Born into Coal is a documentary about the daughter of a coal miner and the "Coal Queen Pageant". The documentary starts with a scene from the pageant where they briefly mention coal. The next shot is on the character that the documentary is following Arianna Bailey, It shows B-roll of her with her talking as narration. I thought this was an effective way to start the documentary because it established the scene and introduce the main focus of the documentary really smoothly. The next scene is to show family values and it does this by introducing the mother and father through an interview and showing relevant B-roll in the process. It then cuts to a different family and it uses the audio of an interview from the mother and father of a different family and B-rol. The other family is meant to show the more "Coal" aspect weather than directly following Arianna Bailey. The middle of the documentary does a good job of showing the dangers of coal and the horrors but it doesn't really seem to follow Arianna Bailey as it seemed like it was going to at the beginning; more so just the families. Then at the end it connects it back to the pageant and to me it didnt seem very fluid.
It was moderately effective in showing the dangers of coal but when he said that he was like a doctor it kind of lost ethos for me. The father on camera was really poor and you could tell he was uncomfortable.
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