In order to pursue truth, documentary documentaries generally do not have a script, that is, start up - shoot - edit - and then complete the documentary.

Of course, there are also films with plots shot in the form of documentaries (such as "District 9")

Documentary script: "Wu Tingfang"

1. 1. Pictures of dimly lit Chinese newspapers, or books such as "History of Modern Chinese Newspapers" published by Shanxi People's Publishing House in August 1981.

(Narration) He and his friends founded China’s first Chinese daily newspaper.

2. The back view of a lawyer wearing a lawyer's robe and wig. The setting is a Western courtroom.

(Narrator) He is the first doctor of law in modern China and the first Chinese to be qualified as a British barrister.

3. Hong Kong. Exterior view of the Legislative Council. The dark yellow tone deliberately creates a historical atmosphere.

(Narration) He is the first Chinese "Justice of the Peace" and the first Chinese "Member of the Legislative Council" in Hong Kong.

4. Photos of treaty materials and pictures of legal books.

(Narration) He signed the first equality treaty in modern Chinese history - the "Sino-Mexico Trade Treaty", and presided over the formulation of China's first commercial code - "Qing Commercial Law".

5. Images of Sun Yat-sen, pictures from the Northern Expedition, route maps of the march, etc.

(Narration) He loyally followed Sun Yat-sen, fought tenaciously against the warlords, bureaucrats, and politicians in the north and south, and once became Sun Yat-sen's spokesperson and the executor of the highest power.

6. Photo of Wu Tingfang (the most well-known photo).

(Narration) He is Xinhui Wu Tingfang.

(film title: Wu Tingfang)

7. The Yamen Fort under the setting sun, the turbid waves emptying.

8. The countryside under the sunset. Alleys, old houses, wild grass, sunflower trees, chickens and dogs smell each other.

(Narration) Guanlai Bridge, Huicheng, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is the hometown of Wu Tingfang. His father, Wu Rongzhang, went to Singapore to do business due to family poverty in his early years. In 1842, Wu Tingfang was born. When he was 3 years old, he returned to China with his father and settled in Fangcun, Guangzhou.

(Interview Design 1): Wu Tingfang has been very smart since he was a child. When he was 13 years old, he was kidnapped by bandits for more than a month. In the bandits' den, Wu Tingfang discovered that the cook was a fellow villager who was kidnapped by the bandits, so he conspired to get the guards drunk with wine and meat when the bandits were out, and escaped from the bandits' den.

(Interview Design 2): Wu Tingfang hated the Four Books when he was young and loved reading novels. Once, the teacher asked me to write an eight-legged essay titled "Not attributed to Yang, but attributed to Mo". According to the eight-legged rule, you must first "break the problem". Wu Tingfang handed over a copy of the broken title "Return to Mo" written by Jia Baoyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions". The teacher has never read "Dream of Red Mansions", and the words are surrounded by red and yellow colors. Later, the teacher went to take the provincial examination. There was exactly this question in the paper, and the teacher recorded Wu Tingfang's broken question, and he actually managed to pass the exam without telling the examiner, and he won the exam.

9. The ship passed by and splashed with waves. The ship goes away.

(Narrator) The Qing Dynasty suffered a heavy blow with the outbreak of the Taiping Revolutionary Movement. Dramatic social changes cut off the path to the imperial examination, and many scholars and students had to find other prospects.

10. Hong Kong. The exterior of St. Paul's College, the camera zooms to the blue sky, and then switches to the scenery of the political centers of Western European countries (expressing Wu Tingfang's yearning).

(Narration) Hong Kong, a British colony, pioneered the Western style. Wu Rongzhang sent Wu Tingfang to Hong Kong to receive Western education, hoping that one day he would stand out and change his family. In 1856, Wu Tingfang entered St. Paul's College, run by the Anglican Church of Hong Kong, and "taught English, arithmetic, and other subjects, and was always the best among his peers." Gradually, Western ideologies and values ??took root in his heart.

Extended information:

Documentary is based on real life as the creative material, real people and real events as the object of expression, and artistic processing and display of it, with the essence of showing reality , and use film or television art forms that really make people think. The core of documentary is truth. The birth of film began with the creation of documentaries.

Experimental films such as "The Gate of the Factory" and "The Train Arrives at the Station" shot by French Louis Lumière in 1895 are all documentaries in nature.

The shooting of Chinese documentary films began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first one was "Dingjun Mountain" in 1905. Some of the earliest shots, including social scenes in the late Qing Dynasty, historical figures Li Hongzhang, etc., were taken by foreign photographers. Documentaries can be divided into film documentaries and television documentaries.

There is a division of labor between records and records. They appear on different occasions with certain regularity. The same feature is that both Ji and Ji can be used as verbs or nouns.

"Record" is generally used as a noun, referring to the highest achievement recorded within a certain period and within a certain range, such as breaking records, creating new records, etc. "Record" has two meanings. One refers to the best result in a certain aspect within a certain period and within a certain range. Another meaning refers to the recording of newsworthy events.

When used as a verb, "record" means to write down what you heard or what happened, such as recording it in a record. When used as a noun, record refers to the material written down on the spot, such as taking meeting minutes, and also refers to the person who takes the minutes, such as recommending him to be the recorder.

Documentaries generally refer to some realistic films that are relatively recent. Documentaries and documentaries usually have the same meaning, and there is no need to distinguish them too much.

The fathers of world documentary films: Robert Flaherty, Djiga Vertov, John Grierson, Uris Evans.

It shows that there is actually no clear boundary between documentaries and feature films. Generally speaking, the audience's expectation for a documentary is that it be realistic, but in fact just the fact that the camera and the photographer are present can affect the situation being recorded. Rigorous documentaries also record the impact of the filming process on the recorded situation, allowing the audience to gain a more objective impression.

The representativeness of the recorded situation also affects whether a documentary is realistic. For example, many documentaries describing animals are often more willing to choose dramatic shots when editing, and these shots are not necessarily the typical living habits of these animals. The personal views of the documentary filmmaker and his comments may also affect the realism of a documentary.

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

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Documentary