The year 2023 marks the 130th anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong's birth. On December 24, the "Archives" column of the Satellite TV Channel Center of Beijing Radio and Television Station grandly launched a series of micro-documentaries "The People's Leader - 130 Moments of Mao Zedong" with a large volume and large span.
The film is a project funded by the Beijing Radio and Television Network Audiovisual Development Fund, guided by the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, planned by Beijing Radio and Television Station, and produced by the "Archive" column of Beijing Satellite TV Channel Center.
The volume of 130 episodes of "The People's Leader - 130 Moments of Mao Zedong", the total duration of nearly 1,000 minutes, and the broadcast time that lasted for more than 4 months, presenting the 83 legendary years of Mao Zedong's life. Such a large-scale, large-span series of documentary films is extremely scarce at present.
‧ Miniature blockbuster: small incision big theme, closely related to the current hot spots
"The People's Leader - 130 Moments of Mao Zedong" has a total of 130 episodes, each about 8 minutes. The program takes "the leader of the people" as the core theme, builds the whole film according to the time clues, and builds the whole film based on the 130 representative moments of Comrade Mao Zedong's life, and details the story behind each moment and the background of the generation, so as to strengthen the theme and lay out the chapter in an instant. Each episode of the documentary has a core area, where there will be a prop, an archive, and a photograph...... The narrator of "Archive", which the audience is familiar with, will continue to thread the needle for the audience, combining pictures, video materials, historical documents, etc., to lead the audience across time and space, into the depths of history, and get close to the thoughts and lives of great men with vivid presentations.
The first episode of the miniature documentary focuses on an old photo, and according to Hao Lin, the film's chief director, the next few episodes will rely on a world map, a letter, two chestnut trees, etc., which naturally draw out the footsteps of history and the fate of the protagonist. Through 130 small incisions, the miniature documentary recreates the vivid past, closely related to the current hot spots, especially the family and country events that young people care about. For example, Chinese-style modernization, common prosperity, ecological civilization, a community with a shared future for mankind, and strict governance of the party. The documentary uses vivid stories, popular expressions, and young voices to connect the past and the present with the present.
Judging from the current broadcast, the film has made a significant breakthrough in the creation, and the "Archive" team has boldly broken through the narrative structure and voice of traditional documentary films based on the experience of creating theoretical documentary films on major themes over the years. The narration mode is opened by freezing history and staring instantly, and the vivid story with temperature becomes the core, covering all media communication as the direction. Locking the key details and highlight moments in the carriers such as pictures, documents, and images, accurately analyzing, seeing the subtleties, being thick but not heavy, and not scattering, it has realized the effective exploration and innovation of the creation of literary and artistic works on the main theme!
Gold medal team: Lifting weights is behind the weight to move forward
Beijing Radio and Television's "Archives" has always been known for its "heavyness" -- it has won many national awards such as the Five One Project Award, the Starlight Award for Outstanding TV Columns, and the National Unity and Progress Award.
The filming techniques, style and even narrators of "Archive" are deeply loved by the audience and attract heated discussions from time to time. This time, "The People's Leader - 130 Moments of Mao Zedong" skillfully combines "miniature" and "heavy", and behind the seemingly "weightless" is the solid foundation and professional background accumulated and precipitated by the "gold medal" documentary creation team of "Archive" through the creation of many major historical documentaries for a long time.
Founded in 2009, the "Archive" column is a gold medal historical narration column of Beijing Satellite TV, and has produced many large-scale historical documentary works. In the past 14 years, the creation of documentaries on major historical themes has gained rich experience and mastered a lot of resources, whether it is in the reserve of resources such as experts, archives, and historical images, or in the interpretation of historical themes, the grasp of political orientation, the ability to tell stories and visualize, and the operation of all media.
"The People's Leader - Mao Zedong's 130 Moments" lasted more than a year from project establishment, preliminary research, script creation, shooting, post-production, sending it to the major office of the State Administration of Radio and Television for review to the start of broadcasting to meet the audience and netizens.
Escort expert: authoritative expert, Mao Zedong's only grandson
Xu Tao, deputy secretary of the party group and editor-in-chief of Beijing Radio and Television, has often repeatedly emphasized that all history is contemporary history. Every word you say must be responsible for history, and every story you tell must be in awe of history. The "Archives" team strictly abides by this principle, adheres to the rigorous academic spirit, and invites a team of authoritative experts to escort the creation.
The chief adviser of "The People's Leader - 130 Moments of Mao Zedong" is Chen Jin, former deputy director of the Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, former member of the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute, vice president of the Chinese Communist Party Literature Research Association, chairman of the Mao Zedong Thought and Life Research Association, and chairman and researcher of the China Mao Zedong Poetry Research Association; and the other is Mao Xinyu, the only grandson of Mao Zedong and a researcher at the War Research Institute of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese People's Liberation Army......
All-media matrix: more than 400,000 fans are in place, and hot topics are coming
The behind-the-scenes production of "Archive" is a team with an average age of only 26 or 7 years old, and the hidden dragon and crouching tiger. They have carefully built an all-media platform, and there are more than 400000000 fans on Douyin, which is in a leading position in similar programs!
The "People's Leader - Mao Zedong's 130 Moments" is carefully created for all-media communication. While the documentary was broadcast on Beijing Satellite TV, it was also simultaneously launched on platforms such as Xi Qiangguo, Weibo, WeChat Video Account, Beijing Time, Douyin, and Kuaishou.
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