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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Blog about documentaries and autobiographies
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.
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).
In the summer of 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher Doc Ellis went to visit his buddy in Los Angeles during halftime.
Spend your evening watching documentaries that dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s of some gastronomic questions.
You can’t go home, but you can recreate it on film. Often, a director will take a semi-autobiographical approach to a film at the beginning of their career