As part of our skill development in the documentary genre, we watched the film 'Bowling for Columbine' by Michael Moore. We observed for techniques used by Moore that are common of most documentaries and also for any other personal techniques he used, for example his way of getting in the people's faces about any issues he thinks they are not sorting or taking notice of. We also learnt about the techniques for Vox Pops which are:
- The subject must not look directly into the camera
- The camera angles must switch from left to right
- The subject must be centered in frame
- The subject must answer the exact same question given to other subjects
As part of own research we were instructed to watch a documentary of our own choice and identify the style of it and any techniques we had learnt. For my documentary I chose the Oscar nominated 'Food inc.' The film uses mainly archive footage and has an unseen narrator throughout, with various vox pops of different people with different opinions.
Music Video Skills
As part of our second are to study, we viewed different types of music videos including Chris Cunnighams video for the group Aphex Twin, 'Come to Daddy', and Bjork's music video for 'All is Full of Life', as a way to observe the more obscure and different styles of music videos. For part of our study we used a green screen in class to film us lip synching to The Kinks, 'In the Summertime' as a way of practising the idea of green screen and also to help us with out ability to lip sync successfully.
For our own study we had to watch a music video of any band or group and identify the reasons for its style. I decided watch 'All my Life' by the Foo Fighters. It is a basic rock style video as it features the band playing to a crowd less room on a stage as the lights and special effects provide the awe of the video.
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