3 How to Choose Documentary Genres
In pre-production you’ve taken time to consider not only your point of view about the film you are making but how best to tell your story which may govern what genre of film you want to make. Let’s consider the creative approach of different films here.
In fiction films it can be easier to determine the genre of film you make because, as the author Neil Gaiman states, fiction genres have certain things that have to happen. A western has to have horses; a gangster film, crime; sci-fi, spaceships. But this isn’t always so easy to define in non-fiction filmmaking. Do we even need to categorize? I think at times it’s helpful, helpful to search for and analyze successful films like your own that can only make your ...
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