The arrival of fully digital production was of enourmous importance to documentaries in terms of both production and distribution.
What were the benefits to digital production?
Cheaper
More accessable
Choice
More room for experimentation
What were the downsides to digitlisation?
Easily manipulated and can cause us to question the legitimacy of the image.
Kapadia believes that the aesthetic of the raw footage are more effective than controlled composition... 'you have to learn to free yourself up to imperfection.'
The doc shows our developing relationship to technology.
What are seven different digital filming techniques used?
DVR by Lauren and Nick
Camera phone - Blake and crowd footage
Laptop - amy selfies
Drone - Kapadia
TV - shows, interviews, concerts
Digital photographs
Super8 - Blake Wood.
'Amy' is 90% digital footage. It can be argued that whilst a film like this could be made without digital technology, a film about Amy could not.
