The second season of the documentary "China" is being broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV, and in this video account of recalling Chinese history in a freehand way and highlighting the Chinese spirit with vivid personnel, the emotional interpretation of the actors and the poetic expression of the voice actors are perfectly integrated into the story. While achieving the creative intention to a high degree, these have also received a warm response from the audience, and the likes and discussions on social platforms are endless. They have all become the narrators of the documentary "China", and when the current "we" examine the historical "we", the ideological connotation of the work has also expanded and enriched.
Concept art of the second season of the documentary "China" "Dream as a Horse"
Narrating "China" inside and outside the camera
"Li Du and Li Du inherited the ideas and spirit of China for the past thousand years, shining on each other and also illuminating China." "Zhao Tuo's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, only half of the walls are left, but they are still like a dream, brilliant." Like the first season, in the second season of "China", as the picture of Chinese history slowly unfolds, it is still Zhou Tao and He Jiong's "soul narration". The audience sighed: "The narrator listens to the calm narration, revealing a heavy sense of history. "I like Mr. Zhou Tao's voice, gentle, deep, powerful, full of my own creation and understanding." The narration next to it is indisputably parallel to the plot, giving the audience an immersive auditory experience while presenting the ultimate visual experience.
Along with the narrator, the actors who played historical figures in "China" participated in the performance. Whether it is Li Bai Dufu, who feels sorry for each other, or Guan Hanqing, who is tragic and heroic, or Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui, who have a very different way of being a subject, the actor plays a historical figure and becomes a narrator of history, giving the audience a full sense of substitution. These historical flashbacks and character retrospectives made many viewers cry, and "tears flowed" and "watched crying" were the words that appeared most often in the bullet screen. The young audience wrote down their feelings after watching affectionately: "The works can make people wet their eyes with tears, and we are touched by these small and stubborn individuals, who can build such a thick and broad civilization!" ”
Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui in the second season of the documentary "China"
"The narration, the copywriting, the graphics, the music, the intentions are all praised." The audience scored a high score for the second season of "China", which also confirmed the original intention of the creation of this work. As Feng Lijun, the film's historical adviser, deputy dean and associate professor of the School of History and Culture of Shaanxi Normal University, said: "The costumes of the actors are accurate and exquisite, the furnishings are minimalist and expressive, and the narration is narrated by the famous domestic announcers, calm and quiet, even the scene of the outbreak of conflict has a taste of waiting and watching, there is no too deliberate performance, this is another kind of fake and real." ”
In the process of broadcasting "China", the "narration" in the play and the "narration" outside the play complement each other, forming a pleasant linkage. And this interaction will inevitably lead more contemporary people into China's history, explore stories, listen to voices, and draw nourishment.
The Calendar Century Controversy in the Second Season of the Documentary "China"
How to tell china in a documentary
The name of a documentary film is "China", which condenses the thousand-year history into dozens of works, which shows the courage and confidence of the creators; while a film that does not talk about palace fighting and power plots, but only takes society, economy and life as the background, and explores the ideological and institutional values precipitated in history, which is a stubborn persistence of a literary and artistic work.
Why? In what way? It is the embodiment of the original intention of the main creator of "China". Li Dongzhen, producer of the second season of "China", said that the simple purpose of "knowing a little" about the history of the country and the "warmth and respect" for the past history are the starting point of the creation of "China". Compared with previous historical documentaries, we pay more attention to digging up stories in a certain period of history, or an event or character. "China" is to become a visual "general history" of China, a concise "outline" of historical development in one step.
It has abandoned the systematic, coherent and comprehensive introduction of history, abandoned the recording method of chronicles, abandoned the purely thematic way of telling, and abandoned the in-depth excavation and examination of historical details. Li Dongzhen said that "China" finally chose those most far-reaching and important nodes that had the most profound impact on future generations, the most pioneering and turning point at that time, the most representative, the sense of the times, the most dramatic people and stories, tracing how China and Chinese today have come all the way. Because this choice determines the tone of "China" and also determines the depth and temperature of each person and story.
Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci in the second season of the documentary "China"
Along with the advantages brought by video narrative, it also runs through personalized and stylized expression and presentation. In Feng Lijun's view, as a documentary, "China" has achieved a phenomenal breakthrough in historical storytelling, "for the first time, it perfectly uses this kind of slow motion, the background is blurred into real landscapes, and the lens language that pays attention to the freeze frame of the moment scene is used to tell the history of China." This lens language is cleverly adapted to the Chinese story, and the story and the picture are integrated. ”
In terms of theme, the second season of "China" sorts out the ideological sources and changes in China over the past thousand years, presents the birth of home-country feelings and people-oriented ideas, and also presents the parallel development of the world. But in terms of expression, "China" highlights the "gentle power" with its narration, just as Feng Lijun summed it up: "China" is a character, a life, a Chinese, a Chinese life, an extraordinary Chinese, an extraordinary Chinese as usual.
Zhang Xiao in the second season of the documentary "China"
"China" embodies the "pursuit" of China
"When the monsoon sends messages from all over the world, China opens a window to the world little by little." While the audience relished the beautiful commentary of the second season of "China", it also explored the historical perspective and cultural attitude behind a documentary in its lens.
This is of course an important mission of the main creative team, and the audience perceives the flow and evolution of cultural thought behind the name of the second season episode of "China": "Dreamland" shows the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty and even determines the aesthetic height of the Chinese of later generations; "Shijing" tells the story of the drama that undertakes the mission of carrying the tao with literature; "Dadu" shoots the grand situation of the reunification of the multi-ethnic country that can be continued again; "Hami" recreates the historical confrontation of Chinese and Western cultures... "Where did China come from?" How did you get here? How did the ancestors shape the spiritual temperament of this land while creating the country? Li Dongyan said that the creator has gone through a five-year process of learning, exploration and creation with such curiosity and awe.
Qianlong and Magalni in the second season of the documentary "China"
The creative attitude directly reflects the creator's view of history, Feng Lijun analyzed: "Since historical China is the source of modern China, how do we understand the historical 'we' today, which is the most important task of "China". This 'understanding' is the pursuit. The beauty of pursuing historical China, whether it is the beauty of ideological controversy, the beauty of building a unified country, the beauty of calmly coping with historical changes, or the beauty of catching up with the world trend. ”
Therefore, in the second season of "China", we see the refinement of Chinese character culture, see a new round of infusion of the essence of the culture of the northern nationalities, and see the consensus of unifying multi-ethnic countries like faith... The evolution of historical China is the development of Chinese civilization; the development of Chinese civilization is the invariance and change of the way of life of the Chinese. It is gratifying that ordinary audiences feel the good intentions of the creator, and they sigh, "'China' cuts from the thoughts of those historical figures, and everyone's life is a reflection of the times." And that's probably the best footnote to a documentary.
Source: Beiqing Network