Nightmare on Quebec Street

This is a W5 two-part exclusive documenting a neighborhood fighting back against a distruptive neighbour.

The reason why I chose this story is because it's a 3 minute drive from my house.

The interview technique involved the narrator to be in the shot as it became conversational. For the story, they used sound effects for graphic photos, such as dead cats, and they used re-inactions of windows breaking and the neighbours banging on the walls.

For camera effects, when they did show the villian, they slowed down the short with evil music played in the background.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/w5/nightmare-on-quebec-street/#clip250152

Little Big Men

An ESPN film, directed by Al Szymanski, this documentary looks back at a 1982 Kirkland little league baseball team, lead by their star player, 13 year old Cody Webster and their rise to national stardom and the fall of Cody Webster dealing with the media and hecklers.

This is a historical documentary as Szymanski uses actuality from photos and home videos of baseball games.

The interviews are emotional as they interview Cody and his teammates on the good times and cry as their recall the tragic moments that Cody had to go through as a teenager. The technique for these interviews are different as each teammates interview has them center-framed and looking directly into the camera like a confessional room from a reality television show.

http://30for30.espn.com/film/little-big-men.html

Super Size Me

The reason why I chose Supersize Me!, was because of two things. It's use of humour and relativity in the society that I live in. What made this documentary successful was that it used multiple interview techniques. It was investigative as the director, Morgan Spurlock interviewed doctors, nutritionists and lawyers. Morgan also does conversational interviews with random people on the street and McDonald's employees.

The one that stood out that made it entertaining was the use of cartoons, for example the segment where the video shows the comparisons of advertising McDonalds, Pepsi, candy companies vs. heathly food advertising. It also used light music during the surgery of one man. They also use charts and graphs to show a before and after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgwGhAJj10

Spurlock touches every documentary method which is no surprise why it was nominated for an Oscar.