The leisurely life of rebirth

Chapter 19 Recording the Images of All Living Beings

All living beings, the vast world.

I love watching documentaries when I travel around, especially on nature, animals, food, society, and travel.People at home and abroad also like to watch it. My favorite is documentaries about domestic society because I want to know more about the world. Since I graduated, I have found that many things in society are very different from the education I received since I was a child. Big discrepancies, such as:
Hard work pays off
Doing good deeds without asking for reward

Listen to your leader, work hard, and don’t get into conflicts with your colleagues.
Buying a house depends on oneself, it is immoral to gnaw at the old man
no pain no gain

Only after arriving in society did I realize that reality has no logic. It is more magical and unpredictable. Interest disputes are extremely complicated and it is impossible to understand them at all. Therefore, Zhou You often watches documentaries to understand the truth of society and the rules of its operation.

Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and see all kinds of people.

This has always been a dream of traveling around. Documentaries have largely satisfied previous travels. However, due to the social environment and the current situation of documentaries, there are very few realistic documentaries. Most of them are superficial or propaganda-oriented policy films. I only find a good movie once in a while.

I have some spare money when traveling around now, and I will have some spare money in the future. If I want to contribute a little to this industry, I can't say that I don't ask for anything in return. I can only say that I am satisfied and at ease. After all, I have paid so many documentaries for nothing in the past.

Being poor cares themselves, being wealthy cares the world.

We can't help the world at the same time. We only hope to be a small help to the independent documentary industry.

Domestic documentary directors can be roughly divided into three types according to their working status: institutional directors, market-oriented directors, and freelance directors.

According to the creative status, they are divided into project directors and independent directors.

The international classification of documentary genres is divided into poetic, expository, participatory, observational, reflective and expository.

The domestic categories are film, history, science and education, and humanities.

The life of documentary directors has become much easier since the establishment of the CCTV Documentary Channel and the popularity of China on the Tip of the Tongue. The two factors combined have made the treatment and life of documentary directors much easier.

No matter what director is, he is usually hired by his employer or someone first to serve as the director of a documentary that has been decided to be shot. For this kind of project, the funds have been determined in advance. After the director has passed, he will work with the producer or part-time worker to determine the shooting script. .

The current types of documentaries include events, history, biography, stage, special topics, etc., but they are reproduced according to the shooting method.

In the past, only directors within the system and a few documentary directors had no worries about the funds to create. Gradually, some independent documentary directors entered the market with participatory and observational documentaries. With their unique perspectives, they won the curiosity of foreign countries and were able to produce films at better prices. Sell ​​it to foreign film producers and get good economic benefits, but you need to continue to obtain materials from the bottom, and you are influenced by the orientation of the overseas market and continue to shoot the bottom of society to obtain funds from foreign film producers.

Large-scale documentaries in China have always been film documentaries or historical documentaries before. There were a large number of documentary directors in various local stations. In the 90s and [-]s, local historical documentaries were shot with local funds. There was no pressure within the system, so the content was mostly based on local history.

After A Bite of China became popular, humanities documentaries such as food have really kept many people busy for several years. Whether inside or outside the system, countless documentaries of this kind were filmed based on the A Bite of China model, and they all had models. Yes, the funding is good, and the broadcast effect is also good.

However, the biggest profit comes from documentaries on exhibition halls for various tourism facilities in various places. The use of various new concepts and new technologies is extremely radical. However, the audience is only exhibition hall visitors, so the popularity is very narrow, and most people will not pay attention.At present, nature documentaries in China are relatively weak. This area requires great professionalism, professional skills, huge time investment, and massive financial support.

Domestic production has been done through purchase for many years. In recent years, some people have begun to try to enter the field of nature documentaries, but the input-output ratio is extremely disproportionate. Those involved are mainly TV stations, and there is no huge financial investment like the BBC. As well as hair channels and shooting experience.This area still needs to be filled by someone, but the BBC has thought of all the themes that can be thought of on this planet. If the BBC didn't think of filming it, others wouldn't be able to film it either.

Poetic documentaries have a small audience in China and require extremely high content expression skills and high investment. There are currently few people filming this area.

Many people are attracted by documentaries by Xu Tong, Zhou Hao, Chen Weijun, etc. However, the domestic market price of such independent documentaries is low, and they are basically supported by foreign markets seeking novelties. Moreover, such documentaries are filmed all year round and require high communication skills. , it is generally difficult for documentary directors who are new to society to be competent.

Nowadays, many film and television companies are more cautious in documentary shooting. In the end, they are mainly based on project system. Young documentary directors mainly cooperate with companies.Unless there is a strong social will to express, generally no one will take the independent documentary path. It is too difficult and laborious.

Zhou You has watched it before, and probably knows the relatively well-known independent documentary directors currently.

Xu Tong's representative works include "Fortune Telling", "Wheat Harvest", and "Old Tang Head", known as the homeless trilogy.

Zhou Hao's representative works include "Cotton", "Emergency", "Days", "Mission Hall II", "Mission Hall", "Secretary", "Long Ge", "High School", "Houjie", "Datong", Among them, Senior High School is the most famous and widely circulated. Secretary and Datong are the most classic and rare. It is estimated that it will be difficult to capture similar images in the future.

Chen Weijun, "It's Better to Die Than to Live", "The Gate of Life", "The Gate of Life", "The Way Out", "The Chinese Dream", "Why Poverty?" ", "Sunrise and Sunset", "The World's Largest Chinese Restaurant", "Please Vote for Me", "City Dream" and other works, among which it is better to die than to live. I traveled around and watched it several times before finishing it, because this The documentary makes people feel uncomfortable, lamenting how difficult people's livelihood is. A small change in the times can be a huge mountain for an individual. This film expresses this sentence vividly.

Zheng Qiong, "The Way Out" has the same name as Chen Weijun, but the content is quite different, more like seven years of life. People from several walks of life in China were selected for follow-up filming. The span of time is larger, which makes people feel more deeply.

Wang Bing, "Tiexi District", a partial epitome of reform.

There are also many independent documentary directors, but due to the dissemination of their works and the affordability of their families, many of them end up in vain.

Documentary is based on real life as creative material, real people and real events as the object of expression, and artistic processing and display of it. It takes showing reality as its essence and uses the film or TV art form to make people think with reality.The core of documentary is truth.

Documentaries are the photo album of a nation and a country, and they are also witnesses of the times.

　Ask for a recommendation ticket.

　　Thanks to the two big guys, Yiyuan Yunqi and Tianyuwei, for their persistence.

　　


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