editorial comment/note
Ideal Shines on China on May 4th, Glory and Dream is scheduled to be broadcast in the second half of May, A Hundred Hearts of Steel is expected to be released in mid-June, and Meritorious is scheduled to be released in the National Day … At present, the key TV drama projects of the centenary of the founding of the Party continue to advance and enter the final sprint moment.
On April 24th, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television held a promotion meeting for key TV drama projects in Changsha, Hunan Province, to study and promote the creation, production and broadcasting of key TV drama projects with major themes in the century since the founding of the Party. At the meeting, the creative representatives of 10 key plays, such as Ideal Shines on China, A Hundred Hearts Makes a Steel, Meritorious Work, Glory and Dreams, Ebola Frontline, Spiritual Strength, Our New Era, Big Waves, Red Boat and Armageddon, introduced the creative characteristics and latest progress of the project.
The following is the promotion of 10 key TV drama projects.
Ideal Shines on China
Speaker: Dongyu Fu, the general director of Ideal Shines on China.
Latest progress:"Ideal Shines on China" started on January 31st, and has been finished and entered post-production. It started broadcasting on May 4th, running from May to July.
Here, I want to introduce the project with three key words:
The first group of keywords are project characteristics: short play innovation and youth expression. Ideal Shines on China is positioned as a series of short plays with 40 episodes, with 40 groups of characters and 40 flash stories in different periods, recording the moving journey of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s unremitting struggle since its birth one hundred years ago. Bold innovation in style and form, but in the process of "seeking novelty and change", we always have "two persistences": on the one hand, we insist on ideal theme, realistic creation and true texture; On the other hand, it insists on short play mode, youth expression and young communication.
The second group of keywords is content production: realistic creation, emphasizing truth. 40 groups of characters, all with prototype characters. Except for four characters who can only create virtual names because of authorization, all the others are interpreted in the feature film in the form of real names. In the unit "Our Position", in order to study the authenticity of "rifle hitting the plane", we verified all the way from the Revolutionary Military Museum in China to the relevant departments in the United States, with 19 pages of script and 100 pages of research report.
The third group of keywords is the creative team: first-line creative and intensive cultivation. Although our creative cycle is tight, it only takes more than two months from the start to the end, but we have been intensive: the script has been revised more than six times on average, and all the leading actors have participated in the script reading meeting.
A hundred tempering makes steel
Speaker: He Jin, producer and chief producer of "A Hundred Steels into Steel"
Latest progress:On December 30th, 2020, "Hundred Melts into Steel" was opened for steelmaking in Hengdian, and it was finished in Hengyang, Hunan recently. It is planned to be put into steel in mid-June, 2021.
Directed by director Mao Weining and written by young screenwriters such as Wang Chenggang and Li Xiuwen, The Hundred Years’ Party History is a panoramic expression. The whole drama adopts a song-group-style structure, with eight organically connected story sections, and interprets the century-old course in a way of great freehand brushwork and great leap.
Strengthen youth through music and performance. In terms of artistic style, songs are used to express youth, and classic songs with the brand of the times in different historical periods are used to reconstruct a brand-new road map for the audience to learn the history of the party in the past 100 years. In the choice of actors, a group of young actors with both form and spirit and a young audience were discovered, which endowed the play with youthful temperament and diverse performances.
To create such a theme is to spread the history of the party, export the spirit and influence the audience, especially the young audience. In the process of shooting, the founders completed a inheritance: we were moved by the youth of the pioneers, and then moved by the youth of the present. I hope this drama can be spread more widely and touch more contemporary youth.
Meritorious deeds
Speaker: Tina Cheng, publisher of Meritorious Work.
Latest progress:Merit was finished at the end of last year and is currently in post-production. It is planned to complete all post-production in June-July 2021 and broadcast in the first round in September-October.
Merit is a major realistic TV series organized and promoted by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. It is jointly produced by 13 producers including Shanghai Radio and Television, Chunyu Film and Television, and Huaer Film and Television. This drama will tell the stories of eight model winners of the Republic’s meritorious service in the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China through the artistic technique of "national narration and expression of the times". This drama is created in the form of unit drama, with 6 stories in each unit and 8 stories in each unit, all of which focus on the most colorful highlights in the lives of meritorious people. Zheng Xiaolong is the general director of the play, which has assembled a domestic first-line creative team. Eight actors who play meritorious figures are also excellent actors who have both physical and mental qualities with the meritorious person.
"A promising nation cannot live without heroes, and a promising country cannot live without pioneers." This is the main theme that runs through the creation of Meritorious Work. I hope that when Meritorious Work is broadcast this year, it will inspire more young people to serve the country with their talents and pass on this great spirit.
Glory and dream
Speaker: Liu Yan, chief producer of Glory and Dreams.
Latest progress:Glory and Dream is directed by Liu Jiang and written by Ningyu Zhao. At present, it is in a tense post-production stage and is scheduled to be broadcast in late May 2021.
Glory and Dream is a film and television work that presents a panoramic and continuous historical span of 35 years from the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea from 1919 to 1954. The drama was performed by more than 50 representative artists including Tang Guoqiang, Liu Jin, Hou Jingjian, Huang Xiaoming and WU GANG. The founder hopes to let the contemporary youth know the party’s initial intention and mission, carry forward the red tradition, inherit the red gene, continue the spiritual blood of communist party people, and enhance the communication and influence of major revolutionary historical TV dramas among young people.
From production to publicity, we strive to make Glory and Dream a visual teaching material for the study and education of Party history.
Ebola frontline
Speaker: Mao Yi, chief producer of Ebola Frontline
Latest progress:The creation of "Ebola Frontline" has lasted for more than three years, with several trips to Wan Li, and it is about to be finished. It is planned to be broadcast in the fourth quarter of this year.
"Ebola Frontline" is based on the event prototype that China medical team went to Africa to fight Ebola virus and launched international medical cooperation in 2014, so as to broaden the international vision and express the common feelings of human beings.
The team overcame all kinds of difficulties in the creative process and adopted various methods to ensure the true texture of the works. In terms of photography, the first-line film photography and lighting teams are activated to strive to present a film-level picture texture; In terms of art setting, more than 200 scenes involved in the play are all restored according to the local scenes in West Africa. The structure of the house, the paving method of grass, the pattern of cloth and the design prototype in the "Sangyi Village" in the play are also from Africa. On this basis, we try our best to grasp the balance between the realistic truth "is Africa" and the artistic truth "like Africa"; In terms of professional and detailed research, the crew set up a guiding team composed of experts in medical, diplomatic and military fields. In addition, the cast of "Ebola Frontline" is also very special. The whole play uses more than 300 foreign leading actors and special actors, about 100 resident foreign group actors and nearly 5,000 foreign group performances.
The power of spirit
Speaker: Shen Yun, the chief producer of The Power of Spirit.
Latest progress:The special program "The Power of Spirit" of the film and television compilation on the theme of Party history was launched in Zunyi on April 7. The pre-filming has been basically completed, and the post-production is being stepped up.
The Power of Spirit consists of 28 episodes, each of which is 45 minutes, and is structured according to the length of two episodes of each spirit. The program takes the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s "spiritual pedigree" as the clue, takes classic film and television works as the main material, compiles and processes them, and combines the forms of field search, actor narration, scene interpretation, interview interpretation, etc., in the long river of the century-old party history, to pursue the red memory and realize the red spirit.
In order to ensure the smooth creation of "The Power of Spirit", Zhejiang Radio and Television Group established the working principle of "specialized class operation and group army combat", set up a special project class with Zhejiang Satellite TV as the main body of creation, and assembled 14 directors’ teams to fully promote the creation of this major theme.
In the process of creation, the program focuses on the following three aspects: opening classic images from a new perspective and telling red stories well; Pursuing the red memory with new expressions and realizing the great spirit; Attract young audiences with the new relay spirit fire.
"Classic image, red scene, fusion expression, young voice", I hope that "Power of Spirit" will bring a refreshing feeling to the audience by recreating the classic film and television, so that the red gene of the party can resonate with the audience at the same frequency and take root in the heart.
Our new era
Speaker: The chief producer of Our New Era is rigorous.
Latest progress:Our New Era is divided into 6 units, each with 8 episodes. At present, all six units have been filmed, and intensive post-production is under way. It is planned to be completed and broadcast in June 2021.
The six units of Our New Era are: Because there is a home, the prescription of happiness, the elite of blasting, soaring, beautiful you and emergency rescue. The idea of drama creation is "two focuses": one is to focus on young party member at the grassroots level, and the other is to focus on Generation Z.
The drama series has the following characteristics: first, based on real people and events, the artistic creation of virtual reality is carried out; Second, all the live scenes were filmed, and the whole drama was filmed in six provinces (regions) including Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Hainan and Guangxi. Third, the theme is unique and novel. The domestic large aircraft manufacturing in Tengfei, the civil rescue team in Emergency Rescue and the border explosives in Explosive Elites are all put on the screen for the first time. Fourth, the style is youthful and younger. The protagonists of the story are all around 20-35 years old, including rural doctors, industrial and technical workers, community service volunteers, explosive ordnance disposal soldiers, civil rescue workers and university student village officials.
Big waves wash sand
Speaker: Jana Shah, director of "Big Waves Wash Sand"
Latest progress:The post-production of the TV series "Big Waves and Sand Scouring" has been completed, and the final revision and improvement are being made according to experts’ opinions. It is expected to be delivered at the end of April.
"Big Waves Wash the Sand" runs through the whole film with the clues of contemporary young people learning the history of the party, tells important historical content in a narrative way that young people are familiar with, and accurately locates the characters and events in the play and fixes the history. In the play, the group portraits of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s founders and early revolutionary activists are created, and the narrative is started with the fate of the characters as the context. In terms of artistic expression, the drama tries to jump out of the path of writing history by events, based on taking history by people, and rooted the characters in the magnificent history of the party, paying special attention to excavating the inner world of the characters, which embodies the feelings of teachers and students, war friendship, husband and wife and friends of communist party people in detail.
Through the retrospective structure of Chen Qihang’s learning video on the history of the Party, the drama gathers and associates scattered events, presents the history of the Party in a political style and records with the help of the unique historical and contemporary double space-time structure, and interweaves, echoes and contrasts many characters fate line, thus realizing the free jump between stories of different characters in the same time period.
Red boat
Speaker: Wang Xiaoyu, producer of The Red Boat.
Latest progress:After 93 days of intense shooting, The Red Boat was released in Changsha, Hunan Province on March 27th, and it is expected to be broadcast on CCTV in mid-May.
The Red Boat was deployed by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, produced by the Central Radio and Television General Station, produced by the TV drama and documentary center of the General Station, and produced by China TV Drama Production Center Co., Ltd., which showed the initial intention and mission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, and also showed the thinking and enterprising of a group of proletarian revolutionary pioneers such as Li Dazhao who worked hard and pursued their ideals under arduous circumstances.
As for the main lineup of The Red Boat, both screenwriter Huang Yazhou and director Yeming Song have deep experience in the creation of major film and television dramas. In the choice of actors, there are young actors such as Wang Renjun, jeremy, Xi Wang, Liu Mengke, etc., as well as drama-level actors such as WangZhifei, Dong Yong, Liu Zhibing, Yang Lixin and Ma Shaohua. "Red Boat" was shot in 4K, and the Dit workstation was established to ensure the image quality and artistic effect. 48 historical scenes were truly restored, and 10 historical scenes were selected for original shooting, including the former residence of Yang Kaihui and the former site of Huangpu Military Academy. Shooting more than 1000 scenes and making 420 conceptual design drawings; More than 280 main characters, more than 20,000 group performances, more than 8,600 sets of costumes and more than 55,000 props.
At present, the departments of sound, music, color matching, video and special effects in the later period are continuing to fight for perfection, high quality and high standard to complete the production task.
army rage
Speaker: Wu Yuqing, production director of Armageddon.
Latest progress:Armageddon was officially launched on November 17, 2020, and finished on March 16, 2021 after four months. Now it is in intensive post-production. The first round of issuance has been carried out, and the second round of issuance has begun to be docked.
Armageddon shows the three battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin in a panoramic way in the form of TV series, reflecting the great course of the Communist Party of China (CPC) leading the people of China to win the final victory of the new-democratic revolution from three levels of strategy, tactics and fighting, and expounding the theme of why the Communist Party of China (CPC) can.
The drama brought together the directors Gao Xixi, screenwriter Huang Jiandong, photography director Yu Xuejun, modeling director Yang Shudong, dubbing director Liao Jing and composer Zhang Zheng, etc. There were 350 main actors, more than 800 special actors and more than 60,000 extras.
In terms of creation, Armageddon is created with a serious and cautious attitude, striving to achieve the creative goals of showing war images from multiple angles with realistic creative spirit, shaping the personalized expression of leaders from the perspective of popularization, and strengthening the sense of substitution with the growth of small people. In terms of shooting and production, the thousand-person film crew traveled to Huairou, Beijing, Zhangjiakou, Hebei and Hengdian, Zhejiang to shoot, with more than 700 main scenes.
Editor | Xu Lei Pang Yichun
