Watching Laughing club from start to finish was the first time I really dove into the style of a documentary. Short, quick, 3-second shots combined with on the spot film and intimate interviews, hardly the documentary I remember watching before.
In Laughing Club I saw the interviews in a way that I had never seen before, intimate, natural lighting giving you the feeling of the interviewer, not necessarily like modern lighting of a new Hollywood film but the same feeling you might get if you were to walk in on a father and son having a heart-to-heart discussion. When the people spoke it was as if they were right in front of you. It is really a beneficial way to get the audience to connect with people they have never met before and understand their circumstance.
The shot times and transitions were very quick. Being that Laughing Club is a documentary it helped to move the story along very quickly, that's not to say that you jumped from theme to theme but you jumped from the main story the the side story and back and so on, as many documentaries do. It not only kept the viewer interested but it also was a good way to get many visually stimulating images running across not only the screen, but your mind. Almost subliminally, the quick shots and transitions make you feel the situation and peak interest by giving you the adolescent like "Did you see THAT?" feeling.
Overall Laughing Club was not only interesting and informative but developmental in my knowledge base on Documentaries, opening my eyes yet again to the truth behind Cinematography.
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