"Now briefly summarize the overall design of the opening ceremony in the past period, so that director Lin Yuquan, who participated in our meeting for the first time, has an understanding of the overall situation, first of all, the process is divided into four parts, welcome ceremony, theatrical performance, entrance ceremony, lighting the flame, there are a total of four links in the welcome ceremony, namely the opening countdown, welcome fireworks, dream five elements, national flag entry, and the theatrical performance is in the way of the picture scroll unfolding throughout, Divided into the splendid civilization representing the ancient Chinese traditional culture and the glorious era of embodying the happy life of people in the new era, the entrance ceremony is after the athletes enter, the opening of the Olympic Games is announced by the chairman, and the final lighting of the flame is expected to be carried out by 8 athletes on behalf of the flag holding the Olympic flag, and then solemnly sworn in front of the five-ring flag, and then 8 outstanding athletes hold the torch high for the final relay, and finally light the flame. Zhang Jigang said slowly.

Lin Yuquan listened attentively, and gradually sketched out the details of the process of the entire opening ceremony in his mind, and then filled in every bit of paint that made up the picture scroll.

"The following specific discussion of each link has been determined program, the welcome ceremony opening countdown program should not have any problems, by 2008 actors and singing, Director Lin, the above instrument is the ancient percussion instrument of our country, a total of 2008, forming a phalanx, by 2008 actors, in the process of beating, the white lights on the line in turn, combined with the countdown number, the audience shouted the countdown with the change of numbers. Finally, at eight o'clock in the evening, the actors chanted in unison, "It's fun to have friends from afar." ”

Zhang Jigang handed Lin Yuquan a photo as he spoke. Above is a rehearsal for the actors.

Lin Yuquan nodded, the 2008 Zun Tie undoubtedly corresponds to 2008, and such a huge performance formation is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. So he asked, "Director Zhang, is the reel in the photo made from an ancient musical instrument?"

"It's not. The photo is for rehearsals, and the shape of a real ancient instrument is very similar to a small jar or fire bowl, which is a rare instrument, but the one in our opening ceremony is not a real ancient instrument. Considering the overall shape of the 缶 and the beauty of the 缶 array, our 缶 is designed in accordance with the previously unearthed national treasure-level cultural relics, the Warring States "Zeng Hou Yi Bronze Jian", uh. Speaking of this, Zhang Jigang paused, rummaged in the Wen Jiàn folder in front of him for a while, and quickly took out two photos and handed them to Lin Yuquan: "This is the shape, the structure is more complex, the one is Zeng Hou Yi Bronze Jian, and the other is made by the Arts and Crafts Company." ”

Lin Yuquan had a smile on his face. No matter what kind of silk it is, it looks like it looks like it's simple and majestic. Putting down the photo, he then asked tirelessly, "Is there a video and sound effect of the tapping?" ”

Since he participated in the meeting, Lin Yuquan did not want to just go through the motions, but entered his own work rhythm, hoping to help the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

"Yes, Fan Yue. You show Director Lin the video. Zhang Jigang turned his head and said to an elegant-looking middle-aged man beside him, not bored by Lin Yuquan's repeated questions. The so-called fame is nothing, he and everyone in the main creative team wish that Lin Yuquan could devote himself wholeheartedly and give his own opinions, so what is the matter of delaying a little time, for a long time in the past, they have always taken the trouble to overturn the original idea and redesign, as if there is no end.

The middle-aged man he called Fan Yue is a member of the core creative team of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and he is the leading stage design master and stage director in China.

"Okay." Fan Yue skillfully operated the laptop in front of him, found the video of the strike, clicked to play, and pointed the computer screen in the direction of Lin Yuquan's gaze.

In the video, a huge rope was placed on the concrete floor, and a staff member wearing white short sleeves held a prop in his hand to demonstrate the action of hitting the rope.

Lin Yuquan's mind naturally began to imagine the situation of 2008 actors hitting at the same time, and I have to say that such a scene is really spectacular.

Later, Fan Yue played a video of the rehearsal staff using drums instead of beating, watching the neat movements of dozens of people on the screen and the passionate drum sound from the video, the scene was indeed as spectacular as imagined.

It is not difficult to imagine what kind of shock it will bring to the audience when such a curtain appears at the opening ceremony.

If combined with that rather creative idea, the lighting effect of the countdown on the scene is presented, and the array is indeed a particularly amazing opening.

However, Lin Yuquan frowned, the action of striking is too monotonous, and the sound effect of the overly monotonous striking action is not outstanding.

If you look at it according to Lin Yuquan's thoughts, such a string array is undoubtedly unqualified, giving people the feeling that it is just a simple prop, and it does not show the greatest charm of the thread as a musical instrument, nor does it bring a simple and desolate atmosphere, although the visual effect is beautiful, but it is flashy.

Since it is a grand event that intends to show the charm of ancient Chinese traditional culture to the world, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games should not be just a formality in any case.

How can it be improved? The charm of ancient Chinese musical instruments, Lin Yuquan naturally thought of the world of cultivators in his mind, there were too many mortal dynasties in the world of cultivators, and there were also splendid musical instrument civilizations in those dynasties, and when cultivators traveled to the mainland, they had seen many musical instruments similar to the array. And the shocking musical effect it presents is even more breathtaking, not to mention copying, can it show that sound effect to the greatest extent?

If you can. It must have been an amazing sight! Lin Yuquan thought excitedly in his heart, and then said without thinking: "Is there a reed in the operation center?" ”

"Reed? Oh, we don't have it here, Rain Spring, do you have any ideas? Zhang Yi immediately asked, with his understanding of Lin Yuquan, he knew that Lin Yuquan definitely didn't want to see Lin Yuquan because he was curious.

"Hmm." Lin Yuquan nodded. Facing everyone's gaze, he said calmly: "The idea of the array is very good. However, in my opinion, in addition to the uniform movements and excellent visual effects, there are big problems in the sound effect, and we all know that the reed is an ancient Chinese musical instrument, free of its musical charm. Although our current 缶線 is no longer a real musical instrument, since it is called 缶線線級, we should bring music with ancient charm to the audience, so that people all over the world can feel the charm of ancient Chinese music. I didn't feel any of the charm of ancient music when I hit the action in the video, so I wanted to try to see if there was a better way to hit and present a better musical effect. ”

"Director Lin is high, on the array. We thought more about the stage performance, not that we didn't pay attention to the acoustics of the percussion, but that the instrument was too old for this generation. We don't know anything about how the instrument is played, and we can't bring out that quaint musical feel. Chen Qigang sighed and said, as the chief designer of music, he was naturally not satisfied with the simple sound effect, but as he said, for how to improve. He is powerless.

Indeed, the instrument and the way it is struck have long since been cut off with history. But I still want to give it a try, no matter what the result is. Lin Yuquan said.

"Yuquan, I support your idea, in this way, if you are not in the operation center, it is better for you and Qigang to go to our warehouse where the props are stored tomorrow and test your idea there." Zhang Yi said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll trouble Mr. Chen tomorrow." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

"No, everyone wants to make the opening ceremony of the Olympics more exciting." Chen Qigang smiled gently.

"Okay, I'll continue to introduce the specific situation of the song link, welcome the fireworks, Director Lin, you look at the projection screen, our idea is to set up a fireworks display position in the National Stadium, and colorful fireworks will bloom along the north-south axis of Kyoto, showing 29 huge footprints symbolizing the 29th Olympic Games." While Zhang Jigang was speaking, a demonstration of the effects of various fireworks was displayed on the projector screen.

"Beautiful, very wonderful idea, it's not easy to achieve this!" Lin Yuquan praised that if the idea of fireworks is realized, then there is no doubt that there will be a grand fireworks feast that is unique in the world, especially the idea of the huge footprints is really great in his opinion, imagine that the dark underground, looking from the sky, one after another footprints appear one after another, as if a giant is stepping forward, how amazing the scene is.

"Yes, it's not easy to achieve, but with Lao Cai here, it must not be a problem." Zhang Jigang said.

"That's right, Mr. Cai's experience and technical strength in this area are unmatched." Lin Yuquan looked at a spirited old man with a flat head and smiled, the old man's surname is Cai Mingguoqiang, he is one of the most eye-catching Chinese artists in the world in the past ten years, in 1999, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale, becoming the first artist in the Chinese cultural circle to win this award in the world, the award is also the highest award for Chinese art in the international exhibition, and he also served as the chief designer of the fireworks show at the 2001 Shanghai APEC Conference.

"Ha, I'm not as good as you say, the fireworks display at the opening ceremony of this Olympics is the most difficult I've encountered so far, and I can only say do my best to do it well." Cai Guoqiang shook his head.

"It's reassuring to have your words, let's see the effect of fireworks, is there anything that needs to be improved"

With the progress of the meeting, Lin Yuquan again and again sighed that the stage visual effects presented by many first-class artists and engineering technology and production personnel at home and abroad will indeed be a wonderful feast, which is very interesting in the form of unfolding and running through the picture scroll, and there are wonderful programs emerging in an endless stream during the period, and the beautiful effect of the program is breathtaking.

"This performance of Taijitu is more similar to the Rope Array. It's all a huge scene to win, and according to the effect display of the design, it can indeed achieve this purpose. The fit between the concept of nature and Tai Chi is also exquisite, but I still think that we should abandon the ideas and ideas instilled in it, and instead directly present the effect of the Yin and Yang Tai Chi diagram, and then with a little cloud and mist, first of all, the Yin and Yang Tai Chi diagram itself contains the natural meaning of all things, and the most important thing is that this is the essence of Tai Chi, and only in this way can we show the world the purest Chinese culture of Tai Chi. Lin Yuquan said slowly.

"Rain springs. I understand what you mean, the main thing is that our picture scroll runs through the whole theatrical performance. But if you change the Yin and Yang Taiji diagram to the table as you said, then the role of the picture scroll in the Taijiquan performance will not be prominent, and it will even be dispensable. Zhang Yi hesitated.

"I know, but it's the same as when we make movies. Pay too much attention to the form, the audience will not really like the movie, the audience likes a very pure intuitive feeling, happy is happy, sad is sad, fear is fear, the most afraid is nondescript, in my opinion, presenting the most essential Tai Chi charm is what we should do, at least I will do that. Lin Yuquan said insistently.

"I agree with Director Lin's opinion that we join the children to paint in the picture scroll. Although the theme of nature is simplified, it distracts the audience's attention and affects the beauty of the Tai Chi performance. When the audience watches this Tai Chi performance, they definitely want to see the complete Tai Chi mystical display, not something that we have imposed on us. Cheng Xiaodong said that he is also a director, so he naturally understands what Lin Yuquan said.

"Well, I'm in favor of that, the children draw this part in the scroll. There's really no need to add it, but it's best if we can do a demonstration of the effect of the Yin and Yang Taiji diagram first. It is better to choose after comparison. Chen Weiya said.

"Lao Chen's idea is good, then let's do a demonstration of the effect of the Yin and Yang Taiji diagram first, and then have a meeting to discuss." Zhang Yi said that he actually hopes to come up with the most true Taijiquan, which is also the reason why he previously set the Taijiquan expert Coach Wang Erping to create Taijiquan, but as the chief director of the opening ceremony, he had to consider the integrity of the literary performance, which made him hesitate.

"Okay." "No problem." "It's for the best." Everyone agreed.

Lin Yuquan also nodded and asked, "Who are the people who perform Taijiquan?" ”

"In front of the sand curtain separated by a small scale of solo performances are 11 domestic Tai Chi masters, one of whom is the world champion, Wang Erping, the head coach of the Guang * Dong Wushu Team Taijiquan, and the remaining 10 are national champions, of which 9 are from the Guangdong * Dong Wushu Team, including 5 women and 4 men, and one male team member from Shaanxi * West. The members of the 1,000-person Tai Chi performance in the back are from the Tagou Martial Arts School of Shaolin Temple. Zhang Yi said.

Lin Yuquan sighed in his heart, according to his inner thoughts, he hoped to show the true meaning of Taiji, but now it seems that it cannot be realized, because there is no real Taijiquan practitioner among the performers, if he can, he most wants to find the people who may have inherited the essence of Taijiquan in Wen* County, the birthplace of Taijiquan, and perform on the stage of the opening ceremony, even if the size of their personnel is not as spectacular as the current Taijiquan scene of thousands of people, but both the meaning and the real charm of Taijiquan are incomparable.

However, it can only be imagined, it seems that they have never performed at a large-scale event in recent years, no matter what the reason is, but it fully shows that his idea is just delusional and not practical.

In fact, if you think about it, Zhang Yi and others can't think of this, if it was feasible, they would have done it a long time ago.

"Is there a video of them rehearsing?" No matter how unwilling he was in his heart, Lin Yuquan could only let go of this delusion and asked instead.

"No, the rehearsal of the Thousand People Tai Chi Formation only started some time ago, and we didn't record Coach Wang's boxing practice." Chen Weiya said.

"So where are they rehearsing, I want to go over and see how they rehearse." Lin Yuquan asked.

"In the Daxing rehearsal room, in this way, Yuquan, do you have time the day after tomorrow, and then we will go over to watch the specific rehearsal situation together? In fact, I have long wanted you to come over to see if the Taijiquan performance needs to be improved, after all, our group of people except for Director Cheng, are all laymen, for Taijiquan only know that it is not good-looking, the movements are not neat, and the boxing arrangement is reasonable but I don't know anything, in this regard, you are the authority and have the most right to speak. Zhang Yi said with a smile on his face.

"Yes, Director Lin, the fighting actions you presented in the movie have amazed audiences all over the world, and you will check it, I believe that our Tai Chi performance will definitely become more exciting, and in terms of aerial stunts, Director Lin, you will also give me more advice, I have always felt that the action choreography in some places is not very good." Cheng Xiaodong also laughed and said that although Lin Yuquan is just his junior in terms of martial arts instruction, it is an indisputable fact that Lin Yuquan is better than him because of the blue.

"Now I understand what Mr. Cai felt just now, whew, and instantly feel that my responsibility is as heavy as Mount Tai." Lin Yuquan smiled.

"Iron shoulders carry heavy burdens, and those who can do it serve their labor! We're sure you can do it well. Zhang Yi said with a smile.

"So it's stressful, and like Mr. Cai, I can only say that I do my best." Lin Yuquan shook his head, looked at Zhang Yi and said, "Will you go the day after tomorrow?" Well, no problem, let's go and see it together when the time comes. ”

Tai Chi came to an end, the meeting continued, and Lin Yuquan also proposed his own ideas from time to time.

"The performance of the opera is not very outstanding, and the puppet performance is not necessary, after all, this is not a small teahouse performance, the huge stadium, the audience can not see what the puppet looks like, even if the audience in front of the TV can only see the appearance of the puppet, but can not quietly appreciate the charm of the real puppet performance"

"Why didn't the Olympic mascot Fuwa make an appearance? Now that Fuwa is well-known in China and the world, there must be too many people who want to see Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini five lovely Fuwa appear. ”

"Although the singing of the theme song does not account for a large proportion of the entire opening ceremony performance, the influence of the theme song on an Olympic Games is very important."

In the process of the meeting, Lin Yuquan also fully realized the heavy work of the opening ceremony, during which the stage art, costumes, props, lighting, sound, fireworks, ground, and aerial stunts all need to be repeatedly considered.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, everyone went out for a brief dinner, and then returned to the conference room, and the discussion continued until ten o'clock, and then the meeting was barely over.

In the coming period, all the main creative staff will devote themselves to the implementation of new ideas and solutions until the next meeting overturns them again, and the cycle repeats itself over and over again, and this is done only to present the best possible opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Maybe the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games presented in front of the audience is only a few hours, but if you want to make the opening ceremony wonderful, behind it is the hard work of tens of thousands of people for several years, Lin Yuquan feels very deeply, because he himself is making movies, and he clearly knows what kind of hard work and blood and sweat of the shooting team is condensed behind the shining movies on the screen.

"Senior, your energy is too strong, you really work like they say every day." Lin Yuquan looked at Zhang Yi with admiration, it was indeed a little unimaginable, although he himself had the energy to adhere to this kind of process, but such a boring life was not something he didn't like.

"Almost, I'm used to it, and I won't feel so hard if I get used to it." Zhang Yi said with a smile.

"You're amazing!" Lin Yuquan gave a thumbs up.

"Let's go, let's find a place to have supper, and by the way, I want to know how you think about the gap between Hollywood movies and domestic movies after you have made Hollywood movies." Zhang Yi put down what he was doing and said.

"Good! I can't ask for it. Lin Yuquan smiled and nodded.

Just as the two were chatting, someone in a villa in the same Kyoto Kiyokawa Wanchun Garden fell into distress. (To be continued) R655