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Documentary Review

Alexa Chung Uncovers Fashion Industry Secrets | Full Series One | Future of Fashion | British Vogue​

I watched the documentary “Future Fashion”, this documentary was associated with vogue and created by Alexa Chung. I watched the first part of the series, the series is divided into 6 episodes, and each episode is about 10 minutes long. In the first episode of this 6-part series, Alexa chats about her own path into the fashion world, before taking cash with the British Fashion Council, and art school and internships with Christopher Kane. The second episode showed us that she visits central St. Martins, Where she meets students at the beginning of their fashion careers. In support of Gigi Hadid's recent body-positive Instagram message, in the third episode of Future Fashion with Alexa Chung touches on two very important and timely themes in fashion: body image and diversity. In the fourth episode, the questions like “What does a buyer actually do!” was answered. In episode five, Alexa Chung visits three very different industry insiders in the form of Frédéric Tcheng, Simon Porte Jacquemus, and Clare Waight Keller to find out the answers to the questions such as: Is fashion art? Should it be taken more seriously? In the last episode, Ms. Chung Gives an insight into her own role within fashion as she introduces her agent.

I really liked the ways that they divided this documentary up into different episodes. it is easier to watch a 10 min long video rather than an hour-long documentary, it makes the video seem more interesting. For me, it just makes the whole thing less painful, because I hate documentaries. also, by separating the documentary into different episode also makes a clear-cut of what each episode is about, and it makes the documentray more organized with an individual theme for every episode. I noticed a lot of B roll transactions that I wouldn't notice before. for the B roll that they used it was mostly videos, which made the film looked more professional and the cuts would look smoother. The lighting was really comfortable in this film. There was a lot of natural light, the places that they picked for the interview was great, I noticed the hair light and the face light that they used but it seemed really smooth and it actually blends into the environment. the intro to every episode is all different but similar at the same time. it all begins with a shot of Chung, the camera follows her while she was walking or doing something, it almost seemed like a vlog, and she has her voice over it. all the interviews were filmed with two different camera angles, one close to the face, and one from the side or behind. and not like the other interviews Chung wasn't cut out of it when she was interviewing with someone, It seemed like a conversation happening between them, its really natural and everything/ Overall, from a filmmaking perspective they did a great job.

I would actually recommend this documentray to other people, well like other people whos also into the stuff that was constantly talked about in this video-fashion. It is really easy and fun to watch since each episode is only 10 minutes long, you can pull it out anytime during lunch or bathroom break. I saw there was a series part two as while, I was thinking that if I have time I might start watching the second part of the series.

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