Outdoor Reality Show "run It, Brother" Story Narrative Study

Recently, a wave of the outdoors reality shows of celebrities has formed and spread into a global scope. Since the development of the reality show in Europe and America in 1990 s, it was introduced to China and has an impact on public entertainment soon. The reality shows have already become a cultural wonder in current television program. In 2013, with the success of the reality show--‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’, the outdoors reality shows are no longer boring compare to the previous singing shows and have provided new opportunities and developing directions for Chinese reality shows. Whereby the “Running Man” has been designed, because of its attracting games and celebrities, it has received a large number of discussions and TV ratings, thereby, it has become the representative of Chinese outdoors reality shows.Furthermore, with the cognition of the Post-Classical, more and more experts and scholars will focus on the television media which undertake the main task of the modern narrative. There are numbers of relative researches about the narrative drama, television feature film narrative,the narrative of TV news and TV documentary narrative. At the same time, the plot tendency of television programs is becoming popular. All kinds of television programs that included television news programs, science programs, documentaries, talk shows and reality shows have shown the characteristic of the narrative, taken part in the role of telling stories as well as attracted the audiences. The narrative of television programs has become a trend or a tendency,thereby has an impact on the directions and methods of the whole television narrative.In this case, the author will choose the popular outdoors reality show—the‘Running Man’as the research objective. Trying to generalize the regular pattern and the experience of the success of the narrative of the‘Running Man’, by the use of text analysis which based on the classical narrative theory. Therefore, it will not only enhance the application of the theory of the Post-Classical but also provide new methods and perspectives of the research of the television programs. During the progress of the arguments, the author will explore the process of the narrative of the‘Running Man’according to narrative content, narrative discourse and narrative strategies. Besides, the author will summarize the problems and suggestions of the narratives of the outdoors reality shows, thus provide references and guidance of the development of the narratives of China’s outdoors reality shows.