This short documentary featured on Youtube was brilliantly shot, cut up into 4 short chapters. The content of each, what was captured and how it was captured; reflect the title perfectly and few documentaries I’ve seen have been done so beautifully. It puts you in the mind perfectly of the Crane Drivers and what they see, feel and hear each day. It has a humorous slant to it which is something essential when working on a building site. It doesn’t focus on the downside of the solitude, b...

This storyville episode focus’ on the upper class famed designer Nick Haslam. Hannah Rothschild shot it in a way which is obviously sympathetic to those of the upper class, washing over the materialistic, thrifty and greedy nature of High Society. She tries to steer away from the idea that Haslam was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, suggesting that his success in his career is completely reliant upon his ‘genius’. Filled with flashbacks to his sickness in youth, his lost loves a...

Julia Moon follows ‘Jon’ in his transition from a typical teenage girl, to becoming a boy. Formerly Natasha, Jon has taken hormone drugs to provoke a male puberty. Moon refrains from any narration, in favour of letting the story unfold on camera, with Jon’s mother Luisa forming the narration for the documentary. It seems, rather than concentrating on Jon’s transition from girl to boy, it more focus’ on how Luisa and others deal with Jon’s change. I quite admire how Moon allowed ...

Adam Hopkins travels to see the lives of the children who grew up in various branches of Wild household. Where essentially every adult is treated as a parents to everybody else’s children, enabling one child to have several mothers, despite only one birth mother. Hopkins couldn’t decide whether to be in front of the camera, or stick with voice of God narration, so he switches between both. It all leads to him becoming empathetic towards selected individuals, but remain distant and rese...

This documentary is a result of Sue Bourne’s 3000 mile round journey of all Red Lion pubs in England. She does not appear on the film, but rather use the Voice Of God narration tool. She interviews people from what appears to be varied different backgrounds. Bourne highlights the common theme of loneliness prominent in the individuals and couples involved. This in retrospect, doesn’t take a great deal of investigative journalism to uncover, when it’s obvious the people your interview...