The 2019 New York International Film and Television Festival held an award ceremony in Las Vegas on April 9, local time. The New York International Film and Television Festival is designed to honor the "World's Best Television Film Production" and is regarded as one of the most internationally minded competitions in the global film and television industry. Zheng Yitong, a graduate of our alumni Television School and a 2013 radio and television major, was nominated for the program "Cold and Warm Life: Ten Days Farewell" and stood out from 18 nominations from 11 countries and regions, and finally won the Gold Award for Humanistic Care Documentary.
"Post-95 choreographer", "more than a year after graduation", "won international awards"... These labels gave Zheng Yitong a dazzling brilliance, and friends and family congratulated him. However, after learning the news of the award, Zheng Yitong was not as excited as ordinary people, but had mixed feelings in his heart.
"Cold and Warm Life: Ten Days Farewell" is a documentary about death produced by Zheng Yitong as the director of the "Cold and Warm Life" column of Phoenix Satellite TV. Receiving rewards and honors through a film that records death, he always feels unbearable. Before attending the award ceremony, his heart was full of struggles, and the bits and pieces about this film once again came alive in his mind, and the complex and subtle emotions far overshadowed the joy of the award itself. "While the award is a very happy thing, it is based on such a film, and all the praise, encouragement and support I have received is based on my shooting of a child who has passed away. So in fact, every time someone talks to me about this film, I have to repeat the whole process of my shooting at that time, which is a more painful and painful process. ”
He wrote a text in the circle of friends to talk about his mental journey, "Director Zhou of the hospice treatment ward, he commented on me with three words 'thank you', I saw these three words, directly cried out. At that moment, Zheng Yitong understood that what he had done was meaningful. As the choreographer of documentary programs, he understands that the fate of individuals is complicated and difficult for him to influence. Under the "cold" of life, there is often a deep "warmth" in life, and what he can do is to bring these warmths that touch people's hearts but are not easy to detect to the audience.
Face death head-on and give dignity to the deceased
"I think the meaning of companionship is greater than the meaning of recording. Although many people watch this film and cry with a tissue, I hope that everyone will not take this as a too sad thing, which is not our intention. The more important significance of this film for myself is to know and become friends with this family, which has left traces in my life. Zheng Yitong shared when referring to the intention of the film, "In the face of life and death, facing this dilemma that everyone will face, this experience makes each of us closer to each other." ”
What supported Zheng Yitong to complete the filming was a sentence said by the chief producer of "Cold and Warm Life": "What we want to shoot is not pain and death, but humanity and dignity." "Death has always been a taboo topic in our culture, and Zheng Yitong's film on end-of-life treatment looks directly at this avoidance and leads people to think about how to reduce the suffering of the living and give them more dignity when they die." End-of-life treatment is a very important part of death education. Death education actually tells us: "Death is not a flood beast, but a natural process." "In the hospice ward, in addition to alleviating the patient's pain, the most important thing is to give the patient's relatives more time to say what the patient wants to say, leave the emotions they want to leave behind, let the living and the deceased say goodbye, and let each other slowly accept the process."
Love phoenix, record cold and warm life
As the weekly documentary program with the most humanistic feelings since the establishment of Phoenix Satellite TV, "Cold and Warm Life", which has been broadcast for 15 years, has always been regarded as an important "label" of Phoenix Satellite TV and a "pressure stone" that highlights the characteristics of style. Through the program, we pay attention to the fate of ordinary people, transmit different temperatures in the human world, and let the audience feel the heat of life. Whether it is in the choice of the sense of weight of the characters or the excavation of the depth and complexity of the characters, this column hopes to let the audience understand the times, understand the history, and understand human nature through different and vivid individuals, which is the soul of the column.
Zheng Yitong has always liked this column very much, and after graduating from college, he joined the column team without hesitation. More than a year after graduation, as a new choreographer, he has participated in the production of nearly 20 episodes of the show.
"In fact, in "Cold and Warm Life", death is a very common topic." When talking about whether he has been exposed to topics related to death, Zheng Yitong said, "The word death is not unfamiliar to me. In the summer of '17, my grandmother died, and the day before the funeral, I left my grandmother on a temporary business trip. Not sending my grandmother away has always been a regret for me. At that time, I also had a bit of a private wish, that is, I hoped that in the process of sending away Zhiyuan, I could experience and feel it again, and I could accompany a person through the last part of the process, but I did not have the regret of sending away my grandmother. In the process of working in the "Cold and Warm Life" column of Phoenix Satellite TV, Zheng Yitong not only enriched his emotional experience, but also showed the audience the joys and sorrows in life.
Do not forget the original intention, poplar to warm primrose
During his time in school, through theoretical learning in the classroom and practical exercises in the school TV station, Zheng Yitong mastered the ability to shoot, edit and tell stories, whether it is doing news or documentaries, these abilities are indispensable. "At that time, Zhongchuan News was my second dormitory, and I remember that every time I was in News Week, I worked late in Zhongchuan News, and I had to stay up all night before the film was released. On a technical level, I am very grateful for the nurturing and support that CFA News has given me. Zheng Yitong said, "I still have contact with the teachers. At that time, they would be around to encourage us, support us, tell us what to do, and the journalistic ideals and responsibilities were all taught to me. We have always grown up in this atmosphere. ”
"To perceive the world with a warm heart", "to like the joy of others, to be sad about others", "to be warm", "caring", "meticulous" are the impressions of his classmates and teachers, and everyone affectionately calls him Doudou. He worked very hard, and was once quipped by his classmates that he "stayed up late until his pores could stuff eggs." "Before shooting, Brother Beanie will first shoot the material we need, and then let us take turns shooting, which not only ensures that there is enough material to use, but also teaches us to use the camera." The brother will chat and encourage the interviewee while shooting, and the shooting and chatting are very harmonious. Zhang Xiaoyu, a radio and television major in the class of 2014, recalled his and Zheng Yitong's time together at the school TV station, "Now think about it, it is no accident that Brother Doudou won the award, he is really good at being a character, making friends with interview subjects, and understanding their lives in detail." ”
In his junior year, the DV creation course of the Television School opened a new door for Zheng Yitong. Compared to most news, documentaries take longer to create and shoot. But Zheng Yitong enjoys this long track record, the comprehensive contact between people, in his view, the span of time is a very attractive thing. "When I actually made my first documentary, I realized that connecting people is a wonderful thing. I realized how much trust and support I had in entrusting me with the story of my life during the three or four hours of the interview. Zheng Yitong recalled, "But I later understood that this is actually a process of sincerity for sincerity, when my starting point is sincerity, I am not actually getting a person's story, we are communicating with each other." Because I'm also telling my story, we reach a life-long consensus in the course of this conversation, approach some emotional truths together, restore some experiences together; and, we find something empathetic in those experiences. Since then, Zheng Yitong has felt that making documentaries is a very attractive thing, and he is willing to continue to do this. It can be said that the accumulation of four years of study in China Transmission has guided the direction for his future career choices, especially entering Phoenix Satellite TV and entering the column group of "Cold and Warm Life".
"In fact, each of us has only one kind of life, but we can experience different life experiences in a lifetime through interviews and watching programs, by recording this matter." It's a rewarding, exciting thing to do, and I want to tell more people what I feel and want. Zheng Yitong feels that the role of the media is to let more people find strength through a person's experience and story, which is also his original intention and motivation to devote himself to the media industry.
Take the dream as a horse, and live up to Shaohua.
Perhaps his light has not yet reached every corner of society, but he has always been a persistent light chaser, running towards the light in the darkness, the road ahead is either flat and open or thorny, always firm and brave, just to illuminate every inch of land he has walked.
May you and I both keep the light in our hearts, and the little stars gather together to illuminate more people.
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