Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.