3 Minute Wonders

    To get a good understanding of 3 minute wonders for my very own 3 minute wonder I decided to look at some others that I found, here are some of my favourites and I will be looking at how they work and in what ways, what makes them powerful and how do the achieve this effect?





     The first one here is Karl Pilkington from the Sky 1 series An Idiot Abroad and in this 3 minute wonder he does live up to the name of being an idiot. It's simply him picking holes in modern day society and saying about why do we need to be fit or why do we need to worry so much and simply it is just him thinking about things to much. Although there is some sense among the madness that he says it doesn't seem like he thought it through that much. Admittedly though this is where I got the idea for my 3 minute wonder because a lot of the stuff he says I strongly agree with. I see this as being a bit of a rant at modern day society and how crazy and obsessed we have all become of the stupidest of things and I feel like some of it has gone a bit too far and this is why I based my 3 minute wonder idea of this one, because among the madness you can find some sense there.





     This particular 3 minute wonder is one of my favourites just because of how powerful it is. This man was been sentenced to death for killing four women when he was carrying out orders for his former gang. Now in this 3 minute wonder he also talks about the last supper and how you can eat anything you want to before being killed and how the death sentence as a whole doesn't really work out that well. He mentions about if he dies it's his family that suffers for it and there the ones that are left behind but they don't deserve that because they have done anything wrong, he is in some way mocking the system and it's ways of doing things. I find this one so powerful because of the subjects he talks about and the minimal amount of shots used throughout the 3 minute wonder, when he talks about his family and what will happen he seems to genuinely understand the consequences of his actions but says about how they effect his family more than him and it does get you thinking about what he is saying. It would be nice if we could try to achieve this same sense of power and get the audience watching to think about what is being said in my groups documentary however I feel we wouldn't be able to achieve anything as strong as this because of the topic being discussed but I do think we will be able to get the audience think about what is being said in some depth and this will be a good thing to achieve in our very own 3 minute wonder.