The Application Of Puzzle Films Narrative In Micro Films

The first decade has passed since the rise of micro films in China.As an era product born in new media,grown in new media,and inextricably linked with films,it is of great significance for us to examine the development course of micro films in the past ten years from the perspective of narrative development and evolution and the transfer of narrative media.The reason why the name of micro film is called "film" is because it inherits the narrative property of the film.The most recent film narrative revolution occurred in the mid-1990 s and is best known for the emergence of puzzle films.Different from Hitchcock’s ordinary suspense films like psycho,puzzle films mostly adopt complex narration and integrate various types of elements in the narrative technique,while the development of micro films in the narrative level also draws on the provisions brought by this narrative revolution.In the first five years of the development of micro films in China,some media and scholars once metaphysically believed that the narrative technique of micro films was more suitable for extremely simplified treatment,and wrote it into the literature before 2015.However,the fact has proved that in the past decade,so many narrative forms originated from the micro films of puzzle films,and most of them are of good quality,which are worthy of our in-depth discussion whether in narrative techniques or in the text itself.After analyzing and studying a large number of film samples,the author of this paper studies the application of puzzle film narrative techniques in micro films from the perspective of case demonstration,mainly from the following five aspects:First,introduce the narrative resources of the puzzle movie.The emergence of puzzle films is not a tree without roots,and the narrative revolution brought about by them is not a water without a source.The several characteristics of puzzle films in narrative techniques are the essence brought by the accumulation of the whole film development history.From the multi-line narration of David Griffith in the silent film era to the subjective focus of surrealism movement,from the multi-narrative pattern of citizen Kane in the sound film era to the reticular narration in Nashville,more than 80 years of exploration and accumulation contributed to the mainstream acceptance of puzzle films in the 1990 s.Standing on the shoulders of giants,the puzzle film integrates the avant-garde narrative techniques of the masters with the mainstream genre elements,and presents its unique characteristics.Secondly,explain the context of the transfer of narrative media.In today’s era,cultural concepts,media environment,audience expectations and media platforms are all different from the past,and all levels are rapidly iterating and updating.The cultural concepts in the Internet environment reflect the public’s suspicion,reappraisal and eagerness to participate in the art and culture and become the main body of communication.The media environment in the omnimedia era is diversified,three-dimensional and complicated,which not only brings new strategic challenges to the media operation and communication level,but also generates new psychological expectations of the audience.The media platforms under the thinking of big data not only offend the public to some extent,but also provide the public with new viewing and reading habits.The expectation of audiences in the era of cognitive surplus not only includes people’s desire for the re-participation,re-creation and re-dissemination of information,but also their expectation of aesthetic evaluation.Thirdly,retell the inheritance of the narrative technique of the puzzle film by the micro film.Micro films draw on the complex narrative structure of puzzle films,including parallel juxtaposed narrative,circular narrative,diverging narrative,layered narrative,reticular narrative,and Mosaic narrative.The treatment of fuzzy narrative perspective in puzzle movies is copied,including fuzzy subjective and objective perspective and fuzzy subjective perspective of different characters.It absorbs the unreliable narrative techniques of the puzzle film,including releasing the excess information in advance and trying to suppress the excess information.In the process of reference and absorption,micro films,according to their own characteristics of "micro text",simplify the narrative line and hierarchical structure,roles and narrative perspectives on the whole,lower the threshold for audiences to watch films,and partially strengthen the film rhythm,the motivation of characters’ behaviors and the pragmatism of forms.Fourth,it lists the re-creation of the narrative technique of the puzzle film by micro films.Micro film makes a new exploration of the complex narrative structure of puzzle films,including the atypical "breaking the fourth wall" involved in narrative construction and the animation collage involved in narrative construction.The narrative perspective is also explored,including the use of a single perspective to complete the narration of multiple events and the reproduction of the agent perspective from the subjective perspective of the characters.It continues to extend the technique of unreliable narration,including condensing the contents of unreliable narration into symbols and substituting spatial narration for unreliable narration.Fifth,it elaborates the influence of the combination of narrative technique of puzzle film and micro film.The transfer of the narrative technique of puzzle film further enriches the theory of film narratology;In the era of information fragmentation,the aesthetic value of information content and the aesthetic ability of the audience are improved.Broaden the way of thinking for the commercial marketing of mobile terminal and other platforms in focus media era;It expands the thinking space of future films from the internal and external aspects of theme and form.It also provides many possibilities for the future development of micro film,including the new relationship with the film and the evolution direction of its own form.Finally,the conclusion summarizes the content,phenomenon and influence from the macro level,and makes a brief supplementary explanation to some contents.