We are the behind-the-scenes production of Champions

Creative background

After reading the information of Teacher Wang Qingguang of the National Table Tennis Zhengding Training Base, Ding Ning, the director and screenwriter of "We Are the Champions", and Jin Ge, the director, discovered that the entire training base was made up of Wang Qingguang, a rural physical education teacher, established it on his own, and more than a dozen world champions came out of this base. So Ding Ning and Jin Ge personally went to Zhengding to interview Wang Qingguang, and then decided to make Wang Qingguang's story into a movie.

Actor Selection

In terms of actor selection, because the film requires high requirements for child actors, they must be able to act and complete the table tennis actions specified in the script. After discussions between the main creators of the film, the actor and deputy director went to the table tennis training base to select among young table tennis players.

The shooting process

During the shooting, Ding Ning asked the photographer Zou Qin to focus on moving lenses, panoramic shots, and close-up shots when writing the drama; during the competition scenes, the recording style and multi-camera became the dominant style Thought. In terms of art setting, Ding Ning asked the art teacher to set different tones according to different scenes. For example, the door frames in Huangcun were mainly green, while in Hengyi they were mainly blue, and the provincial gymnasium should be in harmony with the texture of the village. distinguish. In terms of clothing, Ding Ning adopted a single solid color clothing. In the recording, in addition to narration, Ding Ning also used a large number of game animations.