Discussion On The Narrative Strategy Of Urban Theme Films

Given the fact that the gradual progress of urbanization in China has been accomplished and the awareness of “city image” has become increasingly awoken,so the competitions among cities have already been something more than just competitions on economical level,which urges the contest of city`s comprehensive strength to become white-hot day by day.As a result,more and more Chinese cities,with the aids of media,shape and prompt the image of their city by using special subject documentary film of the city in order to improve its notability.A special subject documentary film,being used as a multi-media name card of a city,should both follow the basic “on-the-spot” principles of documentary film,and bear the task of showing the city from multiple perspectives,such as politics,economics,culture,and humanities,etc.However,there is still a non-ignorable problem that some of the inferior-qualitied city-films often present some vital flaws,such as telling the story in a flat way,organizing the structure with empty content,inter-cutting the film by innumerous commercials,and shooting the picture at low-resolution,which not only makes the movie fail to express the characteristics of the city,but also push the city into the public criticism vortex on the phenomenon of describing different cities in the same way.In order to utilize special subject documentary in a more efficient way to propagate the material progress and the cultural progress of a city,and to prompt the mutual communication and interaction among different areas,the author of this thesis analyze the main characters of some of text scripts of excellent urban subject documentary films in terms of narrative strategy.And,with the hope that this thesis could be a meaningful reference for the production of this type of movie in the future,the author also conducts a in-depth analysis from the angles of narrative method,narrative structure,narrative element,and narrative skill,etc.,combining the work of author---“The Lost Memory of Chengdu”.The main contents of this essay are listed as follow:1.The basic narration method of special city subject documentary.There has long been a problem in the academic research field and practical production field of special TV documentary that the theory of Western movie has been followed for such a long time that there is an obvious absence of independent theoretical innovation in the field of TV program research in China.Hence,in this essay,for the purpose of improving the quality of narration skill,story-oriented narrative technique,plot-oriented narrative technique,and multi-perspective narrative technique are induced by the analysis of the inner characters and present situation of domestic city special subject documentary,which provides reference for the diversity of narrative techniques.2.The basic narration structure of special city subject documentary.The basic narration structure of special city subject documentary could not only exhibit the awareness and understanding of the producer on the theme,but also would have direct effect on the result of narration.Thus,in this essay,the narration structure of center-series-connection and the narration structure of modulus-coordinating-connection are mainly examined in order to accomplish an in-depth analysis on the techniques of presentation and deepening of a given theme which are used by domestic special city subject documentary.3.The basic narration element of special city subject documentary.Combination of sound and picture is the mainstream inclination of production technique used by domestic special city subject documentary.In other words,the audio-video language constitutes the main content of a special city subject documentary,which further directly determines the quality of narration effect.Therefore,in this essay,visual narration elements and audio narration elements of a special city subject documentary are fully discussed,revealing,from the aspects of “combination of sound and picture” and “coordination of sound and picture”,how a special city subject documentary achieves the object that it could make audience quickly grasp the history,humanity,culture and custom of a city in relative short time through image materials for the purpose of propagation and cultivation.