Ric Burns

The Ric Burns presentation was extremely captivating. I truly enjoyed hearing him speak and being the first audience outside of his crew to see his up and coming documentary. While watching his documentary I noticed that he used recreation or dramatization in that whale film. The crew and ship were obviously not the crew from the ship years ago, and the battle scenes had to have been re-enacted as well. Also, there was a voice of God narration, except for when he would use his experts for interviews. Burns also used old letters to help narrate, being read by the voice of God narrator. It was clear that he also did immense amounts of research about his topic and found the best historians and experts that he could use for interviews. He also had a lot of objects that helped to relate the viewers' minds to the time of the actual whale hunters. He was very well educated on his topic, and as he warned the audience, was a bit crazy with all of the information he had retained. I specifically remember one woman asking a question after we had watched the second clip of the film and he took twenty minutes to answer it. I truly enjoyed watching his documentary clips and listening to him speak.