At a time when global aging is accelerating,more and more problems of the elderly are gradually revealed.As the society pays more attention to the living condition of the elderly group,documentary works on the subject of the elderly are slowly coming to life.The article analyzes the literature related to documentary films on senior citizens and narrative studies in the context of narrative theory,and finds that the analysis of narrative strategies in documentary films on senior citizens is slightly inadequate in combining with documentary practice.Therefore,the construction of narrative strategies in senior documentaries is particularly important.The article compares 20 documentary works on elderly subjects through case study method,and analyzes them in terms of recording content,narrative technique and artistic language.The analysis shows that the content of the documentary film on the elderly in China is more diversified,and summarizes the two creative development trends of the documentary film on the elderly with the characteristics of civilianization and more and more emphasis on the expression of“people”.The article takes the narrative strategy of“Don’t Let Love Grow Old”as the research object,and mainly analyzes four aspects: narrative perspective,narrative structure,narrative time and narrative language.In terms of narrative perspective,it shows the multiple narrative perspectives of the documentary by studying the direct omniscient perspective,the immersive internal perspective and the unfinished external perspective;in terms of narrative structure,it tells the development of the film’s story by studying the linear structure and the segmented panel structure;in terms of narrative time,it analyzes the two different ways of time processing,namely time expansion and time omission,to show the art of narrative time of the elderly documentary.In terms of narrative time,we analyze two different ways of time processing,namely time dilation and time omission,to show the artistry of narrative time in elderly documentaries.In terms of audio-visual language,the detailed narrative of visual language and the artistic narrative of auditory language are studied to explain the specific narrative details of the film. |