Documentary Review

Choose a film to watch this weekend:

1.) Wild Horse, Wild Ride part 1 (1&2)
2.) King of Kong part 1 (1-7)

Blog post is due Tuesday:

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- What is the story arc in one sentence?
100 people are each given a wild mustangs to have completely trained  for a big show (100 day time limit) and after competing, they sell the mustangs at an auction.

- What camera angles are used? Why?
There are a lot of overhead views of the roundpens and breaking pens in order for the audience to be able to see everything that's going on without having to follow the horses as they run around. They also had the camera pointed straight at the horses and trainers so all of the action in the scene would be completely visible.

- What kind of cutaways and POV shots?
They  used a lot of cut aways to cover some of the things that the filmmakers do not want the audience to see that would make the mood of the documentary more negative. The camera would also follow the horses and riders around to show either how fast they were going to make the actions in the scene appear more intense. They had the upper body shots when they were interviewing the trainers, where the camera remained completely still.

- How does the filmmaker get us involved?
They keep the story line moving by continually switching between different pairs of trainers and horses.