Narratives Of VR News

Since 2014,virtual reality technology has gradually become the forefront technology in the news industry,which impacts news production in terms of shooting,content narrative,diffusion and other aspects.Some domestic and international mainstream media has produced a group of VR news works.This thesis takes the perspective of narrative,and makes a detailed study on the production of VR news content from narrative theme,narrative sequence,narrative perspective,audio-visual language,etc.It aims to find out the characteristics of the existing VR news in narrative,and explore the potential of VR in the news industry.Three steps were taken to conduct the research:first,selected the appropriate research objects for statistical analysis of content,exploring the narrative theme and other aspects of the relevant performance.Secondly,involved the text's analysis of the study objects,exploring its narrative sequence,narrative perspective,shots and sound,other aspects of the initial characteristics as well;Third,did in-depth interviews with professionals to confirm the research results and to add more potential ways VR can do in news narrative.Through the analysis,the writer believed that the narrative approaches of VR news and traditional news are rarely different,which mainly reflected in the audio-visual language:narrative point of view becomes a key element of narrative;the sound's role of guidance is enhanced.In addition,according to the results of the study,the writer provide:the tree's structure can be tried in narrative;it is more suitable to use the third-person limited point of view and omniscient point of view in VR news;VR is more suitable for in-depth reports;the change of scenes should be more smoothed and slower.