The documentary "Intelligently Creating a Better Life" tells the warm story of scientific and technological innovation in the new era to promote the lives of ordinary people. ◆ The picture shows the poster and stills of "Intelligently Creating a Better Life"
Tang Shiding
On the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, the large-scale 4K ultra-high-definition documentary "Intelligently Creating a Better Life", which has been broadcast on many channels of the Central Radio and Television Station and won high praise, will meet the audience again.
Originally created by China International Television Corporation and premiered on CCTV Chinese International Channel of China Central Radio and Television Corporation in early 2021, the documentary was broadcast on CCTV comprehensive channels, documentary channels, rural agricultural channels, financial channels, and many local documentary channels across the country, as well as new media platforms at home and abroad, with good social response and word of mouth. During the premiere period alone, the film triggered more than 300 million Sina Weibo topics to read and discuss more than 100,000; Youku Technology Documentary Hot List continued to rank second, with more than one million plays on the whole network; and the Douyin topic played more than 10 million times, achieving circle-breaking spread.
Why did you make this documentary?
In today's era, the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world is booming, which has a profound impact on the global economic and political pattern, industrial form, and people's way of life, and increasingly reshapes the world's scientific and technological competition pattern and affects the balance of national forces. "Science and technology have never had such a profound impact on the future and destiny of the country as they do today, and have never had such a profound impact on the people's lives and well-being as they do today." Scientific and technological innovation is an important engine for the development of human society, and the achievements of scientific and technological innovation are the common wealth of human civilization and a powerful weapon to cope with many current global challenges, boosting mankind to create a happy and beautiful life and bringing new development opportunities to all countries.
If science and technology are strong, the country is strong; if science and technology are prosperous, the nation will prosper. Since the new era, China's major innovation achievements have emerged, scientific and technological innovation has achieved simultaneous quantitative and qualitative rises, major progress has been made in the construction of an innovative country, science and technology have increasingly benefited the people's livelihood and benefited the people, continuously improved the quality of people's lives, enhanced China's wisdom and creation, and led people to a better future. In the context of this era, the documentary "Intelligently Creating a Better Life" came into being. With the theme of "science and technology change life, wisdom creates the future", the film closely follows the pulse of the development of the times and praises scientific and technological innovation with deep affection; with an international vision and storytelling expression, tells the story of China in the new era with the lens, deeply interprets the code of Chinese wisdom to create miracles in the new era, disseminates the spirit of the majority of scientific and technological workers who dare to explore and dedicate themselves to science; from the perspective of people's livelihood, it reflects the sense of gain, happiness and security brought to the people by China's scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, so as to inspire progress and draw wisdom and strength. Promote national scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and create a better life.
Excellent documentaries are a barometer of the times. The film keenly captures and records the new changes and new creations and true stories of ordinary people that quietly occur in the new era in the people's lives, vividly shows the contemporary Chinese enjoying the happy life of the beautiful era, reveals the scientific and technological factors and innovation power contained in it with images, and highlights the need for scientific and technological solutions more than ever before in China's economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihood, and it is more necessary to enhance the first driving force of innovation. The theme of "Intelligently Creating a Better Life" undoubtedly has important practical value and far-reaching significance, and its broadcast is timely at the time when China is building a well-off society in an all-round way and starting a new journey of building a modern country.
How is this documentary different from similar works that express the theme of technology?
"Intelligently Creating a Better Life" focuses on innovative expressions and tells the story of Chinese science and technology. Through the six episodes of "Home World", "Medical Health", "Hui City", "Green Ecology", "Deep Empowerment" and "Creating the Future", it tells the warm story of scientific and technological innovation in the new era to promote the happiness of ordinary people's lives, beautiful upgrades, changes in fate, and the realization of dreams. The whole film reflects the big theme with small incisions, and the small characters refract the big times, vividly interprets the profound connotation of "the people's yearning for a better life is our goal", and strives to record the great practice of China's scientific and technological innovation in the new era with a record that reflects the new atmosphere of the times and praises the people's newly created records, leaving a real and vivid video era archive for science and technology to light up a well-off China.
Although it is a scientific and technological theme, the program has been exploring the expression of breakthroughs in traditional popular science and education works, hoping to have both the surprise of "tall" and the warmth of "grounded gas". In terms of shooting means, it highlights the cinematic and popular science means, and presents 4K ultra-high-definition high-quality images and network intelligent life scenes, so that the audio-visual effects are full of scientific and technological sense and futuristic sense. In terms of content expression, it pays attention to the combination of vivid stories and the decryption of cutting-edge scientific and technological knowledge, and strives to be simple and easy to understand, which is pleasing to hear. From the Fengyun series of meteorological satellites, Beidou-3 satellite navigation system, Tianwen-1 Mars probe, Chang'e-5 recycler, Galaxy Aerospace first satellite, Wukong satellite, China Circulator-2 Tokamak device, West-to-East Power Transmission, solar thermal power station, graphene battery, quantum computer and other major scientific and technological achievements, to 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, flying high-speed rail, convenient mobile Internet, virtual reality and augmented reality scenes and other major scientific and technological applications, are reflected in the film. In order to make it easy for the audience to understand and accept, the whole film focuses on showing the "changing effect" of technological innovation on social life and ordinary people, skillfully integrates the hardcore of science and technology with the character story, and presents it with vivid scenes and visual expressions.
The whole film is based on the present, looking forward to the future, starting from the big place, starting from the small place, from the point to the surface, from near and far, carefully planning the layout of the narrative. From the city brain, smart firefighting, accurate forecasting of meteorology, building shock absorption dampers, intelligent plant protection drones, infrared vascular imagers, new drug development for cancer treatment, 3D printing of human organ transplantation, to China's medical AI providing rapid diagnosis and screening of new crown pneumonia for the world, small health codes becoming a talisman for ensuring tranquility in epidemic prevention and control, water fingerprint technology to help experts accurately lock the source of water pollution, marine ranches to enrich fishermen, hidden pipe salt discharge technology to effectively transform saline-alkali land to achieve a bumper harvest, Oasis No. 3 fungus grass will turn the desert into green space, the national park to build a beautiful home in harmony between man and nature, etc., these advanced scientific and technological achievements are refreshing, stimulating people's curiosity, curiosity and viewing experience.
In addition to introducing scientific and technological achievements, the film is also sprinkled with many moving cases of "technology makes life better". For example, high-speed rail and Internet blessings have enabled the production of remote "guifei chickens" and millennium Tibetan blankets to be exported to the whole country and help their hometowns to get rid of poverty and become rich; blind girls share beautiful moments of travel with the help of video screen touch technology; intelligent tracing system allows long-separated Taiwan veterans to reunite with relatives in the mainland of the motherland; surgical robots help cellists with brain tumors successfully return to the stage; bone marrow transplantation surgery ignites the hope of leukemia patients; intelligent wearable devices monitor the health data of elderly mothers in their hometowns in real time. All-weather protection of the elderly; smart arms revitalize young amputees who were once desperate; "star array" AI defeats world champion Go players; robots weave movable future buildings with carbon fiber; driverless ride-hailing cars efficiently and conveniently carry people on travel, and so on. The beautiful stories of scientific and technological innovation that change lives, and the warm scenes of "dirt, dew, and heat", touch people's hearts and attract attention. Those ordinary characters and tearful moments enhance the closeness, affinity and sense of identity with the audience.
Practice the "four forces", strive for excellence, and carefully polish the works
In the more than two years from planning creativity to shooting and production, the film crew went to home and abroad, and after repeated selection and in-depth excavation, tracked and recorded the wonderful life stories of more than 50 ordinary people who changed their lives due to science and technology, and invited a group of well-known academicians and scientific and technological experts in China to guide and check the pass. The production team divided into multiple roads, successively went deep into more than 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, more than 100 cities and counties across the country, traveled more than 100,000 kilometers, interviewed Chinese academicians, industry leaders in hot fields and hundreds of ordinary people, searched for many scientific research institutes, university hospitals, enterprises, factories and mines, social life places, airport stations and docks, Hehai forestry desert and other locations, through extensive research and reference of materials, accumulated a large number of rich materials.
The sudden outbreak of covid-19 during filming has made creators face unprecedented challenges. However, the team dedicated in the hardships and twists and turns, only the explanatory text polished dozens of drafts, episode by episode and sentence repeatedly deliberated and improved, the lens picture sound effects and so on over and over again carefully selected, frame by frame accurate editing. Adhering to the professional spirit of excellence and the pursuit of perfection, the team always takes quality as the lifeline, so that this documentary work meets the audience as scheduled.
On the basis of the commentary of the documentary "Intelligently Creating a Better Life", the video book of the same name has also been further launched, integrating texts, pictures and videos, and the mobile phone can scan the code to watch the video. The form of media books is expected to bring readers a new reading experience and sharing.
(The author is the chief planner of "Intelligently Creating a Better Life")
Source: Wen Wei Po