Four Days in October

Another baseball documentary you say? Well, I don't know what to tell you. There's something about baseball stories that evokes so much emotion in a man. Must be a "Field of Dreams" syndrome or something. Anyway, I digress.


Four days in October is a documentary following the Boston Red Sox in 2004 as they were one game away from being eliminated once again by their arch-rival, the New York Yankees, over to come back and win a championship ending a 86 year drought.


This documentary is informative and has actuality interviews. When it came to visuals, the interviews were mostly in sit down interviews in studio. The 'B' roll footage used actuality shots with Kevin Millar mic'd up on the field just talking it up with his team mates. There were location establishing shots such as the streets of Boston and outside Fenway Park and shots of people doing things such as the players leaving their cars to enter their stadium. Furthermore, many of the establishing shots involved audio archival material from the news cast of their local news station.


Overall, this documentary contains very little if not any narration. It used sound bites, conversations and interviews to progress the story.

Trailer: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5633504


Just for fun, below is the link to the Nike commercial that their aired right after the Red Sox won the world series. I'll admit, I shed a tear when I saw this.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2JbRYrmf74