A Study On The Narrative Strategies And Empathic Effects Of Animal Documentaries

Animal documentaries refer to documentaries created using documentary filming and narrative techniques,with animals or humans and animals as the protagonists of the story.As an important type of documentary,animal documentaries can continue to gain audience recognition mainly due to the empathy effect.Directors need to use visual means and narrative strategies to help the audience understand the animals in the film,establish emotional connections with them,and ultimately produce an empathetic aesthetic experience.This article starts from three aspects:visual aesthetics,narrative strategies,and empathy effects.Through a thorough studying of animal documentaries,it interprets the mechanism and narrative techniques of the audience’s empathy experience.Research has found that visual aesthetics affects the audience’s unconscious aesthetic experience,while narrative strategies regulate the audience’s emotional experience,allowing different types of films to produce different types of emotional empathy effects.The comprehensive use of visual aesthetics and narrative strategies has laid the technical foundation for the generation of empathy effect,while empathy effect points out the value for the exploration of film techniques.