Narrative Research On The Documentary "Every Treasure Tells A Story"

Chinese excellent traditional culture has accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuit and supported the Chinese nation for more than 5,000 years of thriving and prosperous generations.With the country's increasing emphasis on traditional culture,the dissemination of traditional culture has gradually become one of the goals of various art categories.In this context,a documentary film “Every Treasure Tells a Story” is born at the proper moment.The cultural relics are the carrier of the excellent Chinese culture.This documentary points the camera at these cultural relics,opening up a new way of presenting cultural documentaries.Its inspiring thoughts,refreshing narrative methods and exquisite picture presentations make audiences deeply appreciate the rich and colorful traditional culture contained in cultural relics,while awakening cultural memories and stimulating the audiences' deep feelings for the country and nation.Therefore,this documentary was widely praised by the public once it was broadcast.The first and second seasons of this documentary received high scores of 9.4 and 9.5 respectively in Dou Ban film,and won the 15 th "the Best Works Award" for spiritual civilization construction in August 2019.This thesis takes the documentary "Every Treasure Tells a Story" as the research object,takes narration as the entry point and narratology as the main theoretical basis,aesthetics,communication and other related theories as auxiliary.With the methods of case analysis,text analysis and comparative analysis as the main research methods,the narrative of “Every Treasure Tells a Story” is systematically analyzed with examples.The main body is composed of four parts.The first chapter analyzes the overall construction of narrative of "Every Treasure Tells a Story" from three aspects: narrative subject,narrative theme,and narrative structure.The second chapter analyzes and discusses the narrative strategy of "Every Treasure Tells a Story" from three aspects: narrative perspective,narrative style and narrative skills,and summarizes its unique features compared with other documentaries of similar subject.The third chapter analyzes the narrative language of "Every Treasure Tells a Story" through the detailed analysis of its camera language,sound language and text language,and analyzes how the film attracts the audience to pay attention to cultural relics,traditional culture and documentary itself through the narrative language.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the narrative value of "Every Treasure Tells a Story" from three aspects: cultural value,historical value and artistic value,and explores the era significance of the film.Finally,the conclusion part briefly summarizes the overall success and shortcomings of the documentary "Every Treasure Tells a Story",in order to bring inspiration to the creation of documentaries on the same subject.This thesis not only provides textual analysis materials for the audience to interpret the documentary,but also enriches the theoretical research on the narrative aspect of "Every Treasure Tells a Story".We expect this thesis to provide some ideas for the narrative research of the documentary genre under the category of historical documentaries.