Summary: Excellent broadcast works, not limited by geography, touching broadcast works, can cross time and space. "Looking for Fang Dazeng - Dialogue Between Two Generations of Journalists Through Time and Space" gives full play to the advantages of radio interviews with its sensitive grasp of the value of the subject matter and the accurate positioning of the theme, presents the stories of the two generations of journalists through historical facts and emotions, strengthens the responsibilities and missions of journalists, and reaches the hearts of the people.
Fang Dazeng, the first person to report on the scene of the "Lugou Bridge Incident", mysteriously disappeared in September 1937 after sending the article "Changes in the Northern Section of the Pinghan Line" from LiXian County, Hebei Province;
Feng Xuesong, a senior editor at CCTV, spent 15 years "in the silent place" searching for the almost forgotten figure. The story of two generations of journalists pursues the same spirit.
One is a well-known journalist who is active inside and outside the Great Wall regardless of his personal safety, shining like a meteor and losing quickly; the other is Feng Xuesong, a contemporary journalist who insists on in-depth interviews and restores the historical truth regardless of personal gains and losses.
On May 25, 2015, the China Journalist Association held a symposium on Feng Xuesong's tracking and writing fang Dazeng's deeds, summarizing the experience of CCTV documentary director Feng Xuesong in tracking and writing Fang Dazeng's deeds for 15 years, recalling Fang Dazeng, the first person to report on the "July 7" incident, and discussing the professionalism and professionalism that contemporary journalists should have. Shortly thereafter, the 48 words mentioned in General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the press and public opinion work forum became the basic positioning and clear requirements of news and public opinion work, and pointed out the direction of efforts for the news and public opinion front to live up to the heavy trust and perform their duties. Combined with the above background, the significance and value of the work "Looking for Fang Dazeng - A Dialogue Between Two Generations of Journalists Across Time and Space" (hereinafter referred to as "Looking for Fang Dazeng") is even more far-reaching, and finally won the first prize of the China Journalism Award.
Looking back at the creative path of the work "Looking for Fang Dazeng", there are the following four aspects worth sharing.
Sensitive grasp of the value of the subject matter
This is the first time that Ningbo Radio and Television has tried the creation of "extraterritorial" themes, before that, several successful works are limited to Ningbo or eastern Zhejiang, for example, the radio work "A Rural Film Festival" is based on the first Ningbo Peasant Film Festival as the background, telling the story of a group of peasant film projectionists running in the countryside, "Crossing the Blue Dream" records the construction process and innovation of the Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge, and the TV works "Come on" and "Small Town Police Stability Maintenance" have not left the excavation of Ningbo's local themes.
In the work "Looking for Fang Dazeng", the protagonist and the beginning and end of the event are not directly related to Ningbo, but by chance, after an ordinary reader meeting, we keenly discovered its value.
On August 31, 2015, at the reader meeting of the book "Pursuing a Journalist and Promoting a Spirit - "Fang Dazeng: Disappearing and Reappearing"" held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, the main creators through the author Feng Xuesong's on-site introduction and later study of the work, in the context of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, we accurately captured the value of the times behind the theme, and determined the form of radio interviews, with "The Journey of Finding Fang Dazeng" as the main line, with " The responsibilities and missions of journalists" is the theme of "The Dialogue Between two generations of journalists across time and space from a unique perspective like telepathy across time and space.
The creative period lasted for nearly two months, Ningbo-Beijing, two round trips, one draft, two drafts, three drafts, telephone communication, email exchanges, academic interviews, the length of the volume was repeatedly expanded, and then shrunk and shrunk, and finally finalized.
Give full play to the advantages of broadcasting, and try to express the theme from multiple angles
There are two versions of "In Search of Fang Dazeng", and its first version is not the interview program we hear now, but a radio literary feature" "The Longest Topic".
The protagonist of the work is set as two generations of journalists Fang Dazeng and Feng Xuesong, known as the main body in the first person of broadcasting, and through the perspective of reporter Feng Xuesong, the performance of Fang Dazeng's anti-war reporting works is superimposed, interpreting his journey of tracing the footprints of Fang Dazeng and feeling the spirit of Fang Dazeng. However, the shortcoming of the work is that the expansion of the content is not enough, limited to the expression of the protagonist, and the literary nature is greater than the statement of historical facts, which greatly limits the height and depth of the theme.
Subsequently, we finally determined the process of Feng Xuesong's search in the form of interviews and dialogues; re-examined Fang Da's position in the history of journalism from the perspective of an investigator and observer; presented the unique perspective and ideological depth of Fang Dazeng's confrontation through excerpts from the original text; portrayed Fang Dazeng's personality through the reminiscences of contemporaries such as Fan Changjiang and others; and strengthened Feng Xuesong's value in finding Fang Dazeng through telephone connections and audio interviews. According to statistics, a total of 12 pieces of processing run through the whole text. These methods are interspersed and used in the process of interviews, on the one hand, forming a three-paragraph division of "mysterious disappearance, difficult search, and value reproduction", on the other hand, it also constitutes a deep extension and content supplement to the theme content.
From this point of view, the subject matter is like the ingredients, in what way to cook, what kind of utensils to use, the effect presented is indeed different. The form of the interview is more suitable for materials such as "Looking for Fang Dazeng", which not only effectively enhances the content space of the work, but also because the narrative subject Feng Xuesong is also an investigator and an observer, and in the process of interview, its emotional context switches from time to time between objective statements and emotional expressions, making the program more audible and perceptible.
The clues are clear, the structure is clear, and the theme is prominent
From the three angles and five chapters of "mysterious disappearance, difficult search, and value reproduction", the work sorts out the short and legendary life of Fang Da Zeng, interprets the hardships and persistence of Feng Xuesong's 15-year pursuit process, and conveys the positive energy of "not fearing hardships and hardships, faithfully recording the times, and always drumming and shouting for the nation, the country, and the people".
"Mysterious disappearance, difficult search, and value reappearance", the three stages are advancing layer by layer, which is gripping.
1. Who is he? What did he do? Why did he disappear? This is the question that the first stage of the work focuses on answering.
Standing on the Lugou Bridge, I browsed a cheerful and beautiful scenery, which was nostalgic, and a vast white cloud was floating in the north, setting off the wilderness on the bank of the Yongding River. The great Lugou Bridge may become the birthplace of the great national liberation war!
——Fang Dazeng, "Lugou Bridge Anti-Japanese War"
The term "birthplace" is deafening! Having such a mature and broad vision is enough to establish the position of Fang Dazeng, a young journalist, in the history of anti-war journalism.
"On the side of a stone lion on the Lugou Bridge, a warrior stands upright with his back to the camera, carrying a large knife, holding a steel gun in his hand, and loading the bayonet", the interview begins with a representative work of Fang Dazeng, and through the description of the activities before and after the report of the Lugou Bridge incident, he begins his short and legendary life.... In terms of listening, the opening is clear and attracts attention.
On September 14, 1937, the Battle of Zhuobao was in full swing, and on the 18th, Zhuozhou fell, and Fang Da was forced to retreat to Li County, southeast of Baoding. On the same day, he sent a newsletter to Shanghai from there, "Changes in the Northern Section of the Pinghan Line", and from then on, this vibrant life mysteriously disappeared...
After leaving suspense, the work enters the second stage - difficult to find.
2. Why to find, how to find, what did the process go through, did you find it?
From the perspective of the author Feng Xuesong, with his connection with Fang Dazeng, he splices and restores Fang Dazeng's footprints in historical fragments, traces the history and perception of Fang Dazeng in 15 years as the main clue, and tells the story in the interview to promote the sense. In the process, through Feng Xuesong's description of the mental process of accepting instructions, searching for hardships, his father's illness, and perseverance, the character image is richer and fuller in the emotional interweaving of constant denial and continuous discovery. At the same time, it left a suspense, looking for where the value of Fang Dazeng was?
After the layers of advancement, there is still one problem to be solved: value reproduction!
3. What is the motivation of Feng Xuesong's continuous search, and what is the harvest and understanding? What does Fang Dazeng's writing and photographic works present, and where is the value of the works? This is the question that the work must answer from breadth to depth.
From the waiting of Fang Dazeng's family for more than half a century, to Feng Xuesong taking over the mission of searching, to the background of the times in which the other party's works appeared and the interpretation of his "humanistic" ideas, the foothold of the works was finally fixed on the "Fang Dazeng Campus Tour" planned by Feng Xuesong and the plan to set up the "Xiaofang Award" with the writing fee, forming an open ending, with the continuation of feelings, the space for imagination, the theme is concentrated here, and the value is sublimated.
Historical facts pave the way, emotion runs through, and the dialogue between the two generations of reporters in time and space reaches the hearts of the people
1. The story emotional double line travels
"After 15 years of searching, before that, it may have been a curiosity, but then it was not only an account of a family, but also an account of a nation." After 15 years of unremitting search and record, Fang Dazeng, such a name that should not be forgotten, has gradually returned to people's vision. An excellent war correspondent mysteriously disappeared on the battlefield, and a dedicated contemporary journalist persevered for 15 years, crossing time and space and touching encounters! Combined with the narration of historical facts, the work uses two reporters to face the dilemma of family and career, and touches the heartstrings of the listener with a sense of truth.
Among them, Fang Dazeng's family has been waiting for half a century, and Feng Xuesong's difficult choices in the face of his father's illness and the hardships of the search process have left a deep impression and have been strengthened by the rendering narrative of the broadcast language. This is the emotional basis for the work to touch people's hearts.
In the whole process of the interview, around the keywords of "faith, responsibility, and true feelings", two reporters in different eras faced the same proposition: What is the ideal and belief of journalists, and the mission of feelings? "There is history and reality, there is feeling and feeling" two angles, history and contemporary time and space dialogue, not only marveling, but also more thought-provoking!
2. The feelings of home and country call for "craftsman spirit"
The matter of "looking for Fang Dazeng" at least has the meaning of "triple search, triple declaration": finding and declaring journalistic ideals, finding and declaring the responsibility of historians, and finding and declaring family affection and great love. Two generations of journalists, the core theme of the same value, this is the biggest support for the success of the work.
From the "Fang Da Zeng Campus Tour" public welfare plan to Feng Xuesong's imagination of setting up the "Xiao Fang Award", he spared no effort to disseminate and promote Fang Da Zeng, so that the heat continued and the spirit was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. There is a story, there is a continuation, there is an impact, this is where the vitality of the work lies.
"The meticulous and persistent inquiry of the memory of the homeland and the history of the nation; the tenacity and courage to constantly surpass before the difficult setbacks on the road of exploration and the difficulties and challenges; the loyalty and reverence for ideals and beliefs, the original intention of the feelings and missions, and the wind and rain are the common souls in the vivid stories of the 'two generations of journalists', and this tacit understanding and overlap through time and space show the deep meaning of calling for the 'craftsman spirit' in the current era."
This is the practical path of a journalist, and it is his deep belief and sincerity in his professional ideals. Cheng Manli, deputy dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University and doctoral supervisor, commented in the program connection: "Feng Xuesong has integrated the ideals and beliefs of the two generations of journalists through his own pursuit, giving us a kind of confidence and strength, so that we have reason to believe that the spirit of Fang Dazeng will continue to be passed on in the contemporary and present." ”
Synthesizing the above four elements, from the collection and processing of the subject matter to the structure of the work, the theme positioning and other aspects of the "Looking for Fang Dazeng" injected a skeleton and blood, coupled with the host's effective control of the rhythm during the interview process, the interviewee Feng Xuesong's familiarity with the data and strong cooperation, so that the 50-minute program is not lengthy.
【Epilogue】
From the perspective of theme content, "Looking for Fang Dazeng" is the first time that Ningbo Radio and Television Group has tried to create themes outside the local area. Leaving the geographical advantages of adapting to local conditions, the success of this work is actually a deep accumulation of Ningbo Radio and Television for many years to cultivate the fine literature and art of radio and television.
Prior to this, many radio and television features of Ningbo Radio and Television had won awards in the China Journalism Awards. This time, "Looking for Fang Dazeng" won the first prize of the China Journalism Award, and it is also a grand slam in the field of broadcasting that Ningbo Radio and Television has won the "Five Ones" Project Award, the China Radio Film and Television Award, the Yangtze River Taofen Award, and the Broadcast Host Golden Microphone.
The success of this work suggests that excellent broadcast works, regardless of geographical restrictions, touching broadcast works, can cross time and space.
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