China News Service, Beijing, December 14 (Ren Siyu) In the domestic TV drama market in 2020, suspense drama is undoubtedly the most dazzling genre.
With the frequent appearance of masterpieces, increasingly fierce market competition, and increasing tastes of audiences, how to create more innovative suspense dramas that are loved by audiences has become a topic for every creator who wants to set foot in this field. .
Recently, the Youth Work Committee of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association held a seminar on "Innovative Exploration of Suspense Drama: "The First Encounter, The Last Parting"" seminar in Beijing, focusing on the two key words of "innovation" and "exploration" of suspense drama and the drama The creative background, narrative techniques, publicity and marketing, industry influence and other topics were discussed in depth.
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Liang Zhenhua, deputy director of the Youth Work Committee and professor of Beijing Normal University, mentioned the significance of innovation for the film and television industry: "If creation and creativity and innovation are no longer related and become a habitual operation, then the industry will not be far from extinction. . So the vitality of our industry lies in the difference. You must be different from others, and you must be different from your previous works."
"The First Encounter, The Last Parting" is adapted from the best-selling writer Shu Yi's love story of the same name. Its special feature is that it combines the complex type of love and suspense, and chooses the AB dual-view flashback narrative structure in the first third. .
Director Cao Yi said that the original genre is based on love and has a certain degree of criminal investigation plot. The screenwriter has strengthened the suspense line by adding undercover anti-drug stories.
However, it is not easy to combine the warmth and romance of love with the intense excitement of suspense, so I used a very intuitive approach: divide their positions for these two types, and the AB dual perspective appeared.
"Dual perspective narrative is a highlight of the play, but also a challenge. It is not only a test of the rigor of the play, but also requires the audience to have continuous logical thinking when watching." At the same time, he also hopes that everyone is rational. Looking at multi-perspective narrative, it is not a prerequisite for suspense drama. Telling a good story is the main premise, and everything must be based on themes and characters.
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Producer Chen Huijin shared his experience in the production of the drama. From the beginning of the production of "The First Encounter, The Last Parting", everyone has made it clear that the story needs to be given a higher perspective.
When talking about the creative concept, she said that production management should not just stop at the management of food, housing and transportation, but also need to upgrade the production concept.
Youku Drama Center Producer Zhang Yuanhuan said, "From the data of Youku platform, female audiences are quite fond of suspense dramas such as "White Night Chasing the Murder" and "Rebirth". The user accounted for 54%. Suspense Theater Accounted for 60% of the female audience.”
She said that the future suspense drama will be more and more detailed, and it is worthy of further exploration and innovation in many aspects such as narrative, personality and topic.
At the seminar, several members of the Youth Working Committee also shared their thoughts. Wu Zhongxu, a member of the Youth Working Committee, said that the current suspense dramas have shifted from purely involved dramas to more types of reorganization and integration, such as suspense + reasoning, suspense + Love, suspense + ancient costume, suspense + adventure, suspense + spy war, suspense stories are like clay, with strong plasticity and inclusiveness. With "suspense" as the background, there is still depth, breadth and multi-dimensional exploration Space, diversified exploration and innovation of suspense types are very meaningful.
But which genre to choose depends on the content of the plot.
Mo Yuanjing, a member of the Youth Work Committee, said that when making a suspense drama, we should consider what the highlight is for the audience, which can be seen in many successful works, or it is the reversal.
In some dramas with strong plots, the key to a large extent lies in reversal.
"The First Encounter, The Last Parting" stills.
At the scene, everyone also conducted interactive discussions on the narrative structure of the series, the proportion of love suspense, the audience circle portrait, and the summary of the broadcast effect.
Liang Zhenhua, deputy director of the Youth Work Committee, put forward a few ideas during the discussion. When talking about the fusion of genres, he said that after hearing the director’s setting introduction, the proportions of love and suspense are half and half. This balance is actually one. This kind of innovation, but we must also pay attention to a problem. You may not be able to control the two types of audiences. When exploring in the future, can you take into account the audience’s experience and further adjust the ratio between the two? He also said that this Exploration is particularly difficult and valuable.
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