The Narrative Analysis Of The Network Drama "Twelve Hours In Chang'an"

With the social progress and rapid economic growth in recent years,network dramas have developed fast and become an important part in the film and television media industry.Under this trend,more and more creative talents have turned into the network drama industry,thus the variety and quantity of the dramas are both increasing.However,network dramas are also faced with many constraints and restrictions in their development,such as poor quality.Works with superb form and content are also rare.Network drama The Longest Day in Chang'an was shown online with low profile in July 2019.The work sparkled the screen for a time and turned into a heated topic for discussion with its sophisticated production,unique style and distinctive narrative.Moreover,the great national power and cultural self-confidence revealed in the work ignited the national pride hidden in the viewers.At the same time,the patriotism,national spirit and excellent traditional culture passed by the drama aroused the public's emotional memory,improved the national image,and won wide praises from all sector of society.A new pattern of network drama has been explored.The author applies the theory of narratology to the study of the network drama The Longest Day in Chang'an so as to analyze the narrative methods used in its creation and explore the beauty of the cultural connotation.In the introduction,the author expounds the background and significance of the topic,also presents the content and summary,research methods and innovation points.In the first chapter,the author makes a general review of the relevant concepts and development of network drama,also gives a general introduction to the network drama The Longest Day in Chang'an.The second chapter is the analysis of its narrative theme and structure.In terms of narrative theme,the paper explores how to deepen the cultural connotation through theme from the view of exploring the human nature under the contradiction,foregrounding the diversified cultures of the times and highlighting the national spirit and patriotism.In terms of narrative structure,the paper summarizes the structural characteristics of the drama through tree-shaped event combination,multi-clue narrative and interactive narrative space-time.The third chapter is an analysis of its narrative perspective and characterization.From the perspective of narrative,the drama mainly presents itself by constructing the main part via internal focus,creating a sense of mystery via external focus and unfolding the whole via zero focus.In characterization,its personalized characteristics are mainly reflected in the imperfect main characters,multi-dimensional composite villains and growing independent female characters.The fourth chapter analyzes the narrative strategy and audio-visual language,mainly expounding the setting of conflict and suspense as well as the characteristics of audio-visual language.In terms of the conflict and suspense setting,the paper studies the characteristics of conflict construction by analyzing the conflict of opposites between people,the inner emotional conflicts of the characters and the emotional conflicts inspired by specific situations,and it also studies the characteristics of suspense setting by analyzing the conflict and suspense construction of the story,the suspense placement in the drama and the delay effect.In terms of the audio-visual language,the paper mainly studies the long lens with full artistic style,well-bedded picture composition,beautiful and touching light and color and the music that sticks to the theme to show its characteristics in the use of audio-visual language.The fifth chapter is the analysis of the present problems,the narrative reflection brought by The Longest Day in Chang'an and the future development of network drama under the inspiration of The Longest Day in Chang'an,so as to provide useful reference for the future development and creation of network drama.