Director’s Statement Of The Documentary Shadow Play

With the development of the era of economic globalization,the characteristics of cultural diversity have become more and more obvious,which to a certain extent has caused a strong impact on my country’s traditional culture from external factors.How to protect our country’s excellent traditional culture and traditional skills and strengthen our cultural self-confidence has become an urgent issue.As an important symbol carrier of national traditional national culture,intangible cultural heritage is how to carry forward and carry forward.Among them,the inheritors of skills play a vital role.The documentary "Shadow Play" takes He Huaiyu,the fourth-generation inheritor of the"He’s Shadow Play" from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum of Yuhua District,Changsha City,Hunan Province as the main subject.It uses a linear narrative method to record the working status of the characters,on the one hand,Fragments of inheritance methods to show his most real life attitude;on the other hand,through interviews with characters,he explores his essential spiritual pursuit and wisdom.This film chooses He Huaiyu to record the individual life of a young inheritor of family skills.Through the tracking of He Huaiyu’s "inheritance of ingenuity",it strives to show the overall survival status of the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in the current social environment and their cultural precipitation.,And their persistence and innovation in intangible cultural heritage techniques,thus awakening society’s respect,understanding and attention to the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage techniques.Undoubtedly,in an era of continuous development of new media technology,only when everyone protects and promotes together can our country’s excellent national traditional culture be inherited and developed,and the country’s cultural self-confidence will be more prominentStarting from the shooting of the documertary "Shadow Play",combining creative theory and creative practice this article objeetively analyzes the documentary’s narrative structure,audio-visual language,etc.,from the documentary topic planning,creative process,theme expression narrative analysis to text elaboration,etc.In terms of artistic characteristics,rational thinking and a summary of the law.At the same time,taking the documentary "Shadow Play" as a case,further explore the artistic performance and essential issues of intangible cultural heritage documentaries,hoping to provide a reference for the creation of better documentaries in the future.