My colleague, Donald Winslow brought this documentary trailer to my attention:
BURN Trailer from Tremolo Productions on Vimeo.
The production team, Jeff Malmberg Morgan Nevile, Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez have a strong background punctuated with cultural and music documentaries.
According to Putnam on the documentary’s Facebook profile, PBS funded the production of the trailer. The team, rather than wait for another angel to fund the year long project, has turned to viewers and fans to fund completion, using the non profit 501(c)3 website documentary.org.
While the images are striking, it is compelling storytelling as multiple narrators are woven together through careful interviewing skills and precise editing so the multiple voices blend to tell the story. Detroit is burning and has been in an amazing decline for 30+ years.
Savvy shooters and producers may recognize some of the tools used to capture the images, in the comments about the trailer, the team shares they put the trailer together in five days, and spend only two-24 hour shits with the fire company….the cinemative camera moves and artful imagine making, clearly small, light, and agile gear opens new horizons in visual storytelling.
