Research On Artistic Characteristics Of Documentary Films On Culture And Art

As outcomes of the combination of artistic content and the form of documentary films,documentary films on culture and arts have covered the domain of art and technology. They are notsimple sums or mechanical combinations of culture, art and documentary films. They require thecreators to master the development law of art, reflect on how to shoot documentary films with artthoughts or how to better present artistic works or characters from the perspective of shooting, andtry to dig out the underlying values of works and artists. As an important medium or platform fortransmitting culture and art, documentary films on culture and art have been developed upon thehistorical course of art as a carrier for transmitting culture and art. When many directors aredirecting their cameras at art, the subject that is easy to express rich atmosphere and feelings isexpressing creative ideas and strong emotion implied in artistic works and the artists to the audience.From the perspective of art, documentary films on culture and art have not only transmitted thedevelopment course of art in the process of elaborating and sorting out famous artists who havemade outstanding achievements in the field of art, but also provided guiding significance for latergenerations in studying and developing art.Sampling on excellent documentary films on culture and art in both China and foreigncountries, this paper has analyzed artistic characteristics, along with expression of artisticcharacteristics, of documentary films on culture and art through combining with specific film shotsand applying relevant theories and other research methods, such as watching films, literatureanalysis, case study and comparative study. This paper, innovative in its mastering on image featureof documentary films on culture and art and the exploration on their narrative characteristics andvalue and its comparison with documentary films of same type in Foreign countries, has concludedand explored the future development of documentary films on culture and art and made people feelthe fundamental charming of such films. Moreover, they have provided a new opportunity forChinese culture and art to express its excellent component in a more extensive and selective waywhile keeping its diversification in a worldwide scope. Finally, the advantages and limits of developing documentary films on culture and art were concluded, future development opinionswere proposed, and an analysis on problems existing in the development of the industry ofdocumentary films on culture and art in China and countermeasures from a macro perspective wasconducted.In chapter one—introduction, the background significance of the subject, along with reasons forthe research, current research state in China and foreign countries, research objectives, researchcontent, research methods, innovative points and limits, were introduced.In chapter two—defining on artistic characteristics of documentary films on culture and art andtheir development, understanding on common characteristics of documentary films, along withconceptual defining on documentary films on culture and art and their artistic characteristics and thebackground for the generation and development of documentary films on culture and art, werediscussed and studied.In chapter three—image characteristics of documentary films on culture and art, imagingfindings of documentary films on culture and art were analyzed with pictorial language, lenslanguage and auditory language.In chapter four—narrative characteristics of documentary films on culture and art, the"dramatic" narrative strategy and skills, along with the way to deal with the relationship between"fact" and "fiction", were discussed.In chapter five—exploration on the values of documentary films on culture and art, historicaland documentray values, along with cultural and inheritance values and economic and market values,were stated.In chapter six—comparative study on artistic characteristics of documentary films on cultureand art in China and foreign countries, differences among different documentary films and theiradvantages were identified.In chapter seven—conclusion and envision, directions for future explorations on documentaryfilms on culture and art were pointed out and an envision was come up with.