Listen Up Y'all, 'Cause This is It

Documentaries are some of the most fascinating examples of media to me. I think what I respect so much about them is that the possibilities are endless. Filmmakers who produce documentaries find some of the most obscure topics and delve into them, exploring them and pulling them apart for your average person like me. A lot of people write them off as something boring or unexciting, but that's an unfair judgement. I've learned more from documentaries than I have from a lot of textbooks, and I've enjoyed it too. Not all documentaries are "educational" either; they can be feel-good. 

After writing, shooting, and editing a short seven-minute interview/documentary last year I walked away with a new outlook...it's hard, man. Depending on the type of documentary it is, editing all the footage, choosing your clips, and finding the right spots for each one is OVERWHELMING. Every second and placement is a well thought out decision. Arrangement is everything to a documentary, and it can also be very up in the air, unlike a Blockbuster movie that is all linear and mapped out from the get-go. Documentaries take a tremendous amount of creativity on the part of everyone involved, and I think they are very under appreciated by especially our generation. 

Go watch a documentary.

Chuck Bass declares this law