Techniques used in music documentary called 'Shadows'

Documentary title: Shadows

The documentary shadows contains a editing technique that is similar to what we want to use for our beginning, also if you look at the captions that are used that go along with the voice over, they are something that I think that we should implement into our documentary, because it anchors the audience's view of whatever we are trying to explain, for example in the documentary the voice over says, 'shadows is a brotherhood, that came from a background of struggle, that are searching for a better life, and fulfilling their dreams.' The caption technique is a technique that is similar to that of many documentaries, the technique of using captions that ends with the last caption being zoomed to emphasis a point, it is used in the documentary 'Bowling for Columbine'. This technique is also used to end the documentary, so it reinforces the point of whatever the documentary is trying to get across, so we should once again think about using this technique at the end. Also it links to the idea that rosanne had, whilst doing the interviews we should show the persons everyday lifestyle, which is what this documentary has used. The documentary also uses a soundtrack that contains the words of the title, 'shadows', so once again rosanne this will help to understand about how we can use the soundtrack and where else we can put it, as well as the beginning.


Vipesh.