Documentary Filmmaking Tips // How to Hook Your Audience

Are the two documentaries online somewhere to watch them uninterrupted?

This was so good. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience. Besides your storytelling skills, I very much love your images - they're really beautiful and emotive. Just subscribe - Look forward to watching more of your videos and work!

looks amazing, been following you re GFX camera.. thanks for these posts.

ahhhhh this is goin be my go to!!! so inspiring!! 🙏 thank you

When your recording the person talk did you ask specific questions to get those clips or did you just let them talk about their story freestyle and collect all the good clips of audio from the video and then just cut the video out and add b roll to the audio? Sort of thing. Just learning.

Where did you get the copywrite free background music 🎶 sounded perfect to the scene felt right in there

Really enjoyed this man! Beautiful shots, storytelling and breakdown of your process. Thanks for creating & sharing this.

great, thank you

Real question: I’ve watched 25 different creators on here and while so much gear was mentioned, NONE of you told us those dad hats are crucial to film making.

I don't know why but the sound of interviewees coming straight from an inch from microphone made me very uncomfortable. This felt like a personal diary, which it is not.

NU-CUE-LUR.

Hi, new watcher here. I want to make an objective documentary on illegal immigration in my area, to bring awareness to it. How can I go about this, legally and safely?

Was the interview like QandA? Or was it like a conversation? Thanks

Excellent information and I love the storytelling.

Thanks are hope we can work together ❤

The intro
- impactful and sense of curiosity, a hint or hook story specific
- in a short time span 45 sec to 1 min
-dont plan something just stay authentic

Middle - conflict or main message, don't drag out too much
- give your audience credit, not spoon feeding
- history plus conflict
-main message

The end
-resolve conflict
-reintroduce conflict
-or both

Wow. Cant understand why it took me more than a year to see this. Beautiful, inspiring and informative. Where can I see this full documentaries? They seem AWESOME.

Your cinematography is stunning. So natural, but interesting.

While your work has great potential, you ruin the video with your talking head, and you are not even facing the camera! Yapping at the camera is not a good video!

Really nice. Learning from your work, in Goa, India.

Khub saras but Dhudhi no taste mate ,I do not put any other veggies...Thanks for sharing.Yash.

Excellent and invaluable information. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this and teach us.

How did you discover Bruce and get him to agree to tell his story on film?

Your docs are beautiful

Great Video, Very Informative Thank you

Thank you for sharing and inspiring.

Your documentary guide content is fantastic. Have you thought about doing more of it?

Great info but definitely feels like the guy just wanted to show off his work 🤣 what a douche move!

Great video, thanks for sharing your experience and konwledge. Your work is just so amazing!

Love this

This was fantastic! Thank you for the input on your process. I am currently working on a film. This was very helpful. I know I will be watching it again.

Hipster filmmaking.....my god

Great video brother. Lynch fan?

as an aspiring documentary filmmaker this video is very insightful. Thanks for sharing this knowledge

Just coming back to this video to say that the sound design, interview sound quality and the mix from nat sound, a-roll and SFX is..... ~chef's kiss~

Where can we watch the full doco, the bunker guy?

You are very talented and I enjoy your content. What focal length did you use primarily?

Great content, but why do Americans insist on saying NUQUELAR??????

Great! Thank you very much for sharing this.

At the beginning, when the guy is talking about a nuclear war, etc... how do you capture that audio? Was that written? Did he just say that? Was it during a sit down, on camera interview? Was it just VO?

This is educative 💪

20 min video packed with a lifetime of knowledge. Many thanks for this!

Really enjoyed your insight on filmmaking!!

very enjoyed this episode. thank you! just wanted to leave this message

Wow the doc clips look amazing? Did you use the bmpcc4k and sigma 18-35 to achieve those looks?

Do you mind sharing with me where you got that music from that you use in your documentary?

I just found this video as i' am looking for help making a documentry I like to make. And wow I love the story, grading and sound!

Very good video. Would love to see a video about breaking down the planning as well. How to get the people to want to be in a documentary, shotlist, voice-over etc. How much is just capturing the moment versus a planned shot?

Where can we we watch your documentaries 😊