Analysis

The Man on the Line visualized the past life of a notorious tight rope walker. In this documentary, the producer used specific techniques of film making to highlight the intense life this tight rope walker and his crew members lived. During this movie, he utilized the effectiveness of archived videos and pictures, as well as, newspapers, that showed the relevance to the past and the present. For example, this documentary gave glory to the so called, "old school," tight rope walkers of the age, and gave new found knowledge to the viewers about the tight rope walkers of today. After viewing this documentary, curiousness rose about the subject of tight rope walkers, and i ended up wanting to acquire new information about the topic. Only the good documentaries will cause the viewer to strive for more knowledge about an unknown topic. In contrast to the Dark Days documentary, which incorporated more interview like videos edited in an order to constantly re grab the viewers attention, the Man on a Wire, backed up all the empty wholes of past speculations about the walkers, and only added security to the fact of it being accurate and knowledgeable information. Though in my opinion, the man on a wire was a better documentary, the Dark Days will help a lot more with creating our documentaries. My reasoning is simple and precise. Most of us have to collect a lot of video from interviews and things happening in everyday life. That being said, the Dark Days has the tools to give excellent of tips for our documentaries that the man on a wire lacks.