10 On June 5438+00, a TV unit drama "Our Ten Years" featuring ordinary people and reflecting China's ten-year development and brilliant achievements was broadcast on four satellite TV stations including Zhejiang Satellite TV and online platforms such as Youku, Iqiyi, Tencent, Mango and Migu. The creator condensed countless people who fought for the country, society and life in the past ten years into 1 1 story, which showed the earth-shaking changes in China since the 18th CPC National Congress.
Produced by Zhejiang Huace Film & Television Co., Ltd., Huace Film & Television (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Keton Culture Media Co., Ltd., the play is the key play of "Celebrating the New Era, Striving for a New Journey"-the top 20 outstanding TV dramas of the welcome party, and also the top 20 realistic works of Zhejiang welcome party.
In the past ten years, there are many stories about China worth telling. How did the creative team paint a colorful picture of China in the new era with a play in these ten years? How are these stories created? The reporter visited the creative team of the play and the head of the film and television company to explore the answer.
"Our Decade" Unit Three Meals a Day Stills
Small incision reflects the great times.
Our Decade is divided into 1 1 units, including three meals a day, the direction of the heart, the sword, the banquet in the Tang Palace, and persistence, covering topics such as economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization, national defense and army building, and diplomacy. It is a concentrated tour of China's major development achievements in the new era.
This is a major theme creation that chooses the best among the best. Zhang Xiaodong, the general director of the play, said: "This decade has changed so much that all aspects of reform can be written. When I first received this task, I couldn't find a breakthrough at all. " So everyone seeks the direction theoretically. The Resolution of the Central Committee on the Great Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party's Centennial Struggle summarizes the achievements of the Party and the country in the new era from 13 aspects. Around these achievements, after dozens of meetings and discussions, more than 200 topics were screened out, and finally "eight regulations, China", "One Belt and One Road is open to China", "One country reunites China" and "fairness, justice and the rule of law" were determined.
1 1 It is not easy for the script to move from creativity to outline, from outline to diversity outline, and then complete the first draft and final draft according to diversity outline. Cheng Weidong, the editor-in-chief of the play, participated in the whole process of script creation. At the beginning of creation, he set the tone of the whole play with the team. In the creation of each unit, we should persist in "removing concepts", "removing falsity" and "removing mediocrity", reflecting great achievements with little people and great times with small incisions.
"The main melody drama cannot shout slogans out of thin air. The creation of realistic themes should proceed from life and artistically process real stories based on documentaries, so that the values and emotions conveyed by TV dramas can be deeply rooted in people's hearts. " Cheng Weidong said, "Our Decade" takes "we" as the theme, explores the bright spots from ordinary people, writes the taste and human touch of life, and makes the grand narrative real.
The reporter found that the protagonists in 1 1 unit are all small people, and each story has a real life foundation and the greatness of ordinary people.
For example, the unit "Three Meals a Day" takes the ten-year changes of a rice rolls store as the main line, and writes the changes brought about by eight regulations from the perspective of the people. "The screenwriter Yan Hao conceived the story of a leading cadre returning to his hometown from the beginning, and through all kinds of things he encountered in his hometown, he showed the restraint and influence of the eight regulations on him. I was always stuck in this line of thinking, and the first five drafts were not passed. The screenwriter once felt very collapsed. " Mao Weining, the artistic director of the play, said that he later read the creative plan several times and called the screenwriter at two o'clock in the morning, suggesting that "this play is for the audience, and what the eight regulations have brought to the people should be written in a different way." The two chatted from two o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the morning, and finally found an idea-to show the influence of the eight regulations with the ten-year change of a restaurant.
Another example is the unit of "The Direction of the Heart". Cheng Weidong revealed the details of a unit setting. The reason why the protagonist in the play returns to the countryside from the city is because his father is ill, and he finally has a feeling and inspiration for his hometown life, and then slowly uses what he has learned to give back, change the countryside and lead the villagers to become rich. He said: "Everything is reasonable. Through the emotion of' filial piety', the reason for the protagonist to return to his hometown is not rigid. This emotional connection can arouse the feelings of the audience and make the story convincing. "
Every unit story starts from the details of life, which is both "hard" in grand narrative and "soft" in emotional interpretation. Cheng Weidong said, 1 1 condensed the ten-year stories of ordinary people in different industries and represented the direction of the times. If TV plays are popular, what we should thank most is the new era forged by the people.
Stills of Unit "Our Decade"
Unique and innovative expression
Our Decade is a series with unit drama mode. Since 2020, many excellent works of this genre have been born. This time, our decade wants to provide more fresh experiences for this art category.
The 1 1 unit in the play is explained by different creative teams, and each team has the same narrative idea, which outlines the glorious moments of the country in the past ten years from the perspective of the people. However, the expression is different. In Cheng Weidong's view, putting this drama in the background of the times can make the work show the breadth and depth of realistic creation, and also provide more artistic expression space for each team.
The Banquet at Tang Palace is our first broadcast unit in ten years. It focuses on literary and art workers in the new era and tells a story of explosive dance from creation to popularity. Ren Baoru and Echo Gao, writers of this unit, told reporters that in their creation, they connected the whole story in three time and space.
As soon as the unit started, a dialogue between time and space attracted the audience's attention-Bai Baihe played Chen Ran, the director of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theatre. In order to create a new dance, she came to Henan Museum for inspiration and was attracted by the Tang Dynasty musical figurines in the museum. She stood in front of the glass display case and "looked at each other" with different forms of Tang Dynasty musical figurines. With the change of the picture, the cultural relics "come alive", and a musical figurine dressed in Tang Dynasty costumes started a time-space dialogue with Chen Ran. ...
This form of dialogue between ancient and modern times is inspired by the real experience of Chen Lin, the choreographer and director of the dance "The Banquet at the Tang Palace". When telling the story of dance creation, she said, "We visited many museums, among which a group of Tang Dynasty musical figurines left a deep impression on me. I imagine: What would it look like if this form came alive in the museum and took us to 1000 years ago? "
It can be said that this unit perfectly shows the birth and popularity of the dance "Tang Palace Banquet", but it wants to express more than just the dance itself.
"When we first came into contact with this topic, our biggest doubt was whether the story of this ballet could represent China's cultural achievements in the past ten years." Ren Baoru and Echo Gao said that with the deepening of understanding, they not only paid attention to the cultural significance of the program itself, but also paid attention to the plight of the literary and art workers behind it, so everything suddenly became clear.
They understand that what they want to express is not only the arrangement behind a five-minute dance, but more importantly, the people behind the dance, the difficulties and embarrassment behind their glamour, and how an art troupe can make a national explosion in ten years when the market, talents and funds are not dominant. What is reflected behind this is cultural self-confidence. These people are quite representative images of China's literary and art circles in this decade.
In the unit of "the direction of the heart", the style of painting is different. This unit tells the story of a group of young "new farmers" with different experiences returning to the countryside in the new era and devoting themselves to rural revitalization.
Li Ang, the screenwriter and director of the unit, told the reporter: "Time is tight and the weight is heavy. How to concentrate the changes of agricultural development in 10 in a short shooting cycle and short performance space is the most difficult. "
The creative team visited dozens of villages and towns in Zhejiang and finally found the answer in Jiande. There are a group of "retrograde people" here-agricultural makers represented by Wang Yun, Lang Xueyuan, Rao and others. They went from rural areas to cities, and from cities to rural areas, and carried out factory seedling raising, intelligent agriculture, and the combination of agriculture, culture and tourism to help rural revitalization.
Li Ang said that the first time he went to Jiande, he was moved by the farmers here. He never thought that a post-90s girl could grow more than 2,000 mu of rice by herself, nor did he think that young people returned to their hometown and made such great achievements in promoting agricultural modernization.
In order to meet the theme of rural revitalization and show the rural features of the new era, the creative team also invited Professor Peng Ji from the Film Academy of China Academy of Fine Arts as the artistic director of the unit. "Zhejiang's human landscape and rural development are undoubtedly the representatives of rural revitalization in this decade." Peng Ji said that they wanted to use the lens to present a "Zhemei Village" with the characteristics of mountains and rivers in Zhejiang, which reflected the pastoral and humanistic charm of poetry and painting. Through this expression, they can shoot the appearance of a village in the new era and get rid of the "rustic flavor" of rural drama in many people's minds.
1 1 unit story, with different expressions, either makes the audience yearn for it or excites it. In order to shoot these stories, the creative team traveled through Beijing, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces and cities 10, and prepared for hardship.
The crew of "Three Meals a Day" filmed in Guangzhou was hit by a continuous typhoon and rainstorm. The crew overcame many difficulties and stayed up all night, which took 16 days to build the main scene. The preparation and shooting of the crew of "The Direction of the Heart" coincided with the dog days. The film crew is in full swing, with an average of two or three transitions every day. Many people were sunburned, and the whole group spent nearly 10,000 yuan of Huoxiang Zhengqi water. The cast of "Sword" was affected by the epidemic, and the original class of extras could not be in place. There was a scene where the troops moved and the family members and children silently bid farewell. Due to the lack of group performances, the team went door to door in the military camp to seek help from military families before completing the filming of this highlight. ...
It is this ingenious creation that presents a high-quality play. The ingenious conception of each chapter and the accurate capture of every detail have made many netizens admire: "It has created a new realm of realistic TV drama creation."
"Our Ten Years" Tang Palace Banquet Unit Stills
The content is king, casting fine products.
Counting the outstanding main melody works that have emerged in recent years, many film and television dramas have Huace behind them. From diplomatic turmoil, desperate sword casting to the return of Wan Li, our decade and so on. They adhere to the artistic creation law of the main melody melody, cut into major historical themes from a unique perspective and pay attention to capturing the details of life, thus achieving the praise and popularity of the main melody works.
Why Huace? Why Zhejiang? This is the result of long-term accumulation.
"Our Decade" has a large scale, many units, tight time and heavy tasks, and the project is challenging in creation, production and capital investment. In order to ensure the progress of the project, Huace mobilized more than 60 core teams in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other places, and assembled a number of well-known screenwriters, directors and actors, with a total crew of more than 4,000 people. Since April this year, all units have entered the shooting stage one after another. Thanks to the concerted efforts of all parties, Qi Xin finally completed the task on time.
Today, Huace is working hard towards the peak of the "new mainstream drama". Fu Binxing, president of Huace Group, said that we hope these TV dramas can be enjoyed not only by China audiences, but also by overseas audiences. We have considered the global audience in the planning stage of topic selection for ten years. Next, the play will be broadcast on more than 20 overseas channels, covering more than 200 countries and regions, and translated into English, Vietnamese, French and other languages. There is also the movie "Wan Li's Way Home", which leads the National Day file and is being shown. It will also land in cinemas in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries on 10-2 1.
Sorting out the outstanding film and television works with outstanding reputation and eye-catching ratings in the past, we will find that the essence of these works is to insist that content is king, temper quality and strive for perfection in all aspects. This is also the principle that Huace has always adhered to in film and television creation-to explore the unique perspective, explore the ideological core, try to innovate expression, and let the works really enter the hearts of the audience.
Fu Binxing said that Huace has always adhered to the strategy that the content of TV series is king, and the four strategic businesses of film, copyright, international and meta-universe have developed in coordination, and large-scale masterpieces have been launched, forming an industrial layout with content creation and production as the core and ecological business echelon layout development.
This year marks the 12 anniversary of the listing of Huace Film and Television, and is the 30th year of the company's establishment. From a "small workshop" to a leading film and television industry in China, Zhao Shen, chairman of Huace Group, felt: "The development of Huace cannot be separated from this fertile soil in Zhejiang, and the main position of Huace will always be in Zhejiang."