"What color is the night in your heart?"
At the screening of "Why Not Candle Tour", the audience expressed their understanding and feelings about the night by creating "colorful black" paintings on scratch paper.
Does the night have to be dark? At night, there are bright lights, warm and cold life, and fireworks in the world...... The night is colorful, and black is just the background color of the night.
Youku Humanities' late-night humanistic roaming documentary program "Why Not Candle Tour" deeply excavates the night scene, and brings a number of cultural figures to explore the human fireworks on the city streets at night, looking for the other side of the city and life, and helping the audience reach the most real soul in the cracks of the night.
On the evening of December 21st, Youku Humanities' "Why Not Candle Travel" viewing party was held in "OurTimesHere Our Time Sharing Space", writer and founder of One-Way Space Xu Zhiyuan, "Why Not Candle Travel" director Wang Shengzhi, and Youku Humanities General Manager Wang Xiaonan attended the three guests, sharing their unique feelings about the night and sharing unforgettable "Gap night" moments with the audience.
Listen to the real "Why not Candle Tour" at night, and create a Gap night for contemporary people
"I'm Xi to writing alone, and I've never liked crowds. After the first issue of "Why Not Candle Tour" was launched, Xu Zhiyuan, who was surrounded by noise, "fled" from the streets of the night market. After the literati integrated into the metropolis, the sense of contrast formed by the discomfort also allowed the audience to see the more real side of Xu Zhiyuan.
Xu Zhiyuan said during the screening: "I am alienated and unfamiliar with daily life, but I am full of curiosity. The flowing river, the dilapidated old houses, and the high-rise buildings of the city can all see the ups and downs of the spirit. From the Xiangjiang River to the north of the West Garden, Xu Zhiyuan experienced the enthusiasm and publicity of the Changsha Night Market, met interesting strangers such as Wen Feng, the drummer who wrote songs to Changsha, Hu Huan, the bookstore owner who resigned to start a business, and Sister Dong, the 66-year-old DJ queen, and walked into the old site of the School of Current Affairs to feel the historical and cultural charm of Changsha. During the viewing meeting, he also expressed his hope to bring everyone the expression of "the strangeness of familiar things, the familiarization of strange things" in the show, bringing distance and poetry in the familiar, and the beauty of the familiar and distant in the strange.
Xu Zhiyuan's difference in the night was captured by director Wang Shengzhi one by one. In the viewing meeting, Wang Shengzhi recalled Xu Zhiyuan's state when recording the show, saying: "Teacher Xu will try many things that he has not tried when he travels at night, such as playing mahjong and eating stinky tofu, which opens the door to a new world. It was a night when he would open himself up and become a different person than he was on a regular day. ”
Following what the guests of the show saw and heard during the night tour, the audience also immersed themselves in the unique sensibility and freedom of the night. "For humans, the night is a time to think. "In the silence of the night, we can hear our own inner voice. After watching "Why Not Candle Tour", the audience also expressed their feelings about the night one after another, and were pleasantly surprised by the "Gap night" time provided by the show, allowing them to take off their masks and return to reality, and find their true needs and desires in the stories about the night.
Exploring the night cultural scene, Youku Humanities continues to expand its cultural IP position
"Following "One Thousand and One Nights", Youku Humanities has always wanted to make a show about night. If "Thirteen Invitations" is daytime speculation and rationality, "Why Not Candle Tour" is the sensibility of the night. Wang Xiaonan said at the film viewing meeting. Wang Shengzhi also said: "If the daytime is about success stories, then at night you will see more weak and confused moments, which is when people are facing their own hearts." ”
The day-to-day life of urbanites is accompanied by anxiety and constraints, and they are busy running for life and future. Only when night falls, can they return to their own world, relax their bodies, get close to their feelings, liberate their emotions, and usher in thoughts. In addition to expanding the distance of the soul in the space dimension, people also need to expand the night of the soul in the time dimension, which is not often in the distance, but often in the night. In order to arouse the audience's romantic expectations for the night and let the audience have a period of active creation, Youku Humanities and Wang Shengzhi's director team jointly created "Why Not Candle Tour", and invited Xu Zhiyuan, Gao Yuanyuan, Hu Xia, Fang Qi, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Lao Wolf 6 cultural celebrities in different fields to incarnate as "Night Wandering God", deeply experience the night streets of Changsha, Beijing, Shanghai, Luoyang, Xiamen, and Fuzhou, and find your true self while listening to the story.
"Why not Bing Candle Tour" is a specific manifestation of Youku Humanities' strategy of "watching cultural figures on Youku", which adheres to the channel's concept of "humanities in people", takes "people" as the core, broadens the audience's horizons, answers puzzles, inspires thinking, and accompanies every audience who is good at observation, loves life, and Xi thinking to grow together. In the future, Youku Humanities will continue to expand its cultural IP position, bringing more warm cultural content to the audience with sensitivity, forward-looking, and caring.