Man on Wire Review

Background:
1) Provide a brief background of the film.
Point of view:
2) From what point of view is the documentary speaking? What perspective is it offering on the event?
Conventions: (Elements that are common to movies and how they are used)
3) Does the film use voiceover, reenactments, archival footage, interviews?
4) Does it rely on one convention more than another?
5) Why does it use the conventions it does?
Structure:
6) How is the documentary structured? Does it follow chronological order? Does it use a different order?


1. This man wants to pursue his hobby of walking on tightropes at great heights. This documentary describes his journey of transforming this hobby into a career and the difficulties he came across while doing this daring act.
2. The documentary is taken from the point of view of the performer and often gets the insights of both him and his accomplices as they are going through the story. It gives the viewer a sort of idea about what they were thinking while they worked.
3. The film combines actual footage from the past with interviews and some reenactments and some current footage and voiceovers.
4. I feel like the interviews and voiceovers are a bit more prominent than the other conventions but all are used pretty often.
5. The voiceovers and interviews allow the people to go through what they were thinking at the time without interfering with the act as it was going on in the past.
6. The documentary goes back and forth in time by starting with the beginning of changing his hobby into a career and then goes into the walking across the wire between the world trade centers followed by how they broke into the twin towers and how they set it up.

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The Spinal Tap Movie Review

1) Provide a description of the film. Discuss the plot and characters and how they influenced the film. Was the plot line or character development more important? Why?
2) Think critically about how the film was shot, directed, use of lighting, etc. What do you think was effective in the making of the film? What took away or could have been done differently to enhance the film?
3) What is you overall opinion of the film? Would you recommend it? Why/why not?


The Spinal Tap was a mocumentary about an EU rock band who goes around touring the U.S. Two members in the band were childhood friends and there is a rift that grows between them which causes the band some difficulties. The plot line was more important than the character development because the characters only added a little bit of humor but the story line was what drove the movie forward. This film was shot very similarly to how Russell, Alex and I want to shoot our mocumentary by using interviews and footage of the people practicing or performing. The characters acted very serious but them taking everything seriously made the movie more funny. The film could have had a little better quality but it is not the fault of the creators of the movie because it is fairly dated. The film was pretty good, especially for a mocumentary. The comedy that takes place throughout the movie definitely kept me interested in what was going on and I would recommend this movie to anyone who appreciates mocumentaries and is fine with semi-crude humor.