梦想照进微电影 城市美出新高度

□ 文/本刊记者 熊怡

梦想照进微电影 城市美出新高度

□ 文/本刊记者 熊怡

陈佳欣，重庆青年导演，曾受邀与中国国家旅游局、法国谢尔省土地与旅游发展署、意大利驻重庆总领事馆等机构合作拍摄旅游宣传片。代表作品包括：《法国女孩在重庆》三部曲，《重庆人眼中的意大利》三部曲，“2014巴黎青年短片电影节”开幕影片《Lointaine》，“直辖19周年燃爆全城短片”《重庆，非同想象》。

并非影视科班出身，陈佳欣用5年时间，不断刷新重庆的颜值高度，让世界惊艳。他用摄像机记录了不一样的世界美景，让自己的梦想照进一部部叫好又叫“座”（网络点击量上千万次）的城市微电影。创造丰富的视觉作品，他一直在路上。

成为全国知名的城市微电影

2017年的春节，陈佳欣又一次远赴欧洲，不是为了工作而是度假。

2月3日，陈佳欣在法国里昂与老友“法国女孩”梅娜丽（Mélanie）重逢，特别赶来与他见面的还有梅娜丽的父亲。这位住在勃艮第的老人此前从没来过里昂，这次是为了见女儿的中国好朋友—让梅娜丽3次当上微电影女主角的陈佳欣。

2012年的夏天，这位法国女孩因假期实习来到中国，走进重庆，开始了她对这座城市的探索。梅娜丽偶然认识了刚辞去汽车销售工作的陈佳欣，两人一拍即合，带着业余的装备开始尝试拍摄微电影《法国女孩在重庆》。

那时候，整部片子虽然没有脚本，镜头语言却很丰富。磁器口、园博园、山城大街小巷，最自然的拍摄，就能体现山城的美。2013年初，该片完整版正式上传到网络之后，《法国女孩在重庆》的火爆程度让陈佳欣喜出望外，重庆市旅游局官方网站首页挂着《法国女孩在重庆》的视频，凤凰卫视还专门播出了它的3分钟预告片。

两年后，在重庆市旅游局的支持下，陈佳欣推出了《法国女孩在重庆2》，口碑依然爆棚。在2015年拍摄的第二部影片里，梅娜丽说，她想看看两年来重庆变成了什么样子。正如第一部片尾所言，这座城市如此之大，没有办法一次为大家介绍完，所以才有了更加丰富、更加深入的第二次探索。她游走了十八梯、长江索道、法国水师兵营、通远门、四面山、罗汉寺等地，陈佳欣用简单的言语、绚丽的画面，捕捉到更深层的重庆生活。除了主城区，合川钓鱼城、江津爱情天梯、铜梁安居古城等等，一些区县的地标也出现在影片中。

“《法国女孩在重庆》开启了我的导演之路，意义重大。”陈佳欣说，这个系列的微电影也让他拥有了众多的支持者，他承诺自已要完成它的三部曲。并寄予收官之作《法国女孩在重庆3》更多的个人情怀：不忘初心，回到原点。

作为城市微电影，无数观众曾跟随片中女主角的足迹，重新认识了这座城市，不仅引起外国观众的浓厚兴趣，也成为中国网友心中的“重庆旅游指南”。而法国女孩梅娜丽更是被大家视为“旅游大使”，希望她能多回重庆。如今，她的最后一场重庆之旅也揭开了面纱。

2017年元旦前夕，尚未举办首映式，《法国女孩在重庆3》的预告片在网上已经引发了大量关注，点击量迅速破百万。梅娜丽在影片中说到，本以为自己已经很了解重庆了，而佳欣导演告诉她，在重庆，还有一些地方绝不容错过。

2017年1月17日晚，陈佳欣（右）在重庆成功举办《法国女孩在重庆3》首映礼。

影片开场就让人耳目一新，女主角好像在欧洲的森林里穿梭，穿过森林豁然开朗，眼前是一座摩登都市。这一次她深入繁华背后的知名老街，尽情体验重庆的现代与热情，探索主城区的神秘地带。下浩老街、三层马路、矿山公园、飞驰的轻轨……影片再次用自然、质朴、亲切的视角，展示了最具有生活气息的老城与都市。

排排坐、吃小面，只要两张塑料凳，就能体验山城美味的精华。山城的老街，在高楼林立的繁华都市中有着特殊的位置，它是山城的一张名片，更是重庆人最怀念的地方。在渝北区的矿山公园，梅娜丽说，“你们相不相信，这也是重庆。”作为这几年才兴起的人气景观，矿山公园吸引了无数的户外爱好者前往，有着“重庆版美国黄石公园”之称。这部影片的核心主题为“换个角度看重庆”，因为在陈佳欣心中，故乡重庆常拍常新。他更想让大家明白，原来身边还有那么多美等待我们去发现。

摄制组取景地重庆矿山公园。

陈佳欣带“法国女孩”梅娜丽品尝重庆小面。

“要保持前期作品风格，又要寻求创新突破，不辜负大家的期待，这些都让我从拍摄到后期花了不少心思，希望带给观众一场美妙、震撼、丰富的重庆之旅，让更多人迷上这座城市。”陈佳欣怀着忐忑的心情接受网友对《法国女孩在重庆3》的检验，大家的留言足以让他感到欣慰：

“作为一个重庆人感到自豪，谢谢法国妹子，谢谢导演！”

“在外地上班的我，每次看见这些都描绘家乡的视频、图片都会忍不住想亲人、朋友，最后还忍不住流泪。”

“再次刷新我对重庆的认识，重庆非去不可。”

带观众领略独特的世界美景

《威尼斯画卷》《米兰时代》《那不勒斯万象》—陈佳欣以一个重庆人的视角将意大利三座城市的所见所闻收录进影片，剪辑出精美、浪漫、有趣的《重庆人眼中的意大利》三部曲系列。

2016年1月19日，该系列预告片在优酷首发，即被其纪录片频道置顶，迅速引起围观，点击量突破百万。“意大利权威媒体《共和国报》对短片的点评是‘充满诗意与美感’。说真的，作品能得到认可比什么都重要。”陈佳欣说。

这一次跟意大利驻重庆总领事馆的合作，陈佳欣首次尝试了没有任何主角的纪录片形式，他想用最纯粹的镜头语言配合特有的剪辑方式，展示一个充满无限魅力的意大利。他用写实手法将音乐与画面完美搭配，展现了米兰大教堂、圣马可广场、梅尔杰利纳沿海公路等地。欣赏这个系列，不仅可以通过美妙的视角带大家回到那些美丽不可方物的景点，还可以跟随导演的脚步，领略到哪怕是去过意大利的游客也会感到非常陌生和欣喜的美景。

陈佳欣说，《重庆人眼中的意大利》三部曲的每一部他都很喜欢，如果非要选择，他会多投那不勒斯一票，因为那个地方太美、太丰富，更重要的是很像自己的家乡，梯坎、山城、小巷、岸边、爬坡缆车……简直就是意大利版的重庆。

观众也注意到，影片虽然精美如画，但是不完全是风光片。陈佳欣的镜头还透露出一种人文关怀，对他来说，景很重要，但景中的人更重要。因此，很多画面看起来都像有自己的故事，他说，这才是他眼中的意大利。

（图片由受访者提供）

Chen Jiaxin, a young Chongqing director, was once invited to shoot the tourist promotional video with China National Tourism Administration, French Ministry of Land and Tourist Development in Cher province, the Consulate General of Italy in Chongqing and other institutions. He has many representative works including the series ofFrench Girl in Chongqing, the series ofItaly in the View of Chongqing PeopleandLointaine, the opening film of “2014 Paris Youth Short Film Festival”.Chongqing: Unexpected Imagination, a short film that igniting the whole city for the anniversary of municipality directly under the Central Government. Although, without receiving professional education of being a director, Chen has made continuous and long-time efforts for fi ve years to unveil the beauty of Chongqing, attracting the worldwide attention. He recorded an unique beautiful landscape, shining his dream into such popular and critically acclaimed microfilms (that have won thousands of Internet views). Chen has never stopped his strides in creating fantastic visual works.

Become the well-known city microfi lms

Mr. Chen came to Europe again in the 2017 Spring Festival, not for work but holiday.

On February 3, Chen reunited with his old friend Mélanie in Lyon, France. Her father also came to meet him with a special purpose. The old man, living in Burgundy, had never been to Lyon, but this time it was to meet his daughter’s Chinese friendwho gave Mélanie three chances to become the heroine of his microfi lms.

In the summer of 2012 when this French girl traveled to China for the sake of holiday internship, she came to Chongqing and then began her exploration of this city. When Mélanie met Chen for the first time by accident who just resigned from the car sales job, they had a mutual tacit understanding of each other. They started a new trip of shooting microfi lmFrench Girl in Chongqingwith unprofessional equipments.

At that time, even though the whole film did not have a script, what his lens expressed in the film was rich. The most natural shooting of Ciqikou ancient town, Garden Expo and streets and lanes of Chongqing could refl ect the beauty of this mountain city. In early 2013 when the short filmFrench Girl in Chongqingwas uploaded to the website, to Chen’s surprise and delight, it gained such excellent popularity that Chongqing Tourism Bureau hanged it on its offi cial website homepage and Phoenix TV had a special broadcasting of its three-minute trailer. Two years later, supported by Chongqing Tourism Bureau, Chen launched theFrench Girl in ChongqingⅡ, which still won widespread high praise. In the shooting of second film in 2015, Mélanie said she wanted to see the changes of Chongqing over the two years. As the first trailer said, the city is so big that it’s impossible to make a complete introduction for everyone. For this reason, a richer and more in-depth exploration is needed. She traveled many Chongqing places like Eighteen Stairs, Yangtze River Cableway, French Navy Barracks, Tongyuan Gate, Simian Mountain and Luohan Temple. Chen captured the deeper life of Chongqing with simple words and brilliant picture. In addition to main urban region, Diaoyu City of Hechuan, Love Ladder of Jiangjin, Anju Ancient Town and some county-level landmarks also appeared in the fi lm.

“French Girl in Chongqingopened my road of being a director with a great signifi cance”, Chen said. Thisseries of microfi lms have helped him to win numerous supporters so that he promised to finish the third one, and placed his more personal emotion into theFrench Girl in Chongqing III:never forget your original willingness and come back to where you stand at the very beginning.

As the city microfi lm, countless audiences had a new understanding of Chongqing by following the footprint of the heroine. This short film not only captured the wide interest of foreign audiences but also was praised as the “Chongqing Tourism Guidance”by Chinese netizens. Chinese netizens hope that Mélanie, the French girl who was regarded as the tourism ambassador, could come back to Chongqing. Nowadays, her last trip to Chongqing is unveiled.

On the eve of 2017 New Year’s Day, even if the premiere had not been released, the trailer ofFrench Girl in Chongqing IIIhad already caused wide attention with a breakthrough of millions of page hits. Mélanie told in the film that she thought she herself had a very good understanding of Chongqing, but director Chen told her that there were some other places in Chongqing that couldn’t be missed.

The opening of the film is refreshing as the actress seems to shuttle in the European forest, and then a modern city appears before her eyes after passing through the forest. In theFrench Girl in Chongqing III, she had a deeper view of famous and time-honored streets hidden behind the city’s prosperity, enjoyed a rich experience of Chongqing’s modern and passion, and launched an exploration of mysterious zone in the urban areas. The microfilm shows Xiahao old street, three layers of the road, mine park and speeding light rail with re-adoption of natural, rustic and cordial perspective, demonstrating both the old Chongqing city and new urban region with the newest and strongest fl avor of life.

You can see such scene in Chongqing that people sit in rows and eat noodles with Chongqing local flavor (called Xiaomian). Only two plastic stools will bring you the special taste of delicacy of mountain city. The old streets of mountain city possess unique location in the bustling city full of high-rise buildings, serving as the visiting card and the most yearning place of Chongqing. In the mine park located in Yubei District, Mélanie said that, believe it or not, this is also Chongqing. As the popular landscape emerging in the past few years, the mine park has attracted countless outdoor enthusiasts, enjoying a great reputation of “the US Yellowstone Park in Chongqing”. The core theme of this fi lm is “to view Chongqing with another perspective” because in the Chen’s mind, his hometown, Chongqing, shows a different image in his every shooting. He would like to let everyone understand that there are so many beautiful landscapes waiting for us to explore.

“To live up to people’s expectation, I devoted great efforts and time during the whole shooting to keep the style of pre-works, and seek innovation and breakthrough. I hope that the third of this series could bring audiences a wonderful, shocking and rich Chongqing trip, and let more people fall in love with the mountain city.” Chen accepted the inspection of netizens onFrench Girl in Chongqing IIIwith muchtrepidation but message from netizens made him feel relieved:

“As a Chongqing resident, I feel so proud, thank the French girl, and thank the director!"

“Since I work in the fi eld, every time when I see these videos and pictures depicting my hometown, I always cannot help missing my relatives and friends, and fi nally shedding tears.”

“This video refreshes my understanding of Chongqing once again, Chongqing is a must-go place.”

Lead the audiences to appreciate the unique beauty of the world

Chen recorded what he saw and heard in the three cities of Italy into the fi lm from the view of a Chongqing native, which includesVenice Scroll, Milan Era, Naples Vientiane.He edited the trilogy ofItaly in the View of Chongqing Peoplefull of fi neness, romance and interesting.

On January 19, 2016 when the trailer of this series first issued in Youku, it was topped by documentary channel, causing the quick and wide attention and the breakthrough of more than one million page hits. Chen said, “Italian authoritative media,Republic Newspaper,made a positive comment on the fi lm, ‘full of poetic and aesthetic fl avor’. Seriously, there is nothing more important than the works can be recognized.”

In the cooperation with the Italian Consulate General in Chongqing, Chen tried adopting a new documentary form with no protagonist in the fi lm because he wanted to use the purest lens with the unique editing way to show a different Italy full of infi nite charm. He vividly demonstrated the beauty of Milan Cathedral, St. Mark’s Square, Meljelina coastal road and other places by making a perfect match of music and picture with realistic technique. By appreciating this series, viewers could be brought back to those beautiful attractions through a wonderful perspective, and follow the footsteps of the director to have a taste of excellent scenery to which even tourists who have been to Italy would feel very strange and delightful.

Mr. Chen expressed complete and equal love to the whole trilogy ofItaly in the View of Chongqing People. He added that if the favorite one must be selected, he would vote for Naples because Naples, just like his hometown, is so beautiful and abundant with the ladders, mountain city, alley, shore and climbing cable car, etc. It’s simply the Italian version of Chongqing.

The audiences also note that the fi lm is exquisite and picturesque, but it is totally not a scenery fi lm at all. A kind of humanistic care can be found in Chen’s lens since shooting scenery is important for him while recording people in the scenery means more. Therefore, many scenes in the fi lm seem to tell their own stories. He said this was the real Italy in his eyes.

(The pictures were provided by the interviewee )

Dream Shines into Microfi lm, More Charm Injected into City

□ Article/Journalist Xiong Yi