Preliminary Study Of Means To Constitute A Story Of Photo Essay

The photo essay is a type of structuralized picture collections, usually composed of multiple pictures around a topic; easily deliver special visualized information to the reader. Daniel bell has pointed out that the contemporary culture is becoming a visual culture, and in this culture pictures are the visual symbols and language, as a kind of information or text message, because of its visualization, reality, instant eternal and rich visual wallop, more and more young generation like it. Therefore, under the background of the age of explosive electronic media times, picture narrative research is particularly important. in recent years, with the globalization, picture narrative as a kind of important narrative type, has not been involved in the research field until recently recognized by the media academics and media industry. So the picture based Narratology is still in an exploration and new stage, theoretically, is still lack of an authoritative guidance.This research emphasizes the combination of theory and practice, through the observation of photo essay, deeply research on picture narrative and its feature, analyses the characteristics of picture narrative changes from traditional narrative "TV" structure to new "movie" structure, Moreover, it has the detailed in-depth exploration and extension on the narrative body, narrative viewpoint, narrative lines, narrative time and rhythm and narrative rhetoric such narrative elements.Paper analyzes the development of photo essay under the current visual culture, standardizing people's picture reading behaviour; re-assesses the value of photo essay in the current media world; Paper will also show the mature international photo essay theory, combining with the internet media and traditional paper based media, seek a tangent to connect them together for future photo essay development. this article not only satisfy technically to describe photography story elements and studies, but also explores the cultural differences between different psychological factors and the audience, in order to seek out the cause for this difference is fundamentally, let the development of domestic photography for breakthroughs in research field.