Digital Film Narrative Research From The Perspective Of Humanism Technology

Media technology is one of the organizational modes of human society.While producing content through narration,it also participates in the deconstruction and reconstruction of human social and cultural structure,affecting every aspect of human civilization,economy and life.It is true that the power of technology is enormous,but the academic over-concern about technology has led to the neglect of human subjectivity.To examine the profound influence of technological revolution on human culture from the perspective of humanism technology of the media-environment school,it is human nature,ideas,choices,etc.that act as the primary motive force behind the technological revolution.Therefore,the discussion on technology and culture should be added to the “People-centered” perspective.As an important part of human culture,art is closely related to the changes of social times and media technology.Film,the seventh art in the world,has been passing on the human life story with various forms of symbols since its birth.The French film theorist Metz compared the film to a storytelling machine,so narration has become an important issue in film research.Nowadays,the meaning of digital symbols is being merged and connected by various media technologies to create a new symbolic system.The film of art has the technology attribute which stands out in other art forms,therefore it receives a particularly intense influence from the technology.Digital technology has broken through the boundary of traditional film narrative,reset the film narrative rules and created a new narrative phenomenon,shaping a new film culture.Digital technology is not only changing the way movies tell stories,but also challenging the audience to accept the film.These changes have an indelible impact on the development of human civilization.The thesis is divided into six parts: Introduction,digital film context,humanistic technology view--the humanistic perspective of digital film narrative research,the human in digital narrative space,the “Humanization” reconstruction of film narrative in the digital era,and the reflection of the humanistic perspective of digital film narrative.The introduction mainly explains the background and research significance of this paper,summarizes the related research literature,expounds the theoretical basis of this thesis and defines the related concepts.It also describes the research methods,research ideas and innovation.The first part clarifies the digital technology and the narrative art development vein and its correlation through historical source.The media environment in the digital age can be understood from the concepts of symbolic environment,perceptual environment and social environment proposed by Postman.The media dependence of narrative can be considered as the basis of the media environment of the Digital Age.According to Innis “Media bias theory”,the concept of “Narrative bias” is proposed.From the perspective of media environment,this paper expounds that digital film,as a type of media,is also a product of the combination of digital technology and narrative art,which is a new context for modern people.The second part mainly explains a new perspective of the research object--humanistic technology view and the logical starting point of this thesis,that is,people,technology and culture influence and construct one another.Among them,inspired by Marshall Mc Luhan’s pan-media,he put forward the concept of pan-narrative,it is also found that the evolutionary logic of film narration conforms to Levinson’s“Third-order theory of media evolution” of “Toy-mirror-art”.Finally,according to Postman’s three-layer media environment,the thesis discusses the new narrative space created by digital film technology in the three dimensions of perception,symbol and society.In the third part,based on the “People-centered” concept of humanistic technology view,the author focuses on human nature,digital consciousness and the value of thinking logic in digital film narration based on the research results of predecessors and the related concepts of other disciplines.This thesis summarizes the existence of human beings in digital film narration into common narrators,agents of story characters and extenders of film media,compared with traditional film narration.It also expounds the changes of human beings in digital film narration from three aspects: consciousness level,perception way and identity.The fourth part is mainly based on Levinson’s “Media evolution theory” and proposes that the development of narrative follows the same “Humanization” trend as the media.On this basis,it summarizes the digital film narrative in the realistic significance of the construction,the algorithm of the narrative rules and the traditional“Real” beyond the three levels of “Humanization” orientation.Based on the“Remedial Media”,this thesis discusses the compensation of digital technology to traditional film narration in three aspects: human sense,subjective interaction and immersion.At last,this thesis expounds the new turn that digital film narration brings to the theory of film narratology from the academic level,and on the basis of the previous studies,it is pointed out that in the transformation from “Narrative discourse”to “Human experience”.Bordwell’s theory of cognitive construction is better suited than structuralism theory to explain the new phenomenon of digital film narration today,in the end,the author puts forward the digital film narrative to enrich the body dimension of Bordwell’s film theory.The fifth part of the thesis provides a reflection from the perspective of the personal,technical and cultural context of the digital film narrative humanistic.The people in the digital film narration are extremely excited in the mimicry environment and extremely numb to the real life,and the loss of individual consciousness and the homogeneity of aesthetics are caused by the adjustment of technology.There is still a technical conflict between the “Interactivity” and the “Immersion” in digital film narration,and the technical alienation is becoming the main content of art.At last,the negative influence of digital technology on film culture is explained by using the two concepts of the “False crystal of culture” and the “Tile kettle effect”.