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AV Documentary Project: The Research

I have been looking through as many short films and documentaries as possible to try and gain some ideas and techniques that we can imply into the project.

The first significant documentary short we looked at was a short from the website four docs. The title of this documentary is ''three cherries''. It is a piece about gambling particularly on slot machines and revolves around different people andthere gambling experiences. I think that the visual shots in this short are very eye catching and creative and work very well with the audio. However The audio is the most important part of this piece. The voice over mixed with ambiance sounds of the casino and the backing track is what really make the short film interesting. On top of this another thing i noticed is that certain words that are spoken in the voice over appear in text on screen to give them enthusiast. This technique works really well. I like the visual approach in three Cherry's its good to see that there no formal interviews its much more creative than that. i defiantly found this useful and think its a good approach to take our for our documentary on busking.



The second significant documentary short that we looked at is another documentary from four docs. This short is called ''Susan and Susan'' It focuses on one person, a lady that has an obsession with snails. She talks about her past and how shes always felt connected with them. there is a voice over of her telling her story. While this is going on there are a lot of creative and artistic shots of snails. This is similar to the approach that is used in three cherries. Again the audio is one of the most important factors in this documentary in keeping the audience engaged and interested with the piece