RESEARCH: first impressions of a documentary: Earthstorm

 

• real life footage, montage at start
• Dash cams, cctv footage, news, zoom in on news, nature clips of clouds
• Sit down convo, name and title, voice over footage
• Daunting music to show danger in footage
• Dramatic pauses to show raw life
• Pan when walking
• Slow motion when leaving family
• 40 min episodes

Reflection:

I continued to watch a variety of the starts of documentaries and took a look at one focused on natural disasters. I found the variety of real life footage used (dash cams, CCTV, the news etc.) created a true sense of authenticity and realism, which is what documentaries should be. I found this to be an eye opening and something to consider in my own documentary, and how I would collect this footage if required.