Short Doc Assignment Details
This is still a ways out, but I’m introducing this assignment early because the best documentaries often take time, and I want to give you all the opportunity to start developing an idea and begin shooting sooner rather than later, if you have the capacity and inclination to do so.
Your documentary should be somewhere between five to seven minutes long, give or take a minute in either direction based on how densely edited and tightly paced it is.
Pitches for the documentary assignment will be due Monday, March 11. As before, we will workshop your ideas together in class. Please post your pitches here on the site by class time.
It can be narrated, whether you would like to appear as an onscreen correspondent or feel that the narrative merits a voiceover (often a consideration if the story requires a lot of background and exposition). It can also be non-narrated, which tends to lend itself to a more character-driven, organic, verité-style story.
Narrated, newsy, complicated story with voiceover:
On-camera correspondent:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=euTsHmasdsA%3Ffeature%3Doembed
Non-narrated:
The Art of Typeface in Documentaries
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/text-graphics-in-video/#Text-graphics-Definitions-and-applications
https://venngage.com/blog/font-psychology/embed/#?secret=tECdNLraee
A Baruch doc (published on D&S) that uses typeface in an interesting way: