The Rise of Film Professionalization: The Impact of “Training Camps” on Talent Cultivation in the Film Industry

Original title: Film professionalization pays more attention to cultivating “professionals”

Ding Xiaochen

The sci-fi film training camp “Little Moss Project”, with Liu Cixin as the general consultant, Guo Fan as the organizer, and Wang Hongwei as the director, was announced after the Chengdu Science Fiction Conference. It is named after the biggest behind-the-scenes protagonist in “The Wandering Earth 2” – the intelligent computer MOSS. This “training camp” caused heated discussion as soon as the news was released. In addition to the “Fengshen Part 1” directed by Wu Ershan, which was released this year, the most talked about and highly praised “Fengshen Training Camp” among film shooting modes; the “Yingwutang Action Performance Special Training Camp” led by Wu Jing “wait. It seems that the most popular representative figures in the film industry have opened “film and television training camps.” Previously, various training courses and creation camps in the film and television industry were common. What is the reason for this wave of “training camp craze”? What impact will it have?

At various forums and conferences on science fiction movies recently, the most frequently mentioned issue is probably the creation of stories. With the rapid development of film technology, “there are only unimaginable stories and there are no shots that cannot be completed” is no longer the case. A joke. Specialized science fiction film screenwriters have become the biggest talent gap in science fiction films, and the first phase of the “Little Moss Training Camp” is only for science fiction film screenwriters. The goal of “Shadow Hall” is more specific. When the industry has long lamented the scarcity of reserve action film talents, Wu Jing and Liu Tianchi Performance Studio have conducted three training sessions so far, the “Action and Performance Systematic Practical Training Camp” plan It is to teach young actors how to “move with emotion and martial arts” in a very targeted manner, and train them into specialized action actors.

Compared with the past, “training camps” in the film and television industry tend to pursue “comprehensiveness”. Whether it is directing or acting, they invite a large group of experts to strive to cultivate “all-round talents” who can adapt to various film types. Even in film and television education in colleges and universities fields, the cultivation of “generalists” is also mainstream. However, the core element of industrialization is “division of labor.” High-input, large-scale production, and high-output blockbusters fully reflect the characteristics of industrialized production and are also a leading force in the rapid development of Chinese films. What the film industrialization is currently trying and pursuing is to maximize projectization, standardization, and process. People in each position use their professional skills to create art, perform their duties, and collaborate sincerely. Then the cultivation of “professionals” is undoubtedly a necessary link in the industrialization of the film. The “training camp” can be said to be an attempt, and may even become a paradigm for talent training in the film industry.