Being Elmo

I watched this documentary on being Elmo. It was so good. What I loved most about it was the storytelling of the guy who created elmo and his journey through life and how he made you feel a whole range of emotions. I really like how you feel sorry for him and sad lifes not going well but proud that he's working hard and then happy that he gets to the big time but then sad for his family because they miss him, they kind of killed it at this point with the emotional rollercoaster, but it's still a good film because it shows you the behind the scenes of the Muppets, and they have a room where they make muppets characters and it's more like the size of a warehouse and they have draws and draws full of eyes and teeth and fury bits.

Although it's not documentary animation I decided to include this into the research because I think it's a hugely important thing for a documentary to play on the audience's emotions. More so than any other way of visually telling a story, because it factual you can always hit the audience harder if you play on their emotions because you can be like oh it's so much intense because it's true life.

I also watched The Weinstein Project

Which was an unbelievable film, so so good. Again this is not because you love Harvey Weinstein, but because you genuinely hate him with a passion. But it just get's so emotive. Even though it's documentary the emotional card really is exaggerated in these films, I think a lot more than they are in animations. In animations it's often used to portray as a tool to make the facts seem less real, or easier to swallow. I think this is an interesting role reversal in the two visual storytelling methods. I think this means that maybe we shouldn't make ours so hard core.