Documentary Analysis

The three films use very different styles and all together a different composition. The film with Royce white uses very drastic non-diegetic sounds to help stimulate the actual mood of the scene. Royce also always seems to be the focal point, consequently having many close-ups, or mid-ranged shots of only him. Even though sounds helped stimulate the actual mood, silence was a great friend to this as well. The moment he was drafted him and his mother were shown hugging, but in entire silence, except to hear crying. This would help the viewer understand how stressful Royce’s life is with this condition and how relieved he was to be drafted. However, this video seemed only inform the viewer of how even professional athletes or soon to be athlete can suffer from anxiety.

On the other-hand, the video of Paul’s music collection used very contradicting approaches. The music always seemed to be diegetic in the way where Paul was always aware of the music playing. Lighting was very important in the making, because of the “vintage” idea of his collection there seemed to be this yellowish-green tint over the entire film. This gave the exaggeration of his collection being very old or original. On the contrary to Royce’s video Paul is selling his video.

            Korean Netiquette seemed to be similar to a type of manner or etiquette. In the video I found the subtitles very helpful due to the fact I’m not bilingual. The students were the main focus in the video, while the computers were the main topic. Each picture was a young child or something very closely related. Since the children were very young, and not exactly ready to speak on videos, consequently the video was entirely of the children’s participation in the activities. There was even scene of a man listening to the children singing songs related to the right ways to use Internet.