By looking at these following short films I am identifying what potential audiences already have out there in material form. Our idea of 'Don't Get Me Started' will hopefully follow some of these short films in that the people we choose to speak, will speak the truth, freely and without judgement.
The opening shot in 'Fifty People, One Question: London' is similar to the shots we are hoping to create, this is justification for making them, clearly it is something our audience is familiar with and they will associate it with our type of documentary.
The fact that this video is so popular leads us to believe that element like the shots and the soundtrack (simple piano) are codes that appeal to our audience and engage them, it satisfies them.
The fact that this form of documentary is out there being viewed is conformation that our audience will like what we produce if we follow what they are expecting, because they want to see a documentary, we have to produce one.
The genuine responses in this video such as "I don't want to say it though" even though the subject does tell us, it is engaging. As an audience member myself, watching a documentary like this is very personal, you get to know a tiny part of a person you will never meet.
Often in documentaries like this one there is a time when the subject on camera is thinking, this engages the audience through Barthes enigma code theory, they want to know the answer, what will they say?!
This more interview style documentary focuses on just one subject, but it is still daring in that it speaks out against Hollywood.
The video starts off with a voice over and subtitles, which I find slightly confusing as I do not understand which I should be focusing on. However, this leads on to be a much more eye opening documentary/interview in which some shots still have the voice over but they feed into shots with the subject talking.
Something that she addresses is the male gaze, patriarchy and equality, which appeals to an audience of our target audience, those who believe in what she is saying.
Our documentary will explore all different kinds of different issues, from all sort of people, widening the subject, and therefore interesting more people.
I know Sophie personally, and when she posted this on Facebook with the link to her YouTube it was all people would talk about at school. 'Don't Get Me Started' really correlated with this as Sophie is using spoken word to communicate how she feels and to spread a message.
This is a perfect example of something uplifting that could potentially end up being in the documentary.
"The word beautiful has been tainted"
By looking at these short films I have been able to identify what our target audience may have viewed before, what appealed to them and what I should avoid doing.
You have 5 short films here yet it is not clear that you have actually watched them. Try to be more specific in the things you are writing about what exactly from each one are you using as an influence.
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