Documentary
To document reality with the intent of instructing, educating, or maintaining a historical record
What is The Purpose of Documentary?
The method of storytelling in which events move in chronological order
What is Linear Narrative Structure?
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The stage of production before filming begins in which brainstorming, visualization, and planning occurs
What is Pre-Production?
A type of question that disables the respondent to answer with a simple “yes” or “no”
What is an Open-Ended Question?
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The storytelling device that utilizes foreshadowing to delay significance of a story element introduced early in the story
What is Setup & PayOffs?
This refers to how the audience is made to feel about the story and characters within it
What is Mood?
A graphic representation of how your story will unfold, shot-by-shot
What are Storyboards?
A question that follows another, with the intention of building upon the first or making an additional connection
What is a Follow-Up Question?
The type of documentary which encourages viewers to reconsider perceptions and rethink their truth
What is an Expository Documentary?
These characteristics describe: Layered Personality, Working through Conflict, Likable/Controversial, On Journey, Good Storytellers
What is a Strong Lead Character?
The shot scale that frames a subject from about their waist up to their head
What is a Medium Shot?
A tour of a possible shooting location conducted beforehand to assess the suitability of the spaces available
What is a Location Scout?
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The point in the narrative where the tension, excitement, or stakes reach their highest point
What is The Climax?
The clash between two opposing forces which creates the interest of a story
What is The Conflict?
The arrangement of characters in the physical space of a set/how character move throughout space within a scene
What is Blocking?
A list that details the planned footage to be captured during the production day
What is a Shot List?
A request an interviewer should make to their subject to ensure complete responses which can be used in an edit
What is to Incorporate the Question?
Secondary footage used to provide context and visual interest to help tell your story
What is B-Roll?
This may be an emotional turn, incident or event, action, reaction, or realization which shifts the narrative
What is a Story Beat?
These elements can be easily utilized to impact mood by influencing the amount of the subject seen and the emotion we associate with them
What is Light and Color?
The question that is asked in documentary, in reference to following the story as it reveals itself to you throughout the production process
What is ‘What does the story want to be’?
This is often established before an interview begins and is what is literally captured on camera during the interview process
What is the relationship between interviewer and interviewee?
What is an interesting conversation?