main theme drama is being broadcast intensively on major satellite TV stations and platforms. After the " Big Test ", " Bottom Line " and " Hutong ", " Hutong ", "Light Chaser" and " Our Ten Years " are being aired. " Song of Lushan " and "The Daughter of the Mountain" have begun to be replayed again.
To be broadcasted, " County Party Committee Courtyard " starring Hu Ge , "Public Prosecutor Elite" starring Dilraba Tong Dawei, "Fighting Shanghai" starring Zhang Jiayi Liu Tao, and "Hang Bing Shanghai" starring Wu Gang Zhao Lusi and others are also expected to be broadcast next.
's main theme drama has long been recognized by the audience, especially young audiences, with its solid story and updated shooting concept. Actors with many fan bases such as Hu Ge, Di Lieba, Zhao Lusi, , Zhao Liying and have entered this field, which has also made the main theme drama more "young". How can the main theme drama release more infectiousness?
Red Star News reporter sorted out the popular main theme dramas at present and explored the methodology of excellent works to "become the circle".
The number of
has reached a new high
More than fifty main theme dramas have many high reputation works
021, which is considered by the industry to be the "New Year" of the main theme TV series. Under the theme of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, there are many excellent main theme dramas broadcast. A number of works represented by " Awakening Era ", " Mountains and Seas ", and " Meritorious " have advanced from different themes and reversed the stereotype of the main theme series title essay.
022 is also a year of important nodes. Beijing Winter Olympics , the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and other major themes of the times all require TV series creation with corresponding themes. related data shows that the total number of main theme dramas in 2021 is 49, and the number of main theme dramas that have been broadcast in 2022 has reached nearly 50.
, these dramas that are currently broadcast or have ended, also have many high-reputation works. "The Daughter of the Mountain" starring
Yang Rong , Douban score reached 9.3 without traffic actors and overwhelming publicity. A highly praised comment on Douban said: This is the real drama of the heroine! Don’t be entangled in Xiao En Xiao Ai’s family affairs, have ideals and ambitions, and stick to your life goals and missions. This is what the heroine should look like, worth five stars! During the broadcast, the legal-themed drama "Bottom Line" starring
Jin Dong and others also ranked first in the provincial satellite TV series ratings and hot topic search list many times. In the play, Jin Dong plays the grassroots judge, Fang Yuan, no longer the same image as a tall and noble judge. He wanders between legal principles and human feelings, reveals the rationality and righteousness of professional judges in his work, and is also cute in his life.
There are also many works worth looking forward to in the drama to be broadcast. "County Party Courtyard" produced by Noon Sunshine is directed by Kong Sheng and , and starring Hu Ge, Wu Yue , and Zhang Xincheng . With the sign of the noon sunshine and Hu Ge who joined hands with Kong Sheng again after many years, this has made "County Party Committee Courtyard" highly anticipated and has appeared in investment promotion meetings on many satellite TV stations.
"Fighting Shanghai" is adapted and created by "Awakening Age" screenwriter Long Pingping , telling a series of stories after the liberation of Shanghai by the Communist Party of China. Zhang Jiayi's debut as , Chen Yi, Marshal, is also quite exciting.
In addition, the traditional Chinese medicine-themed drama "The Next Wave" starring Wu Gang and Zhao Lusi, the first female prosecutor-themed "The Elite" starring Dilraba and Tong Dawei, and the business war drama " Wild Growth " starring Zhao Liying have also received a lot of attention since the day of its launch.
Creative direction
Build a ladder, look in the mirror, absorb nutrition from life
It is worth noting that most of these popular main theme dramas are based on real life. "Absorbing nutrition from life" has become a creative direction for the current main theme drama.
"The Daughter of the Mountain" is adapted from the story of Huang Wenxiu, a role model of the times. This master's graduate of Beijing Normal University has the confidence to stay in Beijing through his own efforts. But she chose to return to her barren hometown in order to "do something for everyone."In order to get closer to the role, Yang Rong, the actor who plays Huang Wenxiu in the play, does not wear too much makeup. She always wears black-framed glasses on her face, has a scalp-fitting hairstyle, and is dressed simply, which makes many viewers sigh that "it's real."
"The Daughter of the Mountain" has gained a high reputation, and the real and simple story is indelible. Xu Yuechun, director of the Literary and Art Review Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, believes that the creation of literary and artistic works on heroes and models is to build a ladder to achieve extraordinary and ordinary connection. Through story arrangement, plot design, drama conflicts , character interpretation, etc., the audience can go up and down through this ladder, so that heroes and models can be felt, be trustworthy, respectable, and pursue and learn. "The Daughter of the Mountain" narrows the distance between heroes and models and audiences through life, improves the ideological height and spiritual realm of characters through typicalization, and stimulates the spiritual dimension of learning from heroes and models through popularization, and successfully builds an exquisite ladder. "Our Ten Years" is currently being broadcast by
. The stories and characters in 11 units have real prototypes. For example, " Tang Palace Night Banquet " is based on the popular program of Henan TV ; the "agricultural maker" in "Where the Heart" condenses the shadow of many "agricultural maker" who returned to their hometown to start a business; "Desert Light" is based on engineers who are carrying out photovoltaic power station construction in Egypt...
As the artistic director of the drama Mao Weining said, film and television dramas are projected in a fixed square inch. In the past, we would treat it as a picture frame because we as audiences would see many stories from it. Later we turned it into windows, so the audience saw many stories from others, "But today we hope to make it a mirror, and we believe you will see yourself in this film." The same is true for
"Bottom Line". Screenwriter Fei Huijun and Li Xiaoliang visited more than 30 courts across the country during the preparation period, interviewed about 200 front-line court staff, selected real cases as materials, and finally integrated representative cases into humane stories, colliding legal content with the Internet sentient beings, and unearthed more speculative and contemporary themes.
The legal counsel for the drama and a judge of the Huangpu District Court of Shanghai, Zhao Fei, said that many of the complaints in the drama come from the daily jokes of the judges, such as: "People say that the filing court is the court guarding the door", "There are two situations of judges: one is white hair and the other is hairless", "the summer uniform is thick and ugly", etc. "After the broadcast of "Bottom Line", everyone said it was too real, like a camera was installed in our office."
creative ideas of reflecting the big theme with small incisions, small characters reflecting the big era, and small stories telling big truths, which are particularly obvious in this year's main theme drama series. These fireworks and stories that are close to the texture of life have gained more recognition.
industry makes efforts to
old film and television companies join the market, who will debut in the C position
The just-passed National Day holiday has a total box office of 1.496 billion. "The Road to Return" produced by Huace Group leads the box office with a box office of over 1 billion.
As a veteran domestic TV series production company, Huace Group not only focuses on the film market, but also shows its strengths in the traditional drama market.
Red Star News reporters found that in addition to "Our Ten Years", Huace Group also participated in "The Light Chaser". The producer of this drama is Huacekton, wholly-owned subsidiary of Huace and Shanghai Syndicate Film and Television.
, the "Big Test" just finished is produced by iQiyi and Shanghai Tongmeng Film and Television Culture. Speaking of Tongmeng Film and Television, many people may not be familiar with it, but the legal representative of and founder of this company are the famous director Shen Yan , who has directed TV series such as " My First Half of Life " and " Chinese Divorce ". Shen Yan himself is also the director of "The Great Test". Behind the Tongmeng Film and Television, there are the shadows of well-known pan-entertainment companies in the industry, Perfect World and Tencent . Tencent Holdings' subsidiary China Literature Group CEO O Cheng Wu is also a director of Tongmeng Film and Television.
The most popular drama "County Party Committee Courtyard" is produced by Noon Sunshine.Before that, the theme drama "Mountains and Seas" produced by Noon Sunshine won a high score of 9.2 on Douban.
"Public Prosecution Elite" is produced by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and Century Warner. "Fighting Shanghai" is produced by Shanghai Radio and Television Station, Shanghai Shangshi Film and Television, 201L Film and Television Media, etc. "The Next Wave" is produced by Yaoke and Youku. The production companies of these theme dramas include almost the top platforms and film and television companies in China. In terms of creation, the companies have made the best efforts without reservation.
Huace Group President Fu Binxing recalled that the number of participants in the entire project of "We've been in the past ten years" reached more than 4,000. After receiving the task from the General Administration last year, the group assembled more than 60 elites from the core teams of Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai to gather and create. During the filming, more than 100 top screenwriters, directors and actors in China were invited. The filming pace of the 11-unit crew covers more than a dozen provinces and cities across the country, from Shenzhen to Ningxia in the south, from the water towns in the south to the northwest desert, from scene props to small makeup and hair styles, each crew pays close attention to details. In the creation of "County Party Committee Courtyard", Noon Sunshine sent Kong Sheng to direct it, screenwriter Wang Xiaogun and co-director Mao Bing divided into two groups, heading to Dayu County, Jiangxi Province and Hengyang County, Hunan Province to work. It took several months and accumulated rich materials.
Wang Xiaoqin's experience of working on the job lasted for nearly 5 months. During this period, he "deeply penetrated" the work and life of grassroots cadres. He was with grassroots cadres, whether they worked during the working hours or rest days, worked during the day, chatted in the evening, and went back to sort out records and took work notes. Wang Xiaokeng recalled that there are hundreds of characters in the script "County Party Committee Courtyard" with names, beginning and end, which is also the one with the most characters in the script he created. "This creation has brought me a lot of gains. Good scripts are made with my feet." The content of
breaks through
Theme is broadened, and it has entered emerging fields such as industry and high technology
Red Star News reporters noticed that in recent years, the theme dramas and main theme dramas have not only been upgraded in production and story, but also have been further broadened in themes. In addition to traditional public security, procuratorial and judicial, military, and major revolutionary historical themes, they have also begun to enter emerging fields such as industry and high technology.
At the beginning of this year, Ningmeng Pictures produced "Beyond" focusing on short track speed skating , "Song of Lushan" directed by Mao Weining, and "Hutong" with the theme of "Three Generations of Neighborhood Committee Director , have all chosen different fields to enter.
Mao Weining told the Red Star News reporter that there are few dramas that have reflected industrial themes in recent years, and there have been concerns within the team whether young people will not like such themes. But he hopes that through this drama, we can objectively and truly reflect the difficulties and developments encountered by our industry over the years and show these changes. As long as there are good stories and real characters, someone will definitely be willing to watch them.
In fact, more and more film and television people are beginning to enter these seemingly unpopular fields, trying to bring audiences closer to these "high-ranking" industries.
htmlOn August 16, the first TV series "Hardcore Era" created with the theme of "Hualong No. 1" of my country's completely independent research and development of nuclear power technology "Hualong No. 1" was successfully completed in Chengdu. According to director Zhang Hanbing, "Hardcore Age" tells the story of generations of nuclear industry workers from introduction, digestion and absorption to complete independent innovation, and finally successfully developed the "Hualong No. 1" for nearly 40 years. Behind it is the changes in the country's era and the rise of China.In terms of character setting, "Hardcore Era" chose the second generation, focusing on the third generation of nuclear industry workers, showing the extraordinary ambition, backbone and confidence of Chinese youth, expressing the quality of young people who always adhere to innovative development in overcoming difficulties, and also bringing the characters closer to the audience. In the "Our Ten Years" currently being broadcast, the "Desert Light" unit directed by Anjian focuses on the construction of the "Belt and Road" in the new era, telling the story of Chinese builder Chen Yu (played by Wang Kai) going to a certain country in North Africa to build a photovoltaic power station and work together with the people of the country to create a better life.
At the end of 2021, the State Administration of Radio and Television of the State Administration of Radio and Television issued the "Notice on the Creation and Exhibition Activities of the Theme Works of "Our New Era"", which clearly stated that "theme works should pay attention to the type of subject matter and angle of exploration to prevent homogeneity and theme "collision". Under such requirements, creators began to make efforts in new fields, focusing on showing the magnanimous social life of the times, exploring the depth of reform of the times, showing the tempering and growth of scientific and technological workers, entrepreneurs and workers in the great changes in the times, and also allowing the audience to understand and understand these unfamiliar people and things.
However, this type of drama is very challenging for the creator's skills. Creators need to truly enter these fields and explore behind-the-scenes stories. Do not be careless, and you cannot fall in love with an industry jacket. "Ebola Frontline" 》 Director Yang Wenjun believes that if creators want to break the topics in this type of subject, they must go down to learn the topic. Interviews can help creators accumulate a large amount of material, enrich the plot, and enrich the characters, so that the entire story and characters can be vivid and interesting.
In this special year of 2022, the competition for main theme works is undoubtedly a major highlight of the market. From the works currently broadcast and to be broadcast, we can see that the content is "down-to-earth" makes these works both "major and delicate". The emergence of the creative trend of
also represents the "breaking out of the cocoon" of main theme works in the new stage: breaking the blind "glorious and glorious" and releasing content that is truly penetrating and infectious.
Red Star News Reporter Qiu Junfeng
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