And I say that as a patron of movies. It was bad. I love documentaries, but some people are just getting lazy. It takes more than a hand-held and following people around, to make a documentary.
First of all (among a cluster of what was bad)...
No audio filter. No mics. No audio editing. I couldn't hear over 50% of what was being said, which is probably a good thing since no one said anything interesting (of what I did hear) except the last guy at the very end, who expressed honest human feelings for his co-stars. --Which I probably wouldn't have heard clearly had he not been in a small room by himself when he spoke.
What "documentary" did I watch?
I'm not even going to say, other than...
It was filmed in a San Francisco, warehouse.
Horrible.
As a movie-goer, there needs to be questions asked, hard/interesting questions, different perspectives, subject/s matter, a continued storyline...
First year art class, my instructor told us our goal as artists is to find our center, a subject that will capture people' attention, a subject we care about, and from that point on, keeping their eyes, the eyes of all who want to see, on the canvas, the entire canvas. People watch because they're seeking something. Give it to them. Pull them in emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually, by telling a story, a story they want to hear, or wish to relive.
No matter who he paints, the painter always paints himself.
But more than that, it takes interesting people to make interesting documentaries.
Too many people are just grabbing cameras and randomly shooting a week's worth of footage hoping for something decent.
No good.
Where's your story??
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