The first Shanghai-language cartoon “Shanghai Story” premiered in Ming Dynasty, Mao Mengda and Qian Cheng took the audience “Ye Qing Hui”Fly into the homes of ordinary people
The official picture of the poster of Shanghai-language animation “Shanghai Story” is the same below
Shanghai has many stories and is full of joy and joy. A Shanghai-language cartoon “Shanghai Story” showing Shanghai’s urban life will be exclusively premiered on Bilibili from tomorrow. The modern urban feel is intertwined with the fireworks of the alleys. The Xinmin Evening News also appears on the desks of Shanghai people in the film. Funny celebrities such as Mao Mengda, Qian Cheng, Zhang Xiaoling and so on specially joined the dubbing, which made this cartoon popular before it was broadcast. Last night, 170,000 people made an appointment to follow up.
Shanghai taste strong
“Shanghai Story” begins with the daily life of a young white-collar Han Feifei. Her father, Han Dongliang, is a skilled worker at a Shanghai bicycle factory, her mother, Zhao Xue, is a nurse, and she has a younger brother, Han Dongdong. The story begins with the stories of her parents’ generation in the 1980s, interspersed with the stories of Han Feifei’s sister and brother growing up. Feifei encountered workplace problems in the advertising company, and Dongdong became a popular video anchor. The daily life of the sister and brother Bickering is indispensable, but mutual support is also inseparable…
“Xinmin Evening News” appearing in the cartoon
The drama party specially invited famous comic artists Mao Mengda and Zhang Xiaoling to dub Han Dongliang and Zhao Xue. It is the first time for the three of them to dub the animation. Everyone’s impression of the animation is still there. Is it for children? After reading the script outline and character modeling, Qian Cheng was very excited. It was very interesting to be able to dub the animation in pure Shanghai dialect. With some expectations and some curiosity, the three famous artists joined this young crew.
In order to show the real life in Shanghai, in the storyline of the 1980s, Mao Mengda and Qian Cheng would use some Shanghai dialect pronunciations that are not very common today, such as the jiantuan pronunciation of old Shanghai that can only be heard on stage now. and text reading. With the passage of time, the pronunciation of Shanghai dialect has also changed with the two generations. The voice actors have adopted the accent of young people who speak Shanghai dialect. For example, Han Feifei and Han Dongdong speak Shanghai dialect at home, and they will speak Mandarin when they arrive at the company. To restore the real-life scene, the combination of the two collided to create a very interesting new spark.
Han Xiaofei said: “Using dialects to interpret every bit of every city and tell the story of every ordinary person, so that there will be fireworks and a more grounded atmosphere. In the future, if there is a chance, I also want to use animation to express more cities. Stories that resonate with more people.”
Strong sense of substitution
As early as 2018, director Han Xiaofei had the idea of creating a Shanghai animation. It was a family gathering. Han Xiaofei met many of her father’s old colleagues. They worked together in the Light Industry Bureau for many years. Recalling the past also made Han Xiaofei interested in these stories. How interesting it would be to make these stories into cartoons and show them to today’s young people. It is difficult to resonate with contemporary young people just by telling history, so it becomes a two-line story that interprets two generations, and also shows the collision of the values of the two generations.
When many Shanghai-language bloggers spread Shanghai culture through short videos, cartoons can vividly and beautifully show life in Shanghai. Han Xiaofei recalled her childhood, when a group of children gathered at the entrance of the alley to draw cards, take cigarette signs, and dance rubber. Tendon, eating cold noodles and shaved ice in summer is still a good idea. What makes him gratified is: “The animation clips we released before really evoked many childhood memories of Shanghai people.”
Netizens who are familiar with animation technology have found that “Shanghai Story” adopts the expression technique of “three renderings and two”, that is, the three-dimensional scene shows a flat two-dimensional artistic effect. This is the artistic style that the producer Fang Huanma Qunying Club is good at. Han Xiaofei said that motion capture technology has also been added to the work, and even if the movements performed by professional actors are very subtle, they can be naturally presented in the work. This kind of blunt animation can make the audience feel more immersive and immersive.”(Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)
