Look at the news from Knows reporter Hu Shengfeng
2021-03-19 14:33
The puppet drama "Three Dozen White Bone Essences" is a classic memory that almost every Shanghai child has seen. But now that information is exploding and short videos are flooding life, do you still have anyone around you watching puppet dramas?
The "Next Station" program group was in the subway, but encountered a puppet drama 'little iron powder' - furry. He was a boy under 10 years old, but he went to the puppet theater almost every week to see the play, and so far he had seen all the plays of the puppet theater, and he also knew the types of puppet theater. With the support of his mother, he has begun to try to make puppets independently, performing puppetry on his own.
What kind of charm makes this boy so obsessed with puppet shows? Is today's puppet theater still what we remember?
With the furry mother and son, we once again returned to the puppet theater base camp of the year: the 5th floor of Cinderellas Square - Shanghai Puppet Theater
Transform the venue – enhance the movie-going experience in all directions
Puppet shows are a genre that targets 3-12 years old. Most of the audience was accompanied by adults and children. How to let children get a better movie-watching experience is the top priority of this theater hardware transformation.
At the entrance to the theater, there is a "cushion wall" consisting of raised mats of varying thicknesses. Before entering, each young spectator will be given a heightening pad suitable for his height according to his height.
At the same time, the entire theater has been comprehensively upgraded in terms of stage mechanics and acoustics, adding a rotating stage design and LED large screen. The arrangement of the seats has also changed from the original vertical arrangement to today's arc, which can make more small audiences get the best viewing experience.
Innovative performance repertoire - to create a stage content for family fun
How to continue the classic repertoire created by generations of puppeteers, while developing new puppet works, is the challenge facing shanghai puppets today.
The shadow puppet into a movie is the audience's unanimous evaluation of the shadow puppet plays "Mulan" and "Nine Colored Deer".
Fading the popularity of traditional shadow puppetry, using multimedia projection technology combined with black and white ink style painting style. Presented is the unique aesthetic style of Haipai shadow puppetry.
Stills of the characters of "Monkey King Three Dozen White Bone Essences"
The use of modern multimedia-sound and photoelectric technology to reshape the performance effect of classic plays is also the "secret magic weapon" that the troupe is developing. "The three dozen white bone essences of that year, the atmosphere of the whole scene day and night, were all hit by transparent scenes in front of high-power light bulbs." Ding Haotian, a young actor in the troupe, told us: "Using scattering to illuminate the whole scene, but often can only play the atmosphere, can not express the details of the moon, the dark clouds in the sky and other details." But now, we can use this giant LED screen behind the theater to display the entire puppet theater environment in a dynamic way. Both brightness and precision have a breakthrough improvement over the effect of transparent scenery in the past. At the same time, the LED screen can also carry out dynamic demonstrations, combined with the puppet performance in front of the stage to combine the puppet's movements with changes in the environment. "This kind of performance effect will be a qualitative leap compared to more than thirty years ago."
Break through the promotion model - create virtual idols, close to young parents on the Internet
"Uncle Edamame" is a newly created virtual idol of the puppet troupe. Originally just the drunken image in "The Little Girl Who Sold Matches", it has now become the "top IP" of the puppet troupe.
To become a "top stream", you must make adequate preparations before debuting. The network debut of "Uncle Edamame" began with a Korean dance that imitated station B. The actions carefully rehearsed by the three puppeteers have received good playback and attention as soon as they are uploaded.
Young actors rehearse live dances
And the actor behind the idol, Ah Tian, has done some hard work. In order to simulate the tone of my uncle's post-60s speech, I regarded my father as the best simulation object. Every time he broadcast the manuscript live, he had to spend a lot of time expressing the content in the tone of his uncle, from the angle of turning his head to the sound of laughter, he tried his best to polish every detail. "Fortunately, the current effect is good", Ah Tian said: "Every time 'Uncle Edamame' comes out, the bullet screen on the live broadcast will brush up a piece of 'Uncle Is Coming'." It shows that this image of mine has been brought to life. He is not just an ordinary supporting puppet, but really an idol recognized by everyone. ”
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Hu Shengfeng)