| Principal consciousness, subjective-objective proneness and authenticity are the main points focused on in Documentary research when documentaries are regarded as an approach of observing, reflecting as well as expressing. It switches to focus on motive, esthetic value and social influences when documentaries are taken as distinctive artistic creations. However, when documentaries appear as text existences, research in terms of Narratology seems to be necessary and valuable.With strong back of Structuralism, Modernism and After-Modernism, Narratology has kept transforming its attitude and enlarging its field since its birth from Poetics. It has already become a methodology after it regards the whole world and society as a huge text, getting through the process from literature to media art, from mass culture to daily life. Fresh idea and new landscape would be offered by research taken documentaries as texts in terms of Narratology, both to documentary workers and to their audience.Based on Narratological theories and structure, text composing and narrative phenomenon of documentaries are conferred. We will focus on the semiotic system, the process and the structure formed, with relevant points such as imago build and space-time involved.Conferring documentaries in terms of Narratology is the main innovation from which the most valuable factors such like transition of semiotic system and so on arise. Moreover, the successful analysis of narrative process of documentaries by the advance of intercommunication system of documentaries is also considerable innovative compared with previous counterpart. |