Terminal Bar is a documentary compiled of photographs taken by Stefan Nadelman centered around the occurrences and people who graced the location. The entire film is very thematic and stylised in its appearance, music, and tempo with the intent of controlling the viewers‘ reception of the film. The crafting of the film started from the photographs provided and the bar itself, therefore the director made sure that they were the main subjects, and designed everything in relation to them. The format of the film is consistently shown in a series of photograph being carried around the screen in panels resembling an old timey film reel, to immerse the viewer into the past decade that the stories being told occurred in, while using a combination of both time appropriate swing-jazz music and actual audio taken from the location in real time to display a sense of wonder at a time foregone, but at the same time still very much grounded in reality. The motion of the panels often matched the beats in the music to create a sense of rhythm adding a general aesthetic to the film. The film was told through narratives and photographs, making it a documentary about the terminal bar, but through the eyes of Nadelman, which both adds insight and subjectivity. Each of Nadelman’s statements, whether it’s a person, an event, or a situation is supported by an image that reflects the point he is making, and to give the audience a visual from his perspective, while the edits may zoom or shift to create focus or effect about something he said. I appreciate how the film cleverly uses multiple elements to manipulate what the viewer is watching, and subsequently feeling from every scene, and could use this as an example for a topic-centric project in the near future.