"Hexi Corridor": Classic reproduction, why is the style of the year?

Hexi Corridor, about 1,000 kilometers long, located in the northwest of Gansu Province, south of the Alxa Plateau and north of Qilian Mountain. It is a narrow area towards the north -south east. Essence Since ancient times, it has been an important channel connected to the East and the West, and it is also the golden road of the Silk Road. For thousands of years, generations of passengers have returned and forth, carrying their dreams and longing, and here is a song of civilization. legend.

In 2015, a "phenomenal" documentary tells the story that happened in this corridor. A total of 10 episodes of the documentary "Hexi Corridor". With the description of the chronology, the legendary characters and stories were selected in different historical periods. It tells the important role played by the Hexi Corridor in the process of Chinese history since the Han Dynasty. From the perspective of politics, military, culture, art, religion, etc., the history of Hexi Corridor and its western China connected. The film begins with the title of "messenger". Historical figures such as Zhang Jian and Huo Qubing appeared one after another, thereby opening the door to the Western world to the Western world, and the Silk Road that stretches for more than two thousand years.

Once the documentary "Hexi Corridor" was broadcast online, the number of clicks created the documentary network broadcast record at the time. China Documentary Network rated it as one of the "10 documentary films that could not be missed in 2015". In July 2022, the documentary was replayed again on CCTV again. On the first day of the replay, the peak of ratings appeared. The average value of the period was 59%higher than the 2021 period. After seven years, the style was still not reduced. For this reason, Yang Xiaohan, a Chinese studio producer, specially interviewed Li Dongzheng, a documentary producer, and asked him to talk about the creative story behind him.

△ The documentary "Hexi Corridor" poster

Question: What kind of opportunity to make you and the team want to make such a documentary?

Li Dongkun: I am from Gansu. There are also several in my team from Gansu. Everyone has a strong hometown complex and cultural feelings. I want to spread and promote the western culture. Essence Mr. Ji Xianlin once said: "There are only four cultural systems that have a long history, a broad regional, self -contained system, and far -reaching cultural system: China, India, Greece, and Islam; and there are only one place where these four cultural systems flow. Dunhuang and Xinjiang. "There are rich historical and diverse cultures here, and there are many stories. The Hexi Corridor is a place where there are many stories. The people passing by are worthy of our always remembered and telling.

△ Stills of the documentary "Hexi Corridor"

Question: "Hexi Corridor" is a large -themed historical documentary. How can we meet history while telling the story?

Li Dongkun: The two are not conflicting. In recent years, we have produced a number of historical and cultural documentaries, forming a set of models, clear division of labor and regulatory processes. In most categories of documentary creation, we only need to direct the director to do a good job of early research, but when facing the historical and cultural documentary, the topic time is high. This "to ensure the authority of the film, we invited Dr. Shawutian, Dunhuang Research Institute to serve as the academic coordination of the film. In the first half of 2013, more than 400,000 words of "academic books" written by the expert team were released smoothly. This "academic book" laid the cornerstone of the film. After the total writing of Deng Jianyong's cocoon, the main characters and stories of each episode were established one by one. We fully integrate the known historical materials and the latest research results to prevent our own production limitations to ensure that the content is more rigorous and more present.

"Hexi Corridor" has abandoned the mode of a large number of scholars and experts in documentaries. No interview and documentary paragraphs. Our approach is to put the experts and ideas of experts in commentary. Show the interview process in a straightforward manner. It is precisely that the programs produced make it easier for the audience to understand and perceive history.

We have produced the documentary "Hexi Corridor" for three years. In order to present a magnificent history, the team has moved to 10 film and television bases across the country, and a total of 230 scenes have been shot. More than 50 historical figures that need to be designed with the image of the design image have set up more than 60 indoor and outdoor scenes to use nearly a thousand people with mass actors. Even the details of the props, whether it involves Mongolian or Portuguese, has undergone fine translations and prints the text translated at the time to the props at the time. Each detail can stand the test.

Question: Unlike traditional historical documentary, "Hexi Corridor" uses a lot of "scene reproduction". How do you and the team consider this?

Li Dongkun: Scenario reproduction is a creative method, a creative method, not creative purpose. Throughout the history of the development of the world documentary, "scenario reproduction" has become a common means of performance, especially for the creation of humanities and historical documentary films, many times we are shooting what has happened, and this matter can no longer be recovered. Of course, there are many ways to shoot, such as showing the ruins ruins, or the old photos, and so on. But can you only do that? Obviously not.

With the rich and diverse creative techniques, today's historical documentary has drawn on many expression methods of art categories, such as animation, CG special effects, scenario dramas, drama, rap, etc. "stand up. Regarding "Hexi Corridor", in fact, I don't just want to talk about reproduction, because we look back today, obviously its "scene reproduction" is not high enough today, but the classic music, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, beautiful and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors, gorgeous and exquisite empty mirrors, and gorgeous empty mirrors. Including a text narrative of history, a variety of means is comprehensive together, forming a complete work, making the whole film rich and immersive. △ Stills of the documentary "Hexi Corridor"

The founder of the British Documentary Movement, John Grosson, proposed that the documentary is a creative processing of facts. Chinese documentary scholar Zhong Danian proposed as early as the 1990s: "Documentary is not real, documentary is a aesthetic style, a relationship with the truth." Because "the image is a reality that has been intermediary, in the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and the audience and Between the real world, there are still factors such as creators, cameras, reproduction, and other factors. "Some scholars believe that" documentary is actually a translation of life, and the creator tells him about his reading solution to life. Audience. All of this is reflected in the pursuit of the aesthetics of the director. "Therefore, the" good "" scene reproduction "should be able to create a" real sense ". It can enable the audience to enter it and interpret" real "from a new perspective. It is also what we want to present in the documentary.

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Author: Interpretation of Yang Xiaohan, producer of the comprehensive department of China Studio

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