It’s very difficult for a documentary to stink.
You do your research, you get your footage, you have someone recite the lines, you film it, you stop.
So after seeing legions of terrible movies, the simple competence almost inherent to the documentary form was a welcome relief.
But simple competence isn’t enough…there have to be flashes of insight, moments of inspiration, true revelations that are moving in at least some way.
If not, you might as well just research the subject online.
Therefore, I’m going through my documentary grades and editing them with this in mind.
-Puppy >.< Yip!