1. Student's full name: LE HAI AU
2. Gender: Male
3. Date of birth: July 12, 1974
4. Place of birth: Kim Son - Ninh Binh
5. Decision on recognition of students No. 3014//2019QD-XHNV dated July 30, 2019 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process:
7. Thesis topic: Content and artistic characteristics in VTV Can Tho television documentaries (Survey through 5 films: The Fire Sower, Echo of 50 Years, Lotus Dream, Vong Oath, Giua Doi Dong Muon Ngot).
8. Major: Theory, History and Criticism of Cinema and Television;
Code: 8210232.01
9. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Ngoc Thanh, former Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Theatre and Cinema.
10. Summary of the thesis results: Through the research on the topic of Content and artistic characteristics in VTV Can Tho television documentaries (Survey through 5 films: The Fire Sower, Echo of 50 Years, Lotus Dream, Vong Oath, Giua Doi Dong Muon Ngot), the thesis has achieved the following results:
Firstly: Television is a form of journalistic language, appearing in human life much later than literature and has the task of timely informing about new things. These are typical events, situations, and circumstances that arise every day and every hour in life to see real people and real events clearly depicted on the screen.
Second: With vivid visual language, imbued with the literary soul of commentary, television documentaries often have a strong evocative and inspirational power. Stories about human fate, about typical factors, along with historical stories and contemporary life stories, expressed in the form of documentaries, become more attractive and leave deep impressions on the public and audience. Some television documentaries reach high aesthetic and ideological values and create impressions, causing public opinion to resonate domestically, including the documentary of VTV Can Tho.
Third: To complete the purpose and research tasks, the thesis has started from the theoretical and practical basis, which is the analysis and outline of television documentaries. To have a practical basis, the thesis has generalized the regional culture in the Mekong Delta and the author - the work of VTV Can Tho television documentaries.
Fourth: When examining the content characteristics of VTV Can Tho, the thesis has researched and interpreted important arguments such as topics (including main topics; topics of ordinary people who have contributed a lot to their homeland; post-war; farmers' lives; modern life; natural life of the West and topics on cultural and artistic activities, folk beliefs of the Southwest), topics on adaptation and style of Western people through specific artistic images (such as adaptation to nature, environment, adaptation to agricultural production conditions and adaptation through specific artistic images) and characters with regional characteristics (including frankness, frankness with "Western style" and liberal emotions in the way of expressing characters with regional characteristics).
Fifth: Surveying the artistic characteristics of VTV Can Tho's documentaries, the thesis clearly analyzed the arguments such as directing style (including choosing topics and issues; expressing the thesis, emotional elements, images and sounds, the art of staging and editing techniques), the art of filming (including choosing camera angles, camera movements, panning and using the system of scene sizes) and some other artistic techniques (such as commentary, interviews, structure, staging, reenactment of events, details and music).
Sixth: Reality shows that, besides the achieved content and artistic values, VTV Can Tho's television documentaries in general are still heavily propaganda, agitation, the content is general, sketchy, lacking philosophy, lacking in thought, talking endlessly, sometimes even with eyes closed you can still understand the film. The visual part in television documentaries in many films does not really play an important role, with one content, one image can be replaced with another, just need enough images to convey the words, sometimes if there is a lack of images, then arbitrarily prolong or repeat a scene.
Seventh: Propose some feasible solutions to improve the quality of content and art of making documentary films of VTV Can Tho such as: Implementing the correct format (filmmaking form) in terms of genre, improving the artistic quality of the film, then developing all genres of television documentaries. In addition, to improve the quality of film content, directors of VTV Can Tho television documentaries need to expand the topics reflected in the film, exploit current issues of life, enhance the value of reflecting reality of the work, good stories, attractive, convincing, thesis, good emotional factors to improve the quality of the content of the documentary work.
11. Practical application: (if any)
The research of the thesis can be used as reference material for editors, film directors, researchers on the issue of building regional cultural art, storytelling in television documentaries, helping them have a specific view of the success of a documentary film, finding the factors that make the work closer to the audience.
12. Further research directions: (if any)
13. Published works related to the thesis:
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: LE HAI AU
2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: July 12, 1974
4. Place of birth: Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province
5. Admission decision number: No. 3014/2019/QD-XHNV, date 30th, July, 2019 signed by President of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University
6. Changes in academic process:
7. Official thesis title: Artistic characteristics and content in documentaries of VTV Can Tho (surveyed through 5 documentaries: Nguoi Di Gio Lua; Tieng Vong 50 Nam; Giac Mo Sen; Vong The; Giua Doi Dong Man Ngot).
8. Major: Theory, History, and Criticism of Film and Television; Code: 8210232.01
9. Supervisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Ngoc Thanh, Former Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Theater and Cinema.
10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
Summary of the results of the thesis: Through the process of researching the topic: Surveying through 5 films: Nguoi di sow fire, Tiếng vọng 50 nam, Giac mo sen, Vong voi, Giua doi dong muon ngot, The thesis has achieved the following results:
First: Television is a form of journalistic language, appearing in people's lives much later than literature and has the task of promptly reporting new things.Those are typical facts, events, situations, circumstances that are arising every day, every hour in life to see real people real things clearly depicted on the screen.
Second: With vivid visual language, it is blown into the "Literary" soul of the commentary, so it has strong evocative and inspirational power.Stories about the human condition, about typical factors, along with historical stories and contemporary life stories, expressed in the form of documentaries, become more attractive, and leave deep impressions. in the public, the audience.
Some television documentaries have achieved high aesthetic ideological value and create an impression and resonance in national public opinion, including the documentary film of VTV Can Tho.
Thirdly: To complete the research purpose and task, the thesis has derived from the theoretical and practical basis, which is the analysis and summary of television documentaries. To have a practical basis, the thesis has made an overview of the regional culture in the Mekong Delta.
Fourth: When surveying the content characteristics of VTV Can Tho, the thesis has researched and discussed important points such as topics (including topics : topics about ordinary people, with many contributions to the homeland; the post-war period; peasant life; modern life; the natural life of the West and the topic of cultural and artistic activities, folk beliefs in the Southwest region). Western adaptation and style through specific artistic images (such as adapted to nature, the environment, adapted to agricultural production conditions and adapted through specific artistic images) and regional and regional characters (including outspokenness and frankness with "Western style" and liberal emotions in the characterization of regional and regional characters)
Fifth: Surveying the artistic characteristics in the documentary film of VTV Can Tho, the thesis has clearly analyzed such points as the director's style (including the selection of topics and issues; expressing the thesis, emotional, visual and sound elements, the art of setting and editing techniques), cinematography (including selection of angles, camera movements, panning, and methods of using the scene size system) and some other artistic devices (such as commentary, interviews, structure, staging, re-enactment of facts, events, selection of details, and music).
Sixth: The fact shows that, besides the content and artistic values that have been achieved, Television documentaries of VTV Can Tho in general are still heavily propagandistic, vague content, sketchy, promotion, lacking philosophy, thoughtless, talking constantly, Sometimes close eyes but still understand the movie. The visuals in TV documentaries in many films have not really played an important role, with a content that can be edited from one image to another, as long as there are enough images to download the lyrics, sometimes missing images arbitrarily stretched or repeated a scene.
Seventh: Some solutions that can be implemented to improve the quality of content and art of documentary films of VTV Can Tho need feasible solutions such as:Implement the correct format (filmmaking form) in terms of genres, improve the artistic quality of films, thereby evenly developing television documentaries. In addition, in order to improve the quality of the film's content, the directors of VTV Can Tho television documentaries need to expand the audience of the film, exploit current issues of life, and raise the price of films. The value reflects the reality of the work, the plot is good, attractive, persuasive, the thesis is good, and the emotional factor is good to improve the quality of the theoretical work.
11. Practical applicability: (if any)
The thesis research can serve as a reference for editors, film directors, researchers on the issue of building regional culture, the art of storytelling in a documentary work, helping them have a Look specifically at the success of a documentary work, see the factors that bring the work closer to the audience.
12. Further research directions, (if any):
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