| A documentary is an art form that captures real life,and filmmakers create documentaries based on their focus on reality.China has entered and will remain an aging society for a long time.It also allows the public and society to understand older people in rural areas correctly,soothe their concerns and reduce social pressure.Documentaries on the rural elderly in rural areas have essential and positive values and significance for understanding and caring for the elderly in rural areas.This article takes the graduation work "The Mountain,the Woman" as an example.It combines with many excellent domestic elderly-themed documentary films to explore the creative methods of documentary films about older adults in rural areas by sorting out and refining the creation of documentary films about older adults,character image shaping,and narrative construction.The thesis is divided into four parts: The first part focuses on the creative background of documentary films about older adults in rural areas,their creation values,and the sorting,classification,and summarization of relevant literature,works,and other materials on elderly themes.Theoretical knowledge and practical experience in documentary films are extracted to lay a foundation for exploring the creative methods of documentary films about older adults in rural areas.The second part focuses on the multi-dimensional presentation of the character image and diversified life exploration.It analyzes the influence of external elements and diversified recording perspectives on characters and narrates the shaping of the image of the graduation work "The Mountain,the Woman" from the aspects of external elements and perspective selection.The third part describes the diverse narrative structure selection,Story-based narration,visual and auditory storytelling,and other aspects of the graduation work "The Mountain,the Woman" from the perspective of narrative style selection and audio-visual narrative expression.The influence of conflicts and suspense on documentary films is analyzed,and the importance of narrative structure in documentary films about older adults in rural areas is emphasized.The fourth part combines the graduation work "The Mountain,the Woman" to explain the creative inspiration and reflects on the shortcomings in the creative process from the aspects of shooting techniques and angles,providing references for future creations.This article profoundly studies the current situation and creative characteristics of documentary films about older adults in rural areas,taking rural older adults as the shooting object,using the lens to record real life and enter the inner world of characters,changing the stereotyped impression of some groups on rural older adults,reflecting the current social reality of rural older adults,understanding the shooting and narrative rules of related themes of documentary films,in order to provide some reference for the creation of similar themes of documentary films. |