suspense online drama is a new star in the Chinese film and television drama market in recent years. In the short seven years of development, it has given birth to a series of " white night chase ", " forensic Qin Ming " and "'s hidden corner ". The "phenomenal" topic drama has broken through the circle many times, causing the audience to discuss the suspense drama.
Suspense online dramas can emerge suddenly in the highly competitive online drama market. One of the reasons is that the relevant policies for the production and broadcasting of online dramas have rejuvenated the suspense dramas in the cyberspace, and various platforms and producers value the full age of suspense online dramas. The reason is that the characteristics of the audience, the gender difference is small, and the rhythm is suitable for making short plays.
In addition, the narrative art of suspenseful web dramas has a unique style and characteristics, which has a strong appeal to the audience, and is worthy of our research and exploration. This paper focuses on the representative dramas in the contemporary suspense network dramas, and finds that they have the following characteristics.
suspense online dramas mainly use the internal focus mode to set up mysteries and show the process of characters exploring the puzzles. In some special passages, the external focus mode will be combined to block the audience's sight, create a sense of ritual of reasoning, create a mysterious atmosphere, or use zero focus mode, Overlook the fate of each character, examine the heart, personality and changes of the characters, and express more complex thematic connotations.
From the perspective of plot construction, the plot of suspenseful web dramas mainly relies on suspense to maintain and support. The main suspense usually begins with a shocking event. During the development of the plot, new suspense is continuously injected, and a network of suspense that is nested and intertwined makes the plot more twists and turns and continues to attract the curiosity of the audience. An unexpected answer as the end of the suspense, or an open-ended option to continue the suspense's influence beyond the end of the episode.
, as the character who builds the soul of the plot, has also undergone new changes, breaking through the single-protagonist narrative, dual protagonists and team-type protagonists drive the plot development, and in addition to the justice police-style or detective-style protagonists, there are also criminals who begin to assume the role of the protagonist.
's labelled thin characters have transformed into three-dimensional, contrasting, civilian, and growing round characters . Diversified characterizations dilute the boundary between black and white, make a breakthrough in the relationship between the characters of the binary opposition between good and evil, push the plot out of the idea of "the police catch the criminal", and broaden the possibility of the plot.
From the perspective of the narrative structure, the suspenseful online drama makes the plot fragmented and jumped by adding multiple clues, splitting, inverting, and reconstructing the clues. Breaking through the use of the narrative structure of single clue and linear time, the plot content is extremely impactful, rhythmic and thoughtful. The audio-visual quality of
suspenseful web dramas is close to that of movies, which is reflected in the large use of black and shades in the picture, the use of light and shadow contrast to express symbolic meaning, and the enhancement of specific colors to render the emotional atmosphere of the picture; hand-held or shoulder-mounted photography is often used to make the lens slightly darker. Shake to add movement and realism to the picture.
Use subjective lens to create a sense of presence or voyeurism, high-angle overhead lens or special viewpoint lens to convey information and emotions; use cross montage to unify complex plot clues into a complete plot structure to create suspense and emotion impact.
produce appropriate music to participate in the narrative, portray the characters, set off the environment with grotesque and distinctive music, strengthen the ambient sound to create a sense of reality and suspenseful atmosphere; use speculative voiceovers to assist the narrative, reveal the psychological activities of the characters, and introduce the content of the plot Or sum up reflection. The popularity of
suspense network dramas has attracted countless followers, and the content produced is mixed. This article summarizes the success of high-quality suspense network dramas, and puts forward three suggestions, hoping to provide ideas and directions for the development of suspense network dramas in the future.
First of all, suspenseful web dramas should be deeply rooted in reality observation and bring into the texture of life. It contains two levels of surface production and deep ideological connotation.
The surface production is embodied in: choosing a shooting location close to the audience's life, so that the story is real and substituting; the props and scenes are arranged realistically and carefully, creating a natural atmosphere of life; the character modeling is grounded; the actors' performances are smart and real . The deep ideological connotation of
emphasizes the use of ingenious methods to design, guide the audience to interpret and reflect on the complex human nature and practical problems in the process of evil, and build the ideological core of the series.
Secondly, on the basis of emphasizing the content of the plot, learn to use audio-visual language to achieve the function of telling, break the distance between the film and television drama and the film, fully consider the angle, movement, color, light and shadow and composition of the lens, so that each lens can serve in the story and the characters themselves.
Finally, from the subdivision, combination, and mix of genres, we made great efforts to break through the narrative routine of suspenseful online dramas and reduce the audience's aesthetic fatigue.
To sum up, based on 's narratology theory, TV art theory and high-quality suspense network drama texts, this paper has carried out a series of studies on the narrative art of suspense network dramas, and achieved certain results, but due to the lack of its own ability, the article There are still many imperfections, please criticize and correct.
suspense online drama undoubtedly has a strong vitality and a broad possibility space. I hope it will reflect on the success and failure of past cases in the future growth process, absorb experience and lessons, continue to innovate and develop, and move towards higher and higher levels. wide area.
