Who is the most important person in your story? Will there be a reporter in front of the camera who leads me through the whole experience? What is his/her quest? What does he/she want to find out? Or do you want to follow somebody who is deeply involved in the topic and is facing a challenge or fighting an injustice? Decide which person will be the one we can stick to when watching your final documentary. What else do you need besides interviews and b-roll? Do you need animated infographics? Where do you get your music from? Who is your audience and who will show your documentary? Which length do they want? Is it a one hour documentary? Can you split it up into episodes? Or do you have enough to tell it in several episodes? If you are a beginner start on a small level, e.g a 30-minute doc or five episodes around eight to ten minutes.
Other questions you’d better start thinking about at this point: Make a schedule: how many days do you need for shooting over what period of time? When do you want to edit the documentary? Be strict to yourself and set yourself a limit: rough guess: seven days for a 30-minute documentary. Otherwise you might end up telling the story of the whole mankind. Ask yourself: what is the story I want to tell? And do not lose your point by bringing in too many aspects. Sit down and focus before you start shooting! Think about how you would like your final story to look like. Longform documentaries mean a lot of work and preparation before you start shooting. Here are a few things to keep in mind when you want to shoot and edit a longform documentary. Now you have become an expert in that field and you might want to a feature-length documentary. As a filmmaker, you may have done several short reports on certain topics.
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