A. Content (trailer)
After watching Nanook of the north I believe the central subject of the trailer was to introduce a brand new view on other peoples life/perspective.
The short clips throughout the trailer that shows the rough life of the natives and what they have they do day to day tells the short scary story. One type of footage they use to tell this story would be title screens to actually tell you what’s going on because there is no audio.
B. Structure (full length)
The first thing that stood out to me in the trailer was how he put the names under the people so you knew they were basically forcing you create a relationship with the people in the film. Another thing that stood out to me from the documentary was how they showed the danger of leaving out there without actually saying it, they just showed frozen dogs which was sad but said what they had to say.
I believe the Nanook Of The North has 3 important stages that represent the documentary to the fullest point. First stage they go through introducing the people of this story and their roles in this streadous life that they live. Secondly the director finds them working on there everyday lives crafting, hunting, and all in all just surviving, which just shows the everyday struggle of these eskimos. For the final stage of this documentary he shows progress of these eskimos and properly shows the way of life to help people understand how these people live day to day.
For this documentary they decided to make their transactions pretty simple by just giving a title screen explaining what just happened in the previous section.
I think this documentary is somewhere in between it really lets the footage play then it comes in with a title screen that explains everything.
Well to start, off this documentaries many different settings show the everyday struggle of living that people at the time just have never seen before so it adds a bit of perspective in there lives which makes this film really important.
C. Cinematic Style (full length)
This whole film was on black and white so lighting wasn’t an issue but for framing, they came in close at all the right times which would display true emotion on the person’s face. Their display of wide shots was very appropriate for the situations for what they used.
For the pace of the editing it’s very long shots before they cut to the next one, which I think is very important because it’s making sure the viewer really soaks in what they’re watching where if there was fast shots it would in a way ruin it.
When it comes to the sequence pattern of this documentary it’s very fluid with limited cuts which gives power to each scene.
D. Documentarian Stance (full length)
I believe you can absolutely see the director’s perspective in this documentary and you can tell it’s a very personal to him because of the amount of time he spent in this place with such harsh conditions. The goals for the director were very simple, it was show a whole new world that people haven’t seen before.
The director of this film I would give the title of the observer who comes to this foreign land and automatically becomes a pupil, realistically he has to stay there for time on time and learn how this people live taking the role as a student/observer.
For nanook of the north they had to work with what they had so the filmmaking that went into this documentary was the most proper and fundamentally right filmmaking but it did the job for the time period.
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