The film breaks the monotony of interviews by using b-roll footage which enables a person watching the documentary to gain a better understanding of anxiety disorders (Hofer, 2014). B-roll has been used numerous times however one scene that stands out is when Charlie experiences the first panic attack at the supermarket. The use of b-roll in the film supplements the storyline to enable viewers to see visual information in more detail; it has ensured that the story is vibrant and exciting. B-roll is also used to highlight points in the film leading the viewer towards a particular direction.
Sound is one of the most potent and influential aspects that the documentary utilizes. Uncontrollable panic uses three components of sound the sound effects, music, and dialogue. The filmmaker understood the tone to use in certain parts of the film, the sound in the film enables the person seeing it to be wholly transferred to scenes happening in the film, blocking away distractions from the outside world. The music selected for the film is woven carefully into the
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The audience is given an indisputable sense of location for the events that take place in the film. Lights, shadows, and colors are used symbolically and aesthetically. The lighting in the project is right. Black and white images are depicted wisely in the film. The cinematography in uncontrollable panic allows the viewers to see and not to tell them. Moving pictures are used in keeping an affective and cohesive storyline that highlights anxiety disorder as the central theme throughout Charlie’s story (Winston, 2016). The cinematography is handled in such a way that it communicates a message to the audience, but most critically, it establishes the setting of the film, keeping the scenes tied together at the end making spatial sense. Found footage is also creatively used in the documentary to highlight the three relapses that Charlie goes