Of course the film is in fact linear. The film has to be set in chronological order, because it is telling real events. This is similar to This Is England which i just analysed. For this type of film it is espcially important that it is shown in time order because there was a build up to the 9/11. In a way the build up in this film is much more intense and stronger, as for most people on the real flight is probably happened out of nowhere. But the film would not be full of drama and come to say it, it probably wouldn't even be a film!
Like This Is England the film is a realist. Not only does it make the audience feel like it's real and prove it's dramatizing real events but it also causes tension. Like This Is England makes you feel like your part of the skinhead gang, this film makes you feel like your on the plane with these people, going through what these people are going through. This is thanks to a lot of the technical qualities about this film which I was analyse with examples late on.
Unlike the other videos I have embeded this one contaians pretty much the end conclusion to the film. The ending of this film is basically the crash but it leaves it quite open to interpretation. When I say that I look back and think well I know what happend, and so do most people as the 9/11 was a huge turning point for the rest of the world. So why does the film leave me thinking something else is going to happen when pretty much nothing does happen after the crash becides what we have heard on the news? In my opinion this is pretty much a convention more of the hollywood side of things than the realism filmmaking side of the bat. But does it make the film better? I deffinatly think it makes you want to know more...
Technical Aspects
So there is no need to keep explaining what the genre of this film is but the main word to use for drama-documentary types of films is realism. And like This Is England this is conveyed though the tehcnical side of the film.
To start of with, the camera movement is very different to This Is England. It's more handheld and unsteady. When the plane crashes, the camera shakes violently. It's almost like someone is holding it and documenting everything that is happening on the plane. Again like said above, It makes everything more real. It makes everything more intense. It's like we are on the plane. I also like how the camera blurs when it is focusing in and out and changing.
The sound is also something I want to talk about quickly. There is hardly a music soundtrack. The film is very quiet in that retrospect. We just have the sounds of the plane and the people talking, which I want to talk about now...
Scripting is something I really noticed on this film. I would be surprised if this film needed a lot of scripting and thats a good thing. It wouldn't seem real if it was scripted and most drama documentaries have the convention of hardly any scripting. Examples in this clip is from is kind of the first minute of the clip where people are praying and talking on the phone to their loved ones. You can't really make out what they're saying, and even though things are frantic, In a way when people are speaking everyone seems casual. Even though there is drama going on within the film the people in the film are not that type of stage dramatic we see in hollywood blockbusters. In most drama documentaries you will find they don't really use hollywood actors and actresses that we all know about. So overall without going off topic too much. The film Has some really good scripting to make everything that little bit more realistic.
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