Enlightenment from the creation of the TV series “Merciful Merit” (Optical Film and Television)

Enlightenment from the creation of the TV series “Meritorious” (Optical film and television industry)

Market Information Network 2021-10-28 15:37:24 Source: People’s Daily Online Comment:

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There is no shortage of vivid stories in China, and the key is the ability to tell good stories; there is no lack of epic practice, and the key is the ambition of creating epics.If TV drama workers want to forge high-quality products, they need to internalize and externalize the principle of “selecting the topic correctly, telling a good story, and making a high-quality product”.

Since the beginning of this year, the main melody TV series have frequently made people surprised. Following the hits of “Mountains and Seas”, “Awakening Age” and “Across the Yalu River”, the TV series “Meritorious”, which depicts the moving deeds of the winners of the “Medal of the Republic”, once again ignited the enthusiasm of the audience and attracted widespread attention from the society. The play was jointly broadcast on 4 satellite TVs and 3 video platforms. The audience scored high scores on rating websites, and related topics frequently appeared on the hot search lists on the Internet.

Watching “Merchants”, learning “Merchants”, admiring heroes, and praising the era, let “Merchants” from a literary and artistic work become a cultural hot spot and social phenomenon worthy of attention. Sorting out the production process of “Merchants” can provide a lot of enlightenment for the main melody TV series to “find the topic, tell the story, and make a good product”, and tell the story of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people well.

Concerned about the “Bigger of the Country”

Carry forward and inspire family and country feelings

Literature and art is the clarion call for the advancement of the times, and it can best represent the style of an era and lead the trend of an era. The creators of TV dramas in the new era should have the “two overall situations” in mind and the “big one of the country” in mind, and take the initiative to take on the mission to write history for the country, statues for the nation, and soul for the times. This is the first revelation of the creation of “The Meritorious Service”.

On September 29, 2019, the awarding ceremony of the National Medal and National Honorary Title was grandly held. At the award ceremony, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Advocating heroes will produce heroes, and striving to be heroes can produce heroes in large numbers.” “We commend heroes and models with the highest standards in order to promote their loyalty, perseverance, and simple and distinctive character.” .

The TV series “Morality” vividly demonstrates the vanguard force that the model of the times has integrated personal ideals into the cause of the party and the people, vividly interprets the personality charm and social value of contemporary heroes, promotes and inspires family and country feelings, and allows the audience to follow In my heart, I have strengthened the ambition, backbone, and confidence to be a Chinese, and it has inspired the Chinese people to continue their struggle for the bright prospect of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

History has proved that the leadership of the party is the fundamental guarantee for the development of socialist literature and art. The party has always attached great importance to strengthening and improving the leadership of literary and artistic work. On the one hand, it closely relies on the majority of literary and art workers, and on the other hand, it fully respects and follows the laws of literature and art, which has promoted the continuous emergence of fine art works in different periods. The success of the creation and broadcasting of a series of theme plays has once again demonstrated the party’s institutional advantage of “concentrating power to do great things” in the party’s literary and artistic undertakings. Proactively formulate topics and organize creations, quickly assemble and combine the domestic first-line creative teams and production teams in a short period of time, realize the optimal allocation of resources and productivity factors, and provide strong organizational guarantees and talent guarantees for the creation and production of works. Under the strong leadership of the party, literary and art workers should grasp the pulse of the times and undertake historical missions to create more ideological and artistic masterpieces, so that the main theme creation will be vibrant in the new era, in order to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation Provide strong mental power.

Modeling a model to reach new heights

Heroes are the most shining coordinates of the nation

“A hopeful nation cannot be without heroes, and a promising country cannot be without pioneers.” The Chinese nation is a nation that admires heroes, achieves heroes, and produces heroes in large numbers. The era of peace also needs heroic feelings. With reverence, the heroic stories are recorded with strong colors and heroic images, so that the heroic image is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the heroic spirit is widely spread. This is the second point of inspiration from the creation of “The Meritorious Service”.

The height reached by typical characters is the height of literary works and the height of art of the times. Only by creating typical characters who can stand up and keep, the work can have enough attractiveness, appeal and vitality. This is especially true for the shaping of heroes. “The Merit” vividly portrayed eight heroes, Li Yannian, Yu Min, Huang Xuhua, Zhang Fuqing, Shen Jilan, Sun Jiadong, Tu Youyou, and Yuan Longping. Among them are heroes who are not afraid of sacrifice and defend the country, and scientists who have made significant contributions to the prosperity of the motherland. There are also national labor models who actively fight for labor rights for women in New China. Every feat is a banner, and every character has a unique shining point and memory point. The play not only shows the ordinaryness of these heroes as children, parents, and couples, but also highlights the highlight moments in their lives. It combines ordinaryness and transcendence, and makes the hero’s lofty beliefs more intensely infected. Power and summoning power.

Zheng Xiaolong, the general director of “Meritorious”, said frankly that real deeds of meritorious deeds and solid preliminary interviews have provided sufficient nourishment for the creation of a typical character. In order to make the unit of “Neng Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian”, the main creator went to Guangxi to reminisce with the old heroes of his sacrificed comrades. In order to make the unit of “The Obscure Zhang Fuqing”, the main creator walked into Zhang Fuqing’s residence to learn from his neighbors about his deliberately dusty achievements and past. The enthusiastic response of the play shows that there are one hundred or one thousand literary and artistic creation methods, but the most fundamental thing is to take root in the people and take root in life. When dealing with real life, creators must not only be involved, but also be involved. Only by comprehending the realm of personality, figuring out the spiritual core, and drawing inspiration from the hot life, can we create a full-bodied, lively and agile character image, and can truly resonate the character with the audience.

Consolidate the concept of boutique

Faith takes root in good stories

The final measure of the literary and artistic achievements of an era depends on the works. There is no shortage of vivid stories in China, and the key is the ability to tell good stories; there is no lack of epic practice, and the key is the ambition of creating epics. If TV drama workers want to forge high-quality products, they need to internalize and externalize the principle of “selecting the topic correctly, telling a good story, and making a high-quality product”. In fact, those noble spiritual beliefs are hidden in the daily bits of the heroes, and it depends on whether the creator has the skill and wisdom to express it in a good story. This is the third revelation of the creation of “The Meritorious Service”.

In terms of subject matter and content, for the first time, the show uses the narrative art of TV dramas to focus on showing the real life experience and lofty personality of contemporary heroes. It has both times and freshness, and strives to achieve the authenticity of the prototype characters and the fictional artistic creation. Harmonious blending, seeking expressions of youthfulness that fits the context of the times, and wrapping ideas and themes with wonderful elements such as youth, ideals, growth, and emotions. In units such as “Unsung Hero Yu Min” and “Tu Youyou’s Gift”, the delicate individual narratives and emotional interactions are deeply moving, achieving empathy with the audience, and allowing the power of faith to flow into the audience’s hearts subtly. The data of the three video platforms show that young audiences who watched “The Merit” accounted for the mainstream, and the audience aged 18-39 accounted for 67%. The audience interacted actively and received rave reviews. The three platforms have accumulated millions of barrage, “tribute.” “Tears”, “good-looking” and “textured” barrage screens, admiration for heroes, love for the people of the motherland, and struggle for a better era have become the “greatest common divisor.”

In terms of structure and production, the play lays out the narrative in a unit style. Each unit has 6 episodes, short and concise, with a compact plot, which conforms to the current creative trend of high-quality short dramas. Cinematic image processing, ingenious detail description, highly restored scenes, costumes, props, etc., all demonstrate the aesthetic quality and innovative pursuit of the work. In order to film the heroic deeds of Li Yannian leading the company to regain the 346.6 highland, the crew spent a month in Yanji to restore the battlefield that year. The crew of “Sun Jiadong’s Road to Heaven” restored the Dongfanghong satellite almost one-to-one. The locations of the pipelines and screws were studied in detail. The background of Shen Jilan’s story is the village in the 1950s and 1960s. The village scene at that time is hard to find now, so the crew renovated the filming location. “Merchants”‘s excellence in “software” and “hardware” will have a demonstrative and leading role in the creation of film and television dramas.

The great era calls for great works, and great works reflect the great era. Artists and artists continue to increase their ambitions to write epics in the new era, focus on historical achievements and historical changes, and strive to climb toward the peak of ideology and culture. The creation of the main theme will surely be full of vitality.

(The author is the Secretary-General of China Television Arts Committee)

Layout design: Zhao Cairu

“People’s Daily” (20th edition on October 28, 2021)

Editor in charge: gaoxuejing Liu Yuan