Zhejiang Satellite TV's New Year's Eve concert creates a "subversive" stage scene

At 19:00 pm on December 31, Zhejiang Satellite TV's "Run 2016" New Year's Eve concert will be staged at the Spring Cocoon Stadium of Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. At present, preparations for the party have entered a sprint stage. Not only are the men's team 7 and star guests such as Na Ying, Fan Bingbing, Yu Quan, Zheng Jun, and Xu Wei carefully preparing for the New Year's Eve carnival, but the behind-the-scenes staff are also nervously busy building the New Year's Eve stage.

On the basis of last year's high standards, this year's stage design has been fully upgraded again. Not only was a gorgeous metal bell tower built in the main scene of the stage, but the scenery, lighting and LED screens were also integrated on the scene to create a "Gothic Garden", striving to bring the most shocking visual experience to the audience. At the same time, green environmental protection and recycling are also other highlights on this year's New Year's Eve stage. This time, the designer abandoned the costly production of scenery in the past and built a majestic castle through the reorganization and construction of existing materials.

The 100-meter scenery span, new hardware equipment creates a shocking

audio-visual scene, dreamy, dreamy metal bell tower creates a romantic scene of the "Garden of Gothic"

This year's Zhejiang Satellite TV's New Year's Eve Gala will be held at the Spring Cocoon Stadium of Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. For the evening stage designers, this venue, which can accommodate 20,000 spectators, is not only a place to show their skills, but also a challenge. It is understood that the stage area of this New Year's Eve concert is huge, several times that of ordinary concerts. Among them, the main scene of the dance beauty has a span of 100 meters and a height of 30 meters, equivalent to a ten-story building. The main stage performance area is 80 meters wide and 50 meters deep.

On this magnificent stage, the designer created the "Garden of Goth", inspired by the ancient European bell tower. "We extracted typical shapes from this architectural element, divided them and reorganized them. What we finally presented to you is a dreamy metal bell tower that integrates Gothic architectural elements." In addition to the unique shape of the main scene of the stage, the party also abandoned the traditional stage beauty scenery technique of separating the scenery and lights in the past, and used the design concept of mutual inlay to maximize the integration of the scenery, lights and LED screens. "So when audiences come to the stadium, they will not feel like they are watching a concert, but will feel like they have come to a palace-like garden. There is an abstract Gothic building behind it, with a bell tower in the background, and the audience is the sea of flowers in the tower. This is why the name 'Gothic Garden' comes from it."

In addition to the carefully built "Garden of Gothic", the stage form, hardware facilities and music equipment of this year's New Year's Eve concert have also been fully upgraded. Due to the advantages of outdoor performances, this stage can be built into the form of front and back stages. "At that time, there will be a screen dividing the 50-meter-deep main stage into two areas. The front area will be for stars to perform, and the rear area will allow for the replacement of large scenery." At the same time, there will be more than 9 smart touch elevators on the stage floor, and large-area extension tables will be set up on both sides to facilitate better interaction between stars and the audience. The audio team will also make maximum use of existing equipment to create a shocking effect that integrates vision and hearing, making the audio effect far better than last year. "In order to match the stage shape, the positions of this year's line array, return sound, and main amplifier sound will be different from the usual performance positions."

The "block-type" components are environmentally friendly and recyclable.

More than 200 stage staff work day and night to achieve the best stage effect.

Although the setting is beautiful and the lineup is huge, the stage designer also said that the biggest highlight of this year's New Year's Eve stage is innovation in energy conservation and environmental protection. The evening scenery abandons the costly production of scenery in the past, makes the most of existing resources, and gives them new ideas and functions. "For example, the material used in our metal bell tower is the existing light trusses. This time, in order to reduce production pollution, almost all major materials are used to weave, combine, and re-structure them, and then build the majestic castle like building blocks." In this way, the production activities in the early stage are greatly reduced, and the useless consumption generated is naturally reduced to a minimum. At the same time, these materials are not disposable and can be recycled after disassembly.

It reduces a large number of complex processes such as scene making and welding, which will inevitably bring many difficulties to stage construction. First of all, from a design perspective, it takes a lot of effort to solve the problem of how to assemble and combine these materials. Secondly, for construction personnel, the on-site installation process will be more cumbersome than the previous stage installation process. "To put existing things together, there will be a lot of accessories, such as millions of screws. How to fix them and form the desired shape is very difficult, and the pressure on the construction workers is also very huge." Due to the huge amount of work, there are more than 200 dance staff this time, more than three times more than last year. In order to ensure a perfect presentation, this year's New Year's Eve stage took nearly two months from preliminary preparation, construction and handover. I believe that with such careful preparations, Zhejiang Satellite TV will surely be able to present a high-standard audio-visual feast for everyone on New Year's Eve on December 31!