The Call From The Heart-study On Animal Documentaries

This thesis combined with film studies, ecological ethics, cultural philosophy and Western theological theories and methods, based on animal documentaries image, through the description of the system creation, present situation and development process of animal documentaries to explore the reason for the rapid rise of this kind of films at the end of the twentieth Century. Focus on the analysis of features of different types of animal visual documentary, digging the humanistic connotation of documentary film behind the animal theme, and do simple thinking on creative way to our country animal documentaries. The main research contents include: overview of the development of the animal documentaries, first to make a determined the animal documentaries, and then analyze its development process and the creation of distribution in today’s world of animal theme documentary film. Exploring the reasons for the rapid rise in recent years animal documentaries, mainly carrying on the analysis from two aspects of material and technical foundation and the human animal concept. By combining the characteristics of the analysis of practical example, animal documentaries audio-visual performance and explore the hidden in the audiovisual symbol behind the humanistic connotation. Consider the above analysis, turning to our country animal documentaries creation, to find out the problem and make constructive thinking.