It focuses your mind on what you’re doing. You start with your instinct and your curiosity. There’s something drawing you to them and you might not have worked it out fully. You have a path to go down, you don’t know where you’re going, but there is some logic to where you’re going.
Start jotting down questions on what you’re doing. In the process of jotting down questions, you logline your proposal. They often want to see you asking questions about yourself. You should ask yourself about these questions. In your proposal, state the obvious. By asking yourself those questions and putting your answer down, it helps whoever is conducting the lecture.
In this area, any visual material is useful. Including images somehow livens it up for people. It’s a great way of expressing your idea particularly because you’re working on a visual medium.
Documentary is a journey of exploration. You need to strip it back but they’re fundamentally a combination of images and sounds. There’s a subject involved and you have to develop a relationship with it/them.
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