Let's talk now about how to approach your story. What I mean by that is the visual aspects of your story. So when you're ready chose a topic or a person, or subject that you want the interview and do the documentary around this story. I usually have already in my mind, what the look will be how I want it shot, where do I want it like a slow motion? What kind of shots do I want and you want to start with thinking like how you want to approach the story and that would help you with later on with locations, or how many days you would estimate to shoot something how many hours sometimes when I go and I interview someone, they just give me a few hours. And I don't have the luxury of a lot of hours.

And that might be the case. I mean, depending who the person is, if it's someone who is busy, or he costs like few hours in New York City or in your area, you have to be very quick. So you got to know what to expect and what to approach first and what to handle first. So, I would start with the visual key how I want it, do I want them to be on camera giving the interview? Do I want just their voice? And I don't wanna have that, you know, talking head throughout the whole video?

Do I want to integrate them on the go that let's say their share for they're doing something, you might just want them while they're doing something? Is it more instructional? So you have to know and again, that brings me back to the point of what do you want? What is the end result? So I'll give an example. Made in Queens, the short documentary for the lava rock that was nominated for New York.

Me. I had in mind a category specifically with that it dissolved the category was lifestyle. So I did not want a lot of instructional stuff. So I didn't want to go through how he does what he does. For me it was more important who he is as a person and why he does what he does. So his Why, why he's still doing something that is disappearing art, that he see it as an art, what is what is his Why, why he wakes up in the morning and does what he does.

So that was behind. Now, I shot an episode of meaning Quinn's completely switching gears to more instructional because I wanted to gear towards instructional category in the me so I interviewed a podcast, podcast. Okay, not a podcast, pottery maker. And she talked a lot about why she does what she does. But mostly she talked about how she's doing it. So she walked us through the process of how you set up the claim, how you do it and how you bake it in what temperature and how you glaze it.

So it's more like instructional let's say you want to approach New York Times the opposite page and submit a video, I would suggest you go and watch almost all the videos and you have an idea of how is it structured? How is it edited? What is it global top topping that topic? Okay. I think I'm hungry. Is it a global topic, that it's also relevant to community is that so you have to really have an idea of what What do you want to achieve?

So that is the way to approach and then you will start thinking, Okay, what kind of shots I want and what kind of visuals what isn't going to have voice over that voice of God isn't going to have photos. If it's biography you might want photos, or do you want actors to reenact the things? What is it that you want? And if not, again, right and wrong. This comes with finding your style and the more you do it, the more you will be able to find your style. What documentaries you like to do, but in the beginning is good to have an idea of what you