Lights Film School Online was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview two independent documentary filmmakers. Dawn Mikkelson and Melissa Koch told Lights Film School about their recent feature documentary project entitled “Red Tail”.
Category: "documentary"
How to Write a Documentary Treatment
After you have done your logline you will want to write a treatment. A treatment is usually 2-10 pages double-spaced and states how the audience will experience the film. It’s important to write treatments in an active voice and avoid the use of hyperbole (such as “this unique film will explore” etc). When writing treatments [...]
How to Create Film and Documentary Trailers
Creating a trailer for your documentary or film is a great way to expose your story to the world. Essentially a trailer is a short montage of the text, audio and visual components of your film that act as an advertisement for the longer format version. This usually means that the most exciting footage is [...]
How Many Scenes Does a Documentary Have?
In the past Lights Film School has deconstructed films and music videos but today we’re going to deconstruct a documentary. We’re going to look at the documentary “Encounters at the End of the World” by celebrated film director Werner Herzog. Many of your have asked us questions such as “how many scenes does a documentary [...]
