On The Narrative Function Of Documentary Commentary

In all the audio-visual elements of documentary narrative,although the importance of the picture is beyond doubt,the commentary,as one of the important parts of documentary sound elements,also plays an irreplaceable role.Commentary can help the documentary to complete the narrative,so that the audience can accurately understand the intention of the creator,and finally make the documentary to the success of artistic creation.This paper will study the narration of documentary commentary from a new narrative perspective,and analyze the important role of commentary in the documentary through layers of discussion.First of all,starting from the diversification of documentary language,this paper focuses on the influence of picture and sound language on the overall narrative,and uses the limitation of picture to prove the narrative motivation of commentary.Then it analyzes the practical function of the commentary,points out that it can make up for the defects of the picture narrative,and affirms the rationality of the commentary participating in the overall narrative of the documentary.Secondly,it discusses the narrative space of commentary.Commentaries can not only sublimate the reality of life into the reality of art,but also make use of the extension of narrative space brought by their own story attributes and emotional attributes,so as to prove that commentaries can help documentaries complete the success of the overall narrative.Moreover,it will discuss the narrative value of commentary.First of all,from the literary value,aesthetic meaning and humanistic care value of the commentary to explore the cultural meaning of the commentary.The second is to analyze the complementation of commentary,picture and sound to complete the narrative.Then it mentions the rationality of narration of documentaries without commentaries,as well as the diversified trend of documentary creation techniques.Finally,the above research results provide some practical methods and strategies for documentary creation.The author will summarize the narrative principles and strategies that the commentaries should follow in the actual creation from the background of the documentary,and apply them to the whole creation process of the commentary in the graduation work "standing on the post".In short,we must clearly realize that the narrative of documentary is achieved by the cooperation of various audio-visual elements,and the ultimate purpose is to better serve the theme of documentary.