Research: Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith is a director/ writer/ actor and much more, over the pass year or so his work has inflence me in many different ways with me views on directing and how to direct, to how I view films. So far in his career he has directed 16 films to date and many of them have infleuenced my work. There was a short documentary he and Scott Mosier made in 1992 that i have seen called Mae day: the crumbling of a documentary, which sort of gave me a boost and the confidence to aim as high as I can with this mockumentary in a way. He was in the same position as i am in making a film or documentary for your final, him and Scott came up with the idea. After a student documentary project on a transsexual entertainer falls apart, the two director/producer have to come up with another documentary. this is what they came up with.(imdb) http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/maeday/maeday.mov
 There original idea was to film a transsexual man turning into a woman and showing a day in the life of her. What they had come up with instead was a kind of making of documentary where they interviewed the crew who were just blaming the producer and director and there teachers who were also blaming the director and producer for the failed documentary. This as a piece still worked because you could see all the cracks with the crew from different prospectives but you got a feel for the whole story still, even if it wasnt the story they were going for. I like this because it shows you are not fully in controll of documentarys they either happen or they dont and one thing can cause it to fail. From viewing this it has given me idea to do something like this if are project fails, its like some kind of safety net in respects.