I want to throw it out here & try to gather some feedbacks on a potential documentary I may make one day soon.
I always loved film making but have not tried it in any way myself, I studied acting & participated in a couple of students project & that’s as deep as I waded, although my father is a well-known documentary maker & presenter/TV host (& I learned nothing so far Lol).
Anyhow, I have been having this creative juice running in my head, & thought why not make a documentary about it. The topic is “the curious subculture/niche culture of vintage leather jacket”. The angle will be running a parallel storyline between simply describing the industry to leather jacket manufacturing (which I’ll systematically interview the makers), and featuring personal stories of some of the consumers (meaning any of us, if I can have your permission).
As all of us know, we are not a normal bunch! We have all pondered “who needs so many jackets?” “Why do we buy them/sell them?” “How did we get into it?”, “is it a mid life crisis? Addiction? Some romantic escapism? Fetish? Or something intrinsic about the product itself that’s just plainly fascinating?”
Of course, I will leave it as a documentary & keep the storyline open ended, & leave it to the audience to judge.
The obvious investor’s question would be: who cares? Who is going to watch this topic? What’s the social significance?
Granted, if I have a lot of money, I can make all kinds of docu about subcultures, & maybe make them short for YouTube distribution instead of Netflix, but Netflix seems to be sponsoring a lot of weird subjects these days.
So, any thoughts are welcome.
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I always loved film making but have not tried it in any way myself, I studied acting & participated in a couple of students project & that’s as deep as I waded, although my father is a well-known documentary maker & presenter/TV host (& I learned nothing so far Lol).
Anyhow, I have been having this creative juice running in my head, & thought why not make a documentary about it. The topic is “the curious subculture/niche culture of vintage leather jacket”. The angle will be running a parallel storyline between simply describing the industry to leather jacket manufacturing (which I’ll systematically interview the makers), and featuring personal stories of some of the consumers (meaning any of us, if I can have your permission).
As all of us know, we are not a normal bunch! We have all pondered “who needs so many jackets?” “Why do we buy them/sell them?” “How did we get into it?”, “is it a mid life crisis? Addiction? Some romantic escapism? Fetish? Or something intrinsic about the product itself that’s just plainly fascinating?”
Of course, I will leave it as a documentary & keep the storyline open ended, & leave it to the audience to judge.
The obvious investor’s question would be: who cares? Who is going to watch this topic? What’s the social significance?
Granted, if I have a lot of money, I can make all kinds of docu about subcultures, & maybe make them short for YouTube distribution instead of Netflix, but Netflix seems to be sponsoring a lot of weird subjects these days.
So, any thoughts are welcome.
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