There are good sentences and no good chapters in "Dressing Up", revealing how many misunderstandings in workplace drama creation
The urban workplace drama "Dressed Up" has a strong desire for expression, and its concept output may be too large for a small book to be sufficient.
It looked back on the eve of the drastic changes in the industrial environment: the penetration of the mobile Internet began to reshape the form of the media industry; it threw out the rules belonging to the fashion industry: the high-level thinking is neutral, the middle-level is female thinking, and the bottom of the contempt chain is Straight male thinking; publicizes the idealist creed: the meaning of the existence of fashion media is not to be a loudspeaker for brands and capital, but to be guided by the values of beauty; it fits the attitude of current women: self-confidence, cherishing and helping each other , still defends elegance and decency in the predicament; even the English version of the title "pride and price" bears the delicate point of "dignity and price".
With a clear discussion of appeals and values, the creator's self-awareness is meaningful for the pursuit of a balance between intense dramatic conflict and positive social energy.
However, Costume stops there on the level of meaning.
Just like Chen Kaiyi and Xiao Hongxue fighting each other for 20 episodes, it's hard to find a typical case that can speak for their different opinions in a basket of golden sentences. The only way to be a real professional master is to debate on ideas, which is very thin. The plot ultimately makes the creation fall short.
In fact, the long way to reach the concrete story from the abstract meaning never depends on one click.
Benchmarking the three elements of workplace drama, occupation, workplace, and professional people, requires dramas to speak jargon, shoot real ecology, and create self-consistent characters.
The root of workplace dramas is still "drama", which is reasonable and logical, seeing people and seeing details, and is always a multi-wheel drive to reach the quality boundary.
The dismantling of "Pretty Dress", which has good sentences but no good chapters, is a reflection on the misunderstandings of more workplace drama creation.
After all, in a time when social life is infinite and vast, being able to tell the daily stories of people from different industries in the new era is always the heart of the audience.
The industry's unique professionalism and ethics are the real "seven inches"
When "Win or Lose" made the male protagonist come to the stage with blood on his face to sign the contract, the short comment "The screenwriter may never come out to work" received the highest praise. The exaggerated scenes that are divorced from reality are difficult for even laymen to win the trust.
When the hero and heroine of "Hello Prosecutor" meet everywhere, and the main characters have a love line, the barrage is full of dissatisfaction that "the dry goods are not enough for love to make up".
Therefore, when Lei Zhilong, the screenwriter of "Dressed Up", came with eight years of experience in the fashion magazine industry, the script was once trusted. It was believed that he could give advice based on personal insights that could stand up to the critics of the insider's professionalism, and at the same time be a professional for the uninitiated. People expand relevant professional cognition and reveal the hard core story of the core ethics of the industry.
If drama contradictions can be stirred up from the specific system of the industry and the shallow cognition of society, it will be the most fascinating part of workplace dramas and industry dramas.
Without the barrier of "interlacing like a mountain", Lei Zhilong did set a precise topic for "Dressed Up" - In 2016, new media took the lead, how can traditional media break the trend?
With the dual attributes of fashion and media, can people in the industry still be ideal and clear on the sidelines of Vanity Fair?
The double inquiries are embedded in the fashion magazines, and the storm is coming.
In the first few episodes, the plot was relatively neat.
Macro-industry changes are projected on the reports of magazines - the trend of advertising and sales data is obviously declining; it has shaken the public perception of the special department - the We Media account has done things that magazines dare not think of, and let fashion lower its profile, "Second-hand fashion "Not only did it attract ordinary readers, but also directly stole 500,000 yuan of advertisements from old customers in costumes; the street also felt strong winds - the uncle of the newsstand no longer expected magazines to sell money, he thought about closing the store and switching to selling pancakes .
At the micro level, high-level personnel are shaken. From old Jianghu to Xiaomengxin in the magazine, while inertial operation is done step by step, while facing the new coach, each has his own thoughts and anxiety.
In the daily life of the magazine where the dramatic conflict is gradually emerging, it is possible to taste a screenwriter's nostalgia for his past career.
After breaking the ice on the surface of the industry, "Dressed Up" no longer digs in depth.
The screenwriter took a turn and wrote about secret love in the workplace, rookie advancement, wine table culture, female mutual assistance, behind-the-scenes business war games, and the love of characters at different levels in the magazine.
The writing power of the side stories has different depths, although there are commendable parts, but more of them are the "one-size-fits-all" bridges that can be applied everywhere.
Change the industry for the people in the play, and their entanglement is still established.
The lack of professionalism and ethics unique to the fashion magazine industry, unable to hold the real "seven inches", finally made the initial double inquiries a false shot.
In the past two years, "Blame You For Being Too Beautiful" has almost completely written the bizarreness of the entertainment industry: everything is based on data, traffic, and capital, and creation has been placed in a less important position-everything points to the urgent need to be rectified in the circle. Chaos, its "blade inward" makes people call "dare".
The fashion industry in which "Dress Up" is located has been controversial over the years due to the aesthetic differences between the East and the West, traffic stars occupying the cover, and the fashion ceremony is like a Vanity Fair show.
At this time, the screenwriter's career history seems to be a kind of "dare not" and restraint.
Workplace struggles are reduced to palace fights around power, which is a harm to workplace dramas
In "dressed up", Chen Kaiyi is the spokesperson of "content is king".
She decided to declare war unwilling that the publisher Xiang Tingfeng had facilitated Xiao Hongxue's "airborne".
In almost every episode, Chen Kaiyi will use different rhetoric to emphasize the proposition: the transformation needs to be elegant, the idealism of the media and the business model of the magazine need to coexist in a balanced way, but the golden line of content is sacred and inviolable.
Declare war on idealism, with beautiful motives.
What about play?
There are no details in the play to support the empty shouts of the characters. We have not seen a single case to illustrate that the intervention of capital has broken through the bottom line of content, and there is no contradiction in which capital seizes the right to speak at the poor two topic selection meetings.
On the contrary, as the other side of the initial camp, Xiao Hongxue, who came by air, has a lot of past articles from the editors of the special topic department, which just shows that the new editor-in-chief does not ignore the content.
Since the concepts are not contradictory, the protagonist declares war with swords drawn, rather than fighting for content, it is better to see it as finding a fresh and decent reason for the struggle for power, even if the means are relatively upright.
In fact, the drama train comes in, and the roar of intrigue looms over the rest.
Apparently, many viewers also regard "Dressed Up" as a plot drama. Discussions such as "How many episodes can you live in "Dressed up" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the workplace" have a lot of buzz online.
Although the ending of the story is evil, but along the way of the struggle, the flag of idealism is raised high and fluttering away in "Dressed Up".
The premise of what to shoot in a workplace drama is to clarify the core of the workplace relationship.
Looking at the mature industrial production experience of overseas workplace dramas, American workplace dramas prefer to show the ability to be the king, and respect personal heroism; the temperament of Japanese workplace life is both mourning and burning, and the constant is the adherence to the spirit of craftsmen; the workplace of Korean dramas often brings have a strong tendency to social problems.
It can be seen that workplace relationship is a microcosm of social relationship, and to a certain extent it also reflects the soil of human feelings.
Rooted in Chinese society, our workplace dramas will indeed lay out more dramatic tension in "human relationships".
Previously, "Ideal City", which pursues a clean cost table, "Win and Lose", which sells elite fighting skills, "Ordinary Glory", which is an advanced history of financial investment, and "Perfect Relationship" and "Emergency Public Relations", which focus on the public relations industry, all have He wrote and wrote on human relations and "office politics".
The pros and cons of these works are closely related to the professionalism in the play, and the appropriateness and timing of the interpersonal relationships are also important considerations.
Looking at "Double Dress" again from this standard, it is positioned in the fashion world in line with international standards, but it ignores the economic, social and cultural context of globalization. The fact that the contract society has gradually turned from unspoken rules to explicit rules.
In most of the 29 episodes, the costumed magazine has no rules and order, and only focuses on "power tearing".
When workplace dramas are simplified into "interpersonal relationship strategies" and "Asura Field Survival Guide", it is obviously getting narrower and narrower.
Professional group portraits need sample scanning, which is more in line with the logic of "people"
Workplace drama or industry drama, "drama" is the fundamental.
Whether the play is good or not depends on the coherence and moving of the characters in the work.
For example, when "Female Psychologist" was launched, the high-concentration professional cases won positive social significance, but the characters' priority and subordination in multi-threaded narratives such as counseling, love, and social relations were not clear enough, and the styles were not fully compatible, which made the work far away. The masterpiece is still far away.
The professional gesture of selling a house in "Settling Down" makes people fascinated, but the heroine Fang Sijin's tragic situation of the original family layered upon layers, and finally relying on love to redeem the ending, is also regarded as redundant by many audiences.
To sum up, the demand for group portraits and multi-threaded drama clues in workplace dramas does not lie in the number of samples, the number of topics, the endogenous driving forces of the characters, the correlation between group portraits, and whether the parallel and interweaving of clues can be combined with the drama goals. The essential.
The group portraits in "Dressed Up" could have been companions who went straight to the same theatrical purpose.
Some people defend ideals, some advocate pragmatism, and some people sway on the wall. In the final analysis, it is the choice of different individuals in the evolution of the industry.
Even in this top magazine, it seems that only senior editor Zhao Xin, who has one foot in the new media river, seems to be concentrating on his career, but for the complete story, power contenders and watchers, rookies and old fritters, What they undertake is still effective thinking about the industry.
But perhaps in order to enrich the highlights, or to organize wider social topics, "Dressed Up" has become "bulk".
The original editor-in-chief Lin George, who committed suicide due to depression, was thrown out as an introduction to a suspense drama, but it soon disappeared. Repeated control and calculation; the boss Gu Mingshan sits and talks like a master behind the scenes. From guiding Xiang Tingfeng to supporting Liu Ziqi, he seems to be turning into a high-level business war, but when he is infected with a bad disease and knows his destiny, The script seems to want to create an image of an affectionate old man who remembers "Bai Yueguang" for a lifetime; as for Li Na, her rookie growth history has not been told reliably and reliably. Scumbags are not worth it, they are all chaos.
What is even more outrageous is Yan Kai, the director of the special department, who keeps insisting on his ideals, but when his colleagues work overtime all night for the reprint, he drinks and communicates with the newcomer on the rooftop until dawn; it is also him who shouts to call his colleagues for a topic selection meeting, but he agrees with him. Girlfriend ran away...
The sample-scanned group portraits turned into sample-style sweeps in "Dressing Up", and the fatal wound of the story was here: too many characters who seemed to have mysteries but were bluffing and had no real effect, let the logic of "people" in the storytelling process. It gave way to the functionality of the drama. In the end, it was unable to stop, the characters collapsed in a large area, and the group image became four different.
And this drama train turned into an unruly derailed train. No matter how much value output it was equipped with, it couldn't stop it from overturning tragically.
(Wang Yan)