After watching four of Richard Hunter's documentaries, I have noticed that they have a few things in common. The main thing I noticed they had in common was the filming style. Hunter uses a similar filming technique in all of them, which consists of using lots of very different shots; some of the main subject/person talking, them some of them doing whatever the documentary is about, and then also a few of inanimate objects to do with the subject.
Richard Hunter calls these productions 'micro-docs', due to the short duration that they run for. This approach has some positive aspects and some negative. The positive is that they don't go on for too long and get boring, the audience can stay interested for the whole time. The negative side of them is that the audience may want to know more, as two minutes isn't a very long time to get in all of the information that someone may want or need to know.
These 'micro-docs' are very good at making the audience interested in the every day lives of the individuals being filmed, by making the smallest of things seem amazing. Hunter shows all of the emotions that the individual feels, which then in turn, makes the audience feel similar and want to know more about why it makes them feel that way or why is doesn't make them feel a different way.
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