A Study Of News Feature In Aesthetical Perspective

With the informing function and literature aesthetic function, the feature as a news text, can manifest the profound subject of the story, has the expressive force of literary and the value and essential attribute of news. The feature has some characters of documentary literature by using the literature method, but does not equate the documentary literature. As a news text, the feature has its own aesthetic character - - authenticity, meanwhile it is also different from the news, such as its diversifying form and function. The feature springs up owning to the combined result of the time object, the appreciation main body and the creation main body.Whether judging from the traditional standard or the Pulitzer news prize, the specialty of feature lies in its approach which uses the literature technique to move people. The feature is a special report about media event, which can make the audience pleasant and sympathizing. The pleasant sensation and sympathizing action of the audience is one kind of"aesthetic"feeling. The feature can not only enable the audience having the news aesthetic feeling such as"newness","fresh","novelty", realizing the situational value of news, but also enable the audience having its unique aesthetic feeling:"the pleasant sensation","the sympathizing action". The realization of the situational value of news depends on the utilization literature technique."Narrative beauty"is the feature's unique attribute. The audience likes the story because of the traditional way of people's psychology. As the life rhythm of modern society quickening and the uncertainty of external environment increasing, the audience is becoming critic with information, which leads the audience favor the news story more and more. The popularity of non-fictional story lies in that the story is person's most basic spiritual needs."Person's behavior comes under the story influence which the person accepts unintentionally, is the imitation, the response, replies to the story or rebels against it."By using the literature method, the feature has its own unique aesthetic characteristics which differ from the news like its narrative, its iconicity of detailed description, method comprehensive nature. The unique aesthetic characteristics of the feature, reporter's capability to grasp the aesthetic psychology of audience, the aesthetics elements within the feature had decided the unique aesthetic value of feature as a kind of aesthetic creation. The feature can meet people's esthetic needs, and it is one kind of high-brow aesthetic appreciation, does not cater to audiences'vulgar interest. Now there is a change about the esthetics of the feature, which has caused news aesthetic value falling. The feature aesthetic appreciation is based on its reality. There is big difference between the aesthetic character of feature and the aesthetic character of literature. The feature may use some literary techniques as reference, but cannot confuse between the two. The rationality of the feature manifests in its theme of striving for realism, friendly and beauty.