Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production

This course—the first in a three-course series—shows how to develop your documentary idea into a story, pitch your idea, and plan for production.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. Beginning with an Idea

• The birth of an idea
• The idea for Project RELO
• Developing your idea into a framework
• Developing your documentary pitch
• Delivering the pitch
• Writing a documentary proposal

2. Pre-Production: Getting Your Documentary Organized and Grounded

• Planning and executing the research
• Thinking about assets
• Coming up with an interview plan
• Conducting pre-interviews
• Developing pre-production materials
• Gathering non-production assets
• Planning production assets
• Planning the Project RELO shoot

Conclusion

• Next steps
• The finished documentary, "Veteran's Work: The Project RELO Story"