But the real progress is actually far from being as simple as Yin Lian imagined.
After all, she is not an actor, nor is she a real child, so the way she tries to make them understand the character is very unprofessional. Although in Xia Guo, it was basic work for the director and actors to discuss roles, most of the people Yin Lian communicated with were adult actors. In fact, she has no in-depth communication experience with real child actors.
Yin Lian tried to make children understand the characters, but in fact, children are full of emotions and their expressions are more direct and strong. When a general director tells a play to children, he or she will probably not go into too much detail. He will only tell them how to express it, but not why.
Many directors also have this attitude towards adult actors, but this approach is obviously not as efficient as Xia Guo's, so Yin Lian naturally believes that Xia Guo's guidance method is better.
But after actually trying it, the situation was much different from what was expected.
Children have the performance characteristics of children. Their emotions are more abundant and enthusiastic, which will lead to many times when their performances can be played or not.
After the newly installed training system was turned on, the children's sadness was quickly transferred and they began to be excited to try new things. Yin Lian asked Yin Changsheng to imitate many functions of this system. It was basically a relatively low-level imitation version of Xia Guo. There was no innovation and it could be completed directly by AI.
The hardware is also directly used from the Xia Kingdom. After all, although the functions are simple, it is still far beyond the level of the earth. The current domestic hardware facilities are not to say incompatible, and the performance cannot keep up.
As of now, this system only has a few functions. It can detachably display the Xia Guo film provided by Yin Lian, project a designated character image on the user and simulate muscle groups, and set up scenes and passerby models.
Yin Lian used VR as an excuse. If today's truly top VR technicians saw this facility, they would probably be very shocked. But for them to realize how big the technical gap is, it is impossible to know without dismantling the facilities and studying it for a year or two.
If you really need to study the finished technology for a year or two and figure out its structure and principles, then it will not be far away from being developed.
Generally speaking, although many people here will say how many years a certain black technology is ahead of its time - in fact, this is said from the perspective of a person in the future. Just like the agricultural age to the industrial age, it can be two thousand years, which is the distance of time. It can also be one hundred years, which is the distance of one leap. But it can also be six years, which is the time to complete the six years of middle school and high school. The length of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry can even be a month, which is how long it takes for a genius of the era to read a series of professional tutorials.
The gap between technology and the times is only the difference between what can be cracked and what cannot be cracked. The technology that took two thousand years to develop does not mean that it will take two thousand years to crack it. In fact, Yin Lian even suspected that by locking the technology spanning two thousand years in a room with ten brothers and providing enough resources, she would be able to harvest a complete set of technical information in a month.
It only took Changsheng less than half a year to learn optical brain technology. Now he can modify and manufacture some Xia Guo's instruments and machinery. Although they are still relatively basic equipment, Changsheng is not a person who is good at scientific research. He is just an ordinary middle school student.
Well, maybe not that ordinary, but still just a middle school student.
Therefore, even if Yin Lian installed such a complete set of training equipment for child actors, he would not be afraid of being suspected. If it is used internally, it will probably take a long time for the ordinary people present to realize the special nature of this set of equipment. And now this incident is changing every day. Who can guarantee that the VR technology is not the current technology of some high-end research institute? What about normal levels?
Of course, Yin Lian still has to work hard if he can control the situation. Therefore, she also tried her best to strengthen the security system to ensure that no one could easily access or steal the relevant information of the training system.
In fact this is not difficult. Yin Changsheng added a permission system to the system. Without permission, these devices cannot be used at all. Yin Lian only set permissions for the children, and after her explanation, these children understood that these are confidential technologies and cannot be leaked to the outside world.
Ordinary children might still worry about keeping secrets, but the experiences of this group of children have made them far more wary and better at keeping secrets than ordinary children. Yin Lian still trusts them on this point.
After entering the training system, a group of children were very excited when they discovered the realistic video world, but soon they became depressed again when they noticed the surrounding background.
Yin Lian let them try to play Chen Tong and Tian Guo one by one.
As a result, she quickly discovered the problem.
Except for Luo Gu, whose performance was relatively layered, the other children's performances obviously had some problems. Their emotions are a little too intense and their performances a little too over the top.
... Many times, Yin Lian feels that their anger outweighs their pain and desire. She felt that this kind of performance was not right, but she couldn't get any specific clues. In the end, she had to ask a hired acting teacher for help outside the venue.
After all, the acting teacher was more professional than Yin Lian. After learning about the character and plot in detail with Yin Lian, he quickly understood the problem and started giving guidance.
"You are too angry and resentful here."
"But it's really annoying!"
"Although it is indeed annoying, you have to think about this from Tian Guo's own standpoint. She should be more scared than angry at this time. And for Tian Guo, she has been treated like this Treating you for a long time. For example, if your father beats you and you scream in pain, he may not be able to bear it and stop. But if he is a person who beats you harder and even happier the more you scream in pain, Are you willing to cry out your pain to him?"
The girl was silent for a while and asked, "If I cry out in pain, maybe others will hear me?"
The teacher said: "No one else can hear her. Even in Tian Guo's opinion, many people will not come to save her if they hear her."
After hearing this, the children suddenly started thinking. The teacher began to guide them bit by bit, allowing them to understand and feel the characters' situations, their emotional changes, and the reasons for various actions. Through such guidance, the children gradually grasped the specific logic, and their performances became restrained and measured.
Yin Lian watched the teacher's teaching method from the side, but he benefited a lot.
After one class, Yin Lian said to the teacher: "Thank you for your hard work."
But the teacher said: "Miss Yin, I think if you want to film a movie, you don't need to deliberately let them understand the cause and effect of the script and the character of the characters. Children's acting is like this, and there is no need to explain too much. They are not yet able to control it. At their own emotional age, sometimes they know it but don’t know why, which is the most suitable performance state for them.”
"It's actually not good to arouse their emotions like you do. For example, the average adult's feelings are only three points full every day. If they are at their fullest, they may be nine points. And for children, their emotions are only three points full. Emotions will always be at a level of 7 to 10, and if they are emotionally excited, they may even overflow. Their emotions are much richer than adults, so they are often more expressive, but at the same time, if the emotions are too intense, it will not performance, but hysterical.”
After hearing this, Yin Lian paused and said, "But I think you guided me very well."
The teacher said: "It's also very laborious. In a scene like this, I want them to perform the effect that the director wants. Normally, it may only take ten minutes to talk about the play. But like this, I will break it down bit by bit and explain it in detail. First, Not talking about whether the director has the patience during the actual performance, just talking about efficiency. I just talked to them for more than half an hour, and it took more than an hour to adjust their performance. You told them the plot before, it should be It takes a lot of time...the price/performance ratio is too low.”
Yin Lian said: "Let's not talk about the cost-effectiveness issue. I just want to ask, in the long run, which method can improve their acting skills better?"
The teacher was silent for a moment and then said: "In the long run, teaching them how to think about characters may not necessarily improve their acting skills, but it can indeed help them learn how to think about characters and improve their acting skills. But Miss Yin, the cost of this is not low. Not only the money, but also the time cost.”
Yin Lian said: "It doesn't matter, I have money and can afford it."
Then she said to the teacher: "Teach them this way. I did this film not to make money, but to breathe out. If I can breathe out, it will be worth whatever money I spend."
The teacher didn't understand what Yin Lian meant, but in his heart he felt that the children were lucky. He thought about it and felt that there was no harm in Yin Lian doing this.
When he was first invited to teach these children, the teacher actually felt that Yin Lian was doing useless work. After all, as things have developed so far, these children can be said to have completely lost their commercial value. Where are the beautiful children? But being labeled like that almost means that if they don't change their appearance, they will be viewed with colored glasses throughout their lives.
But when it came time to actually teach, the teacher actually changed his mind. He hadn't watched many children's movies, so he didn't know whether these children were already naturally gifted, or whether they were stimulated to unleash their potential and work harder. Later, he went back to watch some of Peter Pan's original film and television dramas, and found that there were some who were particularly talented in acting, such as Luo Gu. However, other than that, there were also people whose acting skills were very immature. He could only say that if he persisted, he would gradually become better. It can be tempered.
But when he started teaching children, things were completely different.
This group of children showed extraordinary efforts and emotional empathy. Perhaps because they experienced this extreme experience, their understanding of the world has changed quite profoundly, and all of this has actually changed their motivation in study and life, as well as their in-depth understanding of performance. At that time, the teacher really felt that it might be the right choice for Yin Lian not to give up on them.
If they can maintain the current rate of progress, then when they get a little older, everyone will definitely be called an outstanding actor.
Of course, he was also very emotional about the environment that Yin Lian provided for the children. Yin Lian's own acting ability is actually average, but she has put a lot of effort into cultivating these children, regardless of the cost. In this kind of environment, even ordinary children can develop professional acting skills, not to mention this group of young actors who are somewhat spiritual in the first place.
The teacher himself doesn’t really believe that there are truly selfless philanthropists in the world, but what Yin Lian does is really like the kind of rich man in a legendary story, the one who saves the protagonist from danger, and even helps people in danger. A life mentor who re-establishes his outlook on life and his belief in survival.
Because he admired her in his heart, when he was teaching, he also sighed a few words to the children in private. Some of the children responded, while others did not speak, but their hearts were somewhat affected, and their hearts were filled with gratitude for Yin Lian. Most of them did not live in a simple environment in the past, but after all, this age has just reached the time when they have established their own world view and outlook on life. Their lives have undergone a 180-degree reversal. However, in this process, Yin Lian did not appear, and even Yin Lian made some mistakes. A different choice will lead their future to another unpredictable path.
But Yin Lian made such a choice, which made all the children here, in this long and short time, no matter whether they were simple or snobbish, fragile or dark, full of unwillingness or cynical world view and outlook on life, It's like being washed away by waves of waves, slowly fading away from the various colors stained by it, becoming pure and clean, yearning for and relying on the goodwill of the world.
During this process, Yin Lian organized the entire script and asked the teacher to explain it to the children one by one, analyze and interpret each character, and then help each person establish this character. She does not let each child choose a role, but lets everyone try to play each role, understand their hearts, understand the differences between the roles, perform them, and then learn from the way they and their friends perform. Discover their strengths and weaknesses.
She also gave a copy of the script to Hu Silin and Yue Anqing.
After Hu Silin saw the script, she responded to Yin Lian on the first day, saying that she had read the script but could not give her thoughts for the time being. Within the next week, she read it over and over again, and never started writing a biography. About a week later, she confessed when the two were dating: "I like every character in it...but Yin Lian, I don't think I can play them well."
Yin Lian comforted her, told her not to belittle herself, and then told her her arrangement.
She had originally planned to let the young actors come into contact with people who had experienced similar experiences to the people in the story.
After hearing this, Hu Silin was stunned for a while, and then said solemnly: "I'm going. Although I think I might feel uncomfortable after watching it... but I want to play the role in the story well."
In contrast, Yue Anqing's reaction was much more intense.
She said: "Are comedies bad? Why do you all like such heavy plots? I think the plots in which everyone makes fun of the bad guys are very interesting. Can't we change the script and delete all those annoying plots? ?”
Yin Lian didn't know who she was talking about, but she didn't intend to spoil Yue Anqing - she had always been ruthless towards this girl, so she said directly: "If you like acting, just don't want to act. There is no need to change the script. Possibly, who do you think you are?”
Yue Anqing: "..." she said, "I want to show it to my mother first. My mother will have to let go of the film and television dramas I want to participate in recently."
Yin Lian sneered: "...you deserve it."
After all the preparations were completed, Yin Lian finally started filming the drama. She did not rush to direct it herself. The director chose a big shot she knew well. When the other party heard about this, he was initially very disapproving and was not prepared to agree. Later, after being persuaded by Yin Lian, he reluctantly read the script. His attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, and the contract was quickly signed.
When we were preparing for the shooting, a little bit of news leaked out, and the Internet exploded at that time. After all, the previous incident happened not long ago, and many people don’t think these children should come out again.
Suddenly, everything is available online. Some people say that Yin Lian couldn't bear to use the victims to make money so quickly, and he just planned to eat steamed buns with human blood. Others are sarcastic, even directly attacking and disgustingly insulting the victims, classifying them as the ones they are selling.
Yin Lian had long known that the scum would become arrogant when they were among the crowd, so it was no surprise at this time. He reported them all as soon as he turned around, and everything was quiet.
At this time, Yin Changsheng's handheld console was about to be released. Several waves of demonstration effects were released in the early stage, and the public response was very great. "Magic New World" is still in production. Yin Changsheng only released the promotion of the handheld console and the first game, which is "Messenger of Destiny", and even held a press conference specifically for it.
At the press conference, Yin Changsheng mainly showed three functions of the game. One is the driving mode, the other is the first-person perspective, and the last one is the time management mode, which caused an uproar at the press conference.
