Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and others participated in the first Parkour competition. When they came back to China, both troupes had already started.


    Although they are neither directors nor actors, as their own projects, Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui are more interested in these two groups. After returning to Huaxia, Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui went to their respective troupes to care about the shooting situation and progress of the troupes.


    In this TV drama group, Xiao Yao is neither a director nor an actor. As a producer, he doesn''t need to stay in the production group every day, so after a few days in the production group, he found that the production group was running normally, and the shooting progress and materials were basically satisfactory. Xiao Yao stopped going to the production group and let the students play.


    In film and television colleges, students majoring in performance usually have to rehearse a graduation play in the second semester of their senior year as a report performance when they graduate. This is an important task for the students of performance department in the last semester, but it is not absolutely impossible to be absent. Basically every year, some senior students will be absent from the graduation drama because of filming outside.


    The graduation performance of the performance Department of the three universities usually attracts many professionals in the industry to watch, which is also a rare performance opportunity for those graduating seniors. If a good performance can leave a deep impression on the teachers of the school and the elders in the circle, it will be very good for their future development. Therefore, the rehearsal of this graduation drama is very important for senior students, especially for the students who are not very famous.


    Generally speaking, students majoring in performance will not miss the opportunity to show graduation dramas if they have not received the more important roles in the drama group.


    Normally speaking, Xiao Yao had planned to ask for leave to attend the rehearsal of graduation drama. However, because the crew is running normally, there are special personnel from the film and television company responsible for other things outside the crew. Xiao Yao didn''t take over his job recently, so he went back to school to rehearse the graduation drama.


    In the film and television industry, there are few opportunities for new people to come out. In addition to Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui, who have become famous since childhood and have deep family background and contacts, it is very difficult for ordinary senior students to get a significant role in good film and television projects. Therefore, the number of students absent from the graduation drama due to filming is quite limited every year, and the proportion is relatively fixed.


    In terms of Xiao Yao''s fame, resources and strength, the school did not expect Xiao Yao to participate in the graduation drama. However, even if Xiao Yao unexpectedly went back to school to arrange the graduation drama, it could not make up for Xiao Yao''s loss to this year''s graduation drama.


    All the actors of Xiao Yao''s TV drama group are senior students of Shen opera. The crew started up in May, and they couldn''t finish filming before graduation. There is no supporting role in the play, but the six main characters will appear in almost every episode. Some of the minor supporting roles and long Tao may also take into account the graduation drama of the school. All the six leading actors asked for leave because of the drama and missed the rehearsal of the graduation drama of Shenxi.


    When choosing actors, this crew selects students who have good professional ability but are relatively not well-known and have no resources or background. That is to say, if Xiao Yao doesn''t start this TV drama project, all the actors of the six leading roles will participate in the graduation drama. Because of Xiao Yao''s TV play, the graduating students of the performance Department of Shen opera lost six main actors, basically a whole play.


    Of course, the school hopes that the students can have a good development after graduation, become famous and successful in their career. Compared with performing a stage play for hundreds or thousands of people in the school auditorium, it is obviously better for them to play a leading role in a TV play that can be broadcast on TV and website. Therefore, the school welcomes and supports Xiao yaokai''s project to find students from the school to play a leading role in the play, and is happy to see its success.


    However, since Xiao Yao came back to school to rehearse, the teachers of the performance department naturally took this as an excuse to put a heavier burden on Xiao Yao, a former director.


    Graduation drama is a very important thing for senior students of performance department in the second half of the semester. They began to prepare for it very early. However, due to sufficient time, there will be constant improvement and correction in the process of rehearsal, and the whole play will not be determined very early. When Xiao Yao returned to school, it was in the middle of May, and there was still more than a month to go before he graduated from the drama. Xiao Yao originally wanted to ask the instructor of a graduation drama to add a role and let him join in. However, no one from the teacher of Shenxi wanted Xiao Yao to join in, instead, he asked him to arrange another play.


    Let Xiao Yao arrange another play means not to find another instructor to arrange a play for Xiao Yao, but to let Xiao Yao act as the director and arrange the play himself.


    Of course, the school is not unable to arrange another teacher to guide Xiao Yao temporarily, but who told Xiao Yao that he had been a director, won awards for short films, and achieved good results in long films? The school will take this opportunity to embarrass Xiao Yao again, or give Xiao Yao another chance to show his evil spirit.


    Xiao Yao played drama with sun Zhihao when he was more than eight years old. At that time, he was already an adult with excellent memory. At that time, he observed how Sun Zhihao became a drama director. At the beginning of last year, Xiao Yao played two stage plays when he took part in "the sound comes to the scene". In particular, the rehearsal of the final sound show has been following the great director Xu Changrong and has learned a lot. Xiao Yao is still confident in arranging a graduation play.There''s no problem with the writer and director. In terms of time, it''s not a big problem to arrange another play in more than a month, but the problem is that Xiao Yao is nobody! Can''t Xiao Yao be allowed to play a one-man show on his own? As for Xiao Yao''s question, the teachers didn''t put Xiao Yao in any more trouble.


    The number of students in the performance Department of Shenxi opera is almost the same as in previous years, with 48 students in all. Judging from the situation in previous years, the number of students who are absent from the graduation drama of Shenxi opera is in single digits every year. There are about 40 students who participate in the graduation drama. They are usually divided into six groups, with six plays arranged, and each play has about seven actors. This year, because of Xiao Yao''s group, six actors were missing, so one play was lost. The number of actors in each play is still the same as in previous years.


    Because there were only five plays in the preparation period, this year, Shenxi arranged five teachers to act as the tutors of the graduation drama, and the other teachers had other work arrangements, which was another reason why the school let Xiao Yao do the rehearsal by himself.


    Now there is still more than a month to go before graduation. With seven to eight actors, it is not much more difficult to reduce one role than to increase one. Now let Xiao Yao arrange another play, and the instructor of each play agrees that each play group will produce an actor, and Xiao Yao will form a new play group.


    Although the graduation drama is to show students their own performance, the instructor will try to balance the parts of each role, but no drama can achieve the same number of parts of the role, there will always be the leading role and supporting role, and there is no way for each student to have a gap in the parts.


    In a play, the protagonist is definitely more difficult to move than the supporting actor, so the student actors given to Xiao Yao by several instructors are all the supporting actors with the least parts in several plays.


    No matter what the academic performance or professional level, they are all those who have studied in the Department of Shenxi performance for four years. No matter how poor the level is, it''s just a graduation drama. It''s not a commercial performance. It''s all an experience to perform well. So Xiao Yao didn''t pick it up, so he accepted it all.


    For those students who have been adjusted, Xiao Yao''s professional level as a director may not be as high as that of the school''s instructor, but he is at least a director who has won awards for short films, won high box office for long films, and scored well. Besides, Xiao Yao is famous and well-known. It''s not possible to change from a supporting role to a leading role. Even if he is still assigned to a supporting role, playing in the graduation drama with him may also get more attention. Therefore, those students have no opinions about being pushed to Xiao Yao. On the contrary, they are excited and looking forward to it.


    A month''s time is not short or long. After discussing the redistribution, Xiao Yao got the list of actors given to him by the instructors, and immediately called these people to the rehearsal classroom assigned to them to meet them.


    Of the five, only one is Xiao Yao''s classmate, and the remaining four are students of the other two classes. However, they are all students of the same department. Even though Xiao Yao has been in school for less time than others because of his work, after four years, his classmates are still familiar with each other. After the meeting, we didn''t spend too long to exchange feelings and discuss the graduation drama.


    To rehearse, the first step, of course, is to have a script.


    Xiao Yao is the director of this graduation drama, and he is naturally the screenwriter. Before meeting with these students, Xiao Yao thought about what story he would play, but he didn''t plan to complete the script one by one. Instead, he planned to work with the students who played in the graduation drama.


    Before I came to meet Xiao Yao, the instructor told the students that Xiao Yao was the main actor in the graduation drama, and Xiao Yao was the director and screenwriter himself. Xiao Yao is sure to be a director, but we have no objection to Xiao Yao''s script creation with them. It''s said that Xiao Yao only prepared a story outline. To listen to their opinions, we felt happy in our hearts. At the same time, we listened to the story outline Xiao Yao told them very carefully.


    The play Xiao Yao wants to perform in the graduation drama is the story of "donkey gets water" in his previous life. After Xiao Yao told you the outline of the story, everyone was very interested in the sad and absurd realistic story. They agreed that it was much more interesting than the graduation dramas in front of them. Of course, there was no objection to the collective approval.


    Since the students have no opinions on Xiao Yao''s script outline, the next step is naturally to get down to business and start to improve the script and rehearse.


    This time, Xiao Yao wrote the script with the actors who are going to play the play, so he didn''t adopt the script writing mode of the previous TV play. He called the writing team to hold a meeting to brainstorm, gathered everyone''s wisdom and ideas, improved all the details of the script, and then proceeded to the next step. Instead, he discussed the script while rehearsing, and performed according to everyone in the rehearsal To improve the details of the script.


    The previous life''s "donkey gets water" is a commercial drama in the theater, and its duration is also the length of a commercial drama. The graduation drama of Shenxi performance department is just a stage play. The whole graduation drama only takes about two hours to perform. To perform six graduation dramas, only one graduation drama takes about ten to twenty minutes, which is only one sixth of the original drama of previous generations. Therefore, compared with the original version, the graduation drama version of "donkey gets water" has a very big gap.What Xiao Yao likes is this humorous and absurd story. He doesn''t really need to restore all the details of the previous life story, and the number of actors is not the same. It''s impossible to restore a commercial drama of the previous life with a student''s graduation drama. So from the beginning, Xiao Yao didn''t copy the original drama of the previous life, but only took the core of the story and changed it into a comparative drama A shorter story.


    Although Xiao Yao has seen the original drama and movie of his former life, it is still difficult to reduce such a story to one sixth of the time. It took Xiao Yao and his five classmates two weeks to work out the details of the play and complete the final play.


    After confirming all the details of the story and completing the whole script, everyone put all their energy into rehearsal. It took another two weeks for us to rehearse the graduation drama to a basic level.


    A month later, the graduation drama is very close to the performance time. Rehearsing in the rehearsal classroom is different from rehearsing in the theater. At this time, everyone''s rehearsal venue has been transferred from the rehearsal room to the school theater where graduation drama will be performed in the future.


    At this point in time, several other graduation drama troupes also arrived at the stage of on-the-spot rehearsal in the school theater. All six troupes have to rehearse on the spot. Of course, the theater can''t be monopolized by any one troupe, so it can only be used in turn at different times. On average, each crew can only use about two hours a day.


    However, at this time, everyone''s graduation drama has taken shape. There is no need to discuss and revise the script while rehearsing. If rehearsal can enhance the tacit understanding, the time for rehearsal in turn will be enough.