Cheap Fast & Out Of Control

Cheap Fast & Out Of Control is a documentary film by Errol Morris. The Documentary focuses on four eccentric men that have unusual careers. There's a bald mole rat expert, a lion trainer, a topiary sculptor and a scientist that specialises in robots. Again like with ATP, the film is cut with a lot of old archive footage. What i find really interesting about this film is the way the things these people are saying are given new meaning when different footage is cut over the interviews. As the film progresses you start to see a correlation between these four peoples work. There are two other elements that make this film work in the way it does and they are the soundtrack which is out of control sounding but catches you of guard with moments that are haunting and it really ties in with some of the ideas that are being talked about, and, the way the interviews are shot, the subject is always looking directly into the camera which gives you the feeling you are being spoken to by the subject. I think this is a really effective way to shoot an interview as it gives the viewer the chance to really analyse a character as thought they were having a conversation with them. I think i would try this technique if i were to shoot an interview.