New Characteristics Of European Documentary Film In Digital Time

Film and television are two of the most important communication ways nowadays. Our day life is full with various kinds of moving film while documentary film doesn't get enough respect compared with other types of film. The most serous problem is that there is no mature market for documentary film making and communication. Without domestic financial support, Chinese documentary film mainly issues overseas, mostly in Europe. The situation of Chinese documentary film makes most film makers disappointed. A new rising thing named digital technology nowadays changes almost every kind of art. Study on how this new technology affects documentary film especially European film is very important to Chinese film industry.European documentary is taken to be ancestor of modern film. Documentary film attracts its audience by reality and its high photography and interpreting technology earn much applause while competed with fiction film. Documentary is burned with high state. John Grierson created the word "documentary film" in English, and in his opinion, though we can catalogue all those films which aim in photograph nature material as documentary films, we can not call them documentary film because this word could only be used by high stated films. Nowadays, documentary film is accepted more and more people since its strong function in helping human to recognize the world we live in and also to know ourselves more really. Documentary film is a kind of illuminative and culture-inherited art.Today is a time full with opportunity for those film researchers who can catch the step of new technology. Digital things change our world in every aspect. Our life is affected by digital concept from daily life to high state enjoy. Digital technology is now starting a tide of revolution in film making ways. How documentary can employ this kind of new technology to show its reality and continuing its high state is very important.Objective and background of this study is introduced first. Development of European documentary film and the most important art ethos and faction are reviewed. Aesthetics characteristic of European documentary film is analyzed in some aspects. The irritating ways and the relationship between photographers and people or things be photographed and the relationship between reality and aesthetic character in documentary film are interpreted. Effect of some theory as western philosophy on European documentary film is studied. How digital environment and new digital technology will affect European documentary film is analyzed in detail. Finally, what revelation does the new characteristic of European documentary film in digital time show to us is concluded.