Documentary Treatment
Please answer the following questions in
complete sentences. Email your responses to me.
1. What is your documentary subject?
2. Why did you choose this subject? Why would this be interesting for us to watch(two-three sentences)
3. What do you think your audience can learn from your documentary? Why will it be entertaning (one-two sentences)
4. What type of B-Roll will your video need (four to six examples)
5.
How will you make sure you can cover all sides of this subject? Who
will you interview and where will you interview them? (two-three
sentences)
6. What kind of music will you use?
Homework over break:
Documentary Narration/Text/Organization
First, read this section on interview techniques
here.
Next,
open up your email account and start working on the assignment below.
When you are done, please email the assignment to me at
trent.mitchell@shorelineschools.org. Also, CC your parent or guardian
CC your parent or guardian so they can see what you are working on.
Intro
Write
three to four sentences describing topic in great detail . Give crucial
information and history as needed. Feel free to use documented
statistics.
For example, if you are doing a piece on gas prices then
find out how expensive gas has been over the last twenty years. Why the
change? What are the factors etc? Do cars get more or less miles per
gallon?
Next, list at least five specific examples of of B-Roll you will use. Provide dates, locations, and shot type of the footage.
Will you use any footage from sources other than your own camera? If so, what will they be?
Again,
if you are doing Gas prices you might want to show people filling up at
the gas station, a shot or two of gas price signs, people driving cars,
and money exchanging hands etc.
Body
Narrate
or use text to move from one interview to the next. If you do your
interviews well, the interviews will tell the story and your narration
will be minimal.
For today’s assignment, pretend you have three different examples and interviews for your topic.
What
will you cover in this section? What will the audience learn? Please
list the people who have interviewed or will interview and also list the
B-Roll that will play underneath those interviews.
Closing
What
did you conclude from your documentary (using both sides of course)?
You aren't trying to prove a point here as this is more of a recap of
what we saw in the body of your documentary.
What should the audience know that ties all the information together? What is next for your subject or subjects?
Your closing narration should be at least three to four sentences.
Finally, create a list of 20 questions you will ask five different people in your documentary.
