blackfish is a sensitive documentary, which uses the emotions that the film produces to gain attention the narrative structure. this films footage is heavily based on archive footage. most oft he footage used is previous shows and previous shots of the whales that lived at sea world. the archive footage used is great as it heavily portrays the narrative structure through the use of the interviews that are places in amongst all of the archive footage. all of the archive footage used isn't necessarily about the bad things, so it doesn't make the documentary one sided by any means, it always shows how good sea world is and how much the pervious trainers enjoyed their time their, but it has a mix, so it does show what the narrative structure is saying, and show when things didn't go to plan. The interviews that is all amongst the archive footage so really well in portraying the narrative structure as the |
documentary goes on, they give the audience an insight into how they feel about the subject, whilst still managing to easily portray what the film maker wants us to think about the subject. In the interviews, it was all previous SeaWorld trainers who had worked with the wales and one whale in particular that they were focusing on, a whale with a bad discipline history. The interviews start of relatively upbeat with the previous trainers talking about how much they enjoyed their job, and how it was some of the best times of their life. As the documentary progressed and the interviews start to get a lot more dark, and end up less about the job, and more about the treatment of the whales, and about how they have injured and taken some lives of trainers. This is effective as the interviews make sure that the audience understands
the narrative structure more as the documentary progresses. The audiences understands how the trainers feel about this subject and get to know the situation in more detail, and this way the narrative structure is easily understood. Also, in this documentary, there is no narrator/voice of God. The journey that the documentary takes you on is done through the way that the archive footage and interviews are conducted, not the way in which a narrator would just tell the |