This is a brilliant resource for any documentary film makers.
It includes interviews with a lot of the world's most respect documentarians.
All the interviews are about documentary practice, planning and ideas creation, which covers nearly everything we'll be doing on the course.
We'll look at some of these in class, but I really recommend you take some time to get to know this website yourself.
Some of the basic tips on planning, being spontaneous, listening, shooting are excellent and given freely by people with tonnes of experience.
The theme I think though, that runs throughout these clips is twofold:
Firstly, nearly all these film makers are inspired by other film makers whose work they loved and subsequently learnt a lot from.
Secondly, you have to find a method of telling 'reality' that suits who you are and this takes time and practice. You might be suited to a more observational style of storytelling, or if you're like Nick Broomfield, you might find it better to get yourself into the film and make that part of the narrative (participatory filmmaking)
Both these underlying themes I think show why documentary films are so different from one another. Or at least why the good ones are so different from one another, because you are really watching one person's unique view of the world in many ways.
Enjoy!
http://films.nfb.ca/capturing-reality/
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