I found a cheerleading documentary on youtube and thought i would analyze it and maybe get some ideas for our documentary. after watching it, i would say that i am going to criticize it as it was horrible.
Firstly, the documentary was of an expository mode, where there is a narrator that looks into the history of cheerleading. Straight away, I am BORED. I don't want to know about the history of cheerleading, i want to know what it is in the first place. Cheerleading has the potential to have great footage and there was none in this documentary. The narrator would talk over alot of still pictures and there were only a few clips of only one team doing very simple cheerleading.
There was only one interview in the whole documentary and we didn't even know who she was or saw how she cheered. she was a random interview that wasn't the central character. i reckon if you have a topic like cheerleading, you should at least have a few different interviews with different people. there wasn't any music except for the star wars exert in the end and it was just plain boring. in the end it seemed like a commercial giving some sort of information about cheer.
in saying this, i do not think this documentary was actually a produced one and probably was done as a subject in school (very much like what we are doing..HAHA!)
there are definitely a few things that i know to avoid from this documentary
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