The ignition plan has been set for the time being, and the time is also close to noon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhang Ran cleared his throat and said, "I think it's twelve o'clock, let's eat first, and continue in the afternoon." ”

Everyone's mind was on the ignition plan, no one noticed the passage of time, and now when they look at the time, they all feel a little hungry. Everyone walked out of the venue in twos and threes and went to the restaurant to eat.

During the meal, no one was idle, and they were all exchanging ideas. The plan for the Beiping Olympic Torch Tower was conceived by Zhang Yimou when he was eating, and it is possible to bring inspiration from eating. Zhang Ran: They were not so lucky, and although the meal was comfortable, it didn't bring a spark of inspiration.

Today was the first day of the whole team's meeting, and everyone was very motivated. After eating, no one had any intention of resting or taking a nap, and went directly into the conference room to start the afternoon discussion.

Zhang Ran's ignition plan gave everyone a surprise, and everyone hoped that he would continue to bring surprises, so they pushed him out to talk about his performance plan. Zhang Ran did not shirk, and said slowly: "My theatrical performance program is divided into three articles: heaven, earth, and man, the heaven chapter mainly talks about the origin of civilization, and talks about cultural things, and there are three programs, namely text, bronze, and paper;

The opening performance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games should let foreigners understand at a glance that this is the origin, the origin of the Chinese. My idea was to tell the whole opening ceremony as a story, with a large LED in the center of the stage, and on the left side of the stage, after the show began, a section of the Great Wall was raised. A man climbed the Great Wall, and suddenly the heavens and the earth shook, and then the ground scenery began to recede, and a number appeared, August 8, 2008, and then the number began to recede. The numbers and the scenery receded faster and faster, and then suddenly stopped, and the numbers showed 3000 BC. Immediately after that, a man danced in the center of the stage, and with his dance, the wind and rain were blowing, the sky and the earth changed color, and then golden words appeared in the air, and Cangjie made words. The appearance of writing symbolizes the beginning of our civilization, and Chinese characters are Chinese at first glance, so I think it is better to start with Chinese characters. One of the programs at the opening ceremony of Athens was the rise of stars on the surface of the water, spinning into a DNA spiral, which looked amazing, and was a multimedia projection system. My idea was to use a similar technique to project Chinese characters, with thousands of golden Chinese characters floating in the air. With the dance of Cangjie, the Chinese characters are also dancing, constantly changing, first the oracle bone inscription, then the golden inscription, then the small seal, and finally the Chinese characters we have today. Ms. Lin Ying, this should be technically achievable, right?"

Lin Ying shook her head: "You can ask me questions about architecture and machinery, but I don't understand imaging technology." ”

"No problem!" said Bob Dickinson, the lighting designer of the 04 Athens Olympic Games, who joined Zhang Ran's team at the recommendation of Don Michel, as the lighting designer of the Athens opening ceremony, he knows this better, "Athens adopts an air imaging system, which uses the imaging principle of a mirage to present light and shadow images with the help of particles present in the air. Using a thin layer of water mist wall instead of the traditional projection screen, although these images are two-dimensional flat images, due to the uneven movement of the air wall molecules, they can form images with a strong sense of hierarchy and three-dimensionality, presenting a texture similar to 3D images!"

Hearing Bob Dickinson say this, Zhang Ran became interested. Due to financial and technical constraints, the size of the LED screen of the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympic Games only accounts for one-third of the total venue. He couldn't help asking, "Can this system cover the entire stadium, and what is the maximum projection area?"

Bob Dickinson shrugged: "I don't know the specific parameters, Athens uses Barco's system, you can consult the Jaco company." ”

Zhang Ran nodded, since he knew which company's technology it was, it would be easy to do, and he continued to talk about his plan: "Heaven this article, the second program is called Bronze, highlighting ancient Chinese casting technology, and the whole performance should show majestic power." As for how to choreograph the dance, I am a layman, anyway, I want to be atmospheric, to have a majestic momentum. At the end of the dance, a huge ring with a fiery red light appeared in the venue, and at the same time, four rings from other places were pushed over and spliced together to form the bronze five rings, and then the five rings slowly rose into the air......

Zhang Ran's whole plan is a person who travels to ancient times, or triggers some kind of space-time device, and sees the historical picture scroll from ancient times to the present. In the third program of the human chapter, the man returns to the modern day, comes to the center of the stage, meets his girlfriend, and then the Temple of Heaven rises under their feet, and the two of them stand on the Temple of Heaven and sing the theme song of the Olympic Games.

Zhang Ran continued: "After the athletes enter, the entire stadium displays a map of the world, and athletes from various countries stand on their own land after entering the stadium. In fact, my idea is that the whole performance is divided into four parts, heaven, earth and people, and the final entry of the athletes is harmony, but how to show this harmony, I didn't think of it. That's my general idea, let's talk about it if you have any opinions!"

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Everyone present applauded, and everyone felt that Zhang Ran's plan was good, with many bright spots, and a good start.

Tong Ruirui is a dancer and is the most sensitive to dance: "The text of the first show is very interesting, and the golden text appears in the air, which must be spectacular. I wondered if we could have an interaction between dance and text? When a dancer dances, a text appears, and when a dancer dances, a text appears. These words eventually form a sentence in the air, such as having a friend from afar, which may be more interesting. ”

"I think it's better to show the evolutionary history of words, and there is a sense of heaviness that penetrates the years. ”

The statue of the Cycladic civilization rising in the water of Athens, the minimalist lines of the futuristic face and the geometric and astronomical figures projected on it, tell us that it is the Aegean Sea that gave birth to the primitive imagination of human beings and the rational light of using science to understand the world! We should also take out the things that affect the world civilization, and the four great inventions are indispensable! Your plan only has paper and a compass, and it will definitely not work!"

"Yes, there must be four great inventions. What is the purpose of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games? It is to show a sense of superiority, and none of the four major inventions is completely unjustifiable!"

"I think porcelain should be displayed, especially blue and white porcelain, it will be beautiful on stage. Besides, Chinese English means porcelain, so how can there be no porcelain?"

Everyone discussed back and forth for more than an hour, and Zhang Ran's plan Chinese character program was temporarily left, and the others were passed.

After discussing Zhang Ran's plan, the team members came up with their own creative plans. Their ideas are varied, and the use of various elements can be said to be everything from jade culture and porcelain to compass, gunpowder, calligraphy, kites, to fireworks with auspicious dragons and phoenixes, terracotta warriors and horses, and tai chi martial arts performances. Among them, Yi Zhongtian put forward a very unique idea to do a reality show of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" on the stage.

However, none of these ideas made Zhang Ran's eyes shine, not that they were bad, but that they were not good enough. These plans may be good for the National Games and the Universiade, but if they are placed in the Beiping Olympics, they can't be watched, especially compared with the Beiping Olympics in Zhang Ran's memory.

Zhang Ran shook his head helplessly: "Director Akira Kurosawa said that you can conquer the whole world, but it is difficult to conquer your hometown. Because everyone is not surprised by that set, it will definitely not be good. Now most of our creative solutions are old-fashioned, things that Chinese know at a glance, including my own. For the Chinese audience, they have watched the party for many years, and they are very disgusted with those old-fashioned and outdated things. It's not that these elements can't be used, but they can't be served so directly, they must be packaged in modern ways, in a word, the techniques and forms must be innovative. I know that innovation is a very difficult thing, and sometimes it is necessary to smash bones and souls to reforge them, but we have no choice, we have to innovate!"

Shen Wei, who had been relatively quiet, stood up: "I have a dance idea. First of all, please take a look at a dance called "Connection Transformation", which is a contact improvisation dance that I choreographed last year. After speaking, Shen Wei handed a USB disk to Zhang Ran and said, "Ma Bo is bothering you to play it!"

Zhang Ran turned off the lights in the conference room, plugged in the USB drive, and clicked play.

On a large curtain is a white canvas, on which a black-clad dancer steps on. The dancer moves, sometimes performing a stretching dance, sometimes prostrate on the drawing paper, sketching black lines with the black gloves on his arms.

The venue was quiet, and all eyes were attracted to the past, dancing and painting with the body, the perfect integration of traditional Chinese painting and dance, the process of dance is the process of painting, especially the intention.

Zhang Ran's eyes widened, this is the dance "Ink" at the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympic Games!

No, this dance is a bit different from "Ink Painting", which depicts auspicious clouds and the sun, while "Connecting and Transforming" depicts a continuous line.

Zhang Ran knew that Shen Wei was the choreographer of the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympic Games "Ink", and knew that he was a master of modern dance, but he didn't know much about this person and had never seen dance outside of "Ink".

In fact, Shen Wei was born into a family of Hunan opera, and before he was attracted to modern dance, he immersed himself in Chinese opera, calligraphy, ink painting, and Western oil painting training. At the age of 19, Shen Wei applied for the Central Academy of Fine Arts, with the second major score, but failed due to poor English scores, so he went south to join the modern dance experimental class of the Guangdong Dance School and embarked on another path. Because of his love for calligraphy and ink, these elements are often present in Shen Wei's dances. For example, the famous work "Shengxi" uses the swimming fish paintings of the Bada Shanren as the stage set, and the monks chanting sutras as the background music.

The dancers who painted with their bodies are gone, and the new dancers are just dancing. Shen Wei signaled: "Zhang Ran can stop, the back is to show his limbs and movements, it has nothing to do with what I want to talk about, don't look at it." ”

Zhang Ran pressed pause, and then turned on the lights in the conference room.

Shen Wei said unhurriedly: "You have already seen the dance just now, that is, people use their bodies to paint on the canvas. This dance was inspired by Chinese landscape painting, and my idea was to have the dancer paint a real ink painting on the canvas. It would be interesting to combine modern dance with traditional Chinese ink painting!"

There was an exclamation from the crowd, and the idea of a white canvas in the middle of the pitch-black stadium was a very interesting idea of a black dancer dancing on the white canvas to draw an ink painting.

Zhang Ran was a little entangled, he didn't want to copy the plan of the 08 Beiping Olympics in his memory, and now Shen Wei took out the idea of ink painting, how to deal with it? He can't say that this idea is not good, as long as he is not blind, he can see how good this idea is, so he can only put it aside for the time being, see if he can take it off later, and said: "A strange and profound beauty of the world, Eastern and Western traditions and innovations come together, this idea is very good, it is the plan I want." ”

Shen Wei's creativity gave inspiration to many people present, and also gave everyone strong confidence, there is still more than a month to go, and they will definitely be able to come up with more and better ideas.

The discussion lasted until 6 p.m., and Zhang Ran announced that today's discussion would end here, and that tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the morning, he would gather here to continue the discussion.

After dinner, Zhang Ran drove to Tiangong Chongcai, although the focus of his work has now shifted to bidding, but the movie can't really be left alone, he can use the evening time to come. When Zhang Ran walked into the studio, Ding Sheng and the special effects artist were discussing the issue of special effects.

Zhang Ran asked about the editing and learned that Ding Sheng had cut out the second version. When Mark Mueller watched "Three Fools", it was a rough cut, with a length of nearly three hours, and now Ding Sheng's cut version is 145 minutes. This length is still too long, and it must be compressed to 120 minutes.

After chatting with Ding Sheng for a while, the two came to the screening room, ready to watch Ding Sheng's edited version. As soon as he sat down, a female staff member brought two cups of coffee, and then gently exited the screening room. (To be continued.) )