Sena Film Essay
The key points in this question is when watching a documentary is our awareness as spectators a greater awareness than of a fiction film. When I first viewed ‘Senna’, I was made to go with what the film maker had put and my response was a visceral response feeling compassion with his parents. I was less critically aware of what I was watching as I was lead to believe what I was watching. However, on the second viewing I thought more about and questioned what I was watching and hearing on the screen, so my response was more intellectual than visceral. Before watching a documentary film I believe that it will be truthful than that of a fiction film. This because it is using primary sources like interviews and footage from the time that
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Being lead on by what the film maker was implying and telling the audience through the editing of footage and sound. On my second viewing it got me thinking more and questioning. When Senna had stopped in the pit stop, the voiceover told us that Nanni had gone past and was in the lead. We also hear the sound of a car zooming past so are made to believe that he has gone past. But when Senna is pulling out from the pit stop, we see a car just in front of him. No other car is mentioned to have gone past Senna while in the pit stop so must Nanni. This has been edited and moved in the editing process by the film maker, shaping the narrative by creating a chase like scene and also shaping the character of Senna and the need he has to try and win now somebody is in front.
Man on Wire has the same genre as a heist fiction film. Oceans 11 is a heist film where everyone is going for something, like in 'Man on Wire' where the end result is Phillippe walking over the twins towers. bA non diegetic soundtrack over the top of the clips of Phillippe getting onto the roof. Like a fiction heist film it builds the suspense for the audience wondering and hoping that they won't get caught. But to know we are aren't watching a fiction film, there are interview voice overs without their talk heads which continues the
Being lead on by what the film maker was implying and telling the audience through the editing of footage and sound. On my second viewing it got me thinking more and questioning. When Senna had stopped in the pit stop, the voiceover told us that Nanni had gone past and was in the lead. We also hear the sound of a car zooming past so are made to believe that he has gone past. But when Senna is pulling out from the pit stop, we see a car just in front of him. No other car is mentioned to have gone past Senna while in the pit stop so must Nanni. This has been edited and moved in the editing process by the film maker, shaping the narrative by creating a chase like scene and also shaping the character of Senna and the need he has to try and win now somebody is in front.
Man on Wire has the same genre as a heist fiction film. Oceans 11 is a heist film where everyone is going for something, like in 'Man on Wire' where the end result is Phillippe walking over the twins towers. bA non diegetic soundtrack over the top of the clips of Phillippe getting onto the roof. Like a fiction heist film it builds the suspense for the audience wondering and hoping that they won't get caught. But to know we are aren't watching a fiction film, there are interview voice overs without their talk heads which continues the