Chasing IceDocumentaryNotes

Notes

• Mixed documentary with interviews, archive footage, observations

• Archive footage of news stories talking about global warming as being a myth

• Building up non-diegetic music builds an atmosphere

• Cutaway shots, handheld cameras (more raw and believable)

• Non-diegetic sound of camera shutter along with images taken with the camera on screen

• Voiceover of a soft speaking man

• Zooming outwards revealing the ice on a shoreline

• Graphics are bold and blocky, white which signifies the ice

• Interviews in front of a black background with ice caps in background

• Images throughout the years in the different months as a montage which shows the melting of the ice

Camera Angles

• Panning

• High angles overlooking the glaciers

Computer Generated reconstructions and diagrams

• Experts being interviewed (Glaciologists)

• Non diegetic piano in background, doesn’t distract from what is being said

• Beginning, lots of imagery of glaciers, about the change in scenery, about glaciers and ice caps particulaly

• Middle, more about global warming and other freak weather

• Long takes, extreme long shots , pov shots on a go pro attached to helmet as James Balogclimbs down glacier. Engages the audience, increases realism.

• Timelapse footage (Aurora borielis)