Composition Skills (IV) —— The Guidance and Excellent Examples of Dramatic Composition Writing

Drama is an art in which actors play roles on the stage and publicly perform stories. The basic elements of drama are contradiction and conflict. Reproducing the life of social struggle through the concrete stage image can arouse the audience's strong emotional reaction and achieve the purpose of ideological education.

Second, drama and composition.

Drama is one of the four major literary styles (four major literary styles: novel, prose, poetry and drama), and it is a popular literary genre. Usually I ... children often like to say "there is a good show" when they meet something they are interested in. The "drama" here is the colloquialism of "drama", which shows how popular drama is.

Composition is an article that students write a certain number of words and reach a certain level according to certain requirements within a specified time. At present, the composition in the examination room is basically no longer restricted in style, and can be written as narrative, argumentative, short story and drama. Therefore, there is a certain relationship between drama and composition, that is, drama is a style that can be used in our examination room composition, that is to say, we can use the style of "drama" to "add points" to the composition.

Third, what is a "dramatic" composition?

The so-called "dramatic" composition, we might as well define it as: a composition written in dramatic form.

Four, "drama" composition writing matters needing attention.

First of all, we must understand the characteristics of the script.

Due to the influence of time and place, people, scenes and plots should be highly concentrated, and there should not be too many people and too many clues in the story. Contradictions and conflicts must be reflected in a short time and on a few occasions. At the same time, there should be sharp contradictions and conflicts, which can express the character and attract the audience.

Secondly, the elaborate design of drama language, including character language and stage description.

Character language should be highly personalized and expressive. It can not only accurately and vividly express the thoughts, feelings and intentions of the characters, but also conform to their identity, personality, age and specific environment. At the same time, it requires clarity, pleasure and subtext. Stage description is an explanatory text written at the beginning and end of each scene and in the middle of the dialogue, including the list of characters, time, place, costumes, props, scenery, expressions and actions of characters, etc. It has many auxiliary functions, such as rendering the stage atmosphere, setting off the characters' emotions, showing the characters' personalities and promoting the development of the plot.

Third, there should be sharp dramatic conflicts.

In real life, people's conflicts due to differences in class position, political views, social status, cultural literacy and living environment are reflected in drama, which is drama conflict. Drama conflict is mainly manifested in the character conflict of the characters in the play, and the character conflict is reflected in a series of actions. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully design a visible external body movement and an invisible internal movement for the characters.

Example 1. Street photos

There are beggars and pedestrians in front of a supermarket on Sunday. ")

There is a plastic washbasin in front of the beggar, which contains fragmentary coins and Mao Piao. )

First, a pair of lovers

A pair of sweetly dressed lovers walk side by side. )

Woman: Do you have any coins?

M: Why?

(The woman is silent, pointing at the plastic basin in front of the beggar with her chin. )

Without saying a word, the man took the bottle and threw half a bottle of drink into a plastic basin, which smashed it.

Sound, the coins in the basin "applauded". )

Beggar: Thank you.

(Men and women smile at each other. )

Second, a few young people

(A few young people, laughing, smoking, talking and laughing. )

(Young A takes out his cigarette and looks at the beggar. He generously takes out one and throws it into the basin. )

Youth B: (glancing at Youth A) What a waste! A cigarette is more than one yuan!

Youth c: exactly.

Xiaoding: It's called "love", understand?

A group of young people walk away with a smile. )

Third, the elderly and primary school students.

An old woman is leading a pupil who wants to pay money. )

Grandma: (Stop at once) Silly boy, this is all a lie!

Student: How do you know?

Grandma: (no answer, just talking to herself) What's wrong with begging at such a young age?

(The old man pulls the pupils away. )

Student: (looking at the beggar) He is missing a leg.

Fourth, mothers and children.

A young mother and a little girl of three or four years old. )

Mother took out a coin and motioned for my daughter to put it in the basin. The little girl skipped away. )

Little girl: Mom, he has no shoes?

Mom: Hmm.

Little girl: What does he need money for?

Mom: Eat.

……

(Mother and daughter go away. )

Voice-over In a dedication of love, various roles appear one after another. ...

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In a few words, the different values of people of different ages are vividly described. There are not many pictures full of life, so familiar and unfamiliar. The language is concise and vivid, and the action description is vivid.

Example 2. Four-act drama

I am a student of Chinese department. The professor assigned a special assignment, watched four short plays and wrote a paper, which will be handed in tomorrow.

Set yourself up as a China student at school, which means that the following author will take this as a unique perspective to examine "the answer is colorful")

Act I: Situational dialogue

Background: A muddy country road, a quiet stream and a few messy stones.

A: What's the scenery like here? Rainstorm, path, stream, stone!

There are many things here. Grass grows on the roadside, songs are hidden in the stream, flowers are laughing by the stones, and rainbows are hung after the rainstorm. ...

The end of the play ...

I concentrated on thinking and wrote in my notebook: in fact, any scene in life is beautiful. I think beauty is keen eyes, keen thinking, and more importantly, a heart full of love and hope. Just as: life is not a lack of beauty, but a lack of discovery.

Act II: Half a doughnut

Background: In a small restaurant,

At a table, there are two people sitting face to face. There is half a doughnut in every plate in front of them.

A: Alas! Oh, my God, there's only half a doughnut left. (A looks helpless)

B: Oh, my God! That's great. There's half a doughnut. (b looks happy)

The end of the whole play

My notebook left my clear handwriting: optimism and pessimism are actually two states of life. Optimists see hope, pessimists always see disappointment. In the journey of life, optimists always look forward, rush forward and stride forward; Pessimists always look back, stay where they are, and even go back in panic. Just as an optimist will still say how beautiful the flower is after being stabbed by a rose, a pessimist will say how rotten the flower is when he sees the thorn. I choose the beauty of roses, so I choose the former.

Act III: What is the brightest thing in the world?

Background: Senior three, who has just returned from the countryside, is listening to a philosophy teacher. There is a line on the blackboard-what is the brightest thing in the world? Some people say it's the sun, some people say it's the light when the atomic bomb exploded, some people say it's the laser ... The classroom is full of arguments. An educated youth stood up and said that he had been walking on a dark and muddy road for a long time on a rainy night when he suddenly saw a light like beans in the distance. The audience was silent.

The play is over.

Something is surging in my heart. Thinking of Ba Jin's "Lamp", it seems that the warmth that can be felt at that time is gradually becoming real. The brightest light in the world is actually the light of human nature, just like that caution lamp, just like that bean lamp. Warmth is everywhere, warming oneself and others. It's like giving someone a rose, and the hand has a lingering fragrance.

But I didn't see the fourth act. That's enough. These three scenes moved me all night. I handed in my paper in the morning and put forward my own questions. The elegant professor smiled. The feelings of watching the three plays are varied and the answers are colorful. While you are writing, the fourth play has been staged, and your answer is in the fourth act-real life.

I realized. There are many wonderful interpretations of life, and my answer is only eight words: love, optimism, sentiment and dedication.

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The author uses three close-ups of "situational dialogue", "half a doughnut" and "What is the brightest in the world" to explain the same truth from three different aspects: "The answer is colorful." More successfully, the fourth act is not written on the surface, but in essence the author's opinion is also in it: "real life." As soon as this article was published in China Youth Daily, it attracted the attention of middle school students and front-line Chinese teachers. It can be seen that this paper has a great influence on middle school students' composition in terms of stylistic innovation and writing skills.

Example 3. Go home for the New Year.

1. How do young couples go home for the New Year?

Location: big city

Time: 2010 65438+February 26th (Lunar calendar)

Character: Mr. and Mrs. Xiao Wang.

Xiao Wang: (full of discussion) Come to my house for the New Year this year.

Wang's wife: (discontentedly) Why should I go to your house?

Xiao Wang: (a little angry) This is a tradition!

Wang's wife: (unprotected) So does a married man buying a house.

Tradition, why does my family have to pay half the fee?

Xiao Wang: (suddenly short of breath) Here,

Wife Wang: (pretending to be sensible) How about this? Let's flip a coin to decide who to look for.

Xiao Wang: (very happy) OK, OK! This is the best!

Wang's wife: heads to your house, tails to my house.

Xiao Wang: OK.

For the first time, Xiao Wang's wife refused to accept the debt. )

Wife Wang: It is necessary to explain that the one with chrysanthemums is the head!

Xiao Wang: You are unreasonable!

Wang's wife: Why is it unreasonable? To show that I am reasonable, do it again!

(Xiao Wang won again, and Mrs. Wang said she won two out of three games ... and then she won three out of five games,

Second, Xiao Wang's parents' home

Location: small county town

Time: 2010 65438+February 28th (Lunar calendar)

Character: Xiao Wang's parents

When the phone rang, Xiao Wang's mother jumped on the phone, and Xiao Wang's father stood by and listened. )

Xiao Wang: Mom, we won't go home for the Spring Festival this year, so we can't get tickets. ...

Dad Wang: What, you're not going home for the Spring Festival again?

Empress Dowager: (nodding feebly) Alas-

Wang Fu: No, I have to make a phone call. Why do I go back to his mother-in-law's house for the New Year every year?

Empress Dowager: Forget it. Twisted melons are not sweet.

……

Father: Let's go home for the Spring Festival.

Empress Dowager: Whose family?

Wang Fu: Why?

Empress Dowager: How can I know if you don't tell me!

……

Empress Dowager: Go back to the mountain area, change trains twice, get off and walk a few miles ... why don't you go back to his grandmother's house?

Ok, south of the city and north of the city, we will arrive soon.

Father Wang: (growling) No. ...

Third, Xiao Wang's grandparents' home.

Location: Mountain area

Time: 20 10 12.30 (lunar calendar)

Character: Xiao Wang's grandparents

(At the entrance to the village, Grandpa Wang holds Grandma Wang and looks into the distance. )

Grandpa Wang: You won't come back, will you? .

Grandma Wang: Wait a minute.

Grandpa Wang: Xiao Wang and the young couple are too far away. They may not come back. ...

Grandma Wang: It doesn't matter if I don't come back. Tickets are so expensive. ...

A pair of shadows are coming, big bags and small bags. )

Grandpa Wang: What do you think? Is it? "

(Grandma Wang removes the paddle and turns to clean it. )

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If you are poor, you will change your mind. A song "Go home often and have a look" tells the helplessness of many parents. The author cut the relationship between the three generations very subtly and vividly. The language is very distinctive and conforms to the identity and age of the characters; Some sentences contain more meanings. The stage description is concise, but it is in place.

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Composition Skills (8) Can the characters in your composition speak?