Reach The "deep Truth"

Memory of Taihang Mountain is a character documentary,which takes the red culture of Licheng County,Shanxi Province as the background,and tells the story of Guo Haibo,a villager,carrying 21 martyrs' remains home in six years.The core of character documentary lies in people,and its essence lies in reality.How to show,tell and reach the truth is the essential problem to be dealt with and considered in the creation process of character documentary.Guo Haibo's true belief deeply shocked the creators.As an ordinary farmer,his strong spiritual force inspired the creators to start their creative activities.In Memory of Taihang Mountain,Guo Haibo's real event of collecting skeletons is the main body of the story,the real historical story of his father and the Eighth Route Army is the background,and finally the inheritance and spread of the red culture by the characters are as emotional sublimation and spiritual charm,which conveys the spiritual value and current strength of the real characters.From the view of director's creation,this paper focuses on the creation practice of reaching the deep truth of documentary film,and combines relevant theories and creative thinking to make analysis.In chapter one,from the two aspects of subjects selection and the shock of first saw the bone collector,the author expounds the reasons for him to finalize the topic and its value.In chapter two,starting from the presentation of characters and combining the local flavor of them,this paper elaborate on the way of characterization of the protagonist Guo Haibo in the documentary.The third chapter takes the fictitious real concept of creation as the starting point.With related theories and creative examples to explain deeply the author's many attempts to arrive at the documentary deep truth,such as creative reconstruction of real events,reappearance of scene,reproduction and other creative methods;In chapter four,starts from the perspective of the simple image beauty pursued at the beginning of creation,the author expounds the mirror language features of the simple beauty of the documentary Memory of Taihang Mountain,combines the characteristics of the rural environment with the image pursuit in the early stage of creation,and analyzes from the two aspects of the lens presentation and voice characteristics of the film.In the last chapter,the author introspects the creation practice,summarizes the joy and difficulty,failure and exploration,the existing regrets and deficiencies in the creation process.The creation of real recording image is always accompanied by the moving of real people,strong creative impulse,full creative efforts and some creative regrets.However,the creation of real image records will always be driven by its own power of truth,goodness and beauty to find,search,share and spread more moving and shocking.