The 2021 Tencent Entertainment White Paper has been released and is divided into four sections: movies, TV series, variety shows and music.
Movies and TV dramas are often the content that everyone pays the most attention to, and from the perspective of various data, both the film box office and the TV series are mainly based on the main theme and realistic themes.
Judging from the survey results, "Sweeping Black Storm" became a popular work with a score of 79.32, and "Mountains and Seas" became a word-of-mouth drama in 2021 with 92.64 points.
Combined with the distribution map of the proportion of the number of drama types in 2021, in the whole year last year, there were as many as 68 realist TV series.
Since "The Name of the People" gained a lot of market share when it was broadcast in 2017, and the ratings and word-of-mouth have flown one after another, domestic dramas have also tried to continue to play in realist works.
However, at that time, the viewing habits of domestic drama audiences had not yet changed qualitatively from the previous idols, sweet pets and immortals, and the production company and the production and broadcast platform were still following the old path of IP adaptation.
In the preface of the white paper, it is said that the strong intervention of regulators has caused the entertainment industry and the rice circle to suffer the most severe rectification, and the market rules and the aesthetic orientation of the public and the impact of the epidemic have brought unprecedented changes to the entertainment industry.
Multi-angle and multi-dimensional development of realistic topics
When costume dramas are "limited", when many popular themes "crossing", "palace fighting" and "delay" are eliminated one by one, it is sooner or later that domestic TV dramas will shift their attention to realistic themes.
The reality TV series in 2021 mainly present such a distribution law.
Taking the characteristics of the era as the starting point, the representative works include "Mountains and Seas", "The First Secretary of the Countryside", "The Age of Awakening" and so on.
Or take the transmission of values as the starting point to guide the current mainstream values, representative works include "Sweeping The Black Storm", "Circuit Prosecution Group" and so on.
This interweaving of reality and art, and the emotional communication between the plot characters and the audience, is a necessary condition for a good drama with realistic themes.
At the beginning of the year, a "Mountain and Sea Situation" presented the magnificent development history of the mainland's poverty alleviation in front of everyone's eyes, focusing on the story of the times everywhere, methodically and delicately telling, and more in line with the young people's aesthetic actor performance, so that "Mountain and Sea Feelings" ushered in the first explosion of the opening year.
Subsequently, similar themes of "So Many Delicate Rivers and Mountains" and "Warm Taste" rushed to be broadcast, so that a new generation of young people understand the story behind being able to eat and drink enough, and cherish the hard-won happy life.
The first half of 2021 is like the home of poverty alleviation, and when the time comes to the second half of the year, the anti-gang crime eradication in line with mainstream values has begun to take the stage.
In recent years, the country's publicity for the elimination of criminal syndicates and evil forces has been so great that "Sweeping Black Storm" has triggered heated discussions among netizens as soon as it came out, especially it is based on real events, and the impact of the picture brought by the plot presentation makes everyone feel immersed in the scene, and it is more firm in the belief in cooperating with the country to eliminate criminal syndicates and evil.
At the end of the year, there are even more big dramas, except for a "Flowing Golden Years" that met with everyone at the beginning of the year, many current social issues and modern emotional dramas that deserve attention were broadcast at the end of the year.
"Xiao MinJia", starring Zhou Xun and Huang Lei, has achieved remarkable results, not only revitalizing the ratings market of Hunan Satellite TV in one fell swoop, but also the love choices of adults during the broadcast period are the focus of everyone's discussion.
Here is a dark horse to break out of the siege, that is, Zhang Hanyun, Li Chun, Wang Ju starring in the small-cost web drama "Love is Delicious".
The timeline of "Love Is Delicious" perfectly overlaps with the present, people's lives under the epidemic, the oppression of the workplace, the pressure of the elderly unmarried family, and the dazedness and unwillingness to face the infidelity of the husband after marriage.
When women encounter all the difficulties in life that you can imagine, where will they go?
"Flowing Golden Years" is the same as "Love Is Delicious", one moves the story background of the original book to shanghai in the 21st century, and the other describes the reality that we are really experiencing at the moment.
The same thing is that they are trying to show us that women are independent and strong, and love is not a necessity in life, let alone the only one.
In the face of life's stumbling, women can also face the suffering and stand up and move forward bravely.
In 2021, these wonderful reality TV series have really done their own in their own field and told the audience their own stories.
Remember the people of the times and show the style of a big country
I believe that everyone can also see that in 2021, the mainland will also launch many unit dramas to tell the shining era figures in the historical change.
"Meritorious Service" is a major reality drama launched in 2021, when it is broadcast, the three networks are synchronized, and the four David TV are jointly premiered, which shows the importance attached to it.
Among them, the unit stories "Nengwen Nengwu Li Yannian", "Tu Youyou's Gift" and "Yuan Longping's Dream" received the highest response, and the overall praise was highly praised.
Only by understanding what is meritorious can they better pass on their spirit and the Chinese nation can emerge from generation to generation.
"Ideal Shines on China" is a major tribute drama for the centenary of the founding of the Party, in order to attract young audiences, the crew boldly used young actors, such as Zhao Liying, Yang Ying, Li Yitong, Chen Xiao and others have participated.
Among them, the unit story "Choice" starring Wang Yibo is the most out of the circle, and the topic "Wang Yibo says that Jiang Xianyun is his own role model" hosted by the CCTV news official Wei Qinbi has received more than 85 million reads on Weibo, once again forming a high degree of popularity in the young fan group, and many overseas fans have said that they were moved by the story of "Jiang Xianyun" and respected China's great ancestors.
Some topics that have not been covered before, such as overseas medical assistance and transnational disaster relief, are also involved in the reality dramas in 2021.
Modeled on the Overseas Medical Team of the Chinese Navy's "Peace Ark", "Ark of Peace" meticulously portrays the story of the mainland navy's wisdom fighting against drug dealers at sea and completing dangerous tasks such as cross-border disaster relief, establishing the mainland's current international image and showing the style of the mainland's navy.
There are also foreign aid medical teams created in "Breathe Deep Together" and the medical teams in the fight against the "Ebola virus" in "Ebola Frontline", although their figures are almost not seen in the white paper, but as excellent realistic works that embody the humanitarian spirit of the mainland and show the style of a big country, they provide a model for the mainland to shape the foreign-related image in film and television dramas.
In general, although more than 60 realistic works were produced in 2021, many topics overlap slightly, but most of them have done a good job of telling good stories, carrying forward the spirit of the times, and promoting positive values.
In particular, such as "Sweeping Black Storm", "Touring Inspection Team", "The Age of Awakening", "Children of Joe's Family", etc., from spicy realistic topics to warm historical figures to dramatic conflicts of family ethics, all aspects are very rich.
The 2021 Tencent Entertainment White Paper said in the first sentence that a lot of hilarity suddenly dissipated, some noisy voices suddenly fell silent, we do not know in 2022 under the huge changes in market rules and the strict supervision of policies, the domestic film and television industry will issue a dying wail, perhaps also in a strong desire to survive under a trace of vitality that can not be ignored.
But at least let the filmmakers understand a truth, good content is always a green pass.
We hope that in 2022, the domestic film and television industry can withstand the pressure, and under the premise of producing more excellent realist works, the sections we were good at in the past can also go further.
As the preface says, humanity will always need miracles and hopes for the future.
Then in the future, domestic film and television, strive to turn the miracle into reality.