Documentaries

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Documentaries
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How do you define a documentary?

• - creative treatment of actuality

- factual film
- a film with a job to do
- a story about a story
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How is the story told in a documentary?

• - Heavy subject research

- Pictures and original film
- Interviews
- quotes, news stories, or diaries
- music
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Pre-treatment question

• What is the purpose of this film and for what
  audience is it intended?

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How do you write the script?
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How do you structure the story?

• Documentaries are a slice of life life flows as
  a continuous stream

Beginnings are full of anticipation they capture
the interest at the outset and give promise of
interest to follow.
Endings should give an air of finality and
completeness and sometimes give anticipation for
the future
Beginnings and endings dont happen naturally
they have to be contrived.