I have worked on documentaries that were carefully storyboarded shot by shot beforehand. I have also worked on some where the camera crew was told to "go out and get shots of that event" and the script was put together after the fact, looking at the footage that came in.
Good docco cameramen think of the story as they are shooting and they stop and try and gather bits and pieces of scenes that fit together. This makes it easier when they come back to figure out how to make them work, because they were shot to work that way. I have seen storyboards, film-style scripts, and two-column scripts, and all have some place somewhere. The best book I know of on docco production is "Filming TV News and Documentaries" by Atkins and Willette. It is somewhat dated even by 16mm production standards, and it's not exclusively about screenwriting, but the nature of documentary production is that all of the different jobs are mashed together and the lines between them are blurred. --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
