5 Tips on how to make your first Documentary Film

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When you have to start making your very first
documentary, you need to understand one simple
but important thing which is to make a
documentary is an art, not a science. Here are
some quick points to remember while avoiding the
unnecessary hassles in your first attempt to make
a good documentary.
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Ideation

• It is the foremost and initial part of the whole.
  An idea refers to
• the pillar of whole documentary which you are
  going to shoot.
• Everything which you are going to make will
  project the idea that
• you have benchmarked. So while you Start deciding
  anything for
• an idea, you must be very sure of that decision.

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Research

• It will forever and ever remain the gold-dust of
  all process
• especially while making a documentary. Without a
  good
• research, you will find your documentary in
  disarray. Doesnt
• matter the scale of your production, the basics
  are still the basic
• and a good research is still counted well for a
  good production.
• Research includes every small to smallest thing
  in every detail
• possible.

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Target Audience

• You will now decide the target people for your
  production, which
• means the people for whom you are making it.
  Whether they are
• small, old in age group or they are poor or rich
  in general. It is
• necessary to do it because your target audience
  will decide your
• skin of the production.

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Personal Flavor

• Each film-maker has its personal bringing to the
  documentary.
• For example the short documentary made by James
  Cameron
• on similar topic will certainly differs from the
  one made by
• Steven Spielberg. No matter that you are big or
  small
• documentary film maker, you can pour your secret
  ingredients
• into your production.

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Professional value

• Every professional video which is made for mature
  audience is
• always calculated with a degree of
  professionalism in mind. For
• an instance you cannot just choose a sincere
  topic to shoot and
• perform immature thoroughly in technical aspects.
  Make sure
• you have sound technical team and good quality
  production
• equipments.

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• There can be as many parameters while producing a
• good documentary however it is for you to decide
• what exactly your requirements are. Documentary
• production has never been an easy task, you have
  to
• put in your complete mind and soul.
• Keep Calm Capture Awesome Moments !!

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