Author: Ma Mingjie
The web drama "Engagement" contains six unit stories, namely "Chinese New Year's Eve Rice", "Youth Promising", "Very Summer", "Yearning", "Youth Forever", "Bowl of Duck Blood Fan Soup", each unit contains at least one agreement. For example, the agreement between the police motor and his fiancée in "Chinese New Year's Eve Meal" to maintain social order; the agreement between Chen Youwei, a young technician in "Youth Youwei", to participate in the WorldSkills Competition and build Daxing Airport; the agreement between the sponsors and recipients of poor education in "Very Summer"... These agreements involve poverty alleviation, pension and social security, development and education, etc., and are essentially happy agreements between the party and the state and the people. Through large and small agreements, the play realizes the youthful expression of the main theme theme, showing the spirit of contemporary young people who are brave and enterprising and strive to forge ahead.
Youthfulness has never been absent in the main theme of film and television works. In the 1960s and 1970s, "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" and "Shining Red Star" injected the spirit of revolutionary heroism into the hearts of contemporary children; after the reform and opening up, "Little Flower", "Flying South of The Wild Goose", "Wreath Under the Mountain", etc. integrated the beauty of family affection, love and youth into the revolutionary theme, and were loved by young people; in recent years, film and television works such as "Three Major Battles", "The Great Cause of Building the Country" and "Diplomatic Storm" have inspired young people's patriotic enthusiasm with grand narratives. In "Convention", the youthful narrative technique is more abundant, allowing the audience to feel a different main theme.
First, contemporary young people have become the subject of the narrative. The main narrative of the traditional main theme film is the hero, whether it is Liu Hulan, who is not afraid of sacrifice, or Pan Dongzi, who is wise and wise; whether it is the leader who founded the republic, or the builder in peacetime... They are typical characters in a typical environment, and there is a certain distance from the young audience. "Convention" takes young people as the narrative subject, tells the story of contemporary young people, tries to eliminate the distance between the people and the audience in the play, and better enables the audience to intervene in the situation of the film, resulting in edutainment and education effects. In the play, the young policeman Motor, who always solves the worries and difficulties for the people, Xu Yihang, a diligent ace technician, and Xia Xiaoqiu, the inheritor who strives to pass on the traditional craftsmanship of the hot pot restaurant... They are representatives of young people and the main body of the play's narrative. These characters are closely related to the daily life of contemporary young audiences, and it is easy to arouse the recognition of young audiences.
Second, the grand idea is contained in the story around us. Under normal circumstances, the grand concept is expressed as the aesthetic sublime, so that the audience can produce reverence in the moving, and enrich the audience's ideal and become the audience's belief. As a strategy for the youthful expression of the main theme, in "The Agreement", the grand main theme concept is constantly close to and integrated into the real life of the audience, infecting the audience and sublimating the lofty concept in the process of telling a plain story. For example, in the play, Mada often faces the audience to tell about his case-handling experience, his family affairs and colleague relationships, constantly seeking dialogue and interaction with the audience, turning the "idol" with distance in the traditional main theme film into the ordinary people around him, bringing the audience into the play, generating a sense of affinity, and then understanding the hardships paid by the people's police in order to maintain social order and protect the interests of the masses.
Third, the use of new image forms to fit the aesthetics of young people. In the production of images, "Covenant" boldly uses new media and takes into account the integration of art and technology, resulting in rich visual effects. For example, the play uses AE technology to transform the urban buildings in memory and reality to form an interactive stereoscopic visual effect with spatial level; aerial photography, delay, rotation, and 180-degree rotation transition are used to narrate the process of more than 8,000 workers and designers working together to complete the construction of Daxing Airport; in the narration part of the characters, it is processed as the popular Vlog (video log) form. These video forms are full of modernity and arouse the attention of young people.
In addition, the drama starts with the topics of current young people's interaction, likes, forwarding and discussion, and frequently echoes the "network hot search" and "social hot spots" in the plot, making the play have a sense of timeliness and the times.
Jade is not a secret. From the perspective of theme, "Engagement" is a realistic play. Realist creation requires that artistic stories and scenes conform to real-life rationality, and according to Aristotle, there should be a logical connection between events that must or be obvious. However, some of the stories and pictures of "The Covenant" are outside the principles of realism. For example, in the play, the farmers of "supporting agricultural pork" found that there was a problem with the feed they bought, so they "stole" the pork from the user's home after the pork was sold, and also put an apology letter and compensation money into the user's mailbox to maintain the credibility of the native pig, such a story is slightly far-fetched. In addition, some of the plots and scenes in the play are not real enough, although the attention to reality, but the blur of the heavy sense of reality, cover up the real feelings of life, damage the expression of the main melody concept, which is also the main theme of the film and television drama in the creation of the should be taken as a warning.
(The author is a professor at the School of Film and Television Arts of Hebei University of Communication and Communication, and a master tutor)
Source: Guangming Network - Literary And Art Review Channel