夢(mèng)想照進(jìn)微電影 城市美出新高度

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夢(mèng)想照進(jìn)微電影 城市美出新高度

□ 文/本刊記者 熊怡

陳佳欣，重慶青年導(dǎo)演，曾受邀與中國國家旅游局、法國謝爾省土地與旅游發(fā)展署、意大利駐重慶總領(lǐng)事館等機(jī)構(gòu)合作拍攝旅游宣傳片。代表作品包括：《法國女孩在重慶》三部曲，《重慶人眼中的意大利》三部曲，“2014巴黎青年短片電影節(jié)”開幕影片《Lointaine》，“直轄19周年燃爆全城短片”《重慶，非同想象》。

并非影視科班出身，陳佳欣用5年時(shí)間，不斷刷新重慶的顏值高度，讓世界驚艷。他用攝像機(jī)記錄了不一樣的世界美景，讓自己的夢(mèng)想照進(jìn)一部部叫好又叫“座”（網(wǎng)絡(luò)點(diǎn)擊量上千萬次）的城市微電影。創(chuàng)造豐富的視覺作品，他一直在路上。

成為全國知名的城市微電影

2017年的春節(jié)，陳佳欣又一次遠(yuǎn)赴歐洲，不是為了工作而是度假。

2月3日，陳佳欣在法國里昂與老友“法國女孩”梅娜麗（Mélanie）重逢，特別趕來與他見面的還有梅娜麗的父親。這位住在勃艮第的老人此前從沒來過里昂，這次是為了見女兒的中國好朋友—讓梅娜麗3次當(dāng)上微電影女主角的陳佳欣。

2012年的夏天，這位法國女孩因假期實(shí)習(xí)來到中國，走進(jìn)重慶，開始了她對(duì)這座城市的探索。梅娜麗偶然認(rèn)識(shí)了剛辭去汽車銷售工作的陳佳欣，兩人一拍即合，帶著業(yè)余的裝備開始嘗試拍攝微電影《法國女孩在重慶》。

那時(shí)候，整部片子雖然沒有腳本，鏡頭語言卻很豐富。磁器口、園博園、山城大街小巷，最自然的拍攝，就能體現(xiàn)山城的美。2013年初，該片完整版正式上傳到網(wǎng)絡(luò)之后，《法國女孩在重慶》的火爆程度讓陳佳欣喜出望外，重慶市旅游局官方網(wǎng)站首頁掛著《法國女孩在重慶》的視頻，鳳凰衛(wèi)視還專門播出了它的3分鐘預(yù)告片。

兩年后，在重慶市旅游局的支持下，陳佳欣推出了《法國女孩在重慶2》，口碑依然爆棚。在2015年拍攝的第二部影片里，梅娜麗說，她想看看兩年來重慶變成了什么樣子。正如第一部片尾所言，這座城市如此之大，沒有辦法一次為大家介紹完，所以才有了更加豐富、更加深入的第二次探索。她游走了十八梯、長江索道、法國水師兵營、通遠(yuǎn)門、四面山、羅漢寺等地，陳佳欣用簡單的言語、絢麗的畫面，捕捉到更深層的重慶生活。除了主城區(qū)，合川釣魚城、江津愛情天梯、銅梁安居古城等等，一些區(qū)縣的地標(biāo)也出現(xiàn)在影片中。

“《法國女孩在重慶》開啟了我的導(dǎo)演之路，意義重大。”陳佳欣說，這個(gè)系列的微電影也讓他擁有了眾多的支持者，他承諾自已要完成它的三部曲。并寄予收官之作《法國女孩在重慶3》更多的個(gè)人情懷：不忘初心，回到原點(diǎn)。

作為城市微電影，無數(shù)觀眾曾跟隨片中女主角的足跡，重新認(rèn)識(shí)了這座城市，不僅引起外國觀眾的濃厚興趣，也成為中國網(wǎng)友心中的“重慶旅游指南”。而法國女孩梅娜麗更是被大家視為“旅游大使”，希望她能多回重慶。如今，她的最后一場(chǎng)重慶之旅也揭開了面紗。

2017年元旦前夕，尚未舉辦首映式，《法國女孩在重慶3》的預(yù)告片在網(wǎng)上已經(jīng)引發(fā)了大量關(guān)注，點(diǎn)擊量迅速破百萬。梅娜麗在影片中說到，本以為自己已經(jīng)很了解重慶了，而佳欣導(dǎo)演告訴她，在重慶，還有一些地方絕不容錯(cuò)過。

2017年1月17日晚，陳佳欣（右）在重慶成功舉辦《法國女孩在重慶3》首映禮。

影片開場(chǎng)就讓人耳目一新，女主角好像在歐洲的森林里穿梭，穿過森林豁然開朗，眼前是一座摩登都市。這一次她深入繁華背后的知名老街，盡情體驗(yàn)重慶的現(xiàn)代與熱情，探索主城區(qū)的神秘地帶。下浩老街、三層馬路、礦山公園、飛馳的輕軌……影片再次用自然、質(zhì)樸、親切的視角，展示了最具有生活氣息的老城與都市。

排排坐、吃小面，只要兩張塑料凳，就能體驗(yàn)山城美味的精華。山城的老街，在高樓林立的繁華都市中有著特殊的位置，它是山城的一張名片，更是重慶人最懷念的地方。在渝北區(qū)的礦山公園，梅娜麗說，“你們相不相信，這也是重慶?！弊鳛檫@幾年才興起的人氣景觀，礦山公園吸引了無數(shù)的戶外愛好者前往，有著“重慶版美國黃石公園”之稱。這部影片的核心主題為“換個(gè)角度看重慶”，因?yàn)樵陉惣研佬闹?，故鄉(xiāng)重慶常拍常新。他更想讓大家明白，原來身邊還有那么多美等待我們?nèi)グl(fā)現(xiàn)。

攝制組取景地重慶礦山公園。

陳佳欣帶“法國女孩”梅娜麗品嘗重慶小面。

“要保持前期作品風(fēng)格，又要尋求創(chuàng)新突破，不辜負(fù)大家的期待，這些都讓我從拍攝到后期花了不少心思，希望帶給觀眾一場(chǎng)美妙、震撼、豐富的重慶之旅，讓更多人迷上這座城市?！标惣研缿阎男那榻邮芫W(wǎng)友對(duì)《法國女孩在重慶3》的檢驗(yàn)，大家的留言足以讓他感到欣慰：

“作為一個(gè)重慶人感到自豪，謝謝法國妹子，謝謝導(dǎo)演！”

“在外地上班的我，每次看見這些都描繪家鄉(xiāng)的視頻、圖片都會(huì)忍不住想親人、朋友，最后還忍不住流淚。”

“再次刷新我對(duì)重慶的認(rèn)識(shí)，重慶非去不可。”

帶觀眾領(lǐng)略獨(dú)特的世界美景

《威尼斯畫卷》《米蘭時(shí)代》《那不勒斯萬象》—陳佳欣以一個(gè)重慶人的視角將意大利三座城市的所見所聞收錄進(jìn)影片，剪輯出精美、浪漫、有趣的《重慶人眼中的意大利》三部曲系列。

2016年1月19日，該系列預(yù)告片在優(yōu)酷首發(fā)，即被其紀(jì)錄片頻道置頂，迅速引起圍觀，點(diǎn)擊量突破百萬?！耙獯罄麢?quán)威媒體《共和國報(bào)》對(duì)短片的點(diǎn)評(píng)是‘充滿詩意與美感’。說真的，作品能得到認(rèn)可比什么都重要?！标惣研勒f。

這一次跟意大利駐重慶總領(lǐng)事館的合作，陳佳欣首次嘗試了沒有任何主角的紀(jì)錄片形式，他想用最純粹的鏡頭語言配合特有的剪輯方式，展示一個(gè)充滿無限魅力的意大利。他用寫實(shí)手法將音樂與畫面完美搭配，展現(xiàn)了米蘭大教堂、圣馬可廣場(chǎng)、梅爾杰利納沿海公路等地。欣賞這個(gè)系列，不僅可以通過美妙的視角帶大家回到那些美麗不可方物的景點(diǎn)，還可以跟隨導(dǎo)演的腳步，領(lǐng)略到哪怕是去過意大利的游客也會(huì)感到非常陌生和欣喜的美景。

陳佳欣說，《重慶人眼中的意大利》三部曲的每一部他都很喜歡，如果非要選擇，他會(huì)多投那不勒斯一票，因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)地方太美、太豐富，更重要的是很像自己的家鄉(xiāng)，梯坎、山城、小巷、岸邊、爬坡纜車……簡直就是意大利版的重慶。

觀眾也注意到，影片雖然精美如畫，但是不完全是風(fēng)光片。陳佳欣的鏡頭還透露出一種人文關(guān)懷，對(duì)他來說，景很重要，但景中的人更重要。因此，很多畫面看起來都像有自己的故事，他說，這才是他眼中的意大利。

（圖片由受訪者提供）

Chen Jiaxin, a young Chongqing director, was once invited to shoot the tourist promotional video with China National Tourism Administration, French Ministry of Land and Tourist Development in Cher province, the Consulate General of Italy in Chongqing and other institutions. He has many representative works including the series ofFrench Girl in Chongqing, the series ofItaly in the View of Chongqing PeopleandLointaine, the opening film of “2014 Paris Youth Short Film Festival”.Chongqing: Unexpected Imagination, a short film that igniting the whole city for the anniversary of municipality directly under the Central Government. Although, without receiving professional education of being a director, Chen has made continuous and long-time efforts for fi ve years to unveil the beauty of Chongqing, attracting the worldwide attention. He recorded an unique beautiful landscape, shining his dream into such popular and critically acclaimed microfilms (that have won thousands of Internet views). Chen has never stopped his strides in creating fantastic visual works.

Become the well-known city microfi lms

Mr. Chen came to Europe again in the 2017 Spring Festival, not for work but holiday.

On February 3, Chen reunited with his old friend Mélanie in Lyon, France. Her father also came to meet him with a special purpose. The old man, living in Burgundy, had never been to Lyon, but this time it was to meet his daughter’s Chinese friendwho gave Mélanie three chances to become the heroine of his microfi lms.

In the summer of 2012 when this French girl traveled to China for the sake of holiday internship, she came to Chongqing and then began her exploration of this city. When Mélanie met Chen for the first time by accident who just resigned from the car sales job, they had a mutual tacit understanding of each other. They started a new trip of shooting microfi lmFrench Girl in Chongqingwith unprofessional equipments.

At that time, even though the whole film did not have a script, what his lens expressed in the film was rich. The most natural shooting of Ciqikou ancient town, Garden Expo and streets and lanes of Chongqing could refl ect the beauty of this mountain city. In early 2013 when the short filmFrench Girl in Chongqingwas uploaded to the website, to Chen’s surprise and delight, it gained such excellent popularity that Chongqing Tourism Bureau hanged it on its offi cial website homepage and Phoenix TV had a special broadcasting of its three-minute trailer. Two years later, supported by Chongqing Tourism Bureau, Chen launched theFrench Girl in ChongqingⅡ, which still won widespread high praise. In the shooting of second film in 2015, Mélanie said she wanted to see the changes of Chongqing over the two years. As the first trailer said, the city is so big that it’s impossible to make a complete introduction for everyone. For this reason, a richer and more in-depth exploration is needed. She traveled many Chongqing places like Eighteen Stairs, Yangtze River Cableway, French Navy Barracks, Tongyuan Gate, Simian Mountain and Luohan Temple. Chen captured the deeper life of Chongqing with simple words and brilliant picture. In addition to main urban region, Diaoyu City of Hechuan, Love Ladder of Jiangjin, Anju Ancient Town and some county-level landmarks also appeared in the fi lm.

“French Girl in Chongqingopened my road of being a director with a great signifi cance”, Chen said. Thisseries of microfi lms have helped him to win numerous supporters so that he promised to finish the third one, and placed his more personal emotion into theFrench Girl in Chongqing III:never forget your original willingness and come back to where you stand at the very beginning.

As the city microfi lm, countless audiences had a new understanding of Chongqing by following the footprint of the heroine. This short film not only captured the wide interest of foreign audiences but also was praised as the “Chongqing Tourism Guidance”by Chinese netizens. Chinese netizens hope that Mélanie, the French girl who was regarded as the tourism ambassador, could come back to Chongqing. Nowadays, her last trip to Chongqing is unveiled.

On the eve of 2017 New Year’s Day, even if the premiere had not been released, the trailer ofFrench Girl in Chongqing IIIhad already caused wide attention with a breakthrough of millions of page hits. Mélanie told in the film that she thought she herself had a very good understanding of Chongqing, but director Chen told her that there were some other places in Chongqing that couldn’t be missed.

The opening of the film is refreshing as the actress seems to shuttle in the European forest, and then a modern city appears before her eyes after passing through the forest. In theFrench Girl in Chongqing III, she had a deeper view of famous and time-honored streets hidden behind the city’s prosperity, enjoyed a rich experience of Chongqing’s modern and passion, and launched an exploration of mysterious zone in the urban areas. The microfilm shows Xiahao old street, three layers of the road, mine park and speeding light rail with re-adoption of natural, rustic and cordial perspective, demonstrating both the old Chongqing city and new urban region with the newest and strongest fl avor of life.

You can see such scene in Chongqing that people sit in rows and eat noodles with Chongqing local flavor (called Xiaomian). Only two plastic stools will bring you the special taste of delicacy of mountain city. The old streets of mountain city possess unique location in the bustling city full of high-rise buildings, serving as the visiting card and the most yearning place of Chongqing. In the mine park located in Yubei District, Mélanie said that, believe it or not, this is also Chongqing. As the popular landscape emerging in the past few years, the mine park has attracted countless outdoor enthusiasts, enjoying a great reputation of “the US Yellowstone Park in Chongqing”. The core theme of this fi lm is “to view Chongqing with another perspective” because in the Chen’s mind, his hometown, Chongqing, shows a different image in his every shooting. He would like to let everyone understand that there are so many beautiful landscapes waiting for us to explore.

“To live up to people’s expectation, I devoted great efforts and time during the whole shooting to keep the style of pre-works, and seek innovation and breakthrough. I hope that the third of this series could bring audiences a wonderful, shocking and rich Chongqing trip, and let more people fall in love with the mountain city.” Chen accepted the inspection of netizens onFrench Girl in Chongqing IIIwith muchtrepidation but message from netizens made him feel relieved:

“As a Chongqing resident, I feel so proud, thank the French girl, and thank the director!"

“Since I work in the fi eld, every time when I see these videos and pictures depicting my hometown, I always cannot help missing my relatives and friends, and fi nally shedding tears.”

“This video refreshes my understanding of Chongqing once again, Chongqing is a must-go place.”

Lead the audiences to appreciate the unique beauty of the world

Chen recorded what he saw and heard in the three cities of Italy into the fi lm from the view of a Chongqing native, which includesVenice Scroll, Milan Era, Naples Vientiane.He edited the trilogy ofItaly in the View of Chongqing Peoplefull of fi neness, romance and interesting.

On January 19, 2016 when the trailer of this series first issued in Youku, it was topped by documentary channel, causing the quick and wide attention and the breakthrough of more than one million page hits. Chen said, “Italian authoritative media,Republic Newspaper,made a positive comment on the fi lm, ‘full of poetic and aesthetic fl avor’. Seriously, there is nothing more important than the works can be recognized.”

In the cooperation with the Italian Consulate General in Chongqing, Chen tried adopting a new documentary form with no protagonist in the fi lm because he wanted to use the purest lens with the unique editing way to show a different Italy full of infi nite charm. He vividly demonstrated the beauty of Milan Cathedral, St. Mark’s Square, Meljelina coastal road and other places by making a perfect match of music and picture with realistic technique. By appreciating this series, viewers could be brought back to those beautiful attractions through a wonderful perspective, and follow the footsteps of the director to have a taste of excellent scenery to which even tourists who have been to Italy would feel very strange and delightful.

Mr. Chen expressed complete and equal love to the whole trilogy ofItaly in the View of Chongqing People. He added that if the favorite one must be selected, he would vote for Naples because Naples, just like his hometown, is so beautiful and abundant with the ladders, mountain city, alley, shore and climbing cable car, etc. It’s simply the Italian version of Chongqing.

The audiences also note that the fi lm is exquisite and picturesque, but it is totally not a scenery fi lm at all. A kind of humanistic care can be found in Chen’s lens since shooting scenery is important for him while recording people in the scenery means more. Therefore, many scenes in the fi lm seem to tell their own stories. He said this was the real Italy in his eyes.

(The pictures were provided by the interviewee )

Dream Shines into Microfi lm, More Charm Injected into City

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