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Wang Guoping and his six gold medals

Author: Ye Juelin

I have known Wang Guoping for 15 years. At that time, we were both students in the "Film and Television Directing Class" of Shanghai Nanshi Art School. He was a small man with an introverted personality and was poor at talking. No one expected that he would one day be "outstanding" in the future. However, times have changed, and today Wang Guoping has become a well-known MTV director in Shanghai and even across the country. He has won 6 gold medals in the four China MTV competitions and is the "four consecutive champions". This has forced the authorities in the music and television industry to His success and intelligence cast a special spotlight on him.

Now, Wang Guoping, who has shot nearly 200 MTV songs, has become famous. Late one night before the Spring Festival this year, after a busy day, he finally had time to accept my interview. From the hardships he described in detail, I read many stories behind the six gold medals, and also learned about the joys and sorrows of MTV filming and production.

Zhang Haidi became a beautiful singer

In the winter of 1993, Wang Guoping went to Beijing to submit his newly completed MTV "That's Not the Raindrops Outside the Window" for review. This is a story about the relationship between a disabled girl and an old musician. The whole film is blended with scenes, and the girl played by Shanghai singer Wu Huimin is particularly outstanding. Meng Xin, the female director of the CCTV Arts Channel, praised the film after watching it. While she was talking, the shadow of Zhang Haidi suddenly popped up in her mind. She said that in the past, when we promoted Zhang Haidi, we used positive reports and the form was relatively straightforward. If we change the angle, use Creative thinking and MTV to show her fight against the disease will definitely be welcomed by the audience. Unexpectedly, this idea was exactly what Wang Ping wanted. The two hit it off and the idea was born.

At this time, Zhang Haidi was working with composer Yu Zhiqiang in Hangzhou to produce the second audio tape "My Dream". Wang Guoping hurried back to Shanghai and found Zhang Haidi through Yu Zhiqiang. Zhang Haidi was very excited after hearing the idea, and immediately agreed to help her fund the filming, saying it was to realize one of her dreams. And Wang Guoping said: "I want to make you a beautiful star!"

At this time, there were only two weeks before the deadline for the "First China MTV Competition", and the temperature in Shanghai had dropped to 0 Below the level, Zhang Haidi hurried to Shanghai again and entered the recording studio with Wang Guoping. Wang Guoping always wanted to be different from others in shooting. His mind couldn't rest for a moment, and he quickly found the symbol, which was to use the rising sun and the girl's ballet to form the main visual elements of MTV. He ingeniously used the clock to symbolize time, the sea to symbolize space, the sun to symbolize life, and the windmill to symbolize the movement of life, thus showing that Zhang Haidi’s spirit can not only transcend time and space, but also give the entire picture a great visual impact. Impact, finally, the refreshing MTV "Dreams in a Wheelchair" was born, which won the gold medal and the best photography award at the "First China MTV Competition".

Since then, Zhang Haidi’s image as a singer has entered thousands of households through the screen. Wang Guoping's other MTV song "Passing Youth" also won the gold medal. The film was shot in only half a day, with an investment of less than 10,000 yuan. The female singer Zhang Qing in the film was only 16 years old at the time.

Li Shuangjiang ushered in a second spring

Zhang Haidi's success amazed Li Shuangjiang, who was a judge of the "First China MTV Competition". He was deeply impressed by Wang Guoping's artistic talent. He was impressed and called him "China's most outstanding MTV director". Li Shuangjiang originally thought that filming MTV was a matter for handsome men and beautiful women and had nothing to do with him. But when he saw Zhang Haidi being photographed so beautifully in MTV's "Dreams in a Wheelchair", he really couldn't sit still. He thought: Although he is old, has a thick waist and legs, and has a scratchy voice, since the disabled can Making MTV, why can't I give it a try? It happened that at this time, Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House was publishing a set of personal singing CD albums for Li Shuangjiang. He told the new president Hu Zhanying about the idea of ??filming the MTV "I Love Wuzhishan, I Love Wanquan River". President Hu immediately agreed, and the two unanimously asked Wang Guoping to direct the film.

Wang Guoping knows very well: This is a hard nut to crack, because Li Shuangjiang is a singer who is very familiar to the audience, and it is generally difficult for art works that express war themes to get rid of the "airplanes and cannons" frame. In accordance with MTV's filming requirements, Wang Guoping and Li Shuangjiang went to Hainan Island to select locations. Hainan's coconut groves and tropical scenery deeply attracted Wang Guoping. In order to take "this one", he resolutely gave up the familiar real-life scenes such as Tianya Haijiao and Wuzhi Mountain, and took a unique path to the remote Wanning County, in an undeveloped area. On the seaside, you can find the spectacular sea and the mountains that can be covered with red cloth. He drew on foreign land art techniques and used aerial photography for the first time, using the visual effect of "red cloth and children" to highlight Li Shuangjiang's heroic and heroic military image. Through this MTV song "I Love Wuzhishan, I Love Wanquan River", today's young people also deeply remember Li Shuangjiang's name.

The film cost nearly 300,000 yuan. It took half a year from preparation, creativity to completion of filming. The hardships involved are beyond words. "I Love Wuzhishan, I Love Wanquan River" finally lived up to expectations and won another gold medal in the "Second China MTV Competition". Li Shuangjiang also ushered in his second artistic spring.

Zhou Yanhong Sees Jasmine Again

Zhou Yanhong, a female singer originally from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, is known as a "talented girl from the south of the Yangtze River". Her song "See Jasmine Again" is an award-winning song that has become popular all over the country. The song has always been at the top of the charts on major radio stations across the country. Although "Meet Jasmine Again" has been released on 5 MTV versions, none of the results satisfied Zhou Yanhong.

After Wang Guoping took over the filming of "Meet Jasmine Again", he carefully analyzed the connotation of this song and believed that it should be positioned as a strong nostalgia with a little sadness and a touch of sadness. To this end, he specially watched the film videos of "Stage Sisters" and "The True Story of Ah Q" to study the scenes of the Jiangnan water town; he also made a special trip to visit Cen Fan, the director of the film "The True Story of Ah Q", to ask for his directing experience . At the same time, he also carefully analyzed the Jiangnan-themed oil paintings by painters Chen Yifei and Ding Liping. Xu Xiangdong, the creative director of the crew, made an extraordinary move and carefully designed an interesting relationship between a young pottery artist and a girl from the theater troupe. Wang Guoping, on the other hand, used smoke, blurred background, and highlighted the main building of the subject to create the atmosphere of a Jiangnan water town.

The filming location of "Meet Jasmine Again" was located in Shaoxing, a city in the south of the Yangtze River. Shaoxing's awning boats, felt hats, social operas, etc. once attracted many domestic and foreign tourists. However, when Wang Guoping and his party came to Shaoxing, they found that Keqiao had become a textile city; the former site of the social opera at Lu Xun's grandmother's house had been converted into a Temples and modern farmhouses have risen from the ground, and the scenery of small bridges and flowing water is gone. what to do? Wang Guoping was worried. He once wanted to go back to the Shanghai Donghai Film and Television Shooting Base, but the location there had already been filmed once, and he didn't like to lose his creative passion by repeating himself. The temptation to "photograph the true scenes of the Jiangnan water town" finally made him stay in Shaoxing.

When MTV's "Meet Jasmine Again" won the gold medal in the "3rd China MTV Competition", Wang Guoping said something from his heart: "It is too difficult to create new art!"

From "Hong Kong, 1997" to "Countrymen"

"Hong Kong, 1997" is an MTV song with a large theme and difficulty. Its original idea was by Sun Chongliang, deputy director of Shanghai TV Station Planned at the end of 1995, it can be said that this was the first domestically produced Hong Kong-themed MTV in 1996, and also the first before the climax of the "Hong Kong Return Fever".

During the filming in Hong Kong, the crew lived in a simple guest house and ate fast food. In order to make "Hong Kong, 1997" a high-quality film, Shanghai TV station specially mobilized mobile trucks from Guangzhou. The behemoth weighing several hundred kilograms was moved in and out manually every day, which made everyone feel very tired. That day they rented a boat for filming in Victoria Bay. Just after half a day of filming, all the actors and cameramen developed symptoms of vomiting. Although Wang Guoping was fine, it was a false alarm.

Hong Kong is full of high-rise buildings, even on both sides of the road. There are very small spaces and no sunlight. When I took pictures of the lights of thousands of houses in Hong Kong on Victoria Peak, the effect was not good. Everyone felt that Hong Kong was nothing more than skyscrapers, and the only preserved historical buildings were the Bank of China and the City Council. During the 10 days in Hong Kong, thanks to President Liu Xia of the Hong Kong Chinese-Foreign Cultural Exchange Association, I was accompanied and supported throughout the whole process. When the crew left Hong Kong and moved to Shenzhen for filming, it suddenly started raining heavily, but by this time they were done.

In the conception of this film, Wang Guoping positioned the heroine (played by Ma Qunqi, a soloist from the Guangzhou Military Region Song and Dance Ensemble) as a character who grew up in Hong Kong and went to study abroad when she grew up. As 1997 approached, many people had plans to move overseas, but she decided to return to China after completing her studies. The film attaches great importance to the echo between the beginning and the end. The beginning is when the heroine is taking photos with her family during the Chinese New Year when she was a child, and the end is when she rushes home as an adult to take photos of the family reunion, so as to echo the theme and be consistent from beginning to end.

After filming "Hong Kong, 1997", Wang Guoping was invited to the United States to discuss cooperation in filming. During his two months in the United States, on the one hand, he visited and on the other hand, he took the time to learn the advanced Western music video shooting techniques. During his visit to the United States, he only stayed in Shanghai for one day before flying to Beijing to accept the task of filming MTV "Hometown".

"Countrymen" was created by Meng Xin and sung by Lu Xiumei, a soloist at the China Opera House. It expresses the nostalgia of the countryside through the story of a famous singer visiting three little sisters who were still working as doctors, teachers, and farmers in the countryside when they were children.

When he first went on location, Wang Guoping wanted to go to Shandong, Shanxi and other places, but had to give up because the journey was too far. At this time, the artist came up with the idea to go to the mountainous area near Huangshan. The archways and Hui-style houses there are full of Jiangnan characteristics, and the films "Feng Yue" and "Ju Dou" directed by Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou have all been shot here. When they came to the scenic spots near Huangshan Mountain and found a dilapidated elementary school made of adobe for filming, they learned that the teachers in the school had not been paid for two months. Wang Guoping and the crew immediately donated 3,000 yuan was given to the school, and while filming MTV, he also showed his love.

MTV's "Hong Kong, 1997" and "Hometown Folks" simultaneously won the gold medal in the "Fourth China MTV Competition".

Talking about these, Wang Guoping believes that the works that won the gold medal are not perfect, "For example, if the scenes of doctors in "Country Folks" were not placed in the hospital but in the fields to promote family planning, then its life would be The sense of reality will be stronger and the art will be more perfect, but now there is still a trace of regret! ”