Documentaries must be carefully visited and conceived before shooting. ()

Documentaries must be carefully visited and conceived before shooting.

Documentary is a film and television art form that takes real life as the creative material, real people and real events as the performance objects, and artistically processes and displays them. Its essence is to show the truth and use it to arouse people's thinking. The core of documentary is truth. The birth of film began with the creation of documentary.

The experimental films such as "The Gate of the Factory" and "The Train Entering the Station" filmed by Louis Lumiere in France 1895 are all documentaries. China documentary shooting began at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. The first one is Dingjun Mountain at 1905. Some of the earliest scenes, including social scenes in the late Qing Dynasty and historical figure Li Hongzhang, were all taken by foreign photographers.

Documentaries can be divided into film documentaries and TV documentaries. 20 19 Documentary enters "online life" and explores more performance space. The word documentary was first put forward by john grierson of Britain, who was a disciple of Flahardy, the father of documentary. However, he did not give a complete definition of documentary. What kind of works can be regarded as documentaries around this question.

The founders of documentary aesthetics: Wiltoff and Flahadi. Among them, Wiltoff initiated the "Movie Eye School", which advocated that the camera should "catch life by surprise" like the human eye, and opposed artificial performances, even films (feature films) with performances. And Flahadi's pioneering work Nanuk in the North is played by Nanuk's Reality.

General classification:

There is no fixed and unified standard for the classification of documentaries. Documentaries are represented by real images according to different themes and expressions. It gives full play to the technical and artistic advantages of the film, demonstrates with visual materials, and presents the characteristics of visualization and speculative complementarity. The materials used can be realistic or historical, and are not limited by time.

Take the truth of the Sino-Indian border issue as an example. Its source of material can be China, Indian, British or other aspects, so it is not limited by the sequence of events themselves. Political documentary not only has some basic requirements such as authenticity of materials, rigor of argumentation and distinctiveness of views, but also pays special attention to the unity of visualization and science.