Blog #3

1. Right now our group haven't had really big progress since last week. We pitched our idea on Tuesday, we figured out that our groups topic is monogamy, and the question we want to answer or discuss is "Do monogamy really exist". For those who don't know what monogamy is, it's basically to be fully committed to only one person your whole life. So we want to interview interesting couples and maybe one single person/divorced person and see what people think about relationships and if their significant other is the only one for them. We want to interview couples in different ages, and try to narrow it down, so we're thinking of having three couples, 2 kids, around the age of five, a lesbian couple  and a old couple. We already know the lesbian couple, so we need to get permission from some kids parents and find the old couple. We want to try to find our characters this coming weekend or really soon so we can start planning more. We also want to have our video to include lots of pictures, especially from the old couple. I think this will be an interesting and cute movie.

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'How to Write a Documentary Script'

by Trisha Das

When I read this piece I learned a lot more than I thought I would. I learned that your documentary has a value and that all the research you put into it makes a huge difference. There is many ways to do your research, but the most important is that your documentary is interesting to you, so you want to spend time on it, want to put in the effort and that you will spend a lot of time thinking and looking for more information on your topic. You need to be curious and you need to ask your self some questions, like "What would I want to learn about this subject?" and etc. There is many different ways to get information. You can interview people, experts, you could use the media like the internet, books, etc, you can go out on field research, go to museums, galleries etc to gather information or you can skim read lots of fact books and pick out the most important information in each one of them. When you do your research you get a lot of information and it's really important that the quality is good. It's really important to spend some time segregating the relevant information from the irrelevant.

I also learned that it's important to have different perspectives in your documentary, and the best way to show that is through humans. So that leads you to find people to interview and what kind of questions you want to ask and get answered. I also learned that imagination is the biggest talent and tool of the scriptwriter and that is whats makes every documentary different. It's also important to dig deep, get information that surprises people. Find out more insightful details. When all the information is collected, the interviews done, the filming is past you need to put it all together. The hardest part is now to eliminate all the information that is not necessary to tell the story, reorganize your scenes if needed and the last part, writ the script.