The vigorous plain ink swept the corner of the super-large screen, and a modern city of China appeared under the black mountain ridge; Mo Lian is swaying in the wind, and the beautiful dream of mankind is like "Harmonious China" written by a line of egrets in just 8 minutes. The "revival" of China traditional ink animation excited the audience.
Zheng Dasheng, director of Harmonious China, said: "The World Expo will bring opportunities for the revival of traditional ink and wash animation in China."
In the film, the colored ink lotus pond blends with the beautiful scenery of the real city. Every household opened ink flowers in front of the window sill, and animated birds danced around people. Shi Yi, a young producer of Shanghai Film Group, who is in charge of rendering ink and wash animation, said that it was China filmmakers who used traditional ink and wash animation technology to integrate color ink and wash with real people.
Under the premise of not using modern digital 3D technology, the traditional craft left a moment when ink and wash bloomed naturally on the film. For nearly half a century, this national secret craft has been deeply hidden in Shanghai Animation Film Studio. As one of the descendants of ink-wash animation, Shi Yi believes that traditional ink-wash animation has become the "finishing touch" of the films in the China Pavilion of the World Expo, which can comfort the past Chinese ink-wash animation predecessors.
Harmonious bells and drums ring.
Xu, a composer and professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, said that finding the right China music elements for Harmonious China is the biggest problem. For a time, Xu spent almost every night thinking about how to compose music for the theme film of the China Pavilion of the World Expo. Xu said that he finally decided to use the traditional scales of pure five, pure four, pure two and pure seven. "Palace, business, horn, sign and feather are the core of China's musical elements!"
The opening scene of Harmonious China is characterized by freehand brushwork in ink and wash, with bells and drums ringing. Then there is the ensemble of pipa, erhu, zhongruan, guqin and other national musical instruments and orchestras, supplemented by unaccompanied mixed chorus. Xu explained that part of the eight-minute soundtrack revealed a sense of sadness and beauty, and expressed the people's sense of hardship in the process of economic and social development in China. Today's achievements in China's urban development are inseparable from the hard work of past generations.
A movie that can't be copied
The super-long screen formed by the three-fold screen and the unique 2 1 channel make the theme film of China Pavilion almost "unrepeatable".
Zhu Yuping, deputy director of Shanghai Meiying Factory and technical director of Harmony China, said that this 8-minute film was shot on film and then made with digital copy. Although the production cost is high, the picture quality is more exquisite.
Producer Qian Jianping revealed that the eight-minute panoramic ultra-wide picture took two and a half minutes, including the ultra-wide panorama of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the stretching Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the speeding Harmony train, the special camera team of the Central News Film Documentary Factory and the core technical support provided by Crystal Stone Company for the Olympic Games and the World Expo.
Zhan Xin, the sound director of Harmonious China, used to be the sound engineer for films such as red river valley and Ruan Yuling. He said that the projection hall of the China Pavilion of the World Expo has an omni-directional 2 1 sound channel with a three-fold screen, surround and dome, and the sound effect design is very complicated. In the clips reflecting the diversified life in China, the audience can clearly hear the noise of the vegetable market, the ringing of bicycles, the applause at the end of the Peking Opera performance, and the sound of cleaning workers sweeping leaves. And the biggest feature of the sound effect of the film is to restore the sound effect of some special scenes. The audience can feel the harmony number of the super-long screen from the right to the left until it flies out of the picture; You can also experience the three-dimensional effect of the plane whistling overhead and finally landing in the front picture; You can still hear the first sound of firecrackers coming from the ground ahead and the second sound coming from the air.