Into history, into "China". The second season of the large-scale historical and cultural documentary "China" officially ended this week on Hunan TV and Mango TV. The viewer follows the camera in those important historical nodes that are groundbreaking, turning or iconic, vividly tracing how China has come today.
Unique aesthetic style set off "historical fever"
Since the broadcast of the second season of "China", according to China's audiovisual big data, its episode arrival rate has ranked first in the evening time documentary of local satellite television; Kochi attributes are obvious, and the highly educated audience of CSM national network accounts for more than 40%. The popularity of the whole network continues to rise: according to the Meiland Blue Eagle Index, the film won the 16 consecutive championships in the documentary fusion communication index list, more than 60% of which was broadcast on the day of broadcasting, and won the first place in the evening golden file TV program fusion communication index list; more than 20 hot searches and more than 80 out-of-the-circle topics on the whole network achieved 2.6 billion + person-times exposure, leading netizens to explore the source of Chinese civilization.
Mo Yan, Li Jingze, Yi Zhongtian, Lu Tianming and nearly 40 cultural masters, interdisciplinary experts and scholars have recommended the second season of "China". Writer Mo Yan commented that the film "constructs the text structure of the general history of images, allowing us to glimpse china's past and think about the past." Writer and screenwriter Lu Tianming marveled at the grandeur and depth of "China", "I dare not imagine using the form of a TV special film to present a China spanning a thousand years." However, it appeared. It's China. ”
There are also a number of world champions, performing artists, professional musicians... The "ceiling" of all walks of life lamented the charm of "China" and praised it. Li Xuejian, who starred in Qianlong in "China", deeply felt that "China" is "a Chinese work of art that goes out of the country and goes to the world". Through the small story to glimpse the big history, "zero threshold", "super immersive" to tell the Chinese story has also made many parents and primary and secondary school students fall in love with "China".
The second season of "China" also achieved the positive communication effect of network-wide interaction through the output of high-quality cultural content, which attracted "tap water" continuously. Many netizens commented: "Narration, copywriting, picture, music, intention all praise" "Movie-like picture composition, every frame can be screenshotted as a mobile phone or computer cover" "This documentary can always make people just right to wet their eyes with tears, eloquent words, gentle and powerful" "Mango gives people surprises!" Cut through the minds of historical figures, everyone's life is a reflection of the times." They not only spontaneously liked and forwarded, but also made "China" present a "circle-breaking" effect through the way of secondary creation, and the IP value became more and more prominent.
Respond to historical motifs to strengthen cultural self-confidence
In 2020, the first season of the documentary "China" came out with the cultural question of "why Huaxia, why China", and surprised the audience with a unique aesthetic style. Today, the second season of "China" continues the first creative idea, opening up a broader and deeper chinese historical time and space for the audience with a novel perspective.
Li Dongyan, the producer of the second season of "China", said that the simple purpose of "knowing a little" about the history of the country and the "warmth and respect" for past history are the "original intentions" of "China". In the process of creation, it constantly breaks the shackles of aesthetics and breaks through the boundaries of ideas, which has become the most significant feature of the two seasons of "China". From the mutual confirmation of cultural connotations, the continuous breakthrough in image processing, to the continuous innovation of dramatic expression, "China" has spent 22 episodes to present a vivid "China" to the audience.
"China" has only twenty-two episodes in two seasons, and it is vast, all the way from the Spring and Autumn To the late Qing Dynasty, it turns out that the big historical view and the big cultural view stand on a high place with a point to lead the face, and the rare is more. This is not the history of dynasties, nor is it the history of culture in the general sense, this is the history of the spirit, the history of the soul, the selected one is the key moment of the Chinese spirit; what is displayed is the star map of the Chinese soul. The voice and tone of "China" are calm and composed, it is a leisurely stroll in the wind and waves, because it knows where to come from, so it knows where to go, which is the confidence of five thousand years of civilization. ”
Multiple narratives achieve emotional resonance
The commentary is the finishing touch of the second season of "China", the unhurried way of telling is idyllic and calm, and the "soul narration" gives the audience an immersive experience and enlightening thinking, and uses the voice to lead more contemporary people into Chinese history from the perspective of historical bystanders. The narrator Zhou Tao's interpretation is full of affection, expressing the deep and thick history at the same time, the delicate and gentle voice line makes the documentary more warm; another narrator, He Jiong's voice, is thick and kind, fully narrowing the distance with the audience. The two narrators completed the re-understanding and re-creation of history with their voices alone, entering the audience's hearts with sound and color emotions, combing the ups and downs of the veins, and conveying historical feelings.
The breakthrough and innovation in aesthetic expression reflects the maximum efforts of the creative team of "China" for the current young audience. Under the strong artistic inspiration, young audiences have become "narrators" outside the play, using Weibo, short videos, and video numbers to set off a national creative boom and depict the "China" image in their minds. This also coincides with the original intention of the creation of "China" - to open "China" as a way to "lead" to stimulate the public's interest in history and love for China; to use works as a medium to achieve a national interactive experience that explores the source of Chinese civilization.
The second season of "China" artistically presents the origin and spiritual background of Chinese civilization through representative historical figures and historical events. In the narrative space of 22 episodes in two seasons, "China" has carried out a new attempt at documentary imaging and dramatic expression, constructing a grand historical proposition with vivid and detailed historical materials, adhering to the creative principle of "big things are not vain, small things are not informal", inserting imaginative wings for rigorous documentaries, so that the history presented in the images has temperature, attitude and depth, guiding the audience to think about the present from a broad perspective of history, and feeling the "Chinese spirit" with positive practical significance.
Peninsula Morning News, 39 degrees video reporter Li Hongbo