观察式纪录片创作方法在早期纪录片制作中已有表现,它随着摄影技术的发展而逐渐成熟,在比尔·尼科尔斯对纪录片类型划分的阐述中,观察式纪录片属于直接电影的范畴。本期“纪录时代”栏目刊发的梁桂军、邵雯艳的文章《是接近,而不是干预——简析传统观察式纪录片低介入创作手法》对这一创作现象中的某些问题进行了较为深入的分析。 Observational documentary methods have been used in early documentary productions and mature with the development of photographic techniques. In Bill Nichols’s description of documentary type division, observational documentaries belong to the category of direct films. Liang Guijun and Shao Wenyan’s article “Approaching rather than Intervening - An Analysis of the Low-involvement Creative Techniques of Documentarys of Traditional Observation” in this issue of “Record Age” made some comparisons to some of the problems in this phenomenon in-depth analysis.