large-scale theme program "HTM1 Time Answers " has been broadcast on Oriental TV every weekend starting from October 16. By telling the stories of six role models and the times, we share six inspiring high-scoring answers. The first episode of
tells the story of Ye Cong, the number one manned deep diving in China. On the day the show was broadcast, the second season of "The Answer of Time" was on the Weibo Variety Show Influence List. The number of readings of the main topic #The Answer of Time # exceeded 260 million. On the day the second episode of the program that tells the broadcast of the special astronaut Nie Haisheng won one of the hot Kuaishou Entertainment lists, and the main topic of the program #Time Answers# reads over 270 million. The third episode aired on October 28 tells the story of three generations of archaeologists "relaying" to discover Sanxingdui.
How to break through innovation and become a program that young people like in the second season of "The Answer to Time"? The producer and director of the program, Chen Chen, shared the story behind the creation.
Interviews in the work scenes of characters
"Answer of Time" season 2 program is themed "Me and Our Future". In the third episode, the main creative team came to the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan, and took the audience to sort out the historical context of Sanxingdui's "coming out of nowhere". Chen Dean, 69, the former webmaster of the Sanxingdui site workstation, Lei Yu, 59, and Ran Honglin, the 35-year-old director of the Sanxingdui Archaeology Institute, tell the story of three generations of archaeologists "relaying" to excavate Sanxingdui. The program team went to to shoot on the Sanxingdui site in many times, and conducted interviews in the characters' work scenes.
program uses interviews and movie viewing to run through the historical and realistic space, allowing the protagonist to meet his past selves and re-examine the critical moments in life. "We have a limited budget and cannot use a large amount of VR to achieve the scene of the in-shelf stage, but I think the more important thing about the character interview program is not the expansion of technology and visual aspects, but to make people feel sincere and real." Chen Chen introduced that the program team gave up the traditional in-shelf screen + theater form, but chose the key scenes and specific landmarks of the protagonist's life, and cut the story into the scene, bringing the feeling of immersiveness. The invitation process of
is very difficult. In addition to the impact of the epidemic, the busy work of the respondents is also an important factor. Chen Chen revealed that the winner of the " August 1 Medal ", special astronaut Nie Haisheng, chief designer of the "Struggle" , commander-in-chief of the Wanmi Sea Test, and the first manned deep-sea diving in China, are the two most difficult interview subjects to appointment. They rarely appear on TV shows themselves, and the place where they work is difficult to access.
In order to interview Nie Haisheng on the simulation experimental platform of the China Astronaut Center, the program team persisted in "chasing" him for several months. Due to the limited number of people entering, dozens of members of the team can only enter in batches during recording. On the first day, people can go in to take pictures, and on the second day, only cameras can enter.
Chen Chen still remembers Nie Haisheng said with encouragement before the machine was turned on, "You are really persistent in being able to enter here." Chen Chen replied, "To this afternoon when we chatted with you, we did various plans and rehearsals and drills, just like leaving the cabin, there is only one chance, only success, not failure." When interviewing Ye Cong, he talked about his first time watching manned submersible in the movie "Titanic". In the first 8 minutes of the film, a large number of manned submersibles dived into the water to find the wreckage. This detail made many netizens exclaim, "Are we watching the same movie? Why are the attention differences so big?" "This is a shocking detail. Since there were no relevant drawings at that time, when I designed , Jiaolong, , I used to draw the drawings according to the submersible in "Titanic"."
Chen Chen still remembers that the interview with Ye Cong was near his workplace, and the outdoor decoration was in a camping style. It was raining that day, and there was almost no rain in the few hours of video recording. "Although they are all very accomplished people, they are very plain, simple and cooperative when chatting. Maybe these characters will feel restrained when they enter the stage, but they will feel more relaxed when chatting in a familiar environment."
"Life Cinema" is the hand pointing to the moon
The new season of "The Answer to Time" is refreshing in the way the story is opened. The "Life Cinema" model used for the first time in the program, on the basis of continuing the cross-time and space dialogue of the previous season, builds a closer scene connection and emotional connection between film and television and interviews, including both real recorded video materials and scene reproduction performed by actors.
"Life Cinema" brings the program Many highlights, actor Chen Xiao starring Nie Haisheng has attracted many netizens' attention: #Chen Xiao performed Nie Haisheng's love for aerospace#The topic has been on the Kuaishou Entertainment List, with more than 5 million people watching it; #Chen Xiao performed Nie Haisheng's love for aerospace#The topic reads more than 13.23 million, and the highest popularity on Weibo is ranked 6th.
"For us, the form must serve content and stories. It is like a finger pointing to the moon, but you can't let others see this finger and forget to look at the moon. "Chen Chen believes that the best integration is that everyone will not feel that watching the film and television interviews are too casual, but that the process is smooth and without abrupt feeling. "Chen Xiao is very simple and close to Nie Haisheng's concise and thin appearance. He played without makeup, and I told him, you really acted very well. Chen Xiao said, I didn’t really want to interpret him, I just honestly restored his state at that time. "
Most of the actors and prototypes selected in this season are similar. Actor Liu Yase will perform " China Youth May Fourth Medal " winner "Beaver Princess" Chu Wenwen ; Xiao Shenyang and Shen Chunyang and will perform the cliff primary school teacher and the winner of "the most beautiful struggler" Li Guilin , Lu Jianfen ; Actor Yang Haoyu will perform the " July 1 Medal " winner Cui Daozhi, the chief trace inspection expert in China.
uses this method of film and television interpretation, hoping to break through traditional interviews, find a new way to open a person, and create a memory point for the audience to remember. It is also difficult to write scripts for film and television, and the program team needs to find drama on the basis of reality. Moreover, since the content involves many professional details, a script often needs to be revised back and forth for more than a dozen drafts. When writing this script for Ye Cong, many terms are learned by the screenwriter. After writing it, he will verify it with the institute. Even during the recording, the film and television screenwriter also came to the scene and asked Ye Cong repeatedly during the interview, "Is this right?" Is this appropriate? "
" I hope this film will make the audience full of expectations for the future after it is broadcast, and I hope to inspire contemporary young people to think - how to achieve self-achievement? The answer to the best life is to closely combine personal choices with the needs of the times and the destiny of the country, and integrate personal "self" into the realization of national prosperity, national rejuvenation and people's happiness. "Chen Chen said. Editor-in-chief of
column: Shi Chenlu Text editor: Shi Chenlu
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Source: Author: Zhong Han
