The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary
Formerly $297, this storytelling seminar is currently on sale for $50. Get clarity on how to shape a story, craft scenes, and structure an essay-style documentary. I’m including two bonus seminars for free: “Editing the Character Driven Documentary” and “Trailer Editing: Seven Essential Rules”.
Story consultant Karen Everett taught editing for 18 years at the #1-ranked documentary program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
In 12 video modules (30-60 minutes each), you will learn how to:
- Customize proven structural templates used by 90% of award-winning documentaries
- Quickly see the big structural picture with a Doc Plot Map and 3-Act Timetable
- Elicit the soundbites you need to tell a good story, including “the Protagonist’s Statement of Desire” and the “the Protagonist’s Statement of Transformation”
- Identify, organize and ramp up your powerful arguments into an elegant essay documentary that touches hearts and changes minds
- Keep your viewers engaged with artfully crafted character transformations, precisely placed backstories and momentum-building plot reversals
- Craft an opening that grabs your viewers with an “inciting incident,” the critical catalyst scene that sets your film into motion
- Learn micro-editing tips for cutting on motion, cutting on wipe, cutting on gesture (and many more master editing techniques that will make your film look great)
- Edit fundraising trailers that will move your viewers emotionally, display your grasp of the story and actually raise money for your film…
This class was invaluable for bringing into crystal clear focus how to bring a 3-act structure to a documentary film. Karen is inspiring and the documentary clips she screens are extremely useful.
100% Guarantee
Karen's online seminars were filmed between 2007-2010 and contain case studies from award-winning documentaries that are still relevant to storytelling today. Seminars are delivered as digital files that you can download. In the unlikely event that your expectations aren’t met, I will immediately give you a full refund, no questions asked. Just email me within one year of purchasing the seminar at karen at newdocediting dot com for a complete refund.