| A Dream in Operative Garden is a documentary about shangdangbangzi, which mainly describes stories among actors of three generations-the young, middle-aged and the senior. This documentary presents their living status and their role in developing and passing down of shangdangbangzi in order to let more people know and pay more attention to the intangible cultural heritage, shangdangbangzi. In this way, this film calls for the masses to promote the succession and development of Chinese traditional drama culture.This film elaborates creative concepts and creative thinking from different perspective with distinctive characters and complete plot settings. This article would explain the conception of this documentary from several aspects including purport, narrative pattern, structural feature and audio-visual language. |