The TV series "The Great Long March" will be broadcast soon, using 8.2K film-level photography technology
Quick Look
- The TV series "The Great Long March" was created by the original creative team of "The Awakening Age".
- It is set from January 1934 to January 1937 and presents the long march of the Red Army.
- The crew re-traveled the Long March three times, covering a total distance of nearly 20,000 kilometers, and went to the Long March route five times for location scouting.
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Why It Matters
The TV series "The Great Long March" is based on the period from January 1934 to January 1937, and presents the magnificent Long March of the Red Army including the First Red Army, the Second Red Army, the Fourth Red Army and the Twenty-fifth Red Army.
China News Service, Beijing, September 29 (Reporter Gao Kai) With the original creators of "The Awakening Age" as the core team, Chen Jin and Zhao Weidong serve as the chief screenwriters, Wei Xiaoyu and Zhang Yongxin serve as screenwriters, Zhang Yongxin serves as the director, and Liu Guohua serves as the chief producer. The TV series "The Great Long March" will be broadcast in the near future.
"The Great Long March" is produced by China Central Radio and Television, Beijing Gehua Film and Television Co., Ltd., and Beijing iQiyi Technology Co., Ltd., with the period from January 1934 to January 1937 as the era background, showing the magnificent Long March process of the Red Army including the First Red Army, the Second Red Army, the Fourth Red Army, and the 25th Red Army.
"The Great Long March" will be broadcast soon. Photo courtesy of the film crew
According to reports, the screenwriting team of the play re-traveled the Long March three times during the script creation stage, covering a total of nearly 20,000 kilometers, covering 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Chongqing, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Ningxia, and Shaanxi. The visual departments such as art, props, and special effects have also visited the Long March five times to conduct field surveys.
The team systematically sorted out the documents and cultural relics collected in museums along the Long March, absorbed the latest party history research results, and dug deep into red historical resources. Transform ruins and red cultural relics into realistic basis for script creation. After five years of repeated polishing, six drafts of the script totaling more than 700,000 words were formed.
During the filming stage, the three film crews of "The Great Long March" worked in parallel and completed the filming for 457 days. The entire process traveled to eight provinces and twelve cities, and completed six large-scale cross-regional transitions. In order to restore the historical space of the Long March, the crew followed the standard of "1:1 accurate reproduction" to artistically restore more than 700 historical buildings of various shapes along the Long March, such as the Zunyi Conference site and the Flying Capture of Luding Bridge, using more than 300,000 props, more than 30,000 costumes, and more than 40,000 extras.
It is reported that the filming of the series uses the industry's top 8.2K film-level photography equipment and supporting lighting systems, coupled with the Qtake on-site image assistance system, and is shot with ultra-high-definition full-frame technology standards to create a cinema-level visual quality. The series will be broadcast on CCTV and iQiyi in the near future. In the first trailer, the snow-capped mountains and grasslands are vast, the smoke of artillery fire is shocking and heroic, and the figures of the Red Army soldiers trekking are as determined as iron, which is extremely visual impact and historical immersion. (over)
Open Questions
- When is the specific broadcast time of the show?
- How many episodes are there in total?
- Will there be plans for overseas versions or international distribution?
