Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Documentary Homework

In the Royce White documentary, I noticed they appealed to the emotions of the audience. By showing us when he was struggling with his anxiety, but also by using sound as a big initiative to appeal to the emotions. Using heavy breathing and heartbeat noise to show the anxiety he was having. Another aspect in this documentary that wasn't used in the same way in the other two, was how light was captured. One point in the clip, it was almost completely dark when White was walking.

In the Archive documentary it was similar to other documentary's in that it tried to get you informed about a subject, in this case audio. This piece though was different, cause it used audio but it was pretty much just music. It also used subtitles though at times, and that confused me. I didn't know if they were trying to make the audience feel sorry for the man or what. It was different from White's documentary cause of the use of sound and lighting. Lighting wasn't a factor in this documentary, but in a different way. Most of the coloring was just yellowish, maybe showing the age of the records or something.

In the Korean Netiquette documentary you didn't have the use of lighting and sound to set moods like the other two documentary's. This was more an informative documentary that wasn't well made. Didn't appeal to emotions, just thought it was telling the audience what the children were learning and trying to do with the Internet.