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"" Big Exam " was updated today! Zhou Bowen is training his father again!" The new drama "Big Exam", which is updated one episode every day and stops from time to time, although the rhythm of the schedule is a bit cruel, the audience seems to be chasing it Very energetic, closely monitoring the parent-child relationship of each student's family is tense or eased, quite a bit of a life teacher's perspective.
is directed by Shen Yan , directed by Shen Yan and Ben Fang, written by Nie Chengshuai, Chen Baoguo , Wang Qianyuan , Li Gengxi , Hu Xianxu , Rong Zishan , etc. Last week, the trailer debuted at the iQiyi new drama promotion conference. It is a panoramic reality-themed educational drama that depicts the group portraits of teachers, students and parents in the countdown to the 200-day countdown to the college entrance examination. Or in idol dramas, it looks extra realistic and different, more like a documentary style.
But the audience who were worried about whether the story would be too depressing because of the serious atmosphere of the documentary at first were relieved a lot after the first three episodes, because it was obvious that the topic selection sounded to be about the biggest node of life "the college entrance examination". At this time, every senior high school student and parent will be burdened with the pressure of what path a person can take in the future, but in fact, the show hopes to "decompress" all teachers, students and parents.
The original intention of creating the story originated from a news picture of stepping out of the examination room with a volley-shaped horse after the college entrance examination in 2020. Although this generation of candidates mocked themselves, they grew up under the special background of "born in SARS and tested in 's new crown " , but also has the attitude of not being afraid of difficulties and daring to struggle. The positive energy of the sun is naturally transmitted in the realistic stories. The audience feels the plot that reflects their daily life. There is no deliberate dog blood and anxiety, and the more they look at it in some laughter and tears.
CCTV's first broadcast has a rating of 1, and the broadcast channels cover Samsung's four networks. The topics discussed are basically the attention to each character and 's empathy for . I also think that the production quality and realistic narrative of the show are like teenagers. Edition "The World" and the county high school entrance examination version " Mountains and Seas ".
So can "The Big Exam" become a work that represents a new generation of Chinese teenagers in terms of realistic group portrait education dramas? What kind of new creative methods are there to make the audience follow the show? All are well worth dismantling and researching.
A sample of characters with a median value, "post-00s" family illustrations It's quite dramatic, after all, it's hard to say that the bloody things in life don't exist.
But in the barrage discussions during the broadcast of "The Big Test", many topics were: The dramas of the past few years have slowly begun to return to the original way of life!
"Life is the way it is" is the most prominent feature of "Big Exam", that is, a group portrait education drama of life flow. Groups are characters, education is the theme, and the flow of life is style. The first three episodes of the whole story of
revolve around five core students, two middle school scenes, a county regional background, an epidemic era, and a flood raid background. Interspersed with the relationship between teachers, staff, and grass-roots workers, and finally formed a picture-scroll-style group portrait of the college entrance examination in a special period. In
realism dramas, the difference between life flow and topic flow can be traced back to the early stage of creation, which is what kind of role samples should be looked for in terms of group portraits.
From the big picture, the five core students are very clear as students and children in the family. Zhou Bowen and Gao Mingyu are top students, Tian Wenwen and Wu Jiajun are in the middle and upper reaches, and Pan Xiaoxuan is a "problem student" who doesn't like to study but can maintain good interpersonal relationships.
In terms of family, Tian Wenwen is a typical left-behind child and an older sister in a second-child family. She is sensible but lacks parental care. She longs for love and is cautiously afraid of losing it.Bad people are staring at or afraid of getting sick because of fever, and they will also habitually say "don't tell my parents".
On the contrary, Wu Jiajun is a role that is useless to talk to the parents. In the one-on-one form of family education , Wu Jiajun's mother has absolute authority. She plans everything in the name of mother's love and does not accept refutation. Even though Wu Jiajun plucked up the courage to express his hope for the art examination, the mother, who was habitually suppressing unilaterally, refused to accept communication. A sentence of "all for your own good" could dismiss all the children's words, and also reminded many viewers of the fear of being controlled by their parents. .
Compared with Tian Wenwen, who is left alone, and Wu Jiajun, who is too strict, Zhou Bowen is a very rare and most interesting new sample in past personal family dramas: the superiority of "upward management" for the unreliable post-80s father pregnancy.
Because almost adult teenagers have parents born in the 1980s, it is only in recent years. Therefore, when the post-80s who were once labeled as individualized, free-spirited, beat generation, etc. participated in parent-child education as parents, it would be What kind of state, almost no film and television drama has discussed. Of course, "Big Exam" does not take this as the core topic, but it is very suitable for a family situation: when the child is growing rapidly and the parents are standing still, there is a fierce conflict and collision between the family concept and the idea of life planning. What will happen?
The three classmates from No. 4 Middle School represent the problems that most children from well-off families will face, while the two students from No. 1 Middle School, Pan Xiaoxuan and Gao Mingyu, represent wealthy self-employed families and poor rural families with completely different economic conditions. But there are also students of a certain scale.
It is not difficult to see that the selection of character samples in the play is to try to avoid the appearance of extreme characters and special families. It is true that any family model may exist, but too much drama will also lead to insufficient typicality and universality. The problem is that the life flow still needs to select the role samples that cover the widest population and whose characteristics are in the middle value to present. Therefore,
is set to choose the commonality of Chinese families to the greatest extent, as the background color of the characters, the behavior of the characters, the attitude of getting along with individual characteristics such as "Zhou Bowen Xun Dad", which is the key to group portrait drama can resonate .
The positive energy "human nature" from the perspective of the whole people, the main drama also has new ideas
The practice of realism is usually to lay a real background for the story, and then use a dramatic way to package the behavioral logic of the characters, and then talk about the plot to move forward . For example, in a film and television drama with similar topics, the way of life flow and the way of topic flow may lie in the fact that the characters push the plot in different directions due to different behavioral logic.
maybe there is no so-called "who is more real and who is distorted", it is just based on the different styles of how a drama is positioned. The same is true for
"The Big Exam", because the source of the story is the brisk mood and vigor of the candidates when they step out of the examination room after the college entrance examination, which has already laid a clear tone for this drama, it will not be a depressing, Anxious and suffocating reality, this is in the details of the play, laying the groundwork everywhere. At the beginning of
, Zhou Bowen, Tian Wenwen, and Wu Jiajun were late together. At the gate of the school, Principal Shi asked "why are you still late for senior year?" The air instantly dropped to freezing point, but what the audience could see was the black-faced Principal Shi. They quickly found a step for the three people to go to the principal's office to get textbooks, and then they were able to explain to the head teacher Li Xiaoxu who was waiting at the door, which also led to the fact that the head teacher might have been holding back for a long time to get angry and failed to send out the big move.
In a conflicting event scene, first put the conflicting issues on the surface, and then use one or both parties' active understanding and goodwill to resolve them, it will become warm or interesting.
's most talked about "Zhou Bowen Xun Fu" is a typical character relationship established by this logic. In order to prevent his father Zhou Meiren from indulging in games and increasing his mother's burden of managing the family's life, Zhou Bowen tried his best to give his father a break from bad habits. For those who are keen on online games, hacking can completely cause a person to collapse. Of course, Zhou Meiren also collapsed. There is no way.Like the child, mainly by making trouble out of no reason. And Zhou Bowen and his son seized each other's weakness. The father said, "If you don't let me play games, I will trouble your mother and make her more tired." In the end, my father gave in.
have back-and-forth, innocuous and innocuous fights, which is why the audience can not just raise the moral level to judge, but immerse themselves in the fun of seeing what kind of tricks the father and son can make, because after all, it is not It is against the norm, and from the perspective of both parties, it is understandable.
Another example is when Principal Wang of No. 1 Middle School solved the problem of Gao Mingyu's inability to take online classes, it reflected that the backward villages had misunderstood the base station signal, which was also common news in the early years. Embracing the information age, the relevant national infrastructure department finally rebuilt a base station for a village for a student to take online classes, and everyone was very happy. Shen Yan, director of
, said, "There will be families that are peaceful and happy all their lives, and there will also be families that have been jittery, but the most families are basically happy and happy, but there will always be a lot of small frictions and family trivia."
The plot in "The Big Exam" is laid out according to this rhythm. There are constant problems, big and small, but they will all be overcome. The contradictions will not be left to the next episode, and extreme contradictions will not appear unless necessary.
The most important thing to avoid in reality dramas is the stereotypes and labels when creating characters, and serious dramas such as educational themes also need to avoid making the characters single-dimensional, only great and upright, and lose the fresh "humanity". This kind of treatment also adds "personality" to most of the characters in the play, that is, different practices and attitudes when dealing with the same event because of different individuals, and also adds a human touch to the characters.
In addition, two school principals with similar grades but completely different campus atmospheres collided in completely different educational attitudes, young senior high school head teacher Li Xiaoxu's "sense of distance" way of getting along with teachers and students, online classes under special background, The discussion and research of the Internet test, and even the feasibility of postponing the college entrance examination... In every event and interaction of characters, we can see how to view and deal with events from the perspective of characters from different positions, which also allows the audience to see more and more levels. Thick story.
flying on the ground does not show off his skills, sincerity is the foundation of well-made
director Shen Yan once revealed to Entertainment Capital (id: yulezibenlun) that the shooting method of "Big Exam" has many adventures: for example, using the method of life instead of Whether the topic flow can bring more discussion after resonating; for example, the whole group portrait drama has many characters. In order to clearly introduce the relationship between the main characters, it took three episodes. Can the audience tolerate the plot now? Takes you into the story in three episodes.
Now it seems that the effect is good. Topics such as postponing the college entrance examination, building a base station, whether to choose an art test, etc., as small as the students taking online classes in the past two years, the physical education class of senior three students will always be occupied, and wearing down jackets at home in winter in the south, covering all aspects of study and life, have been discussed to varying degrees.
In Shen Yan's opinion, the audience's appreciation level is already very high. It is impossible to speculate that the audience is only watching the bloody plot, and the audience can also feel from the overall production effect whether the creator really did it carefully. The restoration of reality is not to fool the audience.
Therefore, in addition to the professionalism of film and television production in "The Big Test", the serious attitude is that it must "fly on the ground". From the preliminary interview to the actual shooting, the costumes, scene lighting, etc., must be made The audience can be in the atmosphere of their daily study and life. Obtain audience recognition through realism and sincerity, do not engage in dazzling technical flow, and avoid the arrogance of creators.
was implemented in the whole shooting process. The team went to different cities to investigate the college entrance examination environment in the early stage of creation. They would go to first-tier cities like Beijing and Hangzhou, as well as Huangshan She County in Anhui. Candidates are the main group, this group is popular and rarely used by film and television dramasFollow and show.
During the exchange, some students in the county were not aware when they were asked "Which actor would they like to play themselves", because the long-term focused study atmosphere has kept them away from entertainment life. Most of them are learning daily life, which also gave the creative team a lot of shock and different cognition, and better grasp the real state of the county students in the creation.
this year launched " Genius Basic Law " and "Big Exam", two director Shen Yan, who focuses on learning and education, and considers himself a father. Experience and new understanding of them, I hope to show more stories and contents that have not yet been discovered in this area in the future.
can actually pay attention to this, the director-centered Tongmeng Film and Television has produced many projects with innovative themes and high production level in the past two years.
In addition to two education-related works this year, " Our Marriage " has also landed on the first-line satellite TV, and both in terms of ratings and webcasting, the episodes broadcasted at the same time have dazzling data performance. Tongmeng Film and Television has participated in the production and production of works such as " Golden Years ", " Trident ", "Happiness, Within Reach", " Lifetime ", etc., which also belong to the most enthusiastic response in the network broadcast. Hot work.
These are all thanks to Tongmeng Film itself being a director-driven production company. In addition to founder Shen Yan and Liu Haibo , Li Jiangming, Shenyang, Ben Fang, Wang Li, etc. are all directors who stand out in the industry today. This allows Tongmeng Film and Television itself to be superior to most film and television companies in the market in terms of quality aesthetics, actor resource scheduling and the entire production process.
and then Tongmeng Film and Television will continue to innovate on the basis of deep cultivation of urban themes and realism themes, and begin to dabble in ancient costume themes, which may bring new changes to the entire film and television market from different perspectives.
