The documentary i chose was True Life I Cant Sleep. The point of this documentary was to show the audience how this effects their life, their everyday life. How they can never sleep all night long to the point where their eyes burn from being opened. For example Kelsey doesn't sleep at night resulting in wanting to sleep at school, making her not pay attention in class and becoming a drop out. But all three; Krystal Kelsey and Newell are trying to improve their lives at home, school and socially with their friends/boyfriends. This documentary shows how they start off with these problems, they reveal the struggles and then throughout they try to fix this sleep disorder. Either by going to the doctor, taking pills, trying their hardest to control their emotions, and try to pay attention in school. For example, Newell is undergoing a series of experimental surgeries to fix his disorder who all don't seem to help him.
The camera work was way different then ordinary films. They were mostly following the characters around, and after the camera follows them to where they were headed they cut it into a close up of their face to see their emotion and what they are feeling. For example in this shot of Krystal we follow her all the way to her stand at the shoe store. Since this is real there is no control what is going to happen, so in most cases the lighting never really matches, and they use other tools like night vision in their camera while in real movies they would instead have a little light but enough to see that it was dark and all the lights were off. But in this documentary they had night vision to talk with them, and it wasnt held by a professional camera operator but by the people that were in the documentary. For example this shot with Krystal, telling us what time it is and how she is still unable to sleep. In some of the shots, there were also bumps that couldnt be controlled, while running or either something getting thrown on them. Its unpredictable because the ones in the documentary may want the camera out of their face and thats what the camera operator has to do, loosing some footage that they need.
The editing was decent. They cut each person's documentary back and forth, to see all their struggles together being compared which made me watch for their differences and what they all share. Then they move on to them trying to get better, and they go in the order of Krystal, Kelsey and Newell. To show how differently they all try to get better and how their results vary and relates. Editing the film like this is better then just showing one whole character then the next. It's better because while watching i keep remembering all three of the characters not forget the first or second one i watched. The sound design was great because it was very suttle. It had no sound effects, it was all the real sounds in the world making it feel realistic, because it is real and thats the way they want us to feel, to connect with the pain their feeling. There aren't any sound effects which is great because that would of been a big distraction. They just try to focus on the characters and they do that by just playing suttle music in parts of the documentary. There were many silent parts in this documentary where there were just dialog. For example when Kelsey was fighting with her father there was no music just their fighting dialog.
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