(The 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China) The chief director team reveals the secret of the party's century-old cultural performance will be made into a movie and circulated forever
Chinanews.com, Beijing, July 2 (Reporter Ying Ni) The theatrical performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China broadcast on the evening of the 1st, without any suspense, locked in hot searches on the Internet.
The magnificent stage beauty, surging passion, colorful singing and dancing, bright fireworks... The large-scale epic "The Great Journey" quickly occupied the social media hot search list and received praise.
Behind this is the planning of the main creative team for more than a year and the closed rehearsal of the cast and crew for more than three months.
The reporter interviewed the director team and actor representatives a few days ago to reveal the story behind them.
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
——How big is the main screen? Shocking visual effects come from high technology
The main screen on the stage is 174 meters long and 29.5 meters high, which is close to the height of a 12-story building.
A chorus of nearly a thousand people sang "Roar on the Yellow River", and the huge wave of the Yellow River appeared across the entire huge screen, the effect was very shocking.
The big screen shockedly reproduced the fierce battle scenes of resisting U.S. aggression and aid to Korea, with dense bullets and artillery fire.
With the help of the mechanical flipping screen and six large steel frames on the stage, all the fighters are combined into an unattainable mountain. The dancer Huang Doudou restored the previous Shangganling battlefield on the 9-meter-high flipping screen. "For victory, shoot at me." "Scene.
Deputy Director Sha Xiaolan said, "This scene combines multimedia, Avia, AR, lighting, audio and other technologies to synthesize a visual highlight."
From the leisure of the wind and the waves, to the construction scenes in full swing, to the celebration of the return of Hong Kong and Macau to the motherland, this giant screen with clear and magnificent imaging makes the audience feel like they are on the scene; For major national projects such as the eastward transfer, the south-to-north water transfer, and the north-to-south coal transportation, the vivid geographic coordinates and dynamic operating routes are displayed on the screen, which is clear at a glance.
However, behind the shocking visual effects, the number and difficulty of video production are unprecedented.
The chief director of the show, Chen Weiya, explained that the ratio of this screen is 1:6, while the usual video ratio is 16:9. "This means that all original SD materials must be re-adjusted if they can be played on this screen. The huge workload of the entire video team is repairing, then re-shooting, and making each material with a special proportion."
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
The picture shows the scene dance "The Uprising".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
——How long is the stage? Straighten the 200-meter track
The maximum size of the entire stage is 200 meters vertically and 100 meters deep.
From one side of the stage to the other, it is equivalent to running a circle on a 200-meter circular track on the usual playground.
There is also a theater stage on both sides of the stage. The fragments of the awakening era are reproduced. The scene of the Zunyi meeting, the story of poverty alleviation in Minning Town and Shibadong Village, and the fight against the new crown epidemic are all performed on these two theater stages. of.
"The diameter of the theater stage is 20 meters." Sun Tianwei, one of the chief choreographers, said that 20 meters looks nothing on a 200-meter stage, but the proscenium of the National Centre for the Performing Arts is also 18 meters. The stages of the two National Theaters."
He introduced that the base stage at the rear is 80 meters long. The beauty is that the nine-meter-high steps are actually combined by mechanical devices, and the four middle blocks can be lifted upwards.
In the scene symphony song and dance "The People First", when the big plane on the screen stops, the lifted steps are like an open rear door, and soldiers and doctors come out, perfectly realizing the human screen interaction; two steps on each side are able to It was launched to meet the needs of performances and achieved 360-degree rotation in the venue.
In the drum music and dance in the last chapter, 100 drums were vacated, and a 10-meter-diameter drum was slowly raised in the center of the stage, with 9 actors performing 360-degree rotations. This was accomplished by a huge robotic arm. of.
The huge party emblem with a diameter of 16 meters and a weight of 10 tons is rising. Various elements not only echo the theme of the centenary of the founding of the party, but its size must be coordinated with the huge stage.
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
The picture shows the scene chorus and dance "Moment of Return".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
Is the heavy rain an effect? Sucking down is acrobatics? This is all true!
In the scene dance "Party Flag in My Heart" earthquake relief footage, pouring rain fell on the stage.
In fact, this is not a deliberately created effect, but a real picture from the previous rehearsal performance with the audience.
The actors with soaked clothes insisted on completing the performance in the rain. This unexpected rainstorm added a real strength to the performance.
The director team immediately decided to edit this scene of the party flag in the heavy rain and edit it into the party during the formal performance. “This kind of realism is very impressive, and special effects can’t be achieved. Rain, tears, and sweat are flowing on the faces of the actors. , It will definitely flow into the hearts of the audience." Chen Weiya said.
The scene song and dance "The Battle Song of the Strong Army" was named "too burning" by netizens on the hot search.
Among them, the rope descent was praised. "It's handsome!" Xu Xiaojie, deputy political instructor of a special operations brigade of the 82nd Army of the Army, explained to reporters the hardships behind it: First of all, the rope drop height for actual combat training of troops is about 15 meters, and the bird's nest The height of the cable drop is 47 meters measured by the laser pointer.
The immediate problem caused by the training height far higher than usual is the increase in the wear of ropes and gloves, and the heating of various locks and equipment.
To this end, the army has done a lot of experiments. Only the gloves tested seven types before and after. The ropes were adjusted according to different diameters, materials and brands. Although they broke through the training limits for many years, they finally confirmed that they can be used in the bird’s nest. Highly complete the action.
Another difficulty is that the density is relatively large.
In military training, a group of up to one or two people can be dropped, and the distance will be very large.
In the performance at the Bird’s Nest, due to various conditions, the personnel spacing was reduced to 78.5 cm, which was only an arm long.
In order to overcome this difficulty, the officers and soldiers ensured the absolute safety of the performance training by adjusting the speed of the cable lowering and adding the second-generation safety rope.
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
The picture shows drama and song and dance "Oriental Miracle".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
——Nearly 8,000 actors, the youngest is 7 years old and the oldest is 73 years old
Chen Weiya introduced that the number of actors participating in this performance was less than 8,000, which was the least number of people in a large-scale party in the past.
The oldest is the 73-year-old Peking Opera artist Zhao Baoxiu. She speaks in the opera show "Passion Years". She is not old and her voice is still full and full; the youngest is only 7-year-old Yi girl Ma Yingjie, she and her seven friends Together, we brought "Sing a Folk Song for the Party to Hear", and the natural childlike voice intoxicated the audience.
In the Nanchang Uprising, the Long March of the Red Army, the War to Resist U.S. Aid Korea, as well as the rescue and disaster relief, and the nationwide fight against the epidemic, there were officers and soldiers in the army.
Wang Zheng, the leader of a certain unit in Beijing, told reporters, “We are the team with the largest number of participants, the team that participated the most in the show, and the only team that performed by ourselves.”
The fighters are basically zero-based. In order to match the level of professional actors, Wang Zheng’s team has studied more than 20 training methods, including demonstration cards for each fighter and each movement, and issuing icon cards for movement changes. Understand the card and comprehensively improve the level of officers and soldiers' rehearsal.
At the opening ceremony, 200 fighters had to prepare half an hour in advance. They stayed in place by sculpting group portraits. "During the training process, we used the standard of'fixed position in one hour and unchanged expression in one hour'". Ask the soldiers."
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
The picture shows the poem recitation and the chorus "Leap over".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
——Outdoor theater performances create scene integration
"Broken Dawn", which took the lead in this performance, reproduced the famous scene of "Awakening Age" and "South Chen and North Li" meeting to establish the party. It was directly on the hot search "South Chen and North Li broke defense", and many netizens said "Great Cried".
Yu Hewei and Zhang Tong played Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao respectively.
How to impress the audience with a short line, how to watch the drama in the outdoor National Stadium?
This is a huge challenge for Tian Qinxin, the deputy director and director of the National Theater of China.
"We hope that tens of thousands of spectators will be able to see the performance of the drama, and we also have a large number of stars entering, but when the theater is performing, we pay more attention to expressions. How can it be achieved in such a large venue?" Tian Qinxin said.
The final solution is technology + art, real-time shooting, real-time editing and live screen projection are almost synchronized, which requires continuous video testing, and testing can only be conducted at night, because the performance is held at night.
Through hard work, a square-style performance with real-time shooting and multi-camera multi-angle presentation was finally realized.
Tian Qinxin, who appeared in front of the reporter, was in a wheelchair, with his left leg in a cast and could only be lifted forward. He has been in this state since he suffered a fracture on May 18.
That night, she rushed from the dormitory to the test site. It was too dark to see a fall on the steps. She has been in a wheelchair to guide the rehearsal until now.
“I’ve never cried, but I’m more strong.” Chen Weiya believes that the most valuable part of this drama session is to strive for breakthroughs and to be creative. “She puts the drama in the theater on the outdoor square and boldly uses new technologies such as real-time shooting. Let the tension of the drama be unprecedentedly expanded."
On the evening of June 28, the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the National Stadium.
The picture shows the scene song and dance "The Battle Song of the Strong Army".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
Even a drama player like Yu Hewei will be worried at first.
He told reporters that the performance started directly from Chen Duxiu's crying, "I was worried that I would not be able to express my emotions, but when the stage turned around and saw the scene and felt the atmosphere, I immediately entered the play. Even the performance was over. After that, there was a sense of transcendence. Standing there, the stage was turning, I felt that if my husband stood here and saw this scene, it was really the saying that netizens said, "The prosperous world is what you want.""
According to Zhu Hai, the chief writer of the performance, the elements, techniques and expressions presented in this performance far exceed those of music and dance epic. It has high-tech, many modern artistic vocabularies, especially the addition of a large number of drama characters, which makes a breakthrough. The original concept of "Dongfanghong" music and dance epic.
The so-called epic of situation, in a sense, the situation is the accumulation of important events and characters of the Chinese Communist Party in the past 100 years, while the epic is the expression of spirit and the inheritance of ideals.
According to Chen Weiya, the film of "The Great Journey" is currently being recorded, just like the film of the music and dance epic "Dongfanghong" was made into a movie, "this will be a beautiful film that will be kept for a long time."
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