Overview
Screening: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
After viewing King of Kong, highlight some of the potential production issues you could foresee, as a production manager or filmmaker, that could cause a problem with documenting this story. Do you feel the filmmakers got lucky, in any way, with the way the story turned out? How so?
Per the lecture, what tools do you feel the filmmaker used to create audience engagement with the story. Did you feel engagement with the story? How so? Did you experience any visceral reactions to the film? At what point, and what was your reaction?
Overall, compare this documentary to other documentary films that you’ve seen. Do you feel it’s more successful as a film than others? What do you feel makes a successful documentary, and why?