Last night, after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Cai Guoqiang, the chief designer of the opening fireworks and a famous artist, walked into the Douyin live broadcast room and explained to the audience the behind-the-scenes of the opening fireworks design.
▼ The general design of the opening fireworks is Cai Guoqiang
During the opening ceremony broadcast, the audience can see that after the words "Lichun SPRING", a cloud of auspicious clouds rises from the top of the bird's nest, in fact, it is the dandelion seeds that rise and turn into fireworks.
Fireworks with the words "Lichun SPRING" at the opening ceremony
If you look at it from the inside of the stadium, it is another scene, Cai Guoqiang used fireworks to release "YingkeSong", he imagined the bird's nest as a large potted plant, which was praised by netizens as "there is no hole in the sky".
Cai Guoqiang designed the manuscript of "Welcome Song"
For using traditional fireworks to play a "welcome pine" in the sky, Cai Guoqiang laughed and said that the original inspiration came from potted plants, but in such a large-scale burning, the inspiration was changed to Huangshan Welcome Pine. Of course, this little cleverness is not easy to achieve.
"Because fireworks are three-dimensional spray-like after they are exploded, to make pine needles, you need half of them and half of them without a sense of pine needles."
How to make pine needles upwards? Cai Guoqiang said it needs to explode when fireworks bombs explode during the ascent. In this regard, Cai Canhuang, executive design and technical director of fireworks at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, said, "This time the fireworks are transformed on the traditional fireworks products, and the form of fireworks has changed compared with the past. In ten seconds, there were nearly 1500 rounds of ammunition combined into a shape. You want to control the time node and height of each bullet. ”
The final presentation of "Welcome Pine" at the opening ceremony
It's a simple and atmospheric fireworks show. It is reported that the number of fireworks at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was only 10% of that of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Zhang Yimou, the general director, said, "Knowing autumn with one as ten and one leaf is a very good aesthetic concept of Chinese. ”
Cai Guoqiang said, "Fireworks were released at the opening ceremony, and the whole world is putting them on display. What is unique to you? Fireworks are basically colorful. Every time you set off fireworks, you can't wait to use all kinds of varieties and colors. ”
Therefore, the fireworks of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, Cai Guoqiang used simple colors to bring the audience a silver-white northern scenery.
Basically, the fireworks of the entire opening ceremony that everyone saw were all silvery white except for a few green ones. The entire opening ceremony three times the general sky is full of silver northern scenery. This one I find quite attractive to myself. If you don't want to see it yourself, then it's not interesting to show it to others.
The live broadcast poured in 20,000 fans, one after another, and this time the fireworks were not addicted. Cai Guoqiang replied humorously: "It's not addictive to watch." Am my fireworks creating atmosphere? No, it's creativity. However, Cai Guoqiang still played the in-field perspective on his personal Douyin account and shared "Those Opening Fireworks You Didn't See".
Cai Guoqiang shares "Those Opening Fireworks You Didn't See"
In the two years of preparation for the Winter Olympics, Cai Guoqiang returned to China four times, each time experiencing a long quarantine and investing a lot of effort, and the final discharge time was not long.
Do you have regrets that your ideas may not be fully realized?
Cai Guoqiang elaborated on the design concept in an interview
"Even if I only come to fry an 'egg', I will come." It's a responsibility. Cai Guoqiang responded: "This matter is divided into small me and big me, and it is sad that a good idea has not been fully realized, but seeing that I and the team have created a good night in front of all mankind, there is pride and satisfaction, covering up the sadness of the small me." I was very touched by the whole performance today. ”
"The life of an artist seems a bit routine. Entering the museum, preparing, opening, guiding, and speaking in applause shows that the artist's life is a bit far away from life to some extent. From the Beijing Olympic Games, to the APEC conference, to the National Day, every time I participate in a large-scale event, it is completely different from doing an exhibition in the art museum, experiencing the working atmosphere of the Olympic Games, solving contradictions and discovering problems, allowing me to return to life and make my creations healthier. Cai Guoqiang added.
Two highlights of the opening ceremony made him think twice in the live room.
One is the lighting of the Olympic flame, praised by Cai Guoqiang, such creativity inherits the spirit of oriental art, we light a small torch, aesthetic leaf Zhiqiu liberated itself and created a new form.
The second is to release the peace pigeon, the children stepped on the free snowflakes on the LED ground, changing the one-sided and uniform style of the opening ceremony of China's large-scale activities, so that everyone can see the agility of the East.
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At 1 a.m., Cai Guoqiang once again greeted the audience in Mandarin with a Fujian accent:
"Let's cheer on the ice athletes together!"
I wish you all the Year of the Tiger a big 'flower'! ”
New Performing Arts Studio
Author: Le Mengrong
Editor: Wu Xuying
Image: Xinhua News Agency, partly from the Internet
Xinmin Evening News Cultural Department