A: For the 2 trailers, I watched The Prisoner and Waltz with Bashir. In The Prisoner, they used more of a comedic style, while also keeping it suspenseful, which really draws in the viewer. In Waltz with Bashir, they had an animated trailer, which I feel helped with drawing me in. They did a lot of creative shots, which were very unique and got me interested.
B: For the the full length documentary, I watched Baraka. The 3 sections I would break this movie down into are the beginning, middle and end. In the beginning, you are shown what looks to be an Indian tribe. During the middle, it switches to Chinese culture and they’re life style. And at the end, it shows what looks like a middle eastern country, possibly somewhere around Turkey or Egypt. The documentary is non-narrative, mostly just showing how the 3 cultures are very different. The documentary displayed the images in a way that you understand you were looking at 3 different cultures.
C: There are a lot of unique shots in the film Baraka. Some of the shots were still portrait shots, holding the shot for 15 or 20 seconds. This added a lot of tension during the beginning and middle of the film. There were also a lot of pan shots of the nature and the surroundings that they were living in. This added a lot of emotion showing how every culture is different in how they live.
D: I wouldn’t really say that there are any ways to determine what the filmmaker was trying to show. From what I saw though, I believe he was trying to show the drastic difference in the 3 cultures and how they live. If I could use one word to describe the documentary, I would use observer. For most of the film, you are just watching how they live and observing they’re lifestyle. I feel that this documentary displayed everything the best it could without using dialogue. You could understand that it was showing everybody’s different role in the different lifestyles and cultures.
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