How to Fail at Documentary Filmmaking

by Vickie Morgan

Overview

If you're a fan of Alan Doyle, you'll love and appreciate most of the stories in this book as it serves as the backdrop for a tv series that was never meant to be. Vickie Morgan had been making films and public access tv shows for years when a broadcaster trying to spend their sports budget waltzes into St. John's, Newfoundland during the pandemic (properly masked over Zoom calls of course) and offers Vickie the gig of a lifetime. How to Fail at Documentary Filmmaking is a hilarious and poignant story that will give you the courage and compassion necessary to understand the problem probably isn't you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989109052
Publisher:	MPower
Publication date:	09/25/2023
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Vickie Morgan is a bestselling author, comedian, producer and musician. She and her husband Josh Morgan created the hybrid How to Fail series with companion colouring pages and the Bare Bones series. Topics include: self publishing paperbacks, self publishing eBooks, marketing your self published books, self publishing audiobooks and podcasting.

Vickie and Josh are the founders of Self Published NL. They live in Newfoundland Canada and host the popular podcast Are You Mad At Me? available on all streaming platforms as well as YouTube. Together they help aspiring and seasoned authors through the self publishing process.

From "How To Be A Famous Sexy Writer"

This book could easily be called “How to try new things and love yourself through the learning process and be gentle and encouraging with yourself” but that wouldn’t fit on the cover. It’s about recognizing that nobody starts off knowing how to do a new thing well and it’s a waste of your time to beat yourself up. Falling down brings on a full body cringe but eventually a little light cuts through the noise and gives you permission to try again. Learning is hard work and frequent breaks, constant encouragement and celebrating the victories is an easier way to do it. It’s not a race. It can be fun and joyful. It can even be funny when you realize mistakes are normal and the very best teachers.

I’ve been publishing my writing for a long time and I’m not on some pedestal of success preaching down to the masses. I’m teaching from the trenches. I tell you every single thing I did to put it in your hands in these pages. If this stuff works for you I’d love to hear about it. In the meantime I’ll keep writing and you keep writing and I'll see you out there learning how to fail.