"The Origin of the White Snake": Using PPT to chase the light, the national trend allows more people to see the cultural confidence of the nation

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Everyone knows about Xu Xian and White Snake, but do you know about their love in their previous lives?

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Hello everyone, I am Thirteen. In the past ten days or so, I have been sitting quietly in front of the computer for countless late nights, dismantling stories, writing copy, and completing I created a set of PPT with the theme of "The Origin of the White Snake", which tells a beautiful mythical love story.

Regarding this PPT, I have a lot to say in my heart. Let’s take a look at the whole set of works first, and then please listen to what I have to say.

The latest big event that everyone knows in the PPT circle is the PPT National Trend Competition jointly organized by BenQ Projector and Eddie Goose.

The organizer of the competition has given 4 themes: Hanfu, opera, calligraphy, and mythology.

After seeing the theme given, the first thing that came to my mind was "White Snake: Origin", a masterpiece of Chinese comics.

The first time I watched this masterpiece from Light Chasing Animation, I wanted to make a PPT to call it out, but I never made any move.

But this time, I can not only participate in the PPT National Trend Competition, but also take the opportunity to complete the work I originally wanted to do. One duck can eat more, why not?

A 98-minute animation depicts a beautiful love story. If Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen represent the tenacity and bravery of love, what "White Snake: Origin" conveys is even more shocking and astounding. The touching emotion.

Although the video is good, making it into a PPT is a difficult process.

According to the requirements of the competition, the number of pages of the work must not exceed 10 pages, which means that I need to highly refine the content of more than an hour and a half, and use PPT design to convey the story as much as possible without destroying the logic of the film. become full.

To this end, I watched "White Snake: Origin" three times, recording some core lines and content during each viewing, and finally formed a complete paragraph.

By integrating the three articles and consulting some film-related information on the Internet, I finally determined the entire copywriting content of the 10-page PPT.

It should be noted that in order to make the story easier to read, I slightly adjusted the plot of the original film.

At this point, the deconstruction of the story is completed.

The copywriting alone tortured me so much, and the production process was even more brain-dead.

The first question is the rationality of the material.

In order to complete this work, I collected a large amount of materials related to "White Snake: Origin" from the Internet, and matched and grouped them one by one with the scenes that the copywriter wanted to express. When the materials were not enough to support the content, I also take screenshots directly from the video on my phone.

In the end, I collected 170 pieces of material.

But the problem still arises. There is an essential difference between using materials for entries and calling as a fan. That is, the materials for entries need to be authorized by the author, so I quickly went to chase @小TU? teacher of light animation.

Teacher Xiaotu is very supportive and allows me to use these materials with confidence and boldness. I am really grateful to Teacher Xiaotu for his help!

The second question is the reprocessing of materials.

In order to show the ultimate vision, as an Aries, I took out the potential genes of Virgo (there is no meaning of black Virgo here), took out the PS pen tool, and frantically cut out dozens of PNG materials.

To be honest, all the cutouts this year were contributed to this PPT!

The third question is appropriate typesetting.

About how to typesetting is the most energy-consuming thing in the entire design process, for two reasons.

First, it is necessary to use the most accurate elements to express the content that is most consistent with the original work.

For example, this page is a page that explains the background of the entire story. I finally chose to perform effects processing on the heroine Xiaobai, and the background was overlaid with a long shot of her fighting with the little Taoist priest when she was assassinating the national preceptor.

However, the original design of this PPT page looked like this.

In order to adequately express the content, the first version of the design used three materials: Xiaobai, Guoshi, and Little Taoist. Although it was highly consistent with the original story elements, the page design seemed confusing. .

So after thinking over and over again, I finally cut out some better materials and made a more visually comfortable layout.

The second reason is that it is necessary to design the page to closely match the story of the original work.

For example, on the first page, in addition to the layout design of the main characters, I also used the snake god materials of Xiaobai and the snake killer to convey a concept of confrontation and restore the story.

Another example is this page. After reading the original work, you will know that the plot is that Xiaobai feels that he cannot be with the male protagonist Xu Xuan because of the "different path of human beings", and Xu Xuan wants to stay with Xiaobai. , found the master of Baoqingfang, and was willing to change from human to demon.

In short, every additional page of PPT will kill brain cells. After working on it for several nights, this work is finally completed.

"Integrate technology and art to continuously create unprecedented and outstanding works."

This sentence is the mission of Light Chasing Animation, and facts have proved that they have achieved it. This section is titled "The Art of Chasing Light" for this reason.

If you have watched "White Snake: Origin", then you must be deeply touched by this sentence. If you haven't seen it yet, I sincerely recommend everyone to watch it.

This movie is a ceiling-level Chinese comic work in terms of story structure and visual appreciation, and the upcoming "White Snake 2: The Rise of the Green Snake" will definitely not disappoint.

Perhaps it was a coincidence. After finishing this work, Teacher Xiaotu sent it to the producer of Light Chasing Animation. The boss said he liked it very much. This was really a PPT experience. What an unexpected surprise.

Finally, let me share a few feelings.

First, the so-called national trend is actually the self-confidence demonstrated by our national culture on a global scale. I am fortunate to live in this era and witness the growing strength of the country and the growing happiness of the people. As a personal experience of many changes in the new era readers, feel inspired and encouraged.

Second, choose Chinese comics, because China’s five thousand years of civilization is our unique advantage in selecting topics. These artistic treasures will one day be presented in Chinese comics and other forms. Become a super IP that affects all parts of the world.

Behind this is also the national mentality. Regarding this point, I once wrote an article to talk about it in detail: Behind-the-scenes revelation | "Tianbao Fu Yao Lu" and "The Rise of Chinese Comics"

Third, thank you very much for reading this, I hope you can Get your likes.

I am Thirteen, let us join together to celebrate the YOUNG national trend!