Love life, love dreams, and love all the beauty and pain that life brings.
Dong Yingda, the well-deserved "top stream" in the film and television drama scoring industry, as far as the eye can see, in various international award-winning movies and popular TV series to build the music world, it is this self-proclaimed "Miss Dong who writes small songs".
He began to be exposed to musical instruments at an early age, studied professional composition in depth as a student, and clarified the real passion of his life in his youth- film music. Movies "Long Days on Earth", "Six Desires for Heaven", "Poet", TV series "No War in Peking", "Great Rivers and Great Rivers", "Old Tavern", "Tiansheng Long Song", "Daming Fenghua", "Qingping Le", "Sweeping The Black Storm"...
Despite her work and the trade-offs between various invitations, she fearlessly prepares herself for the cause, both the choice and the situation in which she is chosen. Because Dong Yingda knows that love can withstand all the wind and rain in the world.
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I'm ready for ready for
Before the New Year, Dong Yingda entered a hospital emergency room. Because she made a movie in 5 days with the soundtrack. In the face of a request for a film to be contested abroad immediately, "how much can be done and how much can be done", Dong Yingda's belief in "I'm ready for ready for" surged warmly. The "symphony orchestra" in her mind roared with her creative resonance for 5 days, directing her to write, work, and teach endlessly... The body finally issued a warning. When she walked into the cardiovascular department at ten o'clock in the evening, she also admitted that she had fear in her heart. At two o'clock in the morning, the results of important indicators came out, and the doctor said a relieved word: "No surgery, you can go home." In order to be able to sleep, Dong Yingda asked the doctor to prescribe sleeping pills, and when he returned home, he carefully cut the medicine in half and took it, and the ultra-high-loaded body only obtained the first rest of more than 12 hours in several months.
This experience of being ready to meet the impossible but ultimately accomplishing well and even winning awards has been encountered many times in Dong Yingda's musical career. Returning from the Cannes Film Festival, the next 50 episodes of the feature film "The Old Tavern" were all soundtracks plus two theme songs of work, from "This is Impossible!" "Break through to" Nice job! It took only one month; the theme song "And the Light and Dust" written for the TV series "Dajiang Dahe 2" made Dong Yingda, who was responsible for the overall songwriting, arranging and production, win the "Top Ten Golden Songs" and "Best Lyrics" awards in the 2021 Oriental Wind and Cloud Chart; when he graduated from college, he professionally required the handing over of single movement symphonic works, Dong Yingda wrote 5 movements in 5 months, and also sent himself to the Department of Cardiology of Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital in one go.
Long-term training in "inner hearing", she has a symphony orchestra in her mind, opens her eyes, sees the score; closes her eyes, and the inner orchestra starts playing at any time. This almost neurotic reaction is a necessary quality for a good composer, but it is easy to make ordinary people who have finished their work in the inertia of a huge roar at any time. That year, Dong Yingda, who was in his early 20s, spent 21 days in the hospital, and Holter, who carried him with him, recorded more than 3,000 morning beats a day. After handing in her graduation work, she said to herself, "I can write a good symphony!" But never wanted to write anymore! In the next ten years, this student, who had been associated with music since the age of five and had often taken the first exam for more than a decade, really did not write a large number of tomes. Write it and say goodbye.
Poster for the TV series "The Old Tavern"
When She was twenty years old, Dong Yingda went abroad to study, experience Hollywood, and then returned to teach at home; she went skiing, learned sailing, played golf, camped, in order to play bowling, she also specially customized a special ball of her own; she went to Northern Europe to see the aurora, and also went to the polar region to see the polar day and night, driving all over Europe; she went to Costa Rica to drink coffee, went to Alaska to see sturgeon migration, walked into the Sahara Desert, went to no man's land camping; she went to Van Gogh's convent, She also rushed to the limit before the museum in Vienna closed; she walked into Mozart's house, took off her shoes, and stepped on every inch of the stone slab that Mozart had stepped on... Breaking the limitations of time and space, Dong Yingda is fully releasing her curiosity about the whole world and encountering the results of the concentrated expression of various human emotions. Curiosity and footsteps, she did not know at the time, these experiences will become her vigorous internal force after she escapes, and those colors will once again be gathered for her love.
Dong Yingda's journey in the lens
Until one day, Dong Yingda saw the movie "Contact" on a travel plane, which had a line: "I am the only witness of this child in this world." This sentence made her suddenly realize: "Life is so short, who would know that I have ever existed in this world?" Music has an immortal vitality, so that every play that comes to me can give birth to its own life in my hands, they are the witnesses I have come to this world. ”
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The happiest thing is to create
Dong Yingdafu, who had successfully entered the industry, was poured cold water at the beginning - the films he participated in creating after returning to China eventually failed to cooperate for various reasons, and his enthusiasm was beaten to dust. "What the hell am I doing wrong? Is there something that is not done well enough? What exactly is the answer? This kind of self-examination gradually became the norm, becoming a "big hairy monster" who jumped out from time to time to make her self-doubt.
Until a recent coincidence, the director who had politely rejected her specifically approached Dong Yingda, expressed his admiration for the popular works from her hands, and said: "At that time, I didn't know how to cooperate with you, and I was worried that there would be risks. Your works in recent years have been endless, completely breaking my previous understanding. "The answer that Dong Yingda has been looking for for ten years is so simple, it makes Dong Yingda firm in the praise or denial of others will not let her lose her love for creation, experience the knowledge of its white, keep its black, and its light, with its dust, still love life, collect all kinds of emotions in life and express them in notes.
Dong Yingda encountered "No War in Peiping" with a "construction period" of 15 months in the days of waiting for opportunities. Since then, Dong Yingda has begun the journey of "being heard".
Stills from "No War in Peking"
TV series "No War in Peiping", "Tiansheng Long Song", "Blade", "The Wind of Langyabang Rises changlin", "Daming Fenghua", "Old Tavern", "Qingping Le", "Great Rivers and Rivers", "Sweeping The Black Storm"... Let her music become a familiar and indispensable musical background in many popular dramas; and the movies "Long Day Long" (2019 Berlin Film Festival Main Competition), "The Poet" (2018 Tokyo Film Festival Main Competition), "Six Desires heaven" (a concern of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival), "Willow Waves Singing Warblers" (2021 Golden Rooster Award domestic new film screening, 2021 Shanghai Film Festival main competition), "Homesickness" (2019 Shanghai Film Festival main competition), "Broken Bridge"... And her music has become an indispensable element in the film's awards.
"The Earth Is Long" | Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival
Be ready for a completely different type of challenge, with onlookers uttering "You can even do this!" The amazement is the norm of Dong Yingda's work. This tall girl from the north of Qingdao, Miss Dong, who still has to face many setbacks to this day, has come all the way, just like she wrote in the theme song "With the Light and Dust" in "Dajiang Dahe 2": stumbling and groping, despite the ups and downs of the body.
"Dust with The Light" | The theme song of the TV series "Big River 2"
Still, she believes that everything is worth it, that everything is moving in a good direction, and that there are so many people who need her and love her work. "The works are there, the others, to learn to put down. I ate a bad peanut today, don't you love peanuts from now on? No way. To change nothing is better than to change oneself, to make yourself stronger and better. If I've ever done anything rebellious for a cause I love, it's that I've put up with my cowardice and insisted on what I felt should be respected in this industry that I should uphold. I have encountered setbacks but I have also experienced more about what warmth is, and now more and more collaborators cherish you, love you, love your works, and are very happy. ”
"Goodbye" | Episode of the movie "The Willows Smelling Warblers"
"Chasing the Wind" | Episode of the movie "Zero Degree Limit"
Returning to what he has been doing recently, Dong Yingda can hardly hide his excitement, and the three dramas "Zero Degree Limit", "Willow Wave Singing Warbler" and "Broken Bridge" will be released within the year. The day before filming, she had just finished recording the theme song of "Willow Wave Singing Warbler" with Zheng Yunlong in the next shed. From the initial "what posture will I collide with The Yue opera", to the creation of it, to the completion of it, after the most laborious pre-stage, the most laborious post-production, after the recording is completed, when she hears her own works expressed by excellent performers, it is Dong Yingda's favorite and happiest moment, and she can deeply appreciate what is called adrenaline rush.
"Writing music is so hi, and when I work, I can feel the beating of my heart more." Tasting every process that can't be written by scratching my ears and scratching my cheeks alone has brought me too much physical and mental pleasure to create! ”
Giving all the emotional resonance to the concentrated stirring of the music of love, with the continuous surge of the self to promote surprises, in an increasingly uncertain world, Dong Yingda understands the importance of self-yuanshen stability. "I told myself, be normal, watch the flowers blossom and fall, spoil and not be alarmed, sit and watch the clouds rise, and do not like things and do not grieve with themselves. My joys and sorrows have all resonated with them in my work, and my own emotions do not need so much to export. ”
Poster for the movie "Broken Bridge"
Love life, love dreams, and love all the beauty and pain that life brings. She never plans her life because "how boring it is to have a plan in life". But she is always curious, loving and brave, always ready for the storm or the calm of the waves, waiting for the "next" unknown to collide.
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BAZAAR: How do you define "intelligence" and "beauty"?
Dong Yingda: A woman with wisdom is not shocked, calm, learned, gentle and firm. Women are resilient, and this is actually a kind of wisdom. Beautiful, natural is beautiful. Everyone has their own advantages and disadvantages, and after growing up, you will find that these should be called a person's "characteristics". No piece of jade is the same, even beautiful jade can be flawed. But when this so-called flaw is embedded in a design with a unique concept, it may become a highlight. The beauty of people is different in every age group, and the beauty of 20 years old and the beauty of 50 years old are different, which is the best gift of time.
BAZAAR: In what ways do you think it is possible to reach or approach the "wisdom" and "beauty" in the mind?
Dong Yingda: Persist, do not give up, maintain courage, and maintain a stable state of mind. Don't pay much attention to what other people think of you.
I wasn't a clever kid when I was young, so when I grew up, I wouldn't look for shortcuts, because there wasn't a single step to be skipped, imperfect but trying to take every step to the ground. I like to feel and touch everything bit by bit, to experience it personally, to pain, to be happy. People love to pain, and I use music to resonate with these sounds. That's my stupid approach.
Dong Yingda at the Harper's Bazaar Love theme forum
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Interview & Written by Xu Xiaoqian
Makeup / Dou Kai
Costume styling / Qin Lei
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