2024 Main Station Spring Festival Gala brings the Spring Festival Gala "to your doorstep" so you can watch it all at once! Xi'an, Shaanxi, Shenyang, Liaoning, Kashgar, Xinjiang, and Changsha, Hunan, together with the main venue in Beijing, will bring a passionate and steamy Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala to Chinese people around the world on New Year's Eve.
Follow Li Bai through thousands of years in the Everlasting City of the Tang Dynasty in Xi'an to see ancient and modern times, recreating the poetic and magnificent scene of Chang'an; have a "squeaky" Northeastern New Year's Eve dinner in Shenyang; watch a Xinjiang dance of ethnic fusion on the Kashgar Silk Road; Admire the fireworks of Liuyang River in Changsha Beichen Delta, unlocking new energy of youth; the flavor of the New Year is stronger and the affection is harmonious. Next, let’s go to the main creative teams of the four branches.
Dialogue between ancient and modern times, recreating the poetic Chang'an
The Xi'an branch focused on traditional cultural characteristics and reproduced the poetic Chang'an during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The interaction between animated character Li Bai and actor Zhang Ruoyun realized the first interaction between real people and animation on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Headquarters "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Shaanxi Xi'an Branch Chief Director Zhang Min: The creative concept of is to let a poet from a thousand years ago travel through thousands of years to the present through his perspective, and see our current Xi'an. In addition to our traditional culture, as well as such fashionable and grand unique features.
visual director Jiang Yuhao is mainly responsible for the video presentation of the interaction between animated Li Bai and real people. Since Li Bai's animated image and movements are fixed and cannot be modified, the filming can only be done with real people and animation. In the video of Li Bai entering the city gate, the two actions took less than 5 seconds in total, allowing the animation team to continue shooting from early morning to seven in the morning.
Headquarters "2024 Spring Festival Gala" visual director Jiang Yuhao: How many meters does this person walk with each step? How to go? After walking, at what step should you turn your head and smile? This was all calculated and worked out bit by bit over the past four or five hours.
As for the final scene of Li Bai's parade, the director team spent nearly 60 days just to present it in just a few seconds. The director team scanned the two-kilometer street-facing buildings of the Everlasting City of the Tang Dynasty one by one and used tens of thousands of textures to realize the animation of Li Bai flying over the Everlasting City of the Tang Dynasty.
Headquarters "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Shaanxi Xi'an Branch Animation Director Gao Yulei: can only be scanned during the day. The night scene we presented requires all the buildings to be repainted to make them look more prosperous. Then put lights on each building and hang lanterns. This is all presented in three-dimensional and post-processing.
In the singing of the whole people, in a poem, there is the glorious past of Chang'an and the vitality of Xi'an in the present.
actor Zhang Ruoyun: is actually very shocking. We used to understand our traditional culture and history through screens and books. Now we can communicate with the ancients through very novel technologies or direct interactive interactions. , and also allow us to feel the charm of traditional culture more intuitively.
Industrial style + high-tech style to create a people's Spring Festival Gala
The robotic arm from Shenyang Xinsong Robot cooperates tacitly with dance, singing and other art forms on the stage, and performs skillfully, which is eye-catching. The director team took great pains to make these robotic arms that serve industrial production perform artistic programs.
Headquarters "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Liaoning Shenyang Branch Chief Director Lu Yuan: Because the things it lifts are relatively heavy, is just like us driving a car and braking hard. The faster the braking, the greater the inertia. Such a big one The thing stopped there with a bang, and it would be scary to see it with the naked eye at the scene. And because it has a safe margin, it will shake. For the director, this process will always be on tenterhooks.
Finally, after repeated debugging by engineers, the robotic arm successfully completed its debut on the Spring Festival Gala, which also highlighted the unique charm of Shenyang, an important industrial town.
Lu Yuan, chief director of the Liaoning Shenyang branch of the "2024 Spring Festival Gala" of the main station: I think the word industry is what we should focus on.This in itself is a foundation for our nation. Based on this foundation, we will definitely have the confidence and reason to go further and better into the future.
In order to reflect the people's characteristics of the Spring Festival Gala, a group of representatives of craftsmen, model workers, and industry representatives from major countries received invitations from the Spring Festival Gala crew to sing a grand celebration together.
National Model Worker, General Technology Group Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. Xu Baojun: Seeing this kind of environment, like this kind of crane, and this kind of working environment, it seems that I have seen the state of my parents working in this kind of environment. We must also continue their work spirit and show the style of our industrial workers in the new era.
Zhang Wenliang, winner of the National May Day Labor Medal and Shenyang Mint Co., Ltd.: I didn’t expect that as a fitter, I would be able to attend the Spring Festival Gala. In fact, all of us have been thinking in our hearts that the Spring Festival Gala is such a sacred stage and The palace also wants to better express the enthusiasm of us Shenyang people or industrial workers.
Dance music in Xinjiang Life is above
At the Kashgar branch, the song "Lift Your Hijab" aroused the collective resonance of the audience. Dilireba , Wang Hongwei and other actors from Xinjiang took to the stage to speak for their hometown.
Actor Dilireba Dilimulati: What wants to show you most is the charm of Kashgar. Of course, I am also very happy that the Spring Festival Gala can be held in Kashgar. I can also take the opportunity to go back home and have a happy holiday with my family. I hope everyone can know more about Kashgar, the local food, or our attractions.
As an important stop on the ancient Silk Road, the ancient city of Kashgar has unique labyrinth-like urban blocks and indigenous buildings. In order not to destroy the original style of the ancient city, the director team built 12 movable fantasy buildings with the ancient city as the background after research.
Qin Zheng, Chief Director of the Xinjiang Kashgar Branch of the "2024 Spring Festival Gala": We will lead the audience from the real stage to the stage of the ancient city behind, and even to the rooftop stage. It has a three-level progressive viewing effect .
On a stage full of Western style, the characteristic dances of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang gathered together, bringing a visual feast to the audience.
Li Meilan, deputy director of the "2024 Spring Festival Gala": We actually have a lot of non-professional actors there. When they are presented here, we want to reflect the daily living conditions of the people, which is a very A state of happiness.
A river of poetry and painting, the city is full of fireworks
On both sides of the river, the light and shadow are gorgeous. The rich nightlife forms Changsha's unique landscape. The main stage of the Changsha branch venue uses rich light and shadow lines to create a modern sense of the city that never sleeps.
Headquarters "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Hunan Changsha Branch Chief Director Liu Xin: Changsha gave me the biggest impression. I think it is a city with a high sense of happiness, and I can still feel the Hunan spirit in my bones. I think this is the Huxiang spirit of working hard, daring to be the first, and worrying about the world. I think this is the biggest feeling they give me.
As the fireworks capital of the world, Liuyang fireworks have a history of more than 1,400 years. Presenting a unique and creative fireworks show on the Xiangjiang River has become the biggest wish of the Changsha branch director team.
main station "2024 Spring Festival Gala" drone staff at the Hunan Changsha branch venue Yang Junjie: For the first time, carried 2,500 drones for a fireworks show. This is also the largest fireworks drone show in the country. The
director team used 9 boats and 3,000 square meters of floating platforms to build a circular matrix, forming a semi-enveloping panoramic scene with hibiscus flowers blooming in the sky.
Main Station "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Hunan Changsha Branch Fireworks Director Huang Cheng: Originally, our arrays were all flat arrays, and the viewing angles were all from a flat angle, but this time for the first time, a 400-meter-diameter array was used The three-dimensional array makes the entire fireworks more three-dimensional.
2 A formation of 500 drone fireworks, AR virtual reality video fireworks and symphony interactive fireworks gathered into a huge wishing gesture. The wishes slowly scattered into the lights of thousands of houses, symbolizing every wish and also a symbol of love for everyone. Every wish you have.
(Source: CCTV News Client)