On The Narrative Characteristics Of Western Scientific Documentary

It's been over hundred years since the birth of documentary film. During this long evolutionary history in the film industry, documentary makers are constantly exploring and testing, and constantly improve the production ideas and techniques. Among these, the scientific documentary has a unique style. Also, because of its social function in science communication, the study of western scientific documentary has become of great significance.From Vladimir Hardy, Vertov, Grierson to Evans, Previous researches vary in narrative technique. Before 1960s, it was more influenced by Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité. With the development of scientific research, the increasing complexity of difficult scientific theory, the film record of the evolution and development of techniques and digital film technology breakthrough, the scientific concept of documentary narrative gradually separate from the documentary ontology, the narrative techniques and narrative structure has come to have a distinctive style of its own.More importantly, as a medium of science communication, western science documentary was given the task of participating in the Public-Understanding-of-Science Mode of Science Communication. Besides helping the public better understand basic scientific ideas, scientific documentaries also are influenced by the New Journalism, "Record Group" and "Message sent" controversy and other narrative Trends. While sticking to the scientific attitude, it has developed a unique narration visual angle. Some documentaries employed the poet narrative style from Evans. Morphological structure of the space science documentary and therefore change.