I enjoyed watching this documentary. Coal mining is
something that I do not think about a lot on a daily basis. This documentary put
light on the coal miners in a unique way through the daughters of the miners’ pageants.
They used the daughters and the wives of the miners to give insight into their
family. There was b-roll footage of the family members doing their normal daily
activities to accent the lives they live. There was footage of their homes as
well as cooking and them preparing for their days. This footage was used to
make transitions between the scenes and ideas of the documentary. I feel like
that brought around the idea of family and their lives and what all of the
family members have to deal with on a daily basis which is what I concluded
about the focus of the documentary. The documentary started with scenes of the pageant
and then transitioned into the families’ lives and then their thoughts about
the coal industry and then went back to the pageant. There was no narration in
the documentary, just the interviews. I thought that this worked out well in
this case. They had a shot with words that explained the tragedy of the coal explosion
and that worked because it was just enough to move into the families’ thoughts
on the event. This documentary flowed through the different ideas and augments
well.
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