The next day.

Lu Ban put his work aside until the morning. After taking a break at noon, he came to Ye Cheng's villa in Jiangcheng.

This villa is located on the bank of Lingjiang River. It is a luxury house with river view. It is said that several celebrities who have settled in Jiangcheng live here. When you go out to throw away the garbage, you can see big stars of the Lunar New Year period or the CEO of a listed company.

Lu Ban didn't care about these things. Since he had already agreed, he would definitely teach Ye Cheng a lesson.

He studied Ye Cheng's variety shows and found that it might not be that he had no acting skills, but that he couldn't perform naturally.

For example, in variety shows, there are sometimes some deliberately designed "accidental" segments. This is an advanced technique to shape the personality of a celebrity, making the audience think that the celebrity has such performance outside the camera, thereby gaining fans.

But in fact, all of this was planned in advance. What you thought was a true expression of your feelings was actually just a performance.

As for Ye Cheng, he is the kind of person who you can tell at first glance is just acting.

Simply put, some people give wonderful, unobtrusive performances because they can ignore the audience or the camera, completely immersing themselves in the performance and embodying the characteristics of the character; others have mastered strong acting methods and are able to show the character's personality to the audience or the camera.

The former may be talented, while the latter is mostly hard-working.

Ye Cheng is the type of person who has no talent and is not hardworking enough.

In fact, from Lu Ban's observation, Ye Cheng is not the kind of poor student who slacks off and doesn't work hard.

Many people have encountered this situation during their school days. There were students in their class who worked hard and carefully, did more exercises than anyone else, and listened to lectures more attentively than anyone else, but still did not do well in exams.

Ye Cheng is one of them.

"Director Lu, Teacher Lu, I feel like I can't act out a state of fear. Is it because I'm too timid?"

After being taught by Lu Ban for a while, Ye Cheng, who had successfully evolved from a PS emoticon package to an original emoticon package, suddenly said.

"Are you too brave?"

Lu Ban didn’t quite understand what Ye Cheng meant.

"Yes, I have been very brave since I was a child. I don't believe in ghosts and gods, and I watch horror movies without blinking. Could this be the reason why I can't express fear and terror well? According to Stanislavsky's theory..."

Just as Ye Cheng was about to talk nonstop, Lu Ban interrupted him again.

"I think this might not be the reason why you are not a good actor."

Lu Ban said this very seriously, but on second thought, Ye Cheng, the second-generation rich man, had had a smooth life, and perhaps he had never encountered any panic or fear. Just like Lu Ban, he didn't know what it felt like to be ugly. Perhaps his guidance to Ye Cheng was really useless.

“Have you seen The Wailing?”

Thinking of this, Lu Ban suddenly asked.

"I haven't watched it yet... No, Director Lu, that's not what I meant. I'm just very busy with my program schedule recently, so I don't have time to watch it..."

Ye Cheng blurted out and then hurriedly explained.

"Let's take a look together and give you a feel for it."

Lu Ban said.

Although "The Wailing" has been taken off the screen in cinemas and has not yet been put online on video websites, Lu Ban has the original film. Ye Cheng's villa has a special audio-visual room. The two of them went in and closed the door, and Lu Ban started playing "The Wailing".

More than a hundred minutes later, Lu Ban turned on the light.

He saw Ye Cheng sitting on the sofa with a pale face. His originally cheerful expression was gone. He was just holding on to the armrest tightly, as if he had not yet come to his senses.

"How about it?"

Lu Ban patted his shoulder.

"ah!"

Ye Cheng suddenly jumped up after being hit by Lu Ban, and curled up in the corner, hugging his shoulders and shivering.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here, don't come over here..."

His lips were purple and his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he had really seen a ghost.

“This isn’t a good performance.”

Lu Ban was quite satisfied with Ye Cheng's performance.

As expected, all the methodological, experiential, and expressive schools are theoretical knowledge. Only when people truly experience fear can they express the emotion of fear.

After giving Ye Cheng two glasses of water and letting him calm down on his own, Lu Ban spoke again.

"Now recall the passage you just saw and act out your fearful expression."

"……good."

Ye Cheng closed his eyes for a moment, recalling the plot in "The Cry", and then opened his eyes.

"You, don't come over here!"

His expression was slightly ferocious, his eyes were wide open, and he really looked a bit frightened.

only……

“It’s not enough.”

Lu Ban said while holding his chin.

Ye Cheng now has some basic understanding of how to express the emotion of fear, but it is limited to the emotion of fear.

Moreover, his acting was too awkward and his emotional expression was not strong enough. Simply put, unless the audience watched carefully for a while like Lu Ban, they would not be able to tell that he was afraid.

"The character's fear is an important part of a horror movie. If the character's fear is not realistic, the movie will not scare the audience. So, your current performance is not enough."

Lu Ban wondered, if letting Ye Cheng watch horror movies could improve his acting skills to a certain extent, then if he were to directly experience horror scenes, would it significantly improve his acting skills?

After thinking about it, Lu Ban quickly made a decision.

"Well, I have a special training method here. Although it may be a little difficult, it should be able to quickly improve your acting skills. Do you want to try it?"

"Of course!"

Ye Cheng didn't think twice.

"Okay, then, you can stay over at my house tonight and I'll make arrangements for you."

Lu Ban said.

"Spend the night? Director Lu, are you trying to take advantage of me?"

Ye Cheng was confused.

"I think if I take advantage of you, you'll be the one who wins in the end."

Lu Ban was serious.

“…”

Ye Cheng was speechless.

"Anyway, just clean yourself up for one night. I'm sure your acting skills will improve dramatically. You might even win an Oscar."

Lu Ban patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder.

In the evening, Ye Cheng came to Lu Ban's community according to the address he gave.

Lu Ban was wandering around the gate of the community waiting for Ye Cheng.

"Let's go, let's have a good meal first, otherwise we won't be able to eat later."

Lu Ban pointed to a restaurant at random.

"?"

Ye Cheng didn't understand what Lu Ban meant.

He usually wouldn't go to this kind of roadside stall because it's unhygienic and the food may not taste good. But since Lu Ban asked him to, he didn't put on airs and just ate with Lu Ban.

After they had almost finished eating, Lu Ban took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Ye Cheng.

"Sign this first."

Ye Cheng spread out the paper and found that it was a personal accident notification form, which was usually required to be signed in some potentially dangerous sports or projects, informing him that accidents and incidents might occur.

"Director Lu, is this necessary?"

Ye Cheng smiled, but looking at Lu Ban's serious expression, he still read the notice carefully and signed his name.

He felt that this might be Lu Ban's preparation for future teaching. Some variety shows would also have similar operations to increase the sense of involvement for the guests. For Ye Cheng himself, it was quite realistic.

Then, Lu Ban took out another piece of paper.

"While there is a table here, write a suicide note. Nothing else, just in case."

"???"

Ye Cheng was completely confused.