Based on the creative concept of "warm realism", the creative team positioned the project "Hunting Crime Picture Book" as love women and social school, and the selection and weaving of cases also depended on these two standards, paying more attention to the topics reflecting women’s living conditions and emotional demands. At the same time, based on the main appeal of women’s perspective, they positioned the core tone of the drama as emotional expression and artistic aesthetics, instead of over-describing the cruelty and blood of the case, they paid more attention to the emotional touch behind the case and increased the freshness and literary sense.
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Editor: Lan Er
Layout: Wang Wei
What is "love women" criminal investigation?
Have a perspective, aesthetics and healing.
The creative inspiration of "Picture Book of Hunting Crime" comes from a survey conducted by the writers’ team. After they learned about the profession of portrait painter, they immediately became interested in this group. This drama tells the story that Shen Yi (JC-T), a talented portraitist, and Du Cheng (Jin Shijia), the captain of the criminal investigation team, have cracked many difficult cases. The drama isThe specific expression of "innovation and change" of Ning Meng Film on the track of suspense short drama series, they tried to find a fresher breakthrough point and more diversified presentation methods to explore more possibilities for the creation of suspense drama..
Under this kind of exploration, Ning Meng Film focused on selecting young teams with stronger creative ability, including using some teams with film creation experience to collide in content creation, and strive to bring some unique temperament and style to the play.
Picture Book of Hunting Crime takes the fast-paced unit drama route, and it pays more attention to novel cutting corners, stories and realistic concerns than serious suspense in solving crimes. From the beginning, Ning Meng Film’s positioning for this drama is"Criminal investigation drama for women", its "love women" choice, not only lies in telling the experiences of female crimes or female victims, but more importantly, it weaves and unfolds stories from the perspective of women, women’s aesthetics and women’s value choices..
The mirror is a person’s doppelganger, and the unit case of "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is just like a mirror image. The female hot topics such as appearance anxiety and gender discrimination in the workplace are once again presented to the audience through their own narrative expressions. The moment when the truth of the case is revealed is shocking, but the hidden feelings behind the story are even more moving.
In the case of the plastic surgery hospital, Shen Yi said to Jiang Ge, the murderer: "Madame Curie represents women’s strength. From your works, I see similar strength, which comes from your talent and ambition, not your appearance"-compared with the present plastic surgery face, Jiang Ge also misses herself who was once plain but bent on conquering the world with her talent. Because of her appearance anxiety, she stepped into the plastic surgery hospital and danced with wolves, and the tragedy began from this moment.
Based on the main appeal of women’s perspective,The creative team positioned the core tone of the series as emotional expression and artistic aesthetics, instead of over-describing the cruelty and blood of the case, it paid more attention to the emotional touch behind the case.At the same time, they also integrate art and famous painting stalks into the story to increase the sense of novelty and literature.
Many other cases are also interspersed with metaphors of famous paintings and marked with their own special symbols. For example, in the case of domestic violence, "Judith Slaughters Heroffney" means that "women can understand women, and women can protect women". The two victims, ex-wife and current girlfriend, joined hands to resist atrocities, and they were responsible for each other even if something happened to them. In this tragic case, the tenderness that they guarded each other slowly overflowed through the screen. "I escaped from him, but I have never escaped." This statement by one of the characters is a torture of the soul of the crime of domestic violence.
It can be clearly seen that in the play, the creative team deliberately put more emphasis on bright light and color, and theyTrying to create a warm and artistic atmosphere, so that these stories linked to reality and social core women’s issues can not only present a tense detection process and unexpected plot reversal, but also convey moving and healing..
Although the creative team is young as a whole, it is very mature in key experience and ability, which also ensures the smoothness and accuracy of the works. In the creative process, the screenwriter team led by senior screenwriter Jia Dongyan provided many novel and wonderful plot settings, and director Zhang Xiaobo, as a producer, gave guidance on the overall style and structure construction. Zhang Yiyun, a senior producer of suspense drama, built a creative team of directors, photographers, fine arts and other majors for this drama, and selected the main actors, while director Xing Jianjun completed various difficult breakthroughs in shooting with very mature experience, which ensured the realization of the stylization of this drama.
Looking for "legend" in reality makes the portrait look good.
"When all efforts to solve the case will come to naught, the portrait artist is the last trump card". According to the observation of the creative team, in addition to the first-line criminal police investigators, there are many unsung heroes with different functions and identities in the police force. The roles of forensic doctor, trace inspector, portrait artist, etc. have excellent professional skills and many little-known legendary experiences, which also bring rich inspiration to the creators.
In order to ensure authenticity and create enough legend,In the stage of script creation, the screenwriter team has done many investigations, read a lot of related books and reports, and even imitated the teaching materials written by portrait experts, in order to ensure the sense of realism and substitution, and at the same time write the tension and charm of the characters..
The audience may think that the portraitist is a bit "fantastic", but the real portraitist is far more magical than the film and television drama. Zhang Xin, one of the eight experts of the Ministry of Public Security, once painted a portrait of the suspect in the silver case to help solve this crime that lasted for more than ten years. Lin Yuhui, a Shandong policeman, helped the FBI draw a portrait of the suspect with extremely vague monitoring screenshots in the murder case of YINGYING ZHANG.The real case and the skill of portrait itself are thrilling enough, so the creation of the play will present moderate fiction and imagination, but it will not be woven out of thin air, but will be based on realistic logic.For example, the artist’s skill of "painting the old at the age of three" presents its complete step process in detail according to the real human anatomy logic and realistic painting logic: first, draw the skull structure of the child through the photos of the child, then draw the skull structure of the adult according to the growth law of the human body, and finally "fill the meat" to complete the facial features structure and skin outline of the adult, thus achieving the effect of "painting the old at the age of three". This not only highlights the high professional charm of the portrait artist, but also makes the "strange skills" of the characters in the play fall to the ground in a scientific and credible state, making it understandable and acceptable to the audience.
These "fantastic" parts of the story are precisely the respect and restoration of the important significance and role of the portrait artist in reality. Through the publicity of the legendary and charming color of the police behind the scenes, the creators also hope to stimulate the young audience’s interest in pursuing. After watching this drama, they have greater interest and willingness to form a deeper understanding of the contemporary people’s police.
Although there are only 20 episodes of Hunting Crime Picture Book, butThe level of detail is quite high. For example, the team drew thousands of portraits of Shen Yi alone.. Portraits are not looking at photos to draw people, but to draw people out of thin air without knowing what the other person looks like, so they can only pursue "likeness" rather than a high degree of similarity. Moreover, Shen Yi in the play is a genius painter, and his portraits are not completely functional, but also have certain aesthetics and artistry. Due to the huge amount of props painting, it is necessary for several painters to work at the same time to complete it, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that all paintings are in a unified style, which belongs to Shen Yi’s style, which is also the difficulty of creation.
The same frequency and resonance of warm realism expression
How many dark spots are folded behind the sun, and whether the hidden corners are always invisible? Campus bullying never stops, AI face-changing fraud comes unexpectedly, and big data no longer infringes on our privacy all the time. These social issues that should not be ignored have never been solved, and how to interweave real problems with cases is also an unavoidable proposition for producers.
Based on Ning Meng’s creative concept of "warm realism", the creative team positioned the project "Hunting Crime Picture Book" as love women and social school, and the selection and weaving of cases also depend on these two standards.In the overall creative process, they will pay more attention to and tend to those topics that reflect the actual living conditions and emotional demands of ordinary people, and integrate thinking about these topics into the creation of cases, integrate the creators’ empathy for social difficulties, and call for more attention, understanding and care.
In the case of burying a corpse in a girl’s playground, two different girls who were not accepted by the group could only accompany each other silently. Who can understand the worries of adolescent girls? "Being different may not be understood, but it should be respected."
In the kidnapping case, the criminal decorated the triangle by himself, and almost crossed the sea, but he was only impersonated because of the college entrance examination, thus becoming an ant who could not touch more possibilities of life. Is his deception really so superb? It is just from his own analysis that "I have never been in your eyes", which is extremely embarrassing.
When Chen Zhou, the big BOSS and technical manipulator behind the scenes, surfaced, Shen Yi, on behalf of the general audience, issued a soul cry for big data invading privacy: "Who deprived us of the right to refuse, the public never had a choice."
Although the setting style of "Picture Book of Hunting Crime" is artistic and classical from the unique perspective of imitating the portrait artist, the core is actually the opposite of scientific and technological sense and hardcore direction, aiming at highlighting the perception and function of "people".The implied expression in this play is: No matter how advanced the technology is, it can’t replace the human brain’s insight into complex human nature and subtleties.Including the composition and light color of the play, it also pursues a style similar to classical oil painting, that is, it strives to seek the unity of this internal expression and external form.
The novel portrait artist’s design, the hot social reality connection, the innovative image presentation form based on female perspective and aesthetics, coupled with rigorous and meticulous polishing, all kinds of reasons have jointly promoted the success of the small-scale drama "Hunting Crime Picture Book", and the expression that the creative team tried hard to make in it has especially won the audience’s perception beyond expectations.Young audiences have a strong empathy and discussion around the expression of values, emotions and art presented in the play, and this kind of common frequency and resonance may be the greatest recognition of Hunting Crime Picture Book..
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