On the night of October 18, the TV series "Twelfth Second" premiered at the Monsoon Theater of Hunan Satellite TV. This TV series is starred by Wan Qian, Ren Zhong and other actors, and tells a criminal investigation story of anti-drug category. The play has an original novel of the same name. Based on the plot content that has been broadcast, the biggest problem with the TV series "Twelfth Second" is that the soundtrack is too stealy, and the first two episodes seem to have a more ingenious way in "storytelling".
Let's start with the soundtrack of this TV series. I watched it on Mango TV because I could preemptively watch a few more episodes on SATELLITE TV. Just watched the content of half an episode on the genuine video platform, I felt that it was not right, is there something wrong with my sound? How is the soundtrack of this TV series so loud, a large number of bridges, has completely covered the actor's line sound. This is the lowest error in editing. So I quickly turned on the TV and used the replay function to re-watch the content of "Twelfth Second" broadcast on satellite TV.
Judging from the plot content broadcast by Hunan Satellite TV, this soundtrack is too loud, and even the problem of robbing the actor's line sound at first glance also exists in a large area. Is there something wrong with my tv? Quickly find a few friends in the industry to help see. Everyone turned on their own TV and watched this "Twelfth Second" with the replay function, and the problem was the same. Subsequently, I can conclude that in the post-editing of the TV series "Twelfth Second", the soundtrack is too loud and robs the sound of the scene, which is wrong, directly hurting the "immersion" of the plot and causing the audience to have a problem.
Regarding the problem of the soundtrack being too loud, I don't know what the reason for the TV series "Twelfth Second" is. Under normal circumstances, post-production editors do not have this problem. The line tone and soundtrack sound, even a child, can also hear it, know which should be bigger and which should be smaller. No matter how stupid the editor is, he will not have such problems on the audio track. I suspect that pulling up the soundtrack might be trying to mask the loud noise in the live sound.
Many of our TV drama works filmed in Hengdian and other film and television bases have huge noise on the spot and need to be re-dubbed in the later stage. However, this TV series was filmed in Shijiazhuang, and many scenes were very quiet. In this case, unless the shooting technology is not in place, there will be no problem that the live sound cannot be used and the soundtrack needs to be raised. Why the TV series "Twelfth Second" risked letting the audience play and infinitely pull up its own soundtrack needed to be explained by the playwright himself.
Then talk about the narrative of this TV series. The first two episodes gave me the feeling that I was in a hurry, in a hurry, in a panic to tell a story, too anxious, and eventually caused some chaos in the story, the button that should come out could not come out, and the trip that should be put could not be put down. In fact, in the original novel, a relatively good story template has been provided. When it comes to ADAPTing a TV series, there is still a lot of creative space. The current state of panicked storytelling does not seem advisable. Novice screenwriters are prone to such problems, the more anxious you are in the narrative, the more you can't tie the buttons, the more you can't put down the trip, and you feel that you are quickly entering the story state, in fact, the audience is outside the door, just watching the writers, directors and actors panic.
To bring the audience into the story state together, is a good narrative. How to lead the audience to enter together, rather than entertaining the writer and director, needs to pay attention to a lot of details and rhythm in the narrative. These contents are taught in the Department of Drama Creation. The biggest trick is to lay the mat. The plot of the two episodes of "Twelfth Second" premiered lacked basic paving, so the audience was outside the door, only watching the panicked writers, directors and actors inside the door. The storytelling technique of this TV series is not good, and it can even be said that it is incorrect. The content of this story, told by a knowledgeable old screenwriter, may be very exciting.
The third point is to talk about whether the TV series version is in line with the original book. I saw that in the audience short comments of a certain platform, many accounts began to play five-star praise on the night of the TV series broadcast, and wrote the words "in line with the original work, very good-looking" and so on. I really doubt that these accounts have actually read the original novel. If the TV series "Twelfth Second" really conforms to the original work, then it must not be able to pass the review. In the original novel, the content of criminal investigation is not interesting, and it can even be said that it is the east effect of many criminal investigation novels. In the original novel, what really has original value is the heroine's growth route from childhood to adulthood, especially the "tragic life" experienced by the little girl.
And the content of this "tragic life" will definitely not become the narrative focus of the TV series version. Why not? Because it involves "juvenile delinquency", including the heroine being criminalized, and the heroine committing her own crime. A lot of content has gone beyond the review scale of TV series. Therefore, in the creation of TV dramas, it is inevitable to go to the line of criminal investigation, rather than the growth line of the heroine. Therefore, I think that the TV series is definitely not in line with the original work, restoring the original work. TV drama is a subtraction for novels.
The fourth point is about the performances of the two leading actors. Let's start with the heavy lifting of the task. In this TV series, the traces of stylized performances are very heavy. We can't see the difference between the male protagonist in the play and other plays. It seems that it can be considered that Ren Zhong has been playing Ren Chong himself. Personally, I don't think Ren Chong got into the role. In other words, in the script roles, there is a lack of more male protagonists' humanity and personality aspects of the bridge polishing, resulting in the male protagonist opening two episodes, are the state of tool people. In the creation of the script, it is still mentioned earlier, panicked, and there should be no, which has caused many problems.
For Wan Qian's performance, some viewers felt amazing. This is inevitable. In the opening plot, Wan Qian's style is still very "cool", even with some sexy and feminine taste. In particular, this sexy and feminine combination with the bridge section content of her little brother smashed with an ashtray is even more magnified. However, I still think that the heroine only assumes the role of a tool person in the opening plot, and the story is for the sake of the story, and the content of human nature is missing, which ultimately causes the character's personality to be paper-based.
In summary, I think that based on the original novel of the same name, the TV series "Twelfth Second" should be able to do better. However, the result presented so far is that the quality of the show is relatively average, and there are many problems. (Text/Ma Qingyun)