In today's lesson we watched two documentary based video's, they enabled us to think about the types of skills we would use in our own video's. The video's were very different and each had positives and negatives.
'The Urban Savannah' was the first video we watched, it was directed by matthew cook, vincent luna in 2004 and was based on animals and the difference in social groups, He used two different type teenage groups to portray this and they were made out to be the animals. Whilst watching this video we was asked to think about the features and how it informs, educates and entertains. Throughout the documentary they used humour yet it was still informative, due to the language used being formal (e.g: the dominant male) and the commentary(voice over) the whole way through the documentary which you would often see in a documentary, it was shown in an observational view(fly on the wall) because of the idea that it would have been too dangerous to get too close up. On top of that they brung expertise into it by including interviews with doctors.
'I Love My Nails' was the second video we watched directed by Katherine Freeman created in 2000, UK This video was less informal than the other, Unlike the first video it has no commentary and sometimes went silent. The filming was more close up and personal and showed questiones being asked and answered. It wasn't very educational yet it was still humourous in a bizarre way.
Overall I did take a lot from both video's and have now realised, to create a good video you don't have to be overly informative but some key information is needed and humour on its on can entertain the audience and keep them drawn in.
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