Since The 21st Century Humanities History Documentary Story Narration Analysis In Our Country

A country has no documentary like a family has no photo album. In fact, documentary plays an important part in ethnic memory and cultural continuity, especially those with a historical theme. Since the first television appeared in our country, documentary has been a very important type of the TV program. In the early days of foundation, there were mainly documentaries recorded heroes who had made great contributions to the country to fit the situation of that time. And then, documentary producers began to reflect the relationships between people and history. They put their eyes on vast stretches of our beautiful country, from which they searched for the memories of the whole nation, and thank back to the past and the future. In the1980s and1990s, under the influence of documentary doctrine, people began to pursue the "absolute truth" in the process of making a documentary. So at that time, most documentaries had a very obvious personal expression. Although the elite cultural awareness helped the development of documentary, ignoring of narration and slow narrative rhythm became important reasons for "loud thunder, but small raindrops". Bikram Channa, production director of DNA said:Chinese documentary has special characteristics in shot and people’s emotion, but it is week in narrating. Thus, they always had to re-edit to strengthen its narration. Under such circumstances, as we enter new century, Humanity History Documentary was accepted with new narration and went prosperity. This kind of documentary integrated authenticity、artistry and narration together, to re-examine history with a modern aesthetic perception. The vicissitudes of cultural relics no longer hide behind the dreary history, but show in front of the audiences with fresh tales, every audience can feel the significance of the times and history. This way of narrating continues to gain the market recognition, such as "the Resurrection of the Legion" and "Forbidden City" both gained high ratings.This article chooses the Humanity History Documentary broadcasted in CCTV since new century as samples, explores the story narration mode of Humanity History Documentary on the basis of adhering to the authenticity. Analyzing this kind of documentary with the theory of narration, mainly to find out the story narrative features showed in recent years from the narrative structure, narrative perspectives and story characters. This article holds an idea that the story narration mode is one of the manners among producing a documentary. On the basis of authenticity, Humanity History Documentary make use of reconstructing of the past and impersonating the characters, through which it provides a new manner to close to truth and restore history.There are four parts in this article:The first part is mainly about the research on narration of Humanity History Documentary. Story narration has been widely adopted in documentary production, but few studies about this exists.The second part mainly discuss on the category of Humanity History Documentary and its current situation, new characteristics of Humanity History Documentary that has appeared since new century, and how these characteristics are showed in this kind of documentary.The third part gives a general overview of documentary’s story narration mode. Influenced by Neo-historicism, Humanity History Documentary develops three new characteristics as follows:lowercasing history instead of capitalizing it, double-track the single-line history and subjecting the relatively objective history, all those are showed in humanity historical documentary’s story narration mode.The last part chooses documentaries produced and broadcasted in CCTV since2000as simples, by selecting representative examples from these documentaries, analysis the story narration mode of Humanity History Documentary, according to this, draw a conclusion about the key to story narration mode of Humanity History Documentary.