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BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The drama series "Ebola Frontline", based on the 2014 Chinese medical team rushing to many countries in West Africa to participate in the fight against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic, is being broadcast on Tencent Video, and its story presentation of restoring both truth and drama has made this type of work win attention again.
In "Ebola Frontline", virologist Zheng Shupeng (Luo Jin) and his Chinese medical team suddenly encountered the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and under very limited medical conditions, they fought with the virus with superb medical skills; at the same time, Chinese investigative journalist He Huan (Mao Xiaotong) went deep into West Africa because of a secret visit to a diamond smuggling case, resonating with the Concept of Boundless Medical Ethics and The Supremacy of Life with Chinese doctors, and joined the team to fight the epidemic together.
"Sweaty palms, full of tension" "There is fear, there is worry, such a character is real" "Professional is not boring, always say Ebola, the first time I know it is like this"... Behind the audience's positive evaluation is the vivid and true restoration and shaping of "Those Heroes, Those Mortals" in "Ebola Frontline".
Field visits and hundreds of hours of interview footage
Since its broadcast, the true restoration and accurate details of "Ebola Frontline" have won a lot of affirmation, it is understood that the project script alone has been done for more than three years, in order to achieve true restoration, the main creator interviewed top experts and witnesses in various medical and health fields, accumulated hundreds of hours of interview materials, nearly 10 million words of interview records, the script from the beginning of the writing to the execution of the shooting site, the performance of the actors, set up a very large number of project teams.
Moving from the truth, Yang Wenjun, director of "Ebola Frontline", said that especially such a story based on reality needs to be done to the extreme in details.
According to reports, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the work and life of China's medical aid teams to Africa, the main creators of "Ebola Frontline" have gone to Sierra Leone and Tanzania, from markets, hospitals to fishing ports and villages, from medical conditions to customs and customs, and all-round immersive research has laid a solid foundation for the final presentation of the series.
In order to get a closer look at the parties and main deeds of the fight against the Ebola epidemic in that year, the delegation visited the China-Cyprus Friendship Hospital located on the outskirts of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where the medical team of China's aid to the Fight against the Ebola epidemic in 2014 was stationed. Although five years have passed, there are still traces left by the fight against the Ebola epidemic at that time, including traces of temporary isolation and related posters.
"For example, in the scene about masks, now that we have experienced the new crown epidemic, we may think that in the face of infectious diseases, it is strange not to wear masks. But the truth at the time was that a few years ago west Africa didn't have as many medical supplies, and Ebola, while a potent infectious disease, spread through contact, not through droplets. So there are a lot of scenes in the play that make everyone sweat without wearing a mask. Yang Wenjun introduced.
In addition, the art construction and art design of the P3 and P4 laboratories related to the virus in the play are all restored to the real scene one-to-one. The laboratory of P3 and P4 is required by high standards in terms of water, gas, waste, etc., and the various equipment and systems that are basically visible to the naked eye in the play are all true, including the aerosol generated by the disinfection spray system, which is also true, not made of special effects.
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The mature production of "tension pull full"
"Tension full" is the most commonly mentioned feeling for viewers when watching Ebola Frontline.
Ebola is a very rare but highly lethal, highly lethal, infectious disease virus. The infected person may have internal and external bleeding, and in severe cases, it will even melt all over the body and become a "blood corpse". As a work that shows the fight against the blood epidemic, Ebola Frontline provides a positive account of this terrible virus. The hidden line of the spread of the virus makes the audience always feel the heart of the people in the play, and this suspenseful setting and the silent thrill make people can't help but have the feeling of watching the big screen disaster movie.
On the basis of precise details and mature narrative, "Ebola Frontline" has achieved all-round assistance in "hardware".
Based on the documentary style and the plot characteristics of the high-pressure environment, the play adopts one shot to the end in many places to maintain the flow of the image style. The probe lens vividly presents the detailed state of the medical team members sweating and pores behind the thick protective clothing, so that the audience can empathize with the sweltering heat experienced by the characters, and then show the tension and hardship of the medical team members in the process of fighting the epidemic.
According to reports, the actors of the play were also arranged to wear helmet cameras to build a real first perspective, so that every audience can be better substituted into the tense atmosphere of the plot, immerse themselves in the environment in which the characters are located, and fully appreciate the emotions and states of the characters.
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Those heroes, those mortals
As a film and television work, the character is undoubtedly the root of all wonderful things.
"In the 60 years of China's medical aid to Africa, there are too many stories and people to sing and cry, we want to use the Ebola line as an incision to show different people, this narrative is not only about how the rescue frontline is full of wind and fire, but more importantly, everyone's solid experience and heart." Yang Wenjun said, "On the side of the medical team and the testing team, it may not be as everyone thinks, every day is the treatment of the head breaking blood flow, it is a lot of rules, such as when our medical team first arrived, because the local implementation is another set of medical systems, not allowed to treat patients and diagnosis and treatment immediately, can only stay and watch." I think it is precisely these details and stories that lurk under the surface of our cognition that have more moving power. ”
In addition to China's medical aid to Africa, "Ebola Frontline" has also created many characters belonging to the African continent. The first "tearful" climax after the show began was from a local doctor named Qasm in the play. Cao Guang, one of the prototypes of the protagonist Zheng Shupeng in the play, the former doctor of the anti-Egyptian medical team, said in an interview, "My partner doctor is called Qasm, and he finally died because of Ebola. The creation of this character in the series is based on reality and is very vivid, and many of those scenes are things that I can't bear to watch again. ”
As a work with an international perspective, "Ebola Frontline" breaks through stereotypes and outlines a vivid and rich african social scene to the audience. The play not only depicts the devastation of the epidemic on the legendary land of Africa, but also depicts the enthusiasm of every ordinary person for life in this hot land, from medical workers to every ordinary person. (End)
Source: China News Network