I had done some research on her prior to her talk and watched The Great Hip Hop Hoax and enjoyed her style and the sort of topics she chose to make movies from.
In this session we talked not only about specifically making documentaries but aspects of filmmaking that apply across the board no matter what genre you were interested in.
The three top commissioning questions
-Who Are You? What have you made and why you have made it
-What Is It? Say in the most eloquent of words what the film itself is about
-Can We Afford It? How much do you want and can you account for it.
She talked about learning to talk about your film (Description happens to be one of the things that I am not very good at) her tips were to not over complicate the brief and have a specific sentence/tagline that you can personally use as a synopsis.
The importance of good sound over visuals
Get it finished and move on
And lastly that the word "No" can sometimes just mean "Not Yet"
I think that overall it was good being able to talk to someone who is out there making films and she gave me a lot to think about that I hadn't even considered past the "Finished Film" point. Such as where it would be shown and even getting the money to finance making your films once you leave the system and just how long it can take to get made.
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