Athars Homework

Fighting Terror and The Iraq War

This documentary is about possible reasons behind the war in iraq and looking into things that may have lead to it. Also looking at the consequences of many evil deeds committed.

I chose to analyse this documentary as it is made up fully of interviews and archive footage. Our documentary will also consist of alot of archive footage and interviews and thus i am analysing this to get ideas for our production.

It uses explicit footage such as the planes crashing into the twin towers which gives the documentary a more realistic and dramatic effect. It also uses words on screen to put emphasis on the words being spoken in the case of this documentary, to give the words an ironic feel.

This documentary also uses only a voice over. The director does not play a role within the documentary. This is similar to our documentary and in this one, they use it very effectively. I think it is particularly good as he differs his tone of voice alot and does not get boring at any one point. I think if we are to make a successful documentary, we must also concentrate on this.

Brothers In America

This a documentayr following the lives of two immigrants who are brothers and now live in america.

I find this documentary interesting and relevant to our documentary as it follows the lives of 2 brothers and we are looking to follow the life of tara. In this documentary they achieve a good effect as they show the brothers in all sorts of places from their home to many places across America. This enables us to understand the characters more as we see the thimgs they do. For our documentary i think we will need to do film things tara does in her everyday life. e.g. catch a bus, walk into school, contribute to something in lesson.

ATHAR...................