Chapter | Thirty-Eight
Documentary
Experts’ Tips
Anne Aghion, documentary filmmaker, New York
“I make creative documentaries. I’m sometimes tempted to make fiction films, but the truth is it’s much more fun to make docs. You can improvise and go with the flow, whereas in fiction, you have to have everything planned out right from the start.”
WHAT IS IT?
Any movie filmed for real with real people in real events, but could also include dramatizations and reconstructions.
Documentary is not what it used to be, and that’s good. It has evolved into a type of movie that contains every other movie within it – you can use bits of animation, music promo, drama, montage – just about anything except probably the old-school documentary where ...
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