Let me preface this post and let you know I am not a film student nor have I ever taken any classes (just dabbling for several years). I do have a few suggestions from experience.
- Find and watch as many cycling and B&B videos/documentaries as you can. Watch a few other documentaries that are highly regarded. This will serve as a "literature review" of sorts and help model your processes, methods, and techniques. See what you like and don't like. What did they do well, and what didn't work for them? See what you can take away from their framing, layering, and music track choice (or lack thereof). How did they keep their audience's attention? What emotions did you feel when watching? How did they tell their story? First person? Chronological order? Here are a few videos to get you started:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcqIYzdoD4
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imvCGnRU3u4
- http://vimeo.com/58677296
- http://vimeo.com/250349
- http://vimeo.com/10647514
- http://vimeo.com/56020726
- http://vimeo.com/57158272
- http://vimeo.com/58468045
- Determine your audience (B&B, the community at large, your peers)
- Determine your (a) goals, (b) strategies, and (c) tactics - the why, how, and what. This is how a business is run, this is how you wage cyber warfare, and I suppose it works for making a film.
- Why should your audience watch your documentary?
- How will you deliver those (inform, demonstrate, entertain, or persuade)? The basic structure of a good story is "a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it."
- What will you tell in your story to achieve your goals? If your tactics don't feed back into your goals, don't do it or modify your goals.
- Remember your original motivation for B&B.
- Don't stress about it and have fun.
- I try to give a lot of information for you to be successful, but scale back as you see fit.
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