Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Life In A Day
The idea for this film was very unique, and was something that would not have been possible a few years ago. It is a great example of how film is still evolving today due to the advances in technology. The idea of this film also had the potential to be...not so great. However, they pulled it off really well and made a bunch of YouTube videos into a professional feature film. I loved how they started the day right at midnight, and then kept going through the day. We were able to see so many different lifestyles from all over the world, and see what they wanted to show us. It was a really beautiful film which showed all sorts of ranges of wealth and poverty. We were able to see into the lives of so many different individuals, but in a way that it all fit together. It must have been extremely difficult to choose which clips to use due to the amount of footage they had. The editing was basically what made this movie. If the editing had not been done well, it would not have been a good film at all. Another thing I thought was done very well was the music. They had this one song that was so peaceful, it fit into so many different worlds. There were also different versions of it, one with a man singing, and one with a women. There were times where there were short clips of individuals, and times when they focused on one person. These moments where they focused on one person were really deep and significant. It was as if this was their chance to talk to the world, even though they didn't think they were anything special. This film showed how everyone is unique and special in their own way, and the world has many different types of people, but overall we are all very similar. This was a very effective approach in showing the similarities and differences of people all around the world. I was uplifted by this film, and can't wait to see it again. I
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I totally agree. This film was really made in the editing room. With thousands of hours of footage to go through it would have been quite intense to pick and choose. It would have been really easy for the filmmakers to have just made this into a 2 hour long montage but gratefully they didn’t. They created a story with all of these different people. I think that the juxtaposition of quite montages and then slowing down to focus on specific people helped to do that. I also think that it had a beautiful thematic statement. They showed lots of things that were similar all over the world and then stopped and focused on the individual. It was as if they said, “Here is the world, see we are not all that different as a whole” and then said, “Look, we are all individuals as well.” I really liked the editing in this film. This style may not work for other types of film but I think that for this one specifically it worked wonderfully.
ReplyDeleteTo the broke college student, Life in a Day is an amazing, inspiring film. I’m at the stage where I am trying to determine if going into debt to get some fancy equipment is the right choice or not. While that is still a valid debate, what Life in a Day does is give hope to the scrounge artists we (at least me) are. It’s just what you said about the editing. There is a lot of power given to the editor in this film. It shows that it is possible to make a pretty incredible film out of disjointed chaos. Life in a Day must have had incredible organization. You can see some of that in what is filmed. There are cues of things people were asked to film. This tells me that there was a pretty clear plan going into the film. If you plan well, keep the idea simple, and then nail it with the editing, you don’t need all the gadgets to make interesting films.
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