You are walking alone at night, you are silent, you are aware that you’re safe but still there is this underlying thought you have. You hear scary music in your head, making you think something is wrong, could something be around the corner, is someone following you, is a scary clown about to pop out at you (yeah sorry I have a small fear of clowns). You turn the corner and escape the dreaded, cold, and dark area you were just walking through. You were completely safe, so what was the issue, you remember that music, yeah that music playing in your head was making things worse than they actually were. Movies and films have been doing this for a very long time, and it holds true in Catfish. Scenes that hold no suspense are made to be more interesting
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“Documentary film doesn’t mean avoiding fiction, for no film can avoid fiction: it means establishing a certain relationship, a certain interplay, between the documentary and the fictional aspects of film so that he documentary aspect may come forward in some significant way.” (The Material Ghost: Films and Their …show more content…
Sometimes raw video just doesn’t cut it, or raw audio, take a key element away and your experience of the show, film, or documentary could all change. Just look at the trailer for Catfish, with quick moments of the ending and images that don’t match the text, the film appears to be a horror film. You see a zoomed in image on Google Maps of a little girl in a yard, and without context it looks as though it’s something you’d see in a movie, when the possessed doll finally rises and makes its move. Lets be straight here for a moment, it’s a weird ending, yes, no one is doubting that, however the trailer sells this film as something completely different, especially with the concluding images, the “this is just the tip of the iceberg” comment, and New yelling at his friend to put the camera down. Its laughable really, and honestly sells this film as something that it is not. But that is just the times we live in, everything is made to look better, bigger, scarier, or just more intriguing in general than it truly
“Documentary film doesn’t mean avoiding fiction, for no film can avoid fiction: it means establishing a certain relationship, a certain interplay, between the documentary and the fictional aspects of film so that he documentary aspect may come forward in some significant way.” (The Material Ghost: Films and Their …show more content…
Sometimes raw video just doesn’t cut it, or raw audio, take a key element away and your experience of the show, film, or documentary could all change. Just look at the trailer for Catfish, with quick moments of the ending and images that don’t match the text, the film appears to be a horror film. You see a zoomed in image on Google Maps of a little girl in a yard, and without context it looks as though it’s something you’d see in a movie, when the possessed doll finally rises and makes its move. Lets be straight here for a moment, it’s a weird ending, yes, no one is doubting that, however the trailer sells this film as something completely different, especially with the concluding images, the “this is just the tip of the iceberg” comment, and New yelling at his friend to put the camera down. Its laughable really, and honestly sells this film as something that it is not. But that is just the times we live in, everything is made to look better, bigger, scarier, or just more intriguing in general than it truly