A Study Of Narrative Structure In Oral History Documentaries

Oral history,as one of the ways to explain history,is often recorded in interviews and oral forms.For the creation of oral historical documentaries,by using narrative-related theories to design content,we can effectively control the overall idea of documentaries,thereby further improving the integrity of documentaries.This article analyzes the oral historical documentary "Support" created by the author’s practice.Through the use of narrative structure theory,it adopts multiple central lines,that is,the origin of the Shaanxi crosstalk,the origin of the Qingqu Society and the Shaanxi Crosstalk,and the return of the Qingqu Society.The original intention of the theater and the innovation and persistence of the Qingqu Society in the new media era connect the narrative content,and explore the narrative structure of the oral historical documentary from the theoretical and practical aspects.The film is mainly composed of four parts.The first chapter mainly provides a theoretical overview of the narrative structure of oral historical documentaries,the concept and characteristics of oral historical documentaries,the narrative structure of documentaries under the structuralist narrative theory,and the narrative structure of oral historical documentaries.The second chapter analyzes the narrative structure of the documentary "Support",mainly from the topic creation reasons,the narrative story level,the narrative discourse level and the selection of the narrative structure of "Support";Chapter Ⅲ analyzes the centerline serial narrative structure The theoretical creation of the oral historical documentary "Support"is guided by theory;the fourth chapter mainly reflects on the practical creation of the documentary "Support".Finally,this film summarizes the realistic significance of the Shaanxi Crosstalk of Qingqu Society in the form of oral historical documentary through the use of narratology-related theories.