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The 4 sound dramas recommended this time are all works related to popular film and television dramas that have been broadcast, and the criteria for selecting these sound works are "after watching the film and television dramas, you can still taste another flavor of the sensory experience from the sound drama", some can be used as a happy continuation after you watch the drama, and some can make up for the regret that some film and television works cannot be presented.
Radio drama "Tianyake"
Related film and television dramas: "Mountain and River Order"
Demo platform: Cat Ear FM
Producer: Cat Ears FM & Yin Bear Lianmeng
Form of expression: radio drama
Voice lineup: Xia Lei (as Zhou Zishu), Xie Tiantian (as Wen Kexing)
Update Status: Season 2 (Part 2) is in series
Cover of the radio drama "Tianyake"
In the past two months, the most discussed domestic drama is probably "Mountain and River Order", which is adapted from the early work "Tianyake" by the well-known Jinjiang writer Priest. As the series ends, many "mountain people" are in a state of "electronic lost love", if your happiness is unsustainable, you may wish to listen to this radio drama of the same name.
In fact, the launch time of the radio drama of "Tianyake" is much earlier than that of the TV series, but the formation of this project is also unusually "tortuous". As early as 2016, when radio dramas were not yet a climate, there was a radio drama network supporting society that asked the author for authorization, invited Xia Lei and Xie Tiantian, two big men from the Yin Xiong Lianmeng Studio, and completed the first episode of the online version of "Tianyake".
For online works with no commercial benefits, it is common to have ups and downs, and this version only made two episodes in the end. Now it sounds like this incomplete work can only be regarded as a Demo, but in terms of the level of production at that time, it has been quite careful.
Cover of the online version of "Tianyake"
Many listeners like Xie Tiantian and Xia Lei's interpretation of the "Wen Zhou", every year will make a wish under the studio official blog to make a formal commercial version, in 2020, this wish finally came true, by the sound bear Lianmeng officially took over the commercial rights, Xie Tiantian and Xia Lei cooperated again, with the audience in the sound world to continue this unfinished jianghu dream.
Compared with the second creation of the "Wen Zhou" persona in the second half of the TV series, the radio drama still restores their original mode of getting along according to the "recipe" in the book.
Wen Kexing is still the avenger who is not missing, Xie Tiantian's voice is more "sleek" than the dubbing of Wang Kai in the drama version, because in the original Wen Kexing is a mature image of the world, his interpretation tone is "playful and cynical", every sentence is with laughter, plus a "thousand turns" tail note, without looking at the picture you can imagine his laughing posture when he shouts "Ah Shu" behind Zhou Zishu.
Zhou Zishu is still the lord of the skylight who steps out of the courtroom with a clear conscience, and the tone of Zhou Zishu interpreted by Xia Lei is "lazy and free", without too much emotional color and tone of voice, and more than a sense of relief to die generously.
The original text of "Tianyake" has a kind of "ancient and early taste", the radio drama is the most restored or this "retro" taste, in fact, listening to xie Xia's opponent play and the entire dubbing tone, it will remind people of the dubbing of Hong Kong martial arts films in the 1990s, especially Xie Tiantian's tone, there is a very obvious stage style, and even let people have the illusion of returning to the Shaw era in Hong Kong.
Can create this kind of ancient taste experience, in addition to the dubbing style processing, but also the later BGM collocation and transition design blessing. The scene switching throughout the radio drama dilutes the boundaries between the curtains and keeps the plot of each act continuous.
There is no monotonous fade-in and fade-out, but through the delicate ambient sound effects, musical changes and character dialogue, the transfer of the sound field position between the two ears by the sound effects of the collision of weapons, the audience is hinted at the switching of the scene. In the treatment of the highlight plot of several episodes, the dramatic effect and impact are not lost to the film and television version.
Interested listeners can audition the 7th episode of the first part of the "Tianyake" radio drama ("Fortunately, I haven't especially liked you" scene), the rhythm of the whole episode, the background music and the processing of the scene connection, there is a sense of fluency in one go, you will remember the wind sound of The Wind, the poignant flute sound, the sad sigh of Wen Kexing in this episode... Ambient sounds, BGMs and the expression of character emotions blend together to create a particularly impressive texture of pathos.
At present, the radio drama of "Tianyake" is being serialized, and the plot progresses to the chapter of Longyuan Pavilion - Puppet Villa in the book. Listeners who want to relive this "retro" story of the world can continue to dream with the radio drama.
Audio drama "The Long Night Is Hard to See"
Related film and television drama: "The Silent Truth"
Demo platform: Himalayas
Producer: Himalaya White Nights Theatre
Form of expression: Multiplayer sound drama
Sound lineup ——
Sound directors: Liao Jing, Zhang Wei
Narrator: Liu Lin
Jiang Yang: Ling Zhenhe
Yan Liang: Zhao Mingzhou
Li Jing: Bai Xuechen
Update Status: Completed
Cover of "The Long Night Is Hard to See"
In the summer of 2020, Himalaya launched the audio drama brand column "White Night Theater" with the theme of suspense and reasoning, and specially invited some well-known film and television actors to contribute, producing a series of high-quality works.
Among them, the most closely related to film and television dramas is the audio drama series adapted by the novelist Zijin Chen's "Social Reasoning Trilogy", the film and television drama versions of these three works, "Undocumented Crimes", "Hidden Corners" (the original "Bad Kids"), "The Silent Truth" (the original "Long Night Is Difficult to See") and also the Zhenshan works of iQiyi's "Mist Theater".
"The Long Night Is Hard to See" is the highest quality sound drama in this series, and it was launched at the same time as the drama version of "The Silent Truth" to cooperate with publicity. It is a work that can be described as "tragic", depicting the soul of realistic tragedy with the bones of speculative fiction. It begins with a horrific subway body dumping case, which reveals a decade-long rehabilitation story.
The whole play is very brilliant in terms of sound configuration. The production team specially invited Teacher Liu Lin, played by Zhu Chaoyang's mother Zhou Chunhong in "The Hidden Corner", as the narrator. The dubbing director and actors Liao Jing and Teacher Wang Wei are the voice directors.
Teacher Liu Lin not only has superb acting skills, but also won the annual championship of the third season of the Mango Stage variety show "Sound Immersion" last year. Her voice performance method is not to blindly imitate the voice line of the original actor, but to speculate on the role from the most fundamental emotional expression, to achieve perfect empathy, relying on her own understanding as an actor, restoring the true state of this plot on the spot, letting people enter the play for a second.
In the multi-person audio drama "The Long Night Is Difficult to See", Liu Lin is responsible for interpreting the narration part that describes the scene and describes the development of the plot, and the sense of substitution is very strong, laying a layer of the most intense and affectionate background for this sound drama, and her voice is like a "generous and tragic song" written to the protagonists, telling the past that can be sung and wept.
The sound interpretation of each of the core characters in this play is remarkable. In particular, the story's soul character prosecutor Jiang Yang, voice actor Ling Zhenhe's interpretation also gives this character a strong sense of layering -
From the briskness and dashingness of the hairy boy with ideals, to the helplessness and self-deprecation when he repeatedly ran into a wall in a cruel reality, to the painful monologues full of scars after exhausting ten years of youth in the pursuit of justice, and the final tragic departure... The layering of Teacher Ling's interpretation allows you to clearly perceive a living life, which is gradually swallowed up by the long night and the faint process. But until the end of his life, his voice still retained the firmness, indomitability and indignation, which was so touching that it was difficult for the audience not to be moved.
In the arrangement of the script structure, the sound drama and the web drama version have reached a high degree of consistency with the original work. The web drama version makes extensive use of parallel montage editing techniques, interweaving the actions of the protagonist in different places in the air and in one episode, creating a sense of tragic fatalism.
The sound drama is to assign the plot of three time points to each episode to alternate interpretation, layer by layer, until the last three clues converge and finally the dust settles. The overlapping travel of three periods of time and space makes the entire story telling process full of dramatic tension, attracting the audience to constantly want to dig out the truth of the story, and the rhythm is just right.
This sound drama is recommended to listeners and friends who like the theme of reasoning and suspense, and the production level and quality of the sound drama in the Himalayas "White Night Theater" are very high, and interested friends can also enjoy it together!
Audio drama "Assassination of a Novelist"
Related Movie: The Assassination of a Novelist
Producer: Republic of China
Form of expression: Single-player sound drama
Sound lineup: Soup water rain
"Assassination of a Novelist" belongs to the cover of the short story collection "The Aviator"
The film "Assassination of a Novelist" is a hot film in this year's Spring Festival file, adapted from the novel of the same name in the short story collection "The Flyer" written by Shuang Xuetao. I believe that many people have already brushed this special effects blockbuster during the Spring Festival, if you still want to reminisce about this story in the sound world, you may wish to listen to this audio novel of the same name produced by the Voice of the Ideal Republic.
Compared with the film version with the grand scene of special effects, the interpretation of this audiobook is much "pure". It is broadcast solo by voice actor Mr. Tang Shuiyu. I recommend this single audiobook because of its quiet "temperament" that is completely different from the movie.
In the interpretation of the audiobook, Mr. Tang Shuiyu plays multiple roles alone, narrating his fantastic "assassination of a novelist" action from the first-person perspective of the protagonist Guan Ning, advancing the plot, while using different tones and voice lines to express the dialogue between "I" and "novelist". The rivalry between these two main characters is also remarkable.
Guan Ning's tone is low, with a strong "world-weary" temperament, and his voice line even has some similarities with the original sound of Lei Jiayin in the movie, and the audience who has seen the movie can also perfectly substitute for the plot. The voice of the "novelist" has a sense of "decadence", and there is a bit of self-deprecating and suspenseful tone. Even if the dialogue between two characters is very dense, you can clearly distinguish the state of the two characters through his tone of voice.
This short audiobook ends in 6 episodes, which is very easy to digest and can be easily solved after tea and dinner. At the same time, "The Voice of the Republic" also launched the full-text sound drama of the short story collection "The Aviator", which belongs to this work, which is also interpreted by Teacher Tang Shuiyu, and interested listeners can audition the full version of the work together.
"Hate the King Is Not Like Jiang Louyue"
Related film and television dramas: "Hate the King is not like Jiang Louyue"
Producer: Temperature Sound Studios
Form of expression: original radio drama
Voice Lineup: Wei Chao as Jiang Yuelou / Crooked as Chen Yuzhi
Update Status: Serialized
Cover of "Hate the King Is Not Like Jiang Louyue"
The selection of this radio drama to make a recommendation is not because of how "excellent" the drama version related to it is, on the contrary, this Republic of China-themed "double male protagonist" web drama does not have any splash.
However, there are still some interesting places in the linkage between this web drama and audio drama, but it is also a new idea for the joint operation of sound works and film and television dramas in the future.
First of all, this TV series is based on the original script shooting, in the planning stage of the TV series, it should have planned the linkage of sound works into the overall project, and during the broadcast of the TV series, the radio drama version also cooperated with the login of the audio drama platform. Led by the producer of the TV series, the operation of directly adapting the original script into a radio drama is still relatively rare in the field of double male radio dramas.
Moreover, in the end credits of the TV series, it is rare to put the name of the dubbing teacher neatly in the same row of the actor's name, which seems to be nothing special, but in domestic dramas, the operation of putting the actor and the voice actor on the same status "respect" is actually still a minority.
"Hate the King is not like Jiang Louyue" TV series end credits
The card division of the radio drama still continues the configuration in the play, except for the sporadic characters who have changed the cv, most of them still retain the original card division. The script is also based on the original script of the TV series, and some structural clues are adjusted according to the characteristics of the radio drama. Moreover, because of the theme, a large number of double male protagonist rivalry scenes were deleted in the TV series, resulting in a rapid and incoherent plot. These problems can be well compensated for in radio dramas that are currently less restrictive.
Moreover, at the time of the finale of this drama, there are some official "riot operations", such as the original drama finally forced Bad Ending, wrote one of the male protagonists, many fans have denounced under the official Blog, and finally Guan Bo was forced to hand over a radio drama version of the parallel time and space Happy Ending ending, by the two main service teachers Wei Chao and Crooked in the world of sound to give the fans a dream, although most of the audience "does not appreciate it", but this is really a quite "ghost talent" strategy...
It is recommended that listeners who have not seen the TV version listen directly to the radio drama, in contrast, the two main teachers are separated from the "shackles" of the actor's performance and appearance, but play much more freely than the TV series version, and the opponent play of the two people sounds tense. And in terms of the completion of this script, in fact, the sound work is enough to show.
The post-production of this radio drama is also more tv series style, but it is relatively simple, without too many fancy background sound design and transition design, or more prominent voice actors.
So I recommend it to friends who like two voice actor teachers and want to try out original radio dramas without "spoilers", and radio dramas are currently being serialized.
Editor-in-charge: Cheng Yu
Proofreader: Luan Meng