Chapter 8

A lot happens in between coming up with an idea for a documentary and the day you wait in a darkened room while an audience views your finished project. There can be no documentary until footage has been recorded. Shooting film or recording videotape for your documentary can occur in quite limited time and space or may require months or years in many different locations. Preproduction is full of hopes and dreams. Production is all potential . But it is in postproduction that you have to deal with reality.