Statistics from the new kyoto newspaper show that the two seasons of fruit pass cover nearly 100 types of fruit, and that over half of rare fruit items, such as cactus, tortoises, cloudsberries, davidson lee, finger oranges, blue sanne, etc. Where are these beautiful and delicious fruit protagonists from, and how did they get picked up? The reporter of the new kyoto newspaper interviewed sole and the producer ju le xian, the director of fruit pass 2。
Guess what kind of fruit these are
New kyoto, ning ping
Read the books and get to the experts
How does the audience wonder about the rare fruits that appear in the two seasons of fruit pass? Sole told the newspaper that the team had the same access to rare fruits as the average audience, by searching the books. “perform a well-distributed theme and then find fruit according to it. For example, in the first season, we're going to look for some strange fruit. How? It's all about books, books about plant fruit, and experts. That's what a lot of work was done in the previous study." sole's expert, the academic consultant for fruit pass, professor zhang jae-hee of the shanghai college of agriculture and biology and doctor of botany shijun of the middle school, gave advice to the team in many professions。
Users are interested in fruit they haven't seen
The fruit pass showed the audience a lot of rare and strange fruits: oranges in shape like fingers, grains of fruit like caviar; mystic fruit that can make the yogurt sweet; papayas that attract the fruit pickle to the sweet feast... The producer of fruit pass 2 and general manager of the penguin film and film studio told the newspaper that the increase in the number of rare fruit in the second season had been adjusted on the basis of feedback from users after the first season. The data show that users are more interested in new and strange fruits than they have seen, thus increasing the share of rare fruit in the second quarter。
There are six continents around china
The two seasons of fruit passeparture were filmed on six continents except antarctica. Of these, 31 were shot in the first quarter and 36 in the second quarter, adding south america and africa to four continents in the first quarter. Owing to the distance from the site of the shooting, the two seasons of fruit passes are more frequent in asia. However, compared to 24 asian sites in the first quarter, which accounted for up to 77 per cent, the second quarter was more widely distributed, with the number of asian sites falling to 47 per cent。
With the expansion of the area map, fruit pass 2 presents more rare fruits growing in relatively wild and primitive natural environments. For example, the “principal” brazilianberries, which are grown in the amazon jungle in belém, brazil, at the beginning of the second season, and the wild watermelon in the third episode, which has low levels of sweetness similar to cucumbers and can be used to bathe children, are sources of water for indigenous people in the kalahari desert in botswana, africa. Referring to the expansion of the fruitage 2 picture, sulai revealed that, on the one hand, more rare fruit was involved in the second season and more locations were found by the team in order to trace them; on the other hand, the fruitage 2 shot continued from july 2018 to march 2019. This time spans less fruit in the northern hemisphere, but coincides with the mature season of fruit in the southern hemisphere. As a result, during the second quarter, there were a number of fruit products from africa and south america in the southern hemisphere。
As a chinese documentary, the vastness of china accounts for the largest share of fruit spots in the two seasons. It is worth mentioning that most of the 25 chinese filming sites in the two seasons are located along our border, either in the southern coastal areas, such as guangdong, fujian, or in the south-west or north of yunnan, tibet, xinjiang, inner mongolia, etc. Only the peaches of the first season were taken in hebei, in the mainland of china。
According to sole, “the variety of fruits in these areas is abundant and easy to grow, and the chances of being selected as a filming site are high. The natural environment of the south is very good for fruit. In this case, even the same fruit, which is also cultivated, will be relatively less retrofitted in the environment, orchards will be closer to nature and the picture will be more beautiful. Fruit cultivation is also common in the central region of the north, but there are heavy traces of artificial intervention, and the overall environment is relatively poor as a result of images, which are less often captured here.”
The team can't stop changing angles
In sole's view, nature was the biggest opponent in the two seasons of fruit pass. Because the fruit itself is seasonal, the year of maturity is impossible to film, and maturity changes every year; the fruit also runs into years of abundance and apologetic years, catching up with late years, and the fruit does not produce the desired results. In addition, sudden weather conditions can have a fatal effect on fruit, resulting in the failure of the original filming plan. “the second season was planned to film korean citrus. As a result, there was a typhoon, and the fruit was lost, so we had to change the options. Some of the fruits that were to be taken were suddenly matured earlier this year, and the shooting was only alternative.” according to sole, plans such as this have not kept pace with changes and have had to change the "fruit hero" scenario, almost running through the two seasons of fruit pass. “none of the five stories of fruit ii was taken as planned.”
In addition to uncooperative nature, short shoot times are another rival of the team. The fruit matures in such a way as to require crews to travel in the northern and southern hemispheres without interruption, according to the mature-planned shoot route. The team of directors of the two seasons of fruit pass is composed of women after 90. One of the teams finished filming the brazilian part and had to go back to the tibetan lynch for another fruit, without even a gap in adjusting the time difference, leading to a problem with the immune capacity of the group director and a very serious rash。
Filming of wild rare fruit is also a major challenge. Much of the wild fruit is grown in remote areas, and it takes a day or two to reach the filming site, after which it is necessary to go deep into the wilderness to find their trails, and it is common practice to be exposed to small risks。
The team, together with the fruit hunter couple tina and simon, crossed the mosquito-infested, exceptionally wet marshlands in the malaysian tropical jungle in search of the tortoise from the roots. At that time, tina was pregnant for six months and was advised not to go, but she insisted on finding it together. Throughout the process, directors and camera assistants fell in mud and, fortunately, tina didn't fall, which relieved everyone。
Brazil berry, which begins with fruit ii, needs to be shot with drones of the master climbing to the top of the tree to pick the fruit. The drones hung on the branches as they rose and flew away. It was good that the master's relatives had found a drone on the trees across the shore, climbed up the trees and found it working。
Balancing fruit with human "play"
While storytelling is a good documentary narrative, it can easily lead the creators astray. Failure to balance the relationship between human-related content and the main actors in the documentary will eventually lead to a noise and lack of audience recognition. The most critical point for the bean petals, "china 3 on the tip of the tongue" , which scored 3. 8, was that it was “persons and lovers alone, without food”。
Sole believes that the first season of the fruit pass is still a little more about people, and the creative teams are clearer when the second season is filmed, and the audience is looking at fruit, not human, and the main character of fruit is unshakeable. “no one can. Because fruit doesn't speak or have any action expression, it's not our intention to speak of fruit-related knowledge alone to make the whole film look like a science film. It is important to control the ratio of fruits to people, and we will make differentiated settings for the themes of the clusters. The first few episodes of fruit ii are absolute protagonists, followed by the seventh episode, "i'm gonna be ruined by you" and the eighth episode, "no without you," are two-way settings: fruits cannot be without the help and nurturing of human beings, and human life cannot be separated from fruit, and when it comes to the interaction of fruit with human beings, there will be more."
