During this scene in apollo 11, it is a very intense nerve-racking moment. They use different visual and sound techniques to add tension to the scene. The director’s intention in displaying this is to make the audience/viewers feel like we are a part of the crowd and drawing our attention to this crucial part of the film.
In the documentary film, Apollo 11 director Todd Millar uses a variety of cinematography and sound techniques to build up anticipation, suspense to draw us into the experience. In the final moments of the countdown camera shots of the control room, the VIPs on the viewing platform, and the public to show the audience how the rocket launch was the centre of the world’s attention. In the years since the moon landings, a plethora of science fiction films have taken viewers to the other side of the galaxy and back, in comparison the trip to the moon might seem mundane. Todd Millar uses these camera shots of the crowds to impress upon us, his audience, the fact that this event was the pinnacle of human achievement. Quite literally, the eyes of the world were on the Saturn V rocket and the moment of launch. The use of wide, panning and close up shots of the various parts of the crowd gives us not only a sense of being there but also a look at the emotion, awe and scale of the moment. In unison with these shots Millar adds in sound elements designed to build suspense, and tension to make the viewers believe they are a part of this experience. He incorporated digetic and non-digetic sound to create this experience for the viewers. Different
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