Love treatise,
Producing Company: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Length: 00:08:36
Narrator: Cooper Galvin
Funny and witty..
I love how he takes us on a journey with him. Like how at first he comes up with an idea, and states it and then states the logical thing to do next. Showing us the purpose of creating the piece.
What is Love?... He asks 7th grade girls. He interviews many girls at the same time, it’s cute and fun, and gives the listener an idea of the atmosphere and how relaxed the speakers are. I like that he picked innocent seven-graders who still have a warm innocent definition of love. It is also very spontaneous, which gives the listener the assurace that it is real. I like that he let the conversation flow naturally yet in a fun way, I guess he might have chosen his subjects to be fun before the interview.
After the seven-graders he moves on to ask a more serious group, an experienced group of seniour guys. And you can see the difference between the first group and the second group. You can tell that the first group is very much caught in a pink world, unlike the second group which is more serious. I love the diversity of the subject.
He interviewed this guy, and asked him for a definition. The guy didn’t know how to answer, and asked to leave. He didn’t say anything significant, yet you can tell the point behind adding his contribution to the piece it shows how blury the definition of love is in the minds of people.
He interviewed a big bunch of people till that point, normal people around campuss. I guess that way he was able to portray the general image of how people interpret love. However, no solid answer where found to his question. I guess it is because it is a subjective question and each person has his own definition of it. I like that he chose that particular topic to pursue, since it is so subjective that almost everyone defines it differently and so in my opinion people would like to hear what others have to say about this blurry subject.
He then moves on to interview someone who is supposingly more experienced than the rest of the group; the Romantic Poetry Teacher. Who provides us with a conclusion that is “everyone has their own definition of love and that we have to reach our own definition of love, which we will not find untill we are ready.”
The Narrator’s voice, in my opinion is ideal, at least, for this piece; because with it he can portray emotion; the listener can tell when he is amused or shocked or plain bored. It is not too loud or too quite, and it has a friendly vibe to it, I guess it gives that vibe because the script is very lively and engaging, and also because the interviews were conducted in a fun casual way.
However, I am not a fond of his choice of music for the piece, because eventhough it is a nice song that is related to the subject it is very distracting to put as a background, I think he better has chosen something softer or at least lowered the volume a bit.
The documentary was not too long or too short, I think it is perfect, I woulddn’t let go of any part of it if I was producing it. It is 8 minutes and 35 seconds of informative fun.-
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