As a Shenzhen native, you will be proud of the Shenzhen City Light and Shadow Show "Brilliant Masterpiece" that swept the whole network and read more than 1 billion topics in July this year; you have also been excited about the Shenzhen entrepreneurship road in "Chasing Dreams, First - Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone", and marveled at the beautiful Shenzhen displayed in the 2019 Shenzhen Spring Festival Gala "Embrace Spring".
Behind these works, there is an indispensable "soul figure" - Xia Feng, a national first-class director, a member of the Economic Committee of Shenzhen Radio and Television Group, the director of the Entertainment Center of Shenzhen Radio and Television Group, and the general manager of Shenzhen Dragon Media Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
On the afternoon of October 30th, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, sponsored by the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and undertaken by the Innovation and Research Department of the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Shenzhen Literary and Art Critics Association, the "Pursuit and Witness - Xia Feng Director Art Seminar" was held in Shenzhen, with the theme of "Pursuit and Witness", the theoretical discussion was carried out on the creative achievements of The famous Shenzhen director Xia Feng in the past 30 years and the development of Shenzhen TELEVISION literature and art, and the power of example stimulated the enthusiasm and kinetic energy of Shenzhen writers and artists to innovate and create, and strived to create the peak of Shenzhen literature and art in the new era ”。
The relevant responsible comrades of the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal PARTY Committee, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Municipal Committee of the Youth League, the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, the Shenzhen Radio and Television Group, the Shenzhen Newspaper Group, and the Shenzhen Journalist Talent Foundation attended the meeting. Gao Fu'an, Lang Kun, Jia Ding and other first-class experts and scholars from the national television art circles, literary and art theory circles, and music circles gathered in Pengcheng. More than 30 well-known people in the industry, including Deng Yiguang, Jiang Kairu and Zheng Kainan from the cultural and artistic circles of Shenzhen, attended the seminar.
Shenzhen Satellite TV & One Shenzhen client reporter learned that this is also the first high-level cultural theory seminar in Shenzhen in the field of television literature and art.
Formed in the special zone wo soil bloom in the spring of the times
Shenzhen's television literature and art have accompanied the development of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone from scratch, and have always had a distinct recognition of themselves.
As a leading figure in shenzhen's television culture and art circles, Xia Feng is a literary and artistic master who has tempered and grown up in Shenzhen, the hot land of reform and opening up, and a fertile cultural soil.
From the early "Snowy Pengcheng Feelings" that led the trend of Chinese TELEVISION literature and art, the well-known brand program "Youth Star" TV Competition, the "Chinese Music Golden Bell Award Pop Music Competition - China Music Super", to the large-scale TV literary and art evening that has successively shined CCTV screens and set off urban cultural hotspots in recent years, "Embracing Spring - 2019 Shenzhen Spring Festival Gala", "I Love You China - Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China Shenzhen Mass Literary and Art Evening", "Chasing Dreams , First - Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone", and then in July this year, the city light and shadow show "Brilliant Masterpiece" with more than 1 billion topic readings, as well as "Faith", "Departure Again", "Forever Xiaoping", "China in the Lights" and other works, Xia Feng's figure is active.
Xia Feng has a wide influence in the Chinese film and television industry and is regarded as an outstanding representative of the "Southern School" television art. He has been deeply engaged in the fields of Shenzhen television literature and art and music and art for nearly 30 years, and his works have won more than 70 national, provincial and municipal important propaganda and cultural awards such as the National "Five One Project" Award, the "China News Award", the "China Radio and Television News Award", the "National Television Literature and Art Starlight Award", the "China Television Golden Eagle Award", the "Five One Project" Award of Guangdong Province, the "Guangdong Radio and Television Literature and Art Award", the "Lu Xun Literature and Art Award" and other important national, provincial and municipal publicity and cultural awards, and a series of well-known TV cultural brands he has founded have created many firsts in Shenzhen's television literature and art. He has also published a number of professional academic papers.
Achievements in the special zone of Wo soil, bloomed in the spring of the times. Xia Feng and his team's artistic pursuit and practical exploration have deeply intervened in the core development process of Shenzhen literature and art, which is an important witness to the development of Shenzhen's literary and artistic undertakings, and has also left their footprints.
"One side of the water and soil to support one person, one side of the water and soil also to support the culture of the other side", in an interview, Xia Feng repeatedly mentioned, "TELEVISION literature and art must be accompanied by the living soil it grows, without this soil can not talk about style and personality characteristics." ”
Innovative art vocabulary leads the way
This seminar is a theoretical summary and in-depth discussion of Xia Feng's directorial art, and also a systematic combing and exchange of experience on the development of Shenzhen TV literature and art and the comprehensive art presentation of the stage. At the scene, the participating experts observed some of the masterpieces of director Xia Feng and had a heated discussion on the theme of promoting the innovative integration of television literature and urban technology.
In the process of creation, fully integrating Shenzhen's new scientific and technological products and innovative elements is a major feature of Xia Feng and its team. For example, at the "Dream • First - Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone", flexible screens and intelligent robots from Shenzhen enterprises have been unveiled, which has become a vivid demonstration of Shenzhen's scientific and technological strength and a powerful demonstration of Shenzhen's local comprehensive art production capabilities. Many experts commented that Xia Feng is "one of the directors who are best at using the power of science and technology to serve literature and art."
On the eve of "July 1" this year, in the 2021 Shenzhen theme light and shadow show "Brilliant Masterpiece", the romantic scene of "hitting the party emblem on the starry sky" has become a classic picture that netizens across the country are hotly discussed. The New York Times also paid attention to this "famous scene" - "In the bustling commercial city of Shenzhen in the south, the light show projected the emblem of the Chinese Communist Party composed of sickle hammers onto the clouds in the sky." This has also become a classic case of Xia Feng and his team integrating technology with literature and art.
"Before every evening party and a large-scale program, we will find high-tech enterprises in Shenzhen to join the main creative team and discuss, grind and communicate together on how to realize our concept." Xia Feng revealed that the party emblem was slapped in the sky, which fully demonstrated shenzhen's urban characteristics and inner expression, which caused great repercussions from all walks of life. "Technology has enhanced the charm of the stage, and the director's demand for technology has also promoted the progress and development of technology companies, and the two go hand in hand, jointly building Shenzhen's unique urban background."
(Ketane)
"Director Xia Feng's directing style is very clear, and it is also very distinctive. He is particularly good at organically integrating modern technology with culture and art, but not allowing form to overwhelm content", the famous songwriter and director Jia Ding believes, "The most important thing is that we can feel that he brings his works into the plot, emotions and situations of the city." ”
Experts attending the meeting believe that Xia Feng's TV art creation practice continues to extend with the pace of Shenzhen culture.
(Lang Kun)
"The characteristic of Xia Feng is that it opens and closes. As large as tens of thousands of people, he can control; as small as fine-tuning frame by frame in the machine room, so that every picture tends to be perfect. In the view of Lang Kun, a famous director and former head of the Literary and Art Program Center of the Central Radio and Television Station, Shenzhen needs such a "big opening and big cooperation" director to promote the construction of the entire city's culture.
(Jiang Kairu)
"Director Xia Feng does not repeat himself, every work is new", the famous lyricist Jiang Kairu believes that Xia Feng uses images to express the urban soul of Shenzhen and turn what others cannot see into a visual enjoyment, which is the greatest contribution.
Light up the torch of urban culture
Promote the great development and prosperity of Shenzhen literature and art
In addition to the seminar, the series of activities "Pursuit and Witness - Xia Feng Director Art Seminar" also includes a set of works and an art lecture.
The simultaneous launch of "Pursuit and Witness - Director Xia Feng's Portfolio" is divided into five major sections, including large-scale evenings, large-scale activities, music television, social education specials and other works, including more than 1,000 minutes of precious video records, which systematically reflect Xia Feng's creative process in the past 30 years and how it has left a deep imprint on the cultural map of the city.
The upcoming art lecture "Pursuit and Witness - My Director's Artistic Thinking" held in the lecture hall on the fifth floor of Shenzhen Library is a special art sharing meeting for the public, and Xia Feng will communicate face-to-face with the audience and readers to discuss the cultural prospects and development paths of Shenzhen City.
(Liang Yu)
Liang Yu, secretary of the party group and chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that Xia Feng has a strong political responsibility, social care and humanistic feelings, and his works have a strong ideological, artistic and ornamental nature, and hopes that through this seminar, the entire literary and art circles will work together to create new achievements in Shenzhen's literary and artistic undertakings.
In the golden development period of "dual-district drive" and "dual-district superposition", Shenzhen literature and art is striving to promote the high-quality development of urban culture and create a "cultural plateau" that matches the development of urban economy and science and technology. Experts said that the series of activities of "Pursuit and Witness - Xia Feng Director Art Seminar" will further stimulate the enthusiasm and kinetic energy of Shenzhen literary and art workers to innovate and create, and jointly promote the great development and prosperity of Shenzhen literature and art.
Reporter / Tang Ruijia