Peninsula All-Media Reporter Wang Yue
brings together more than 40 domestic first-class directors, screenwriters and actors, and more than 4,000 crew members to select the best from more than 200 topics... Since the TV series " Our Ten Years " was launched, it has lived up to expectations and received rave reviews. The whole play is divided into eleven units, with "we" as the protagonist and struggle as the clue, which condenses the stories of ordinary people in different industries and presents the audience with the most abundant "home-cooked dishes". Recently, the editor-in-chief of the drama, Cheng Weidong, , accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Peninsula All Media. As the "gatekeeper" of the subject matter and content, he talked about his creative history.
Cheng Weidong.
Discover a new horizon in the depths of life
Reporter: You are also a screenwriter and writer. How do you think the creation difficulty of "Our Ten Years" is difficult? In the creation process of eleven units, which units impress you the most, and why?
Cheng Weidong: The difficulty of creation is self-evident. In a sense, eleven units are eleven TV series and eleven projects. In the final summary, there are more than 4,000 people in the entire crew, and there are no less than 40 main characters carefully portrayed in the work. But this is still not the hardest.
The key to the level of the work lies in the level of the writer and artist's understanding of life. If we talk about the difficulty of creation, we may have to overcome this difficulty. For such a major creative task, the breadth of vision and the depth of thinking directly affect the height of life. It is necessary to brainstorm and exert the strength of the team. That day, several of our main creators got together. After everyone calculated, the opinions exchanged with WeChat attachments alone were hundreds of thousands of words. After the filming started, directors, actors, prototypes, and related figures in the field of life reflected were still making corrections and adding fuel to the maturity of art. Mao Weining told me that he always read the script in the middle of the night. Sometimes when a first draft comes out, both of us wrote thousands of words of opinions at midnight, and then posted them in the WeChat group, and they collided at the same time. It is hard to say which unit is the most impressive, because all units are "impressed".
After the episode is aired, the response is very enthusiastic. Critic Li Jingsheng called it a "new breakthrough in the creation of realistic themes", and the popularity of TV series broadcasting is very rare.
Reporter: As the editor-in-chief, what do you think are the biggest creative features and exciting highlights of the series?
Cheng Weidong: I want to emphasize the style of TV unit dramas. The writers and artists who created the drama have made solid explorations. In the TV series, there are TV series, TV series, TV series, TV single series, etc. Now it can be said that there is TV unit drama . By "We've been in this decade", it has been relatively formed.
As a key TV series on reality, in the face of many spectacular realistic works, how to discover new highlights must be "not afraid of the clouds covering the eyes" in the eye, and "every branch and leaf are always in love" in the mood. All of this is to take root in the people and take root in life. The main creative staff rushed to Xinjiang, went to Lingnan, got out of the snow and the scorching heat, and their eyes became brighter after they plunged down.
is located in the countryside of Jiande not far from Hangzhou. Li Ang, the screenwriter and director of "What Heart Should" wants to be as familiar with the prototype as if he is "love". As a result, he became a high fever. He lay on the stretcher under the dissuasion of the doctor. The director of "Ideal Life" entered Yiwu , and only then did he know that almost every character next to the small product has the ideal life he wants. Only then did he know that this prism-like ideal life is more magnificent and colorful because of China's openness to the world.
If "We've Been Ten Years" has new gains in realistic TV dramas, I think it is the new horizon that writers and artists have discovered in the depths of life. Another highlight is that our creations move on the regular basis from beginning to end. The creation process of the series, from creativity to story outline, to episode outline, to the first draft, the second draft to the final draft, I think we have done it.
"We" write the picture scroll of the times
Reporter: As the editor-in-chief, what do you think of the unique value and practical significance of this work?
Cheng Weidong: Professor Xu Zhouchi of Zhejiang Media College said that in almost every unit, the conversation between the soul is heard. This is exactly the soul that all works of art should have.Director Yang Yang said from the beginning of his creation of "Persistence" that I must film the warmth in epidemic prevention and fight against the epidemic. It should be noted that this is an understanding in aesthetics and a power in the torrent of history. The warmth in the world can overcome everything. So I repeat again, using the stories and characters that impress you to present the essential truth of life.
Reporter: From "China's Divine Fire", " Chinese Businessman ", "China Flight Attendant", "Who Do You Defend" to "Our Ten Years", as a well-known screenwriter, what do you have in the creation of main theme dramas? What do you think of the cultural phenomenon of main theme dramas becoming popular in recent years?
Cheng Weidong: "Imagination" and "exploration power" are the two magic weapons of creation. But only by keeping your feet on the ground can you truly look up at the stars. Otherwise, creation, especially the creation of the main theme, will become "mirror, water, moon, and talk on paper".
Create the main theme of works first, you must first discover the main theme. For example, writing "The Future Is Coming" to overcome the difficulties of 5G, the returnee daughter and the scientist father worked together to develop the application of 5G technology, and break the barriers of family affection with the spirit of a consistent scientist. Father and daughter join forces to make contributions to the new era. As a growing character, a daughter can also become a main theme character. Secondly, you must believe in the main theme sincerely. I remembered that I had once entered the tango deer and entered the mountains, looking for the initial traces of the first atomic bomb, , and also plunged into the center of the city's shopping malls, looking for the difficulties of breaking through the shackles of planned economy in business, and flew over the sky one after another, talking to the crew crew in the clouds, which was really feeling the tremor of the soul. I have also come into contact with hundreds of "rich second generations" of Wenzhou . What I found in them is not the "common problem" they often say, but the entrepreneurial spirit of renewing ideas. These are the main themes of social progress.
As the drama review says, using historical brushes to imitate the spirit and artistic brushes to shine, discovering the splendor of every wave in the torrent of the times. "These Ten Years of Us" sees the big picture from the small, and feels the changes in life from those who have struggled for ten years. Every specific me constitutes us, and we write about our past ten years. It is the people living on this land who have "written" together into ten years of human fireworks and participated in witnessing the moments destined to be history.
