Research On The Narrative Strategy Of The Micro-documentary Series "Breakfast China

"Breakfast China" is a series of food micro-documentaries jointly produced by Tencent Video and Fujian Strait Satellite TV since 2019.Each episode tells about breakfast shops in a different region and related food for people,with a total of 130 episodes in four seasons.The douban score of this series is above 8points every season,but there is a lack of research on its narrative strategy in academic circles,because this paper focuses on "why can it succeed in many food documentaries?" What is the uniqueness of this series of micro-documentaries in narrative? " This problem takes the four seasons of this series as the research text,adopts the research methods of case analysis and text analysis,and explores the narrative strategy of Breakfast China series based on the theory of narratology and film narratology.This paper is an analytical study,starting with the narrative similarity between micro-documentaries and documentaries,expanding on the theoretical inheritance of documentary narration,and comprehensively applying the relevant knowledge of documentary narrative theory,narrative film and film and television narratology,respectively,from four parts: narrative person,narrative content,narrative language and narrative characteristics: narrative person starts from the use of the second person and the third person under the guidance of the relevant theories of An Introduction to Documentary;According to the development of the plot,the narrative content decomposes the shooting methods of the overall business situation of different breakfast shops from morning till night in each episode from three stages: before,during and after business;Narrative language is developed according to the narrative theory of film and television,which is divided into picture language and sound language according to the classification of audio-visual language,and is studied in combination with the narrative language of the research object itself.Narrative characteristics: The narrative style,narrative structure,narrative mode and narrative subject of the research object are analyzed as a whole.The general conclusion of this paper is that the series of documentaries meet the development direction of mobile short video through the cooperation of various narrative strategies,and the plain and simple narrative attracts the audience’s viewing tendency,adding a new case to the narrative academic analysis of micro-documentaries.In the follow-up research,we should further explore the narrative characteristics of micro-documentaries,find their universality on the basis of particularity,and form effective academic experience to guide practice.