The majority of scenes are painfully stagey, the performances are unnatural and the narrative is too rigorously, “perfectly” structured to come anywhere near mirroring how life actually unfolds. The film takes pains trying to convince viewers that what they are seeing is genuine by having characters maneuver the camera in an overly awkward manner, but the director’s influence is unmistakably visible. The problem lies in the inability to realistically capture the environment and events of the central child’s life. However, the commendable material stops there, for outside of the film’s conceptual innovation, Gang Tapes is a tedious and ineffective piece of work. Additionally, there are some decent inclusions involving the kid setting the camera up in his room as he flexes and acts “gangster” for an imaginary audience. thug life, scenes occasionally begin and end messily, as actual recordings would. Largely shot by a 14 year old boy who is quickly being drawn into the South Central L.A. To address the positives, the film does a good job of maintaining the continuity of what is intended to be seen as home video footage. In fact, it misses the mark by a wide margin. Of course, I say “in theory,” because Gang Tapes doesn’t exactly reach the potential of that setup. Rather than enhancing the visceral nature of fear and paranormal happenings for the purpose of nail-biting horror, the concept, in theory, is meant to heighten the gritty realism of poverty-stricken, crime-riddled communities, ultimately confronting the audience with tough truths. My question for you is this.Released just two years after The Blair Witch Project popularized the found footage genre, Gang Tapes was – to my knowledge – the first film to use the approach to chronicle the day-to-day life of black urban youth. However the director has stated multiple times that some scenes within Snow on tha Bluff are real where others are staged. No, I don't believe the black and white scenes in the Blair Witch Projects are real. And some people are like, “This scene is real,” and that one we actually did multiple takes of.
It’s funny because people sometimes are like, “Oh, I know you set up this scene…” and actually it just happened. And then some things we would kind of-Curt and I would conspire and not tell anyone else and make things happen, you know what I’m saying? But Curtis was very…when we first worked together he was like, “Okay, we will never do more than one take and if anybody doesn’t get it…. Or stuff that I would just use a little bit that they had shot before it was going on.
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