MERREL DAVIS » documentary http://www.merreldavis.com/blog A chronicle of a man and his quest to be creative. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:16:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fake Criterions http://www.merreldavis.com/blog/2012/02/02/fake-criterions/ http://www.merreldavis.com/blog/2012/02/02/fake-criterions/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:37:17 +0000 Merrel Davis http://www.merreldavis.com/blog/?p=1897

I’ve always greatly enjoyed the stark artistry that Criterion collection covers offer. I could go on about positive and negative space, typography and all that jazz, but frankly they just look cool.

Here are some real Criterion covers.

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Now, with that in mind, check out Fake Criterions. Somehow I missed the train on this one, but lucky for me I jumped on the last car. Here are some of my favorites.

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Robocop 2
 

Annie Hall
 

Pineapple Express

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

Yeah, chew on that!

 

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Last year, I spent a good portion of my time doing production work on CIA Confidential for National Geographic. I’ve since moved onto other documentary work for television and film in addition to my screenwriting and development duties elsewhere.

Doc work experience was a great for me. In fact, every screenwriter should work on at least one documentary. Documentary film structure and other requirements for non-fiction are integral to building accurate, succinct, compelling and entertaining stories. And my screenwriting is better for it.

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Since February, I’ve been working various production duties for an Emmy and Peabody award winning documentary production company. I came in just as pre-production had ended and it was full steam ahead on the production of “CIA Confidential.”

This week marks the culmination of the hard work of everyone involved. I’m happy to announce that this Sunday June 21 CIA Confidential: Hunt for Bin Laden and CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover will air on the National Geographic Channel.

I encourage everyone to catch it and check out some clips from the show

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