Produced by Shanghai Tencent Penguin Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd. and Beijing Quku Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., Wuxi Quku was jointly produced by Yunyun Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. and Yaolai Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., supervised by Duan Long, jointly directed by Fei Yuzhu and Chen Zhoufei, starring Duan Long and Dapeng, especially starring Zeng Mei Hui Zi, and starring Zheng Chuyi, Zhang Guoqiang, Xing Jiadong and Vivienne Liu, the online drama "Double Detective" was recently held in Beijing. The audience took the lead in following the footsteps of the people in the play and returned to the frozen northeastern border town in the early 1990s. Under the impact of extremely audio-visual images, they felt the rough and realistic film texture and witnessed the complexity of human nature and the power of justice in the snowy field.
Breakthrough and innovation in creating aesthetics of domestic online drama
"Double Detective" tells the story that Li Huiyan (played by Duan Long), a criminal policeman in Beijing, came to Shuangta, a small town in northeast China, because of a kidnapping case. By coincidence, he met with an undertaker (played by Dapeng) who came to find out the truth about his father’s murder. The two were accidentally involved in a story that spanned 30 years. Night closes and day covers. In a frozen city standing in the north, the whole play takes twelve days and nights to reveal a secret about human nature to the audience.
At first glance, the northeast border town of ice and snow is full of bleak things: the gray sky, knee-deep snow, dry branches trembling in the cold wind, speeding cars on the national highway, Li Huiyan’s confrontation and travel around the snowfield, towering watchtowers, mysterious ancient Chinese characters, and the title of "Double Detective" has taken the lead, bringing the audience back to the Twin Towers of the Northeast town in the 1990s with a chilling atmosphere with regional characteristics.
"Double Detective" adopts a contrasting color scheme, with white snow, black buildings, land and shadows, bright red blood and flame making the visual presentation extremely impactful; At the same time, the outline of life in the city is particularly delicate. The 28 th bicycle, phonograph film, low and shabby houses in old Beijing, and small restaurants with simple environment are full of life fireworks. The delicate lens language makes Double Detective, as a network drama with criminal investigation theme, have the texture of a film, and the audio-visual aesthetics has reached a new level, which also brings the audience a brand-new audio-visual experience of watching drama on the big screen with mobile phones.
The strength of the original team of the gold medal filmmaker is assembled.
As the production company of this drama, Fun Cool Film and Television takes "artisan spirit" as the core and quality as the guarantee, and develops high-quality crime suspense movies and high-level online drama projects. The plot setting is meticulous, the main creative role is broken, and the production team is also top-notch. Together, they create ingenuity to escort. Duan Long, the winner of the film, is the chief producer, and Xiao Gancao, the chief producer, once worked as the producer and planner of the films "Blizzard Coming" and "White Fireworks" and other suspense crimes. The two "lineages" of the production team are rich in details.
This time, "Double Detective" started the original production team of the film "Blizzard is Coming" to protect the texture of the drama. The photography director Cai Tao won the Best Documentary at Busan International Film Festival and the Best Photography Award at China Documentary Academy for his film "Twenty-two". The shooting style is self-contained, and the technique is mature and creative. Lu Dong, the artistic director, was once the production designer of the films Auld Lang Syne, Lonely Lost, I 11, chongqing blues and Hoh Xil, and his works were unanimously recognized and praised by the industry in terms of overall aesthetics. Li Hua, who once served as the styling director of the films The Party at South Station, Moses on the Plain, mountains may depart, and Suddenly Cracked and Silent, can also be said to be tailor-made in the styling design of this drama. Double Exploration is her second collaboration with Duan Long, and this time the whole crew went to the deep mountains and snowy forests in the northeast, and the styling should "meet" such an environment. The creative team of "Double Detective" arranged the shooting schedule with the meticulous degree of the film. According to director Chen Zhoufei, the 10-day episode schedule gave the creative team enough time to polish each shot. At the scene of the film viewing, director Fei Yuzhu further explained, "In order to ensure the true and grounded documentary style of Double Detective, 90% of the whole drama was filmed with hand-held photography, emphasizing a sense of sight. “
Double-line parallel series figure group image
Double Exploration adopts a parallel narrative structure. Interpol Li Huiyan came to the Twin Towers from Beijing to trace the disappearance of a female student, journey to the south; The undertaker traveled to the Twin Towers alone to investigate the truth of his father’s death; Two strangers meet again, and two seemingly unrelated cases have some kind of link because of the mysterious "inscription". The mysterious man hiding in the dark is waiting for his "medicine", and the charming KTV proprietress tries her best to deal with it. At the film festival, producer and starring Duan Long explained the origin of the title of Double Detective, bluntly saying that "naming the work is a process of racking their brains for the creators, and double detective also has multiple meanings, which are not only two people exploring cases and two clues, but also an extension of the name of Twin Towers. “
In just three episodes, "Double Detective" closely arranged scattered clues, at the same time, it made Beijing have contact with the two cities of Twin Towers, and at the same time, it made Li Huiyan, Zhou You, Wu Jina, Bai Shizhou and other characters come alive quickly. When the media here recognized that Fan Xiaoyuan, a missing female student, was actually with Bai Shizhou, the murderer who killed her father, and the little girl regarded him as the only reliance, she could almost hear the pumping and comments from the seats. How to define people’s good and evil, and how to achieve justice, has firmly hung the appetite of the media present here.
Go all out to achieve type breakthrough
"Double Detective" has been highly anticipated since it started shooting. For the creative team, the shooting process was hard and unforgettable. The new identity of producer makes Duan Long pay attention to his own performance and concentrate on the overall drama quality. At the same time, he compared filming to "the process of realizing dreams", and all the creative workers went all out to hope to be "closer to their dreams".
Wherever the lens goes, it is covered with white snow. In addition, the complexity of the case spanning 30 years, the cruelty of the means, the physical coldness and the inner chill have made Double Detective form a unique aesthetic feature. "Cold" has become a distinctive label, and it has also brought greater difficulties to the filming team. Chen Ying, the producer of the drama, recalled that Yanji, where it will snow heavily in winter, was chosen as the scene in order to realize the insistence of the creators of Double Detective on documentary aesthetic style. Although the climate is extremely cold and harsh, this creation made her see the strength of the team and feel the cohesion.
In the production special of live broadcast, the main creative team tried to show the best effect for each shot, "lively" and "with traces of life", and struggled repeatedly in the ice and snow. Everyone hoped to achieve a genre breakthrough through this work. Producer wei li said that it was once his dream to be a criminal police officer, and Double Detective tells the story of police officers who are brave in difficulties and hardships to catch the murderer and seek the truth under extremely harsh conditions. "Making movies is like dreaming, and Double Detective has also fulfilled my dream to some extent".
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