Analysis of Britain's Illegal Rave Renaissance documentry

 

This documentary we decided to work on is about the renaissance of Illegal raves. For this analysis I worked closely with a class mate to collaborate and discuss our findings so that we could gather as much information as possible and help each other fully understand the analysis of this piece. The main reason for collaboration was that we share similar documentary tastes.  

Rave Culture of the great British cultural exports, but after its first wave in the late eighties and early nineties, it was soon forced into the underground by stringent new laws and super clubs. But forward 25 years into in the midst of a nationwide purge on the nation’s nightlife, where nearly half of all British clubs have shut down in the last decade, and a new kind of scene has emerged.

Clive Martin investigates this 21st century version of Rave, where young people break into disused spaces with the help of bolt-cutters and complicated squatting laws, to suck on balloons and go hard into the early morning.

But with the police using increasingly extreme tactics to clamp down on these parties, and more than one fatality causing nationwide media panic, can the scene survive?

As a group we personally found this documentary very interesting, we think as its a participatory documentary where Martin interacts with the subjects helps make this more interesting and how he has an unbias view on the subject. The documentary is on Vice as well which has a younger target audience so you can clearly tell that the problems this documentary highlights will interest the younger age demographic.

In the interviewing we discovered some interesting teqniques and editing styles that clearly managed to capture the emotion and meaning of the subject who is  getting interviewed. Another notable thing about this production was that Martin was unbias to his approach when interviewing and he was acceptant to different perspectives and view points .