We then watched Eric's Secrets by Lucia Ashmore. This is an adorable personal story of an old man as he tells the viewer about his life and his wife. The good use of old photographs with Eric talking over the top, gives the viewer a real insight into what this man's life has been like and effectively sets each string of the story. The choice to film Eric in his home also gives you the sense that this gentleman is a genuine guy and also links in with a lot of the general points made by Eric, and to give B-roll to the film. Although cheery music runs throughout to show how happy this old man has been about his life, the emotional end about his wife having died, ties the whole piece together and brings out the emotion in the viewer.
I do quite like this piece as i think it's constructed really nicely to show all of Eric's story with it being nice and easy for the viewer to watch. The subject matter is also very genuine, giving the sense of the maker to just want to show this man's story and not to sensationalise it in any way, which a lot of things do now-a-days.
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