China News Service, Beijing, February 23 (Wang Qinyi) The third season of "Guarding the Liberation West" has now been filmed.
A closer inspection shows that its Douban score for each season is maintained at around 9.0.
Why does this series have such a good reputation?
What is it about?
Screenshot of Douban score of "Guardian Liberation West 3"
Looking back on the police documentary programs in recent years, either the way of telling is more didactic and the style of the program is a little more serious; or it focuses on certain topics, and the audience will find that the content is similar after watching a lot.
In contrast, the "Guardian Liberation West" series took a "smart" way.
It focuses on the story of the police at the police station and leads the audience to witness the various states of life; at the same time, it is "light" enough to fill the variety show with continuous reversal, humorous flower characters and sound effects.
Narrative from a dual perspective
On the one hand, "Guarding Jiefang West" focuses on the "Pozi Street Police Station" in Changsha City, and tells how the policemen who are there deal with various police affairs.
The "Jiefang West" in the title is the jurisdiction of the Pozi Street Police Station.
Similar to Sanlitun in Beijing and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, Jiefang West is one of the most lively and prosperous places in Changsha.
People come and go, and the nightlife is rich. It is inevitable that there are some unstable factors, such as theft, drunk driving, and fights. According to media reports, there are 80 to 100 cases at the Pozi Street police station a day.
This means that the program group is faced with a massive and rich "material library".
With the sound of "There is a new police situation, please check it", the audience followed the police's line of sight and slowly advanced: a woman called the police late at night and claimed that she was subjected to violence and surveillance by a man. This man; a 9-year-old primary school student who was caught stealing in a toy store, claimed to be threatened by a senior student, but was pointed out by the teacher that it was nothing at all; there was also an aunt who lived together for many years and did not have a marriage certificate, but after the breakup Annoyed, I took 100 yuan from my ex-boyfriend from the card court...
Screenshot of "Guardian Liberation West 3" video
Various cases are a point of interest, and the professional group portrait of "police station police" is also drawn from this.
By arriving at the scene of policing, "Guarding Jiefang West" allows the audience to see those internal interrogation scenes and life clips, and feel the real side of the police.
In order to photograph the police's dispatch and living conditions, the videographers, like the police, work in 24-hour shifts without interruption.
At the same time, the program team adopts the method of "non-intrusive shooting", and the interrogation room is equipped with hidden cameras; when going out to follow the shooting, usually the parties are in a state of anxiety, and it is easy to ignore that someone is shooting.
It is with the help of this shooting method that the audience also sees more vivid clips.
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On the other hand, "Guardian Liberation West" does not have a high self-esteem, but presents the case in a way that is closer to young people.
Although it also touches on some serious topics, such as sexual harassment, it's not overwhelming.
On the contrary, as director Xiao Shu described, "Guardian Liberation West" is a "high-energy and real existence".
This sense of high energy is superimposed layer by layer through plot reversals, fast-paced editing, and fancy sound effects full of variety.
Compared with the daily routine of "grabbing the horse (transliteration of drama)" in the first and second seasons, the events presented in "Guardian Liberation West 3" are more bizarre and vivid, fully explaining what "reality is more absurd than film and television dramas".
For example, when an underage girl is pregnant, the boy identified by the boy admits to having sex with the girl, but the DNA test shows that the baby's biological father is someone else; the man reports to the police that he has been "molested" by the same sex, but after watching the surveillance, he finds that he is actively following after being drunk ... The show enhances the drama with uninterrupted reversal, and cooperates with the "silence" and "voice change" processing in the variety show effect to pull the audience's emotions and imagination to the extreme, so that the entire film watching process is rarely cold.
However, this approach has obvious advantages and obvious disadvantages.
The core dispute is, will the overly strong entertainment atmosphere eliminate the legal significance of the program?
Screenshot of "Guardian Liberation West 3" video
Some netizens commented on "Guardian Liberation West 3", "It is difficult to understand that the producer used this method to shoot", "At least don't use the 'frivolous' method".
Taking the obscenity case in the former Wen Hotel as an example, the program team did not spend too many shots showing the panic and bewilderment of the alarm party, but instead focused on individual details, "hinting" the inexplicable tacit understanding between the alarm man and the suspected lewd man.
This situation is regarded as the title scene of the whole film. The bullet screen area is full of "hahaha" and "check in", but few people discuss the potential dangers of drunkenness, and they will not realize the difference between the events in the film and their own life. Not necessarily irrelevant."
When the second season of "Guarding the Liberation West" was broadcast, director Xiao Shu once said in an interview with the media that the program team's setting for "Guarding the Liberation West" was to "open the show in the way of young people", while the background data of station B was It shows that the 19-30-year-old users of "Guardian Liberation West 2" have greatly increased, accounting for 68%.
When young people are on the trend of the times, being close to young people is undoubtedly the fastest way to occupy the market.
"Did the show team taste the sweetness, so the third season will add so much space?" Some netizens commented.
Judging from the spread of documentaries in recent years, the content that young audiences love is not "suffering bitterness and deep hatred", but the coat of drama/comedy + the core of traditional dramas, such as director Chen Weijun's "City Dream", After its release in theaters in 2020, it ushered in a very good reputation and is considered to have opened up a way for the industrialization of Chinese documentaries.
In this sense, the "Guardian Liberation West" series actually conforms to the development trend of industry documentaries.
Of course, as a police documentary program, how should "Guardian Liberation West" balance entertainment and legal popularization? Is it possible to find the best solution for content presentation while staying close to young people?
These all need to be carefully considered and further explored.
There is a long way to go and a long way to go.
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