at yesterday's Pingchang Winter Olympics, did Beijing's 8-minute stunning appearance shock you? 'artificial intelligence, I think, is unique. On February 24, Zhang Yimou, Beijing's eight minute director, revealed the main part of the show. At the same time, he said, "welcome to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.".
On the evening of February 25, Beijing time, the 2018 Pingchang Winter Olympic Games officially came to an end. The Chinese sports delegation won a total of 1 gold, 6 silver and 2 copper in this winter Olympic Games.
At the closing ceremony, Wu Dajing, a Chinese short track speed skater, served as the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation. As the host city of the next Winter Olympic Games, Beijing will take over the Olympic flag from Pingchang and officially enter Beijing on behalf of the Winter Olympic Games.
At the same time, Beijing's eight minute art performance officially appeared. On the 24th, Zhang Yimou, the director in chief, said publicly: you want to see beautiful colors and unique Chinese culture. And I believe it will be different from what you expected, with a new feeling. Especially with the performance of artificial intelligence, it is very unique.
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In March 2017, the "Beijing eight minutes" joint working group was established; on February 24, 2018, Zhang Yimou and Chang Yu, director of the information and Publicity Department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympic Games, visited the wind and cloud conference to tell the eight minute creation story of Beijing.
He said that in the era of image, influencing works is an important way of expression. Through the combination of image and artificial intelligence, such as the four major inventions, high-speed rail, bike sharing, mobile payment, etc., new and contemporary images will be concentrated instead of the old image symbols.
The representative of the past is the Beijing eight minutes of the Athens Winter Olympic Games 14 years ago. Beijing opera, red lanterns and jasmine flowers, in Zhang Yimou's opinion, "it was our first appearance, we wanted a lot of things and wanted to express a lot of content, and finally made a jigsaw puzzle, the effect was not reasonable. This time, 14 years later, in Beijing under the background of Internet and new technology, it is necessary to transfer Chinese culture imperceptibly instead of becoming a propaganda film or window. '
Generally speaking, the theme of the 8-minute Beijing Olympics is "welcome friends from all over the world to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics". It has two characteristics:
1. AI participation, AI and actors complete the performance together;
2. Interact with ordinary Chinese people through the Internet, so that the latter can participate in performances in certain forms.
Minister Chang Yu said that the whole eight minute idea is based on the Internet interactive activity -- on the eve of the lunar new year, the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games launched the "Winter Olympics have me" activity. Before the closing ceremony of the Pingchang Winter Olympics, from February 15 to 25, all netizens can participate in the "Winter Olympics have me" official small program national invitation activity on wechat, and record the exclusive invitation together with sports stars Voice, wechat avatars of participants will have the chance to appear in the "Beijing 8 minutes" link. In addition, invitation letters can also be sent to the world in the official microblog of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Based on this activity, Chang Yu predicted that the 8-minute session in Beijing is likely to be the one with the largest number of participants. At the same time, Chang Yu said that China is a big internet country, and this 8-minute session in Beijing is the final presentation of Internet activities.
For Zhang Yimou, the chief director, the weather in Pingchang has always been the most worrying factor for him. On the night of the 23rd, the rehearsal with makeup was interrupted and cancelled due to strong wind and snow. On the evening of the 24th, a dress rehearsal with makeup was temporarily added to the original rehearsal plan, and a total of four full element rehearsals were conducted.
The reporter observed that at 20:11 Beijing time, the Winter Olympic Games in Pingchang was coming to an end, and the transition song was the Greek National Anthem and the Olympic Anthem.
At 20:17, the Winter Olympic Games officially entered Beijing time, followed by the 8 minutes of Beijing directed by Zhang Yimou, as well as the image of China in the new era displayed through modern techniques and thinking.
First, 24 roller skaters and 24 intelligent robots with intelligent ice screens perform a variety of winter sports. The reason why the number of 24 is adopted, according to Lei Feng, is to symbolize the 24th Winter Olympic Games in 2022 in Beijing.
24 ice screens are manipulated by intelligent robots. Through the transformation of high-tech images, they draw beautiful curves and tracks on the stage, which are in contrast with intelligent robots, bringing an audio-visual feast integrating technology and culture.
In addition, roller skaters and robots weave images of Chinese knot, great wall, bird's nest, National Grand Theatre, Chinese dragon and other symbols of Chinese culture through images to convey good wishes to the world and the presentation of Chinese power.
After that, the picture gradually shows China's high-speed rail and China's bridge construction, symbolizing China's science and technology and construction strength in the new era; large airplanes and astronomical telescopes symbolize China's target space war in the future.
Subsequently, the 24 screens gradually show the emblem of the past 23 Beijing Winter Olympics, symbolizing the blood of the Olympic spirit. Finally, through the high-speed driving of roller skaters, the Internet tunnel symbolizing the highest achievements of human science and technology and the new way of life gradually emerged. Two panda roller skaters, through the Internet tunnel, returned to Beijing to collect people's blessings.
This screen conversion means the rise of China as a powerful Internet country, and the strong insertion of the popular bike sharing brand Mobai bike.
From the four traditional inventions to the presentation of artificial intelligence technology, it symbolizes the progress of new science and technology in China.
The panda special envoy returned to the closing ceremony of the Pingchang Winter Olympic Games through the Internet tunnel, and the roller skaters rotated again, marking the year 2022 and conveying the blessing of "welcome to Beijing in 2022" to the public.
According to Lei feng.com, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games undertakes the vision of letting the Olympic spirit light up the youth dream and integrating winter sports into hundreds of millions of people. The Games will adhere to the concept of "green, sharing, open and honest" and plan to use 26 venues in three competition areas, most of which will be completed on the basis of the existing venues for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, so as to meet the requirements of the International Olympic Organizing Committee for environmental protection and economy.