Ever since man invented the camera, there has been an interesting circle of influence. Life exists as is, then something starts to change, the camera documents that change, making it accessible to more and more people until that becomes the new lifestyle till the next thing happens, and so on. Fuel to each other, documentary films help us, quite literally, document the things happening around us. The kind of life from the clothes we wear, food we eat, languages we use, vehicles we drive, work we do, how we socialize, and so on…Everything gets captured. Although we don’t feel like on a daily basis things around us are changing, when we look back at these films, we realize how far we’ve come.
Another interesting use of documentary films is that it gives us a chance to express our personal view or take on things in different forms. Despite the fact that the camera captures the entire truth of things, it is also true that that truth is distorted by perspective. Where the cameraperson is standing, what angle the shot is being taken in, what parts have been eliminated from the shot, how long that one shot is taken, and so on, are all decisions that person has taken in the moment. Creative juxtaposition of ideas, the use of various editing techniques, voice overs, and more, can all lead to extremely interesting formats of documentary films, and that is something that excites us to work on projects like these.