Research On Evolution Of Film Aesthetics In The Digital Age

Film has been in possession with typical scientific and technological attributes as the seventh art in the world since its inception.Corresponding changes in film creation,storage,distribution,projection and ornamental mode have been taking place in every evolution and development of sci-tech and communication media,which promote shifts inside of film,making it the most unique one in the art category,and revealing its aesthetic evolution during development of 120 years.Human beings entered a highly information society at the end of 1980 s,who also ushered in the spring of the digital age.As a result,human life began to move towards the visual-centered image age.Besides,digital technology entered every link of film art creation on a large scale at the beginning of the 21 century,which thus had injected new vitality into film art in the aspects of film content and film expression,so the development of film formally entered the era of digital technology.It can be seen that digital film has developed vigorously in the world over the years,which has contributed to the prosperity of the world's film industry.On the other hand,the director's exploration of new technology has also brought new artistic value to the film itself while leading the brilliant progress of the film.At the same time,the aesthetic psychology and the aesthetic expectations of the audience have also changed greatly when the digital technology film pursues visual stimulation and is committed to creating the "the aesthetics of the wonders",which changes “from the traditional rational aesthetics into the era of entertainment dominated by perceptual pleasure,from the pursuit of film narrative authenticity and theme sublimation to infatuation with screen wonders and audiovisual acrobatics.” There is no doubt that the difference between the means of expression and the way of presentation is not enough to explain the difference between the traditional film and the digital film.However,the traditional film theory is difficult to explain all this when facing the endless digital technology and colorful film content of the latter.In view of it,the new grammar,new type,new law of the digital film and the new film theory as the methodology and the academic perspective rise to the new aesthetic form.As an important branch of film science and art aesthetics,film aesthetic is based on film science and aesthetics to study the beauty and aesthetics of film art.As for the influence of digital technology on film art,it is not only at the level of creative practice,but also on the level of aesthetic concept,which thus has produced the original intention of this study.In this paper,it is mainly divided into the following parts on the basis of the centenary development of film art,such as introduction,the thought source and context of the evolution of film aesthetics in the digital technology era,the subversion of the digital film aesthetics to the traditional image reality view,the change of the film narrative strategy in the digital technology age,the change of the film aesthetics in the digital technology age,the dialectical thinking of the film aesthetics in the digital technology age and conclusion,etc.As for the specific framework,it is as follows: As for the introduction part,it first expounds the background of the paper and the origin of the selected topic from two angles,such as the background of the times,the development of the film and the new form of the film aesthetics.Then,it reviews the research of this subject by scholars at home and abroad,which also defines the terms involved in the digital age,digital technology,digital film and so on.Finally,it discusses the research contents,the research methods,the research ideas and the innovation points of this paper in detail.In the first part,it discusses the promotion relationship between technology and art by taking the cultural source that technology and art are born into each other as the starting point.Then,it makes the analysis of the visual cultural context of the digital age,which discusses that digital technology provides a broad space for the dissemination of visual culture.As for the main characteristics of visual culture in the era of digital technology,it is the change from visual image to pseudo-image as well as the new order of virtual reality and superreality becoming pseudo-aesthetic.Finally,it obtains the conclusion that digital technology brings about the new revolution of the film aesthetics.In the second part,it discusses the subversion of digital film aesthetics to the traditional image reality from the point of view of authenticity and realism.In this chapter,it first discusses the view of the "authenticity" of the traditional film aesthetics from the two film scholars of the Bazin and the Kracauer,which then discusses the view of authenticity in the aesthetics of digital film.In this part,it is mainly from the real sense to “come out of thin air”of digital image to show the influence and promotion of the digital technology on the film image.Furthermore,the concept of image ontology in digital image is reinterpreted at the end of this chapter.In the third part,it mainly discusses the changes of film narrative strategy in the era of digital technology.In this part,it takes the digital technology as the premise of the change of film narrative strategy as the starting point,which analyzes that digital technology enriches the narratology theory of film,strengthens the film's thinking on the field of allegory,affects the content of film creation in the early stage and innovates the tools of film setting,and so on.At the same time,it also explains "wonder" as a new strategy of film narration in the era of digital technology,which is also regarded as a separate part.Besides,it is mainly reflected in the fact that wonders begin to dominate narration,which also embodies the singularity of narrative theme,narrative language,narrative structure,narrative perspective,digital performance,and so on.Finally,it also discusses the development of narrative ideographic ways in the era of digital technology from three angles,such as the expansion of the ideographic function of light and shadow hue by digital technology,the expansion of the spatial inclusion sense of film by digital sound technology,the enhancement the speech right of spatial modeling by digital scene.In the fourth part,it expounds the changes of film aesthetics in the era of digital technology.In this part,it mainly includes three parts,such as the aesthetic psychology of the film audience,the new aesthetic characteristics of the film in the digital age and the reasons for the change of the aesthetic experience of the film in the digital age.At the same time,it starts with the three problems to carry out the study,such as the study of film aesthetic psychology and visual perception,film aesthetic psychology and psychoanalysis,film aesthetic psychology and the second semiotics of film,and studies the research path of classical film audience aesthetic psychology,which thus obtains the new characteristics of film aesthetics in the digital age.As for the new characteristic,it mainly includes the aesthetic expectation from "truth" to "shock",aesthetic perception from "audio-visual" to "multi-sensory",aesthetic cognition from "experience" to "practice",aesthetic pleasure from "in-position viewing" to "immersion",aesthetic understanding from "shallow" to "profoundness",and so on.At the last part of this chapter,it discusses the reasons for the change of film aesthetic experience in the digital age,which also refines four points,such as the promotion of aesthetic subject status,the reduction of aesthetic distance,the prevalence of pleasure experience,as well as the opening and convergence of aesthetic object.In the fifth part of the paper,it is the dialectical thinking on film creation in the era of digital technology.In this chapter,it starts with the malpractice of "technology first" in film creation in the digital age,which discusses the imbalance between wonders and narration,"horror valley" and other phenomena in the digital film in the digital technology age.After that,it enters the stage of rational passivation after perceptual carnival.Meanwhile,it also puts forward that the film in the digital age should grasp the "degree" of the application of technology in the face of the high development of digital technology,which mainly reflects the grasp of the balance between digital technology and film narration,as well as the coincidence between digital technology and the essence of film art.Finally,it makes the thinking about the present situation of domestic digital film creation,which also puts forward that the development of domestic digital film should highlight the national style of digital film in our country and pay attention to the role of talents as an advanced factor of production,etc.