[Source: Shenyang Daily] Original title: Wang Chen, the stage director of CCTV’s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, and Feng Yi, the AI ​​designer and producer, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that the Autumn Gala will present a movie-level look and feel as one of the m

[Source: Shenyang Daily]

Original title: Wang Chen, the stage director of CCTV’s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, and Feng Yi, the ai design and production director, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that the Autumn Gala will present a movie-level look and feel

As the most influential in the country As one of the biggest TV events in China, CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala has always created an audio-visual feast for the audience with its unique stage design and high-quality program arrangement. The 2024 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala is being recorded in Shenyang, and the main stage is located on the shore of Dingxiang Lake in Shenyang. On Mid-Autumn Festival night, what kind of beautiful stage will the global audience see?

On August 29, our reporter had an exclusive interview with Wang Chen, the stage director of the 2024 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. He said: "In order to create an atmosphere of reunion between people and the moon, we built a 10-ton, 12-meter-diameter ball on the center stage. 'Full Moon', this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Gala will present a movie-level look and feel."

The moving "full moon" runs through the entire venue

The 2024 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala will combine traditional Chinese culture, local characteristics and artistic performances to create a unique experience. The romantic Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere brings reunion blessings to Chinese people around the world.

It is understood that the CCTV director team has visited Dingxiang Lake for on-site inspections many times before. As the largest artificial lake in Shenyang, the water of Dingxiang Lake is clear and blue, like a warm sapphire inlaid in the northwest of the prosperous Shenyang City. An artificial lake of 3.1 square kilometers, there is an island in the center of the lake with a height of more than 30 meters, called Lilac Island, built on the water in the middle of the lake. The spring dawn on the willow embankment, the sun reflecting on the summer lotus, the autumn moon on the flat lake, the shining jade... The CCTV director team was very satisfied with the beautiful scenery of Lilac Lake and finally chose this location.

How to perfectly integrate the beautiful scenery of Lilac Lake with the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala stage, this important task falls on Wang Chen, the stage director of the 2024 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. As a top stage visual artist in China, Wang Chen has served as stage design and visual director in more than 80 stage plays, more than 50 large-scale TV variety shows and large-scale cultural activities.

Wang Chen said: "When the bright moon hangs high in the sky and hundreds of millions of families sit together and share the sweetness of moon cakes, people's hearts will definitely have their own bright moon. The moon is the eternal theme of the Mid-Autumn Festival. My The design concept is to build a 360° panoramic stage based on the open natural water of Dingxiang Lake, with a moving 'full moon' running through the entire venue, cleverly integrating modern technology with real-life landscapes to create a warm and dreamy place for reunion. For the center stage, the left and right stages, and the water stage, we built a 10-ton, 12-meter-diameter 'full moon' on the main center stage. We also installed this 'full moon' in the water. It has a track and can be moved. It can be said that this 'full moon' is the biggest highlight and innovation of this party's stage. Movie-level look and feel

The 2024 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala takes "a reunion feast of simple cultural values ​​and visual impact" as the core concept. It aims to combine traditional Chinese culture, Local characteristics and poetic and picturesque performances are deeply integrated. Wang Chen said: "The background of the center stage is a giant high-definition screen that is 60 meters long and 13 meters high. Such a large screen is very rare in China. The shape of the center stage is a 'long river' that is 30 meters long and 15 meters wide. Giant. The high-definition screen and the center stage are connected through complex and precise screens, forming a curved shape like flowing water. On the left and right stages, Ming and Qing style pavilions are created, giving the audience an immersive experience.”

The reporter saw that there were three water area stages at the party, and there was a small pavilion in one of the water areas. Wang Chen said: "We used 1,500 tons of clean water to build the water stage. We also installed a water mist system on the edge of the water stage. When the lights come on, the water mist system starts, and the water stage is like a fairyland on earth, creating a It has a strong sense of fantasy. The entire stage will give the audience a movie-level look and feel, which is very worth looking forward to."

Innovative use of AI technology at multiple levels

It is understood that this year's CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival program uses the moon as the axis to structure chapters, using the titles of "Moonrise", "Moonlight" and "Moonlight" to express the romance of the bright moonrise. , the moonlight is like water, and the moon shines thousands of miles away, highlighting the cultural charm of traditional festivals and implying the endless life of Chinese civilization. Wang Chen also revealed, “On the stage, we make full use of new technologies, new ideas, new media and virtual scenes. The integration of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala allows the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala to break through the limitations of the stage, making the program more integrated with the times and closer to the audience. "

In terms of the use of new technologies, the party innovatively used AI technology. Feng Yi, the party's AI designer and producer, said: "This party uses AI technology on multiple levels such as culture, art and emotion to show the profound meaning of the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. , connotation. For example, use AI to combine cultural relics and let them tell stories for the show together. AI is also used to correlate time and space, and the emotions that are wanted to be expressed in the program can be dynamically presented through AI. For the specific content, the audience is invited to watch the party by themselves. I will leave you with a suspense.”

(Photo by Yang Bo, Shenyang Daily and Shenyang Daily all-media reporter/Li Hao, chief reporter)