The film ＂finless porpoise dancing in the wind＂ reveals the creative process and focuses on ecological protection.

1905 movie network news The film is showing, which combines love, animation, fantasy and eco-environmental protection concepts. As a national animation film that organically integrates historical events, folklore, cultural tourism and ecological protection, the creative process behind the film is worthy of attention.

A sincere work of Xu Li for six years

The Yangtze River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, has nurtured generations of Chinese sons and daughters and nourished 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. However, over the years, affected by water pollution, overfishing and other activities, the biodiversity of the Yangtze River has continued to decline, the situation of aquatic life protection is grim, and the task of ecological restoration of water areas is arduous.

The creative team is determined to spread the ideas and values of protecting the ecological environment of the Yangtze River and guide the audience to think and reflect through animated films. Among them, the Yangtze finless porpoise, a species that is disappearing and in urgent need of protection, left a deep impression on the creative team. As the only aquatic mammal living in inland waters of China, the scientific investigation in 2012 found that the population of Yangtze finless porpoise continued to drop sharply, only 1045.

Taking endangered species as the theme, telling about its disappearance can arouse the empathy of the audience, so as to feel the urgency of protection urgently.

Realistic visits to stimulate scenario setting

In order to better tell the story of the finless porpoise, The Finless Porpoise Wind Dance sets the scene of the story in Poyang Lake, the largest settlement of the Yangtze finless porpoise at present, where about 500 finless porpoises live, and organizes the creative personnel to collect the wind several times.

In the process of collecting wind, the production team also searched for wild finless porpoises in Poyang Lake basin three times, but all failed, which also made the production team feel the urgency of protecting finless porpoises. Under the arrangement of Hubei Yangtze River Ecological Protection Foundation, the production team saw the artificially raised finless porpoise in Wuhan Baiji Dolphin Museum and photographed precious reference materials.

Talk to people and clarify the core inspiration.

In addition to collecting scenic spots, the production team also visited the frontline protection members of the local finless porpoise patrol team, teachers and students of some schools in Jiujiang, and the finless porpoise protection researchers in Baiji Dolphin Museum.

The core inspiration of the film, "the finless porpoise worships the wind", comes from the conversation with the fish keeper. "The finless porpoise worships the wind" is a folk saying. It is said that when the wind and waves come, the finless porpoise will jump out of the water against the wind and waves, so that people can judge the upcoming storm on the river surface and avoid disasters.

This legend is a very good interpretation of the interdependence between man and nature, and it also has room for further imagination. For example, the finless porpoise jumps out of the water, and the production team can artistically imagine it as a finless porpoise dancing on the river.

Carefully polish the script and give the role deep meaning.

The script of finless porpoise dancing in the wind has been polished and created for more than a year. Screenwriters, producers and directors often discuss the plot late into the night, which gives deep meaning to the three main characters in the film, namely, the heroine Jiang Ling, the male protagonist Lin Sheng and the male second black dragon, and the creative team.

Jiangling — — On behalf of finless porpoises and species in the Yangtze River, they are very helpless and unwilling to face extinction, and naturally they are very attached to the Yangtze River, which has survived for hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of years.

Lin sheng — — On behalf of human beings, the curse given to him by the Black Dragon represents nature’s vigilance to human beings. The destruction of the Yangtze River ecology by human beings will eventually bite human beings, and human beings must start self-redemption.

The black dragon that is neither right nor evil — — Represents the laws of nature. When the Yangtze River is no longer suitable for the survival of finless porpoises, of course, nature will "take away" the finless porpoises. Of course, this "take away" will not be taken to Yunmengze like in the movie, but will be completely extinct like the baiji.

Conceptual design, restoring aesthetic national style

At the same time of script creation, the work of the art team is also carried out at the same time.The art team artistically processed the scenery of collecting wind and made a concept map. At the same time, some key scenes in the script, such as the magical underwater world, the black dragon leading the finless porpoise to Yunmengze, and the stage of dancing in the wind, were beautifully presented, which provided high-quality reference for the subsequent three-dimensional assets and lens design of the film.

In the movie, Jiang Ling, the heroine, chose the style of Song Dynasty as her usual dress. The main reason is that Hukou County, one of the filming locations, set up Hukou Garrison in the Southern Song Dynasty at the earliest, so it was set that Jiangling was the leader of the finless porpoise at that time and turned into a finless porpoise fairy. Naturally, it was set that Jiangling wore women’s costumes in the Song Dynasty.

The film "finless porpoise dancing in the wind" is being shown nationwide.