Where Are We Going Dad? Analysis Of Its Narrative Patterns And Cultural Connotations

where are we traveling for? Dad, an creative reality shows about fathers and children gained the popularity for its uniqueness and cuteness. It is the breakthrough for the place of Chinese television show,which transferred into outside show from indoors,but also a big step for the shows topics instead of singand dance. Television, as the main media of communication, plays an important role in the spread of culture and values nowadays.While There two factors contributes to the success of this WTD, one is the dramatic contract under certain context, the other factor is large amount of real records and emotional effects.This thesis focuses on its first season to find out the narrative pattern, cultural connotation by analyzing constituent elements of the story mode and how to use narrative mode in order to point out programming rules in hope of summarizing the drawbacks and limitations of this narrative mode. Besides, the suggestions and comments according to my analysis are shown in detail in this thesis.This article will briefly analyze developmental history and types of international and domestic real television shows, focus on WTD’s narratives in scripts based on the theory of narration. This article covers five topics of WTD including the manuscript narrating, content, strategy, dialogues and point of views. The purpose of this article is finding out some regularity factors behind the WTD’s success therefore raising our thoughts about value orientations and culture embodiments. Previous researches saw the increasing spring out of reality shows which imported copyrights from other countries, especially the Korea. According to analysis of WTD,the typical example of television shows, which imported from Korea and localized by ourselves can provide us a novel model and television program style for others reality shows on certain degrees.What’s more, each story has some truth behind, the same goes with television programs. Symbolic code and its function are not just constructing the story by using the basic structure of the narrative, but also closely related with each other so as to achieve the excellent performance effect.In terms of the truth behind the story, it is the ultimate goal of storytelling. In this era, the explosive information seen everywhere, it is particularly important that how to disseminate more meaningful values. Although compared to the original TV show, Where are we traveling for, Dad? is quite suitable for outputting the values, but it would be boring that tell the story within a fixed model every time. Therefore, television storytelling connected to the central value of society, which touches people’s emotion and soul, is the key to a successful television program.In addition, narrative model in long-term is introduced to the Where are we traveling for, Dad?. Its novelty lies in the implements of exchanging two main narrative identities, which refers to the shift from the star and his son or daughter to the common people of the lower social status, especially in rural areas. The stars are concerned that whether they can complete these tasks in extreme environments, while the audience pay attention to the stars behavior in order to deal with those difficult tasks. The new point of view, on one hand satisfies the desire of audiences and on the other hand, enhance the relationship between the father and the child. What’s more, we can find that the same participants in next season not only meet the long-term attention of audiencestowards the star families, but also can evoke better memories therefore, appeal the audience attention constantly. In other words, the familiar participants of television program are inseparable to maintain audience attention to its development.