced it.

"Hello, teachers. I am candidate No. 3198. I am 180cm tall and weigh 70kg!"

The candidates who had their heads down almost all raised their heads at the moment Chen Jin introduced himself.

This sound... is so beautiful.

Very catchy.

Clear, crisp and articulate.

There was a kind of sunny quality that was unique to Chen Jin's youth, coupled with his white-toothed smile when he introduced himself. Not only the teachers facing him, but even the female candidates who could see his face couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

This smile is very lethal.

"The poem I want to recite is Teacher Ai Qing's "I Love This Land"!"

Another detail.

Few candidates will add the teacher.

"..."

Huang Lei suddenly leaned back in his chair, clasped his hands across his chest, made a starting gesture, and looked like he was about to listen.

The other teachers are apparently in the same boat.

This treatment surprised many candidates.

This is discrimination.

Other candidates and examiners do not have such rich body language.

But they all knew that the reason Chen Jin was treated differently was because of his voice and self-introduction.

If you are like him, so will the examiners.

Moreover, the poem chosen by Chen Jin also surprised the candidates.

"I Love This Land"?
This is a song that the art exam teacher strictly prohibits!

Didn’t this guy receive any art exam training?

An 18-year-old high school student cannot understand such a poem with profound connotations.

Foreign poems about love, friendship, etc. are the first choice. Although this poem by Ai Qing is very famous, many people chose it because of its fame, but those who can read this poem well are basically older people.

Therefore, if you choose this song during the art exam, it means that it will be almost impossible to get performance points, and your body shape and lines will also be deducted.

"You haven't started yet?"

After watching Chen Jin introduce his poems, many people fell into silence.

Obviously don't understand.

Huang Lei and the others seemed very patient. This poem was indeed difficult to recite, and Chen Jin was right to do so.

Build up your emotions instead of just…reading them out loud right away.

Poetry needs to be brewed.

The candidates didn’t understand, but the examiners and teachers saw it very clearly.

Chen Jin's facial expression, hands, and so on, all began to change in accordance with the poetry recitation.

This candidate... is quite amazing!

Huang Lei glanced at the application form No. 3198, which had Chen Jin's name on it... and a blank resume.

"You don't have any hobbies?"

"Still not writing?"

Huang Lei narrowed his eyes and heard the voice of Chen Jin reciting in his ears.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the expressions of many candidates sitting there obviously changed again!
(End of this chapter)