Yeah, So How About a Documentary?

Gotta love the docs (that’s what film makers call documentaries because we are too lazy to pronounce the other five syllables). There are a few things that you need in your doc to make it worth watching

First is interviews. You always need someone to interview. Hearing what your interviewee has to say can give the audience a good idea of what your doc is about. They may be able to contribute important facts, tell a story or simply add some humor to your piece. What you need to figure when interviewing someone is whether or not your doing an opinion based interview or a factual interview. Example of a factual interview: I saw him murder her. Example of opinion: He did a great job killing her…Uhm, what? When your subject says something like that you may want to leave the room. Like immediately.

Another thing your gonna want to use for a doc is some picture. “A picture can say a thousand words”, totally true. You’d be surprised how interested your audience gets when they see an interesting picture hit the screen. So always have pictures.

Third thing, before any of this stuff do RESEARCH! Research is key, your evidence needs to be spot on. If you get your facts wrong people will know and you will look like an absolute moron in front of all your peers. Check your facts over and over again, I can stress this enough!

In this article I learned that there are two different kinds of interviews: opinion and fact based. Here’s a link to the article

http://www.videomaker.com/article/14239/

 

 

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