TITLE:
BBC Documentary “Green Planet” from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics
AUTHORS:
Yatao Zhu
KEYWORDS:
Aesthetics of Reception, Documentary, Green Planet
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
16,
2023
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the creation of documentaries is too homogenized, and its
difficulty is far greater than that of feature films, and most of the directors
of nature documentaries are seldom involved. In this paper, we will start from
the nature documentary “Green Planet”, and dig deeper into its director’s
narrative strategy from the perspective of acceptance aesthetics: from the
audience’s expectation vision; interactive creation with “implied audience”;
and intentional setup of textual blanks to summon the potential audience in
depth. In this way, it points out the creation method of nature documentaries
for today’s documentary directors.