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| Alumnus |
I've never done a documentary so I'm hoping you guys can give me some tips. My friends dad got contract work down in the grand canyon to help out the Indians and he invited me to tag along. I want to document it because I hear its really pretty down there and they showed me some gorgeous pictures. Plus, I'm gonna get some culture immersion. (There modern Indians, but there's still a huge difference). So any tips would be great, thanks. ________________________________ "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write the things worth reading or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin | ||
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| Sophomore |
Film anything and everyhting you see that looks even remotely interesting. Even if it's a piece of poop rotting away if it looks interesting film it. The biggest problem you can have with a Doc is not having enough footage. Andy Learn | |||
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| Junior |
This is arguably true...however, a good, creative filmmaker knows how to work around this in the editing. Any idiot can just film everything and slap it together, after all...student documentaries are opportunities to show your filmmaking skill in ways that things such as amateur scripts and bad acting can hinder. In a classic sense of the term, you are technically obligated to present a past experience with a documentary, this is true...but, remember, this is your skill, this is your ambition, and this is your film. Go nuts!  | |||
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| Freshman |
documents has also screenplay | |||
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