Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Reflective: Lessons from King of Kong


A few weeks ago, we watched a documentary called "King of Kong" in class and as Kyle has posted earlier, may have given us an impression of their personality that may not have been true in real life. For example, Billy Mitchell was depicted as the bad guy and Steve Wiebe as the guy who was very talented but who also had been never successful in anything. They might not really be like that in real life which is why the way we depict people we film is very important.

As the community we are filming are the LOL club community, at the end of the day, we don't want viewers to have the impression of the people who we have filmed to be lifeless unsocialable people. That is why we include their hobbies in our documentary to show that they have a life outside the virtual world of League of Legends.

After watching King of Kong, we also learned that B-roll is very important but it must also be related. For example, King of Kong used B-roll of people in the arcade playing games. For our documentary, we would use B-roll of the building we filmed in and also of the club playing a LOL match.

Lastly, a documentary would be more interesting if it had a storyline in it, which was of Steve Wiebe trying to get a high score and getting recognized by the arcade community. However, since we only have 3-5 minutes to achieve this, we would present people's common misconception of the LOL community, and then progress to show how the community really is.


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