The Study Of Chinese Short Films

Films are originated in box-like kinetoscope, and developed from short films. It is necessary for people to think about short films while talking about the development of films.The short film is not dominant in length, but in experiment and exploration. From abroad, the Academy award and the three International Film Festivals and other international awards or film festival have short unit, more than a hundred years of film development be in the ascendant; Chinese film began from the short documentary "Ding Jun Shan", For A Century has gradually come to maturity, especially after the new period, along with the origin of multicultural, the change of producing mechanism and the promotion of multi media technology, a called "micro film","small film" short film wave is be raging like a storm in the three areas.The famous director creation As one falls, the underlying mass to be just unfolding, all kinds of original competition emerge in an endless stream, the mainstream media and video website adding fuel to the flames. Short film has bright prospect.Short Film has made some achievements, but the study situation is not optimistic, such as has not many bright spots, not enough depth, not wide perspective, and badly in need of further expanding are the main characterization. Concern the development of Chinese literary, we can not ignore the booming trend of the short film wave; concern Chinese short films, we should study on integral, rather than scattered and sporadic. This paper put the Chinese short film in the view of globe film development; fully absorb the theoretical results about film studies at home and abroad, and to make depth and detailed study about Chinese film short. Specifically, will make a study of short film which have more than one hundred developed, and which contained short story, short animated and short documentary; and will study comprehensively on the art characterization, development skeleton, creation mechanism, narrative strategy, communicate prospect, develop advantages and disadvantages etc. And trying to dig out the uniqueness, innovativeness and cultural meaning of Chinese short film, at the same time also will comb the existing problems, and anticipate the future direction; provide a reference for the research and development of Chinese film.This paper consists of seven chapters; the main structure is as follow:The first chapter is "wearing short coat film." This chapter is the introduction. Mainly to define the basic definition and artistic characteristics of short films, and introduces the present situation and significance of short film study, Also the content, the train of thought, the method, the innovation and the theory choice of this thesis are illustrated.The second chapter is "the growing trip of three wonderful."Mainly from the angle of the development, to comb the Chinese film contained short story, short animated and short documentary from the points to the surface, to show the relative independence of the short film development, to provide conditions for the follow-up research, to lay the foundation.The third chapter is "the masses’movie dreams become reality." many people’s movie dreams that ever been stopped by reality, become true by short film. It’s the same as "everyone can become the director and actor" be proposed in the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague). This chapter includes "before the new century:the folklore in the professional writers context,""in the new century:the time that the mass massive use image has come," and "Big Time and Little Cost:the reasons of the mass’ movie dreams come true" three aspects.The fourth chapter is "the narrative exploring starts from the short." Films exploring mainly in the narration exploring, this chapter from the angle of narrative to study the exploring experiment about the "time","space" and "view" etc narrative utterance of short film from the outside to the inside and from the shallower to the deeper, in order to find out the source and the development trend of the film narrative, and do foreshadowing for the conclusion.The fifth chapter is "communicate prospect under zero box office." In the era of cultural industries, the box office is an important indicator of a successful movie. The short film was gradually abandoned by theaters because of the short shape, presents micro-box office and zero box office appearance. But the spread of short films showed new characteristics. Based on this, it is particularly important to analysis the general public communication content, the presented audience communication forms from be jilted by theaters to abandon the theaters, the communication effects of short film. At the same time, the short film that the mass highly participated is a backwash about "take the box office on hero" phenomenon.The sixth chapter is "the extension analysis of the short case". Mainly selected representative works from three main types short to study from the points to the surface. Of course, the case is a viewpoint of type development, and to extend the art presentation of the story short, animated short and documentary short by case analysis. So the study of the paper will be deepened by the combination of points and surface and the intersection of vertical and lateral.The seventh chapter is the conclusion part. Mainly summarize the value of Chinese short film, and comb the existing problems, and predict the future direction of the short film. In addition, some practices and some in-depth questions will be discussed such as to construct the develop history, the database, and to publish annual development reports about Chinese short film.Finally the Appendix include the major international award-winning of Chinese short film, the short candidate award in Beijing College Original Movie Game, and the "Chinese short film questionnaire" and its analysis, to format the total research.