To Alive

Documentary is an insightful and expressive image with a certain theme produced by the photographer after investigating and observing social phenomena,choosing the shooting object,and then editing.The essence of documentary film is to reproduce objective facts.Truth is the life of documentaries,and stories are the focus of documentaries.But in recent years,the influence of video transmission has been well known to the public.Everyone can be a recorder.The emergence of many factors has led to some obstacles for the filmmakers when recording the truth.The authority of the camera makes the public worried,and the truth of the camera record sometimes makes the subject afraid.This essay takes the documentary To Live as an example to explain the photographer’s views and doubts in the shooting process.