The Guardian Of The Traditional Images-The Analysis Of Documentary "the Shadow Man Story"

A documentary called A Shadow Man reveals the real process of original ecology in life by real person, actualities and real scenes, with Montage, music and rhythm highlighting the aesthetic value of this documentary. It mainly adopts the method of direct film to capture the real status of the interviewee in life.Firstly, expressing by screens is a characteristic of documentary. Conveying information to audiences is the mission of picture language. The documentary as a visual art records the actual event and expresses feelings objectively by visible images. A Shadow Man uses a lot of close-up shots to show the shadow man as natural as though it were living in the first making process of shadow puppets. A series of complicated shadow puppet processes, such as sculpturing, coloring and binding,70% uses close-up shots with big aperture, prominent topic and simple background to highlight the beautiful shadow puppets. Secondly, voice has its special charm and expression in a documentary. Narrations with pictures lead audiences to the home of an old gentleman. This is the special project of dramatization, to impress the audiences by reappearance of scene. During the interview of the family of the old gentleman, it adopts real monologue to promote the dramatization. However, only narrations are not enough. The actual sound is also very important. Thus, it will use voice reception to collect the live sound, because such voice with regional characteristics can’t be expressed by narration. Lastly, to achieve better documentary, it would adopt film editing method of representation. In A Shadow Man, it reflects not only the actual record and objective narrations, but also editing the logically related lens.It would collect the lens, get inherent meaning and render atmosphere by comparison.