China News Service, Beijing, February 15th. Although the "2021 Spring Festival Gala" has come to an end, the ultra-high-definition "cloud" production technology used in the show is still attracting attention.
Some netizens said that "cloud" communication and "cloud" interaction link all corners of the world and realize a nationwide celebration.
So, how are these high-tech productions and what is the story behind them?
Recently, Zou Wei, deputy director of the Spring Festival Gala, accepted a media interview.
"2021 Chinese New Year Gala"
This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala was spread through the "cloud" and welcomed special international friends.
The famous Italian tenor Andre Bocelli brought his son "Cloud" to the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Bocelli and his son wished the friendship between the people of China and Italy last forever.
While the two sang, the faces of the "cloud" audience appeared on the 154 ultra-high-definition screens of the "dome" of the Spring Festival Gala, with deep affection and deep blessing across the ocean.
The director of the Spring Festival Gala Chen Linchun once said that the "cloud" communication of this year's Spring Festival Gala is not the same as simple cloud production and time-space connection. It is more manifested in the use of technology to allow performers who cannot be present to "airborne" the Spring Festival Gala stage.
"2021 Chinese New Year Gala"
The creative performance "Bull Up" adopts a remote "cloud" production method. Wang Yibo and Guan Xiaotong on the Spring Festival Gala stage and Andy Lau in Hong Kong successfully merged into the "Bullman Group".
Zou Wei, the deputy director of the Spring Festival Gala, introduced that "Bull Up" is positioned as a technological folklore program. "This year we want to use technology and artificial intelligence to reflect our folklore. On the stage, you can see that there are mechanical cows, four Foot cattle (small robotic cattle), so in the atmosphere of folk customs, there is a contemporary character. Some of our cattle’s packaging is taken from traditional New Year pictures, and some are taken from the head of the cattle in Yuanmingyuan. In short, we extract traditional cultural symbols to package these. Artificial intelligence elements."
Zou Wei revealed that the Andy Lau-related passages in "Rise of the Cow" only accounted for one and a half minutes, but they took more than 20 hours of continuous shooting. "He wants to simulate interaction with various elements around him. In order to shoot good high-five with the mechanical cow. He took the action more than 20 times."
"2021 Chinese New Year Gala"
The cloud-recorded program "Mojito" was filmed entirely with special equipment and XR technology. Jay Chou took his band and drove a pink speed car to share a romantic atmosphere with the audience around the world.
Xia Yu, deputy director of the Spring Festival Gala, said that through XR technology, the song "Mojito" "completes the interaction and combination of characters, props and virtual scenes."
This year’s Spring Festival Gala stage set up a huge circular new media background wall, with 154 ultra-high-definition large screens distributed above the back area of the auditorium, resembling a brilliant “dome”.
Each high-definition large screen has an independent channel, which not only can present 154 different images, but also provides conditions for the "cloud" audience to participate in the interaction.
The most beautiful night scenes of all parts of the country in the song "China in the Lights", the returning cultural relics in the special show "Homecoming National Treasures", the various skills of the children in martial arts schools in the martial arts "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", and the cartoons of children's songs and dances "Listen to Me" Gesture dance...Because of this "dome", more "cloud" audiences joined in, and the stage of the Spring Festival Gala of the main station was more brilliant.
The director of the Spring Festival Gala Chen Linchun said that this "dome" turned the auditorium into a performance area, "it brought breakthroughs in the presentation of the stage and the richness of the show."
"2021 Chinese New Year Gala"
The essay "The Balcony" reproduced the living scenes of the community during the closed period, and brought the audience a touch of help.
When the news of Wuhan's unblocking came, the melody of the song "Tomorrow will be better" sounded, and pictures of medical workers appeared on the dome. They sang in the clouds and moved many audiences.
The old, middle-aged and young artists and the children of all ethnic groups in the "cloud" held flowers in the "cloud" chorus singing "Sing a Folk Song for the Party."
The on-site actors and the "clouds" holding Chinese knots shook the "Rising Snow Picture" together.
In the song "Unforgettable Tonight", "Clouds" ordinary people wearing red scarves beat their hands, telling the hardship of tonight...
The innovative application of "cloud" technology in the "2021 Chinese New Year Gala" allows the content to better serve the audience and arouses the resonance of many audiences.
The audience praised one after another, the clouds built bridges, and the art was the matchmaker, "Tonight's keeping the year old, we are beaming. Tonight's reunion, we are happy and lucky."