1. The film uses shots such as the Ken Burn Effect. It puts an impact on the film by seeing more and having a closer focus about what the subject is itself.
2. The film uses mostly indirect interviews of the Trainers. It helps tell the subjects story by giving the witness perspective, and stories from those who have experience who knew if there were suspicions and lying going on about the cases. Therefore, it puts a stronger telling impact on the subject.
3. Blackfish uses many hand footage(Film Footage) to show the event leading up to an accident, the areas and captivity the whales were kept in, training sessions/shows, and how the whales acted. The hand footage is helpful because it gives a lot of examples and imagery of the situation. They also have the use of showing Sea World commercials and News Casts (Archival Footage) to emphasise the lying of the people from Sea World that they give an innocent and good reputation.
4. Blackfish uses different types of soundtrack in the film to set/emphasise the mood. Also, ambient sounds are used during scenes when the sound was made, such as the splash of a diver or whale flipping into the pool, so the ambient sounds can give an idea of the setting and whats going on. Overall, most of the music and ambient sounds were used as emotion emphasis on the documentary.
5. My overall thoughts on Blackfish is it puts a lot of questioning on the viewers toward sea park owners as you could see how many accidents and events there are, but aren't told. As well as, the lying that is brought, just to not ruin their reputation and industry. Other individuals should watch it because it is a very interesting story and is a great film to understand what goes beyond the shows and controversy in sea parks.
