Analysis Of The Artistic Creation Of Urban Documentaries

With realistic and non-fictional nature,documentaries are enabled to display subjects with greatest originality.As a result,urban-oriented documentaries are apt to be acknowledged and fancied as a reminder as well as a promoter of the spirit of a city.Compared with urban-oriented documentaries,city promos are losing its popularity,considering their fixed mode and inability to publicize characteristics of a city.More importantly,it is complicated for city promos to satisfy diverse aesthetic needs from different audiences.While to some extent similar to city promos,urban-oriented documentaries can be more flexible in contents and content-presentation,richer in plots,and more suitable to the future developmental tendency of urban culture transmission.During the process of preparing an urban-oriented documentary,a design team is advised to focus on both content and methods of presentation.Besides,the team is also recommended to find the core marks of the culture of a city,choose the most appropriate theme and characters,create the most authentic and astonishing plot,and decide the most workable filming methods.Categorized as an urban-oriented documentary,Exoticness inside Shanghai(Xiyangjing Shanghai Liuyang You),with a duration exceeding thirty minutes,aims to investigate the origin as well as the development of western culture in Shanghai.The influence and cultural value of western culture in Shanghai are also discussed in the documentary.There are four sub-parts in this documentary,and each concentrates on one independent topic(i.e.Shanghai Tower,Disney Resort,red wind culture,exotic cuisine).As the chief director of Exoticness inside Shanghai,the author of this thesis is responsible for planning,copywriting,coordinating,filming,post processing,etc.