Oscar-winning Music Documentary Research

For half century,music documentaries as the academy award for documentary camp is significant part of the more popular genre in recent years.Currently,music documentary has become a dependent generis.This paper takes all]2 music documentaries of Oscar award-winners as the research object,through the methods of literature,text analysis,interpreting its subject characteristics,audio-visual features and value.On this basis,this paper tries to explore the unique charm of music Academy Awards,to add a little more for the music documentary research,and to provide suggestions to Chinese music documentary’s creation and communication.In terms of the object and scope of research work,Oscar-winners were chosen for it’s long history and reputation,which give attention to both commercial and artistic value,and the documentary has function of recording social reality with the name "the mirror of human existence";So far,from 1969 there are already 12 films on the winning list,whose size is more appropriate.As for the research train of thought,by reference to the spread of documentary creation and natural processes,the author start the research respectively from the subject selection(early),audiovisual(middle),social value(late)Angle,try to get an overall understanding of Oscar-winning music documentary,and then construct a medium research framework.Firstly,by recognizing and studying the character,environment,the plot,which are three elements of the subject matter,this paper argues that Oscar-winning music documentary focuses on the selection of marginal groups,unfamiliar spaces and plot full of contradictions,which not only reflects the Oscar Documentary Awards’ effort to take in non-mainstream people and culture,also reflects its preference to the documentary telling stories.Secondly,based on the ontology,audio-visual language of film and television works,focusing on more important music,lens language,and analyze the artistic features 12 films,tries to interpret their unique charm.The paper finds out Oscar-winning music documentary presents an expressive and documentary audio-visual language that is inseparable from the creative exploration of its sensibility and logic way for exploring the truth.Thirdly,The documentary also record life from different angles,as to resonate with the audience through aesthetic experience,to show pluralistic culture and connotative meaning behind it,to correct stereotyped images of marginal people and to mend the whole discourse power of the society.