Quick look at Shelter

http://vimeo.com/45260069

The above link is to a documentary that Victor showed the rest of us during one of our group meetings. The documentary involves several interviews with homeless people, rough sleepers, in Manchester, it has a fairly standard style to it unlike the other documentary I looked at previously yet the standard more polished style has its own merits which work well with this sort of documentary. The documentary features some pretty impressive cinematography it even has some tracking shots as they are shown where these people sleep It is a very powerful and emotional piece that tackles a similar issue to one of our ideas for our documentary. The close up face shots during the interviews with side shot cut aways really help to get across the emotions of this piece and helps focus the audience on what is being said rather than being distracted by the background. If we end up going with the homeless idea we are currently discussing, I’d like to emulate a similar style to this film I particularly like the use of name titles before each new interviewee is introduced to establish the character with the audience.