Visual/narrative pleasures

• Genre of documentary is 'True...

  True fiction
• Kapadia named his filmmaking style 'true fiction'
• How is the narrative constructed?

  From archival footage and song lyrics
• Narrative lacks guiding VoiceOver (voice of God)
• The use of interviews develop insight into her troubled life
• What elements of film form position the spectator in a certain way?

  Captions, specially developed score, use of Amy's music, Amy's voice overs
• Amy is a composite of different types of footage - professional non-professional with moving and still images interspersed 
• What type of editing does Amy use?


  Associative editing
• What's associative editing?

  Creates mood/tone without making explicit argument about the subject
• How did editor, Chris King, give the film a more unified feel?

  Through manipulating the digital images in post-production by adding layers of effects so it's less disorienting as it moves between different image qualities 
• Kapadia “had no preconceived ideas of the story...we weren’t trying to make the movie anything, they asked us to make it...came in with a blank slate.”
• A lot of the footage in the final cut they didn’t have to begin with, they began with footage available on YouTube and gathered archival footage from friends/family a year into production