Preliminary Cause Of Taiwan’s Booming Documentary After The Lifting Of Martial Law

Since1987, with the changes in the social and cultural environment and social consciousness,Taiwan has made considerable progress in the documentary in the creation, research, exhibitions andso on. In mainland China, in recent years, with the launch of a documentary channel, a variety ofdocumentary film festival will be held, These are providing a more diverse development platformsfor the local documentary, though only separated by a strait, but the two sides have a lot ofdocumentaries differences. This article will comb through the development of Taiwan’s documentarycontext, to explore the reasons for Taiwan’s documentary booming in recent years.In the1980s, due to advances in the turbulent social movements and photography, from the folkdocumentary Taiwan broke the monopoly of the official media, the documentary becomes a weaponof social movements. After the lifting of martial law along with the changes in the mediaenvironment in Taiwan and Taiwanese social consciousness, the emergence of pluralistic Taiwanesedocumentary shoot theme, by exploring multiple hot social issues and focus on the bottom edge ofthe figures, the documentary began to blossom in Taiwan era.The late1990s, due to Taiwan’s public television production of "record point of view" and theInternational Documentary Festival will be held, for the development of Taiwan’s documentaryprovides a platform for the dissemination and wider international perspective; Meanwhile, TainanUniversity of the Arts audiovisual record the image formation and community empowerment aroundthe camp set up in Taiwan, not only for the development of Taiwan’s documentary trainedprofessional creative talent, but also by launching civil forces, trained a large number of Taiwanesedocumentaries documentary audience and grassroots documentary creators. Additionally, born in1986in the studio with panoramic impression over the years to spare no effort to promote thedocumentary and documentary talent training program,"Panorama Mode" on the later documentarycreators had a tremendous impact through its central figure Wu Yi-feng, making concerns after longmonths of disadvantaged and marginal figures to the subject,"your best friend" approach laterbecame a major feature of Taiwanese documentary.In recent years, by far the marketing channels, documentaries either on word ofmouth or at the box office have achieved good results. Due to various film festivals heldin Taiwan to allow more people to see the documentary; through from the politicians,stars and other celebrities of-mouth marketing and network marketing precision forspecific audiences, setting off waves of watching the documentary boom, a lot ofdocumentaries at the box office even far more than large; Finally, in recent years, in cooperation with the national Geographic and Discovery Channel documentaries fromTaiwan onto the international stage.In this paper, combing through nearly three decades of development in Taiwandocumentaries to time as the vertical axis, horizontal axis social factors, provideresearch data for reference and comparison from the mainland documentary.