Beehive Stories: Tooele County
I liked this doc. The subjects were rather interesting, the B-roll was very well done. I particularly liked the 25 MPH sign with the racer speeding through the background.
I've been to the salt flats on a number of occasions, but for some reason I had forgotten that they are in Tooele. I've never stopped there when people are trying for the land speed record. I liked Rick's explanation that the salt flats are the safest place to drive in the world. His story of rolling the car going 300 miles an hour was the perfect example.
I appreciate how wise the editor was to withhold the information that the subjects had taken the land speed record until the very end. It was nice building up the car, the fact that it was made by Rick's father and that it had been rolled and damaged in other ways in the past, before letting us know that it is also the fastest car on the planet. Well done.
I think it's great when filmmakers can create tension in a story even with an extremely short time frame. This Beehive Stories episode only had about six minutes to tell a complete story, and it seems to have managed to keep its intrigue right up to the end by withholding the land speed record fact and then delivering it with a good payoff for the audience. A short doc is a great place to practice telling stories in a short time frame, and all of the Beehive Stories episodes I have seen do a great job at this.
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