Trailer
The Prisoner
- Journalist that’s wrongly held captive and the torture he went through. .
- They are using home video to set the scene. A voice over it telling us about the life. There’s text to get us set up for the storyline. Happy music to sad. Graphics. There showing actual documents about what they are trying to tell us it’s real. They used all the graphics when they were talking about the violence, with sounds that go along with it. Shot in a way that makes me think of a comic
- The way they blended the graphics into the violence, because it’s unexpected and new and it keeps you engaged. The transition from the happy tone of it with the trailer showing home videos of his life and then it switches entirely showing how his life was flipped upside down so fast. Finally, at the end they decided to end it with the main character saying “I’m no James Bond”, but then they cut to a gunshot so it leaves the viewer wanting to know more.
The Corporation
- How the big corporations are not the good people we think they are and how that came to be that way.
- They show the viewer a bunch of logos of big names to introduce that it will be about all of them as a whole. Then they use a song that says bad apples and then new people saying the words bad apples. Finally they end with a machine picking apples off of a tree with a voice over saying things about how big companies aren’t the nice people we thought they were.
- They start by flashing a bunch of big companies that alot of people know to draw the viewer in. Then they come in with music singing about being a bad apples and then shows people saying bad apples really getting across what the documentary will be about. Finally I liked the way they ended it, simply with a voice over about how everyone involved with the industry is a “bad apple”.
The Corporation (full documentary)
Structure
The breakdown of this documentary I would say starts with them setting the stage, giving the viewer background information that they are going to need to know. The the next stage would be the evidence where they show how the corporations treat other people or things like the Earth and animals with science and research. The next stage would be why, this is where they are telling stories about what corporations have done in the past and why they did that. Following that, is the real life stage, where they interview people that have been affected by the big corporations. The final stage would be called what now, because it shows us stories of people who have stood up to these types of corporations and inspires others to do the same.
The transitions for the documentary was simply a red screen with white text to indicate they are changing focus a bit.
The way they told this story was a mix of both a narrative but also leads into pictures and images and videos that relate to the topic. The use of picture and videos are related to whatever the interviewer is talking about to pull the idea together.
Cinematic Style
The cinematography is standard for a documentary. They use mostly interview so its a straight on upper chest and face shot, but also while they are talking they show pictures that fade into each other. The pictures will also zoom in or out of the subject.
The pace is slow, one person will talk at a time about a subject while images or videos play, for however long it takes for what they want to say. There are other times when the shots are faster if they are just interviewing random people for there option or a short clip of another movie or video.
The sequences of the documentary move in not a time based manor but revealing piece by piece information that building on top of each other to really understand well how corporations got like they are today. They mostly used both narrative and images at the same time.
Documentarian Stance
The perspective on this documentary is very against corporations. The point of this documentary seems to be to show everything bad that the corporations have done in the past and how exactly it’s affecting us. This comes off this way, because every interview is focused on the harm that they have done to us, animals and the Earth.
The person that made this documentary seems to be taking a reporter role because from the start they show the corporations in a bad light. One part in particular that proved this was when some of the big corporation owners were upstairs having a good time and then they cut to down stairs where there is a huge riot, people getting arrested, police in full armour, and even showing the police shooting some kind of weapon.
I think this documentary was made in the right way. They got several former CEO’s from the big corporations that were willing to talk about their mistakes, they showed studies and research done on each topic and they even briefly touched on how it was a good thing and how it can still be a good thing if we can change the way we are doing things.
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