Capturing Reality - An Interactive documentary experience
Capturing reality is not new to me. My first contact with the experience was in 2011, I think, when I was starting to work with documentaries myself. My friend had the DVD and showed me this documentary about documentaries that was interactive: no definite time, no definite order, without most of the rules we are used to when making a movie. of Course in the DVD there is also the feature film it self, which I have to to be honest and say that I ended up never watching.
I remember being fascinated by such an innovative idea, and thinking that I would love to have such a clever idea.
Today, after many years I came to revisit this experience. I confess that "Capturing reality" wasn't something I remembered anymore, and it was beautiful to find out again. I think more than an interactive documentary, this works as a master class. You can watch about the topics you are interested in right now or the director's speech you admire, and it's a huge learning experience.
The way that I experienced it was first, searching by topic, and watched everything related to editing, as we are currently editing our short and I am particularly interested in this. Following I wanted to watch the lines of Coutinho, Brazilian filmmaker that I admire immensely.
Then I realised I was curious to know more about the project, and suddenly I was watching the film for the first time. In fact I was extremely curious about how they edited it so that it wasn't just talking heads on a black background. But the answer is pretty obvious, in fact, they use excerpts from the movies the characters shot, of course. The score is pretty great as well. But I think what touches me the most is simply the fact that they are very passionate people talking. There is no way not to connect with their speech...
And finally, I was curious about the logo on the top centre of the page, and I didn't know what it related to. It stands for "NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA" and ultimately is a free streaming service where "Capturing reality" is available as well as many other movies I've never had a chance to watch. so it has just become a new channel to watch Canadian movies :)