The TV series ＂Ming Long Teenager＂ ended, witnessing the two-way growth of passionate teachers and students with music.
The TV series "Ming Long Teenager" was produced by Youku Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Wow Wow Wow, jointly produced by Hunan Education TV Station, with Peng Li and Shang Na as the chief producers, directed by Ding Hei, written by Alex Chen, starring Ruoyun Zhang and Huang Yao. It started broadcasting on CCTV-8 on December 10, 2023, and Youku broadcasted independently on the whole network, and officially closed on CCTV-8 last week.
This youth campus drama series attracted much attention before its launch, and won the "Annual Expecting Innovative Drama Series" of Weibo Vision Conference, and also topped the list of reservations for Youku Modern Drama Series. After the official broadcast, the heat of the series quickly warmed up and detonated the hot search. The heat in Youku Station broke through 10,000, and Douban scored 8.0, which also caused great concern and discussion on major social platforms.
Different youth group images, all kinds of "life" before the college entrance examination
"Ming Long Teenager" focuses on the topic of "College Entrance Examination", and mainly tells an inspirational story of a group of senior three students led by an excellent teacher, Lei Ming (Ruoyun Zhang) and a psychological teacher, Sang Xia (Huang Yao), aiming at sprinting for the college entrance examination, bravely pursuing their dreams and interweaving laughter and tears. In order to let the students regain their dreams, Lei Ming and Sang Xia taught students in accordance with their aptitude, guided them to form good study habits, helped each student to face difficulties, improve family relations and establish an optimistic attitude, thus winning the trust and love of the students and getting growth and healing from each other. In the end, these students started a new life journey by trying to get into an ideal university.
The play continues the deep shaping of group images and individuals by director Ding Hei, and depicts a vivid and unique group image of youth for the audience. The drama focuses on the campus of senior three, focusing on students with different problems, teachers with conflicting ideas and parents with different styles … telling their daily lives and personal experiences, and sketching out the growth trajectory and mood changes of the characters in narrative and camera performance, which gives the characters a "real" foundation and deepens the audience’s substitution, understanding and understanding of stories and characters.
Several main characters who focus on ink are also the epitome of "life". While creating a group image, the drama also extends the discussion to the eager attention to topics such as psychological pressure, school education and family education of freshmen in senior three, so as to make the fate of the characters in the story reflect you and me outside the story, which not only takes care of reality deeply, but also has more humanistic care temperature.
Rooted in the "real" soil, realistic themes are combined with romanticism.
The "truth" and "temperature" of characters and emotions in Ming Long Teenager also benefit from the creative team’s deep cultivation in creation and various stages. It is understood that the creative team of the drama has been preparing for the drama for nearly three years, and after the project started, it has carried out policy study and investigation for nine months, visited more than 10 colleges and universities, conducted in-depth interviews with more than 300 teachers and students, and invited a "learning guide" with the experience of "attacking the college entrance examination" to check the details of the learning methods in the drama. A large number of research on real people and events, rooted in the polishing of reality, laid the foundation for the real background color and life-oriented expression of this work. The drama also uses romantic expression techniques and expressions, showing a positive mood and youthful appearance, which makes this story about "turning over against the wind and attacking the college entrance examination" bloody and establishes emotional connection with the audience.
Taking truth as the basic point, taking emotion as the core, combining reality with romance, and paying attention to the retention and extension of ambiguity are also closely linked and hoped to be realized by the music creation team of Ming Long Juvenile. Yang Bingyin, a young composer and music producer, led the team of Bing Yin to produce the soundtrack and interludes in the play. Before the official shooting, the team started the initial planning and creative preparation in music, which is another cooperation with the director team of Ding Hei after Police Honor. Regarding the sharing and thinking in the creative process, Yang Bingyin said: "Although this drama is a campus theme, in fact, many contents and topics are quite profound and realistic, but it also has the imagination and enthusiasm to make people step out of reality. Balancing these two aspects, helping to better restore the authenticity of stories and scenes, and helping to establish characterization are the topics of our music creation this time. "
Healing, reconciliation and resonance, witnessing two-way growth with music.
The rich amount of music and the stylization of the combination of music with pictures and stories have also left a deep impression on the audience of Ming Long Teenager. The soundtrack of the play uses diverse and innovative musical elements, and presents the teenagers’ special dream-chasing journey in the music scene after scene in the variety of styles such as pop, electronics and rock. In the collision of different notes, music wrote their own unique keywords for each character. In addition to the enthusiasm and blood of the college entrance examination, there is also the youth and ignorance that belong to the student era, and the confusion and shaking when pursuing the heart. In this growth process, endless warmth, firmness and beauty grow. Teachers around teenagers are not only silently expecting and indulging, but also encouraging and moving forward, and achieving mutual growth.
"Understanding" and "reconciliation" are the key words mentioned by producer Yang Bingyin for this play. "The characters in this drama are actually very three-dimensional and complicated. Everyone is constantly learning about themselves and recognizing themselves. They are all on the road to reconciliation with the past and themselves. This is actually a very difficult thing to grow up. Many plots and lines have multiple meanings, so music should also be able to show ambiguity, rather than deliberately and subjectively guiding and controlling, in order to give the audience as much understanding and feeling as possible. " Yang Bingyin said: "In addition, the production volume is really large, and the choice of music and music style is also very important. We also hope that in such rich music, different scenes and characters can be more visualized, and at the same time, more innovations can be displayed, so that everyone can hear refreshing things while seeing good stories, which can make everyone feel more and resonate."
In addition to the soundtrack, Yang Bingyin and his team also created many episodes of characters’ plots, and at the same time tailored several songs for the music-loving "Jiang Qinglang" in the play. The episode "To the Best Teenager" was written by Wang Xiaoqian, composed by Yang Bingyin, and produced by Bingyin. In the play, it appeared as an egg at the end of the film, combined with the pictures of teachers cheering for the students of Minglong. Textbooks and life may have to face difficult problems, but in the end, they and we will get the answer to growth. In order to lead the students to improve their English learning enthusiasm, Lei Ming sang the English version of "Ordinary Day", which was composed by Mao and composed by Wang Xiaoqian, and recorded the beautiful memories of Class 11 and youth in the song. "Double-faced Man" is composed by Wang Xiaoqian and Fu Xin, composed by Yang Bingyin, and produced by the sound. The song reveals and presents the confusion and rebellion of adolescence in the form of rap, and at the same time, it combines the picture plot to realize the emotional expression of the role at the musical level. In the last few episodes, the key plots, written by Orphan Ya, composed by Yang Bingyin and Orphan Ya, and produced by Bingyin and Chuangsheng, also met the audience one after another. The two songs are presented in the form of stage performances, which write those true feelings and thoughts on self and the world into the rhyme of each sentence, reflect the growth and reconciliation of teenagers along the way, and express their sincerity and enthusiasm for their dreams.
Last Friday, CMG’s second annual China TV drama festival hosted by China Central Radio and Television General Station was held in Beijing. The event reviewed the blooming and splendid dramas in China in the past year, and the actors and creators of Ming Long Boys were also invited to participate. Nowadays, more and more high-quality dramas with deep creativity, polishing details and focusing on innovation have flooded into the market, representing the high-quality creative power of China TV series today. In the future, we also expect more fine TV dramas to continue to enter the public eye.