The poster of the realistic women's theme movie "Looking for Her" starring Shu Qi and Bai Ke.
Wear floral skirts, wear straw hats, do farm work... Just this past October, the movie "Looking for Her" started in Huizhou, and the well-known actress Shu Qi filmed in Huizhou Boluo, Zhongkai and other places, playing a rural woman who dared to break through the shackles of feudal etiquette.
Thanks to the gifted natural resources and the extensive transportation network, in recent years, many film and television dramas and variety shows have been filmed in Huizhou, and star actors such as Zhou Xingchi, Gu Tianle, Zhong Hanliang, Lu Han, He Jiong have all filmed in Huizhou, and Damei Huizhou has appeared on the screen and screen many times.
As an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Huizhou was positioned as a film and television shooting base for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao as early as 2010. After years of precipitation, what are the more mature film and television film and television shooting bases in Huizhou? In the future, how to empower the film and television industry to empower the cultural tourism economy?
Huizhou Shuimen Bridge Old Shipyard.
More than 10 film and television dramas are filmed in Huizhou every year
On November 1, the realistic women's theme movie "Looking for Her" starring Shu Qi and Bai Ke was completed. Chen Fengdi, played by Shu Qi, is not only a rural woman who is wrapped up in traditional concepts, but also an awakened woman who dares to break through the shackles and go out.
In the month of filming in Huizhou, netizens continued to post Reuters photos and videos of Shu Qi in the circle of friends and Douyin, and many citizens joined the group performance lineup and fulfilled the dream of an actor.
As a famous historical and cultural city with a beautiful environment, Huizhou has rich natural landscapes such as mountains, lakes, seas, springs, rivers, forests, etc., ancient city sites, Taoist sources, celebrity relics, revolutionary memorial sites, and cultural resources such as Yaoxiang customs and Hakka folk customs and natural landscapes, highlighting the characteristics and heritage of the city, while being able to meet the diversified shooting requirements of film and television, and has long been a favorite film and television crew of all kinds of film and television crews, theme libraries and natural "sets".
In recent years, a large wave of film and television works with "Huizhou elements" such as "That's a Spring", "East becomes West", "Empty Nest Grandpa", "Why Sheng Zhenmo", "Mermaid 2", "Dear", "Sweeping Black Battle", "Crossing the Line of Fire" and so on have appeared on the screen screen, and more than 10 film and television dramas are filmed in Huizhou every year.
In the view of Zhang Jiaming, chairman of the Huizhou Filmmakers Association, as an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Huizhou has obvious advantages in location and transportation. Huizhou is livable, suitable for work, suitable for travel, whether it is natural ecology, historical and cultural resources or tourism market, it is very suitable for the layout of the film and television industry, and the development potential is huge.
In September 2020, in Xiaojinkou Wushi Village and Xiaojinhe Avenue in Huicheng District, many citizens happened to encounter the filming scene of the crew of "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle", and some netizens posted Jiang Wu's Reuters photos. Starring Jiang Wu, Zhang Songwen and Jin Shijia, "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle" features a large number of scenes that are extremely familiar to Huizhou people, such as Jiangbei in Huicheng District, the area around Dongjiangsha, Jinshan Bridge and Shuimen Bridge Old Shipyard.
The reporter recently came to huizhou Shuimen Bridge old shipyard to see that the old shipyard built in the 1950s, with a sense of age filter, 4 old factories that manufacture ships are conducive to scenery, a large folk museum has formed a natural prop library, the shipyard dock is adjacent to the East River, the film and television element quality is rich and delicate, along the East River to the north of the River bustling view, the scene atmosphere and strong malleability, is a natural and unculcultured location.
"We went to several cities to select scenes, and when we came to Huizhou, we carefully searched for the scenes needed by the script and found that there were many places where Huizhou could be filmed." Lu Yu, the director of "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle", said. Huizhou has mountains and water, and there are many special grounded places, almost the scenes needed in the script are solved, and the crew does not need to transfer, which is a great convenience for shooting.
What is eye-catching is that in the first half of this year, the country's first film and television-themed Victoria Harbour No. 1 holiday apartment opened. The homestay is located in Huidong County Country Garden Weigang Bay, there are 25 sets of theme homestays with a total of more than 60 rooms, all with classic TV series such as "Long Song Line" and "Love Aegean Sea" as the design theme, and its clubhouse also collects nearly 3,000 TV drama DVDs from the development of Chinese TV dramas so far, which can be described as a miniature TV series DVD museum, attracting many drama fans to stay.
The performance of Huizhou's film and television industry on the consumer side is even more eye-catching, and the number of commercial theaters in the city has soared from 11 in 2011 to 81 at present; the city's box office was 0.51 billion yuan in 2011, and in 2019 (before the epidemic) the city's box office has exceeded 366 million yuan. In 2020, among the top 18 prefecture-level cities in the country with annual box office revenue, Huizhou was on the list, ranking 13th with an annual box office revenue of 106 million yuan.
Luofu Mountain Film and Television Base Thirteen Elements Cultural Tourism Street.
The leading film and television projects drive the effect to be improved
In 2010, Huizhou was positioned as a film and television shooting base in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and film and television talents, resources and projects gathered in Huizhou, and the expectations and voices of all sectors of society for the key development of The film and television industry in Huizhou are rising. Huizhou took advantage of the momentum to vigorously carry out investment promotion activities and is committed to introducing a number of leading film and television projects to settle down.
The Luofu Mountain Film and Television Cultural Industry Base, which was truly built, had high hopes. On November 3, the reporter saw in the Luofu Mountain Film and Television Cultural Industry Base that the base has completed the first phase of construction, and the studio, the 13 elements of the cultural tourism street, the film and television theme hotel, the film and television school teaching building, and the celebrity experience hall can basically be put into use. Due to the slow progress of the land in phase II, the first phase could not be opened.
"The first phase of the studio has a 3,600-square-meter studio, which is the largest studio in Guangdong, where the movies "Fortune Diary", "Photographer" and super web drama "Chasing Balls" were filmed here." Zhang Junwen, head of the Luofu Mountain Film and Television Cultural Industry Base, introduced that the second phase of the base will build a headquarters building, a business park and a service center.
The reporter learned that due to problems such as top-level design and operation management, the construction of the Luofu Mountain Film and Television Cultural Industry Base has been shelved for a long time, and the opening of the first phase of the park and the construction of the second phase are still in preparation, and there is still a long way to go from the goal of building a "Film and Television Cultural Tourism Base in the Greater Bay Area".
In terms of film and television enterprises, more than 80 film and television enterprises have been established in Huizhou, and their main business is to shoot and produce promotional films, micro-films and online movies, and some companies have also directed films, but the theme and box office are not ideal.
More and more crews come to Huizhou to shoot and shoot, how to do a good job in the logistics of the crew? Huizhou Yihe Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., which was established in September 2020, came into being and has a strong momentum of development. The company takes film and television shooting services as its main business, providing the crew with Huizhou location protection, urban street scene framing coordination, studio rental, shooting equipment rental coordination, extras providing, crew car rental, hotel eating and living, outreach personnel and group services.
At present, Yihe Film and Television has provided landing services for more than 10 film and television works, and the more influential film and television works are "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle" and "Diary of Fortune". In addition, Yihe Film and Television is producing and preparing to release the sci-fi cross-genre cinema film "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" and the TV series "Forensic Song Ming Mind Reader", and will introduce 3 film and television works to be filmed in Huizhou in the second half of the year.
Nugget film and television industry, Huizhou has a long way to go. Some film and television industry practitioners said that although Huizhou has unique natural resources and convenient transportation advantages, the progress of leading film and television projects is slow and the driving effect is limited, and the entire film and television industry is still in the early stage of exploration, and it is urgent for government departments to introduce incentive policies to promote the development of new formats such as the film and television industry.
The film and television filming locations were recommended to the crew
On the eve of the outbreak of the epidemic, the Guangdong Film Association held the Huizhou Film Culture Industry Summit, inviting experts, scholars and senior practitioners in the province to provide suggestions for the high-quality development of the film industry in Huizhou.
Zheng Zhaokui, deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Film Association and vice president of Guangdong South 289 Creative Arts Culture Development Co., Ltd., said that Huizhou should develop a certain link in the film industry chain according to the existing foundation and advantages, and build it into the center of this link.
Looking at the development path of film and television bases at home and abroad, it basically follows the development law from the filming location to the production company gathering place to the industrial cluster.
The reporter learned that Huizhou will give full play to the advantages of natural resources and history and humanities, take the film and television filming site project as the breakthrough direction, form a filming location resource library with film and television attributes and cultural and tourism attributes, focus on building an international film and television film and television framing landmark city, and actively explore the high-quality development path of the film and television industry.
Next, Huizhou will dig deep into the landscape culture, evaluate the "Top 100 Film and Television Film and Television Film and Television Filming Locations" in the city, and select 100 most suitable attractions and venues for film and television drama shooting according to the requirements of the crew' framing, such as Huizhou's rich cultural landscapes, historical landscapes, natural landscapes, era streets, Internet celebrity punching places, high-end hotels, high-end office buildings, etc.
After the release of the "Top 100 Film and Television Film and Television Film and Television Location", Huizhou will be promoted and released through platforms such as film festivals, open to the world film and television crew, promote film and television shooting to become an important cultural industry in Huizhou, an important means to display the image of the city, and enhance the influence and popularity of Huizhou's film and television industry.
A play brings fire to a city. A good-looking film and television drama, in addition to the actors and plot points, the beautiful scenery of the filming location is often unforgettable, attracting many people to the city where the filming site is located to "punch the clock".
"Film and television + tourism" has become a powerful engine for developing the cultural tourism industry, building city brands and boosting the local economy. Many film and television dramas filmed in Huizhou, how to contribute "traffic" to Huizhou Cultural Tourism? Huizhou plans to create film and television theme tourism routes around the top 100 film and television film and television film and television locations, invite film and television stars as tourism image ambassadors, endorse tourism routes, stimulate the development of cultural tourism with the heat of film and television IP, and help Huizhou build a more humanistic cultural city.
[Reporter] Mi Chaoxia
【Photo】 Wang Changhui
【Author】 Mi Chaoxia; Wang Changhui
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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