Inside Jaws

Jamie Benning is an amazing person. He has created an entire genre of filmmaking called Filmumentaries. He has a website up which can be found at filmumentaries.com and I highly recommend the readers of this website to check them all out as you will most likely fall in love with all of them.

The type of Documentaries he creates are unique. He takes the original movie, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars or Jaws and lays it down as the base track. He then scours the Earth and its Internet for any tiny piece of information, behind the scenes photo, interview, alternate music take, storyboard, concept picture or anything else he can find and fits it in with where it should go in the movie. So, you get to watch one of your favourite movies and learn all about the making of it as you do, it's an amazing experience.

I have watched his Star Wars ones a couple of times each (he has done one for each of the original trilogy) and they simply amaze me. The time he must spend gathering this info and putting it into one of his projects is months and months and months. He does it for the love of the films he has, totally unofficially and does not get paid for it.

I sincerely hope he does get paid to do this professionally one day and hopefully a studio or Mr Spielberg himself picks up on just how amazing his efforts are. Currently Inside Jaws has been released for 5 days and has been watched 53.5 thousand times! Thats 10,000 times a day. What an achievement.

I recommend checking it out below, or going to his website or Vimeo page to download it. Its over 2 hours long so its a commitment, but one definitely worth taking.

Inside Jaws, A Filmumentary by @jamieswb (2013) from Jamie Benning on Vimeo.

SCORE: 9/10