Before this unit on documentaries I've never given any much thought, in my mind they were always these boring interviews for the news or this super dark crime documentaries and never thought of it as anything of these two sides but when my teacher showed the doc “I think this is the closest to how the footage looked” my perspective completely changed. This documentary is about a guy recreating the last moments he had with his mother, the emotional impact it had in the 10 minutes of the video made me realize how personal and emotional a documentary can really be.
The American Promise
This documentary taught me how long the process of creating a documentary could take. It took 12 years just to finish filming, as they followed 2 boys journey through school. as well as it was interesting to see how close the directors and creators were to the subject chosen and how it impacted the story since the people creating the documentary was one of the subjects parent we got a lot more content from that subject. The fact that it was an excellent documentary with such a long story was fascinating because they were many things happing but it never lost the main focus of showing the journey of these kids in school.
Exit through the Gift Shop
Exit through the gift shop completely fascinated me. It was a documentary that used a lot of archival footage because it wasn't meant to be documentary and the footage was so raw and passionate for their topic. Graffiti art was represented with so much love that even though it was a biased towards the art it got the point across, even with the change of directors half way through production (which was much needed). It was such a fun and interesting piece with one of the main subjects face never even being shown so even though documentary's purpose was showing the truth it was able to create a mystery even more.
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