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| We create, write, produce and shoot documentaries, a sample of which is attached here. My approach is not only to get the story across but to involve the audience emotionally without staging anything. That is, I use the normal "mistakes" and outtakes as we overshoot and cover all we can to illustrate the hearts of principles and use film techniques here and there to cheat the expectation. In fact, I find humor in even the most awful circumstances and have never understood the overly serious, artsy attitude about creating solemn, one-sided portrayals. The work ends up being more lively and genuine and different each time in order to capture events with some veracity rather than allowing the doc to drone on. The usual unemotional template, utilizing an interview/B-Roll/interview rhythm, is like straight reporting when in actuality one is reporting a story over time, not a breaking news event. I don't believe in re-enactments for news, or in slanting information by leaving out information or making the reporter the Geraldo-like star our only, prejudicial interpreter. But I also don't buy the flat slotting of equally weighted frames and pictures in sequence that comunicate a dry disregard for the elements that make lives human. So I make sure we all try to tease out the ironies and humor and hope from the ravages of sometimes bleak and unnoticable events to connect the viewer's life and experiences. A few of the responses: "Oh my God, you got it exactly right." "This is so respectful and shows what it's like..." "Man, what you did..." "This tells the story so accurately. Thank you!" We invite you to please take a look... ELDERLY in DETROIT DETROIT EAST, INC. |
