We watched ‘The greatest movie ever sold’. Personally, I thought that this documentary was very interesting. I also believe, that I learnt a lot of new things mainly about product placement.
Let’s start with shot types, there were mainly three three types of shots:
• Hand held shots
• Close ups
• Behind the shoulder shots
Hand held shots help show freedom and motions during filming, this documentary used it to give the whole thing a comfortable vibe/feeling. Close ups were mainly used when people were talking to help make what they were saying the main focus. Lastly, behind the shoulder shots were used mainly when two or more people were discussing. They used these shots to bring every point across from all the discussions.
This documentary used diegetic sounds, which are sounds that aren’t edited in. Furthermore, this documentary also uses plauful music for mnay parts to make it funnier. But I did notice how there was no music when they would have serious talks about product placement.
For this documentary I looked more at how it communicated with language, as I said it uses a informal and casual English for most of it. Another thing I noticed, was how the lighting and colour grading was used to make the whole thing look more colourful, vibrant and weirdly interesting to watch. As it made it look vert eye catchy.
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