Historical Themes Documentary Screen Analysis

With the competition among different medium is intenser, various programs within the same media are struggling for audience. As a basic form, documentary also faces two confined factors: marketing and viewing ratio. Contrast with broadcasting and newspaper, TV is better for its picture. So this thesis begins with picture, analysis the reasons for historical documentary developing, as well as existing problems. The picture styles of historical documentary, with the influence of realism and formalism, the picture aesthetics and picture meaning. Fiction and non-fiction are two ways of expressing history, because of the absence of real historical film, more and more people tend to use fiction form. The accepting psychology of audience as far as picture is concerned, audience viewing expection, vision psychology, audience perception, comprehension and imagination, and attention. Briefly predict the development of historical documentary, emphasis on audience psychology, respect history, and use diversified ways to explain history.