Suspense drama should avoid homogenization

2021-12-22

With the increasing popularity of the market, suspense online drama has become a common choice for many video websites to compete for click through rate in recent years. However, many suspense online dramas that have been put together recently have not continued the high level of the previous two years, showing signs of declining quality and low-level repetition. Most of the works were not fair enough, even the audience make complaints about it. Next, there will be a large number of suspense online dramas. How to avoid rushing into mass action and create more differentiated boutiques is worth thinking about. In recent years, online dramas have gradually embarked on the path of professional and high-quality creation, steadily improved in production methods, shooting skills and narrative structure, and showed a geometric growth in attention and influence. As a product of the mature stage of the development of online drama, suspense online drama is deeply loved by the audience because of its fast pace, strong plot, and the in-depth excavation of society and human nature. Due to the tension of the plot, the ups and downs of the plot development, the complex relationship between the characters in the play and the great tension of the actors' performance, the audience can obtain a sense of participation and interaction through the independent interpretation of the text, so as to maintain a high degree of enthusiasm for pursuing the play. The domestic suspense online drama has experienced seven years of development since the earliest "the dark one", and many sub types of works have emerged, such as logic supreme case reasoning, realistic social reasoning and so on. The theme of the drama has also changed from solving riddles of crimes to "suspense +" to explore social problems and describe real life. For example, ten day game is "suspense + love", octagonal pavilion mystery fog is "suspense + family ethics", and fatal desire is set as "suspense + science fiction". In terms of narrative structure, there are not only the two-line narrative with the fate of the characters as the main line and supplemented by the story of the case, but also the time-space cycle structure such as "doomed", as well as the multi perspective cross narrative such as "skyscraper". In 2020, excellent works on suspense crime themes such as "secret corner" and "silent truth" appeared one after another, which spread all over the Internet, triggered a hot debate in public opinion, and pushed the creation and broadcasting of suspense online drama to a climax. In 2021, the creation and broadcasting of suspense online drama continued to be popular. At present, iqiyi's "fog theater" has launched "the fog of the octagonal pavilion", "fatal wish", "who is the murderer", and will also launch "gold rush" later. Mango TV broadcast "the twelfth second" and Sohu Video also launched "proof of silence". Tencent video announced that it would launch "beginning" and "chasing the murderer against the wind" one after another. In the next five years, Youku will also launch ten suspense dramas in cooperation with big IP author Zijin Chen to realize the important layout of the drama. In the 2022 annual film list released by major video platforms, suspense drama, as a major drama, has jumped from a niche type to a key unit. However, while suspense online drama is sought after in the industry, the viewing expectation and viewing heat among the audience have decreased. As the opening work of the "fog theater" in 2021, the octagonal pavilion mystery fog did not continue the brilliance of the silent truth, and the online score was lower than expected. "Fatal desire" set a record for the lowest score of the fog theater. This paper analyzes the reasons why the audience reputation of suspense online drama is cold recently, which is mainly caused by the accumulation of creation and the decline of quality. Because suspense drama pursues the extreme reversal and intriguing plot, it has high requirements for the specialization and logic of creation. It needs to peel off the core of "doubt" layer by layer through continuous suspense setting and meticulous reasoning and deduction, so as to create a feeling of sudden enlightenment. However, the plot of some works seems to burn the brain, but in fact, it is forced to advance regardless of the logic of the story. The narrative structure was reversed in order to reverse. At that time, it was fun to watch, but it couldn't stand careful deliberation. The character setting is also flat and distorted, and some characters are too extreme. Some suspense plays fall into a stylized pattern in image expression and story techniques. With the increasing number of viewers watching the play, they are more and more familiar with all kinds of routines of these suspense reasoning. Sometimes you can guess the end after looking at the beginning, and you can know who the killer is by looking at the shooting techniques. It is more and more difficult to get the psychological experience of surprise and reversal. The lack of creative and production talents, the uneven ability of the existing production team and the impetuous creative attitude are also important reasons for the lack of follow-up of suspense online drama. Some editors and directors do not work hard on the script or production, but play a marginal role in case design or picture presentation in order to meet the curiosity psychology of the public. Some actors are worried about their acting skills, and some can't even say their lines clearly. It's easy to make people play only by their appearance and popularity. In addition, due to strong professionalism, suspense drama creation has very high requirements for the script, but there is a relative lack of mature screenwriters. At present, most of the head suspense novel works and well-known suspense novel writers are bound with the head video platform. Small and medium-sized platforms and producers can only choose to be independent and original. Therefore, there is a lazy practice of deliberately reducing suspense and brain burning content in the script creation stage and creating an atmosphere through performance, photography and other means. The recently launched suspense online drama has fallen into a word-of-mouth crisis. This shows that "All Star + big IP" is not the master key to ensure the quality of plays. In this market upsurge of suspense online drama, creators should keep a clear understanding. With the surge in the production of suspense online dramas, the audience's demand for high-quality works is becoming stronger and stronger. In the face of such market opportunities, the only way for sustainable development is to concentrate on creating high-quality products and constantly improve their business literacy. We should settle down and innovate the theme, from "suspense" to "suspense + reality", from curiosity and stimulation to reality. In the plot structure, do a good job in the bedding and arrangement of the narrative line, make use of the strong suspense manufacturing ability and psychological appeal of the multi linear space-time structure, rely on difficult puzzles, a large number of effective and dense details of the image presentation, and the narration of more than one unreliable narrator, which leads the audience to pay attention to and think about the audio-visual content. Suspense online drama is often related to the theme of social rule of law. To a certain extent, it expresses the adherence to social fairness and justice and the pursuit of an ideal living environment. It can promote the stability of social order and the improvement of the rule of law system through the guidance of public opinion, disseminate mainstream values, and play a positive role in promoting the construction of socialist core values. Therefore, we look forward to the emergence of more works with good intentions, accurate positioning and three positive views, which are in line with the mainstream aesthetics and values, contribute to the high-quality process of online drama, and add new color to the big garden of Chinese film and television creation. (Xinhua News Agency)

Edit:Ming Wu    Responsible editor:Haoxuan Qi

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