Experimentation and Exploration: RIP: A remix manifesto
Me and chris light saw this film at sheffield film festival a week or so before we started shooting for our idea. the film influenced us alot- it showed us how a documentary could be informative aswell as entertaining. there was alot of wit and clever interviews in the film- this also made us realise how a documentary doesn’t need to be pleasing to everyone, but the film maker can take a ‘higher ground’ and speak clearly about his views. this was a huge revelation to us, as we had been trying to think of ways to stay neutral in our film making. the style of editing was also interesting- the iflm used alot of cartoony superimposed images, which i thought owuld have looked slightly tacky, but it worked very well- and emphasised the idea of the diretcor taking a ‘higher ground’ as if he was teaching his audience things in simplistic terms- using cartoons. this film was a very big influence for us when considering our ‘style’ of shooting- from what kind of questions we were going to ask (quite intrusive ones) to how the film was going to look visually (what editing techniques we were going to use)
