"The Sea of Dreams" Seminar: What is the way to the period drama with more than 100 million bullet screen interactions

July 8, 2023 | Issue 3290

On July 6, a seminar on the TV series "The Sea in a Dream" sponsored by the China Television Arts Committee and the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau was held in Beijing.

"The Sea of Dreams" premiered on CCTV's eight sets of prime time on June 1, 2023, broadcast exclusively on Tencent Video on the whole network, and co-broadcast by Oriental Satellite TV, achieving excellent broadcast results, with a Douban score of 7.5.

Relevant leaders of Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau and the Publicity Department of Beijing Xicheng District Party Committee, platform representatives and drama creators, together with industry experts and scholars, gathered together to conduct in-depth discussions on the creation concept, artistic techniques, industry significance and other aspects of the series.

Age texture, youth narrative and era texture

The TV series "The Sea of Dreams" tells the inspirational story of a group of idealistic and emotional young people who grew up, pursued their dreams and struggled in the seventies of the last century. After the broadcast, the attention and popularity continued to rise, with the popularity value of Tencent Video Station exceeding 30,000 and the number of barrage interactions exceeding 100 million.

Zhang Su, member of the party group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, believes that this drama refracts the big era with small characters and resonates with emotions; reflect the big time with small incisions and empathize with the times; Create a big atmosphere with small details and resonate with the heart, so that people have a strong sense of substitution.

Du Yuchen, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Xicheng District Party Committee of Beijing, said that the success of "The Sea in the Dream" has played a very good role in telling the story of Xicheng, spreading the voice of Xicheng, and enhancing the image of Xicheng.

Zhao Xiaobo, head of the TV drama project department of the Film and Television Documentary Center of China Central Radio and Television Corporation, also mentioned the sense of substitution, "The behavior, emotions and speculations of the characters in the play all gather modernity, so that young audiences can also draw the spiritual power of continuous struggle from the people in the play while looking back at their fathers' youth." During the broadcast, we noticed that the atmosphere of chasing dramas on the Internet was very harmonious, and fans made many positive discussions around the plot. ”

Sun Zhonghuai, CEO of Tencent Online Video, said that the most intuitive feature of this drama in the creation is to combine the era and youth, depict the growth and opportunities of a group of young people in the historical context, and create real and credible youth characters, while at the same time jumping out of the conventional creative language of period dramas, which has both the texture of the era and the texture of the times.

Yang Xiaopei, CEO of Xixi Pictures, shared the creative concept and process of "The Sea of Dreams", saying that the creative goal of this drama is to have both the idealistic color of blood and youth, and also take into account the indispensable historical depth of period dramas.

"Through the coming-of-age stories of a group of young people in Beijing, we led the audience to relive the youthful years of the 70s of the last century. The creative perspective extends to all aspects of young people, and explores topics such as friendship, love, brotherhood and faith, while progressing from youth stories to family and country feelings, striving to achieve both ideological and contemporary aspects. ”

Xiao Yanqiu's actor Zhang Lingxin believes that the drama "The Sea in Dreams" allows her to experience the life of her father's generation and see the rich spiritual world of the previous generation. She began to reflect, "Now people's material living conditions have been unprecedentedly satisfied, but the spiritual world is far less than that generation, I hope this play can let young people understand the past, and at the same time have a new outlook for the future, a new understanding." ”

The emotional value of period dramas

Li Jingsheng, vice president of the China Federation of Radio and Television Social Organizations, believes that "The Sea in the Dream" has mainly expanded in three aspects: the extension of realistic themes, the expansion of realistic creative methods, and the expansion of youth themes.

"At present, the creation of realistic themes is constantly extending to period dramas, and the method of realistic creation is constantly extending to deeper historical depths. In this form, we should not be nostalgic for nostalgia, not sigh for sighs, but extract the ideological value and social value of that era into something that resonates with today's people, which I think is a creative focus to enrich the ideological, cultural and spiritual connotations of the work. ”

Wang Shoude, former director of the General Political and Art Bureau, praised the military drama and war drama of this play: "Although the battlefield scenes are not long, they are extremely exciting, especially the inner dramas of the characters, such as the level of Xiao Chunsheng and Ye Guohua's realm, which are directly reflected in the battlefield environment." ”

Liu Qiong, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department of People's Daily, believes that this is a realistic period drama with vivid and novel characteristics and rich spiritual expression, through the successful shaping of the ideals, feelings and beliefs of the main characters, it praises the innovative and enterprising spirit of the younger generation, creates memories of historical eras, and has emotional resonance with the broad audience.

Liu Shuxin, a professor at the School of Literature and Journalism and Communication of Minzu University of China, interpreted Xiao Chunsheng's character from the perspectives of artistic ideals and moral ideals. She believes that Xiao Chunsheng has the character of jade and the posture of bamboo, and his qualities of benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and courage and martial virtue reflect the value pursuit of Chinese.

Yang Hongtao, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Drama, Film and Television of Communication University of China, said that "The Sea in the Dream" reflects a strong nostalgia and nostalgia for that era, and the tone of the work is full of vitality and vitality. Fuhua Dao restores that era, making the audience real and feelable, but also getting emotional resonance and value recognition from it.

Zhong Chengxiang, a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Culture and History and a well-known literary critic, affirmed the ideological and artistic value of the play: "The Sea of Dreams builds a vivid character image from the whole of life, and at the same time makes valuable explorations in historical depth and extension, making the drama have depth, breadth and strength. ”

Yi Kai, Secretary-General of the China Television Arts Committee, concluded, "The Sea of Dreams is a well-made Beijing-style drama, which ultimately presents people with positive spiritual power, and the audience can also feel very delicate and in place emotional expression in the play. ”

【Text/Xu Xinqiang】