Anaylsis 2

Select from one of the readings and briefly describe two points that you have taken from it. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you.

Pawel Pawlikowski. Imagining reality

He mentions about how most of the documentaries are just a record of reality , and it’s not about conveying information about the world but how he sees it and find a form which is relevant to the topic. I agree with Pawel that a documentary wouldn’t be interesting if it was just portraying life as it is. A good documentary that I really love is “An Idiot Abroad”. A British travel documentary television series of Pilkington’s journeys to foreign countries with task assigned to him each episode. Quoted from the crew,

“This is a [more real] documentary than most others you’ll ever see on television. We don’t plan it, he doesn’t know what’s going to happen.”

 

A documentary like this is one of surprise and ambiguity, and you never know what will come out of each task that Pilkington does (since he’s that stupid), while some might come out a little scripted, but this is Pawel’s idea of what makes a good documentary. How documentaries can appear to be so paradoxical, grotesque and beautiful at the same time.

I guess what I can take away from this reading is that for the upcoming documentary film that I’ll be doing with the group is that, people don’t want to see what they already know. It shouldn’t be so much of a informative piece about shoes, but the idea of questioning everything in between.