Director’s Interpretation Of Documentary The Starting Line And The Marathon

Education is an important way to achieve individual growth and self-improvement,a major issue related to the development of the Party and the country,and a fundamental and strategic support for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.China’s educational documentaries reflect the current situation of educational life and the reform of educational system through the display of people and things in the process of education.In recent years,they have shown the creative trend of diversification of content and form,long-term tracking and shooting,aiming at social problems and highlighting educational reform.The graduation work the Starting line and the Marathon is a subdivision of the educational documentary that focuses on children’s preschool education,mainly expressing the different attitudes of a family facing their child’s transition education from kindergarten to primary school.Through specific events such as extracurricular training,pre-school counseling,school district houses inspection,and primary school selecting,it reflects the collision of "starting line" and "marathon" two different educational concepts in the era of great social change and development.In combination with the current education reform and the new education policy,the documentary consider the issue of children’s growth education,and at the same time advocate a more healthy,scientific concept of children’s education that focuses on the cultivation of individual comprehensive quality and comprehensive development.The creative process of the Starting line and Marathon is divided into three stages.In the early stage,the shooting direction and main shooting contents are determined on the basis of preliminary planning,data preparation and scene investigation;In the medium term,the shooting method of combining the following shooting and the camera arrangement is adopted,and the main content of the shooting is completed through the timely communication with the character to sort out the narrative clues and modify the shooting plan;In the later stage,select materials,sound and frame to further improve the ideas,complete the editing and present the theme according to the actual situation.In terms of the choice of narrative mode,The Starting line and the Marathon uses the compound narrative structure of combining non-linear and linear narrative with the the inner-focusing narration.The choice of narrative perspective is related to the subject matter of the documentary,and reflects the discourse right behind the documentary creation.The narrative structure is formed and displayed in the blending of the values of the director and the audience.Affected by the aesthetic trend of the group and society,the use of different narrative structures reflects the creator’s presupposition for different categories of potential audiences.In recent years,the application of diversified narrative methods in the creation of Chinese documentaries also reveals the social significance of educational documentaries: transmit collective emotions and construct social memories in a three-dimensional and vivid way with its unique perspective.