Project 4, 4th Quarter "Letter to Sarah Part 1"

Letter to Sarah https://www.insidehook.com/article/movies/the-perfect-ken-burns-coronavirus-binge-watch-plan Ken Burns is a documentary Filmmaker who developed a story-telling technique of scanning, panning and zooming across old historical photographs to create a sense of movement and to focus attention on different parts of the image as he unfolds the story. Burns, known for his documentaries of historical events, has been a prolific Filmmaker, covering such subjects as the Statue of Liberty (1985), Baseball (1994) and the Vietnam War (2017). The following excerpt from his highly-acclaimed documentary "The Civil War" has become emblematic of the power of his method of story telling. The scene combines Burns' technique with live film to tell the story of a letter home, written on the eve of battle. The "scan & pan" effect (formally known as "kinestasis") as Burns used it, became known as the "Ken Burns Effect" and w...