Research On Character Documentary Creation From The Perspective Of Empathy

Documentaries on people focus on the excavation and presentation of people,recording the character traits,experiences and emotional states of individuals or groups in the real state,and reflecting the true beauty and value of people’s lives.Under the influence of modern context,this kind of documentary tends to "emotionally" express,so as to achieve the empathy between the audience and the work.The psychological intervention of empathy becomes an effective emotional link between the creator and the audience.This paper takes the personal work "The Romantic Ambitious" as a video research text,and discusses the production strategy of empathy construction between the author,the work and the audience in the context of documentary creation theory,focusing on its significance and realization path to realize the effective expression of emotion,construction of character image and grasp of audience psychology in character documentaries.The author explores the creation strategies of character documentaries from the perspective of empathy.The first part of the article explores the interaction between empathy and visual means,using images,sound and montage to mobilize the audience’s sensory perceptions and build a visual space for them to create an emotional connection.The second part of the article discusses the use of unfocused,in-focused and out-focused perspectives to present the inner world,external conflicts and emotional changes of the characters in the documentary,to enrich the characters’ images,to complete the emotional narrative,to arouse the audience’s emotional resonance with the characters through the mufti-angle presentation of the plot narrative,and to enhance the psychological connection between the film and the audience.The third part discusses how creative concepts and methods can effectively serve the realization of empathy in practice from the audience acceptance level.Facing the differences of audience groups,the creator should form an equal dialogue with the aesthetic subject,and can use strange narrative,imagery symbolic means,and inter-subjective creative thinking to link the emotional pathway between the two,so that the audience can complete the effective appreciation of the documentary through the empathy strategy of the creator.Documentaries about people embody the spiritual outlook,identity and social situation of individuals and groups,reflecting the thinking on social culture and ideological values,creators should base on audience-oriented thinking and make good use of the psychology of empathy,so that the complex and diversified images of people and the value of the documentary itself can be effectively expressed.