When it came to brainstorming what we would feel passionate enough to make our documentary about, one of the main inspirations came from a documentary our teacher showed us in class called " Exit through the gift shop". This documentary was directed by a famous street artist named "Banksy", who aimed to reveal the complicated world of street art, specifically through the footage captured by a French artist named Thierry Guetta.
One of the main things that stood out to me about this documentary was how unconventional it was to the idea I had in my head of what a documentary usually looks like. I have only watched ones throughout my life about tragic or historic events, which all held usually similar layouts. The documentary Exit through the gift shop included a lot of wry humor in it, making fun of Guetta and his eccentric ways, as well as shaky footage archived from his thousands of hours of film on his camera. The documentary managed to raise an extremely complicated question to the viewers, of what actually constitutes art, while still being a funny and entertaining story. One of my favorite parts of the documentary was the beginning and end, which was a montage of photos with the song "Tonight the streets are ours" in the background. I thought it introduced the many aspects of the world well, such as running from the police and climbing on buildings to spray paint, with a fitting song.
Inspired by this documentary, we decided to also make a documentary based on the world of street art, specifically graffiti. We had a subject from our school in mind, who is a friend of ours that has been doing graffiti for years now. Although we obviously don't and can't completely copy the Banksy documentary, we decided from the start to take inspiration from the interview style, specifically how they interviewed Banksy in a room with graffiti around him and artistic lighting, and the footage of art being created.
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