Documentaries

The three short documentaries that we recently watched used differing methods to stress certain topics to their audience. The two documentaries we watched in class were very different than the third one. This is mostly because at the beginning of Royce White's documentary and the archive the audiences were made to feel sympathy for them. However, in Korean Netiquette it felt more like a news reporting, that you would hear on the evening news. For example in the archive the director was able to capture the emotion of Mawhinney when he was explaining that everyone saw the records as junk. The directors used certain techniques to further make the audience feel this way. In the first two documentaries the directors chose to use sound effects as a background noise during most of the documentaries. Like in Royce White's during the draft party you could hear a heart beating. However, in Korean Netiquette there was a narrator explaining parts of the documentary. Another technique I noticed was the lighting that was used. In The Archive a yellowish light was used to give its subject an almost nostalgic look. Then in Korean Netiquette plain daylight was used to make the audience feel like it was just a regular day for the Korean students.