Since the continuous popularity of Spring Festival movies such as "Hot and Hot", "Article 20", and "Flying Life 2", filmmakers from professional classes such as Jia Ling, Lei Jiayin, and Shen Teng have shined on the screen, which has injected a powerful shot in the arm for countless students in the acting department. Many teenagers have dreams of stardom and have thrown themselves into the arms of performing arts. Every year, the application scene for the performance departments of China's top art universities, such as Chinese opera, Beijing Film and Shanghai opera, is extremely hot, and the competition is as fierce as that of thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge, and the actual admission rate is often as low as 1%, reflecting the extremely challenging and attractive field of performing arts. Today, the examiner will take a look at a series of related questions about the enrollment of the acting department.
The concept of performance
The performing arts have a long history, spanning Eastern and Western civilizations, whether it is the glory of ancient Greek theater or the inheritance of ancient Chinese excellent actors, all of which reveal its profound historical accumulation. With the development of the art of cinema, acting has extended to a unique way of interpreting the screen. In short, performance is the artistic process of creating and presenting characters through multiple means such as language, expressions, and body movements, covering multiple branches such as drama, film and television, dance, sports, and costume display.
Undergraduate level of study
At the undergraduate level, the curriculum of the performance major is rich and diverse, and the core courses include the teaching and practical practice of basic knowledge such as performance theory, line skills, physical training, and vocal skills. Senior students can improve their performance ability and comprehensive quality in an all-round way by participating in various stage plays, film and television works, radio dramas, physical creation performances and variety shows.
Learn what kind of qualities are required for acting
Talking about the characteristics of people who are suitable for studying acting, Zhang Hui, dean of the School of Performance of Beijing Film Academy, believes that ideal candidates should not only regard acting as a shortcut to the life of a star, but should have a lasting passion for performing arts and a firm career pursuit. He emphasized that the acting career is not glamorous on the surface, and the efforts and hardships behind it are unimaginable to ordinary people, and only love from the bottom of their hearts can support them to stick to and develop in the industry.
Nowadays, some well-known art schools have begun to adjust their enrollment strategies, no longer paying too much attention to the physical conditions of candidates, but instead focusing on exploring their emotional perception, sense of humor and other internal qualities. For example, the Acting Department of the School of Drama is committed to selecting students with unique personalities who do not adhere to conventional aesthetics, just as there is a diversity of roles on the theatre stage.
In reality, many candidates with star dreams do not fully recognize whether they are suitable for performance when they sign up, and are often eliminated in the preliminary selection. The head of an acting department bluntly said that higher education resources are limited, and it is impossible to accept all students who aspire to the entertainment industry, and there is not the only way to succeed.
How about employment
For acting graduates, they can seek development opportunities in a diversified cultural industry environment, and work as actors, hosts, production assistants, planners, animators, agents, models, teachers, public relations specialists, and many other roles in television stations, theaters, film and television production companies, publicity departments, and various cultural and artistic institutions. It is worth noting that the acting industry has its own life cycle characteristics, so it is important to plan your career in advance, and whether you can become a professional actor or even a star needs to go through the double baptism of tempering and opportunity.
Looking back on the experiences of previous successful alumni, such as Chen Kun, Huang Xiaoming, Yao Chen and others, all of them have gradually gained industry recognition and audience love after long-term unremitting efforts and painstaking accumulation. At present, there are 171 colleges and universities in the country that have opened undergraduate majors in acting, among which the performance departments of Chinese opera, Beijing Film, Shanghai Opera, People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, China Academy of Drama, Communication University of China and other colleges and universities are particularly famous.
Application Guide
Candidates who apply for the acting major not only have to take the college entrance examination for cultural courses, but also need to pass the strict screening of the professional examination. The professional examination consists of two parts: the provincial unified examination and the school examination, and the content and form of the school examination of each university are different. Taking Beijing Film Academy as an example, in the 2014 admissions examination, two major links were set up: the preliminary examination and the re-examination, covering recitation, improvisation, vocal body comprehensive test, line performance comprehensive test, and new art history, social general knowledge oral examination and other content. The admission rules reflect the principle of attaching equal importance to candidates' professional skills and cultural literacy, not only focusing on professional rankings, but also requiring them to reach a certain score line for cultural courses.
In the selection process, the school focuses on three aspects of students: first, the external image and temperament, which not only considers the beauty in the general sense, but also pays more attention to the candidate's unique temperament and role shaping potential; second, intrinsic qualities, such as self-confidence, authentic emotional engagement, and the ability to grasp hypothetical situations; The third is artistic skills, including the comprehensive assessment of the four modules of body, language, vocal music and performance. This rigorous selection process is designed to explore students' artistic potential, while also providing a platform for them to experience the charm of performing arts and showcase their talents in the examination room.
Seniors who have had experience in the examination room shared some valuable experiences. As Zhou Dongyu once mentioned in the interview, when the examiner interrupts the candidate's performance, the candidate does not need to be disappointed, but should understand that this is a signal that the examiner quickly captures the candidate's expressiveness. In addition, when responding to impromptu requests from examiners, responding calmly, accurately comprehending and quickly integrating into the situation are the keys to demonstrating excellent adaptability and solid performance skills. Such wisdom in the examination room undoubtedly provides valuable reference and inspiration for those who come after it.
Undoubtedly, the stars in front of the screen shine so that countless students of the acting department undercurrent, every student who applies for the acting department must have performed countless times on stage to receive awards in their hearts, although the reality is very cruel, but it does not affect generations of young people with dreams of applying for the Beijing Film and playing, no one would have thought that the most glorious woman standing in the Spring Festival movie file is Jia Ling, who was so ordinary 10 years ago, so who is the most beautiful boy 10 years later? Generations of young people are going forward to pursue, dreaming, looking forward to, and making a dream that is innocuous but haunting their souls. This is the power of cinema, and this is the power of filmmaking. We can only wish you that every person who pursues your dreams in the future can shine and heat up on the screen.