"Just a little bit."
"Enough."
In the trailer of "Ordinary Glory", Wu Kezhi (played by Zhao Youting) and Sun Yiqiu (played by Bai Jingting) cheered for each other with "Hope in Heart", "a little bit" is a pun: a little hope is enough, and a little bit is gained Progress is enough.
From the inside of the play to the outside of the play, this passage is also used to point out the key to the creation of workplace dramas: to show the real workplace, a little detail is enough.
is produced by Warteck Keton’s Drama Cool Communication, directed by Lu Xing, starring Zhao Youting, Bai Jingting, and Qiao Xin, Wei Daxun is a special star, Zuo Xiaoqing, Liu Chang, Hao Ping friendly starring, Pang Hanchen, Zhang Zixian, Huo Zhengyan starred in a realistic workplace drama " "Ordinary Glory" was launched on Zhejiang Satellite TV and Dragon TV yesterday, and was exclusively broadcast on Youku.
The show focuses on ordinary people in the workplace, starts at the subtle points, shows their difficulties, and records their growth. This play has a powerful effect on the creative problems that were exposed in the previous workplace dramas such as being far from real life and difficult to resonate with the audience. Correction.
combing through this detailed achievement of "Ordinary Glory" may reveal the true chapter of workplace drama creation.
True workplace: a window, but also a mirror
The essence ofworkplace drama creation must be both typical and universal. It can not only capture the characteristics of the industry and become a way for the audience to understand the industry, but also take into account the commonality of the workplace, so that audiences in different industries can take care of themselves and gain resonance.
If you want a real workplace, details are the key.
"Ordinary Glory" is based on real financial cases, allowing the audience to see the real investment banking ecology, reflecting the work, the three details are the most brilliant.
The Bund landscape and the office interior contrast
is the details of the environment first. The Bund on the riverside is lined with tall buildings, everyone in suits and shoes, and even the air exudes the breath of financial upstarts. When the camera is turned, the real investment bank appears, in sharp contrast with the glamorous appearance: crowded office rooms are stacked everywhere at any time. The collapsing reports, the staff rushed to and fro, the phone calls kept ringing one after another. "Ordinary Glory" unscrupulously displays the most "original" investment banking environment on the screen, and instantly brings the audience into the dramatic context.
Wu Kezhi
is followed by the details of the character's state. Wu Kezhi's appearance was quite comical. The signing ceremony was intentionally late, and the dress was not at all related to exquisiteness. He did not differ from the image of an investment bank manager imagined by the audience; the details of Lin Yuming gnawing buns, flipping through the materials and holding the phone were also particularly vivid. It should be noted that financial investment banking is a high-pressure and high-efficiency industry. The 007 work system is the norm. There are even practitioners who laugh at themselves as "financial migrant workers". "Ordinary Glory" removes the floating ladder between the real life and the "buildings in the sky". Show the daily life of investment bankers.
The last is the details of the professional field of investment banking. Professionalism is one of the important criteria for evaluating the quality of workplace dramas. Not only that, the insiders watch the doorway, the laymen watch the excitement, and there are many practitioners in the financial and investment banking fields in the audience. Once you see the flaws, you can build a sense of belief in the front. Then it ceases to exist, and ends up in the judgment of "false" and "untrue".
Wu Kezhi explains why
Judging from the professional presentations in the investment banking field in the first two episodes, the main creative team's on-site investigation and interview work has been implemented. Wu Kezhi was blamed by partners for many years for preventing the signing of the contract. He explained to the partners the reason. The audience also figured out how the bad competition in the investment bank took advantage of the industry rules: the investor immediately transferred the team to the team after obtaining the core technical resources of the team. Snow hides, and transfers the resources to the team that really needs to support, just like a "civet cat for prince" drama, explain the profound things in a simple way, not only can withstand professional inspection, but also easy for ordinary audience to understand.
Thanks to the filling of rich details, "Ordinary Glory" achieved the first step to win the trust of the audience. The audience will be convinced that they will pay close attention to the workplace topics discussed in the play: how interns should quickly integrate into the group when they first enter the workplace, the plight and anxiety of middle-aged professionals, and how to deal with the bad atmosphere in the workplace. How do women in the workplace balance family and work... Although the "Ordinary"Glory" tells the story of investment banking, but the above issues are in fact the encounters that all workplace people are likely to face, or even unavoidable, because they have enough empathy to gain the recognition and empathy of the audience.
Real people: It’s not easy to build good ordinary people
From a creative point of view, although the ultimate drama characters are eye-catching, the creative method is simple and rude: superimpose tags with strong topic attributes. However, such a character is far from life, farther from the audience, and it is difficult to win the audience's trust.
In contrast to "Ordinary Glory", in the capture of the characters, the true meaning of the word "ordinary" has been grasped, and at the same time it has been implemented through detailed description.
In this investment bank called Jinchen Capital, we can see all kinds of sentient beings, almost the people living around us: it seems that everyone has encountered Lin, the second-in-command leader with gentle personality and humorous attributes. Yu Ming; a young and mature male colleague, Gao Sicong who always has a stern look; a beautiful and reliable female partner Lan Qianyi with a bright smile...It is precisely this one that constitutes the vivid characters on the screen, ordinary but cute .
The nervous and cramped Sun Yiqiu
The crisis of the middle-aged workplace and the unsuitability of entering the workplace are almost everyone’s inevitable “throttles” in their life trajectory. From Wu Kezhi and Sun Yiqiu, we can see our own present or future: outstanding ability but frustrated promotion and frustration. The marginalized Wu Kezhi was arranged to be the team leader of the four groups. Every day, he was faced with projects that other groups were unwilling to take over and were difficult to negotiate. He was so busy with his only right-hand assistant, Lin Yuming, that he still couldn't make achievements; Sun Yiqiu, who doesn’t know the least bit of financial knowledge, and has no workplace experience, was looked down upon by his boss, Wu Kezhi, and talked about by interns and peers that he had a back door, had a background, and had to endure his own inner suffering, in order to live up to his mother’s pains and expectations. , Have to do work that I don’t like.
Wu Kezhi who is depressed and depressed
It is worth mentioning that the performances of the two protagonists Zhao Youting and Bai Jingting add a lot to the characters. Zhao Youting changed the elegant image on the screen in the past. Wu Kezhi's uncut, grumpy temper, but outstanding professional ability in strategizing, he interprets the multi-faceted character of Wu Kezhi. Sun Yiqiu, played by Bai Jingting, is a rookie who has just entered the workplace. He has a rickety figure, stammers, and even dare not look into the eyes of others. His body language shows the cramps and tension of this character.
True struggle: Difficulties are real, hard work is real
The goal ofworkplace drama must be to deliver positive and upward power. However, if you do not master the heat, you will not only fail to make chicken soup, but you will also easily fall into the cliché of empty slogans. Speaking in play and conveying power in details can make the "struggle" have an arc.
Sun Yiqiu is embarrassed in front of the whole company because he can't keep meeting minutes.
"Ordinary Glory" dropped the characters to the bottom at the beginning, and made them unable to parry under successive heavy hammers, which is in sharp contrast with the endeavor, ideals, and hopes shown in the trailer. This is also the brilliance of the play: the "Glory" in the title is not produced by the good times of wishing to achieve the peak of life, but by repeated defeats, the more frustrated, the more courageous, stand straight and don't get down on adversity Set off.
Wu Kezhi was assigned to the four most useless groups when his promotion was unsuccessful. His partner Lin Yuming was always willing to follow. The two were not only colleagues, superiors, but also friends. This kind of pure support and trust is a blind pursuit A powerful counterattack for success in the workplace. Sun Yiqiu didn't know anything about financial investment banks, but he gave full play to his advantages in times of crisis, helped Wu Kezhi retain important customers, and proved that he was not a "useless person."
field research
More importantly, "Ordinary Glory" does not beautify and simplify the "struggle", but uses the harsh reality to "add weight" to the struggle. In the case of investing in a hotel, in order to find out the store flow, Jinchen Capital sent all interns to various stores to conduct field visits and records, replaced computers with human brains, and adopted the oldest but reliable method to calculate the real store flow. . There is no hope for the help of the gods and soldiers, and there is no reason to give up because of the difficulty of the work task. The career story shown in "Ordinary Glory", without filters, is just what life is like. "Happiness comes from struggle" no longerIt's just empty talk, but a life experience that everyone empathizes with.
