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Exclusive interview with Zhang Shuheng, co-director of “Tian Geng Ji”: On the editing stage, flowers, grass, porridge and rice are all drama
China News Service, Beijing, October 26 (Reporter Gao Kai) From the new story of farming + games, to the simple and beautiful pictures of pastoral pastoral, to the friendly and straightforward narrative with beautiful imagery, “Tian Geng Ji” has just been released. The debut made its presence felt on the screen in October with its own unique flavor.
A reporter from China News recently had an exclusive interview with Zhang Shuheng, the editing director and co-director of “Tian Geng Ji”. In her opinion, the greatest charm of this fresh drama may lie in “healing”, “one flower, one grass, one porridge, one meal” , we hope that every detail in the shot can bring the audience a beauty full of life quality, and can present a natural breathing feeling through editing.”
“Field Farming Chronicles” travels through the game, takes farming life as the background, and unfolds the plot around farming operations and the daily life of farmers. The novel theme and unconventional plot have attracted the attention of the audience and the market. Zhang Shuheng said that many people have always said that farming novels have a small layout and lack of strong rhythm. They mostly present the daily life of ordinary people in ancient times and are short-sighted. “How can we make the layout of this work larger? In fact, we are creating We have been thinking and adjusting during the process. Especially in the editing process, which is the last step for the audience, we need to think clearly about what is presented to the audience. In the end, we sorted out a core. The greatest significance of this story is healing. Once this point is determined , the work on the creative and editing desks has a clear direction.”
Director Hong Ling (left) of “Tian Geng Ji” and editing director and co-director Zhang Shuheng were at the shooting scene.Photo provided by interviewee
As the editing director of the play, Zhang Shuheng believes that straightforwardness and conciseness are particularly important. “In the narrative editing of this play, I have been doing subtractions, avoiding all fancy and complicated methods, hoping to be more direct. Present the storyline to the audience in a natural way.”
Simplicity does not mean simplicity. Not long after it went online, “The Empty Mirror of “Tian Geng Ji”” was on the hot search list. From the heavy wheat ears to the dappled sunshine, from the raindrops on the eaves to the curling smoke, the meat table, ginger and garlic in the room… the audience sighed, “The empty mirror of “Tian Geng Ji” is so comfortable.”
“In order to achieve the healing effect, we shot a lot of very beautiful scenery and objects, as well as many extremely detailed details about firewood, rice, oil and salt.” Zhang Shuheng said bluntly that when faced with these materials, the editing process is like cooking, ” In line with the plot’s ambivalent parents, right and wrong, the final product strives to give these trivial matters of life a quality that people usually overlook. Everything is simple, but the beauty is real. I hope the audience can stop and feel these. The charm of life’s trivial details.”
Zhang Shuheng emphasized that while bringing a healing rhythm, these empty shots are by no means separate from the narrative. “In the post-editing process, we used many unimagined shots to give them new meanings and participate in the characters’ development. The journey of the heart.” In the play, many delayed photography, flowers, and the inversion of the stream mean that the heroine has entered a restart moment in the game; every time Lian Maner encounters a trivial family crisis, the scene of the spider spinning its web, Let the audience secretly feel that the conspiracy is coming, bringing crisis, oppression, and undercurrents. “These are not just beautiful pictures. We hope that the flowers, grass, porridge, and rice on the editing table can all be included in the scene and participate in the narrative. In this process, we still insist that healing is the ultimate goal, and all expressions are also Try to be cordial and straightforward,” Zhang Shuheng said.
Talking about the animal actors with a sense of presence in “Tian Geng Ji”, Zhang Shuheng said, “They participate in an anthropomorphic form. On the one hand, they can make the plot more interesting and warmer. On the other hand, they also echo the atmosphere setting of the game. . However, they are not good actors and cannot act according to the plot, and all anthropomorphism needs to be completed on the editing table. Find the animal’s performance state in a large amount of materials, and capture every possible “interesting” look, turn, etc. The first moments are then connected together according to the needs of the plot, and editing is used to help them achieve ‘accurate performance’.”
“In terms of clothing styling, we also made the most suitable choice for ourselves.” Zhang Shuheng said that Director Hong Ling already had her own judgment on the style of painting in the early stages of creation. “We hope that this time there will be a new style in the costumes.” Breakthrough, so the final plan finalized with the styling guide was: earth colors that are pure but not bright, gray but not dirty, and made of fine linen fabrics. Such as: traditional Chinese colors such as Shuilongyin, Taishi Qing, Morning Glory Purple, etc. The colors that have accumulated over thousands of years are inadvertently immersed in people’s hearts in the fields and fields in autumn and winter.”
Zhang Shuheng (first from left) at the filming site of “Tian Geng Ji”.Photo provided by interviewee
Therefore, under the core of “healing”, the thoughtful “Tian Geng Ji” quickly reaches empathy and resonance with young audiences through truthful expressions of certain experiences and emotions in seemingly light and trivial topics, and has become the screen of this movie. A different kind of scenery.
In Zhang Shuheng’s view, the current Internet environment and the audience’s increasing acceptance have provided creators with greater creative space. “Every work has its own unique space worth exploring. I don’t want to be Instead of defining a style, I hope to find the most suitable expression path for each fresh theme, make all preparations, and leave the future to the future.”
