Rush

Documentary Genre: Musical documentary

Role of the Filmmaker: Chronicler

Burning Question: What are they going to do next?

Visual Imagery: Old footage of concerts and interviews. Photos of promotions and concerts.

Theme: Rush shows the ups and downs of how a band has progressed over fifty years.

Stakes: Rush might be forced to go mainstream, play at low venues, or have to go home and work farms. Will Rush get stuck in one style for too long and get in trouble with fans.

Editing Style: Mostly Continues editing with some discontinues

Questions, emotions, thoughts that this film provoked in you as viewer

I enjoyed this documentary a lot. It was interesting watching about a band learn and grow. I like to put on my Pandora with shuffle and just listen to music. I had no idea I was listening to Rush or  have ever heard of them, until this documentary.

Tesla

Biography and historical film

Chronicler

Who is Tesla and how did he benefit the future of mankind?

Interview are done by those who studied Tesla and are related to him. In order to understand who the audience was learning about or the experiments were being conduct; black and white photos were shown on screen.

A man’s capability with the mind is beyond all possibilities.  

Was Tesla going to be able to create his inventions, and was he going to survive financially. When Tesla first proposed AC current electricity society thought it was thought to be impossible, but proved them wrong. Although many of his later ideas were presumed scientific. Could they one day be made reality in some form?

Editing was continues

The documentary was very interesting I have heard of Tesla, but only as a passing name. It was nice to learn more about him, but parts of the movie seemed to drag on. I think the audience might be more towards those who are actually studying famous scientists. I like learning about other areas even if it is science, but they were throwing names around that I have never heard before which made it hard to follow. For what I needed to know I believe it have been shortened and condensed, but I don’t think I’m the target audience for this film.

The Truth Behind: Bigfoot

Documentary Genre: Exploration and Discovery, and science films

Role of the Filmmaker: Explorer

Burning Question: Can we use scientific methods to finally confirm or deny the possibility of bigfoot.

Visual Imagery: Focused on one area of california. Showed old footage of the same area. A lot of the documentary was filled with animations in order to compare the old and new footage.

Theme: Discovering proof whether bigfoot is scientific fact or science fiction.

Stakes: Will it finally be proven scientifically or is Bigfoot just a science fiction hoax.

Editing Style: Actual footage mixed with animation. In the beginning scenes it the editors tried to create suspense has the narrator tried to describe how difficult it would be to land. It switch between inside the helicopter and outside of it only showing it go down very little in each cut away.