In the first half of this year, "The Day It Becomes You" played a new idea of the old terrier of "body exchange", so that the filming location xiamen was on fire again. Chengdu, the filming location of "Emergency Public Relations", has once again become a city where Internet celebrities punch cards.
The filming location of film and television dramas has attracted more and more attention from the audience.
In the 1980s, with the process of urbanization in China, TV dramas began to shift their perspective from the countryside to the city, and more and more civilian dramas focused on folk customs and urban life. By the 1990s, with the rise of consumer culture, the imagination of urban life had become more diverse.
With the rapid rise of first-tier cities represented by Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, Beijing's International Trade CBD, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower on the Bund in Shanghai, and the small barbarian waist next to the Pearl River in Guangzhou have also become familiar faces in urban dramas. Over time, the audience and the urban drama have also formed a tacit understanding, talking about the urban drama must be mentioned in the north, guangzhou and depth.
In the process, the imagination of urban drama creators for urban landscapes became scarce. Filming urban dramas seems to have become the simplest thing, and the process is divided into two steps. First, find a first-tier city to shoot some empty mirrors of the urban landscape. Then find a film and television base, or find a house to shoot the interior. The indoor space is equipped with an overhead mirror transition, and an urban drama is released.
High-rise buildings swallow up a workplace elite in suits and shoes, but few people care about how much the people living in modern buildings can have with the exterior of first-tier cities.
Everyone is tired of seeing the same urban landscape of beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and the filming location of urban dramas is moving towards a more diversified city.
It is worth noting that Chengdu, Qingdao, Xiamen, Nanjing and other cities have begun to become the "new favorite" of urban dramas. How do these urban landscapes participate in the narrative, and what are the personalities of different cities? Let's take a look at them.
Chengdu: Who cares about the streetscape outside the window?
Dujiangyan, Qingcheng Mountain, Du Fu Caotang, Wuhou Ancestral Hall, Kuanzhai Alley, Chunxi Road... These are the classic landmarks of Chengdu.
In the movie "Intimate Enemy", Xu Jinglei and Huang Lixing punched in the wide and narrow alleys of Chengdu's famous attractions. In "Emergency PR", after Lin Zhongshuo (Played by Huang Xiaoming) and Xu Wenwen (Played by Cai Wenjing) have established a relationship, the place where they walk hand in hand is also here.
The TV series "Emergency Public Relations" Lin Zhongshuo appeared, and the flight arrived at Shuangliu Airport, with endless passengers and airport scenes, and the drama made the audience instantly feel a sense of substitution through familiar landmark buildings.
Entering the familiar territory, the series still has to come up with something new.
The so-called historical background and modern temperament are both. Chengdu has both a non-hurried and unhurried bashi, and a modern urban endeavor. Both of these temperaments can be pinched to death.
Lin Zhongshuo's Jige public relations is the leader in the industry, and the company's atmosphere is spacious to meet the script setting. It is not surprising that the location of the filming was selected as the Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Park in Qingyang District, Chengdu, with a unique architectural shape and a spacious design inside the working space, which makes people shine.
It has to be said that typical landmarks are more responsible for reminding the audience of where this place is, and atypical landmarks are responsible for adding color to film and television works.
Also filmed in Chengdu, the Mandarin Duck Tower of the Red Tile Temple appeared in the movie "My Sister", in that space, the corridor is filled with not only random hanging clothes, but also rich details of life. The wet street that the sister (Zhang Zifeng) walked through with her brother on her back may only be called out by the old Chengdu people, but the audience who has seen it will not forget that the road full of water vapor is full of unwillingness and depression.
If it is not deliberately examined, the general audience will not notice that the restaurant where the male and female protagonists meet for the first time in "Emergency PR" is the Fu le li restaurant bar in Chengdu, and the bar that Lin Zhongshuo bought drunk is in the Niccolo bar in Chengdu. Or the open lecture hall that appears in the fourth episode of the suspense drama "Skyscraper" is a scene taken in Chengdu Zhong Shu Ge...
But as long as you have seen the play, the petty bourgeois mood of the restaurant and the strong jazz flavor of the bar will be memorable. Because these scenes witness the progress of the love of the male and female protagonists.
In fact, those small roads and teahouses that cannot be named just reflect the spiritual temperament of Chengdu. Chengdu's tea drinking culture is deeply rooted in daily life, and in "Emergency Public Relations", Xu Wenwen asked university teachers to help and met and chose the Chen Jin Tea Shop in Chengdu. One is in line with the harmonious relationship between the two, and the other is that once the scene of such a life is played, the dispute over the trademark squatting in the play is no longer so tense.
Speaking of typical landmarks, similar to the Chengdu 339 TV Tower, which frequently appears in "Emergency Public Relations", in addition to playing a basic transition function, what is the use? Just like Lin Zhongshuo can live in the big house, his home has a floor-to-ceiling window, and the window is the bustling scenery of Chengdu's Tianfu Interchange, which we are not surprised at all.
The Tianfu interchange can also play a role in linking indoor scenes and urban landscapes. This landscape not only serves as a backdrop for the story to take place, it also participates in the protagonist's mental transformation.
Lin Zhongshuo seems to pursue the supremacy of interests, in fact, he does not stand by the window in the dead of night, and the colorful outside the window contrasts with his lonely silhouette, and in this process he must not listen to the cry of the true self.
Qingdao: For the narrative, work harder!
In the 2013 broadcast of "Midsummer Evening Sunny Day", the location of the male and female protagonists walking is in Qingdao's music square, and the restaurant and bar where the two are dating in the play are near the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center. In the TV series "Gate Di" broadcast in the same year, Xiao Qingdao and Badaguan also appeared frequently.
The youth drama "The Best of Us", which aired in 2016, takes the school in Qingdao as the story place and tells the growth of young people represented by the girl Geng Geng (Tan Songyun), from Signal Mountain Park to the Eight Gorges by the Sea, in which Qingdao's seascape, streets and shopping malls take turns to appear.
Recently, these landmarks have played a more important role in the series.
The story of "Circuit Prosecutor Group" takes place in Dongchuan Province, which is a fictional city in the play. The actual filming location of this drama is in Qingdao, Shandong.
Why Qingdao was chosen is roughly inseparable from two considerations. On the one hand, due to the consideration of geographical factors, the shooting location of Qingdao is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the east, and the urban image of red tiles and green trees, blue sea and blue sky has been given the soil for the story to land.
At the beginning of the episode, there is a Parkour scene of Feng Sen (Yu Hewei), in order to catch up with the witnesses, the two launch a "cat and mouse game" on Jiaodong Road. In the process, the two sometimes ran on the red-tile roof, sometimes shuttled through the seafood market, and everywhere they went was a mess. Such a scene, which does not have much ideographic function, is full of vitality because of the participation of Qingdao's urban landscape.
Not only is jiaodong Road participating in the narrative, but the famous qingdao second bathing beach has also applied for a "raise of hands to join". Here, Shen Guangshun (Wang Xiao) and his mother Hu Xue'e (Song Chunli) have a psychological contest. The son begged his mother not to pursue it again. He first denied that he and his brother Shen Guangjun were related to Xu Dafa's death, and then he insisted that his brother was the real murderer, and the truth was even more confusing for a while.
The waves constantly lapping at the rock wall, the "930 murder case", the "rape case" of the son of the secretary of the Dongchuan Provincial Political and Legal Committee, the disappearance of Shen Guangshun's daughter, and the murder of Feng Sen's wife are intertwined.
The second is the historical factor. There are many exotic buildings in Qingdao, and the opening chapter of the "Circuit Inspection Group" is the famous scene of Hu Xue'e's troublemaking, and the story takes place in the former Jiao'ao Governor's Palace. As prosecutors descend the stairs, they are greeted by Hu Xue'e, who is holding aloft a pennant, all in front of the historic building.
Exterior view of the former Governor's Mansion of Jiao'ao
Mi Zhendong's (Cheng Taishen) home is in the Chinese courtyard in Qingdao, a Huipai building with a long history. At that time, Feng Sen casually picked up the "Computer Mountain Villa Murder Case" on the shelf, and it was this book that made Feng Sen understand the reason why his wife was killed.
Overall, these landmarks are more or less involved in the development of the story, expanding the performance space of the series.
Xiamen: a unique feeling of niche attractions, dig!
As a well-established tourist city, Xiamen's landmark attractions are well known to everyone, such as Zhongshan Road Pedestrian Street, Gemini Star World Trade Center, Huandao Road, Zengcuo'an, Gulangyu Island...
In fact, as early as the 1995 TV series "Xiamen Bride", the audience saw the beauty of Gulangyu Island. Then in Qi Jian's "Seven Years of Marriage", the wife found that her husband was cheating and decided to go to Xiamen to relax, and the story mainly occurred in Sunlight Rock, Huandao Road, Gulangyu Island and other places. The 2007 TV series "In the Name of Love" showed more of Xiamen's characteristic landscapes, including the International Architecture, Huandao Road, and Bailuzhou.
Initially, film and television dramas used the fame of attractions to enhance their popularity. Later, it was found that the audience's attention to the attractions of Gulangyu Island far exceeded the story itself.
In this case, innovation becomes a must. Compared with Xiamen University, the attention of Jimei School Village is not so high, and the story of the movie "Take My Brother Away" takes place there.
At the same time, Gulangyu Island is no longer a popular filming location, and excavating niche attractions has increasingly become the main creative consciousness.
For example, in the TV series "The Day It Becomes You", the male and female protagonists camped and chose the Shangli Reservoir in Dongping Mountain. The spacious lawn was bathed in bright sunlight, and the two approached each other in the middle of the fight. Later, Jiang Yi (zhang Xincheng) was rumored by the media to choose to go to the Mandarin Duck Creek Four Seasons Flower Valley in Tianzhu Mountain Forest Park to relax his mood, and the rainy day fueled the feelings between the male and female protagonists.
More netizens said in the barrage that the good memories of climbing Tianzhu Mountain cured their fear of climbing the mountain because of "The Hidden Corner". Regardless of the ability of film and television dramas to create stems, the ability to break the stems in the filming location can also be seen.
Also produced by Huace Film and Television, it also chose Xiamen as the filming location, and "The Day It Becomes You" and "In the Name of Family" confirm another possibility of film and television film and television film and television shooting locations - excavating the unique taste of the filming location.
Before the broadcast of "In the Name of Family", non-Xiamen natives will most likely not know that there is such a place as Dongrong Community. However, the excellent filming location has the magic of "taking the scene with the drama".
After watching the play, everyone found that the side-by-side swing in Dongrong Square is not only the place where Li Jianjian (played by Tan Songyun) and his eldest brother in "In the Name of Family" talks with his eldest brother, but also the scene where Yu Shengsheng (played by Liang Jie) in "The Day Becomes You" enlightens Jiang Yi.
The slope where the male and female protagonists confessed to each other was also nearby, and after the episode was broadcast, many viewers came to punch the clock.
The sharp-eyed Xiamen audience will find that the "Haichao Noodle Restaurant" opened by Li Jianjian's father is actually at No. 38 Jinding Lane, Shangyuan District, Xiamen. The yellowed façade of the house shows a sense of age, which is just in line with the setting of the series.
Nanjing: New punch card, I don't say you don't know
As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Nanjing's famous attractions are innumerable. There are not only the profound Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing Confucius Temple, Ming Xiao Mausoleum, Qinhuai River, Ming City Wall, but also natural scenery such as Purple Mountain, Jiming Temple, Qixia Mountain, and Mochou Lake.
In the TV series "In the Name of the People", there have been attractions such as Nanjing Xinjiekou, Qing'ao Village, Zhongshan Botanical Garden, and Lukou Airport. The sweet pet drama "Penglai Room" focuses on the small building of the Republic of China on Nanjing's Yihe Road. The recently aired fire drama "Hello, Flame Blue" was also filmed in Nanjing and surrounding areas.
In the TV series "You Are My City Fortress", the story takes place in "Jiangning", which was filmed in Nanjing. The tiger commando team of the male protagonist Xing Kelei (played by Bai Jingting) is based on the Nanjing Dragon and Tiger Assault Brigade, and the hospital where the heroine Mi You (played by Ma Sichun) works is Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital.
Exterior view of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
The story of the series was born in the city of Nanjing, so the scene involving the police force in the play was filmed at the Nanjing SPECIAL Police Training Base, and the plot needed to use the aviation simulation cabin of the Jincheng College of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In addition, it is also natural for Xing Kelei to drive to and from Nanjing 1912 and Baijiahu Commercial Circle...
Baijiahu Business Circle
In general, the rapid development of the city is not only modern, but also carries the memory of history.
The spiritual temperament of different cities can be deeply integrated with the story, and the landscape in the urban drama can also participate in the narrative, which is the inspiration given by dramas such as "Circuit Prosecutor Group".
In fact, the above four cities are just the "new favorite" representatives of urban dramas. Combing through the filming locations of more than seventy urban dramas that have been broadcast this year, there are two new trends worth paying attention to.
First, the mix and match of "Suzhou + Shanghai" has become a hot topic. Six dramas, such as "I Am With Us", "Your Time, My Time", and "Moonlight Variations", have all chosen this combination. After all, Shanghai has a lot of prestige as an old first-tier city, and with Suzhou, which has rich cultural heritage, it can also be regarded as complementary.
The location of the K&K team - Suzhou Zhudian Brick Kiln Factory
Second, urban emotional dramas prefer southern cities, and Fujian, in addition to Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Fuqing and other places have gradually become climates. In addition, Cities such as Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Foshan are also on the list.
All in all, when urban drama begins to embrace more cities, it is farther away from the glitz and glitz of imagination and closer to life.
【Text/Wen Shuo Shuo】