"The Shape of Culture" Season 2 Wraps Up Premiere with Last Episode to Air on March 6

Following the huge success of season one, the show has elevated the creative concept and narrative logic, presenting more in-depth, structured answers to the three key questions: What is world heritage? Why is it world heritage? What can world heritage do? Following the huge success of season one, the show has elevated the creative concept and narrative logic, presenting more in-depth, structured answers to the three key questions: What is world heritage? Why is it world heritage? What can...

Following the huge success of season one, the show has elevated the creative concept and narrative logic, presenting more in-depth, structured answers to the three key questions: What is world heritage? Why is it world heritage? What can world heritage do?

In terms of selecting the heritage sites, this season has especially emphasized diversity, featuring a wider range that not only includes archaeological sites like Yin Xu but also natural and cultural sites like Mount Wuyi, highlighting a distinct down to earth style of youthful spirit, artistry and critical thinking, which all together has endowed the show with a wider, deeper perspective in time and space. The "youth troupe" also participated in the story and planning meetings of the second season, expressing their personal understandings of the world heritage sites.

The new season also optimizes the content structure to improve content richness: each episode opens with a suspension or curious fact, using personified expression to have the treasures "talk" about the legends and historical tales, by documenting the lively moments of modern city life, recording 24 hours of real life scenes around the heritage sites, through a history chatroom that virtually asks the historic figures to tell the stories, or using heritage big data to highlight the uniqueness of Chinese heritage in a global perspective.

The program, aiming at to awaken the culture of World Heritage sites, combines technology, aesthetics of traditional clothing, music, peotry and mock dialogue with ancient people to enrich and explore the extradinary way of culture presentation. In the show, audience are able to watch the tradtional clothing fasion show, enjoy themselves at concerts of traditional music, and join the poetry session in the midnights through the lens.

Visually, the film language of the new season not only emphasizes "beauty," but different ways to interpret the various kinds of beauty. To achieve this goal, the production team used the meticulous design of the camera angles as part of an integrated system that converges sound, lighting, graphics, style and copy. Through stage performance, theater interpretation and modern art, the show has deconstructed Chinese aesthetics to inspire the public's perception of the beauty of China.

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