New recruits, please enter the line

2021 documentary directed by Zhao Yunze and Zhang Xin
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"Recruit Please Join" is a military documentary produced by CCTV network and directed by Zhao Yunze and Zhang Xin. The film will be broadcast on CCTV.com and Tencent Video on June 2, 2021 [2] .
The film takes the recruits' enlistment as the time coordinate and records the gradual changes and changes of the recruits from the first day to the 180th day of enlistment [7] .
Chinese name
New recruits, please enter the line
Generic type
brigade
Producing company
CCTV network, Tencent video
Direct performance
Zhao Yunze , Zhang Xin (Chief Director) , Jiang Jing , Wang Jiayin (Diversity Director)
dramatize
Ji Xiwen (Writing)
Producer
Li Chunhai
Producer
Xu Shaopei
Number of sets
7 episodes
Online playback platform
Central video, Tencent video
Episode length
32 minutes
Production area
Chinese mainland
Premiere time
June 2nd, '21
Shooting location
Xizang

synopsis

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Record the whole process of growth of recruits from enlistment to assessment, 180 days and nights of crawling and rolling, 20,000 kilometers across the ultimate panorama to create a diary of PLA soldiers. More exclusive in-depth land, sea, air force mysterious training, unlock the People's Liberation Army new training subjects, heaven into the sea drill mountain, three perch perspective to see the three armies [8] .

Diversity plot

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6-7
    The first episode is all noobs
    There is no imagination of vigorous, 00 new recruits daily from folding quilts, kneading towels, re-learning to dress and sit up. They will take six months to transform from ordinary local youth to PLA soldiers, and smashing themselves is just the first step.

    Team up for Episode 2
    Air Force recruit Siti would do competitions, endlessly repeated, so that standards could be woven into muscle memory; Army recruits to practice, one fell behind, the whole class suffered; Navy recruit Xu Menghao, Xi mention the new class monitor position, but because of low emotional intelligence, were rejected by comrades. On the battlefield, one mistake is enough to lead to collective defeat, nearly a month into the camp, the recruits are learning to integrate into the collective.

    Episode 3 Class Leader Halo
    The first big exam of the army, the new recruits of the Air Force guarded the first place for Tao monitor; Cleaning is not careful, Qu Sang monitor personally for the army recruits to clean again, gave them a lesson; District captain "play cards and chess" true story, Navy new class monitor Xu Menghao with commos-in-arms relationship began to break the ice.

    Episode 4 Private Achievement
    After three months of training, the new recruits who had not kneaded the towel were finally going to become qualified soldiers. Before they can be named, they have to pass the ultimate test, shooting live ammunition, throwing grenades and traversing a poisoned zone.

    Episode 5 A New Beginning
    I always feel that the new army company is like a year, and the new recruits are respectively under the company. The army went to the snow-covered plateau at an altitude of 3,000 meters to learn to be an all-round communication female soldier; Air Force "touch fish" brothers horizontal bar skills improved, but was divided into different professions; The naval student just arrived at the station, and was severely "taught a lesson" by the new monitor.

6-7
Reference material [9]

Behind the scenes production

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Creation background
Inspired by the popularity of young people when the "Soldier" episode of the CCTV documentary "Life for the first Time" was aired in 2020, the creator of the film came up with the idea of creating a documentary on the subject of military recruits. Zhang Xin, the director, said that the original intention of the film was to show how the army trained ordinary people with different ideas into real PLA soldiers with consistent thinking and dedication in six months. In the face of the beginning of the recruitment season, there are countless shooting directions and character story lines to choose, producer Zhang Hao determined three selection principles: diversity, representation, and drama. The film took six months to shoot, covering 20,000 kilometers, the crew went deep into the new training base of the army, navy and air force, ate and lived with the new recruits, got up early and got dark, and overcame many difficulties such as limited team size, inconvenient transportation, and altitude sickness [5] .

Creative team

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producer
Qian Wei, Sun Zhonghuai
General producer
Li Ming, Ma Yankun
Chief planner
Tang Xiaoyan, Wang Juan
General editor
LAN Jun, Huang Jie
Supervise the production of
Zhu Lexian
General producer
Zhang Hao
Overall planning
Li Xiaowei
Producer
Li Chunhai, Xu Shaopei
Chief DIRECTOR
Zhao Yunze, Zhang Xin
Diversity director
Jiang Jing, Wang Jiayin
Director of photography
Liu Yonghong
contribution
Ji Xiwen
shoot
Yu Jin, Ren Long, Jet Li, Wang Jing, He Xiangkui
DUB
Recorded AT
Zhang Jinge, LI Yangyang, Li Xin, XU Pengda
Editing director
Zhang Xin
Post-production director
Li Chang
Reference material [3]

Music soundtrack

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Song title
Write words
Composed BY
Sing (in a performance)
remark
INTO1- Lin Mo, INTO1- Bo Yuan, INTO1- Zhang Jiayuan
Theme song
Reference material [3]

Award record

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time
Awards
Prize winner
result
October 2021
Excellent domestic documentary in the second quarter of 2021
"Recruit Please Enter the Ranks"
Win a prize [4]

Issue information

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pre-publicity
A preview was released on May 26, 2021 [10] ; As of July 7, 2021, the film has received more than 270 million views and 430,000 discussions on Weibo [2] .
Broadcast information
Air date
Broadcast platform
June 2, 2021
CCTV network
Tencent Video
Reference material [1]

Evaluation of works

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As a documentary that presents the life, training and assessment of new soldiers in new barracks, "Recruit Please Join" uses the seemingly ordinary or even boring details rarely presented in the past, such as kneading towels, platoon exercises, clearing snow and driving birds, etc., in the selection of materials, and truthfully shows the audience the criticism, education and help of the squad leader, the emotional changes and growth and progress of new soldiers. Let the audience naturally walk to the scene of the new barracks, and feel the laughter and tears of the recruits.
The film does not deliberately beautify characters or hide flaws. The deep and multi-dimensional creative touch and observation perspective show the rich and three-dimensional human nature, so that the audience can feel the life quality and individual display of the military group in the plot with conflicts and deficiencies, and complete a transformation journey together with the new recruits in the image.
The film adopts a restrained and restrained emotional communication strategy, focusing on the inner heart of the characters from an internal perspective, without ups and downs of the plot, no soaring rendering, only the true emotional revelation of the story. But this is enough to drive the audience to actively seek emotional connection, stimulate resonance, and thus immerse themselves in the recruits' ups and downs (Review by Military Reporter magazine) [6] .