Fair Use

Fair use can be used for educational and fun purposes. A couple examples of how I could use it in a film I would want to produce would be...to make a point and to encourage the audience to determine their own viewpoint. The first example, making a point, could be used to produce a representation that allows the audience to clearly see the point you are making. To further explain, by making a new point with previously copyrighted videos or images, fair use is being utilized in a manner that is legal. This allows a new message to be communicated and the video to be created. The second example, allowing the audience to form their own opinion, also plays out the requirements for fair use. By letting an audience watch and perceive a video while developing their own thoughts and opinions, the original material is essentially being used for new purposes; therefore communicating a new message, yet again.

Fair Use is extremely significant to documentary filmmakers since they are acting out the above mentioned examples. They are making a point with their video and allowing an audience to perceive the new information how they want and develop a different opinion and viewpoint. It allows for a sort of loophole to dig deeper and bring awareness to certain problems within our culture. Although there are many, two documentaries that come to mind are Food Inc. and Supersize Me. Both films go inside specific areas of business and bring awareness to certain problems while providing the public with valuable information we might have otherwise not known.

I found a couple different mashups on Youtube...

The first contains some inappropriate language but is pretty funny.

And the second is more an example of making a new point and allowing the audience to perceive the party in a different light.