Before you turn on the camera, set yourself up for success. Do your research and try to figure out what your story is, even if you don’t know it yet.
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Category: Key Concepts
Documentary, or non-fiction cinema, is a completely separate phenomenon of cinema. Documentary films are based on footage of real events and people.
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Biographical film
Biographical film has been appearing since the beginning of cinema, such as William Hayes’ The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) or Georges Méliès’ Cleopatra (1899).
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What is documentary filmmaking
Reconstructions of true events do not belong to documentary filmmaking. However, documentary works can use fragments of feature films as well as staging, provocations
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History of Documentary Film
The first film, shown to an audience on December 28, 1895, by the Lumière brothers on Boulevard des Capuchins, was a documentary