A good reporter tells a good story 20 18_ How to tell a good story on TV programs

China Library Classification Number: G22 Document Identification Number: A "Storytelling" has become a booming "narrative" style program on TV screen in recent years. Accustomed to sensationalism, tears, swords and shadows, people seem to want to see their own joys and sorrows and the ups and downs of ordinary people on TV, so "telling the story of ordinary people by themselves" entered thousands of households overnight, and the wind of storytelling spread all over every screen from the central government to the local government. It makes people truly see the brand on their foreheads, the ravines left by the years around their eyes, and the joy overflowing from their eyes through false affectation, becoming a different kind of scenery. But there are many stories, sad or happy, far or near, dull or tortuous. Some are unforgettable, others are breezy. It seems that not all stories are easy to tell. The key depends on how you choose and tell them to make them happier.

First, tell the people's own stories truly.

In our childhood memory, the hero of the story is always a hero, but the development trend of TV requires us to aim at the ordinary life of ordinary people. It is a new challenge for our TV reporters to observe their life forms, reflect their inner world and draw new ideas from them.

In this challenge, some people are confused by the word "trivial things". They either can't find the plot to tell, or artificially simplify and clarify the object of recording, which hinders the expansion of "narrator's own story" to a wider space. The record of the story only stays on the display of the external form of extraordinary events, but can't touch the performance of the living state related to human experience, and can't profoundly show the daily and most real life experience.

Second, tell the story of ordinary people with true feelings.

Diderot once said: "Without emotional quality, no style can touch people's hearts." Only when the TV director builds a story building with his own emotional area and touches the heartstrings of the audience with his emotional stomach strings can he * * * play a shocking cadenza together.

A good story usually wins with the word "love". Of course, it is not advisable to tell stories in order to pursue the true feelings unilaterally and create plots to earn tears. Because a good story that can move people, its most fundamental premise is truth, as long as it is true, it has vitality and appeal. The story behind the mural that won the first prize in China News tells the story of the mural artist Liu Yu 'an and his student and model Tao Xianyong behind a successful mural. An Ran described by Liu Yu is trying to save the life of Tao Xianyong, who is terminally ill. As an ordinary person, his heart is full of contradictions in this rescue process. He sympathized with Tao Xianyong and was afraid of being infected. He hoped that Tao Xianyong's natural and strong physique could be preserved as a work of art, but he had to face the reality that it was about to disappear. He didn't know whether it was because of feelings or because of art that he desperately wanted to save him, so he made such a confession: "Life is beautiful, no matter whether he was born in the city or the countryside. Tao Xianyong's beauty is like a gift from God. I don't want to see my heart empty after the beauty is destroyed. Am I selfish in doing this, in order to fill an empty heart? " In this story, Liu Yu 'an is not a perfect saint, he is an ordinary good man, and the director showed him to the audience completely and truly, which is why the story is more credible and moving.

Third, tell a meaningful and interesting story.

In TV documentaries, the so-called "storytelling" may be about a life process or a state of being. So, can you film everything that happens in your life, any phenomenon in your life can be the object of performance, and any little thing can be shown in a documentary, so you can make a movie by recording what you see and hear? The answer is of course no.

Modern documentaries emphasize the true and natural recording of the original ecological life process, but this is not a photographic naturalism that reflects life, but a careful refining and screening, which shows the accidental and random personality characteristics and the modality and details that reflect the essence of life to the audience truthfully. As people say, "documentary is the art of choice, and choice reflects the director's grasp of the essence of things and his ability to control the structure." Therefore, "telling people's own stories" is by no means listing people's daily trivial lives, but discovering deeper and richer emotions and meanings under the surface through stories. That is to tell a meaningful story.

Generally speaking, it is not difficult to make a story meaningful, because it is the premise of making a "story". If it doesn't make sense at all, then why waste time, waste time? However, it is not easy to make a story interesting, that is, it sounds good.

There are many factors that make up a good story, but the most important thing is to be good at capturing details. People often call the most exquisite description of a work "the finishing touch", because there is only one thing in a person's body that shines, and that is the eyes, and the most vivid place of a thing is the bright spot. Tell a story and find a bright spot. Language, body, expression, action and atmosphere with personal characteristics are the highlights of the story.

After listening to a story, few people can tell it from beginning to end, but often some of the most infectious details or a few personalized words leave a deep impression on people, that is, they make the whole story vivid and have stronger appeal and depth.

People love to watch their own stories, which, to a certain extent, creates a good living environment and development space for our TV people to tell stories. I think the highest level of a story should be: after reading it, people will not think of the camera, music and explanation, but only the truth and emotion in their hearts, and we are still far from this level. Let's tell a good story together!