英国议员麦克·贝茨为纪录片《之江故事》点赞_风闻

编者按：该文摘自英国上议院议员麦克·贝茨徒步浙江日记。

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俗话说：众人拾柴火焰高。

今天是一个我和雪琳“配音”的日子——我们为解读中国工作室录制了大约40条配画外音工作，它们将会被用于正在摄制的《之江故事》纪录片中。经过同意，我们来到有先进录音设备的温州人家园工作室进行录音。

解读中国工作室团队一直伴随着我们这次徒步旅程，他们付出了难以置信的努力一直在路上扑捉记录这次徒步的精彩过程以及途中的访问。他们是我们徒步团队的重要组成部分，藉此机会，我想好好为大家介绍这个团队，并代表我和雪琳表示对他们的感激之情。

菲奥娜·麦格雷迪是一位导演兼制片达人，她来自英国苏格兰的格拉斯哥。她至今为止共拍过三部系列纪录片，受解读中国工作室的邀请，她加入了我们的团队，做随行拍摄记录片的导演。

菲奥娜是纪实纪录片领域的行家。对菲奥娜来说，这次徒步旅程她印象最深刻的是参观磐安古茶园时见证茶神节庆祝活动以及永康古廊桥。现在我们的徒步即将结束，她将立即开始着手剪辑系列纪录片中的最后一集片子。

薛奕薇来自解读中国工作室的中方制片人，她在大学时学习英语专业，曾在英国兰卡斯特大学深造，研究生则留学洛杉矶学习电影制作，现生活在北京。

奕薇曾拍摄剧情片电影的制作，电影往往拿到剧本后才能开拍；而这次的徒步纪录片则是围绕一个主题展开拍摄，然后根据实际发生的内容撰写脚本。最让奕薇印象深刻的，是徒步一路上的大自然美景，以及在永康医院探望残疾儿童时深受感动和启发。

厉佳乐是我们团队的首席摄影师兼无人机操作师，佳乐来自江苏连云港，他毕业于南京师范大学，专业是摄影技术。佳乐自己建立了摄影公司，是解读中国工作室的合作伙伴。

他擅长拍摄纪录片，他制作的一部介绍中国自然风光的短片《海拔中国》在2019迈阿密—美洲中国电视艺术周暨金珍珠电影颁奖典礼上荣获短视频组最佳导演金奖。

四年前从北京徒步到杭州的途中我们认识了佳乐。佳乐对这次徒步印象最为深刻的是启程仪式以及参观康复中心的残疾儿童，他有一个两岁的女儿，故当他来到残疾儿童康复中心时，很受感动。

这一个月远离女儿来和跟随我们拍摄，他每天只好用手机和女儿视频通话。每天需要扛着沉重的设备拍摄长距离画面，有时遇到恶劣天气，这些都很艰苦很具挑战性。

李明是一位出色的音响师，他来自辽宁沈阳，生性幽默，一路上带给我们欢笑，使我们在路上精神振奋。李明从事音响工作已经有15个年头，以前他经常参与电影和电视的制作，他不仅拍过电影，还演过电影。

和嘉乐一样，他也是一位自由职业者，时常会接到很多拍摄项目。他印象最深的是徒步中的一天，雨下得很大，他需要在录音的同时要保护设备，不让它被雨水弄湿。他对下姜村也印象非常深刻。

丁志鹏是解读中国工作室的摄影师，他来自山东，在大学时学习编导专业。这次徒步他专注于人物拍摄以及一些特写镜头。我们认识志鹏是在去年，那时他来途中拍摄我们从北京走到曹妃甸的视频。

除了拍摄，志鹏还有一副极好的嗓音，他的母亲是当地的戏剧演员，而他本人则倾向流行歌曲，善于独唱。徒步过程中，最让他印象深刻的是参观下姜村以及永康医院的儿童康复中心。

程向东是我们摄制团队的司机，他是湖北人，18岁便到杭州打工，现在在旅游行业当司机。他有两个孩子，女儿22岁，儿子13岁。这次跟队，是他为数不多的长时间离家。

程师傅说，最让他感动的是，不管天气多么炎热，我们都一直坚持，尽管身体状况不算太好（我想他在说我）。每完成一次接待任务，如果客户事后给他打电话感谢他，他都会认为这是顾客对他工作的认可而非常开心。我想我们也应该今后打电话感谢他。

说实话，我和雪琳之前一直担忧我们的纪录片团队的摄制工作，因为我们的工作是纯属自愿为主，而且我们感觉很难做出能让别人读懂我们故事的作品。但解读中国工作室这个团队工作十分努力，他们经常与我们沟通，或者与我们商量在哪些方面需要我们配合，这打消了之前我和雪琳的顾虑。

另一点让我们担心的是，我们以前的徒步开始时也有媒体团队跟随，但后来可能是因为我们的徒步过于无聊和单调，便中途放弃了。

公平的说，要跟着一对谁也没有听说过的老年夫妇长途跋涉一个月，要一直提起兴趣，这对任何纪录片制作人来说都是一个挑战。

但是随着沿途浙江各地美丽的自然风光，悠久的历史文化以及令人赞叹的浙江人民在我们的身后，以及世界级专业摄制团队——一切皆有可能。

原文 / 麦克·贝茨勋爵

翻译 / 李拓东

摄影 / 戈海峰等

责任编辑 / 伍浩茹

总校对 / 雪琳

贝茨勋爵日志英文原文如下:

OVER AND OUT

‘Together-Everyone-Achieves-More.’ (TEAM) Source–unknown

Today had long been in the diary as ‘Voice Over’ day. That means a day to record around 40 audio voice links for the China Review Studio (CRS) team for the documentary they are making about the walk called ‘A Walk through Zhejiang’. We had been given kind permission to use a state of the art studioat the Wenzhou Returned Overseas Chinese Centre for the purpose.

The China Review Studio Team have been an ever present part ofour journey and have worked incredibly hard trying to capture some of the incredible experiences and visits we have made along the way. They have been an important part of the team and this blog would be a good moment to introduce them and for Xuelin and I to thank them:

Fiona McGrady – Self-shooting Producer/Director–from Glasgow inScotland. Fiona is a Producer/Director of the series of three documentaries. She was hired by China Review Studio to be the director and joined our walk. She is a specialist in observational documentary making. The stand out moment for Fiona was the visit to the Pan’an Tea God ceremony and the old covered bridge in Yongkang. Whilst the walk for us is finished for Fiona she now goes into editing the final series of films.

Yiwei Xue (Sami) – Producer with China Review Studio. Xue lives inBeijing but studied film production in Los Angeles and studied English at university which included study in Lancaster in England. Xue has worked in fictional film making where you start with a script and then film it, whereas in a documentary you start with an idea, film it and then write around it. Xue has been most inspired by the natural beauty and by the visit to the disabled children’s unit at Yongkang Hospital.

Jiale Li – No 1 Cameraman and Drone Operator. Lianyun Port, Jiangsu Province. Li studied photography at Nanjing Normal University. Li is acontractor to CRS and has his own company. he specializes in documentary making. He was recently awarded a Gold Medal and Best Director Award at the Golden Pearl Award Ceremony in Miami for his short film about the natural beauty of China. We had met Li before when he had come out to film part of our 2015 walk from Beijing to Hangzhou. The opening ceremony, visit to the hospitalas he has a daughter who is two years old so this touched him. Everyday he video his children. Challenge weather carrying long distance heavy camera.

Li Ming – Sound Engineer – Shenyang Province. Ming has kept our spirits up with his good humour along the way. He has been doing sound engineering for fifteen years. In the past he has worked mostly on TV and in movies. Not only has he worked on movies he has acted in movies. Like Li he is also a freelance recordist so works on various projects. His memory of us walking in the very heavy rain was a particular strong memory as the challenge was to record the sound without getting electronic equipment soaked. Xiajiang Village was his highlight.

Ding Zhipeng (Martin) – Photographer with CRS. He is from Shandong Province and studied Editing and Directing at University in Shandong. Martin’s role is to focus on the individuals and close up shots rather than the more general views. We had met Martin before as he had come out to cover our 2018walk from Beijing to Caofeidian. He also has an extremely good singing voice,his mother is a local opera singer and he does solo performances of modern songs. He was really impressed by Xiajiang Village and by the visit to the disabled children’s hospital in Yongkang.

Cheng Xiangdong – Driver – From Hubei Province and has been working in Hangzhou for 18 years and does mostly tourist transportation. He is married and has two children – 22 and 13. It is not that often that he is away from home for so long. Mr Cheng said he was impressed by the fact that no matter how hotit got we still walk despite not being very healthy (I think he means me). Hishappiness comes from his clients and customers being happy and calling him after a job finishes to thank him. We will make sure to do that.

To be quite honest Xuelin and I have been apprehensive about having a documentary team with us because our works are intensely personal and it is difficult to hand over how the story is told to someone else. The team from CRS worked hard to let us know what they had and what they felt they needed from us and that eased our concerns.

The other worry we had was because we had had media teams join us on previous walks but they had given up because walks (and we) were ‘boringand repetitive’. In fairness trying to make an old couple, who no-one has ever heard of, walking along busy roads each day for a month sound interesting is a challenge for any film maker. But with the beautiful scenery, historic culture and amazing people of Zhejiang behind us and the world-class skills of CRS film production team – anything is possible.