In class this last week we watched a series of miniature documentaries. The style which these documentaries followed was the Zapruder film style. This form of movie making happens completely by accident. For example we watched the JFK assassination video. This film was not meant to show him being shot, but it was meant to be a family video of the day JFK rolled into Dallas to great his people. Some critics call this a snuff film. Meaning its a film of a murder, but when you look at it closely this was just an average guy with a new piece of technology trying to have fun. There is still much speculation on whether or not the film is legitimate and if the whole assassination was a setup by the government or the driver, but the film sadly does not give us enough information to tell.
The other film we watched was the brutal beating of Rodney King. The filmmaker in this piece was an average person who happened to be at the right place at the wrong time. Through the camera's eye we see the African American Rodney being beaten my a squad of cops, between 5-8 cops take their rounds at Rodney and beat him senselessly. The film held up as phenomenal evidence towards this case as it was the only real account of what had happened that night.
The Zapruder film style is an extremely valuable way of film making that anyone can do. It just takes the right amount of luck an d having the right technology at this right moment.
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