China News Service, Beijing, May 1st (Men Rui) An expert seminar on "New Travels" jointly sponsored by the Film and Television Art Professional Committee of the China Television Art Exchange Association and the School of Drama, Film and Television of the Communication University of China was held recently.

  "New Travels" is a travel and observation reality show based on the story background and value of the classic Chinese classic "Journey to the West". It shows the customs and spiritual outlook of all parts of China through a journey to the west, restores the real life status of ordinary people in the new era, and conveys optimism, positivity and courage. Struggle attitude to life.

  At the seminar, Li Xiao, the producer of "New Travels", reviewed the program creation mentality. The program combines outdoor and indoor, through different types of content such as competition, experience, observation, etc., to try out model innovation in an all-round way.

  Guan Ling, director of the Film and Television Art Professional Committee of the China Television Art Exchange Association and dean of the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China, said that the organic combination of program innovation elements and real social life has refreshed the audience and demonstrated the program's planning ability, production skills and innovative awareness. .

  Yu Hong, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University and director of the TV Research Center of Peking University, pointed out that the program shows a high degree of integration and innovation awareness, and uses this as a carrier to develop and dig deep into the value of content, and form valuable exploration at the level of content expression and meaning expression. .

  "New Travels" adopts the creative mode of "combination of stars and elements".

In the opinion of Li Chunli, deputy director of the literature and art department of Guangming Daily, "the traffic that stars come with is not a disadvantage, and how to make good use of the traffic is the key." He believes that "New Travel Notes" did not deliberately avoid the particularity of stars and let them sink to the grassroots level. , began to transform from the material satisfaction with food and clothing as the standard, showing the background of life, drawing the audience's attention to the grassroots workers, and arousing attention and understanding of ordinary social life.

  Xie Jin, head of the "Audio-Visual China" platform of the State Administration of Radio and Television, from a cultural perspective, believes that the program integrates the concept of "Nine Nine Eighty-One Difficulties" in the original "Journey to the West" as the internal logic of the program's advancement into all links, making it smooth and interesting , without letting the background of the famous book flow to the surface.

  Gao Guiwu, director of the Department of Audio-Visual Communication, School of Journalism, Renmin University of China, emphasized the conscious awareness of the program's integration of culture and society.

"New Travel Notes is based on traditional Chinese classics and aims to experience and record local characteristic culture. It is good at finding creativity and inspiration from traditional culture, and digging out voices from local characteristics and social reality. It not only cares about history but also bases itself on reality. It embodies the spirit of recording and is rich in social culture.”

  Yin Hong, vice-chairman of the Chinese Literature and Art Critics Association and professor of Tsinghua University, believes that "New Travels" has the distinctive characteristics of "new, upright, and professional", and conveys the trend of "consciously undertaking social responsibilities and consciously expressing social concerns".

  In the opinion of Kang Wei, the editor-in-chief of China Art News, "New Travels" has outstanding characteristics of "seeking truth", "seeing people" and "internal show".

"The program is close to life, restores the vivid scene of the times, allows ordinary people who may be hidden in the narrative of the times to be seen, and highlights the role of 'people' in the narrative of the program."

  Liu Jun, associate professor of Communication University of China and director of the editorial department of "Modern Communication", believes that the program is a manifestation of online audio-visual media's fulfillment of social responsibility, encouraging and attracting young people to take the initiative to face social problems and contribute to the continuous promotion of social development.

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