Watching Film...

How to get better? by learning from previous experiences...

This week I decided to go on and watch some documentaries... With the purpose of understanding what I liked, what I wanted to add to my project, and what I would definitely not add to mine. SOOO....... Here we go...

My documentary focuses on sports. The first documentary I decided to watch was "Simone Biles RISING" The first thing I noticed about this documentary was the amount of episodes. This documentary counts with 4 episodes, a plausible number of episodes my documentary could have. This stood out to me because this documentary takes on a very long story that was told in 4 episodes. The episodes were divided as steps of her story, like stair steps. Another thing I really enjoyed about this documentary is how the interviews happen in different places... different locations for the same person in the same episode. It engaging. Still in the interview topic... The producers also went to another level as they got a varied amount of interviewees! Biles story was told from multiple points of view, which, in my opinion (from an audience POV), creates a less biased impression on the audience. WHY? Simply because as many people tell a story, the closer to reality it is.

Next up, I decided to watch a documentary that did not talk about sports, nor was it in an episodic format. You may ask me, "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?" The answer is... I like to create contents that relate characters to the human side. I want to HUMANIZE SPORTS. So I decided to watch a documentary that talks about a topic that touches humans like no other: the m*rd*r of a child. I watched "A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case". The documentary tells the story of a five-year-old girl that falls from the sixth floor of her father's apartment building; her mother embarks on a quest for justice and lands in the national spotlight. I decided to watch it mainly to see what editing techniques are used when sensitive topics are mentioned. Like the use of shallow focus during interview shots... The use of edited shound bites... Like cloock sound and people screaming. Especially rapid interview clips where the interviewees say something impactful and then it cuts to a silance. Altho those techniques are used with a sad topic... They can also emphisise topics that altho are happy, they are important to my topic.