Meet you丨"I am your eyes"! This girl insisted on helping blind people "see" movies for 12 years
Zhu Ying has been helping blind people "watch" movies for 12 years.
In the past 12 years, Zhu Ying has become their "eyes", using emotional descriptions to bring the movie pictures to the hearts of every blind friend.
In the past 12 years, in order to better serve the visually impaired, Zhu Ying has not only been pondering how to tell the movie better, but also formed a volunteer team of "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast" to gather more love power.
"I am your eyes"!
Insist on teaching movies to the blind for 12 years
Sitting among dozens of visually impaired people, Zhu Ying held a thick stack of manuscript paper in her hand. She sometimes looked up at the big screen, and sometimes looked down at the notes. When there were no dialogues or narrations, her narration would appear just right. In order to ensure the smoothness of the film, Zhu Ying must control the speed and rhythm of speech.
In order for these visually impaired audiences to understand the movie, she often watched it dozens of times, or even hundreds of times.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: The most difficult thing is to watch the movie repeatedly. I think you have to watch it all the time, and a movie can't be watched in ten minutes or twenty minutes. It takes one or two hours, which is time consuming.
After it's over, you have to connect each scene to it, so you need to know a lot about the movie itself.
After graduating from university in 2010, Zhu Ying returned to her hometown in Ningbo and became a social worker.
She has always been enthusiastic about public welfare. In her spare time, she signed up for volunteer services and began to teach movies to the blind.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: Actually, there may be fate, because my grandmother was also a visually impaired person when she was a child. She had cataracts in her eyes, which made her more and more invisible. It was invisible. Later, she also liked us granddaughters to chat with her, read newspapers, and talk about some pictures on the TV.
Maybe it was also influenced by my grandmother, but I still have a special feeling for this kind of people in my heart.
Since then, Zhu Ying has plunged headlong into the film, studying and explaining techniques.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: The first movie I talked about was "Alive" directed by Zhang Yimou. In order to tell this special movie well, I really watched this movie Twenty or thirty times, I watched it over and over again, and practiced it over and over again. I also learned editing from scratch.
Why am I still editing it?
Because like a normal movie (duration), most of it is two hours to two and a half hours, but I found that blind friends can't concentrate such attention to fully integrate into such a scene.
So I said I extracted the essence of the movie.
Zhu Ying, who didn't understand editing at all, stayed up all night and broke several mice, and finally completed the preparations for the explanation of the first movie.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: When I was talking, I needed to pause in the middle of the talk. I needed to describe the movie scene to them. I spoke in Ningbo dialect, for example Fugui, the young master of a rich family, "upside down cloth shirt" is a long coat, (Ge You) has a shaved head and looks very wealthy, just like a big young master.
The first time I explained, although the stumbling was not perfect, the reaction of the audience gave Zhu Ying the motivation to persevere.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: I was very nervous at the beginning when there were more than 100 visually impaired people in the audience, but I found that with the switching of movie scenes, Sometimes they frowned, sometimes they laughed, and I wonder if they understood it and resonated with the scene in the movie.
After the movie was over, an aunt named Zhang came over excitedly. Because she couldn't see it, she told me, "Xiao Zhu, I seem to have really seen it."
Then I felt like she was excited like a child.
Over the years, Zhu Ying has become friends with many visually impaired people, 72-year-old Han Peili is one of them.
Han Peili suffered from congenital cataracts. After 2016, her eyesight gradually deteriorated. She locked herself at home every day and refused to go out.
After learning about the situation, Zhu Ying went to the door to chat with the old man whenever she was free.
Hearing that Zhu Ying was going to take her to the movies, Han Peili was very unhappy at first and felt that she had met a liar.
Han Peili, a citizen of Ningbo: She took me there. I was not very happy, because I can't see the movie, how can I watch the movie.
Later, she told the story of the old man very vividly, which seemed to make me see exactly the same as in the movie. She told it very well, how the old man lived, how to get off work and go out to play, she told very well.
After watching such a movie, I said, Xiao Zhu, you didn't lie to me, I really seem to have changed a person, and I seem to be in a very happy mood.
At that time, the movie Zhu Ying talked about was "Flying in the Nursing Home". Seeing that everyone could be infected and influenced by the movie, she began to choose the movie more carefully.
Zhu Ying hopes that every movie she talks about can enter the hearts of visually impaired people and bring sunshine to their lives.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: I just feel that this movie is not for them to watch the movie but to watch the movie. After watching the movie, they will also have this triggering feeling in their hearts.
Cai Tihong, a visually impaired person from Ningbo: The life scene of a group of elderly people in a nursing home touched us a lot.
On the one hand, I can get in touch with people like us, and I feel comfortable.
Yin Dingbo, a visually impaired person from Ningbo: The spiritual life has become richer, and this area has become more fulfilling.
From one person to a group of people
Form "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast"
Whenever a new visually impaired person told Zhu Ying after watching the movie that it was the first time they walked into the theater in their lives, Zhu Ying felt a pain in her heart.
She is becoming more and more aware that to help more people, it is not enough to rely on her strength alone, and this beam of light needs to be refracted by a relay.
Last year, she formed the "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast" volunteer service team, and now the number of volunteers has grown to more than 30.
Including film editors, film commentators, blind escorts, caring team members, etc.
Everyone has a clear division of labor, which greatly improves the efficiency of volunteer service.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: Including, for example, movie editing, I don't need to edit it, I just need to tell them what I want.
After the completion, there will be blind people to accompany them. I don’t need to come here to hold an event for them and drive to pick them up by myself. Now, the leaders of our street have helped me to contact a caring team specially, as long as I tell them where the blind people are, The team will pick up where and when as scheduled.
The power has grown, and the forms of film-telling have become rich and varied.
Originally, Zhu Ying needed to explain on the spot, but now the content of the explanation can be recorded in advance, edited and synthesized into the film, and played directly to the visually impaired audience.
This not only improves work efficiency, but also can be reused and spread multiple times.
At the beginning of this year, more than a dozen journalism majors of Ningbo University joined the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast". From film selection, copywriting to recording and editing, everyone has a clear division of labor and cooperated with each other.
Wei Miaoling, a 2019 journalism student at Ningbo University: We struggled for a long time at the beginning of the film selection, because we didn’t know what kind of film to choose.
Because she (Zhu Ying) is herself, she has many years of experience in explaining, and she knows more about these, so we will ask her.
With enthusiasm for volunteering, the students carefully considered every word and repeated every detail, striving to provide the visually impaired with the best viewing experience.
Zhou Yinghua, a 2019 journalism major at Ningbo University: I think it is a process of handing over the torch. Maybe Ms. Zhu Ying was the first small flame in Ningbo, and then each of us was another small spark, and then kept joining this In the middle of things, you can make this fire burn even more and warm more people.
The participation and contribution of young people makes Zhu Ying feel gratified.
In the future, they hope that more companions will appear, so that more and more visually impaired people can reap the joy and hope of life from movies.
Zhu Ying, head of the volunteer service team of "Light and Shadow Podcast" in Ningbo, Zhejiang: Just like I never knew I would go this far for so many years, I just think I like this thing, and I will stick to it.
Maybe I'm walking, maybe there will be more Zhu Yings, many, one, two or three to do this thing, and it will also make this thing more visible to more people, not only our Panhuo Street, but also Not only our Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, or the entire Zhejiang Province, but the whole country, spread out to do this, and serve more blind people.
I just feel that I am not struggling alone, there is a force behind me that guides me forward.
Let's help the "blind" and let the needs of the blind be "seen"
Zhu Ying's "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast" makes the cinema no longer a strange place for the visually impaired.
"Going to the cinema" gave more visually impaired people a reason to go out of the house, and like a ray of light, it shone into their hearts.
In order to talk about movies well, Zhu Ying not only had to choose movies, but also watched movies repeatedly, wrote copywriting, and edited them.
Zhu Ying has been doing this kind of work for 12 years.
Here is her affectionate love for her grandmother, and her great love for others.
Now, with more people joining in, the team of "Light and Shadow Heart Podcast" is getting bigger and bigger, not only serving better and better, but also serving more and more people. More importantly, with such a relay , such a movie will continue to be released.
At the end of the interview just now, Zhu Ying said that she felt that she was not struggling alone.
Indeed, there are already "blind cinemas" in Beijing, Wuhan, Nanjing and many other cities, and there are already many "Zhu Ying" doing the same thing.
Of course, there are still people running "Silent Cafe", "Silent Bakery" and so on.
Thanks to every movie theater, coffee shop, bakery, let our city have a little more temperature and a warm lamp.
(Reporter Cao Meili, Du Jinming, Liu Zhe, Ma Rongda, Xu Zhuoyang)