Imagine people watching TV after working all day. How might you keep them from changing channels? "Lee Daw-ming also stresses that in the battle for viewers, TV channels have formulaic ways of thinking and of producing films to ensure a certain degree of composition and watchability in each documentary. Imperceptibly, this has put a straightjacket on experimentation and originality, boxing up the creativity of documentary makers.
李道明也強調，電視頻道激烈競爭，為了拉住觀眾，自有一套公式化的思考與製作模式，以確保每部紀錄片都能有完整的結構和可看性，但是無形中卻也限制了實驗性與創作性，從而框架了紀錄片工作者的創意和觀點。