So, who is the professional e-sports player? What kind of life do they live? What kind of pursuit? What's the story of his distress, his happiness, his spirit and his ideal?
"Full-time Master" will tell you that since e-sports is a profession, it is full of passion and challenges, as well as setbacks and failures as other sports. Only "never give up" can we reach the other side of success and personality.
The drama subtly and profoundly shaped the image of the e-sports crowd centered on leaves. Since e-sports has been listed as a sports event, sports and drama are the same and must be dramatic; E-sports is an event, and many preparations, cooperation and strategies must have a strong story; The competition is called an event, but it is actually a racing driver. Finally, there is character support, and there is no lack of profound philosophy.
A drama series that combines drama, narrative and philosophy has been performed in unison, and it must be both interesting and fun. I admire the creative team of "Full-time Master" very much, and have contributed a strange and familiar professional e-sports story to the society, showing the passionate growth process of modern youth.
First, in the face of the natural "fans" of e-sports, this series can withstand the criticism of any professional vision. Everything in the play takes truth as the first requirement, such as the scene setting of traditional plays, where subtraction is often done to replace the big with the small, while "Full-time Master" is addition, renting a large stadium and completing full-time shooting with the most professional attitude, giving fans a flawless sense of realism and substitution at the e-sports scene. The main creator is not playing a game, but really shooting a game.
The game commentator in the play is more real because he is not played by an actor; Actors' e-sports skills and terminology are trained by professional teachers, and OMG e-sports gods personally guide them; The professional e-sports team professionally controls the production of drama series to prevent unprofessional mistakes. The shooting of "Full-time Master" is worthy of the name, and it is "full-time". Fans, just like watching real e-sports, will not enjoy the passionate competition without a sense of separation.
"Full-time Master" makes the audience's personality jump and feel the philosophy of e-sports in the aftertaste. Different from ordinary sports drama series, full-time masters have gone beyond the level of technical competition and entered the level of teamwork. There are many "golden events" and "golden sentences" in this drama series, which show the cooperation "catching up" and spirit of e-sports, and finally catch up with the realm of personality and finally compete with personality. Therefore, in the choice of actors, the play also pays great attention to personality. Yang Yang, the actor of Ye Xiu, took a fancy to him because of his high matching with Ye Xiu's spiritual temperament, good acting skills and dedication. The heroine Chen Guo, played by Jiang Shuying, has similar temperament.
The second is the "amateur" of e-sports. Drama also has a good way to attract them. Its core is the ups and downs of the "counterattack" story. At the beginning of the series, Ye Xiu, the male host, was fired for not cooperating with commercial capital, which set a great suspense for the story. Will Ye Xiu collapse? Or will it make a comeback? Or have you completely left the e-sports world? The "three-episode rule" deeply attracts the amateur audience of e-sports. The so-called "three-episode rule" means that the audience in the first three episodes has no sense of substitution, but they are basically not interested in watching it later; For online dramas, the first three episodes of online reviews and barrage generally talk about actors. If the fourth episode still only talks about actors and does not involve roles, the story will basically fail and the click-through rate will gradually weaken. "Full-time Master" easily skipped this trap, and the first three episodes have captured the hearts of the audience.
With the development of the plot, Full-time Master lays out the life and social aspects of the leading actor Ye Xiuquan. His love and hate with e-sports is inevitable in the contingency of his fate. Some events, setbacks, joys and sorrows are all potential driving forces for today's e-sports career. It also goes deep into the emotions and personalities of the characters, their dreams, blood and efforts, the sublimation of return, and the spirit of the team; In particular, the drama adopts the development mode of character counterattack, rather than the sad format of traditional inspirational drama. The man is unyielding, seemingly relaxed and has a sense of humor. He is not addicted to complaining, starting from scratch, full of positive energy, in line with the audience's heart, can arouse the interest of watching.
Thirdly, the series is the first online drama with e-sports as its theme in China. The interaction between real society and virtual society is frequent, which is very difficult in aesthetics and technology. It is meaningful when there are difficulties, and the meaning is reflected in the difficulties. The creative team will face up to difficulties and will certainly reap good results in art and market. The first is the concept setting of the network world. The main creative team and professional team have been tackling key problems for half a year, repeatedly polishing models and scene construction, creating classic scenes and special props that glorify the world and perfectly restoring the online world; Secondly, the similarity between real characters and virtual characters. With similarity, real characters have a sense of substitution, and the audience has the discrimination of virtual characters. Therefore, some innovative technologies are adopted, such as motion capture, face capture, CG technology of whole life person, real-time rendering of unreal engine, illumination of enlightenment scene, etc. Foreign blockbusters use some technologies, while full-time masters all use them, which is rare in the domestic online drama industry; Secondly, there is emotional, life and spiritual interaction between real characters and virtual characters. Virtual characters are sentinels and spokesmen of real people, who are influenced and infiltrated by virtual characters. They seek, blend and even play games with each other. Reality and virtual world are both integrated and divided. Full-time experts show the living form of the youth community in the digital age.
Full-time Master is the first e-sports online drama in China, and its aesthetic and technical form will basically lay the basic face of this kind of drama, which is worth looking forward to for both the audience and the industry. Like the title, the play is also a master of art and technology, with perfection as the highest pursuit; Artists, like the people in the play, are full of dreams and fighting power, and everything is linked to ideals; Like the male master, the creative team is Do not forget your initiative mind and never gives up.
(Vice President of China Film Literature Society, Dean and Director of Film and Television College of Shanghai Theatre Academy, Professor graduate department, Doctoral Supervisor Li Zhenlin)