The Chernobyl Disaster Through A Formal Lense

When I watched this documentary, The Chernobyl Disaster, through a formal lense, the producer organized this documentary in chronological order. The medium in which this non-live performance was made is a digital narrative and was an 11 minute documentary on YouTube. The colors of this film were cool tone, mostly black and white photos, and a lot of grays and dark blue. These colors, to me, are associated with sadness. For example, dark gloomy days are associated with gray stormy rain clouds. Colors in this film symbolized the tragic death of the heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Chernobyl disaster. Many bright colors in this film were absent such as yellow, green, and orange. The colors in the background of his images and a majority of photos were black and white. The shapes and outline of the images were square and sharp cornered shapes. I feel like the sharp corners were meant to indicate pain likely caused by weapons like a piercing knife and the sharp, penetrating bullet of a gun. The photos he presented were grainy and didn’t have much detail. …show more content…
A quick overview of nuclear power plants’ history, it was started by a steam explosion in the fourth reactor and the power plant began its path of radiation destruction spreading over Russia. Construction on the Chernobyl power plant was started in August of 1972 and was ready to begin operation in December, 1983. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union at that time and the head of state was Mikhail Gorbachev. The time period this event occurred was during the end of the Cold War. The Chernobyl power plant’s first explosion happened on April 26th,