Feel the narrative power of images

Because of my professional needs, I read the article "Research on Image Narration in Film and Television Dramas", which gave me some understanding of image narrative, and I also learned a lot about the narrative expression of film and television dramas.

This article takes image narrative in film and television art as the research object. Through this research, it attempts to better grasp the laws of film and television art from the academic level and technical operation level. How movies and TV series tell stories, how the pictures in movies and TV series narrate and present life and human nature through images, show stories and plots, and express rich characters, etc., often determine the success or failure of a movie and TV series. However, understanding and grasping the narrative theory of film and television will make film and television people become wiser, more sensitive, and better able to interpret and interpret. This is the intention of the author of this article and the inner pursuit of this article. It is based on this understanding that this article chooses image narrative as the entry point to discuss film and television creation, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the art of film and television narrative. In this regard, it establishes the academic value of this article and the practical significance of film and television drama creation. This study briefly combed the origin of narratology research and film and television narrative theory, and explained several pairs of concepts such as story and image story, image story and narrative, storyline and narrative of literary text. Focus on exploring issues related to using image elements and image narrative rules to narrate stories and plots. To sum up, this paper discusses the fictional narrative of movies and TV series, that is, it explores how the images of movies and TV series tell stories through the combination of images, sounds, time and space, and how to use the meaning of images and the charm of sounds to realize their stories. The narrative intention; the main levels and functions of its time narrative arrangement, the characteristics of spatial narrative presentation, the way in which the image unfolds the narrative, and the common narrative modes, these constitute the basic framework of this article.

Film and television is a complex and comprehensive art of expression. It is the product of the development of human culture to the stage of modern civilization. In the past hundred years, film and television have increasingly become the melting pot for smelting human spirit and emotions and the jewel in the crown of art. Since mankind unveiled the glorious chapter that goes hand in hand with art, history has begun to completely abandon the traces and atmosphere of barbarism. With the development of science and technology, the youngest film and television art has used the imagination of sound and painting to stimulate the imagination of concepts and make the limited The screen accommodates infinite time and space, encompasses many eras in a limited time, and uses performers and images to explore the world, creating a perfect and glorious art palace. Human beings have created art, but so far, human beings have not been able to thoroughly understand and analyze all artistic phenomena with their own rational wisdom, and the art of film and television dramas is the art field with the most gaps. If we always insist on thinking in only one way, then many doors to the mysteries of art will never be opened. In front of the art palace, a constant "open sesame" cannot be everything. Dramatic art theorists believe that what happens and is going on on the stage is not just to satisfy all dialogues and actions for the "physical eyes". In addition to triggering visual activities, it also needs to feel and discover more important things. Similarly, movies and TV series also have this symbolic meaning for vision, but movies and TV series can mobilize more visual image elements and richer means, using a set of integrated images to speak to the world as a whole. For video art, it is even more difficult to understand and grasp its artistic rules, especially exploring its narrative rules is even more complicated. Although movies and TV series are not the same whole, there is an internal connection between the image art and the elements and narrative methods and rules that make up the image. The first problem in creating movies and TV series is how to use the elements and means of images to clearly narrate to people. , and presents exquisite and touching artistic effects in the narrative. The process and rules of this image narrative are the issues explored in this article.

The biggest thing that dramas, novels, movies and TV series have in common is that they all need a good story. However, we are in an era when the art of storytelling is in decline. Failure to tell stories has become the fatal disease of all narrative arts. There are obviously differences between stories at the literary level and stories at the film and television level. The former mainly relies on text description, while the latter relies on body movement and mechanical and electronic technology to show unique meaning and dramatization in the form of image movement. The image narrative capabilities and means of movies and TV series are more vivid, intuitive and richer than novels. In this regard, focusing on the expressive and narrative potential of image movement provides a broad space for the development of movies and TV series. An important criterion for people to judge the extent to which movies and TV series express image narrative is whether they can use images to tell stories. Being able to tell simple stories clearly shows that you have initially mastered the film language and image narrative ability; being able to express and narrate more complex plots and emotions shows that you have mastered the image narrative of movies and TV series. This article takes image narrative in film and television art as the research object. Through this research, it attempts to better grasp the laws of film and television art from the texture level and technical operation level.

The following is the basic structure diagram of the article, which will provide a clearer understanding of the image narrative method explained in this article.