Editing A Character-Driven Documentary
I hope you’re having a great summer!
Screenwriters are free to dream up plot twists for a three-act story, but we documentary filmmakers must design scenes based on what was actually filmed in real life. These two constraints–“what was filmed” and “real life”–present special challenges. Whether a documentary editor is using a three-act storyboard or some other narrative design, how does she stay true to actual happenings when she must persuade and contort them into climaxes and plot turns?
For years I’ve been answering this question through my popular weekend seminar, “Structuring the Character-Driven Documentary.” And since the San Francisco Film Society has temporarily postponed its summer classes, I want to make this seminar available to everyone, online, at a special price. You can see my short You Tube description of the seminar here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNt0vE-nGzY
For a limited time you can get all three of my online courses, including “Editing the Character Driven Documentary“, for the price of one. You’ll also receive “The Ultimate Guide To Structuring Your Documentary“, which shows you how to craft both character-driven and essay-style docs, and “The Story Doctoring Kit“, to troubleshoot structural problems at rough cut stage.
The “Editing the Character Driven Documentary” seminar will outline the principles of classic three-act narrative structure as taught by professional screenwriters, and you’ll learn how documentary filmmakers can adapt these structural demands to the randomness of real life. All my courses come with a money-back guarantee!
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