Picture Book of Hunting Crime： How to ＂Portrait＂ the Unit Detective Drama？

Text/Wang Xinyi

The two completely different eyes on the cut-off self-portrait indicate that the next fate of Shen Yi (JC-T) is still the hidden true self, and The Picture Book of Hunting Crime ends with an impression to be continued.

Also to be continued is the audience’s enthusiasm for this unit detective drama.

On the closing day of members on Wednesday, the heat value of "Hunting Crime Picture Book" in iQiyi Station exceeded 8926, and the heat remained unchanged the next day after closing, maintaining at 8800+. According to Yunhe data, the effective broadcast market share of the feature film "Hunting Crime Picture Book" on the closing day of members is as high as 34.9%, ranking first in the hit list of series.

Source: Yunhe data

At the same time, the # Hunting Crime Picture Book really has the second season # also boarded the hot search in Weibo.

Wu Yao, the chief screenwriter of "Hunting Crime Picture Book", toldYiyuguancha (ID: yiyuguancha): "The broadcast content has not completely consumed the content created by the screenwriter team for" Hunting Crime Picture Book ",but whether the second season will be developed depends on the producer. At the same time, the cycle of "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is about three years, even if there is a reserve, the creation cycle and speed of next season are not so fast. But we did make a lot of preparations, and we are always ready. "

Wu Yao further revealed that,From the very beginning, the team planned a "crime-hunting universe" featuring "gods" such as criminal investigation heroes and experts in other fields. Their stories have been created, and "Crime-hunting Picture Book" is only the first part of this "universe".

With the data rising all the way, netizens shouting "adding more" and hot topics, "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is undoubtedly a dark horse drama.

This is related to the freshness of the drama.

First, describe the "newness" of the object.Picture Book of Hunting Crime chooses the portrait artist as the main object. This profession has not been described too much in previous domestic dramas, and with artistic content, details and atmosphere, a detective drama with a completely different style jumps out of the screen.

Stills of "Hunting Crime Picture Book"

Second, the adaptation of real cases is "new".Under the seemingly outrageous case, it is a mapping and discussion of hot topics in today’s society. Based on real cases, it can be skillfully landed in the drama.

Third, the "newness" of unit investigation.Even in recent years, there have been a lot of suspense detective dramas, and there are many works with high reputation and breaking circles, but there are still a few in deus ex as unit dramas.

The realization of the above new ideas is inseparable from the screenwriter team.

The Book of Hunting Crime is an original script, and the screenwriter team comes from the Paperfort Screenplay Studio.

The real daily life of the portrait artist, as well as the prototype cases such as "marriage fraud and murder", "kidnapping with thousands of faces", "gold shop robbery" and "serial bombing" come from the real interview of another chief screenwriter Jia Dongyan; Screenwriters Zhang Han and Zhang Fan are responsible for writing the case of the breakout; Screenwriter Sharla Cheung will carry out secondary processing on the basis of the breakout, and together with Liu Yifei and Liao Yuyan, put all the information points of the breakout into scripts … The two chief screenwriters Jia Dongyan and Wu Yao will participate in the whole process.

At the same time of the hit of the series, the scriptwriter’s studio in Zhibao also saw various voices, among which doubts such as "suspension", "lack of suspense" and "insufficient depth of the case" often emerged.

Regarding these questions, as well as some unconventional settings of Hunting Crime Picture Book as a unit detective drama,Yiyuguancha (ID: yiyuguancha)Have a further dialogue with Wu Yao, the chief screenwriter and Zhang Han, the screenwriter of A Picture Book of Hunting Crime.

Under the style of "flying", how does professionalism land?

A person who is painting, paintings born on buildings one by one, and a requirement of "painting old at the age of three", this is the opening of A Picture Book of Hunting Crime, and the interpretation of three lies hidden in death of marat is Shen Yi’s first appearance.

With the appearance of the portrait artist, the different styles of Hunting Crime Picture Book are displayed.

The first is the connection between story and painting.

In the case of burying a corpse on campus, Shen Yi referred to Nine Pictures, the case of domestic violence and Judith’s Cut off the Head of Helephone, and the heroic and noble man completed by Shen Yi and Du Cheng (played by Jin Shijia) at the end of the play, as well as the artistic elements in the play all the time, which made the Picture Book of Hunting Crime more closely linked to the profession of portrait painter, and added a sense of literature and mystery.

At the finale, Shen Yi and Du Cheng finished The Hero and the Lofty Man.

At the same time, with the composition, tone, picture, and Shen Yi’s own artistic sense, many netizens commented on the drama "literature and art".

"The style we decided at the beginning was to be beautiful, literary and sentimental. At that time, when communicating with the visual team and art directors, I always emphasized one thing-our story should be like Picasso’s oil painting, and its color should be strong, bright, bright and lively. " Zhang Han said.

Wu Yao summed up this style as "flying"-passionate and visual flying, but the "flying" of visual style means that the content will fall to the ground.

First, it is role-shaping, which controls its professionalism and professionalism.

In the play, Shen Yi can "paint an old man at the age of three", "look after a child and paint a father", look at a face after plastic surgery, draw a face before plastic surgery, draw someone else’s face in the eyes of a face-blind person, and judge that the three people involved in the "Thousand Faces Kidnapping Case" are the same person by drawing a skull …… The skills are full, and even it is easy to cause "deification" doubts.

In fact, these "skills" are all learned through the preparatory work such as scriptwriting, reading and collecting materials.

For example, Luo Dong, a police officer who graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Xi ‘an Academy of Fine Arts and now works for the Municipal Bureau, is the portrait artist Jia Dongyan met during the tour. Police officer Lin Yuhui, who participated in the live connection during the broadcast of Hunting Crime Picture Book, drew 70,000 portraits in 10 years, specializing in the simulation portrait as a criminal investigation method, and provided the US with the simulation portrait of the suspect in the "YINGYING ZHANG disappearance case" …… "God man" and "magic skill" are real.

Live connection between Lin Yuhui and Beijiang team

It is precisely because of the vertical and precise roles and fields involved in the play that more professional requirements are put forward for the screenwriter.

Wu Yao said that the screenwriter team has prepared a lot of desk work for the creation of "Hunting Crime Picture Book", and the amount of words is no less than one or two million words.

In addition to collecting opinions and interviewing portrait artists, the screenwriter team also studied a large number of relevant documents and bibliographies through libraries and online periodicals, watched relevant documentaries and programs, collected various materials about cases and role identities, and taught themselves a lot about portraits.

In painting, Zhang Han, a doctor of art, and another screenwriter from an art family in the team contribute professional content.

The details of the scene have not been ignored. The creative team specially invited the first-line criminal police to take control at the scene, and a lot of meticulous preparations were made to ensure professionalism as much as possible.

These specialities are wrapped in every case. This is another "landing" place of "Hunting Crime Picture Book": the cases are "traceable" and fit the current topic.

Through the case setting, The Picture Book of Hunting Crime shows and discusses a large number of social hotspots-the problems faced by women in the workplace, campus violence, educational equity, domestic violence, lonely old people and so on. You should know that "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is a project started at the end of 2018, and many cases have been confirmed in 2018, and it has been more than three years since it was launched.

Stills of "Hunting Crime Picture Book"

"Screenwriters still have to be a little forward-looking. This forward-looking means that our film and television industry naturally has a time difference."Hunting Crime Picture Book" began in 2018 and was broadcast in 2022. Our work is relatively smooth in the industry and has not gone through any obvious detours. The production company Ning Meng Film is also very powerful. Wu Yao went on to say that some cases, such as the AI face-changing fraud case, were decided in 2018, and now it seems to be closely related to current events.

It can reflect the acute social problems permanently, arouse people’s strong empathy, conform to the temperament of the whole story, and satisfy the cases, topics and stories of "three abilities", which is the selection standard of Hunting Crime Picture Book.

"AI fraud case is a kind of pre-judgment based on the current AI technology for the possible forms that AI will be applied in the criminal field in the future. As mentioned in a book about future crimes that we refer to, the iterative speed of crime far exceeds people’s expectations.What we do in this story is to catch up with the crime. I hope that before the crime happens, or when it just begins to appear, the form of crime will be displayed to give the audience some vigilance."Zhang Han added.

In addition, what is interesting and different is that the Book of Hunting Crime puts more pen and ink on women.

Some Female Characters in A Picture Book of Hunting Crime

The female murderers with a high proportion of probability, the female victims in almost every case, even the style of the whole drama mentioned above, or the CP that attracted many people during the broadcast, all focused more or less on female issues and female audiences.

At the same time, the female police officers in the play got rid of the stereotype image of stupidity and incompetence that is common in domestic criminal investigation dramas; Female victims are no longer just fragile images, but also show their strong side; Female murderers are not extremely sharp and completely evil. Screenwriter Zhang Han described them as "beautiful, wild, cunning and affectionate, similar to Medea-like women in Greek mythology".

"The positioning of our play from the beginning is to serve the female audience and make women feel comfortable. Whether it is artistic temperament, or paying more attention to women’s issues, shaping women’s images, and not having a’ taste’, the tonality is more friendly to women. " Wu Yao said.

How to crack the successful password of unit detective drama?

With the case of Jiangbei human trafficking gang solved, The Book of Hunting Crime ushered in a happy ending.

There are 10 stories in 20 episodes, and a main case is linked among them, which has high density and fast pace, and the unit drama mode of Hunting Crime Picture Book is at work behind it.

"When I started writing, I decided to do a unit drama. Although during the creative process, I also received many opinions that did not support the unit drama. Fortunately, we persisted. " Wu YaoduiYiyuguancha (ID: yiyuguancha)Frankly.

The concerns of unit dramas are not unreasonable. After all, the maintenance of the standard of each case, the non-cursory shaping of the characters, the distribution of the primary and secondary stories and other factors have hindered many unit detective dramas from gaining high reputation and high topics.

Summary of Cases of Hunting Crime Picture Book

"First, we think that from the creative point of view, a small case will make the whole story more interesting."Zhang Han explained:"Second, rather than leaving a story, we want to leave an impressive tag-style character."

The successful exploration of Hunting Crime Picture Book in unit detective drama can not be separated from two aspects.

In Wu Yao’s view,"Setting up people" is the core of unit drama and the most important aspect.

"When we talk about people today, we are no longer just a person, but a person, that is, the setting of this person. Based on this character trait, a story world can be extended. In other words, as long as this person is established, the whole story creation will become a material library. "

The tag-style, genius-type figure and "person-setting" of "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is Shen Yi.

In addition to having all kinds of "magic skills" mentioned above, all aspects of this "human design" have been carefully shaped.

"We not only pay attention to the work deeds of the portrait artist, but also care about the living conditions of the portrait artist himself and his unique way of thinking." Zhang Han introduced that, for example, the self-portrait surrounded by a mask in Shen Yi’s portrait room was designed by the writers according to the office style of a portrait artist when collecting wind-full of various sketches, but there was a strong color Sunflower in the corner of a professional environment with black and white as the main color. "I think this is a prominent feature of a portrait artist, that is, his perception of color. In such an environment, there is such a "Sunflower", which has emotional power, and this character will come alive in a moment. " The reason why I chose "Self-portrait Surrounded by Mask" is also considered by the writers: "We really want to embody the character Shen Yi, who is surrounded by various faces. At the same time, this painting itself also reflects the painter’s aloof temperament, which is very consistent with Shen Yi’s personality characteristics, so it must be released anyway, even when we enter the crew, we are staring at the art team and must put this painting in. "

Illustration of Hunting Crime Shen Yi (JC-T)

At the end of 20 episodes, an image of Shen Yi, who is aloof, gentle and cool, stood in front of the audience.

In the second aspect, the characters stand still, and the unit drama still needs to solve the whole narrative problem, that is, how to tell each case well, control the rhythm of the story, and link a single case with the main line without obvious craftsmanship.

Although the Book of Hunting Crime has arranged 10 cases, the length of each case is basically kept within two episodes in the form of unit drama, but the length and pen and ink of each case are different.

For example, there is an episode or so between the campus corpse burial case and the thousand-face kidnapping case, interspersed with marriage fraud and murder cases; The 15 episodes, between the AI fraud case and the serial bombings, took about one episode to tell the story of the female model Xiao Shan’s photo being destroyed.

"The choice of small cases is often related to the gradual change of the relationship between the two leading men. In a big case, two people solve the case, but because of the complexity of the big case itself, the relationship between the two people is difficult to push forward. Then, in a small case, you can talk about these lightweight cases while doing the main line relationship promotion. " Zhang Han explained: "For example, Xiao Shan’s case is mainly about a small and even humorous case. We set the overall tone for this case. Du Cheng wants to use Shen Yi’s method to solve a case that is not complicated and doesn’t even need to dispatch police. In this case, we learned about Ducheng’s past and family history from Shen Yi’s perspective. We also consider making the emotions between several episodes have a swap. Not all cases have complicated emotions. "

Of course, each case is more or less linked to the main line.

For example, in the case of plastic surgery, Jiang Ge finally "imprisoned" women for his own ambition, while the case of two women killing their husbands is a story of a woman "saving" women, and the back and forth echoes are thus completed. The connection and metaphor are still in the details, and the m that Shen Yi and Du Cheng are looking for crazily stands for Manger, which means that it is a manager role in the organization; When the last behind-the-scenes Boss of the main line was announced, how the killer at the beginning of the series could accurately locate the position of the thunder team was explained.

Stills of "Hunting Crime Picture Book"

Judging from the content of the broadcast,Although not every case of Hunting Crime Picture Book clearly reflects the connection with the main case, the promotion of the main line has always existed and continued, and the unit drama has thus taken shape.

The data of Hunting Crime Picture Book has been rising all the time. The discussion on the profession of portrait painter, the discussion on the female images created in the play, the revelation of the details of the case, and the call for the next season have all proved the recognition of Hunting Crime Picture Book by the market and the audience, and further opened up the room for upgrading the unit drama.