Every summer there will be a popular costume drama, this year, it is Xiao Zhan's one!

In summer, there will always be a popular costume drama - this is the "summer law" in recent years. This year, there is no doubt that "Jade Bone Haruka" came out on top.

Since it landed on Tencent Video on July 2, this drama has been unprecedentedly popular——

The popularity value of the station exceeded 27,000 in 5 hours, becoming the "fastest popular drama to break 27,000" on Tencent Video this year; Lighthouse Public Opinion Index, which ranked TOP1 with a market share of 20.09% in its premiere, has occupied the first place ever since; By the eighth episode, Detaven's TV series topped the prosperity index.

The reason for this achievement is that "Jade Bone Haruka" brings a new audio-visual perception to the audience.

On the one hand, the play has created a solid foundation for character shaping and character relationships; On the other hand, the exquisite costume and visual effects all contribute to the quality of the play, giving the play a unique and deep temperament.

Characterization: All plots revolve around people

"All the plots in my pen revolve around people." This is the creative experience revealed by Jin Yong in an exclusive interview, and it is also the reason why Jin's martial arts are easy to film and television.

For film and television dramas, character shaping is its foundation. "First there are characters, then there is a plot", by portraying the character of the character, driving the audience to follow the plot and go deep into the fate of the characters, which is the indispensable core of the TV series to have texture.

At the beginning of "Jade Bone Yao", Zhu Yan (played by Ren Min), the lord of the Chi County, uses a jade bone to conjure a "stand-in" on the canvas to escape marriage, and Master Shiying (played by Xiao Zhan) appears and transforms the jade bone into the palm of his hand. With the phrase "I thought I would never see you again in this life." "Flashbacks, leading to suspense.

Looking back in time, the young Zhu Yan longed to learn the technique, and forged a fate with the noble and kind Kong Sang Shizi with a snow cold wei. Although Shizi was framed and scolded him, spit on him, and disgusted him throughout the country, only Zhu Yan believed him and sacrificed him against the emperor's order when he learned that Shizi was "dead".

At the beginning, the most important contradiction is pointed out - Time Shadow will see Zhu Yan again one day, and she must be killed, otherwise Zhu Yan will become the one who takes Time Shadow's life in the future. The drama thus spreads the deep entanglement between the male and female protagonists.

After the fall of Shizi and the death of the empress, the relationship between the characters of the six ethnic groups unfolded in front of the audience, and the factional struggles of various ethnic groups were also spread out in just a few episodes - the Yu clan framed Shizi in order to split the royal family and the Bai clan; The six tribes each have their own intentions, either coveting the throne or wanting to destroy the empty sang.

When the series has complex character relationships, it is important that the audience can quickly understand the "character relationships" at the beginning. "Jade Bone Haruka" uses a few episodes to surface the main contradictions with well-detailed and focused dramatic conflicts, and the sense of suspense is sufficient, clarifying the relationship between the characters for the audience, making it more and more complicated. Let the audience recognize the relationship and character character as quickly as possible, and lay a good foundation for the subsequent plot with considerable ups and downs.

| Character relationships: the crisscrossing of dichotomy

In film and television works, the character is usually used as the line, and the whole plot is woven in series, and the growth trajectory of the characters collides, which naturally produces dramatic conflicts. In the tight story rhythm of "Jade Bone Haruka", the portrayal of the characters is equally distinct, with love, friendship, and more allies who protect and grow together.

Shiying and Zhu Yan are mixed with the fate of their family and country, and the love journey that has gone through several twists and turns is heart-wrenching: Zhu Yan faces Shiying twice but does not know his identity as his son; Shiying struggles between his master's life and self, and although he knows that Zhu Yan may kill him, he has never killed Zhu Yan.

And Dasimei and Shiying are master-apprentice relationships that are also masters and fathers. The great master ordered to project the feelings of Shiying's mother on Shiying's body, saving Shiying, hiding Shiying, sealing Shiying, and assisting Shiying, which is a complex but inseparable family affection.

Opening illustration of "Jade Bone Haruka"

Chongming Divine Bird and Time Shadow are the best friends: Chongming's love and companionship for Time Shadow turned into a rejection of Zhu Yan, and he became the strongest assist in the relationship between Time Shadow and Zhu Yan.

The white snow warbler and Shi Yu are friendships that cannot be disclosed but grow together. Although Bai Xueying is the only candidate to marry Shi Yu at the level of family identity, she can only secretly make an alliance because she cares about other clans and avoids getting involved in conflict of interests.

Zhu Yan and Zhi Yuan are childhood sweethearts. The chief manager, Zhi Yuan, is a maiden who has served in the Chiwang Mansion for 200 years, and has accompanied Zhu Yan to grow up. Zhi Yuan once suspected that Zhu Yan was the reincarnation of his deceased lover, so he also secretly felt affection for Zhu Yan.

In addition, there are tests of each other in complex situations like the white snow heron and the green gang. The variety of emotional types weaves a complex but moving real human world.

Although there are opposing contradictions between the characters of "Jade Bone Haruka". But what's even better is that the play does not stick to simple black and white good and evil, but firmly does the motives of the characters. Behind the dramatic conflict is everyone's adherence to their own position, not the need for conflict to arrange. It's a rarity.

For example, Empress Bai Yan, who is dedicated to protecting the world, and Qiushui, a concubine who is a pawn of the split royal family, behind it is the battle between the weak Yu clan who wants to destroy Kongsang. This contradiction also continued to future generations, and the trailer revealed that in the follow-up plot, Time Shadow destroyed the Sea Emperor of the Sai Clan;

Behind the Bai sisters' struggle for the status of Empress Kongsang is a struggle for patriarchy, who can be called emperor between Shi Yu and Shi Ying, and it is also a battle for the layout of the emperor and the great master.

The character behavior and dramatic conflict in "Jade Bone Haruka" are linked one by one, creating a suspense of the story line, and attracting the audience to follow the drama tirelessly by creating a clear logic and full of detailed plot content.

| Visualization means from a high level

The language of the lens undoubtedly shows the director's skills the most.

In the first few episodes alone, the classic bridge "Heart Bridge", which can be included in the famous scenes of costume dramas, has appeared in the play.

"Jade Bone Haruka" not only shapes the relationship between characters through the conflict of the series, but also uses "sound painting" to visualize the "human heart", which complements the high-density plot.

When Ying and Zhu Yan were caught in chaos, a bridge built with hope, beauty, and happy emotions was their only way to escape, and through a few short words of dialogue, the feelings of the male and female protagonists for each other from acquaintance were clarified, vines and flowers were intertwined and stretched forward, giving people a sense of hope in a gray darkness, although the two did not confess in words, but with the support of special effects, the picture performance can move the audience invisibly. The frequent and excellent pictures were rated by the audience as "worthy of praise just by looking at the special effects".

Not only that, but the show has never slackened in real life. In the opening escape clip, the large "Yadan" and "Danxia" landforms are taken from the Alxa Grand Canyon, a colorful sacred mountain known as "China's last secret place". The picture of Jiujiang Mountain is a combination of real scenery and special effects, the fairy platform, the lush mountains and forests, the waterfalls and streams, and the deep and quiet Imperial Valley under the cliffs, all of which bring the audience visual enjoyment and sensory shock. According to chief director Jiang Jiajun, "Jade Bone Yao" took about two and a half years from preparation to start-up. The real-life studio built by the crew has nearly 30,000 square meters. The art and scenery behind the scenes are very expensive.

In terms of styling, the most ingenious thing is the scene where Shiying is named a young master to dress up and change clothes, with a gentleman ring around the waist and a headband on his head. Elegant and simple, pure white clothing creates the shadow of adulthood, flowing and majestic coexist. Zhu Yan was originally the lord of the Chi clan, and compared himself to "the Pearl Flying Flame, he is a Salang eagle soaring in the sky." "Therefore, red clothing, which is full of excitement and enthusiasm, is best suited to express its personality.

And when the two experienced changes in the later stage, the main color of Shiying changed to black, and Zhu Yan also changed to white due to the change of mood. In terms of picture color, the play is based on white, red and black, and the opposition between red and white, black and white, all show the changes in the character's temperament and mood through the use of art, so that the drama leads the audience to further deepen the play on top of the content and mobilize the audience's emotions.

Create a neo-classical and neo-Chinese style, let the audience feel the oriental charm of coexistence and alienation, and emphasize the harmonious relationship between man and nature "the unity of heaven and man", which is the "secret weapon" of Hou Yunyi, the modeling director of "Jade Bone Yao". Xiao Zhan, the actor who played Shiying, also revealed that the bamboo umbrella used as a weapon in the play seems to be easy to use, and it actually weighs 7.5 kilograms to bring unexpected realism to the audience.

The scene preparation controlled by these directors, the exquisite costume road, and the visual effects polished in the later stage converge into the oriental classical aesthetics that can be seen everywhere in the play, all of which contribute to the high quality of "Jade Bone Yao".

|It seems to be a fantasy, but it is actually about the world

Although "Jade Bone Haruka" is a fantasy drama, it is still about people and human nature. Shiying is a priest, not an "immortal", and Zhu Yan is just the county lord of a country. The core of the conflict in the play is not the three worlds and six paths, but the conflict between home and country driven by interests.

Chief director Jiang Jiajun hopes that in "Jade Bone Yao", in addition to seeing fantasy love, they can feel more that the work conveys the feelings of home and country, chivalrous spirit, "sacrificing the ego, protecting the life" and other positive value concepts.

This has always been reflected in the growth of the priest Shiying.

When she was young, Empress Bai Yan taught Shiying to "be virtuous first", and after her death, she wrote a secret letter "no revenge, no hatred for people", as a mother's true wish, is Shiying's learning success, is to protect the world. A kind heart planted from a young age allowed Shiying's heart to finally grow pure and upright fruits. Others, such as Zhiyuan, Bai Xuelu, Qinggang and others, also have the common pursuit of "protecting the sky".

Undoubtedly, the plot of the work can have a fantasy, and there can be a secret mirror of the fairy mountain in the scene, but the story is always a human firework landing in reality, and cannot be separated from emotions and people's hearts. The audience cares about every step the protagonists make at the tipping point of choice.

As the director said, he strives to express the choice between the small self and the big self of the characters in the play, showing the light of the oriental family and country feelings, so as to resonate with the audience. "Jade Bone Haruka" bases the story on human nature, love, and power disputes. Therefore, Shiying said in suspended animation: "When they gain power, they praise me, and they hate me for admiration and staining my heart, but in fact, I have little kindness to them; When I lose power, they destroy me and spit on me, and I hate to step on thousands of feet, even if I haven't hurt them. It is also the description that most resonates with human nature in the early stage.

A good drama can resonate with the audience when watching it, and after returning to life, it will still have unlimited memories.

Whether it is character portrayal, plot presentation, to every aspect of human nature description, "Jade Bone Haruka" deserves to be called an exquisite costume drama. This is also an important reason why it can stand out in the market as soon as it is launched. The success of "Jade Bone Haruka" proves that all the intentions of the play will be transformed into the audience's emotion, and will inevitably receive recognition and rewards.