Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) On August 16, the Beijing People’s Art 2024 Drama Screenwriter and Director Talent Training Course, which lasted for more than three months, successfully concluded. This training class is the first professional training project of Beijing People's

Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) On August 16, the Beijing People’s Art 2024 Drama Screenwriter and Director Talent Training Course, which lasted for more than three months, successfully concluded. This training class is the first professional training project of Beijing People's Art to jointly cultivate screenwriters and directors based on extensive solicitation from the society. It has brought together fifteen young professionals with an average age of 28 years old.

Young professionals with an average age of 28 have successfully graduated. Photo by Li Chunguang

Wang Wenguang, Party Secretary of Beijing People’s Arts, Dean Feng Yuanzheng, Zhou Tong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group, Qin Xinchun, Vice Dean, Zhang Peng, Vice Dean, as well as expert representatives of Beijing People’s Arts Committee, members of the teaching team, and all students participated Graduation ceremony. During the more than three months of training, Beijing Renyi not only drew on its previous experience in running schools, but also conducted exploration and innovation, aiming to discover young talents and build a platform for young talents to reserve for Renyi's future creations and to provide The entire drama industry is accumulating more new forces.

Feng Yuanzheng, dean of Beijing People's Arts, congratulated the students on their successful graduation at the graduation ceremony and expressed the hope that the students would take their learning from the People's Arts into their daily lives and create more outstanding works that reflect the spirit of the times and people's lives. Not only can we have more cooperation with Renyi, but we can also exert greater energy on our own professional stage, adding strength to the development of the entire drama industry.

training is divided into two phases. The first stage is intensive teaching, which lasts for 30 days and includes 126 hours of lectures. 42 experts, scholars and critics from the fields of screenwriter, director, stage design, performance and other fields from inside and outside the Beijing People's Art Institute will teach students professional courses. And share valuable creative experience. The second stage is artistic practice. The students are divided into four groups in the form of screenwriters and directors to put the professional theories they have learned into practice, and finally create four original and classic adaptations. During the training process, Beijing People's Art Institute also arranged a large number of observation and on-site collecting activities, allowing the trainees to be exposed to more fresh materials.

At the graduation ceremony, Wu Tong, the head teacher of the training class, reviewed the teaching process, expressed his blessings to the students, and hoped that he and the students would cooperate and achieve each other in the future.

"This study is different from school study. We place more emphasis on starting from practice." Tang Ye, head of the Beijing People's Art Creation Studio and a member of the training class teaching team, said that he hopes that students can use such a curriculum and creative method to Learn to truly enter life and create based on life.

Fifteen students in this talent training class for screenwriters and directors finally created four works: "The Memory Is Not Over", "Night Shift Bus C49", "Tomorrow, Another Tomorrow", "The Madmen and the Kafkas", and were produced by People's Art's professional performance team assisted the students in putting it on the stage of Beijing People's Art Theater.

It took two months to complete an original work. The pressure can be imagined, but such "high pressure" really allowed the students to demonstrate their excellent creative abilities in a short period of time, and also allowed them to understand the importance of Beijing People's Art Theater to an original work. Strict requirements for the work. During the creation process of the work, Beijing People's Art Institute provided support to the students with the full strength of the school. In addition to the teachers in the teaching group to check the work, various art production departments also participated in it to complete the whole process practice of Beijing People's Art Art Creation. .

Feng Yuanzheng, director of the Beijing People's Art Institute, said that through this attempt, a bridge has been built with young creative talents, which will open up more possibilities in the future. Photography by Li Chunguang

After intensive training, fifteen students successfully graduated. "This training class allows us to focus more on the training of young talents and platform building. The results we have achieved are not just for the present, but the real results are the future." Feng Yuanzheng, director of Beijing People's Art, said that through this training, not only will Beijing People's Art Understanding the current creative status of young creators also allowed the fifteen students to gain a lot of professional knowledge and understand the artistic standards of Beijing People's Art Theatre, which laid a good foundation for future cooperation. “More than three months of study is very intensive, and I believe that over time, the students will benefit from it.At the same time, Beijing People's Art Institute has also built a bridge with young creative talents through this attempt, which will open up more possibilities in the future. "

editor, Huang Jialing

proofreader, Liu Jun