On February 9, the Air Force unit held a special New Year online group worship activity - "Spring to the Clouds and The Battle Flag Red", which was broadcast live on various new media platforms and quickly rushed to the "hot search", causing strong repercussions inside and outside the military.
This is the New Year network group worship activity organized by the Air Force to actively explore a new model of military cultural services under the condition of normalized epidemic prevention and control. They adopted the method of joint military-local creation and performance and 5G interactive recording and broadcasting, and set up a main venue for performances in Beijing, and a number of high-level troops set up a series of interactive sub-fields. Through long-distance rehearsals by troops, interviews with representatives of combat training, and collective network New Year greetings, New Year greetings were offered to officers and men of the Air Force, civilian personnel, staff and workers, family members, retired cadres, and the people of the whole country.
How was this special "Network Spring Festival Gala" born? What's going on in front of the stage and behind the scenes? Review the recording process of the event, and the excitement continues.
"New Year's Day, more than a different kind of expectation"
"Never been so much looking forward to it, wondering what we're going to be like on the show?" Li Li, an instructor at a certain radar station of the Air Force in the western theater, said impulsively. The "Western First Day Outpost" where he was stationed was located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, with relatively large winds and sands, and was surrounded by mountains in the wild snowy area.
Here, almost every spring festival is as calm as ever. In addition to talking on the phone with their families and partying with their comrades-in-arms, the officers and men sat in front of the TV set to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Although the company commander improved the cultural and recreational life of officers and men through various means, due to the limitations of the conditions, there was more calm after the laughter.
However, this year's Spring Festival, the officers and soldiers have one more expectation: they will also be on the screen and let the people of the whole country see themselves on the mobile phone. "In order to rehearse this show, everyone prepared for several days. Presumably it was silly. Li Chong said with a smile.
Like Li Chong, not only the officers and men of the "first day sentinel in the west", but also the officers and men of a certain sea range of the Air Force located in the South China Sea also participated in the recording of the program. These "navies in the air force" have been eating and living on ships since they were lowered into the company. In this "Network Spring Festival Gala", they will interact with mao bao, a famous actor of the Air Force, in the program.
Officers and soldiers in the South China Sea live at sea level less than a few meters above sea level, while another group of Gambara officers and men who participated in the recording of the program are stationed at the highest human control radar station at an altitude of 5374 meters. Wearing shorts and short sleeves on one side, and cotton jackets and cotton boots on the other, the "Network Spring Festival Gala" allows them to gather on the same stage.
In addition, air force officers and men such as aviation units, surface-to-air missile units, airborne troops, and flight cadets offered their blessings one after another. At the northernmost point of the camera were the officers and men of the Mohe Radar Station, where the temperature dropped to more than minus 40 degrees, reaching the extreme value of many years. However, no matter where it is, every officer and soldier of the Air Force has a strong sense of warmth in his heart. After the year, spring is coming.
"Stars" and "big names" formed a group to pay tribute to the officers and men of the Air Force
After the long-distance condolences to the officers and men of the Air Force were launched, it immediately received a positive response from hundreds of literary and artistic stars who had feelings for the Air Force inside and outside the military. CCTV Spring Festival Gala "laughing stars" Feng Gong, Sun Tao, Lin Yongjian recorded relevant videos in a timely manner; Wu Jing, Tong Liya, Yi Qianxi, Yang Hongji, Yang Shuquan, Zhou Xiaobin, Mao Bao, Yan Ni, Sha Yi, Ding Ding, etc. also participated in the interaction according to the program's ideas.
In particular, Feng Gong, Sun Tao, Sha Yi and Zhou Xiaobin cooperated in the talk show "Speaking of cattle in the Year of the Ox", adhering to their humorous and funny language style, witty and wonderful. At the same time, Artists such as Tong Tiexin, Zheng Li, Yang Zhen, Wang Li, and Tang Fei, who have served the officers and men of the Air Force for many years, also recorded songs in a timely manner and organized groups to send spring blessings.
Mao Bao, an actor of the former Air Politics Television Art Center who was once famous for starring in "The Story of the Cooking Class", came to the scene this time, telling the story from sea level to the alpine radar station at an altitude of several thousand meters, showing the people of the whole country the feelings of the officers and men of the Air Force who love their posts and dedicate themselves to their work and take pleasure in suffering.
In addition to the stars of the literary and artistic circles, the group worship activities also took the "five major brands" of the Air Force's combat training stars and advanced figures in the war of strong armaments as the "protagonists" and made a collective appearance in front of the people of the whole country. Among them were Yao Kai, winner of the "Golden Helmet," Tang Shujian, winner of the "Golden Dart," Wang Yale, and advanced individuals of the "Red Sword" and "Qingdian" exercises.
In addition, Zhang Xijing, a national advanced anti-epidemic individual and director of the first department of intensive care medicine at Vulcan Mountain Hospital, the "Thor Commando Team" and "Huang Jiguang Company" of a certain army of the airborne troops, the "First Day Outpost in the Western Region", the "Model Radar Station of the Outpost in Eastern Guangdong", a certain base of the Air Force in the Central Theater, a certain brigade of the Air Force Aviation Corps in the Western Theater, and comrades-in-arms of various air force academies and universities also appeared in the program.
The regimental worship activities included aviation troops, radar troops, surface-to-air missile troops, airborne troops, signal troops, electronic countermeasures, and other main combat arms of the Air Force.
"Dancing in Battle, Singing in Battle"
"Special forces soldiers don't just dance knives and guns every day, in fact, they also have iron-blooded tenderness and family feelings." Lu Zhiwei, platoon commander of a special operations brigade of a certain army of the airborne troops who participated in the program "Decisive Battle and Decisive Victory", expressed his creative feelings.
Thick smoke, rumbling chariots, and blooming umbrella flowers, this is the rehearsal scene of "Decisive Victory". This program changed the background of the previous stage performance and directly placed the program rehearsal on the training ground.
"I never thought that one day rehearsing our daily training life into a dance was a challenge, especially for someone like me who had no foundation in dance. But, we did. Tang Bo, the fourth-class sergeant major of the special operations brigade who participated in the performance, said excitedly. This year marks his 16th year of service and he is thrilled to be on this particular "stage" in the final year of his military career. During the rehearsal, Tang Bo accidentally smashed his finger, and the choreographer asked him to rest, he said: "Minor injuries can not reach the line of fire, and the airborne soldiers must have special bravery." ”
For these special combat sharpsmen, this dance movement is not unfamiliar, parachuting, shooting, getting on and off the chariot, training ground, battlefield, rehearsal field integrated, alluding in the daily combat readiness training in the art form display. The atmosphere of the whole dance is strong, and there is no lack of artistic beauty, which vividly shows the spirit of the officers and men of the airborne troops who dare to fight and win, and the full enthusiasm for fighting.
"Even if you are tired and tired, you are not afraid, and you must be worthy of the image of the airborne soldiers." Platoon leader Duan Ruiqi's words spoke the voices of the participants. He said, "Hopefully, parents will see our show." Although I can't go home for the New Year this year, I want them to know that I am very happy in the army and that I want to pay tribute to the people who care about me in this way. ”
"If there is a war, it will be called back"
"Lingyun Red Makeup" was the first prize work of the first flight battle song collection organized by the Air Force last year, and was selected by the director group as the main song and dance program in the group worship activity. Due to the epidemic, cast members can only be searched locally in Beijing. Ding Haixin, a veteran who had served in a communications company at a certain field station of the Air Force, heard the news and arrived in time.
Ding Haixin, now a senior at the Beijing Dance Academy, returned to college to continue her studies after retiring from the army last September, but she has always been concerned about the Air Force and focused on the Air Force. She confessed that her military life had left a deep imprint on her and had become a precious asset in her life. During her service, she gave full play to her literary and artistic expertise, choreographed dances and literary and artistic programs for many times to provide cultural services for comrades-in-arms, and once led her comrades to shoot short videos of female air force soldiers, with more than 3 million online hits.
Fu Zhonghua, a veteran of the army, has also returned to the local entrepreneurship and has his own cultural and creative company, and before the end of the year, it is the most concentrated and busiest time for various performances. After receiving the invitation to the group worship activities, he resolutely decided to push off all commercial performances and rushed to the main venue to participate in the program recording without compensation. The sentence he said the most was: "It is the troops that have trained me, as long as the organization needs me, if there is a war, it will be called back." ”
"I have been in the army for more than 30 years and have participated in hundreds of condolences to officers and soldiers, but there has never been a single evening party that can accommodate so many officers and soldiers. The day I reached retirement age the year before, I was still performing for the soldiers on the stage, and the boy had tears and did not flick, and I cried that day. There is no end to serving the soldiers, and if there are such cultural activities in the future, I will participate in them without hesitation. Tian Yi, a singer of the Air Politics Original Text Labor Troupe, said with emotion.
Open the "New Model of Remote Cultural Service"
"I have never directed the rehearsal of the program remotely, and before it was all face-to-face, and what requirements were directly pointed out, but this time it was a challenge for our entire director team. I didn't sleep well for a few days when I first accepted the assignment, and I was very stressed. Zhang Qiang, director of the online group worship activity, said, "Due to the epidemic prevention and control situation, the group worship activity cannot gather the team to a place for centralized rehearsal as in previous years, nor can it go out of Beijing to each unit for specific guidance, but the existing conditions have spawned a new model of remote cultural services." ”
In order to speed up the progress, the director team quickly studied and formulated the basic principles and guidelines for remote guidance by experts, independent rehearsal of troops, and recording by actors according to the case according to the existing conditions. At the same time, we concentrated on professional forces to work overtime to produce detailed activity implementation plans and sub-scripts for each program.
After the remote-linked units involved in the recording got the script, they first decomposed the program into blocks, and the literary and artistic backbone of each group led the officers and men to rehearse separately, and then collectively synthesized. All the staff gradually unfolded in accordance with the steps of the time node, and the relevant links were pushed forward, and the basic prototype of each program was gradually rehearsed. Through the collective consultation between the director group and the front-line participants, the highlights of each program were constantly collided.
"I had never been exposed to remote coaching rehearsals before, and I had no sense of camera in my mind. Later, according to the guidance and inspiration of the director group, several of our backbones collectively studied and discussed what kind of actions should be used in each link, what kind of angle to shoot, and gradually found out the doorway. Sergeant Li Gang, a backbone of the army's literature and art who has appeared many times in this group worship activity, said, "The group worship activity has made me have new gains and broadened my horizons." I am also very grateful to the director group for giving me such a good opportunity, and I will take this opportunity to do my best to serve the officers and soldiers and serve the grassroots. ”
Planning: Air Politics Publicity and Cultural Center Cultural Service Station
Article author: Shi Zhiguang Yin Zongyang Feng Yingdanmei
Photography by Lu Zhiwei Zheng Lei Tian Qianhe
Video source: CCTV military report
Source: Air Force News