"Can she still control her own life when her life suddenly encounters waves?"
He Xu, one of the heroines, glanced around, and her eyes were somewhat blurred and mysterious, which immediately filled the suspense of Don’t provoke the white dove.
This original emotional suspense short play, produced by Mango TV and Damang Plan and produced by Wuyuan Culture, officially landed on Mango TV on December 31st. The play begins with the meeting of three strange women in an emotional support group, telling the story that everyone has their own difficulties that they are eager to talk about but have to hide. From the perspective of women, the whole drama focuses on the hot topics of women’s emotional demands, and on the basis of in-depth analysis of contemporary women’s emotional difficulties, it properly incorporates rich suspense elements, so that the audience can feel the tense and exciting story atmosphere in the intricate interweaving of lies and truth.
"Don’t provoke the white dove" provides a new idea for broadening the expression boundary of short plays from three levels. The drama creatively presents three typical contemporary urban women through the form of mutual aid meeting, and reshapes the female spirit; With a unique image style, she tells women’s secrets in suspense; With the exploration of high-quality products, we try to add a new model to the short play market.
In the innovative form of mutual aid association,
Present three typical contemporary urban women
Combining social hot topics, the whole drama extracts three typical figures of contemporary urban women, creatively constructs the inextricable connection of three "problem women" in the form of women’s emotional support association, and constantly reverses, which arouses the audience’s curiosity to explore the truth behind the heavy fog.
A woman who disdains love and is paranoid and sensitive. The daily life of the new media editor dove is either working while drinking coffee in the bookstore or drinking in the bar. Unspeakably hurt, she suffered from serious social obstacles, so that she often clashed with the opposite sex in bars. However, under the tough exterior, the dove is sensitive and fragile. The encounter between Yu Bookstore and Guo Tian has caused ripples in her quiet life. Guo Tian’s romance and tenderness quickly melted the frozen heart of the dove. In the drizzling rain, in the shimmering tent, Guo Tian’s sudden confession made the dove taste the sweetness of love at once. However, before she could promise Guo Tian’s pursuit, the man disappeared into her life like into thin air. How can she find her missing boyfriend and uncover the truth?
A woman who is loyal to love without a life plan. He Xu, who is preparing to study abroad, like most young people, "taking one step and counting one step" is her life plan. However, the unexpected discovery of her boyfriend Su Jin’s infidelity broke He Xu’s original beautiful imagination of love and made her lose control of her life. She dared not force Su Jin to tell the truth, but followed Su Jin’s cheating partner and even dressed herself according to her taste. Even so, He Xu still failed to save Su Jin’s heart. Will He Xu break out in silence, or will he keep going?
An elegant, intellectual and understanding woman. Li Li, a 43-year-old dance teacher, is cheerful and well-maintained. She seems to be only in her thirties. In the eyes of students and colleagues, she has always been a goddess. Little known is that in family life, she also faces the same dilemma as other middle-aged women. The daughter who went to college was unwilling to share anything with her, which made her very upset. Once after work, Li Li accidentally discovered that her daughter Shuang Lee was harassed by her male classmates. My daughter didn’t mention anything about it. What measures will she take if she is in a hurry?
Three women came to the emotional support meeting with their own confusion. They seemed to know each other, but they kept the vigilance of strangers. This made the audience wonder whether their meeting was a coincidence or an ulterior motive. Judging from the four episodes currently broadcast, the relationship between the three heroines with different personalities is mysterious and full of suspense, and their stories are confusing and exciting.
With a unique image style,
Tell women’s secrets in suspense
In addition to the refreshing female image, the image of Don’t Mess with the Dove is also quite bright. The tone, light, scenery and editing in the play are all aimed at enhancing the suspense of the story and setting off the inner feelings of the characters.
Although Wen Jing, the director of the play, is a new female directors in the film and television circle, she has been in the industry for more than ten years and has accumulated rich experience in film and television production in China and the United States. She has dabbled in film and television works, variety shows, MVs and advertisements, and is especially good at female subjects. The play is not limited by the aesthetics of its previous works, but tries a rich and changeable audio-visual language, which just creates a suspenseful atmosphere for the whole play.
The interior layout of the Emotional Support Association is mainly in cool colors such as gray, white, blue and black. Every woman who participates in a mutual aid meeting is stating all kinds of misfortunes and life puzzles she has encountered. The cool colors in the room create a depressing atmosphere, which vividly shows the true state of every woman’s heart. The lens shows the mood of the character through the contrast between light and dark. In the first episode, He Xu and Su Jingang met, and the light was bright when they shared food at the dinner table. When she found Su Jin cheating, lying in bed with her mobile phone in her head, the light was gloomy. This contrast between light and shade, on the one hand, shows that He Xu misses the good times when he just fell in love with Su Jin; On the other hand, it implies that He Xu, who found Su Jin cheating, is suffering.
"Don’t mess with the white dove" has several scenes where women sit together and reveal their feelings, but the dialogue scene is not easy to shoot. If you just use the front and back shots, the audience will feel bored. In order to make the dialogue look rich and interesting, the scenes of Don’t Mess with the Dove quickly switch between different scenes. For example, in the first episode, He Xu used various scenes such as big close-ups, close-ups, close-ups and panoramas when telling his own story. This practice not only corresponds to the ups and downs of He Xu’s heart, but also reflects the mood of other women at this time. The application of close-ups for many times brings out the true psychological state of He Xu by strengthening her emotion. When she finished telling a story, a woman next to her asked her who the person mentioned in the joke was, but she didn’t answer. Here the camera gives a close-up of He Xu’s side face, and the expression on her face is elusive, showing a tense suspense atmosphere.
The proper use of interludes also enriches the dialogue content of the series and increases the suspense. How to tell her own experiences, instead of explaining them in a sequential way, put these past plots into her dialogue with women in the fraternity. At the same time, He Xu tells the story of her boyfriend Su Jin’s infidelity and is cut into the scene where she chats with other women. This unsynchronized handling of audio and video adds a touch of psychological realism and uncertainty. In addition, some special shots also play a suggestive and symbolic role, bringing a sense of tension to the audience. For example, at the end of the first episode, He Xu smiled evilly, and the picture suddenly turned black, but the voice was a line of Su Jin: "He Xu, what are you doing?" This special shot triggered the audience’s urgent psychology of pursuing the drama.
Director Wen Jing was born in a regular class, and the professional training of Chinese and American film and television made her have a high aesthetic pursuit and have her own control over the level of the picture. As a result, the suspense created by the short play "has an inner flavor." If the follow-up story remains high-energy, the matching image language will follow, which may form a clear stream of short drama circles.
Exquisite exploration short play,
Trying to add a new model to the short play market.
Compared with online dramas and online movies, short plays will enter the first year in 2020. It is a new form of content, and most people who like it are young people of lower age. Therefore, to some extent, short plays are the inevitable product of the change of young audience’s life rhythm and consumption habits. Today, with the explosion of information and the explosive development of short videos, the audience has no patience to watch lengthy dramas. The length of 12 episodes of short plays has become a new incision for telling short, flat and fast stories. In fact, many big dramas in the drama market try to be universal, but the audience has different tastes and is prone to bad endings. The short play only needs to be penetrated in a subdivision type to serve a certain circle of users.
For the video platform, short plays can reflect its distinctive differentiated content. For example, the content of Youku’s short plays focuses on comedy topics, Tencent’s videos tend to be refined, bilibili likes funny brains, and Aauto Quicker loves urban costumes more … Each platform has its own emphasis. But for audiences with diverse needs, this makes them unable to be satisfied on a single platform. At this point, Mango TV, as one of the important players of the integrated video platform, can better satisfy the audience’s preferences with its diversified content. As an important development track of Mango TV, "Chinese video short play" also inherits the temperament of its diversified content.
For Mango TV, the layout sketch has become the new engine of the platform’s "traffic moat" and "new traffic growth pole". In 2019, based on the content layout, user needs and advertising development, the business department "Damang Plan Studio" has now been upgraded to the first-level strategic department of Mango TV. At present, the "Damang Project Studio" covers three parts of business: micro-short drama, light variety show and creator, and short drama occupies a large volume of the department. Mango TV has a wide demand for short drama types, including costume, city, suspense, emotion, light joy, pure sweet series and so on.
The five-element culture, which has been deeply cultivated in suspense category for many years, has found the new demand point of Mango TV in short plays. Different from many players who entered the drama chaos in the past, they preferred sweet pets and IP adaptation. Don’t provoke the white dove, which was launched by Wuyuan Culture this time, actively explored the aesthetic taste and cultural needs of young people, added a strong suspense atmosphere on the basis of delicate female emotions with small and beautiful original stories, and provided multiple guarantees for the quality of the short drama with hard-core audio-visual language, and also tried to add a new model for the short drama market.
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