What's the difference between documentary and news?

News emphasizes timeliness, for events that are happening or recently heard, for recent events in society.

Documentary is not about timeliness, it can be what happened now or what happened in the past.

Second, authenticity.

News emphasizes the authenticity of events, speaks with facts and is based on real scenes and facts.

Documentary is a form of artistic processing and display with real life as the creative material and real people and things as the performance object. Documentary can be re-processed on the basis of truth, which is the essential difference from news.

Third, the carrier

News records and disseminates information through newspapers, radio stations, television stations, the Internet and other media.

Documentary is to record newsworthy events in the form of movies or television.

Fourth, means of expression.

News is a quick description of recent or ongoing events, which requires general narrative methods and concise words.

Documentary can be recorded in an all-round, detailed and profound way through sound and text images.

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