How to distinguish between documentaries, travel films, literary and artistic films, and scientific and educational films?

Documentaries refer to films that describe, record or study the real world. In most cases, documentaries do not require actors to perform. The people, places, and situations shown in the documentary should be consistent with the actual situation. The scope of documentaries is very broad, including both completely documentary films and reality shows. Documentaries are witnesses of real life and faithful portrayals of history. Therefore, documentaries can influence, inspire and inspire audiences with their indisputable and convincing authenticity and unique artistic charm derived from life. The term "documentary" was first used by the British John Grierson in a review in 1926.

Travel films are also called "travel films". It is a documentary that uses travel as a clue to introduce the scenery along the way. Travel films pay more attention to exploring the rich and symbolic things in the landscape, and clearly express the artist's emotional tendencies and ideological intentions, requiring the use of film art expression methods to highly unify ideological, lyrical and interesting aspects. . The trip in the film is not fictional, but a record of reality, so it requires a combination of documentary and artistry.

Literary film is the abbreviation of literary and artistic film. Literature and artistry coexist, which is different from commercial movies. Art films are a unique genre of Chinese films. Literary films are not art films. More literary and artistic films need to arouse people's excitement (such films seem to be more inclined to female audiences) and express human emotions (mostly expressing love). Through the director's artistic shooting techniques and the actors' artistic performances, it enables the audience to deeply feel the beautiful human emotions and arouse emotional cries, thereby achieving the ultimate goal of film shooting. Literary films also integrate literature and art.

Literary films reflect their unique characteristics through their unique atmosphere. The use of film language is also more plain and more suitable for people's acceptance habits.

Science and education films: films used to educate scientific knowledge