Matt Plaxco produces a gorgeous behind the scenes of Alex Lim
Bringing a narrative thread to any sort of documentary project is always a challenge. Especially since the story takes shape in the editing room and not before the shoot like a scripted piece. Behind the scenes (BTS) videos are no different than shooting a mini documentary and should be approached that way. Yet so many of them are not. They end up looking like a wanna be music video with a bunch of vignettes mashed together. Effective occasionally, but not as a norm.
Matt Plaxco was kind enough to share his behind the scenes video of photographer Alex Lim. It’s a fabulous example of keeping the viewer engaged. The location is just a hop skip and jump north of my Sausalito office and is my old shooting grounds from when I got started in this business twenty five million years ago.
Big muchas gracias to Matt for reaching out to us here at PCN.
Photographer Profile: Alex Lim from PlaxPhoto on Vimeo.
