Leng Nuan Ren Sheng-Empty-Nest Elderly Creative Report

Column-oriented documentary is a fast food-style culture that faces to the public.In the new media era in which fragmentation reading has been flourishing,social focuses and news events that attract extreme attention emerge in endlessly.How to attract the audience’s attention on issues that exert certain or profound influence on the social progress becomes the content that TV presenters need to reflect on.Leng Nuan Ren Sheng is a mini-documentary program themed at “figures”,who are the party or relevant personnel involved in social hot topics or important events that concern the national welfare and the people’s livelihood in most cases.Most of all,this program focuses on the destiny of “marginal figures”.These people,who are coerced by the social storms,have difficulty making a living.The course of their life is closely bound up with the changes of the time.“Leng”refers to the grief and helplessness behind the figures in the limelight.“Nuan”refers to the hope,on which the figures depend for their survival,and the belief,which supports them to stick to the end.In this episode,the emergence of the “silver hair tide”crisis and the implementation of “two-child”policy in today’s China are mainly taken as the background to demonstrate one day of an old woman in a northern village.This episode was shot in an underdeveloped rural area in Shanxi,where the seniors are confronted with double pressure both financially and spiritually,just like the current situation confronting the countless seniors in the mainland China.An old woman named Li Xiuzhi is the leading figure in this episode.She has seven children,and only the third and fourth son live in the same village,the others got married and settled down in a faraway place or emigrated to other cities.The old woman,who used to be bright and cheerful,became increasingly silent in the solitary life as time went by.She only had something to say when her old friend Wang Cuiying paid a visit to her house.The shooting of this episode took two weeks.It is hoped that through the presentation of the old woman’s daily life,the conflicts between the old woman and her children,and the interview of her children about filial “piety”,the loneliness and lack of emotional care of the seniors in the contemporary villages can be demonstrated.