At the Toronto International Film Festival's 2014 Doc Conference, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore gives a 13-point Manifesto for Documentary Filmmaking. These tips for Doc Filmmakers range from "Don't Tell Me Stuff I Already Know" to "Make Your Films Personal". The article also goes through how cell phone cameras is one of the worst/ best thing that ever happened and that everyone isn't a filmmaker. Moore also gives some examples of good documentaries, one of them being "Shameless Propaganda". One more great point that Michael Moore makes is to trust your emotions and use those to know how your audience might feel. Michael Moore is excited to see what is to come in the future for documentaries but also taking a moment to blame funders and distributors and also themselves for bad documentaries.
Oh my god please spare me of reading something like this again! I have to say this has to be the most boring thing that I have read in a long time. This article was terrible not just because it was boring because it was stuff I already knew. I honestly didn't know that captain obvious wrote articles! I mean seriously "Don't Tell Me Stuff I Already Know"? "Make Your Films Personal"? How much more obvious can you get? Everyone who is in the film business should already know this stuff! Which makes me not blame Michael Moore for these boring facts, I blame some of the directors today. Lets face it some of the movies people make these days are terrible. For example, Transformers 4 or as I like to call it, garbage robot fight simulator 2014. That being said Michael Moore probably thought that he had to remind the people the basics on making a movie, so I thank him for that I guess. But anyways back to the task at hand, I believe that Documentaries are one of the things that are killing the film industry, but also helping it. Now don't get me wrong I love me a good documentary, trust me I have watched plenty of them, but the problem of the fact is that people aren't following these tips. By doing this the director of the project is just digging a grave for themselves, which is something I have been seeing too much of lately and am personally sick of. On the other hand documentaries are also a great source of education, learning, and are also sometimes interesting. I don't know, take it as you will but the fact of the matter is that this is a boring but also needed article, plain and simple nothing more and nothing less.
Well now that that's over I will now watch some paint dry! Surely more entertaining then this. Just an FYI I was actually considering naming this Boring Time. Hopefully I will never have to read something like this in the future. And on that note I will see all you beautiful faces later! Peace!
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