Thanks so much - will check out the Atkins Willette book. I've found Directing Documentary by Michael Rabiger very helpful also.
Samirah On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:37 PM Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have worked on documentaries that were carefully storyboarded shot by > shot > beforehand. I have also worked on some where the camera crew was told to > "go out and get shots of that event" and the script was put together after > the fact, looking at the footage that came in. > > Good docco cameramen think of the story as they are shooting and they stop > and try and gather bits and pieces of scenes that fit together. This makes > it easier when they come back to figure out how to make them work, because > they were shot to work that way. > > I have seen storyboards, film-style scripts, and two-column scripts, and > all have some place somewhere. > > The best book I know of on docco production is "Filming TV News and > Documentaries" by Atkins and Willette. It is somewhat dated even by 16mm > production standards, and it's not exclusively about screenwriting, but > the nature of documentary production is that all of the different jobs are > mashed together and the lines between them are blurred. > --scott > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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