How to perform cross talk well?

1. Know the meaning of the words

Before a crosstalk actor learns to speak a crosstalk, he must know the meaning of the crosstalk work. You must know the theme and character ideas of the work. The theme idea is the problem that the author wants to illustrate through the work. Character thoughts refer to the thoughts of the characters created in the work. The characters created by the author in the work are all alive, with thoughts and personalities. Actors must not only know the theme and character ideas, but also the meaning of each line. This is the first question in speaking well of a cross talk.

2. Pronunciation must be true

As a crosstalk actor, you must have smart articulation. Crosstalk is the art of laughter and language art. No joke is inseparable from rapping, learning, or speaking. Therefore, it requires actors to pronounce words truly and each word to reach the audience's ears so that the audience can hear it clearly before they can laugh. If the audience can't hear clearly, they won't be able to laugh. You cannot ask the audience to listen and ask others at the same time: "What did he say?" The person replied: "I didn't really hear it either." This will affect the effect. The enunciation of words is not true, like "cutting flesh with a dull knife." Some people advocate that "one word must be ruthless". I don't think you can pronounce words harshly. If you pronounce words too harshly, it will make people uncomfortable to listen. Why do crosstalk actors practice "tongue twisters"? It is to train the lips, teeth, teeth, tongue, and throat, and to accurately pronounce the four tones of flat, up, go, and enter.

3. Pronunciation must be accurate

Crosstalk actors must pronounce accurately. Pronunciation mainly refers to the accuracy of the five tones of the lips, teeth, teeth, tongue and throat. Crosstalk actors use Dantian pronunciation. Although they are not required to have a good voice like opera actors, they must also be able to speak and sing. They must have sufficient Dantian Qi and a beautiful voice. They must be pleasant to speak and tasteful to sing. In the past, not many people had good voices, because singing had to be done in vertical tones and horizontal tones. In addition, due to the pressure of life at that time, one had to speak seven or eight sections a day, which meant that the voice was in horizontal tones, which meant that it was exhausted. In the 1930s and 1940s, there were only a few people with good voices who learned opera, drums, miscellaneous songs, and songs, but not many sang. Nowadays, many jokes are spoken and sung, which requires actors to have a good voice. Learning cross talk requires not only practicing enunciation, but also practicing pronunciation. The voice must be beautiful, pay attention to the soft and heavy notes, high and low notes, try to speak the right tone, make the words pleasant to the ear, avoid strange sounds, strange tunes, sharp sounds, and explosive sounds, and don't make the audience uncomfortable. . When you sing, you have to make the audience want to listen.

4. Breathe evenly

Crosstalk performance art, without drum accompaniment, seems to have no rhythm. In fact, this is not the case. No matter what is said in cross talk performance, there is a rhythm. Crosstalk is based on the breath as the rhythm, and the breath should be even so that the audience can listen happily.

When speaking a straight-laced joke, you need to breathe evenly, like a paragraph in "Geographical Map" with more than 100 place names, which must be spoken continuously. The main thing is to be able to use breath, steal breath, exchange breath, and control the breath. Evenly, speak it like a broken pearl, and the pearl falls on a jade plate, so that the audience can applaud. A Guankou has its own content. For example, the cross talk in "Vitamin" has three sections. The first section is when the waiter announces the name of the dish, which includes chicken, duck, fish and meat. This section is based on "Reporting the Name of the Dish". The second paragraph is about the family stir-fry that the second brother wants to eat. This paragraph must be said beautifully so that everyone will want to hear it and eat it. The third paragraph talks about the nutrients of these dishes and introduces them to the audience. The audience felt that these words were very knowledgeable and pleasant to listen to, so they cheered up. These three passages are designed based on the content. The mouth is like this. It is not the job of the mouth to design the air port well. If the breath is uneven, if you speak fast, the audience will be busy, if you speak slowly, the audience will be breathless. The enunciation must be true, the pronunciation must be accurate, and the breath must be even, all three must give the audience a beautiful feeling.

5. The tone must be right

Tone expresses feelings and is divided into high and low, fast and slow, and serious. The same sentence, if the tone is wrong, the meaning changes. For example: Person B broke a tea bowl. A asked: "Did you drop this tea bowl?" B replied in a low tone and slowly, with the emphasis on the word "I"; "It was me who dropped the tea bowl." He dropped the tea bowl. If the B tone is high, spoken fast, and the emphasis is on the word "fall", it will become a rhetorical question "Did I throw it?" This tea bowl was not thrown by him.

Crosstalk actors each have their own tone, but when talking about crosstalk, they must use the tone of crosstalk, otherwise it will not sound like crosstalk. The characters in the cross talk each have their own personalities, and the characters' emotions are also diverse. Crosstalk actors imitate characters to speak, and they must have the right tone, that is, they must express the characters' emotions accurately. If the tone is wrong, the character's emotions will change, and the baggage will cease to sound. For example, the ending of "Yi Guandao":

A: Fortunately, the old lady is dead. If she is ill for another two months, my daughter-in-law will have to be beheaded! The old lady is dead, and the daughter-in-law is crying! B: Are you still crying for her? A: Where is it? She (pointing to her leg) hurts!

In the last sentence, the stress of the word "pain" was changed to a soft one, and the tone was slow, and the baggage stopped shaking. Therefore, actors must express their tone accurately.

6. Move steadily

Crosstalk is a performing art, which requires actors to move calmly and accurately. When performing crosstalk, movements assist facial expressions. The purpose of using gestures is to guide the audience's eyes to the actor's facial expressions, so that the audience can see the look (eyes) and image of the actor's facial expressions. The actor's hands cannot move or make random gestures, which will dazzle the audience, as this will affect the expression. The actors fanned randomly and made random gestures, which also affected their expressions. If you are new to cross talk, it is better to learn "Japanese Gua Dar". You can practice gestures so that you have room to put your hands. Gesture actions are designed according to the content and are ever-changing. The body posture should make people look beautiful. You must stand firmly on both feet. If you stand unsteadily, it will be like stepping on lotus roots, which will make the audience busy and confused, and they will not like to listen. It can be seen that crosstalk performance movements, no matter how big or small, require calmness and accuracy.

7. Simulation of important tasks

Simulation is "learning". The performing art of cross talk is narration interspersed with character dialogue, and character dialogue interspersed with narration. This artistic characteristic determines that crosstalk performance is inseparable from simulation performance. There are several characters in a crosstalk. The crosstalk actors do not put on makeup, but rely on language, style, and imagery to bring the characters to life. How to bring characters to life? It means to grasp the characters' personality characteristics, use exaggerated performance methods, simulate the characters' speech, expression, and movements, and bring the characters to life in front of the audience. The audience can feel the character's expression, identify the character's personality, and feel the truth from the actor's words, expressions, and likeness, which arouses laughter. This is just like a cartoonist drawing a cartoon portrait of someone. He first grasps the characteristics and uses an exaggerated technique to draw it in just a few strokes. Then I asked people to take a look and they found out the real thing. In fact, the features were outstanding.

Singing 叏 means singing while speaking, speaking while singing, and it is also inseparable from simulation. When learning how to perform as a Peking Opera actor, you mainly learn the genre's singing, expressions, and movements. The most important thing is to imitate the characters in the opera.

It’s about talking in a foreign language, learning the pronunciation of dialects, and learning how to speak like people from which province. Not only do you need to learn the dialect pronunciation, but you also need to carefully portray the character's personality based on the content.

It is very difficult to perform character traits in cross talk, so to simulate it means to work hard on the simulation. When I say hard work here, it is indeed very hard. As long as you carefully observe the personality characteristics of various people in life and then practice hard, you can perform well. If you are separated from life and don't work hard, it will be difficult to perform well.

8. It is necessary to carry the baggage

The baggage is cunt, which means that when cross talk actors use artistic skills to shake off the baggage, they must master every inch of energy. The art of cross talk performance requires mastering the slowness and pause, the delay is slow, the speed is fast, the pause is pause, and the inch is vigorous. Senior artists often remind you: "It's the end, hold on even an inch." The end is the end, and the end is when you hold on tight. A cross talk has a lot of baggage, and the ending is a big baggage. If the baggage at the end is not shaken off, this cross talk will be in vain. Therefore, actors are required to be tight-lipped when speaking to the end. This inch of effort doesn't work if it's too fast or too slow, or if the pitch is wrong or the pitch is wrong. It must be just right. Not only do you need to have a good grasp of your strength at the end, but other tasks also require the same. Not only does it require the baggage to be large, it also requires the baggage to be accurate. This time I’m going to talk about it, I’m going to throw away the baggage, and next time I’m going to talk about it, I’m going to have to throw away the baggage again. If it vibrates loudly this time, if it doesn't vibrate next time, then it's Bao Bao'er's fault.

9. To support each other

To cooperate is to support each other. A means teasing, B means praise. A and B must cooperate well in order to make a good cross talk. In the past, when I learned cross talk, I first learned to tease, and the teacher would praise me. Since the jokes were taught by the teacher, of course they cooperated well. Once you learn how to tease, you will naturally know where to compliment someone. Both A and B must master the sound of shaking the baggage. Shaking off the burden can’t just be about teasing, praise is also important. If you can't master the high and low notes of Peng Ke, and if you can't shake the bag when making fun, the audience can't burst into laughter. Those who are flattering are slow and slow, and those who are funny are not quick and slow. If they should speak slowly, they will speak quickly and rush to talk, or if they should speak quickly, they will speak slowly and stop breathing. This is a burden. Can't shake. Therefore, if A and B cooperate well with each other, this is the key to a good cross talk. A senior artist said: "If you work together for three years, you will make money if you don't become popular." This sentence emphasizes that A and B can make money even if they don't become famous by working together for a long time. A and B have been cooperating for a long time, studying and studying art together, learning from each other's strengths and complementing each other's weaknesses. After the performance, they constantly summarize their artistic experience, and their cooperation will become better and better, and they will be able to achieve artistic achievements.

10. New styles

There are various styles and genres of crosstalk performing arts. No matter what style or genre, it must give the audience a fresh feeling. Achieved artists try to be as different as possible in their jokes and performance art, thereby creating their own unique style of art genre. Beginners should first learn according to the teacher's teachings, which style and genre of art they learn, and the art they perform will be that style and genre. However, he should not stop at the styles and genres he has learned. He must inherit the genre and develop the genre. He must improve and innovate the jokes and performance styles he has learned, try to be as different as possible, and create his own unique style and art genre. Creating an artistic style or genre is not just a matter of learning it, nor is it just one or two new jokes. That requires the guidance of famous teachers, diligent study and hard practice, the courage to practice, and hard study. More importantly, he must not leave the audience of the times, because cross talk is for the audience, and the audience plays a decisive role in whether they appreciate the artistic style and genre. Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with the development of productive forces and modernization construction, great achievements have been made. 1.1 billion people have solved the problem of food and clothing. After enjoying material life, they also demand spiritual enjoyment. The enjoyment of beauty that people require is diverse. Men, women, old and young each have their own beauty needs. You like this, he likes that, each has his own hobbies and tastes. Some young artists have adapted to the beauty needs of today's audiences and created their own unique artistic styles and schools, which have made them popular among the audience. It is hoped that young artists will continue to reform and innovate with the development of the times, not to stay at a certain artistic level, but to constantly break through the existing artistic level and reach a higher artistic realm.