A Study Of Storytelling In Character Documentaries

At present,story narration in character documentary has become a trend,which is an important strategy to enhance visibility and storytelling property.Through the study of the story narration techniques in character documentary,this paper tries to guide the creation of the graduation work— The Wheelchair Angel and combine the opinions put forward in the paper with The Wheelchair Angel for further discussion.The innovation points of this paper are described as follows: firstly,this paper associates the story narration in character documentary with classic character documentaries and analyzes and study them in a detailed and precise way,and also uses the approaches in the feature films for reference.Secondly,combines these theories with the aesthetic features of the character documentaries and form techniques suitable for story narration in character documentary.The author's creative process of the graduation work— The Wheelchair Angel is also mentioned in this paper from the story construction,photography techniques to post-production to further illustrate how to make the character documentary more interesting,enhance the visibility and attract audience.This paper combines theory with practice which can be used as a reference for other authors who study the story narration in character documentary.However,story narration is a double-edged sword.Although the story narration in character documentary enhance the plot and attraction of documentary,the reality has been challenged.How to use story narration correctly,embed story in documentary and promote the healthy development of character documentary are the three urgent problems.By summing up the pros and cons of the story narration in character documentary,this paper put forward the strategies to improve the story narration.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is introduction,which gives a brief introduction about the present research situation of story narration in character documentary,and points out the objective,methods and importance of this paper.The second chapter is an overview of the story narration in character documentary.It gives the definition of character documentary,story and storytelling separately,and then analyzes the relationship between character documentary and story narration.Finally,it analyzes the necessity of story narration in character documentary and its development trend.The third chapter discusses the strategies of story narration in character documentary from the aspects of story construction,photography techniques and editing techniques.It also analyzes the application of specific techniques in The Wheelchair Angel.The fourth chapter is the reflection of the story narration in character documentary.It analyzes the pros and cons of the story narration in character documentary first,and then puts forward the reflection of it.The conclusion part summarizes the whole article and deepens the theme.This paper analyzes the story narration in character documentary based on a large number of examples with the aim to reveal some features and strategies of story narration in character documentary,and to open up a new horizon for story narration in character documentary.At the same time,the author hopes to arouse the attention from more people on story narration in character documentary through this research.