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Full-length documentary series Blue Ocean China created by BNU SAC debuted

On December 31, 2021, the launch event of the China on the Sea project of China Media Group (CMG) was held in Beijing. The event also launched the screening of the documentary Blue Ocean China on CCTV Ocean Channel.


CCTV Ocean Channel launching and premiere ceremony of the first season of Blue Ocean China


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Produced by CCTV and created by the School of Arts and Communication (SAC), BNU, the 10-episode full-length documentary Blue Ocean China is a core component of the China on the Sea project and officially premiered on CCTV and other terminals from December 31, 2021. On the tenth anniversary of the Marine Economic Powerful Nation Strategy, as China's first documentary with coastal cities as the theme, the first season of Blue Ocean China focuses on ten cities, i.e. Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Beihai, Haikou and Sanya, shaping the new image of coastal cities, telling the story of the new exploration of marine power, and showing the new achievements of marine construction. The documentary uses vivid lenses to illustrate the changes in each city that was born, prospered and turned beautiful because of the sea. The documentary touches sincere feelings to appeal more audiences to care about, understand and manage for the ocean, and strives to become an important window of communication so as to enhance the awareness of the people and the concept of “harmonious coexistence between man and nature”.


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On the evening of December 31, CCTV's News Broadcast reported on the debut of the China on the Sea project and the premiere of the documentary Blue Ocean China.


Blue Ocean China was produced by SAC BNU, with Vice Dean Professor Yang Chenghu as the general director, young teacher Shi Zheyu as the executive director, and young teacher Hu Shuai as the theme song composer. More than 20 graduate students from SAC from Beijing and Zhuhai campuses of BNU deeply participated in the creation.


Screenshots from the theme song


The director team of Blue Ocean China has solicited the opinions of authoritative experts and scholars in the creative process for many times. It focused on the main purpose of the marine power, carefully selected typical characters, deliberated the structural context, and refined the storyline. For more than a year, the director team traveled to ten coastal cities in China, which mounted to tens of thousands of kilometers, carried out multiple rounds of field shooting, and finally produced 10 episodes of wonderful stories, each lasting 30 minutes.


Screenshots from Blue Ocean China


The creation process fully demonstrated the professionalism of teachers and students of SAC BNU in paying attention to social reality and recording the era with images. It gave full play to the academic research expertise and high-level creative ability of teachers and students, highlighted the comprehensive advantages of the first-class disciplines of drama and television studies of BNU, and explored the creation path of academic documentaries in the new era. It is another masterpiece in the creation of documentaries on major themes and mainstream video discourse in the new era.


Screenshots from Blue Ocean China



The documentary Blue Ocean China:

https://v.cctv.com/jishi/lhzglhzg/index.shtml?spm=C57274.PIqjGxrbMdeo.MBfafpAZieKZ.1

Theme song:

http://news.cctv.com/2021/12/28/VIDEewbw8pKbtELfjoZ7dGaE211228.shtml

Promotional video:

https://v.cctv.com/2021/05/26/VIDEzXevAr0JVTi4RLhqU8Qt210526.shtml?spm=C90324.P3KDFOibiRKC.EdzUMeFWSr65.10