Stylistic changes from first concept.. My edit.

My first concept of the film was to have a presenter throughout the film coupled with voiceover, to suit the need for the documentary to be Cinema Verite.

However, when consilidating the footage I realised that it didnt have the same impact this way, and that the documentary would merely drag on.

I found influence in a dispatches documentary (below). I think this style maintains the audiences interest, and allows the seriousness of the issue to come across better than if, say, I produced a film which followed every meanial detail into the documentary process. I decided I would make use of music and voiceover to guide the narrative rather than rely on a presenter.


In keeping with the brief, I found I still used some cinema verite techniques, in particular, the use of the narrator in shot- rather than have the narrator talking to camera, however, he looks at the camera whilst the voiceover of his own voice discusses what he had learnt in his investigation. I liked this as it kept a bit of seperation between the audience and the viewer, which might be seen as being quite observational in a sense and thus being more like Direct Cinema.

More Cinema Verite techniques can be seen in the shots where the group is seen on camera, whilst the narrator acknowledges that they are the crew making the documentary.