Inheritance And Crossover:a Case Study Of The Chinese Reality Show Documentary—Who Do You Think You Are

Reality show documentary is a new kind of program form from videoland of China,it has become into a new paradigm between reality shows and documentaries.This thesis argues that,the nature of reality show documentary is documentary."Taking the true story that happened in real life present or past as the performance object","using documentary photography technique" is the basic stipuIation.It is different from the general documentary,it contains a reality TV show of entertaining,but this kind of entertaining and general entertaining TV program show is different,it must be based on the truth,not allowed imaginary and artistic imagination,artistic exaggeration,at the same time,entertaining performance is restricted by authenticity.Reality show documentary inherits the facticity of documentary is the first,"crossover"reality TV show’s entertaining is the second,"Inheritance"and"crossover"exist side by side and organic integration decide that the reality show documentary can serve as a kind of independent existence of TV program form.This thesis based on the CCTV"Who Do You Think You Are",to explore the reality show documentary on inheritance of documentary aesthetics and its cross-border reality show,by demonstrating the"show"to reflect the characteristics of the entertaining.This thesis explores the reality context,the connotation and characteristics in reality show documentary based on the analysis of the documentary film and reality TV.In the aspect of inherit between reality show documentary and documentary aesthetics,its inheritance to documentary aesthetics topic content is mainly embodied in three aspects,which are the value of people,the spiritual home for seeking and watchman,the reflection of modernity.In the aspect of documentary aesthetics expression form inherit,it mainly reflects on people speak,details of the shooting,a full-length shot,tracking shooting,etc.In reality show documentary crossover reality show,this thesis analyze the"show"entertaining elements by demonstrating the"show"to reflect the characteristics of the entertaining aspect from the aspects of the participants(the guests of celebrity),story,suspense,set up the task and the art processing,etc.Then we rethink about the aspects to reflect on the reality show documentary recreational pursuit from the following four aspects:spread from preventing excessive entertainment content,continuous innovation and make every hierarchy of the audience needs TV programs,build healthy entertainment and enhance the audience’s media literacy.