Documentary Analysis - The Archive
https://vimeo.com/1546186
To understand how to go about making a short documentary, we needed to analyse other documentaries first. 'The Archive', directed by Steve Dunne is about Paul Mawhinney who is thought to own the biggest music album collection in the world worth up to $50 million.
The documentaries main theme is based around the concept of time. IE it focuses more on the past and plays on the idea of nostalgia as well as modern times. Location is also fairly simple, it is all filmed in the warehouse in which Paul keeps his collection and the shots and tone that are used are aimed to emphasise Pauls emotional attachment to the collection. Because it is filmed in one location, a lot of the film explores Paul as a person, such as his childhood and what started his passion for music.
Unfortunately we learn in the documentary that Paul is being forced to sell his collection and the massive loss is portrayed in the editing. Lack of music in the documentary could be argued to represent that Paul's passion for music is sadly disappearing.
Overall I thought it was a good documentary that successfully did its job.
