I had to watch Life in a Day at college for the next part of my A-Levels as it focuses on New Media Technology. This film is one of our main case studies, when I found out that I was going to watch this film I wasn't very happy about the idea but now I have watched it I can see why people rate it so much as it is one of those films that you can watch over and over again and notice new things.
When I first started watching the film I thought it was odd as it didn't seem real, the more I watched though I understood that people were happy to be taking part in the film and wanted to help other people understand what everybody else does every day and how people's lives are all different.
I thought the film was really good as you were able to understand what some people have to go through. I was also impressed with the way the film was edited as it helped you understand what was going on more as it was edited into a kind of story line throughout the whole day. I really like the film as it is a somewhat time capsule and in years to come people will be able to watch this film and understand how we used to live and I think it would be a great idea if something like this could be made every so often.
However I didn't enjoy some of the footage that was added into the film, I understand that the producer and director wanted to get all different types of things in however you were never warned about some of the shocking clips that was in the film. Another reason why I didn't enjoy the film is because it seemed surreal as everybody on the film seemed happy and everybody knows that it isn't true as there are plenty of other things going on in the world. For example, people in poverty, I understand they are happy with what they have got however they were making out they were on top of the world and nothing could be better.
My overall impression is that I can understand why the film is a ground breaking film as it was really good, edited well, and made you understand everything differently. Everybody has different views on different things and I suppose it just depends on what you are interested in to whether you will enjoy the film or not. I'm happy that it helped YouTube become a more developed website and more well known to other people as people needed to understand that it wasn't just a film for videos and that the videos on there should actually mean something.
When I first started watching the film I thought it was odd as it didn't seem real, the more I watched though I understood that people were happy to be taking part in the film and wanted to help other people understand what everybody else does every day and how people's lives are all different.
I thought the film was really good as you were able to understand what some people have to go through. I was also impressed with the way the film was edited as it helped you understand what was going on more as it was edited into a kind of story line throughout the whole day. I really like the film as it is a somewhat time capsule and in years to come people will be able to watch this film and understand how we used to live and I think it would be a great idea if something like this could be made every so often.
However I didn't enjoy some of the footage that was added into the film, I understand that the producer and director wanted to get all different types of things in however you were never warned about some of the shocking clips that was in the film. Another reason why I didn't enjoy the film is because it seemed surreal as everybody on the film seemed happy and everybody knows that it isn't true as there are plenty of other things going on in the world. For example, people in poverty, I understand they are happy with what they have got however they were making out they were on top of the world and nothing could be better.
My overall impression is that I can understand why the film is a ground breaking film as it was really good, edited well, and made you understand everything differently. Everybody has different views on different things and I suppose it just depends on what you are interested in to whether you will enjoy the film or not. I'm happy that it helped YouTube become a more developed website and more well known to other people as people needed to understand that it wasn't just a film for videos and that the videos on there should actually mean something.