7-Up

Seven up was released in 1964 and was directed by Michael Apted. It is a journey documentary because it follows a subject or in this case subjects and films them over time. This documentary is about a bunch of seven year old children who vary in gender, social class and even in race. Michael Apted films these children when they were seven years of age, then in another film when they were fourteen years of age, the next film they were twenty-one years of age and so on. This documentary uses narration and is mainly composed of interviews with the children and it uses observational filming. Along with being a journey documentary, it is also considered a social documentary because it deals with social class in society.

The documentary is basically just interviews with the children. They talk about school, what they do when they get home, what they want to do when they grow up, etcetera. The lower class children talk about nonsense and act more so their age. However, the children from the wealthy class talk about the future education they are going to receive, they talk about how they read the paper and know about the stock market, and one girl even talks about how when she has children she is going to have a nanny for them. It is very interesting to see how social class divides them all.