Documentary

Documentary

1. What is a documentary?

   • It is a movie genre, consisting in "documanting" and capturing reality as it really is.
   • It must not contain any type of fiction, because its objetcive is to represent reality., not invent it.

2. How to make a documentary?

   • It is necessary to have a camera, because we are going to film reality
   • We have to be excited about the project; We can not excite others about our topic if we are not interested on it.
   • Wen need to get the people's attention through audio visual interesting facts
   • It is usual to pick a peculiar topic. This will help us get the viewers attention.

3. Rules to make a documentary film

   • We have to be careful with copyright issues.
   • We can't film logos or songs without the author's permission,
   • We can't film people's faces and then publish them online (without their permission)
   • Camera's are not allowed everywhere, such as in museums and movie theaters.

4. Steps to make a documentary

   • Tell a story you care about
   • Do research
   • Learn as much of the subject as possible
   • Create an outline
   • Start shooting
   • Edit and share