From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production

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Planning production assets

Planning production assets

From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production

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Planning production assets

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- Now that pre-production is well under way, it's time to plan the shoot. Some documentaries are shot over many days, weeks, months, or even years, others are shot on a concentrated production shoot. The ProjectRelo documentary will be shot over a week or so, so I'll mostly be discussing the production shoot method of planning and scheduling. For now, let's start with a high level discussion and later we'll plug in the ProjectRelo details into the equation. Now, let's talk a bit more about some of the different types of assets that we intend to gather. First up, interviews. Some interviews may be formal sit-down interviews, others are more organic conversations that occur when the documentary subject is performing a task. Some interviews are conducted in the subject's own home or work environment, or you travel to their turf to conduct the interview. Other interviews are conducted in neutral locations like offices, or hotels, or production studios where the interview subject often…

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