On April 8, 2020, Wuhan lifted the control measures for the passage from Han to Hubei and resumed external traffic in an orderly manner. This means that after 76 days of "lockdown", the passage between Wuhan and the outside world is reopened.
On April 8, 2021, exactly one year after the "unsealing" of Wuhan. Under the guidance of the State Administration of Radio and Television, the anti-epidemic documentary "First-level Response" jointly produced by Shanghai Radio and Television Station and Hubei Radio and Television Station was broadcast simultaneously on Oriental Satellite TV and Hubei Satellite TV at 10 p.m. At this time, it has been exactly 10 months since Qin Bo, the head of the studio of the Documentary Center of Shanghai Television Station and the general director of "First-class Response", finished filming and returned to Shanghai from Wuhan. After finishing the final version of the documentary in the morning, he had time to be interviewed by a reporter from the Liberation Daily and Shangguan News in his spare time at lunch. "To use a word to describe, we have also 'unsealed'."
Present the sense of fate of the characters
Qin Bo and a film crew of more than 10 people arrived in Wuhan in early March last year. At this time, Wuhan has been "locked down". "Hubei Tv has long begun to record and shoot, and the most 'tight' time for the epidemic is that they are on the front line, in the red zone, and in the community." Qin Bo said that the joint production of the two stations is an attempt to break through barriers, and the two sides have combined to form a production team of more than 50 people, "When everything was unclear in the early stage, we could only communicate through video, and we were very anxious."
On the second day in Wuhan, the Shanghai film crew borrowed a bus from HubeiTai and "drove around in an empty city." This was Qin Bo's first visit to Wuhan and the first time he had observed the city so closely. Soon, an unexpected image burst into view. At the Second Bridge of the Yangtze River, he saw a man without a mask, shouting there, and several people in protective clothing next to him seemed to be driving him away. "It's a scene that's easy to misunderstand. In the past, I learned that it was a community worker, and this person had a mental disorder and ran out of the community, not knowing what was happening in the city. The little girl in the community, wearing protective clothing and riding a bicycle, was looking for him all over the city. "At this moment, he suddenly understood the complexity faced by grassroots communities under the epidemic." It is also firm that there must be several groups of people who stay in the community to shoot and continue to follow the community staff. ”
From arriving in Wuhan in March last year to returning to Shanghai at the end of May last year, Qin Bo spent nearly 100 days and nights in Wuhan. The anti-epidemic documentary "First-level Response" is also divided into 5 episodes of "January", "February", "March", "April" and "May" in chronological order, each episode is 50 minutes. "The COVID-19 pandemic has stirred up many complex places in human nature, and love and fear, the most basic emotions of human nature, have been fully revealed." Qin Bo said that each episode of the documentary has a theme, "We hope to present the sense of fate of the characters all the time, from the early to the middle and late stages of the epidemic, the film has made a plot presentation." ”
In the selection of subjects, Qin Bo insisted on "the ultimate case". "First-level Response" filmed Zhang Dingyu, president of Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, who suffers from frostbite and is in the "red zone" of the epidemic; also photographs the takeaway brother of volunteer service medical staff, a volunteer driver who drove 30,000 kilometers a month, a person who played the violin to cheer up the city during the epidemic, and a post-90s girl who moved from the Cabin Hospital to "Vulcan Mountain" to take care of her grandmother. "Doctors, volunteers, epidemic prevention personnel, community workers, there are a lot of stories and details in this city."
Wuhan people have a kind of "energy" in their bones
If "January" records the state from the outbreak of the epidemic to the "lockdown" of Wuhan, showing how the national level is determined to stop the spread of the epidemic; then "February" presents the individual story of the early days of the "lockdown", and also witnesses the historic moments such as hospital transformation, eight-party support, the establishment of the square cabin, and the inflection point of the epidemic.
More than a year later, Qin Bo still remembers the story that happened last February. In a community in Wuhan, a woman became a suspected patient. "Just across a rope, the community worker told her what to do; her daughter was next to her, with a plastic bag." Suddenly, she fell, and the daughter was going to pull her, and she wouldn't let her. The daughter cried so much that she stood up on her own. She said, don't cry, be strong, we have to rush forward. These words touched Qin Bo, "Wuhan people still have that kind of energy in their bones." ”
During the months of filming, the film crew also needed to face the thrill of the epidemic. In order to ensure better picture quality, the equipment brought by the team is relatively large, and it is difficult to disinfect. Once, the episode director and cameraman were following the transfer of patients from the wuhan three hospitals, and suddenly the patient coughed violently against the camera. "Although everyone was wearing protective clothing, after the whole process was recorded, everyone was stupid and did not know what to do with the camera." Qin Bo said, "Later, I began to shine with ultraviolet light and do disinfection treatment. There was a camera in Hubei who was blind for several days, and the doctor said that there was more ultraviolet light, so he rested for a week. We were also very scared. ”
In addition to months of continuous follow-up materials, "First-class Response" also combines a large number of materials collected from netizens and citizens. Some of them were taken by Wuhan residents in January last year, as well as materials from merchants in the Huanan Seafood Market, as well as videos, photos and audio recordings recorded by medical staff with mobile phones. "Summarize these massive materials and then select them." Qin Bo said, "Although it was taken by mobile phone, it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. ”
In fact, in each episode of the documentary, Qin Bo and the team thought of a poem as the title. They are: the Yangtze River has arrived in sorrow, the frost is full of horns, the bright moon shines on the river, the Spring Breeze rises in Jianghan, and the awareness is not a dream. "Although it was not retained in the end, it represented the emotions we wanted to express."
(Source: Jiefang Daily, Shangguan News, reporter Zhang Yi)
【Editor: Dai Rong】