Evolution Of Documentary Concept In The Plot Documentary

As a way of recording and expressing of communicating the human culture, the charming point of documentary lies in'it tells the truth'. Since the'Odyssey of the Great Wall'came out of the blue, Chinese TV documentary turned out to have changed its figurative, political and commentary preaching mode, they displayed the truth in front of the audience, so came back documentalism.When it comes to recording of the true history, lack of image data plus the old concept of documentary make the creators hard to continue.As times move forward, with the development of media technology, the audience's aesthetic interests change in the meantime. In the fictionalizing, market-oriented atmosphere, documentary need to change their own creative ideas and means to maintain its vitality. In such circumstances, plot documentary came into being. The plot documentary combines the plot with the history, reproduces the lost history by characters play and digital virtual reality. Its biggest feature is the'true representation', this feature greatly changed the concept of documentary creators, for the'true representation'of the new documentary approach, and the creators have gone through from total rejection to fully use. Its appearance is the results of television industrialize, self-development of documentary and development of digital technology.For now, the plot documentary mainly applied to the documentary in history. Compare to the documentary in social reality, amazing commentary can not hide the lack of image data. Plot documentary's'true representation'make up for the lack of image data, while the story of the narrative and the plot of the story-style performance enrich the expressiveness of the screen, such as the'Forbidden City','Summer Palace','Zheng He's Expedition','Legend of Tang Empire,'and so on.From the development history of the documentary concept of the documentary, we can see that as times change and technologies innovate, people's understanding of the documentary is a constant process of updating. The emergence of plot documentary brought a lot of doubts, but its appearance is a new transition of the authenticity understanding of documentary, which will affect the development and growth of Documentary.This article will start from two aspects:the development of documentalism in the plot documentary and documentary research. Then we will do comprehensive research on the creative concept, making a clear understanding of the relationship between'true representation'and the authenticity of documentary. We start from the traditional concept of documentary, analyze the innovation and development of creation technique documentary on traditional concepts, finally analyze and summarize the evolution of documentary concept in the plot documentary.