how to shoot a documentary?

Answer 1

You take a piece card board, say about 3 feet in diameter. You use big letters and write, "DOCUMENTRY" on this and place it about 10 feet away. Then you take a gun and shoot the damn thing. And you shot yourself a DOCUMENTRY!

Voila!

Answer 2

G'day Lillian M,

Thanks for your question.

I am oversimplifying but these are the essential steps:

a) select a subject;

b) research the subject including what footage you will need for the film;

c) raise finance to ensure that your documentary is seen;

d) select a team of people to work with you on the film;

e) organise the footage including shooting film and getting footage from film libraries and archives;

f) edit the film.

You might want to read some books on the topic to get more information. Good books on the topic include:

* Ian Aitken (ed) Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, Routledge, 2005

# Erik Barnouw, Documentary. A History of the Non-Fiction Film, Oxford University Press 1993
#Julianne Burton (ed.), The social documentary in Latin America, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press 1990
# Bill Nichols, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Indiana University Press 1991
# Paul Rotha, Documentary diary; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York, Hill and Wang 1973
# Janet Walker and Diane Waldeman, Feminism and Documentary, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1999.
# Markus Nornes, Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima,University of Minnesota Press 2003
# Jim Leach (ed.), Candid eyes : essays on Canadian documentaries, University of Toronto Press, 2003

You can find a more extensive bibliography online here:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/documentarybib.html

I have attached some online sources for further reference.

Regards

Answer 3

But it on a stump or a store bought target stand and start blasting away at it.


Haha, I haven't slept for 35 hours and I'm laughing at my own stupid answer

Answer 4

Tie it up
Lean it against a wall
Put a blindfold on it
Ready
Aim
FIRE!!!

Answer 5

subject matter would be a good place to start..what interest you ? ....follow your insincts