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On The Vitality Of Youth TV Dramas Based In Mainland China

Posted on:2012-03-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338454394Subject:Radio and Television Arts
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With many twists and turns, the television drama program of our country has been through more than half a century history. Nowadays, television drama has been a dispensable part of the culture life of the people, as well as a great significant culture and arts category in society. Youth drama displays the passion and pain of youth, highlights the personality and freedom of young people and their self-thoughts and thoughts on society. This article makes an analysis on the vitality of youth drama, divided into four main parts:First, Youth and Youth Narration:Youth is the integrality of the physical, cognitive, social emotional and others'processes. It is the most precious unique-copy-type phrase of the life, which is a translational period keeping developing and changing. On the physical or mental experience, the essence of youth is the personal transformation and growth. For more and more people nowadays, youth is a suffering time with a lot of stresses and burdens. Meanwhile, the young people are also suffering the mind vacant and become overwhelmed during the blows and contradictions.Youth Drama is a kind of TV drama embodies the lives and thoughts of the young people, in which the principle characters are all in their youthful time and those young people mainly compose the drama characters. The youth drama not only performs the youthfulness, but also shows the change of the youth themselves and the society. Besides, it is a kind of self-representation, and also a reflection of the economy and culture on the art scope. The developing of Youth drama manifests in the following aspects: first, the broader of the age and the diversity of the identity; second, the richness of the theme and complex of the concepts.Second, The Ornament of the Youth Drama:Form beauty: Take the youth drama, on the whole, as an art product, the content beauty is the entity and the form beauty is the packing. Above all, the attraction of the youth drama to the audiences is the beauty of the frame. Therefore, the youth drama not only requires the characters having comely faces, but also demands the property and the scene to be photographed well. Following the first step on the frame beauty is the key step, editing. As the youth drama is a sound language, including voices, music, audios, it affects the hearing sense of the people. The good product with enjoyment in the vision, hearing and feeling only comes out of the melting of the sound frames and beautiful sounds. For domestic youth drama, the only fly in the ointment is that the important role of the environment is not fully aware, limiting the theme on the life level, which results the less learning and researching in a wider range.Narration beauty: first, youth drama could catch the surging of the youth's mind, highlighting the contradictions and struggles between the characters and the environment. The unsettled rebellions and conflicts result in the great artistic tension. Second, the surreal fictional characters and plots of the youth drama compose the utopian situation for the audiences who are tormented by the real life and could find a short time sustenance and relaxation then. The surreal composing also lies on the dramatic processing of the plots and the exaggerated handling of the contradictions.Chasing beauty: The fashion elements such as exquisite garment, bold ornament, advanced mind in the youth drama can lead the fashion trend more than anything else. The chase for the idol shaped in the youth drama is the reflection of the demand from their heart. It is the eager for something that they themselves want but cannot get. It is the fill-up and make-up for the missing part in their heart. Therefore, the worship to the youth idol is in fact the process of discovery and explore of themselves. TV drama shall manifest the concerns that people show for the mind&body development of themselves, natural environment, social history and so on. The youth drama insists on the theme of health-up which can guide the youth correctly, and remind other people of the beautiful memories and beneficial inspiration.Third, The Spiritual Force of the Youth Drama:The main subject of the youth drama should be the life of the youth. Thus, the youth drama would display the nature of the youth and the specific outlook of the life and values. Sentiment and happiness form the youth and interpret the nature of the youth together.Self-defining: the young people aspire to have personal independence. However, influenced by the social, family and school pressures, the young people always get lost. Therefore, they show their aversion and exclusion over the social and family pressures and hindrances. For the young people, they take the youth drama as represents the resistance and rebuilt of their lives.Self-soothing: the essence of the youth is growth, which is full of contradictions itself. The youth drama positions people in different social environments, accurately and realistically depicting their dilemmas, such as new and old; desire and sense; progression and depression. This is an artistic way to exploring the spirit outlet of characters and humane care to the individuals.Self-actualization: the rebellious behavior in the adolescence shapes the outlook of life and value and savoir-vivre for the young people. In other words, it urges the youth to be independent, to become the one who they dream to be, to access to the life they pursue. In the youth drama, the self-actualization is a process that transform from the surface to the deep and from self perfect to the fulfillment of the social ideal.The fourth, The Open Features and Recipient of the Youth Drama:TV drama is a kind of art from daily life and most likely to draw people's attentions. The text of the youth drama and audiences not only interact with each other, but also influenced and promoted each other. Besides, the youth drama should be appropriate and typical to the specific audiences, so as to attract more attentions. In addition, as no dish suits all tastes, the youth drama should also value the universality and use the diversified expressions to solve the problems.Youth drama is characterized by openness. The focused perspective of the narration changes, from tremendous and socialization into micro and personal one. In addition, through the suspense, clues and open endings'arrangements, youth drama provides the interactive space for audiences. The topics that trigged by youth drama were talked and discussed widely on the internet, which increases the ratings and encourages people to think about their life value and the social problems.During the creation of the youth drama text, the character arrangements, plots designs and the using of the means are all constrained and influenced by the audiences. The participations and feedbacks from audiences could encourage the creation of the youth drama. When an audience saw a youth drama, he would have serial feedbacks. Then he is not only an audience, but also a participant in the art works'exchanges. The youth drama could relieve people from stressful reality temporally, which reflects the demands to the self-identity and the influences of conformity. The youth drama tries to isomorphic to the figures and situations in the reality, through which to communicate with the audiences.This topic interprets the meaning of the youth, discovering the unique sense of the youth drama which distinguishes it from other types of TV dramas. The vitality of the youth drama lies on the analysis of its spirits from the psychological perspective; while it is the deep-level and all-directional scrutiny on the youth drama that be to analyses on its spiritual force from creation and acceptation aspects.
Keywords/Search Tags:Youth, Youth Drama, Growth, Spiritual strength
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