How to Shoot an Interview [Unfinished]

What are three key suggestions that this video brings up?  Why are each of these so important?  How could you use them in future productions?

How to Interview People on Camera [Unfinished]

What are three tips that you think are the most important from this video?  Why?

Understanding A-Roll and B-Roll

What is the difference between A and B roll?  Why is B-roll needed?

    A-roll is your primary footage while B-roll is the supplementary or alternative footage. In documentary filmmaking, the A-roll is typically the interviews and B-roll is any footage that you use to back up the interviewee's answers. 

What is B-roll

https://www.videomaker.com/let-b-roll-be-your-guide/

What is B-Roll?  Why is it important for a project?  What are 3 things to keep in mind when you're shooting B-roll?

    B-roll is additional footage that can supplement your main footage. This is most typically used in documentary filmmaking as your interviews are considered the main footage (or A-Roll) and any cutaways to other footage is typically the B-roll. B-roll is important for a project because it can show the viewer visually what someone is talking about. For example, when someone is talking about doing lab work, showing footage of them or someone doing that type of work can greatly support the idea and help it be more interesting to the viewer. Three things to keep in mind when you're shooting B-roll is to take notes during interviews, focus the B-roll on your goals, and to use footage that doesn't distract. It is a good idea to shoot your B-roll after interviews so that during them, you can take notes on what they talk about and get shots based on their answers. This will make sure you have footage for the points they make and help produce a more cohesive video. Having your B-roll focus on the goal is incredibly vital for your project as it will affect how the message lands with the audience. The article explains how an instructional video would want B-roll that demonstrates the product whilst a video about retiring officers would want to show off their accomplishments. It is important that your B-roll doesn't distract from your interviews because it will weaken your message and goals. This can occur from having footage that simply doesn't match with the dialogue, which can also be from having shaky footage as well.

Writing a Doc Treatment

https://thestorydepartment.com/story-for-documentary-2-delivering-the-goods/

What are the 3 key things that this article tells the viewer to keep in mind?  Why are they important?

    Three key that this article tells the viewer to keep in mind are that treatments have be as good as they can be to engage the audience without the help of sound or picture, to write to guide the process, and that story is what motivates the viewer to watch. It is very important that your treatment is engaging and highly interesting because your audience won't be able to hear or see the moving you're trying to explain. Thus, the treatment will have to work harder to maintain that level of interest. Writing to guide the process means to create the treatment to not only interest investors but also in a way that it can provide a guide the filmmaking process. This can be done by planning an idea of what you want to achieve and using that to create the treatment. A very important part of a documentary is still the story. Despite the fact that it isn't a narrative film, a documentary still greatly benefits from having a narrative within it. Through the narrative, the audience maintains their attention and interest, which helps them to understand the message you're trying to put out.

Nanook of the North

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-nanook-of-the-north-1922

What are 2 things that the filmmaker did that are controversial?  Why were they?  Do you think the film was "authentic" after reading this article?  Why are why not?  Why is this film so famous?

    Two things that the filmmaker did that are controversial were staging scenes and choosing the cast of Inuit. This was controversial because it led people to put into question the authenticity of the film. One major point of discussion was the scene where Nanook was hunting a seal. As the seal was never shown to be pulled up, some argue that it may not have been authentic and that someone could've likely shot it. However, despite some things having been staged and the cast being chosen, despite not actually having the relation with each other shown in the film, I believe that it is still authentic. As the article says, "If you stage a walrus hunt, it still involves hunting a walrus, and the walrus hasn’t seen the script." Although staging and casting may not have been "authentic," the reality shown still was; the environment, the traditions, the daily lives, the hardships, and the people were all still real. I think that it's because of this that the film is so famous. It incredibly displays the true experiences that the Inuit people have and their way of life.

What is a Documentary

Imagine you are talking to a person who has never before seen or even heard of a documentary film. How would you describe it? What are some essential elements of a documentary film? What distinguishes a documentary film from a narrative (Hollywood) film or a broadcast news story?

    I would describe a documentary as an informative film that intends to answer question(s) and reveal the truth about a topic. Some essential elements of a documentary film is b-roll and voiceovers, which can come in the form of interviews or narration. The difference between a documentary and a narrative film is that it is non-fiction and isn't focused on making the audience believe what they are seeing as real because it already is. The difference between documentaries and a broadcast news stories is that documentaries are much more in-depth and narrative compared to news which is focused on delivering the now. Documentary could be considered an in-between of narrative films and news as it can utilize storytelling methods and the specific order of clips and interviews to paint a specific picture of a real life topic.