The video industry has entered the era of "All-People Leeuwenhoek", where people are picking up microscopes and paying more and more attention to details that used to feel "unimportant". Those TV dramas that are divorced from reality have been criticized as "suspension dramas", which means that even if the costumes are exquisite, the characters are exaggerated and artificial, and the plot is also outside of reality, without nutrition.
In this year's New Weekly's 22nd China Video List, we were pleasantly surprised to find that those works that are willing to work hard in the details are not stingy to send praise.
At the beginning of 2021, the first wave of national drama boom came from the noonday sun's "Mountains and Seas".
"Mountains and Seas" tells the "difficulty of attacking the strongholds" of poverty alleviation in the big era, but the focus is on a small Yongquan village, from those small, poor and down-to-earth people, looking for the hope of an immigrant village to eventually get rid of poverty and transform.
The moving thing about "Mountains and Seas" is that everything looks real enough. From material "poverty" to spiritual "poverty", the village slowly unfolded various shackles in resources, industries, concepts, and customs, highlighting the significance of "support". From the costumes of the actors to the "true" and "soil" of the shooting and filming, the true restoration of the northwest countryside at the end of the last century has been realized, and this "ingenuity" is rare in domestic dramas, but the noonday sun can always give people surprises.
From the perspective of "out of the circle", "The Age of Awakening" has won the core audience with the main theme narrative, and the people who have a well-known name in history have been "played" - in the play, the young people who took the lead in awakening 100 years ago are no longer just the great people who are defined by the few strokes of the textbook, but also the young people who like to complain when working, are embarrassed by two cents, and will be hungry.
The documentary "Post-90s" also takes the same path, telling the life of the "post-90s national soldiers" represented by Yang Zhenning, showing their stories in their student days, so that the younger generation of audiences have more empathy.
The audience's resonance with the "real" is also reflected in the continuous realist works this year. The summer file "Xiao Shede" once aroused the attention of the whole people on education and parent-child relationship, and the changes in the education industry in the second half of the year just show the practical meaning of "Xiao Shede".
The "First Workplace Drama" "Ideal City" produced by Transmission Entertainment allows the audience to see the real workplace again on the screen, and the "unspoken rules" between the workplaces shown in the play also make professionals in different industries feel the same way.
In addition, this year's major film and television drama producers have also continued to exert efforts in IP operations. The animation work "Perfect World" adapted by film and television has gorgeous and exquisite visual effects; Xixi Pictures, a new force in the film and television industry, has successfully created the "New Immortal" drama series "Ancient Dust", and the upcoming "And Try the World" will integrate romance stories into the jianghu.
In the Internet era, people are more and more aware of the value of "truth".
This year' vivo's newly upgraded VISION+ image program encourages humane and genuine expression, in this era of "everyone is a creator", in the way of mobile phone images, record the present and feel the beautiful picture around them.
The take-off of the short video and live broadcast industry just stepped on the audience's desire for "reality". In January 2020, the WeChat video account began internal testing, and based on the huge number of users and Tencent's existing ecological environment, it has stepped out of its own world this year.
And some "cold circles" are also not lacking in out-of-the-ordinary people.
This year, you may be able to see this Tibetan fox emoji everywhere, and its "prototype" is Zhang Chenliang, author of "Infinitely Small And Bright Science Popularization Everyday".
As the planning director of "Naturalist Magazine", Zhang Chenliang started from the popular short videos circulating on the Internet to conduct biological science popularization and rumor dispelling for netizens, which seemed funny, but behind it was Zhang Chenliang's own thinking as a science popularization worker.
In 2021, there are too many surprises in entertainment variety shows. "The Brother With Thorns" has been well received since its inception, and a variety show about "middle-aged uncles" has been developed into a new way of playing - this is due to the show's "de-oiling" requirements for brothers: "Don't top the crotch, don't wink, cut it off if it's too greasy."
"Who is the Treasure Singer" provides a new form of music performance program - all singers are replaced by symbols, providing a stage for some small but exquisite performances; the ongoing "Director Please Advise" invites a number of well-known producers, directors, and actors to present the audience with real "behind-the-scenes stories".
In addition to entertainment, variety shows are also trying to explore the real problems that some young people are concerned about.
In May this year, a variety show called "Fifty Kilometers of Peach Blossom Wood", which can be called "the scene of contemporary social death", "embarrassed" people in the first episode; it resonated strongly with many young generations of "social fear" audiences. Another "Summer of Eaves", the program cleverly constructs a space for the elderly living alone and the young people in the city, showing the different living habits of the two generations and bringing people inspiration about the communication between the next generation.
This year's "reality show" has finally slowly returned to the appearance of "real people", emitting real fireworks on the screen.
While the video industry is growing by leaps and bounds, its content is increasingly taking on people's emotional projections. The audience looks at the story with a sense of truth, becomes "more real", and is also "seeking truth", eager to see a reality in the virtual video world.