analyze the characteristics of TV music in the documentary of City of Heroes
Music is a special language, an art that expresses people's thoughts and feelings and reflects real life. With people's increasing demand for watching TV documentaries and improving their taste, the role and position of background music in this film is also increasing day by day, especially in large-scale documentaries, while creating as colorful a visual world as possible, we should also create a more colorful sound world and produce greater appeal. The background music in TV documentaries not only has the characteristics of music, but also has its own distinctive narrative characteristics. Therefore, it is of great significance to arrange and make the background music in TV documentaries reasonably, accurately and beautifully. This paper tries to discuss the role and position of background music in TV documentary from the characteristics and functions of background music.
1. Overview of background music of TV documentaries
Background music, also known as soundtrack, usually refers to music used to adjust the atmosphere, which is reflected in the plot and picture to enhance the emotional rendering, let viewers feel immersive and deepen their understanding of the visual image with auditory infection. The background music in TV documentaries can be singing or accompaniment, but it is usually silent. Background music has developed rapidly since it started in Europe. While cooperating with pictures and plots, it also has a unique style and charm produced by the integration of sound and painting. Almost every excellent TV documentary can separate the background music contained in it and spread it widely as a by-product. The background music in TV documentaries has a wide range of sources. It can be taken from all original music works as the sound source on the basis of respecting intellectual property rights, and it can also be targeted for originality, adaptation, production, editing and synthesis according to the nature and tone of the film, so as to make it more in line with the needs of the film theme and picture structure, and achieve the audio-visual artistic effect of "sound" and "painting".
2. The role of background music in TV documentaries
Hungarian film theorist Bella? Balaz mentioned in Film Aesthetics: "The task of sound film is to show us the sound environment around us. In the sound world we live in, everything can speak except human language, and it constantly affects and dominates our thoughts and feelings, from the drizzle of the sea to the noise of big cities." Like Bella? Balaz said that music is beautiful and moving, and it is an art form to express human feelings. As far as the background music of TV documentaries is concerned, it can be divided into two categories: TV documentaries with music and TV documentaries without music. With the diversification of creative means of TV documentary, nowadays, there are fewer and fewer TV documentary without music. Because the importance of background music in TV documentaries is increasingly prominent, creators are increasingly treating it as an art combining documentary with music, and making it carefully. The TV documentary workers are increasingly dissatisfied with treating the documentary as a simple live record, because this creative way is too objective and calm, but they hope to mobilize a variety of technical and artistic methods to organically combine images with audio-visual images. In addition to the natural sound and commentary recorded in the shooting process, music and sound effects can also be added to the audio-visual image, which can be used to render emotions and explain the contents displayed in the picture, so that the real life can be artistically expressed in a three-dimensional and moving way, thus deepening the social and ideological excavation of TV works. "It is not enough to sigh; I sigh for the lack of it, so I sing it. " "Musicians, ancient sages have the tools to cure feelings. People have the nature of blood and blood, and they have emotions. Emotional things move in the middle, and the sound is written and should be outside. " It can be seen that since ancient times, people have deeply understood the importance of sound and emotion. This can also be used to explain the important role that the emergence and development of background music plays in expressing feelings in TV documentaries. The background music of TV documentary can make people feel the feelings and emotions expressed by people and things in TV documentary, strengthen the expressive force and appeal of the content of the work, and reflect the spiritual connotation of TV documentary at multiple levels and angles. In today's popular culture, the creators of TV documentaries will more often explore and record real life from the perspective of multiculturalism, reflecting the changes of nature and the various markets. The combination of pictures and music makes the role of background music in TV documentary more and more obvious and important, which causes deep emotional communication with the audience, and also allows the audience to coincide with the creative intention of some real-life experience recorded in the film, and then produces a * * * sound. "Music enriches documentary art, and documentary art promotes music creation."
1. Characteristics of music in TV documentary
Intermittence of music. Although background music is very important in a special documentary, it will not run through the background music from beginning to end in a TV special documentary, but will appear in time according to the content of the picture and story. This is why the background music in TV documentaries will be incoherent in time. Only when the right node appears at the right time can it be organically and effectively integrated into the whole film. Harmonious and intermittent background music can be said to be quietly advancing with the pace of narrative, even the audience can't feel the existence of background music, but it has achieved the best editing effect.
the incompleteness of music. Background music is arranged according to the needs of the content of TV documentary, which leads to the imperfection of background music in its own structure to some extent. The background music in TV documentary must be close to the picture, and it can't exist alone without the picture. Without the mutual cooperation with the picture, it will lose its design function. In TV documentaries, the choice of background music often does not appear as a complete piece of music. It can be just a short section or a piece of music. The whole idea of its music may not be involved in TV documentary, but it can achieve amazing rendering effect after combining certain picture content. Take the work "No Love in the Bookstore", which won the first prize of Zhejiang News Award (social education) documentary in 214, as an example. The film tells an emotional story of a township bookstore and its owner. Because of her husband's death, the bookstore was in trouble for a time. In order to fulfill her husband's dying entrustment, his wife Chen Huijuan, with the support of book lovers, resolutely picked up the burden of running the bookstore, and performed a period of reluctant feelings in the melodious and euphemistic storytelling. In the production process, the film always grasps the unique musical elements of the bookstore, adopts the tunes of Jiangnan silk, bamboo, pipa and pingtan, and sings softly in the narrative process of the story to set it off, which is well connected with the picture, moving and touching. Especially when the hostess tells her thoughts about her husband, the sad erhu music is used as the background music, which makes the audience's emotions moved again and again with the sound and picture, and plays an important role in the success of the film.
the creativity of music. Although the background music in TV documentary has the above-mentioned characteristics of discontinuity and incompleteness, it is determined by the narrative characteristics of this film, and it is more technical treatment, and the artistic quality of music must be pursued beautifully and completely. This requires hard and creative work. In particular, the grasp and performance of the main theme of the film should be carefully designed. The music of TV documentary is not completely attached to TV documentary, but complements the content of TV documentary. It is an explanatory re-creation of the ideas and emotions contained in TV documentary, which is expressed in a specific picture scene and acts on viewers from both sensibility and rationality.
2. Function and application of music in TV documentary
(1) From the structural point of view, background music has the function of substrate and transition
When music is used in TV documentary, background music should firmly grasp the theme to be expressed in TV documentary, set it off, deepen, strengthen and render it, and improve the viewing effect of recorded content with artistic appeal. For example, in the TV special report on Princess Diana's life, the chapter on Princess Diana's funeral report first introduced people into the mourning environment with a sad tune. Background music should mainly be a foil and supplement to the picture, and it can't be above the picture. It is necessary to moisten things quietly and not "usurp the host's role". Transition is to connect the time and space of TV documentary. At this time, the background music should reflect the situation, mood and atmosphere of the upcoming scene. In the TV documentary Memory of Mongolian Plateau? There is a background music in "Teana from Tuva", which appeared when Genia, a young man from Tuva, asked valentina, an expert from Tuva Music Research Institute, for advice on "Humai". When the commentary in the picture explained that "Humai is the imprint of their ancestors' souls", the background music sounded until Genia's Humai singing ended. This piece of background music plays a connecting role in the connection of pictures, and also plays a coherent role in the connection of its commentary, and even paves the way for the following pictures.
(2) From the narrative point of view, the narrative function is enhanced
Background music not only plays a supplementary role in visual narrative and auditory art, but also helps to portray the three-dimensional atmosphere of characters' psychology, emotion and environment in TV documentary with its musical language. As a pluralistic artistic element, it enriches and strengthens the narrative function of TV documentary. In "China on the Tip of the Tongue", Zhuo Ma in the crowd looked bored when the quality of the matsutake picked up by Tibetan girl Zhuo Ma was poor, which made it impossible to sell it at a high price. At this time, the soothing and leisurely background music sounded. This melody seems to be full of Zhuo Ma's loss, and it seems to comfort her melancholy. This well-used background music deeply touched the nerves of the audience.
(3) Establish a new audio-visual space from an aesthetic point of view
With the continuous development of background music, the application of background music in TV documentaries has been more fully reflected. Diversified background music makes the theme of the film sublimate, and the audience's eyes and ears get stronger artistic enjoyment and new spiritual experience. In the episode "China on the Tip of the Tongue" and "Gift of Nature", the crisp and pleasant background music sounded when Shi's head was eating. This unique and elegant string sound not only shows the frozen natural environment of Chagan Lake, but also highlights the simple, simple and optimistic spirit of Shibatou. Another example is China on the Tip of the Tongue, which is exaggerated by the sound of frying and the sound of stewing, all convey the great temptation of food. China on the Tip of the Tongue presents the food that makes the audience salivate, and at the same time, it is matched with exquisite background music, which perfectly combines sound and picture, and clearly shows the richer and three-dimensional effect of the food with regional characteristics.
(4) Reveal and deepen the theme from the content
If language is to let the audience know the theme in the TV documentary, then background music is the means to let the audience silently identify with and move it. The function of background music is that when the lens language and written language are insufficient and the lyric expression of the film is insufficient, appropriate background music is selected to make up for it. Although I have a good lens language and written language, I still feel that my expressiveness is not enough to vent my emotions and feelings, and I need more tension. At this time, appropriate music can be used to pave the way, so that the overall feelings and emotional excitement can be strengthened and more perfect narrative and artistic effects can be obtained. In China on the Tip of the Tongue, every time I express the joy of the hard-working peasants' success, I will hear that cheerful and passionate melody, which implies the happiness that the hard-working people get in return after their hard work. The entrance and exit of background music is very natural, which is in harmony with the rhythm of the picture, so that the audience can enjoy audio-visual enjoyment and feel the soul.