’Dough Figurines Popular Again’ Creation Report

Restricted by the traditional mentoring system,intangible cultural heritage is often trapped in the dilemma of no successor and cannot continue to prosper.In 2008,Shanghai Dough Sculptors were included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List,attracting attention because of the aging population of artisans.Only by completing the modernization transformation of intangible cultural heritage crafts can we truly realize ecological protection and alive inheritance.The documentary ‘Dough figurines popular again’ records the non-genetic inheritance story of Zhang Shujia,the third generation descendant of Shanghai style dough figurines.Taking Zhang’s personal experience and work content as the main line,the narrative of this film takes the dough figure-making process as the guide,and presents several stages of dough figure-making education,social activities during the epidemic period and the stop-motion animation process of dough figure-making in chronological order.The film hopes to refine the common characteristics of inheritance of intangible cultural heritage projects,so as to put forward construction opinions and development strategies for reference for their living protection and inheritance.As a specific interpretation of documentary creation,this paper is divided into three parts.While comprehensively clarifying the film creation background,the research status of relevant fields and the shooting and editing process,it also summarizes and reflects on the creation process of this graduation project,records the creation feelings and regrets,in order to give some inspiration to the creation of intangible cultural heritage documentary.