Love Nygards work and insight. His book "cut to the monkey" is one of my favorites. the Interratron is a really fun tool too. Thanks for the interview and video!
Great to see Sven is still putting together top class videos. The tips are really useful, and it would be great to see some further videos around structuring the story, but also about how to pace the video and use SFX, music and silence to create drama and keep the documentary engaging..
This is good and deserves more views. I attempted to make a documentary and failed at every point but in looking like an idiot so the people I interviewed gave me a lot to work with.
Always a wealth of knowledge Sven! I've actually about to make a documentary myself for film school this couldn't have came at a better time! I'm definitely gonna check out his new book, I loved cut to the monkey so much
Currently finishing a Rock Documentary and I find that almost all music documentaries lack the core element of Secret #2. There is no mystery as the purpose is most significantly to promote the discography / talent. No mystery there. When you present a mystery to execs, talent, etc. it is more in their interest to stay out of it as to not alienate or push away current and potential fans. The real mystery is "By viewing this, will we gain fans and momentum? Will we sell the artist/album?"
Thx for this very interesting video ! I have a question : Do you deliberately modify Roger's voice to sound like its from a phone or zoom call ? Cause during the interview your voice is very different to his. I always liked these new contents with experts on zoom call, the different quality of microphones makes it easy to differentiate, and creates a sound identity, but doing it deliberately would be crazy out-of-the-box clever idea.
I dunno, if documentary filmmaking can be compared to jazz, then a lot of these suggestions sound like the doc equivalent to Kenny G. The whole magic of the genre for me is in the improvisation with what you discover on and off set, and I worry that techniques like this are what’s to blame for our current glut of documentaries-as-content.
Love Nygards work and insight. His book "cut to the monkey" is one of my favorites. the Interratron is a really fun tool too. Thanks for the interview and video!
Great to see Sven is still putting together top class videos. The tips are really useful, and it would be great to see some further videos around structuring the story, but also about how to pace the video and use SFX, music and silence to create drama and keep the documentary engaging..
Great episode. Just ordered his book and signed up for the webinar.
This is good and deserves more views. I attempted to make a documentary and failed at every point but in looking like an idiot so the people I interviewed gave me a lot to work with.
Can't learn if you don't fail!
Always a wealth of knowledge Sven! I've actually about to make a documentary myself for film school this couldn't have came at a better time! I'm definitely gonna check out his new book, I loved cut to the monkey so much
Really liked this video and just got his book. Any tips for approaching shy subjects to sit down for an interview?
tHank you for this, very enjoyable.
Every sentence carried a lesson.
Filled with great advice !
Currently finishing a Rock Documentary and I find that almost all music documentaries lack the core element of Secret #2. There is no mystery as the purpose is most significantly to promote the discography / talent. No mystery there. When you present a mystery to execs, talent, etc. it is more in their interest to stay out of it as to not alienate or push away current and potential fans. The real mystery is "By viewing this, will we gain fans and momentum? Will we sell the artist/album?"
That was great. Thank you.
This is really good
Terrific tips!
Thx for this very interesting video !
I have a question : Do you deliberately modify Roger's voice to sound like its from a phone or zoom call ? Cause during the interview your voice is very different to his. I always liked these new contents with experts on zoom call, the different quality of microphones makes it easy to differentiate, and creates a sound identity, but doing it deliberately would be crazy out-of-the-box clever idea.
"Emotional archaeology"
19:45 Stock footage is difficult to get right, though
I dunno, if documentary filmmaking can be compared to jazz, then a lot of these suggestions sound like the doc equivalent to Kenny G. The whole magic of the genre for me is in the improvisation with what you discover on and off set, and I worry that techniques like this are what’s to blame for our current glut of documentaries-as-content.
Secret 10: Have a stabilizer in your camera. I'm getting Parkinsons just looking at this.
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What's wrong with u, i don't see any problem
20:25 Vegetarians, Fruitarians, Breatharians... I'm getting skeptical, but Documentarians -- c'mon, these diet fads are getting ridiculous.