Open City Docs Fest - Home. Sheffield Doc/Fest: HOME. 4docs. Planning a Documentary Film: Tips & Tricks on How to Plan for a Documentary Film. How to Make a Documentary - Part 1. Few other communication forms have the power to reveal a unique perspective, capture imagination and even motivate change.
In this three-part series on how to make a documentary, you'll discover how you can move your story from dream to distribution. Walk onto the working set of any television production studio and almost every person on the crew has a documentary they are just posting, getting ready to shoot, or trying to fund. Why? Because everyone from the Director of Photography to the Key Grip has a story to tell, they feel compelled to share their stories with a larger audience. .: Planning a documentary, part 1. This weekend I thought it would be best to discuss planning a documentary shoot.
We shot part 2 of "Stronger" about a month ago now and I'm logging and transcribing nearly 400GB of footage. It's a daunting task, but I'll discuss the value of that in the next blog post. First, here's my personal checklist for just about any documentary shoot. A shot list. Documentary Making 101. Planning an Unscripted Documentary. By Tony Levelle How do you make a documentary when you have no script?
I was faced with this problem when I shot my first unscripted documentary for a class in documentary filmmaking.