Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Feature Length Documentaries

An Inconvenient Truth:

'An Inconvenient Truth' is a unique and rare style of documentary making. The feature film consists of Al Gore addressing an audience in a lecture/seminar style. Gore's presentation identifies the danger of global warming and the iminent threat that earth faces.

The presentation is broken down through the use of archive footage of Al Gore's life and images of earth's changing environment. The use of this footage gives the audience a better overal idea of the presentations meaning and purpose, it also enables Gore to back up his claims with physical eveidence. Archive footage makes the documentary more appealing to the audience because it stops the documentary being dull, this is important because the way in which the documentary is filmed and edited is not very entertaining, however the subject and the way in which it is presented is compelling.

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