There are too few good domestic variety shows this year.
"The Brother Who Cut through the Thorns" is not as wonderful as the sister version, and the summer routine "Summer of the Band" is also absent.
The most famous ones seem to be "Goodbye Lover", "Dance Millennium", "Drama New Life", and "Annual Comedy Competition" whose reputation is fermenting.
In October, major video platforms announced the next list of variety shows.
As a fan, what I'm most looking forward to is of course this—
"Let's Shoot"
When it comes to variety shows with the theme of making movies, it is absolutely impossible to avoid the "Director Please Advise" of the goose next door.
There was a lot of commotion, and everyone was scared.
So, with a nervous mood, I clicked on the first two issues of "Let's Shoot".
Unexpectedly, after reading it, there was still some unfinished business.
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Lineup and rules
Four filmmakers, forming the Green Lantern Club.
It is an investor and a mentor. Escort the works and provide all-round help.
Chen Kaige, Liu Zhenyun, Shu Qi, Chen Sicheng.
Veteran directors, commercial directors, well-known screenwriters, powerful actors... Each has its own position.
Six young directors, three rounds of competition.
Only the winner can get iQIYI's film investment and the opportunity to shoot cinema movies.
Yi Xiaoxing ("Never Expected", "The Bath King") must be the most familiar to everyone, and is good at directing comedies with small bo.
The name Desert ("Hello, Old Time", "I Want Us together") sounds a bit strange, and it is a young post-90s generation.
Hao Jie ("Single Stick", "Beautiful Sister") is probably the most cattle of the six, and his works have won many awards.
Although Hu Guohan has only filmed the Internet, his "Tough Guy Gun God" is indeed of good quality.
Compared with the top four, the experience of Peng Youlun and Wang Luodan is stretched.
A TV series production change career, an actor changes careers, there is no advantage.
After the first round of mutual selection, the current situation is as shown above.
So here's the problem.
There is no goose that can be used as a gimmick hype "bad film director", there is no mutual "tearing" between the contestants -
This variety show, in the end, where is it good?
2
Sincerity and respect
"Let's Shoot" and "Director Please Advise" are the difference between reality SHOW and competition variety show.
The budget for film production costs in the two variety shows is similar, which is about 1 million yuan each.
But in terms of shooting time limits, it is far from the same.
Compared with the three days of "Guide", "Let's Shoot" was expanded to twenty days.
Twenty days, shoot a twenty-minute short film. The director can have more time to polish the script, the picture, and the editing, so that the work can present a better effect.
The quality of the work is judged from above.
"Guide" pursues a short and fast burst point effect.
From the number of shooting days given to the contestants, it can be seen that there is no emphasis on the work.
Sixteen directors, few can rely on the work to speak, can be described as rookies pecking at each other.
The shelves of the "movie" were erected, but inside they were hung with sheep's heads to sell dog meat.
The focus is all on how to make people quarrel.
In contrast, "Let's Shoot", there are only six directors, but among them, the dragon and crouching tiger are hidden, and the work can make people shine.
In terms of production attitude, all relying on this peer to set off, "Let's Shoot" is particularly sincere.
From the Green Lantern Club to the director to the actors, up and down the same heart twisted into a rope, all the actions, are for the work itself.
Let the audience who like the movie feel the minimum respect.
Having done this, a variety show with movies as a gimmick has the possibility of passing.
But "Let's Shoot" does more than that.
Don't forget its self-positioning – reality TV.
To be honest, it's not so much a reality show as it is an industry observation.
The old jianghu raised their hands and threw their hands into the strategizing between the feet, and used high emotional intelligence to resolve the embarrassment between talking and laughing.
Just listening to the witty words of Liu Zhenyun and Chen Kaige can chase this variety show to the finale.
There are also young directors full of personality attitude, nervous looks in the face of the evaluation of the work, and different states when shooting.
It dissolves the aura of the filmmakers and restores their side as ordinary people.
For example, Hao Jie, the director of social fear, usually longs to find a seam to drill into, and when he is responsible for controlling the field as a director, he has changed again, full of self-confidence, and does not look like a person at all.
In addition to high-quality film works, there is enough entertainment, both.
Fans and ordinary audiences can enjoy their own fun.
3
The content of the works is of high quality
In the two current issues, the works that appear belong to Yi Xiaoxing and Desert respectively.
Yi Xiaoxing chose the field of comedy that he is good at. What's different is that he challenged the black and white film this time.
"Who Took My Takeaway" tells a simple and easy-to-understand story.
The hit worker played by Zheng Kai went to pick up the takeaway for the boss with the meals made by his wife, but the takeaway was taken away one step ahead of the others. He did his best to keep the job in order not to let the boss find out.
Employees mistakenly take the boss's "hungry" as a guide to the work.
The leader who slapped the horse on the side instantly explained several layers of meaning: to maintain the hunger of forging ahead, to adopt hunger marketing...
Leave the boss whole gone.
In the process of finding takeaways, the rest of the colleagues skimmed each other's relationships and acted in front of the boss, but they pretended to be different.
All kinds of details reflect the situation in the workplace and poke at the pain points of humble workers.
Each foreshadowing is not wasteful, logically self-consistent and well-structured.
A small lunch box that carries three layers of meaning:
The show in the eyes of the boss, the rice bowl in the eyes of the employees, and the surprise in the eyes of the daughter.
It's a trick.
The desert, on the other hand, made a father's revenge of "Brakes".
The content is not detailed, everyone is interested in it can go to see.
The script is slightly weaker, but it has mature shooting techniques.
Although he was good at the theme of youth love before, it is clear that this short film shows his new possibilities and also reveals his directorial potential.
The most valuable thing is that this work pays attention to the "sunshine depression" group.
It's art, it's reality.
The highly anticipated director Hao Jie is the main focus of the next issue.
Because he couldn't deal with actors, no actors were willing to work with him at first.
As a last resort, he found a first-year student in Northern Film.
But before two days of filming, the other party had to go back to school to report, and could not participate in the next shooting.
The scene is not finished, the actors are gone.
Faced with this embarrassing situation, Hao Jie came up with a strange trick to convey the content of the story through various images.
It didn't smash it, and it also received praise from everyone.
But iQiyi is also well versed in the way of variety shows -
More exciting, always in the back.
However, as long as the follow-up of "Let's Shoot" does not collapse, this variety show can still occupy a place in the ranking of annual variety shows.
One sentence to sum up: into the pit does not lose.
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