Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a photographer and environmentalist who has produced numerous documentaries on the beauty of nature. He became an environmentalist and film director after working as a hot-air balloon pilot, where he discovered that he must raise awareness to preserving Earth’s beauty. A few years ago, Bertrand was stuck in a rural town in Mali after his helicopter broke down. During the wait, he started to talk to farmers in the village about their aspirations and their concerns about feeding their children. This discussion with the farmers left a lasting impression on Yann and it influenced him to make a documentary on the human condition. With funding from the United Nations and Google, Yann set out to discover what made us human. Over …show more content…
Human the movie attempts to show the darkness of mankind but also the positives of the human’s experience. Each participant is asked the same questions but the stories told by each person shapes the film since the stories are unique to the individual. To enhance the stories told, the interviews are taken in a black background. The black background is used in order to allow the viewer to focus on the story being told and the emotions that the participant may have during the storytelling. During each scene, personal identifiers such as name or country are removed from the film because Yann wanted to viewers to focus on their similarities since he thought that personal identifiers would separate the audience from the speaker since the audience would not feel strongly related to the issue being discussed and would instead focus on the differences. The aerial footage of cities and untouched landscape are used as breaks between the interviews and but also an emotional link between mankind and the Earth. Yann uses the aerial footages show an uneven development in our society since some the images focus on the untouched