Documentary And Entertainment

The documentary is an important kind of film and television morphologies. It is a total name of film-television art that directly drawn materials from the reality and excluded fiction, used images and sounds of construction, narrative, performance or reproduction. Nowadays, as the international generic term, "documentary" becomes an important international cultural exchange mean with the mission of "clarify choices, interpret history, and enhance mutual understanding". From the "news documentary film" to the "scenery documentary" and "political documentary", from single-book's to columnized survival, China's documentary is looking for a suitable survival carrier constantly.This article firstly describes the survival situation, discussing the concept of "what is the documentary", "what is the columnized survival" and the relation between documentary and columnized survival. It narrates the development of documentary with columnized survival from three stages, analyzing the characteristic of current-trend on selected topic, plebification of narrating angle and the diversification of performance. Then, it complies with "the plebification trend of documentary with columnized survival", analyzing the plebification trend with on-the-spot report, emphasizing the "on-the-spot report" is the base of documentary with columnized survival, and commenting the documentary's plebification with the "on-the-spot report" concept. Then, it sets off from "the trend of story expressed of documentary with columnized survival", analyzing the trend of story expressed and "imitate to reproduce", affirming "entertainment" is the certainly needing of documentary with columnized survival, and commenting the trend of story expressed of documentary with columnized survival with the entertainment concept.The innovation of this article is the perspective of "columnized survival". On the one hand, it carries out the summary the course of development of more than 10 years of columnized documentary, positively affirmed the trend of plebification with on-the-spot report concept and the trend of story expressed with entertainment concept; on the other hand, the article carries out meticulous analysis on the existing character of columnized documentary and the differences of non-columnized documentary of tradition. After having analyzed a mass media objectively getting involved in documentary, the article carries out the change coming into being in aspects of documentary such as making idea, production process, aesthetic attributes, narrative technique and social function. It carries out the calm thinking on the appearing problem, and seeks new export to the documentary with columnized survival.