Phoenix Horizon: Images Descripton And Communication Of History

At present time,the documentary is an important program form for the film and television organizations all over the world.The documentaries reflect social reality,and reflect the culture,politics,country,national interests,wars and other aspects.During this process,documentary gradually assumes the mission of recording history,writing history with the images,and gives life to the vitality of the history source.Because of its unique nature of images and reality,documentary has the realistic visual effects in recording and communicating history instead of other means.At the video era,this role will increase.In 2004,the ratings of historical documentary Phoenix Horizen rised rapidly after launching,and it achieved good economic and social benefits,providing us with a template of image history writing. Phoenix Horizon uses the narrative of compilation.During the process of images history writing,it combines two kinds of discourse patterns of narrative and display,resulting in diversity of horizon structures,and obtains good effects.In Phoenix Horizon,the selecting method of history images,a combination of history and reality,a variety of resources integration and part of the operation played a key role in the success of history communication in the program.The success of Phoenix Horizon primarily relies in Hong Kong,the hub of Chinese culture,the Chinese history perspective,and the insist of advanced history horizon as well as satisfying the audience's history demand. The successful experience of Phoenix Horizon in the images description and communication of history supplies good reference for the documentary and television industry at three places.