How to write a documentary review?

The recording function of photography is an ontological function of recording performance based on photographic modeling means. It can show the concreteness and reality of the subject and reproduce its intuitive movement process in the form of images. Although it reproduces the audio-visual structure of the subject, it is very similar to that of the subject. Bazin once explained this recording function of photography: "Only the image of the object shot by the camera lens can meet the needs of our subconscious reproduction of the original, which is more real than imitation, because it is based on this object." (World Movies, 198 1, issue 6, 10. )

However, the image is not a reality, but a reality that has been mediated. Between the audience and the real world, there are still factors such as creators, cameras, roles and reproduction methods. Therefore, the reality presented in the image-that is, the reality captured by the camera-has been organized according to the subjective value of the creator. As a result, these subjective values have created a series of new relationships, and the new reality is no longer the reality itself. Bazin explained it this way: "The same event, the same object can be reproduced in many ways, and every time it is reproduced, some features that enable us to identify objects on the screen will be discarded or retained. Every copy will introduce some abstractions with different degrees of corrosion, and it is difficult to maintain the integrity of the original ... The original truth is replaced by the illusion of truth. " (World Movie 199 1, 4 issues, 48 pages)

Therefore, truth has become an aesthetic phenomenon here, and authenticity is no longer philosophical, but aesthetic.

Documentary is a special form of recording. This form emphasizes recording the original appearance of the behavior space and recording the behavior activities of integrating form and sound.

In real life, the existence and activity of people and the existence and movement of things are all carried out in the form of a complete integration of sound and shape. It not only transmits color images in the form of light waves, but also transmits sound in the form of sound waves, which are isomorphic to specific objects. This kind of thing is touching and inseparable.

However, when recording it with a camera, sound and image are separated by the mechanical characteristics of the camera. In this way, without the image of sound, the object is divorced from the specific situation, and the image may become the symbol of the image, and the object is no longer a specific individual, but a class composed of individuals. For example, the person on the screen is no longer Zhang San or Li Si, but has become a concept of "person". The combination of image markers on the screen may also become some abstract objects. For example, a person's activity on the screen is no longer something that someone does at a certain time and place, but a concept of "one person's activity". In this way, the concrete becomes abstract.

In practice, many creators don't understand the relationship between the two, thinking that photography is taking pictures, so they don't turn on the microphone when shooting, and some cameras never even have a microphone, so the recorded object is not the moving state of things, but only its image. The recording function of photography is greatly reduced here.

The recording form of documentary also emphasizes the realistic effect of reproducing the development of things. This effect is not only to shoot real people, but also to give real people the significance of sports development, so that people's activities have a sense of reality in line with people's daily life experience.

The recording function of photography is different from the reproduction function of photography. The function of copying has no personal characteristics of the photographer at all, and the function of accurately recording the object. This function is close to the original imitation. Replication itself records the basic quality and form of the object, but it does not bring aesthetic value to the object. The recording function not only records the physical object, but also realizes the creator's direct reflection and grasp of the aesthetic attribute of the physical object, making the aesthetic attribute of the physical object a screen image with aesthetic value. At this time, the camera's selection and recording of objects and images has a retrospective effect beyond cold eyes. What is usually inconspicuous can be highlighted in a strong visual form. What you usually take for granted can become ethereal and broad. The hue, color, movement, scene and clarity of the image all make the information conveyed by the visual image have certain rational and perceptual components. It seems that thing is still that thing, but the recording form itself has revealed a new aspect of material reality. This is because the recording method with perceptual and rational activities can guide people to go deep into the internal activities of the material life world, which is the product of the real world and is deeply hidden in this world.

The form of record is a kind of record with subject input, which is a kind of agreement between the subject's feelings and reason and real life. The subject's desire for reality just fills the gap between images and objects.