After buying the papers, they went to eat authentic fried bean sauce noodles. They waited until the afternoon to take the sa materials to Central Academy of Drama to register for the test, which was scheduled for the afternoon of the sa day as Beijing Film Academy’s.
To be exact, the exams would all take place three days later, the difference being one was in the morning and the other in the afternoon, which invisibly saved them so ti.
After the al, they returned to the hotel and rehearsed the programs they were going to perform on the day of the arts examination for each individual.
In fact, Zhou Mo and Lin Mu’s talents were so apparent that even if they didn’t perform, Yiyi could still sense that they were skilled. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have encouraged Zhou Mo to participate. Zhou Mo’s voice could be considered extraordinarily gifted, especially suited for lyrical songs, whereas Lin Mu had a hip-hop style. They were clearly of different types. In fact, she even felt that they could further develop in the field of music.
However, Lin Mu lacked interest in music. He studied vocal music to add luster to his talents, not as a goal to pursue.
As for their dance skills, both were quite smart. Sotis after watching a music video once, they could rember so moves. After watching it a few tis, they could dance along, and after ten tis, the dance would be successfully connected. With such talent, it would be a pity not to beco singers.
"What are you planning to recite for your exam?"
Recite?
Yiyi looked at Lin Mu, "Do you an lines?"
"Yeah, but you need to prepare a recitation of around three minutes,"
"That’s easy. We can just morize and recite the texts we’ve studied!"
Lin Mu’s mouth twitched, "Don’t do that, let’s pick a piece of emotional poetry instead. How can dry text show whether your lines are good or bad?"
He did have a point, "Then let’s prepare a poem. Quick, think, did we learn any poetry in our texts?"
"Yiyi, what song are you going to sing? What dance will you perform?" Singing was to test vocal music, dancing was to assess one’s physique, in addition to a situational sketch.
If these could be successfully passed through, they would be able to enter the third round. If the performance in the third round was stable, there is an eighty to ninety percent chance of being admitted.
Which song to sing?
Yiyi thought of an ancient folk tune. Yiyi’s voice was soft and sweet, especially suited for singing such delicate and tender songs. Therefore, as soon as she humd it, the two guys opposite were starstruck, "What song is this? It sounds pretty good."
"It’s a ballad. I often heard my mom sing it when I was little, so I rember it well,"
Fearing he might touch on her sad mories, Lin Mu quickly changed the subject, "What about your dance?"
Yiyi had practiced yoga for many years, her flexibility was unquestionably reliable, so classical dance movents were no challenge for her. It was Yiyi’s first ti performing such a dance in front of them. The last ti they saw her dance seed to be a group dance in her first year of high school. Could they have been unaware of how beautiful her dancing was?
After watching, Lin Mu looked at Yiyi deeply, "Are you sure you don’t want to take this arts exam seriously? Yiyi, I think you could make it in this industry, really. Look at your voice, your figure, you’ve got the talent. It’s just a sha I discovered this too late. Otherwise, I would have taken you with to the training in Shanghai. You’ve hidden your talents too deeply, haven’t you?"
Yiyi chuckled, "You two are sothing, aren’t you? Heaping such high praise. And since I’m here, and have paid hundreds of dollars, of course, I have to take it seriously. It’s just that I need the remaining half a year to prepare and decide which major to choose. The exams haven’t even started yet, so don’t give too much confidence. At the venue, there will be so many handso n and beautiful won. You’ve seen them before."
Lin Mu shook his head, "Being attractive doesn’t guarantee selection. I’ve spent ti in training institutions with systematic art exam preparations, and your abilities mark you as promising talent. Zhou Mo is, of course, even more needless to say, he’s naturally here to outshine us. So, if the three of us are admitted, would you consider joining ? Attending the sa school, the sa major, could we beco classmates again?"
Yiyi found Lin Mu’s words sowhat naive but didn’t wish to criticize. Zhou Mo, however, stood up and pulled him, "Let’s go, ti to rest."
The next day, they worked on their papers and studied all day. The morning of the third day, they rembered and recited poetry and went through the programs they had prepared. In the afternoon, they went together to the school to pick up the admission slips from both institutions. After obtaining the admission slips, they hurriedly called ho.
On the fifth day in Beijing, it was their exam day. Early in the morning, they washed up, dressed in clean, handso, and stylish clothes, and confidently headed to the Beijing Film Academy re-exam site.
They entered the exam room one by one according to the numbers on their admission slips. Unlike the initial test, this ti there were six teachers.
After introducing herself, Yiyi recited an excerpt from a foreign literary work. She had participated in English recitation contests and even interspersed her recitation with a few sentences in English.
The second part of the assessnt required the teacher to describe a scene, leaving it to her imagination to perform, known as objectless acting.
"Cold Palace, deposed Empress, despair. With these three words, imagine a scene for yourself."
There were many such romance novels, plus she had portrayed a real deposed Empress before. Therefore, the performance ca naturally, using just her gaze and a few lines of dialogue to convey the scene. She was completely relaxed during the performance, showing no nervousness or breaking into laughter, eliciting nods from several teachers.
After successfully passing these two parts of the exam, she felt more relaxed for the vocal music and dance tests.
During the vocal music test, the teacher asked her to sing a song a cappella, which they found satisfactory. Then, they played a tape for her, which must have been songs specifically for assessnt, as she had never heard them before. After listening three tis, she was asked to hum the song again. Although Yiyi missed many of the lyrics, her lody was mostly accurate for a fragnt of the song.
For the dance portion, her choice was a classical dance, while the teacher demonstrated a modern dance for her to imitate. After two attempts, Yiyi was able to replicate about eighty percent of it.
Only after these four assessnts was the initial test deed complete because the content of the re-exam was a group sketch. If this was a test of an individual, the next challenge would be one’s ability to cooperate and react on the spot.
To save ti, they arranged to et the sa people every morning. As soon as they were confird for the re-exam here, they were led to another room over there, ford into groups, each person assigned a role, and began to interpret. Afterward ca the performance. This was the re-exam, which might sound casual, but precisely tested one’s ability to perform impromptu.
Thus, in just one morning, they could complete both the initial test and the re-exam while the third round would be announced by phone.
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