The first two months of 2023 are a memorable day for the film and television industry.
New Year blockbusters such as "The Wandering Earth 2", "Manjiang Red" and "Nameless" led the box office market and filled the topic of the whole people. According to preliminary statistics from the National Film Administration, the box office of movies in the 2023 Spring Festival (January 21 to January 27) will be 6.758 billion yuan, and the number of moviegoers will be 129 million.
The online drama "Crazy" became a national hit in one fell swoop, with an average rating of 1.54% for the whole drama, the total broadcast volume exceeded 300 million for the first time in a single day, the average episode exceeded 100 million to break the popularity ceiling, and the iQiyi platform record broke 11,800, achieving almost the first place in the fault line.
Compared with the "liveliness" of the film and television industry, the music industry is much deserted at the beginning of the year. Even some industry insiders privately sighed, "The content of the film and television industry has picked up and the quality has taken off, and the music industry is so good mountains and waters, so boring."
In fact, in the first two months of the year, the music industry has not stopped working hard. As a behind-the-scenes practitioner, music works together with the plot, actors' performances and film and television industry practitioners to add luster to the work.
In fact, for most moviegoers, promotional songs, theme songs and soundtracks often become one of the key topics of discussion on social media, not without attention.
From the hit dramas "Crazy" and "The Three-Body Problem", the barrage often floats through the comments related to the theme song and soundtrack, and we can also glimpse the important function of soundtrack quality in creating a viewing experience for the younger generation of audiences.
This time, let's walk into the OST in hit movies and hit TV series, and feel the stories and worlds expressed in the notes and melodies.
01
The Wandering Earth 2
Sing the world and sing the grandeur and the small in the universe
On January 22, the "The Wandering Earth 2" movie soundtrack was launched, #The director finally had to let the composition add #, #Start a new journey and the suitability of the Wandering Earth#, #万精油型 Behind the "hot searches" that can be used wherever you can use # and so on, is the "meme" fermented after netizens actively or passively participate in heated discussions.
The soundtrack of "The Wandering Earth 2" is created by the film music producer A Kun, and the album includes 38 soundtracks from the movie, using the power of music to boost the technological texture of the film and present the eternal emotional theme of human beings.
In the soundtrack of "The Wandering Earth 2", Ah Kun continued his favorite melodic theme writing, and developed and created a number of new musical themes based on the previous work.
the confrontation and fusion of symphonic and electronic timbre in "550W/Moss"; the tragic melody of "one-way ticket"; the sense of technology and firmness of the "Lunar Crisis Response Plan"; The theme of the wandering earth series in "The Stars Set Sail" returns and moves; The electronic rhythm of "Start a New Journey 2remix"... Ah Kun uses the original sound to bring us a rich sense of picture and a shocking listening experience.
In addition, the theme song "People Are _" sung by Zhou Shen was also widely praised.
Written by Tang Tian, composed and produced by Qian Lei, this song is discussed and composed from the special perspective of "human/human". Through the ultimate interpretation of singer Zhou Shen, the final definition of the theme song "People Are _" has a very shocking power, and the core of the film is highly condensed to the audience. The ingenious design of the song first and then rising, and the real high voice that bursts violently in the second half, are especially exciting and infinitely evocative.
And the question raised by the title "What is a Man", through songs and videos, everyone will find their own answers.
02
"The Deep"
Healing is dedicated to you who have walked through the long night
The animated film "Deep Sea" has been polished by director Tian Xiaopeng for seven years, and the film sincerely constructs a new underwater world that is different from the past, telling the story of the girl Betelgeuse who pursues exploration in the mysterious underwater world and encounters a unique life journey.
"Deep Sea" has achieved the ultimate in content polishing and innovation, not only in pioneering visual effects technology, but also in the imagination of the subject matter that breaks through the limits, and its film soundtrack also adds a lot to the film, which is worth recommending.
The original soundtrack of the movie "Deep Sea" was tailor-made by the famous composer and music producer Dou Peng, which took three years, and used highly imaginative and experimental innovative creation to immerse itself in a mysterious, dreamy, colorful and epic deep sea world. Moreover, with extremely delicate and emotionally rich moving creations, the audience deeply entered the inner world of Nam River and Betelgeuse full of love and bravery.
The film soundtrack contains 23 selected soundtrack works, and invited Mr. Wang Jian, a cellist who is famous in the international music scene, to perform the important soundtrack clips of the whole film "Where the Heart Wants", "I am Not Afraid of You", "The Past Past", "Annihilation" and "Deep Sea Fantasia". At the same time, the International Principal Philharmonic Orchestra also contributed wonderful orchestral performances to the whole film.
In addition, "Deep Sea" also has 4 vocal works that also add a lot of color to the film, including the ending song "Star", the episode "Little White Boat" (cover), the smile song "Joker" and the farewell song "Goodbye Deep Sea".
Among them, the "smile song" "Joker" was sung warmly by Mao Buyi, showing the film's reshaping of the classic screen image of "Joker".
Different from the "evil grotesque" in Western popular culture, the film reshapes the Western classic screen image "Joker", giving "Joker" a humanistic core such as tenacity, optimism, and kindness, paying tribute to every ordinary hero who is not noticed, no one cares but can be his own superhero.
03
"Manjiang Red"
Yu opera + electronic music, bringing echoes through thousands of years
Not long ago, the suspense comedy film "Manjiang Hong" film soundtrack directed by Zhang Yimou was launched, containing 31 tracks. In addition to singing the ending song of the movie, Han Hong also unlocked a new identity and served as the film score composer for the first time.
Han Hong believes that "Manjiang Hong" is a pure Chinese film, and the Chinese soundtrack must also be understandable to Chinese, and at the same time can feel the infinite charm and power of Chinese musical instruments.
This time, Han Hong invited Li Hongchao, the chief banhu piano master of Henan Yu Theater, and the well-known Luoyang band Zebra Forest to co-produce, and used traditional instruments such as Sheng, flute, qin, qiao, and suona throughout the film, which well integrated music into the expression of the story.
The Yu opera soundtrack used in the film is adapted from Henan classic Yu opera singing passages such as "Tanyin Mountain", "Bao Gongci Dynasty", "Bao Qingtian", "Mu Guiying Hangs the Commander", "Xia Chenzhou" and so on, Han Hong specially invited Zhang Xiaoying, who has the title of "the first female clown in the Central Plains", to sing. "Manjiang Hong" also released the ending song "Wang" MV, sung by Han Hong herself.
This time, Han Hong intertwined the sounds of traditional musical instruments, Yu opera singing and electronic music, like echoes across thousands of years, leisurely unfolding a historical picture with laughter and tears in the audience.
04
"The Three-Body Problem"
It is not only the plot that burns, but also the ambient music
Soon after the start of the broadcast, topics such as "three-body premiere ratings", "four episodes of three-body in one breath", "Yu Hewei Zhang Lu one-three-body rivalry play", "three-body premiere reputation", "three-body original lines" and other topics have appeared on the hot search, which shows that the audience's attention to the three-body problem continues to rise.
As a super IP in the sci-fi genre, Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" has many fans, and the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" has lasted 7 years since the first announcement of the film and television news to meet the audience, and the audience is naturally full of expectations.
In terms of the creation of the series, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" is striving to respect the original work, not only paying tribute to the classic quotations in the novel, carefully restoring the details of the novel, but also attracting attention in the OST of the series and the extreme adaptation of the picture, allowing the audience to enjoy the auditory feast while immersing themselves in the mystery and pathos of the three-body world.
The producers of the "Three-Body Problem" TV series include Penguin Film and Television, Three-Body Universe, Linghe Culture, etc., of which the Three-Body Universe is also the copyright owner of "Three-Body Problem". Previously, the TV series "Three-Body Problem" film and television soundtrack album has been launched, this album is customized by OST ingenuity team Yanle Media for the TV series "Three-Body Problem", the entire soundtrack album contains a total of 6 original songs and 45 selected soundtrack works, divided into two albums respectively, bringing the audience more shocking audio-visual enjoyment while watching the drama.
According to reports, in the three-year project production process, the music team of "The Three-Body Problem" spanned three continents, broke through the restrictions of multiple countries, multiple places, multiple languages, and multiple time zones, and successfully completed this huge, varied style and extremely challenging creative task. A good story turns music into a universal world language that binds the team together.
On the vocal OST, Dream Maker Music and producer Wang Jiacheng has produced a number of theme songs for "The Three-Body Problem", such as the theme song "Lonely and Eternal" sung by Zhou Shen, with a magnificent arrangement and a deep ethereal and gentle voice, making people feel like they are in a vast universe.
The theme song of the same name, "THREE-BODY", created by the band to reshape the statue, leads the curious step by step into the unknown three-body universe through a mysterious and deep melody, full of atmosphere, which is also the first new song in five years of reinvention. Following the song, floating through the mysterious cosmic space, we feel "The whole universe will twinkle for you" along with the melody.
05
"Go to the Windy Place"
Cure the mental internal friction of young people
The pastoral healing drama "Go to a Windy Place" starring Liu Yifei tells the story of Xu Hongdou, who went to Yunnan for a short stay after resigning, and accidentally met Xie Zhiyao, who gave up her high salary to return to her hometown to start a business.
In such a slow-paced TV series full of healing, the soundtrack plays a very important role in rendering the atmosphere, among which singers such as Chen Ren, Yu Kewei, and Jin Minqi also sing songs for the TV series.
Among them, "Days" is sung by singer Chen Grain, whose ethereal and unique voice is intertwined with pure and melodious soundtrack, detailing the beautiful expectations for the future. "A Beautiful Smile" sung by singer Jin Minqi is a warm and beautiful song, conveying to the audience a kind of courage to run to a new direction of life and meet a better tomorrow with a smiling face.
Yu Kewei's "Go to a Windy Place" and Chen Grain's "Day and Day" also once ranked in the top two of the QQ Music soaring list after the TV series was broadcast.
Obviously, as the first slow-paced TV series that has attracted much attention in China, "Go to the Windy Place" has the beauty of a Japanese drama, combining beautiful scenery, cute people and good-sounding OST to create a soothing idyllic style, which heals the spiritual internal friction of young people in music, beautiful scenery and daily life.
06
"Crazy"
Show black and white contest and complex humanity
"Crazy" is produced by iQiyi and Liubai Film and Television, guided by the Publicity and Education Bureau of the Central Political and Legal Commission, the Information Center for Comprehensive Management of Political and Legal Affairs of the Central Political and Legal Commission, directed by Xu Jizhou, starring Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen.
Among them, the ending song of "Crazy" "Hide Without Hide" is sung by Na Ying, and is produced by Shao Shu Music Entertainment and Beijing Wisdom Big Dog Entertainment.
"Nightmares will pass, wounds can heal / Only faith must not be deviated / Good and evil are not confused Choice is always in / In my heart" Na Ying's singing seamlessly combines the atmosphere and delicacy of the song, setting the tone immediately after singing, and the explosiveness and listening are just right.
Led by Na Ying's highly recognizable voice, "Hide Nothing" brings listeners a feast for the ears, and also turns courage and love into notes to transmit energy, which also adds bricks to this drama.
It is worth mentioning that the music director of "Crazy" is Hu Xiaoou, associate professor and composition doctor of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and most of the soundtrack in the entire film is completed by Hu Xiaoou's studio in Chengdu.
According to the information, the music of "Crazy" is divided into three different stages depending on the plot, each stage is adapted to the situation and style at that time. But the whole is unified by fixed themes and instruments, such as the iconic vocals and electric guitars, chorus and intertwined strings, harmonica and trumpet theme variations, etc. No matter what stage the plot progresses, these themes and timbre are firmly attached to the characters and the plot.
Hu Xiaoou describes this creation as a three-movement symphony, maintaining the creative concept of "great music must be easy" in Hongdae's narrative, and the simplest melody is often the most unfolding and explosive motive.
As a part of the film and television industry, OST has become a hot word in recent years, and has also become a pendant industry that is optimistic about the industry. Because film and television music not only promotes the development of the plot, conveys the ideological content and emotional value of the work, but also becomes a powerful publicity resource, and establishes an emotional link with the user on music in the immersive plot, high-quality music works can also assume the function of extending the vitality of film and television IP (Review:
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2023 is fleeting, may you work with peace of mind and happiness in the new year.