Lift

Synopsis
A man stands in a lift with a camera to engage in social interactions with the residents of a housing block in order to gain an insight into there daily lives and invoke thought within them.



Review
A very entertaining film that made you more aware of the differences in peoples lives compared to your own. The interview style questions that made people engage with him had a clear effect on them by making them think more carefully about there lives. people who's stories would never have been told had a chance to show the world who they were.


The documentary is a mixture of a reflective and interactive style due to the fact that the film maker is interested in what the outcome of his research is, when filming the documentary he will not have known what the outcome will have been. How ever it is also partly Interactive due to the film maker asking people that the documentary focuses on questions to spur along the story.





I think that due to the location and proximity that was forced upon people during filming the narrative was naturally formed due to the fact that people felt as though they needed to talk to avoid the situation becoming increasingly awkward. This slowly led to people becoming more comfortable with talking to the camera and slowly opening and revealing things that they otherwise wouldn't.



If the documentary had of included a higher level of planning and included footage of people outside of the lift I do not think that it would of been as good because part of the character of the documentary is that what happened was completely random. I also think having footage from outside the lift would have taken away from the intimacy that was created due to the confined space