Monday 30 January 2012

king of laughter analysis

This is a observational documentary. Narrative of this documentary is about a African middle aged man who has lost everything in his past through family to all is business. Since then he "started to laugh to survive" this suggest to the viewer who was watching this that he laughs for a living to take all his pain away of what happened in his past.

The construction of the documentary was made by several shots of being repeated through out the scenes for example from half way through the film the man talks while the camera is fixed on to his face where he is laughing at a continuous rate also this has a effect on the audience by showing them that the subject cannot stop laughing and shows that it is a fact and he is not joking about. Also the editing of this scene was by speeding the clip up by a few seconds so it can speed up the time and shows what happens when he is socializing in his community. plus the shots that was taken of him was indirect for example it shows that his talking to other people and he was laughing but at the background where there was no sound of the crowd there was music running and the subject talking at to the audience however there was no sound of the interviewer speaking.
in addition to that when the scene is changing there is a fade in of the beat or the music kick in and also the camera shot repeats however this time it is chopped up and placed in the time line few seconds after random shots. Also it shows the moment to places to place by using these effects.
The introduction of this video shows the location of where the man lives but it no one speaks about where the subject lives but it shows key shots of where the person live for example the the local train station. and then it just goes straight to the point about the subject

 The purpose of this video is to fantasize the people about a strange man who's cannot stop laughing for example the video give keys stats about what the person of what he does and a bit about his personal life. 

People who would want to watch this documentary is the people who would like to know what kind of people there is around the world and people who are in to exploring different types of society

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