Grizzly Man (2005) is a documentary that focuses on amateur bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He ventured out to Alaska every year to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his girlfriend tragically by a rogue bear in 2003. Werner Herzog obtained the 100 hours of film that Timothy shot whilst out living among the dangerous species and created this documentary with it.
I think it was edited really well. With over 100 hours of footage, cutting it down must of been a very hard task. Some conventions of the documentary I thought were similar to Green Gage Entertainments project. Using archive and experts opinions, in a similar way Grizzly Man used footage of Timothy Treadwell's and then back to IVs with family and people he knew. The documentary built suspense and strangely made me want to see him being eaten at the end? However I was informed there was only an audio recording of this.
The pilot however gave a graphic description of what app reared to be a bear and a rib cage, where Timothy's camp was set up. The pilot would drop Timothy off and pick him every year.
It is evident from the footage that Timothy was suffering from a mental illness. Trying to do 8 takes of one shot, with a bandanna, without a bandanna, with a red hat, with a blue hat. Another part I remember clearly is one in which he begins a normal take, and then slanders the park service and government, stating he is the only one protecting the animals. With the commentary over the top it makes it an analysis of his behaviour. Here's a snippet of the video below. Unfortunately I cannot embed it so here's the link to clip.
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