Born Into Coal response

Born into coal was a very interesting documentary. I’ve always known that coal mining was a very big deal in west Virginia. It was interesting to see other things that are a big deal in west Virginia, like pageants, and how the two things correlate.  One thing that the documentary touched on was the mining tragedy of 2010, where 29 miners were killed in a west Virginia coal mine. The documentary changed moods a lot, like how at the beginning it focused on Arianna’s pageant life, and how she didn’t want to seem like just another dumb small town pageant girl. Her mother was talking about how she didn’t choose to be born into a coal mining family, she just was. I think that families of coal miners are very close because that is such a  dangerous job, and they can’t take a single day for granted because they might loose their family member any day, as the tragedy of 2010 prove.  I liked how in the background the person speaking would just be talking and then it would show the person just sitting, or show her hands stained with coal.  Since my part of the project for my group is to put together a storyboard, I paid extra attention to how the scenes were all put together. It started out with pageants, then went into coal mining and all the positive and negative things about it. Then it went back to pageants and showed the dad at the pageant. It just really showed how close these coal mining families are, and how they all support eachother.