What is the connotation of montage in news writing? How to use it?

On the reference significance of film and television montage to the performance of written news

In the process of written news writing, the introduction of film montage is of great significance for us to discover and fully explore relevant news facts in breadth and depth, choose the best material in news writing, break through the traditional news writing that emphasizes the integrity of stories, improve the effective information content of reports, and enhance the appeal and influence of reports.

1990 An article "Her China Heart" published in Mid-stream in August is a classic in this respect. This report, which was reprinted in the full text of Xinhua Digest, had a simple fact: Ucha, a Japanese orphan, lived in China for more than 40 years and finally found her relatives in Japan, so she flew to Japan to visit her relatives. After living in Japan for a week, she couldn't stop thinking and insisted on returning to the prairie of her second hometown, Inner Mongolia, China. The whole work is permeated with the ups and downs of the protagonist's emotions Literally, it can be said that this communication is made up of more than 200 scenes or details outlined in thick ink and carefully rendered.

However, whether this report belongs to news dissemination or reportage once caused controversy. In particular, it was once considered to be against the principle of news authenticity to excavate the "past tense", break the conventional time-space combination plot and show the inner world of the protagonist. It was not until this article was included in Selected Excellent Newsletters of China in the New Period that the controversy ended. This is a well-known and tear-jerking excellent work. Some people call it reportage, but it is also a kind of news communication. Its success lies in organically interweaving the facts that span time and space with a special character by montage, and reporting the fate and inner feelings of the characters who have experienced major disasters by showing the trivial things that happened to the protagonist, thus reflecting a kind of shock and transcendence to the nation, getting rid of hatred and breaking through themselves. This success is due to the fact that the most touching facts, scenes and details are organically combined into words through montage, and the mental journey of the invisible hero is displayed with ease and just right.

Mills Lowe, a famous American journalist, has an incisive exposition, which is quite enlightening for us to understand the feasibility and importance of using montage to express news. He said: it is best not to tell the reader too much when writing news, or you will lose him. Tell him a small range of specific things and let him discover a wider range of universal things. If you want to express the grief of a middle-aged farmer who lost his wife, you don't have to describe his abstract psychological activities. It is obviously unwise to do so. All you have to do is catch him coming home from work on the farm, witness his mother's daughter crying because of hunger, the farmer clumsily combed her daughter's fluffy hair with a comb before he could clean his thick hands covered with mud, and the farmer's dull and helpless eyes-all this is enough by montage.

The montage of movies and TV shows facts through the connection of scenes and details. Its characteristic is that it can break through the general law in the inheritance and combination of time and space, abandon trivial plots and show the occurrence and development of events by leaps and bounds. In the event news report, skipping the words, passing the facts by spatial order beyond the normal time and skipping the expression of news can strengthen the words and form the beauty of rhythm. Yu Wenguo, the author who won the 9th China Prize for Journalism, is a professional photojournalist. When writing this newsletter, he used the lens to "talk" throughout, and the "picture" with simple strokes, meticulous strokes and heavy pen and ink jumped out of the paper, which was the most touching fact and detail, broke through the general time and space order, and made readers involuntarily infected. In the process of expressing news in words, the use of montage can save many unnecessary and trivial expressions of content and events, which requires us to fully explore the breadth and depth of relevant facts in news writing, select the best from the rough, optimize the selection of materials, focus on pen and ink, improve the appeal and influence of news reports, and enrich the information connotation of written reports.

News writing should not only tell readers what is happening, but also let them know what it means. Scenes, details, language and other facts can be combined in different ways through montage to form richer connotations besides words. A news article "Shortage of Moscow Toilet Paper" written by a reporter from united press international can be regarded as a successful work in this respect. The text is not excerpted as follows:

UPI International Moscow 65438+1October 3 1 Moscow residents have encountered another shortage: toilet paper can't be found anywhere. An angry Moscow citizen said on Tuesday: "We just can't find it anywhere. The owner said it was out of stock. " A few shops with toilet paper are crowded with people. Someone said, "Some people temporarily cut paper tablecloths or diapers to hold toilet paper, but these things are all used up now." The effective way for more than a year is to cut the Soviet Pravda. ...

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