The Paper's reporter Gao Dan
During the National Day, the 24-episode web drama "On the Field of Hope" ended, and the story of this drama took place from the western part of the yellow sand sky that was accustomed to the performance of the same theme to the lush Baiguo Village in Guizhou, telling the struggle and growth of the cadres stationed in the village. Recently, an expert seminar on "On the Field of Hope" sponsored by the Department of Network Audio-visual Program Management of the State Administration of Radio and Television and the China Television Arts Commission was held in Beijing.
Expert workshop on "On the Field of Hope"
"On the Field of Hope" has many special features in the poverty alleviation drama, first of all, the screenwriter of this drama is also the screenwriter of "Flowers and Bones", who has been engaged in the creation of costume themes for a long time, and the creative team of this drama has also mainly produced costume dramas before.
Poster of "On the Field of Hope"
Wang Junye, the director of the play, said: Our main creator, screenwriter, producer, director and all the department heads are shooting costume dramas and xianxia dramas all year round, rarely dabbling in rural themes, except for the screenwriter Rao Jun, no one has an understanding of the southwest mountains, so we are all very confused during the preparatory period. In my cognition, the village with lack of water should be like the village in "Mountains and Seas", flying sand and stones, a dilapidated scene. But when I went to Tongren to open the scenery, I was really stupid, I saw the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, coupled with the fog filling the mountains, the morning light was shining, like a fairyland. The question I remember asking the writer the most was: How can we convince the audience that there will be a shortage of water and poverty in such a beautiful environment? Now that I think about it, I am ashamed of my short-sightedness. ”
Stills from "On the Field of Hope"
In the following period of shooting, the main creative team learned what is called seasonal water shortage, and only then did they hear that the snow in the south was so heavy that it could break the power line, and even in severe cases, it was not until half a year later that it could be opened to traffic and energized. "Only when I saw the prototype characters of the cadres stationed in the village did I understand what it was to abandon the family and build a business, and I went into the rural primary school to understand how the teachers contributed, and when I visited the village, I knew that there were really children who did not support the elderly, and the buffalo would really be afraid of water." Just last week, our crew went into the university to do activities, when the students were asked whether they would like to stay in the village after graduation, most of the students refused, only a few students expressed their willingness to have the conditions, we only hope that the students will not forget the land under their feet while looking up at the sky, to know that there are still nearly three million village-based cadres in this land fighting for rural revitalization, and some of them even paid for it. ”
Hu Yan, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Bijiang District CPC Committee of Tongren City, Guizhou Province, co-producer of this drama, introduced the real situation in the local area: In the past five years, 2,800 cadres in Bijiang District have helped 6,999 poor households in the district, including the key groups of poor households in the district, the first secretary of the poor village, and the first secretary of the poor village, and has selected 728 outstanding cadres, and set up 63 poverty alleviation teams to specifically grasp the poverty alleviation work, and the image of the village cadres in this drama is the epitome of the lives of these real cadres. Screenwriter Rao Jun also said: "90% of the story of this drama comes from real life, I am not the screenwriter of this drama, these cadres in the front-line villages, those who are still working hard for a better life have helped me create this story." ”
"On the Field of Hope" starring Cao Jun at the seminar
Zhang Nan, played by Cao Jun, was forced to give up the good development prospects of the big city due to his mother's cancer, and returned to the native Baiguo Village as the team leader with heavy baggage, Cao Jun shared in the seminar: "Through nearly three months of shooting, I truly experienced and appreciated the very beautiful landscape of Guizhou in the southwest of the motherland. At the beginning of April this year, as soon as we entered the crew, we arranged for our actors to enter the countryside in the mountains to experience life, learn to carry water, cut firewood, go to the ground and other agricultural work, we also went to the farmhouse to eat authentic Guizhou farmhouse rice, and the rice and pot cooked with firewood I ate for the first time, all of which were really shown in the play. Zhang Nan, whom I played, was a child who grew up in rural Guizhou, and in the play he had to say a lot of lines in the Guizhou dialect, which was a great challenge and pressure for me, and I also marked the tone on my script and repeatedly practiced it. ”
"On the Field of Hope" starred An Yuexi at the workshop
An Yuexi, an actor who plays Bian Xiaoyue, said: "When we go to the local area of Guizhou to shoot and communicate with local children and even play together, it will make me feel a special vitality. Bian Xiaoyue, who I play, is a volunteer teacher who gave up the favorable family conditions to go deep into the southwest mountains, and she is definitely a character with a glowing soul in my opinion, but she is also an ordinary college student, so she must be romantic enough to land in shaping this character. ”
Another outstanding feature of "On the Field of Hope" is that the show is only broadcast on video platforms.
Fang Fang, deputy general manager of Tencent's online video film and television content production department, introduced that when creating "On the Field of Hope", whether it is from the project, production, broadcast, publicity, promotion: "Tencent Video has given the greatest strength to support, there is a full-platform linkage promotion in the station, giving a good resource location exposure and refined operation, outside the station, we combine long and short videos to form various types of serialized columns. Tencent Video will also launch a 'New Hope Program' public welfare activity, and plans to invite the teaching instructors and starring actors in Tencent's station to Guizhou Hope Primary School for public welfare teaching. ”
Can web dramas also have the main theme? Li Jingsheng, vice president of the China Federation of Radio and Television Social Organizations, introduced that since last year, the number of online drama creations with an annual output of more than 24,000 episodes has far exceeded the number of TV dramas and broadcasts, so online dramas have increasingly become a literary and artistic field with wide coverage, great influence and flexible situation, "But at the same time, I think that in the field of network creation, the relative solidification of the subject matter and the relative narrowness of reflecting the life surface are also becoming more and more prominent, and most of the creative content of network dramas is often concentrated in ancient costumes, fantasy, sweet pets, suspense, Urban love, etc., the sense of distance and suspension between such themes and real life has become the shortcomings and bottlenecks in the creation of current network dramas, and narrative strategies such as "On the Field of Hope" that do not avoid the contradictions between life and reality will add a realistic life texture to the creation of network dramas.
"Because the network drama should take into account the characteristics of the platform and the needs of users, so in the narrative plot, character shaping and performance style, the pursuit of youth, relaxedness, strong plot, fast pace, etc., this is usually called the characteristics of the network sense, "On the Field of Hope" in the play the male and female protagonists themselves with a kind of youthful temperament and simple youthful temperament is also a manifestation of following the law of network drama creation. Of course, as an innovative work of network themes facing real life, "On the Field of Hope" also has some immature points, such as the contradiction setting and character shaping between the official characters in the play, which also has some obvious traces of facialization and suspension, which is obviously the author's lack of realistic experience of this point. In addition, in the handling of reality and the resolution of contradictions, the plot is slightly simpler, which shows that the creation of network dramas must further take root in life in order to truly realize the expansion of the theme and the close integration with the density of reality and the improvement of ideological and artistic arts. Li Jingsheng said.
Kang Wei, editor-in-chief of China Art News, paid attention to the problems focused on "On the Field of Hope": At the beginning, Zhang Nan exposed that the dangerous houses of the local ethnic primary schools had not been rebuilt for 17 years, and also took physical education classes on the construction site, which became the starting point of the construction of the contradictions of the whole play, which was very high, reflecting the unfairness of educational problems and educational resources, and the existence of the teaching points in Baiguo Village not only connected Zhang Nan's childhood and reality, but also provided physical space and emotional space for the emergence of Bian Xiaoyue. In the face of Zhang Nan's exposure, Liu Chengxin's idea is not to solve the problem, but to solve the problem, the police station chief went to Shanghai to carry out illegal detention, in a vain attempt to force Zhang Nan to delete and admit his mistakes, which was strongly resisted by Zhang Nan. For example, the conflict of ruling philosophy, Li Shitao and Liu Chengxin represent two different governing concepts, and for example, the so-called development concept of the villagers in Baiguo Village is to borrow external forces to achieve income growth through a delicate calculation again and again, like Tian Qiushui must become a poor household for various reasons in order to calculate money, but in fact this is completely wrong, it is a misplaced development concept.
"I grew up in the countryside, very deep understanding, because of the clan relatives and other reasons, the countryside is a typical human society, Zhang Nan's mother because of the conflict with people to grab water, Zhang Nan from childhood to bear the notoriety of the murderer's son, became his lingering psychological trauma, but also became the psychological basis for his resolute departure from Baiguo Village." After he returned to Baiguo Village to work, it also became an important basis for promoting the development of the plot, such as the contradiction between Zhang Nan's cousin and his two sons, which reflected the problem of old-age care, and the contradiction between Liu Chengxin and his wife also reflected the way of getting along between husband and wife. Kang Wei said.
Editor-in-Charge: Zhang Zhe
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