| Description |
1 streaming video file (83 min.) : sound, colour |
| Summary |
"Drama-documentary Blackout explores the effects of a devastating cyber-attack on Britain s national electricity grid. Based on meticulous research and real government contingency plans, Blackout combines real and fake user-generated footage, CCTV archive and news reports to build a terrifyingly realistic account of Britain being plunged into darkness. The documentary plots the first seven days immediately following a catastrophic nationwide power cut, as experienced by a cast of ordinary characters struggling to feed and protect themselves and their families. These dramatic eyewitness accounts reveal the disastrous impact of a prolonged blackout on hospitals, law and order, transport, and our food and water supply. Blackout brings the What-If genre up to date by giving it a found-footage twist. Fictional scenes with professional and non-professional actors are filmed on mobile phones, laptops and camcorders, and seamlessly interweaved with real found-footage recorded during actual power cuts and other emergencies. In a television first, the programme casts members of the public from user-generated footage, weaving real-life archive with scripted drama to tell the story of how Britain descended into anarchy"-QUT Media Warehouse |
| Notes |
Off-air recording |
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Originally broadcast on SBS1 on 16/02/2014 |
| Credits |
Written by Ben Chanan, Joe Barton ; Producer: Julia Nottingham ; Directed by Ben Chanan |
| Subject |
Electric power failures -- Great Britain -- Drama
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Electric power failures.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Chanan, Ben, author, film director
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Barton, Joe, author
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Nottingham, Julia, film producer
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