'We Live In Public' 8 Elements of Film

Character

• Businessman
• Drugs
• Opportunist
• Conflicting

Plot

• Rise of the Internet entrepreneurs in late 90's.
• Josh Harris' background as a smart but loner child. Became an internet entrepreneur starting up 'Pseudo' and was a big part of the NY party scene.
• His insane side - personal character/double persona as 'Luvy' the clown. He was unprofessional about it and lost his job.
• 'QUIET' Social experiment - very chaotic. Focus was surveillance and the loss of privacy. 
• 'QUIET' gets shut down. 
• Personal social experiment with girlfriend - constantly streamed their whole life. People in chatrooms made decisions for them. Idea of loss of privacy and being controlled.
• Girlfriend breaks up with Josh Harris. He begins to lose his mind and loses all his money in investing in bad ideas. 
• Leaves the entrepreneur world behind and moves to Africa to pursue farming and escape the law.

Conflict

• Josh Harris' experiments were causing emotional distress and were potentially illegal.

Resolution

• His experiments would get shut down or rejected and he moved to Africa to work on an apple farm.

Structure

• Chronological
• Editing is chaotic and fast paced so that it creates a sense of having no order.

Scenes

• Compilations/montage of scenes conveying the late 90's and y2k ideas of what the internet is for and what it's going to be - news, websites, peoples' thoughts.
• Chaotic - showing people doing things that are thought of as crude or things that should be kept private. 
• Close ups of people - eyes usually. Very personal and idea of surveillance.

Dialogue

• Professional in terms of when they were interviewing entrepreneurs and showing tv news. 
• Usually much more casual and using a lot of slang to represent the 'Pseudo' kids - the idea that the internet was changing language to be much more communicative. 
• Very personal as a lot of the documentary is showing clips from the social experiments where it's just everyday people's dialogues and vlogs. 
• WW2 / Power - Josh Harris would talk about the people in his experiment in a manner similar to Hitler. Directly compares how he wants the building in which the experiment is taking place to look like a "concentration camp".

Visuals

• Chaotic
• Disorderly
• Personal
• Surveillance - eyes and cameras.
• Green, blue, orange