Context (C3)

• What production companies produced Amy?

  Universal Music Group and Film4 Productions
• Who was the producer?

  Gay-Rees (previous collaborator)
• Who was the editor?


  Chris King (previous collaborator)
• What was the budget?

  $3.4 million
• How did the idea of making Amy begin?

  Gay Rees approached by Amy’s record company Universal Records in 2012
• What percent of footage used in the film is digital?

  90% of all footage used on the film is digital with a large amount of amateur recording in a variety of different file types
• Amy was well received critically, quote from critic about Amy:


  “Tackles family, media, fame, addiction...it captures the very heart of what she was about, which is an amazing person and a true musical genius.”
• Who's Amy Winehouse's dad?

  Mitch Winehouse
• Who's Amy Winehouse's mum?

  Janis Whinehouse
• Who's Amy Winehouse's ex-husband?

  Blake Fielder-Civil
• Who's Nick Shymansky?

  Amy Winehouse's former manager and close friend
• Who were Amy's childhood friends featured in the film?

  Juliette and Lauren
• Who is Salaam Remi?

  Music producer and friend of Amy
• Who was Amy's bodyguard?

  Andrew Morris
• What moments in Amy's life from the film capture her rise to fame?

  Magazines/tabloids (Rolling Stones), Brits, Bestival
• What moments in Amy's life from the film capture her downfall from fame?

  Jay Leno making fun of her, UK tabloids exploiting her, paparazzi, Grammies, Bestival 
• Historical context...
• Filmmaker Vertov called for a new style of cinematic reportage documenting real life - Kino Pravda, what's Kino Pravda?


  Visual effects, exposing the filmmaking process –witnesses the real world and provides narrative
• 50s-60s what new technology developed in film?

  Lightweight, hand-held cameras, synchronised sound
• What was the effect of this for documentary?

  Allowed young filmmakers to redefine documentary into...

  ®   Direct cinema (US)

  ®   Cinema Verite (France)

  ®   Free cinema/observational (England) 
• What's observational documentary characterised by/features?

  -Strives for “immediacy, spontaneity, and authenticity –an attempt to bring the filmmaker and the audience closer to the subject.”

  -Characterised by use of real people, unrehearsed scenarios, on location shooting, objectivity, intimate relationship with subjects

  -Avoids V.O, directional intervention, sets and props
• What happened in the 80s/90s for documentary?

  People realised that objectivity could never be delivered on camera, direct address became popular as filmmakers would appear on camera --> this is known as self-reflexive documentary now