One-year cosplay Club's rapid growth route: the sponsor group owns several sets of clothes, and recruits more members through the combination of posters and on-site recruitment of clothes. The purpose of recruiting a large number of members is to take the principle of voluntarily bearing the cost of performing a play, because the casting performance of any play will lead to some people's dislike and low enthusiasm.
As long as members join us, we will immediately carry out outdoor shooting activities, and we can invite students with cameras from photography associations or art majors to participate. Enhance the enthusiasm of new members for cosplay activities through location shooting, and the costumes can be used by small teams of sponsors. Through location shooting, you can also prepare materials for the distribution of roles in advance, and it is also a kind of actual combat to improve the makeup technology of the team or makeup artist.
Have a small party every week, organize a group to watch videos of excellent online societies, and videos of cosplay societies participating in competitions in the same city may also be found. By watching videos, compare the dramas of well-known domestic troupes and cosplay troupes in the same city, negotiate their own performance forms, select repertoires and assign roles, and make a drama plan.
The play plan is divided into one month, three months, six months and one year. Personally, I suggest that the collective drama choose a drama, so as not to increase the financial burden of the members. It is more conducive to the centralized use of funds. Conditional members can add their favorite clothes and make small group programs with several members of the club, with one main program for large groups.
The plan for the first month is to practice the role catwalk collectively and arrange the freeze-frame style. Everyone must have at least 20 stage freeze-frame styles and become a habit through training. If this plan can be implemented smoothly, there will be more and more high-quality products for overseas shooting activities, and there will be information about activities or cosplay competitions and exhibitions in schools, and organizations can be sent to the stage to show at any time.
In the initial three-month plan, the opponent's role was determined according to the role distribution, and the members with opponents rehearsed small unit dramas of 20 -60 seconds by themselves, such as Naruto's forbearance test. Prepare to create a big script and brainstorm, but the creative staff should take one person as the screenwriter and create at least three scripts within 7 minutes. During the three-month period, taking advantage of the convenience of school group meetings, according to the requirements of the script, dance and other arrangements need to be supplemented. You can seek assistance from other groups or seek guidance from professional teachers. The principle is to improve the stage effect and increase the indirect experience of the stage. The most effective way is to attract talented students to join the cosplay community.
Within three months, the costumes of the main characters need to be in place, and simple props and main props need to be in place. Small unit plays should be rehearsed at least three times together, and the music should be edited according to the rehearsal effect. The whole musician must be particularly familiar with it and avoid taking up other people's music time during the performance. As for the synchronization with the music rhythm, you can rehearse by yourself, and group rehearsal needs people with stage experience to watch and guide.
After the three-month plan is implemented step by step, you can participate in municipal competitions or exhibitions, and you can basically play at any time.
Determine the direction of the next three months according to the state of the community activities for three months. Don't neglect the arrangement of small activities. Outdoor filming, parties and other activities help members to maintain their enthusiasm for drama and improve their performance level. If possible, they should go on stage more often. No matter whether they perform on or off campus, they should not miss the opportunity. The stage is the continuation of an actor's life, so is coser, especially as a school community, they also have the responsibility to win glory for the school.
The half-year plan includes the first three months, and the tasks in the last three months are mainly the acquisition of large props, the filling of clothing accessories and the addition of new roles. Script writing should have a big play in 15 minutes and three small plays in 10 minutes. Script time does not include catwalk and role display time. Prepare a set of feasible plans for off-site performances. The key point of off-site performance lies in the preparation of props, ensuring that the props arriving in other places are not damaged or can be repaired and made by the prop artists themselves. The curtain display stand or large props can be disassembled, and props and clothes can be carried on the car. Simulation toy guns and iron knives can't get on trains and buses, remember.
Another important part of the half-year plan is to produce high-quality photos through a large number of external shooting, send photos to cosplay-related magazines and online media, find out the defects of their own modeling design through the feedback of editors, and start to build the team's popularity. Strengthen posting and communication in forums where cosplay players are active all over the country, and learn more from the good experiences of excellent clubs and old players.
The secret of high-quality photography is the rehearsal of expression, not the shooting and retouching of high-end SLR in the photo studio or studio. Although the strength of excellent societies is due to the assistance or participation of powerful makeup artists, photographers and post-producers, coser's most recognized photographic works are the restoration of characters. This is the essence of cosplay culture, not simply aesthetic, super cute, cool and handsome.
In half a year's time, you may be lucky enough to participate in the selection of large-scale national competitions, but not every team can qualify. Since your problem is to seek to create a perfect performance, it is suggested that the task in the second half of the year should be in addition to continuing the regular activities and new repertoire plans of the original club. The key point is that core personnel use holidays to observe the scene of domestic large-scale events and experience the competition atmosphere. Remember not to watch the performance of the game in front of the stage, and try to sneak into the background prepared by the participating teams. Although it is a large-scale competition, the backstage management is relatively not very strict. The best trick is to put on coser clothes and boldly enter the background. Look at the makeup preparations and props of each group in the background, and count the preparation time, background environment, water consumption during rest and so on. The highest goal is to prepare for participating in domestic competitions in the future, and the lowest goal is to learn experience and make more friends.
In most cases, experience is something that can only be understood but not expressed, and what suits you is the best. Observing the gains and losses of other groups will only benefit you. No matter how big the stage is, I dare to take risks. The experience experienced by others on the spot will never be appreciated. Failure is the mother of success, and practice is the door to success.
You can try to rehearse for half an hour or even an hour in a year's plan. The longer the performance, the more difficult it is, and the more challenging it is for the team to exercise. In an online game term, this is called leapfrog killing monsters. Long-term large-scale dramas are not popular in the competition, and you will definitely not get the prize if you die now. Then why put forward this impossible task here? Because, in fact, it is not difficult to arrange large-scale dramas for a long time, which is the combination of small units of 20-60 seconds proposed by the author at the beginning. The crystallization of a year's hard work is concentrated in a large-scale drama. When it blooms and bears fruit, the heart is laughing and the tears are flowing. Not for the competition, but for myself.
The successful community is the result of long-term accumulation, although the author talked about the rapid birth of an excellent community and an excellent cosplay drama. Many readers will laugh at this, which is too idealistic.
However, no matter what the author said is right or wrong, no matter how difficult it is to achieve. If you pursue perfection, you will succeed, not just because you read the author's plan.
Remember one sentence: there is always a way to success!