At 8:00 p.m. on August 8, 2008, the world was focused on Beijing, and the curtain of a century's grand ceremony was opened. The Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games impressed the world with its grandiose gestures, novel imagination and high-tech innovations.
How many students and teachers from all levels and types of schools are contributing to this century-long event? We do not have exact statistics, but we see, there are a lot of students in the performance of the opening ceremony; student volunteers almost all aspects of the work of the field, dealing with all kinds of problems raised by the audience in the field, the audience has something to think of first is to find volunteers to seek help; there are also a lot of volunteers in the stadium outside of the post to work, a lot of people did not have to see the opening ceremony in the first place, but they are in Many people were not able to see the opening ceremony first, but they were busy, silent dedication, their excellent performance let people really feel the warmth, but also won the praise.
Show the world the most beautiful smile
Children in national costumes escorted the five-star red flag to the entrance, 9-year-old girl Lin Miaoke from Xizhong Street Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing, sang "Singing of the Motherland", and Lin Hao, a student from Yingxiu Township, Wenchuan, acted as a flag bearer for China's appearance, 5-year-old girl Li Muzi and Lang Lang **** played "Starlight", and 9-year-old Zhu Qiaoyan played "Starlight" in the "Bird's Nest", which is the most important part of the opening ceremony. "Bird's Nest" in the flying kites, these children's lovely and generous image, face overflowing with laughter infected all the audience watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. "I and you, heart to heart, live in the same global village; for the dream, thousands of miles, meet in Beijing ......" when Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman in the blue dream earth. Brightman sang the Beijing Olympic Games theme song on the blue dream earth, "Bird's Nest" lit up a children's smiling faces, fireworks in the night sky at the same time bloomed 2008 smiling faces, the whole scene of thunderous laughter. This is the opening ceremony is particularly moving, mesmerizing scene.
Holding up the 2008 "smile umbrella" is 2008 beautiful girls, Beijing No. 2 Golden Sail Dance Troupe of 50 members in which. They are to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, a group of secondary school students, of which the youngest is only 13 years old, the also less than 18 years old.
Most of the action is covered by the smiley umbrella, the ordinary audience simply can not see, perform such a dance feel worth it? "The opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games is very rare, to dance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, is the honor of my life!" The opening ceremony has ended, but the Golden Sail Dance Troupe of Hou Xinrui still can not contain the excitement.
"This part of our performance emphasizes neatness and unity, and each rehearsal takes a long time, and the sweat can be described as a small river flowing with water!" Talking about the hard work of training, sophomore Wang Ya Xin exclaimed.
In addition to the "smiley face" segment of the performance, Wang Yaxin and Hou Xinrui also acted as the opening ceremony standard bearer, cheering to welcome the athletes into the field. "Wearing never high heels, jumping constantly for two and a half hours, but also always maintain a full state of mind, this is a great challenge to our physical and mental. At the end of the day, it felt like the legs were not our own. But a force in my heart has been supporting myself, especially the moment I saw the torch lit, all the joy 'exploded'!" Hou Xinrui in addition to hard work feel y proud.
According to reports, during the training period, the 50 students, there are at the time of the middle school exams of the junior high school students, there will be facing the examination of the senior high school sophomore, there are three senior high school students. The opening ceremony of the heavy rehearsal tasks and how to balance between academic, the 50 children learned in the rehearsal gap "squeeze time" to learn. Finally, three seniors were admitted to colleges and universities such as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and other grades of the girls also achieved good results in the exam.
The passionate service of the volunteers touched the public
At the opening ceremony, the grandstand interactive volunteers also attracted the eyes of the audience. They led the audience to create an atmosphere that made the imposing opening ceremony more exciting and full of enthusiasm. "These volunteers spend most of their time with their backs to the stage, leading the audience to interact, they work too hard." Sun Xiaolin, an audience member from Beijing, said.
The volunteers who felt the charm of the "smile" did not feel bitter. "At the opening ceremony, the stands I was in charge of were almost all foreigners, and I was guiding them to interact with each other in English. At that moment I felt that I really realized why 'the smile of volunteers is the business card of Beijing'!" The opening ceremony grandstand interactive conductor volunteer Sun Yuying said excitedly.
Sun Yuying and other grandstand interactive volunteer companions from various universities in Beijing, although the opening ceremony before they received a full range of training, learning the basic essentials of interactive command, cheerleading professional gestures, general knowledge of medical first aid, as well as foreign etiquette and response to emergencies and other knowledge, but how to maximize the opening ceremony to drive the audience to interact with the heart is still not bottom. To this end, the volunteers made a lot of efforts. "We first find a point of interaction. There will always be one or two people in each area who are willing to cooperate, especially the children, and break through from them." Zhang Zichao said. Li Shuang, on the other hand, suggests, "We have zero distance contact with the audience, which is an advantage. Before the command must communicate with the audience, fully brewing emotions."
According to incomplete statistics, on the night of August 8, in the National Stadium and Olympic Park public **** area for the Olympic Games opening ceremony service volunteers up to more than 5500 people, and which the proportion of teachers and students of colleges and universities in the proportion of more than 90% in the process of serving the Olympic Games, the volunteers grew.
Our modeling stands up to the test of the camera
Colorful fireworks from the Beijing central axis all the way to the north, opening up one after another, a huge footprint step by step from south to north, which symbolizes the 29 Olympic Games 29 footprints, bloomed in the air, and y touched the hearts of all the audience watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. In the sparkling fireworks behind the bloom, Nanjing University of Science and Technology School of Chemical Engineering, Professor Pan Gong with the credit, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games fired by the Hunan Liuyang firecrackers is by Professor Pan and his research team to participate in the development of.
In addition to the sparkling fireworks, people who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be impressed by the modeling, make-up.
Prof. Xu Jiahua, Director of the Costume and Makeup Teaching and Research Department of the Choreography Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, is the chief designer of the make-up and styling for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. She determines the "look" of every actor and every appearance. "From 2:00 pm, leading a team of 700 people standing for more than 10,000 actors to do hair, makeup, to 6:00 sharp end, 1 minute can not be delayed! 4 billion viewers to enjoy the opening ceremony through the TV, can not be sure when the camera will be shot where, our look to stand up to the test of the camera! "
"Bird's Nest" no mirrors, no makeup lights, a row of small benches, a few fluorescent lamps, is the "dressing room" all. "This time is the most heavy task and pressure among the activities I have engaged in. I only slept five hours a day at most." Even so, Xu Jiahua still perseverance: "This life can participate in the Olympic Games, feel very happy, pay more is also worth it."
The application of sound and light, video in the opening ceremony reached the ultimate, which is behind the support of high-tech, colleges and universities play a major role in this. Beijing Institute of Technology School of Software "digital performance simulation technology" team developed a "large square cultural performances computer three-dimensional intelligent simulation scheduling system" in the Olympic cultural performances of creativity, rehearsal, implementation to the final performance, have played a huge role; Peking University participated in the preparation of the "2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies of artificial rain operation implementation program"...... universities stand in the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, with their own scientific research advantages for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to provide strong intellectual support.
Full support for students involved in the opening ceremony
Behind the student actors, volunteers, silent support for them is the school and teachers.
Since the rehearsal of the opening ceremony, many bags full of food have appeared in the office of the Youth League Committee of Beijing Technology and Business University. Inside there are 1 bottle of eight treasure porridge, 2 bottles of mineral water, 1 bag of pure milk, 1 bag of walnut milk, 2 marinated eggs, 1 corn sausage, 1 bread. This is the school to participate in the opening ceremony rehearsals for students to prepare a simple meal. Rehearsal a *** to be carried out 8 times, the day before each rehearsal . Teachers of the committee have to personally go to the supermarket to order food for the students, but also to arrange for chartered buses.
In order to allow college volunteers to better engage in the preparations for the Olympic opening ceremony, each school has played its own unique "warm card".
Beijing Union University **** 151 students to participate in the opening ceremony performance, but because of the Union University campus is very scattered, these 151 college students scattered in 11 colleges, 8 campuses, the organization and management of students is very inconvenient. Although the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games equipped the school with four special cars for actors, it still could not meet the need for unified transportation of students from all campuses. In response to this situation, Beijing Union University for the two farthest campuses with an additional car, every day regularly to the two campuses to pick up and drop off students. In July, the school also mobilized the main campus will go to the internship of some of the senior students will be vacated their beds, will be all involved in the performance of the students to concentrate together.
Beijing Geely University has 300 students involved in the opening ceremony performance, including 62 part-time standard bearer, and 21 students to become the opening ceremony guide, is the private colleges and universities in the opening ceremony of the largest number of people involved.
The hard work of the students, teachers see in the eyes, pain in the heart. In addition to providing effective protection for the students' normal rehearsals, every day when 10 buses carrying students from the school departed to the training site, over seventy years old, the head of the Office of the Olympic standard-bearer ushers Peng Derong will be standing at the entrance to the school, rushing to wave at each car. The students were heartbroken and told him to hurry back and texted him, "Grandpa Peng, don't worry, we will train well! "
Many schools have also opened a number of green channels for students, night special preparation of late-night snacks, bathhouses open to 1:00 a.m., extend the dormitory open, meal card recharging, water room water, and other services, the establishment of a volunteer TV viewing point, so that students can easily know the news of the Olympic Games in a timely manner ... ...
Sharing the Olympic spirit, sharing the glory of the Chinese nation, which makes every silent supporter and dedicatee behind the opening ceremony feel happy.