Which types of footage are used in the opening? Why do you think the different types have been used - what is their function?
Creepy music is played through the intro to add atmosphere.
The opening scene shows a photo of Aileen as a happy child so you can see the change throughout the documentary. A clip is also shown of Aileen saying she regrets everything. We also see clips of the victims families saying how they feel about the whole situation and finally dead bodies are shown to show add shock factor.
What Documentary techniques can you identify in the sequence?
Old clips from TV showing news reports from the time the murders first happened and clips of Aileen shouting about how the system is treating her.
What information is given by the voiceover ? What is the relationship beetween the voiceover and the images.?
Throughout the documentary the voiceover explains the images and what their relevance is to the documentary.
What do we find out about the centeral subject ?
We find out the Aileen is either really intelligent and is trying to get herself killed so she doesnt have to sit in prison all her life, or she is completely insane and is trying to cheat her way out of life in prison.
How is the opening sequence of a documentary similar to the opening sequence of a fiction film (eg introduction of characters, situation,plot,themes,attempt to attract and keep audience attention)?
It delivers the situation and the plot to the viewer straight away which keeps you involved in the documentary and makse you want to learn more about it.
1.Name of Documentary: The selling of a serial killer
2.February 4, 1994
3.Nick Broomfield
4.Comedy , Thriller
5.The documentry was filmed in various states across America.
It was shown at the sundance film festival and was later released to DVD.
6.The purpose of this documentry was to inform and to entertain and it succesfully did both of these things by teaching the viewer and showing them how Aileen's story went.
7.The documentary has a political and social message. Aileen is against the police throughout the film saying their controlling her mind and she goes on to say how the world is against which would be the social message you could take from this documentary.
8.I think that the producer and director Nick Broomfield left everything that he recorded in his movie and everything was appropriate for the theme of the documentary.
9.The documentary was edited so all the most important clips that tell most of the story come first before anything else.
10.Nick Broomfield narrarated the whole documentary throughout the entire documentary it becomes aparent to the viewer that Nick has built a relashionship with Aileen and feels bad for her as if the system has done her wrong.
11.Interviews are used throughout the documentary to show real life accounts of what Aileen was like and how she was till the day that she died.
12.Noddies are present in some of the interviews when Nick zooms in on Aileen when shes shouting and screaming about the police.
13.The crew isn't visible throughout the documentary , until Nick has to hide the camera so that he can catch Aileen saying something she refused to say on camera.
After watching the documentary I came to the conclusion that Aileen is insane.
I think Nick Broomfield portrayed Aileen exactly how she is but he didn't really speak to the police who were involved in her case so we couldn't really get both sides of the argument.
I don't think she deserved the death penalty she was just an angry prostetute.
Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways, was executed by injection today after dropping her appeals and firing her lawyers. Ms. Wuornos, 46, became the 10th woman executed in the United States since capital punishment resumed in 1977. Oklahoma has put three women to death; Florida and Texas have executed two each. In her final statement, Ms. Wuornos referred to Jesus and a blockbuster movie. "I'll be back like 'Independence Day' with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all," Ms. Wuornos said.
After she was arrested at the Last Resort bar, in Port Orange, Fla., in January 1991, on an outstanding charge of carrying a concealed weapon -- an arrest that would quickly lead to a charge of murder and culminate in her execution in October 2002 -- Aileen Wuornos, a stocky, straggly-haired woman with desperate eyes and a foul mouth, didn't hesitate to tell judge and jury exactly what she thought of them when she appeared in court.
