I was looking forward to this but had to turn it off after 20 minutes. The gratuitous use of sappy music, shaky camera work and quick, clumsy edits took away the essence of the documentary.
Hey directors and producers, having music all the way through a movie - especially docs - only makes you look inept when having to cover up uninspired work with music and camera effects.
I did the same thing you did, and for the same reasons.
shareYeah, they let style get in the way of substance. I thought the info they had was good and worth sharing and didn't need the sensory candy.
What was up with the echo on the audio of the "stock" footage? Watching old Bin Ladin propaganda footage wasn't enough? You had to add an echo?
Yes, I was wondering why the audio was altered like that. It was very distracting.
sharethe 'shaky camera' crap is really getting annoying in so many films these days ... i blame 'cloverfield' tho i blame that movie for lots of stuff lol ...
but it's supposed to make it look 'real' i suppose ... as if you are on foot and running/trotting after the principals in the movie so you feel as if 'you are there' ... frankly what it makes me feel like is a bit car sick (esp with movies on a big imax screen where you are almost surrounded by the picture ... it's gets to be a bit much) ... esp in a documentary like this, i find the shaky-pic very irritating since it is a documentary, a film that is something of an historical record or historical retelling of an important event ... so why do they need such a 'hip' style of flming? it sinply distracts from the facts being presented for my money ... when it's used in most feature films i think it's equally distracting ... there are places and times when it is very effective of course but much like 'sun flare' is another over-used and beaten-like-a-dead-horse effect that is used as much or more (if that's possible) that the shaky-cam effect these days ... it's very annoying when 5 out of 6 films you see is using it every chance they get ...
and again, in a documentary, for me it's even more annoying ... i don't mean to say documentaries are supposed to be stodgy, old-fashioned, and visually boring (like so many of us saw in school in the 60s and 70s) but there's a limit to when the information being passed along gets smothered by the 'fancy ideas' of the film producers ...
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In addition, to those problems, the cuts were quick, sometimes not leaving enough time for viewers to take in and process the information before new information is presented. Also, it was a bad decision for the documentarians to post information on screen while people are talking. It's pretty much impossible to read information and listen to someone talking at the same time.
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