Starting off a documentary with the voice of a woman speaking Korean is definitely one of the best attention catchers to start a documentary with! I noticed the film shooting in the “Korean Netiquette” documentary was different than what we saw in “The Archive” and Royce white’s documentary. There were a variety of shooting angles used in this documentary (Interview, close-ups, scene capturing) unlike “The archive” where it was mostly in an interview point of view.
Although the shooting of Royce white’s documentary had more than just one angle, but the technique was used better in “Korean Netiquette”. Sound wise, I think it was a great idea to have the voice of kids singing in the background while the narration and interviews is taking part, cause after all, the idea of a documentary is more like scene depicting where the directors goal is to interact with the audience or make them feel that they are sharing the same atmosphere.
Out of all three, Royce white’s documentary had the best ending to it. The fade-out to black effect is what really made the ending such a “cliff hanger”, but that effect doesn’t always work best as we can see in “Korean Netiquette”. I think it was only used as it is one of the few ways to end a movie and we can see that because all the 3 documentaries ended with that effect. In addition to the fade-out effect the white noise of the record player at the end of “The archive” was also an interesting way to end a documentary as that white noise is only heard when the record has ended.
