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In 2007, Beijing TV Station held a "Love TV" campaign to collect brand-new TV programs and creative programs for the whole society. The top three can get investment from TV stations.

The social response is strong. A lot of external film and television companies bid in succession, and TV stations are not idle. Jun Lv from the Overseas Department stood out in this activity.

The TV station is very cautious. They asked the top three winners to take samples for final inspection. It is not easy to shoot a sample of Jun Lv's creative plan. Even the host must be an actor with lines and performance ability. He wants to blend in with that role, not become an announcer.

Jun Lv hopes to jump out of the original documentary framework and use more modern film and television industry to assist shooting, such as live restoration or moving. The sample cost a lot, but just in time for the Beijing Olympic Games, so the sample display was put on hold for the time being.

At the end of 2008, the leaders of Beijing Satellite TV praised Jun Lv's samples and bluntly said, "We just need this kind of program", so it didn't take long for them to make the program arrangement for 2009 1.

Since then, a mysterious darkroom, an old projector, a slide projector, a tape recorder and a pair of white gloves have become the standard of this program-files.

The program has been broadcast, but some middle and high-level people in the station issued a "warning" voice. They think that the program files are too long and sophisticated, and the cost is too high, which is not suitable for the current fast food culture. Indeed, the program Archives is really too detailed. It took three months to shoot the sample, and 250 shots and 60 minutes of sample production were completed.

When the feature film came down, there was a studio of 1500 square meters and a large LED screen of 30 square meters, including an archive area, a recording area, a sand table area and a central demonstration center. Perhaps it was from this moment that "exquisiteness" was injected into the blood of the program.

However, "exquisiteness" is not enough. If a program wants to survive in the market, it must have enough audience support. In other words, the program must be watched to survive, and Archives is a very serious program. How to make those boring and heavy history lively and interesting is the first question left to the program group. Fortunately, the film theory gave them a plan: suspense.

What is suspense? For example, a man threw a time bomb in the trash can downtown. The bomb will explode in ten seconds, and the passers-by around him didn't notice the bomb hidden in the trash can at the moment. The time from dropping the bomb to exploding in the picture is called suspense.

It will explode at any time, but only the audience knows that there is a time bomb in that trash can. Therefore, before the bomb explodes, the whole emotional tension of the audience will be filled at this moment, thus enhancing their expectations for the next plot of the film. Only when there is expectation will the audience keep watching.

Therefore, at the beginning of the broadcast of Archives, in order to attract more audiences, various on-the-spot means were used to break up the story and show it to the audience in sections. In addition, in order to prevent the audience from getting tired of the preaching of the program, it is more popular in line design.

For example, as Shi Liang often said, it goes like this:

"Now I'll show you a video."

"Let me show you the photos."

"Now my file is written like this."

The use of the first person shortens the distance between the program and the audience, but does not make the audience feel distant. It looks like Shi Liang is a tour guide in front of the TV. He has been interacting with the audience and introducing that thick history in an interesting and beautiful way.

Mystery is easy to shoot, authority and exclusive latest discoveries are hard to do. The so-called "archives" in Archives are texts handed down according to real records. Is it enough to tell good stories only by relying on the Internet? That's not enough. It is difficult to determine the source and authority of information on the Internet. If it is adopted without textual research, it will inevitably weaken the authority of the program.

Since it's Archives, it's still filmed around Archives, but this program has been broadcast for 1 1 year. How did you get thousands of files? Jun Lv's answer is: bold, cautious and thick-skinned.

For example, in the issue "Who's the Real 007" on April 6, 201/year, many precious historical materials, such as popov drinking champagne in a hotel, taking a secret photo with his girlfriend, and his fake passport, were put on TV for the first time, but in fact, they were not all right for the first time. In fact, these precious files are actually many.

In order to get the information of these documents, Jun Lv first looked for them in the British legal authorities to see if he had the right to consult them. After learning about Britain's Right to Know Act, Lv Jun sent an email to British MI 6, but the reply from MI 6 was also very interesting.

"He is indeed our agent, but I don't have the documents he decrypted, and we can't provide the documents without decrypting them." The implication is that popov still has more documents to decrypt, but it can't get them, and even the existing documents don't know where they are. MI6 people are joking, too.

Shooting was deadlocked until a BBC news report accidentally discovered that popov's original work was in the British National Archives. So Jun Lv directly contacted the British National Archives, and after repeated requests, the British National Archives faxed the copied materials, which completed the filming of the program.

It is difficult to decrypt overseas archives and domestic archives, but at least there is enthusiastic audience support in China compared with foreign obstacles.

20 1 1 In hot summer, the studio in Datun is sultry. Wu Zhiyong, editor-in-chief of Archives, looked out from time to time, sweating profusely, as if waiting for someone, but the staff around him didn't know who the editor-in-chief was waiting for.

I don't know how long it took before two people entered the studio. One of them has a black box in his hand. Wu Zhiyong was overjoyed. Holding the box in his hand, he went to the sterile area and opened it. The box contains the original files of the Red Army that he has been longing for for for a long time. Because the program had just started at that time, the program needed to be "authoritative and true", and the museum chartered to lend the original files.

After receiving the original document, Wu Zhiyong carefully put it in the document, reminding the surrounding staff not to touch it at will, and then put it in a vacuum box until the program was filmed. After taking it out, Wu Zhiyong told the staff that in order to improve efficiency, it is best to pass a document, because the document can't stay overnight, and it has to be returned to others after reading it. It will be a waste of time and damage to the original document according to the process.

In the same year, the program group needed an old newspaper published at the time of the peace talks to record "Gunfire Behind the Chongqing Negotiations". At that time, the program group dragged on a lot of contacts to find old newspapers in major newspapers, but they were either not available or rejected. After all, the program group wants the original, but once the original is damaged during the trip, who will be responsible?

Later, the program group finally found out about the old newspaper in the hand of a well-known collector in Beijing, so they went to the door and saw that it was the program group of the Archives Bureau, and they lent it to the program group without saying anything. However, due to the age of the newspaper, it is easy to lose slag when touched, and every use is harmful to the original, but the collector lent it to the program group at the risk of damaging the original. I hope people can remember history,' he said.

Faced with such a precious file, how can the program group not assume its own responsibility? People are willing to lend the original to this program. It is because of trust that people trust the exquisiteness of archives and believe that they have strict standards for every job. There's no shortage of keys to copy files, but why wear white gloves for show? Of course not. What they picked up was not a simple document, but a heavy history.

On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2009, a questionnaire survey for urban and rural audiences in Guangzhou showed that people with higher education level are more interested in cultural and historical programs and are willing to listen to the voice of history in historical documentary programs.

In June, 2020, 165438+ 10, the survey team of Nanchang University conducted a questionnaire survey on urban and rural audiences, showing that people are more willing to see programs that keep pace with the times and are entertaining. The theme is not important, what is important is to make people think deeply.

Archives have gone through 1 1 year in the cultural journey. As long as they are broadcast, they are the golden files of 1 1 year.

It faced the pressure of numerous programs from outside, including similar programs and entertainment programs, but it survived.

It is still insisting on innovation and polishing a work with the spirit of artisans. Perhaps this is also the reason why it can still survive in the era of entertainment to death. In the tide, it is still the clear stream.

References: the story behind the award-winning archives.