On the evening of January 10, the first vertical screen cinema movie "Fireworks World", which was created with documentary images shot by 509 ordinary people, was screened in Shanghai. Some of the audience had seen this film at the Pingyao Film Festival before, and after sitting in the theater again, they had more impressions. There was laughter from time to time, and some were moved to tears. Some viewers commented on the film: The simplest lens records every ordinary superstar.
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"Fireworks World" breaks through the original form of most crowd-created films in the world. It abandons the process of image collection and chooses to salvage existing existing films from the massive UGC (user-generated content) video library documentary images, edited into an alternative vertical screen movie - this is a very risky attempt for the creative team.
ending song "The World Is Worth It" mv. It is sung by Li Yuchun, composed by Chen Weilun, and the film's director Sun Hong wrote the lyrics. (04:01)
Through fresh, vivid, direct and simple self-portrait images, the film presents a portrait of contemporary Chinese people who have left their hometowns and worked hard on the front lines of social production: they are in the fields, in factories, and in transit. , in the reinforced concrete room, experiencing the hot summer and cold winter of life. Through the "self-portraits" of all living beings, we explore those small but vital individuals in the context of rapidly changing times.
"It was indeed a sweet time to make this documentary, because in the past, I had to travel around for documentary research, but this time I was doing research on my mobile phone while in bed." During the post-screening interview, Sun Hong said that he was doing special research while doing research on the documentary. After making many short videos, I went from shock to shame, because “I used to pass by other people’s lives and never imagined what their lives were like. For example, the female tower crane worker couldn’t come down all day because of working at high altitude. But from their perspective, we can take pictures of the sea of clouds that we have never seen before."
Stills of "Fireworks of the World"
Use the UGC method to create documentary films. "One Day in the Sky" produced by YouTube is an example. Talking about why not to collect UGC content, but to salvage it from the existing video library, Sun Hong believes that in crowd-created films such as "One Day in the Life", there is a "theme first" creation with a set goal. However, for "Fireworks World", those documentary images full of autonomy floating in the world of short-view screens form a crystal that can reflect social reality from multiple perspectives.
"Their birth is not legislated by others, but only legislated for ourselves. What we as documentarians can do is to observe, understand and recognize such a complex, three-dimensional and diverse reality mirror, and gain what we gain from it. Bringing holistic enlightenment to more people,” she explained.
Big Orange, who runs boats on the river, spends almost all of his 365 days a year on cargo ships except during the Chinese New Year. She could only use river water every day. If she could use tap water, she would be so happy that she would make a short video to commemorate it. But even so, when she was cooking fish in front of the small iron window on the boat, she was still pleased with the beauty that only belongs to boaters: "Look, you can watch the scenery while cooking."
Stills from "Fireworks of the World"
Talking about the rewards of making this movie, Sun Hong said, "Everyone has to face suffering in life, but a real hero can still maintain the courage to be a human being in the midst of suffering. They still do not forget to appreciate the beauty of life. Their achievements do not lie in the hardships that have been overcome, but in the stronger personality power gained in the process of overcoming difficulties. It is this power that forms a kind of splendor that belongs to life. It dispels the decadence in our hearts."
Previously, at the "Firework World" expert seminar held by the Film and Television Communication Research Center of Tsinghua University, Huangfu Yichuan, president and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Film Magazine, commented: "In my opinion, this It is a picture of Riverside During the Qingming Festival in the era of mobile phones. It is about being moved by life, moved by their individual lives, moved by their hardships, moved by their wisdom and unique skills produced under the pressure of life, and moved by the arrival of mobile phones in the world. The miracles presented in various places are touched by their love and the love of ordinary people from the perspective of a mobile phone. This touching experience is difficult to find in other images."
Stills of "Fireworks of the World"
According to reports, the characters in the film have also moved on on their own life trajectories. Da Chengzi, who is sailing the boat, is married in the ending credits and now has two babies; Xiaowei, who is moving the boat, is now He is a "big blogger" with 8 million fans. He continues to keep fit and is frequently invited to variety shows, but he still works on the construction site. At the premiere of
in Beijing, Brother Yang said that he was very surprised and happy to be able to participate in the movie. Full of a sense of accomplishment, he highly recommended the movie: "In the movies we make, everyone has their own life status, and everyone is down-to-earth. This is the real day of our people, and it is a good movie to make us positive. "
It is reported that the movie "Fireworks World" will be released in theaters nationwide on January 13.
