《Cut to the main artery》Realistic depiction of beating workers

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In the past two days, a short story has been on the list, called《Cut to the main artery》.

According to WETRUE data, on July 21, this drama ranked second in the short drama popularity list, with a popularity value of 3.459 million;

On July 22, 《Cut to the main artery》 had a popularity value of 4.371 million, ranking first;

On July 23, it ranked first for the second consecutive day.

This micro-short drama about layoffs has a total of 34 episodes. It quickly hit the hot traffic spot after it was launched and quickly made the list.

Xinshier contacted the boss of the screenwriting competition of this short drama and learned more about the story behind this micro-short drama about layoffs.

Theme of layoffs: hitting workers’ pain points

"You worked for the company, but were stabbed in the back by the company." Have you ever experienced such grievance?

They say short plays understand you better than anyone else.Recently 《Cut to the main artery》, it has topped the list.This drama is expressing the voice of the majority of migrant workers and venting your grievances.

In the play, the male protagonist worked overtime for the company for three years, building all the data systems for the company, working diligently and without complaint.Once I worked overtime until dawn in the company and finally got some sleep. Unexpectedly, I was fired by the new leader for sleeping during work.

Even though the male protagonist is a technical elite and has no worries about finding a company, he felt aggrieved at the time.When I left, under the pressure of the senior management, I returned all the money I had earned in the company for three years, as well as the cars I bought during the period.

The new leader is the chairman's daughter.At that time, the new leader didn't know that the employee he fired for "sleeping at work" was the company's businessman. At the same time, he was also the "Kukeke brother" whom he had been in love with online for three years and had a crush on for three years.

From the subject matter to the plot setting, this drama has certain significance for reference and thinking.

According to the boss of the screenwriting competition, he accidentally came across a video of layoffs on Douyin. He was emotionally moved at the time. Then he thought about it. This kind of layoffs as the core content expression is very similar to the slapping technique in a short play.

“Nowadays, the themes are all about ‘secretly helping your wife, but being looked down upon by your wife’, which is not common in life.However, the focus of the creation of this layoff theme can be on 'the protagonist contributes to the company, but is stabbed by the company in the back'. This is a common experience of the current social animals, and it is more likely to arouse resonance and sense of substitution."

When work is not going well, when you are suddenly laid off, when you have been unable to find a job for a long time, does the appearance of this drama relieve your low mood?

"Market feasibility" + "hot topics" have contributed to the emergence of the theme of layoffs.

After some judgment and determining the market effect of the theme of layoffs, plot writing became the next key.

What should be emphasized here is that this is a 30-episode micro-short drama, and the content needs to be concise enough while ensuring the integrity of the entire drama.

Compared with conventional short plays, this micro-short play shows many changes and constants.

What remains unchanged is the core processing and balance of the short drama.

《Cut to the main artery》has the core of a regular drama, satisfying "'I helped him, but he didn't know, and betrayed me', giving the audience the expectation that 'he is going to die.'"

In terms of balance, the heroine's righteousness and villainy lines are used to correspond to the male protagonist's true identity and online vest, so as to achieve a contradictory balance.In the middle of the process, the male villain interfered with it even though he knew the reason, and the chairman took charge of the male protagonist. In addition, Manager Chen said, "He is a giant Buddha invited by our chairman when he visited the thatched cottage three times." The male protagonist's identity was simplified and powerful.The foreshadowing, to a certain extent, counterbalances the confrontation between the female protagonist and the male villain, and arouses the audience's expectations for the male protagonist's identity to be revealed.

For example, when the heroine first arrived at the company, her father made a special phone call to tell her about "a person named Lu". His existence was related to the lifeblood of the company.At that time, there happened to be a person in the company named Lu Shu, who was similar to the male protagonist's real name, Lu Su, so there was a misunderstanding in communication.

A misunderstanding caused by two similar names affected the two originally competing companies, and their fate and status began to interchange.

What has changed is the length of the episodes.The show only has 34 episodes, and shorter episodes also have an impact on the quality of the content.

Short story compression production cost

《Cut to the main artery》 gives an appropriate interpretation of the rough-and-tumble life and grievances of public workers, but the specific filming and production are not satisfactory.

The acting skills of the actors in the play are superficial.

For example, the heroine Chen Xue's acting skills, she wanted to show the majesty of the "three firepowers of a new official", but the result was that she was unclear about right and wrong:

"What does it look like? You two have been fired. Today I am going to clean up the Chen Group and see how many bugs there are in it."

As she spoke, she broke a ceramic doll on an employee's desk and fired the employee who had an electric pot on the desk.

I quickly adjusted to the point where my acting skills were less internalized when talking about my sweetheart.

After talking about the first female lead Chen Xue, let’s talk about the second female lead Jiang Yu. The situation is very similar.

When she learned that her competitors had driven away the talents she admired, she secretly rejoiced and decided to snatch them away.

The costume configuration is also in a similar situation, full of omissions, and the costumes of the actors have a certain sense of age.

For example, the clothing style of the first girl:

Second female look:

Based on the comprehensive shooting and production situation, it can be seen that in order to reduce costs, this drama was shot efficiently in a short period of time, so that various flaws appeared in the later stage.

The highlights and disadvantages of 《Cut to the main artery》 are obvious.

The advantage is that the theme of layoffs not only expresses a sufficient understanding of the psychological state of the unemployed group, but also allows the daily workers to get a certain degree of comfort in their hearts. Everyone found that even though the male protagonist in the drama is better than themselves and earns more than themselves, "Three yearsHe had more than 7 million in his account, but he was still laid off from his job." I felt that "he was worse off than me," and I gained positive emotional value from this.

The disadvantage is that the quality is rough under cost control.The show only has 34 episodes in total, which means its production budget was so low and so stretched that its filming quality was rough.

Looking at it from another perspective, this mini-drama only costs 23 yuan a time.Watching a fun drama at a lower price can soothe the fatigue of working people, which is also a good deal.

Then here comes the problem.Such a low-cost micro-short drama with a marketable subject matter has little material, but it has the traffic effect of becoming the first in a short period of time. Will you choose to follow up?

However, judging from the fact that it has dominated the list for two consecutive days, this short story that poked public sentiment is still a "good drama" that the market has the final say on.

After all, it doesn’t matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it can make money, it is a good cat.If the quality control is slightly improved, the reputation of the show will be greatly improved.

Perhaps, the poor acting skills and low-quality drama series are closer to the life of the cows and horses in the workplace. In addition, the empathy that everyone can have touches the hearts of the cows and horses, and the rest is not important.

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