This week’s lectorial we were given little segments of scenes from the rock documentary “Mistaken for Strangers”. Personally, I am a big fan of the whole rock genre (which guy isn’t?), and I have always enjoyed watching documentary of music in general, not just about rock. Amy, Montage of Heck, It Might Get Loud and more are some of the all time favourites. But this rock-cumentary that I’m about to mention would be by far the most influential and inspiring, in my opinion, and that is Foo Fighter’s Back and Forth.

I’ve probably mentioned this before in my earlier posts (or not), but I am a huge Foo Fighters fan, like massively huge. And Dave Grohl (Frontman and lead singer of the Foo Fighters) is just a name that never fails to impress and just keep extending the yard stick by miles and miles. But all things considered, he’s still one of the most humble musicians in the world and probably as casual and layman as you can ever get which makes you wonder how has he made it this far and still carries such a laid back persona of not being arrogant, not living the material world, and inspiring kids to pick up the guitar and start a rock band some day.

If anyone was a rock fan or who listens to the Foo Fighters, I would highly recommend this film. It brings fans, old and new, up to speed from the death of Kurt Cobain and the disband of Nirvana, to their latest album (at the time this film was released), Wasting Light, on all the different lineups, episodes, politics and how they recorded Wasting Light right from Dave’s garage in stead of their very own state of the art studio out in the dessert, studio 606, and how Dave insisted on recording everything on tape.

On a side note, I decided to take on this film’s “interview” style for Project Brief 3, where there is only the subject talking without the aid of having a narrator. Having it more of a storytelling session rather than a 1 to 1 interview session as how I did it on the actual day of the shoot.