What are the three characteristics of documentary?

Documentary should have three characteristics: authenticity, creativity and speculation.

Documentary is a film and television art form that takes real life as the creative material, real people and real events as the performance objects, and artistically processes and displays them. Its essence is to show the truth and use it to arouse people's thinking. The core of documentary is truth. The birth of film began with the creation of documentary.

The experimental films such as "The Gate of the Factory" and "The Train Entering the Station" filmed by Louis Lumiere in France 1895 are all documentaries. China documentary shooting began at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. The first one is Dingjun Mountain at 1905.

Some of the earliest scenes, including social scenes in the late Qing Dynasty and historical figure Li Hongzhang, were all taken by foreign photographers. Documentaries can be divided into film documentaries and TV documentaries.

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Generally speaking, the audience's expectation for a documentary is realism, but in fact, only the presence of the camera and photographer can affect the recording. The rigorous documentary also records the influence of the shooting process on the recorded situation, so that the audience can get a more objective impression.

The representativeness of the recorded situation also affects whether a documentary is true or not. For example, many documentaries about animals are often more willing to choose dramatic scenes when editing, and these scenes are not necessarily the typical living habits of these animals. The personal opinions and comments of documentary photographers may also affect the authenticity of a documentary.

For example, in many documentaries about animals, critics like to use anthropomorphic sentences to describe an animal's behavior, but in fact, the animal's behavior may have nothing to do with anthropomorphic description.

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