Yes, (￣▽￣) I forgot how to get into the pit, but I know why I got out of the pit....
"Switched at Birth" is a 2011 episode of the abc family channel.
A record 30 episodes of the first season!
Thanks to the party and the country, we can efficiently finish the current 4 seasons, a total of 93 episodes. In addition, it has been renewed for 10 episodes, and the 5th season will be launched in January 2017.
There are rare episodes that are not self-taught and addicted to entering, so, I want to analyze the reasons for Mao...
In the past, there were very few episodes that had such an irresistible feeling, and I desperately recalled it as if there were only:
- 1989-1990 Sky War (44 episodes of Sky War シュラト) The theme song is still very enthusiastic so far
--1990-1991 蓝 jewel no 谜 (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 39 stories) Gainax Shinsaku
- 2003-2004 Dae Jang Geum (대장금 Chapter 54) Korean Drama Enlightenment
- 2011-2015 Switched at Birth
Hundreds of other Japanese dramas and thousands of hours of American dramas do not feel addicted.
For example, 24 hours, the form is innovative, but the Americanism is too big, and it has no mapping with real life, you can stop watching at any time, and there is no regret when you pick it up again;
Similarly, X-file/TBBT/Grey's Anatomy/LOST/HERO/… are all,
Although exciting and impressive, they are all dramas that you can stop at any time and watch again when you have time.
How are the four Fascinated episodes listed different from the others?
##You don't understand the world when you are young
Well, of course, the childhood is all about TV dramas... In the background of the black cat sheriff, the teenager who has always loved SiFi,
Encountering the "Mystery of Sapphire" is unsolvable, and the beauties in Sky War Chronicle cannot refuse....
The obsession at this time is irrational.
When he was young, Dae Jang Geum bought a DVD at one time and finished it in two weekends...
At that time, time-travel literature was not yet prosperous, but Da Jang-geum was actually a time-travel drama disguised as an ancient drama...
The heroine's completely different spiritual world from her contemporaries, as well as her problem-solving ideas, brings the audience an extremely immersive feeling of fighting monsters and upgrading.
Addiction is like chasing after the starting point, just wanting to know the ending.
## American Family Drama
Later, GFW was born, and the great achievements of the subtitle group and the prosperity of China's cloud computing industry have allowed them to have a large number of access to American dramas.
Various types have brushed more than N series in their spare time;
The first is SiFi: Star Trek/Stargate, etc. are large series of episodes with hundreds of episodes for decades;
Then various types of dramas:
- veep/house of card/… legal drama
- House/Grey's Anatomy/… medical drama
- 24 Hours/NCIS/Elementary/… Detective drama
- TBBT/Broken Sisters/Friends/60 Sunset Boulevard… sitcom
- Gilmore Girls/Growing Pains/GLEE/… Family Drama
- …
Coupled with relevant analysis/reports, I have basically understood the production cycle/process of American dramas, as well as the competition mechanism.
Finally came across "Switched at Birth" and got addicted again...
### Touching point
Real to the point:
- iPhone throughout the whole process Because since 2011, the iPhone has indeed become an arcade machine for the American people, and there are only a few dozen contract machines.
- When describing the dialogue between the deaf and dumb, the whole process of mute and complete sign language + subtitles, the most ruthless sentence, 45 minutes, without any dialogue!
- The filming cycle of up to 4 years, all the props have not seen the place where the gang is...
Dare to explore:
- Medical Justice
- Discrimination against Latinos
- backward communities
- Education for the disabled
- …
Through a setting, various social problems are naturally derived to be discussed and reasonably resolved.
Different from national dramas, a stalk can be endured until it can no longer be contained before it bursts hastily.
"Switched at Birth" 3 minutes before the start of the first episode, the biggest meme: the two female protagonists were born with the wrong thing to explode..
If this is a national drama, the director will definitely not want to explode without 30 episodes...
And American drama, just use it as the basic background, and then carry out bold/free interpretation;
For example, holding the wrong main line, the evolution in the first season:
- Recognize -> live close -> education/three views differences
- Judicial -> Bay's biological mother was discovered 12 years ago -> biological father appeared -> new evidence (including religious discussion) -> double victory but $1 to 5 million
- Lawyer -> Midlife Crisis ->…
- …
Then, holding a mistake is just a background emotion of the characters. The story centers on the lives of the two girls, and continues to advance through the family/social conflicts caused by various events as the driving force of the series.
Similar to Japanese morning dramas, the families who watched the movie at the same time actually involuntarily joined the family life of "Switched at Birth" and experienced various changes in the past 4 years together.
This is similar to "The Foreign Wife Local Lang" which has been broadcast in Guangdong for 16 years, and has become a common memory of the two generations in fact.
### Industrial Power
What is even more shocking is the effect of industrialized production.
For 4 years before and after, the image quality of each episode has not fluctuated, it is full of colors, the soundtrack is exquisite, and the scenery is complete...
Even if the actor's abilities didn't mature over the same period:
- All those over the age of 40 are old drama bones, all of them are well-versed and can convey the corresponding emotions according to the plot
- Even more terrifying is the fact that one of the actors with a deaf mother is the youngest best actress in Oscar history, Marlee Matlin, and the only hearing-impaired person to receive this honor! Movie stars come to TV dramas themselves. Cameo, because "Switched at Birth" is the first drama to feature a deaf-mute as the protagonist, so Marlee is here to help!
- Young actors have highs and lows. Not to mention the two female protagonists, they are all improving as they progress and accumulate over time.
- However, Emmett, who has never received a lunch box, suddenly became fat in the middle, and will always only perform in three modes:
- Smile
- Rub hands
- shrug
- It's really hard for the director...
Even so, with the support of other plots/actors, each episode has something to watch, making you look forward to watching it forever, the world of "Switched at Birth" does not stop...
It is clear that it is the success of the American drama creation mechanism with the screenwriter as the core.
## Screenwriter
Canon! Each episode/season/drama maintains a canon-like repetition of the same pattern in different categories,
However, the uninterrupted rise, and the reasonable ending of each season, will always keep the world of "Switched at Birth" in a kind of infinite closeness to real life and clear separation without any sense of alienation...
Just like the wonderful comic dialogues that have been supplemented and completed over the years, they must contain padding / real life / bottom,
Pay attention to tiling and steady / three turns and four shakes…
I don't know if American screenwriters have studied the fascinating theory of Chinese comic dialogue, which has been explored for hundreds of years.
However, in "Switched at Birth" it really came into play.
With 6 people in two families as the core, plus 2 to 3 people at a time,
Limit each conflict to 4 clues, discuss two sides, create misunderstandings and advance the plot through dramatic timing conflicts.
Moreover, I don't write die-hard loyalty to all characters, any good person has the possibility of being wrong, and all bad people also have bad reasons;
The continuous blackening and whitewashing of a character is based on normal life points and narrated against the background of real social events.
The combined result is that everything is real...
It's hard not to believe that Kansas City really has these two families who have been in love with each other all the time.
What is surprising is the appearance of the character Travis, an ugly man who grew up unintentionally, but because the setting is more natural, his role in the middle and late dramas is getting bigger and bigger.
## Success point
A series is only successful when the audience has a more lasting interest in the actors themselves.
In animation, everyone pays attention to seiyuu and painting.
TV dramas generally focus on actors. The 6-member group of friends spent 10 years embedding themselves in the memory of a generation.
"Switched at Birth" only caught my attention to bay.
Black curly hair, slightly fat body, strong eyebrows... Compared with another red-haired freckled woman, bay is undoubtedly invincible in appearance.
With the help of the screenwriter,,, in the first 4 seasons, Daphne has done countless brain-damaging things and let others deal with the aftermath.
From start to finish, Bay did a stupid thing when he was drunk.
Others have always been the spokespersons of silly white girls, plus artistic talent, it is really impossible to dislike her...
The reason why movies are higher than TV's is that it will take a few years to leave an impression in the hearts of the audience...
And the movie is only 2 hours at most...
However, it is also because of the long period of time that TV dramas can use more details and long-term repeated training to strengthen the impression of a TV actor in the audience's heart to an unparalleled level... This is also a lot of successful TV actors, and it is difficult to fly over the genre. Limitations, the reason to upgrade to a movie star...
Because, no matter what will be played in the future, the first impression of the audience is: Ha, this is not that person...
## crash
The plot is out of control... In the case of one episode a week, it is necessary to ensure that each episode has a climax, leaving expectations for the next episode.
This is the hardest part of family dramas, unlike other unit dramas: House/X-files/Star trek, etc., basically one episode for one story, at most three episodes for one unit story. The audience, always enjoy the characters in the background of the genre , there is no expectation for the advancement of the plot.
Family dramas must have dramatic conflicts, be reasonable, and have a reasonable mapping of real social phenomena, so the design is naturally very difficult.
Then, after all reasonable stalks are used up, there are only a limited number of new conflicts introduced:
- Introduce new characters
- Character dies/sick
- Sudden disaster
- Characters do stupid things
In youth dramas, there can't be too many characters, otherwise the audience will lose interest if they can't remember them. The 6 people of friends have almost become the upper limit.
All kinds of social/natural disasters, always haunting family dramas, is really ironic about the good life in America.
Of course it's always dead / sick, only Korean dramas insist on tossing.
Therefore, the death of the characters themselves has become the most common conflict.
Daphne in "Switched at Birth" is a master of death, and after season 2, I can't remember how many boys he's kissed.
More of the good feelings are unreasonable. I just described a little ambiguity in 2 scenes, and it will be better in the next day.
And it must cause all kinds of turmoil... In the end, it must return to normal with the support/understanding of the two families, especially Bay's inspiration...
Disgusting unconscionable, blunt conflicts, just mass-produced.
In the end, I was just looking forward to Bay's appearance.
Sinicization, after entering 2014, various dramas have tried Chinese elements in a unified way, "Switched at Birth" is the same,
At the end of season 4, both sisters went to live in China for 10 months, as to why, and the specific events, purely as a foreshadowing.
It seems very mindless... Two students who were supposed to be in their freshman year, suddenly came to China without a solid reason, one to study Chinese medicine, the other to study tattoos...
# Anyway
Industrialization is powerful, because it can enable a crew to output episodes that are enough to impress the audience for a long time, stably and efficiently.
China's one-shot deal, I don't know if it can be broadcast before it's all shot, and I don't know if the audience likes it before it's broadcast.
Simply...
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