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Filming a Documentary - Need Ideas

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Trollolo
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Recently I've been really interested in documentaries, and I just made a 2012 Bucket list and filiming one is on it haha. Basically I'm looking for any general ideas, stuff you guys would be into, low budget. I liked carts of darkness, thought the concept was cool and just...random. Cocain Coybows was sick too, but I don't really feel like being shot hahac. 

I'm from a Canadian town of about 80 000 people, almost exclusively white. Its about an hour from t.o. There are parts with some money, but the downtown is shit. I'm thinking about making one about a few people who panhandle around here and their lives. I'm looking at some other ideas too but I'm really just intersted in getting some random ass ideas. There is no wrong answer.

Don't think about, just spit out the first ideas that come to your head. Best way to brainstorm by far. Thanks for any help haha. It will be going down this summer.

Nov 24 2010 12:26AM
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t_rob
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i would be extremely particular with who you take advice from on this because in the end you should be making the film that you want to make and having yourself on board with this is the best way. The best films show the passion of the filmaker and if you want that to be there, don't let others influence what you want to make.
Nov 24 2010 12:33AM
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Trollolo
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hmmm good point.
Nov 24 2010 12:35AM
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p-fo
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rape someone and film it and your journey through court and prison

















or, dont take advice that is mostly shitty from nsg and come up with something yourself. like the idea you mentioned
Nov 24 2010 12:42AM
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neutralzombie
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i once made a short mocumentary on the life of a box who overcame adversity, struggle and a narrow escape from near death. it was really a satire played on homeless people i guess, how we easily forget them, and ignore them, and throw them out like trash. contraversial i suppose.

but i don't know. pick something you're relatively familiar with i would say. or for one course we had to propose a documentary and i suggested a look into record collecting in the 21st century...which i guess sounds weird, but my ex as a dj, and so him and his friends had unbelievable amounts of near mint condition, still used, records they'd bring everywhere to dj and how it rivaled in quality, or lack there of, from ipod djing.
Nov 24 2010 12:47AM
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JIBpsy^^
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Make a documentary about why saga, FD, LDC outerwear costs an arm, a leg, your left nut, and a cohiba of your finest cubans.
Nov 24 2010 1:00AM
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neutralzombie
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cost of materials, labor, price per seam, distribution, transport, duties, payment of employees, building bills, profit to continue making and expanding collections and company and an extra sum in the owners pocket. seems obvious to me.
Nov 24 2010 1:12AM
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Trollolo
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Anything else?
Nov 25 2010 12:55AM
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r0dubs
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i did one called "finding emo" for my video editing class



it got me an A, no big
Nov 25 2010 12:57AM
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Trollolo
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lmao that would be jokes. I swear I don't even see emo kids anymore. Real glad that fad wore off. Maybe its just cause I'm out of hs tho
Nov 25 2010 1:17AM
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