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So compositionally we talked about 2

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narrative. Now let's talk about doc or 3

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events. It's a little hard to kind of 4

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focus more on docs competitions, because 5

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a lot of times you are just running and 6

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gunning. My favorite thing with docs and 7

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events is that when you do interviews, 8

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you can really mess with the composition. 9

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I've seen some really cool documentary 10

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interviews where they might have two 11

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cameras going and you see one camera 12

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really tight on the lens and you can see 13

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the emotion of their interviewing them 14

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about something really touching and then 15

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they have a wide standard or 16

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alternatively in a doc, you tend to be 17

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running around with the camera on your shoulder. 18

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The fun thing about documentary is that 19

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you are really just looking at what's 20

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around you, remember I talked earlier 21

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about paying attention everything around 22

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you and working with what's in 23

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front of you. The cool thing about doc is 24

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you can take your camera and put it on 25

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the ground and shot a soccer ball going 26

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by what or you can be running with the kid 27

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and trying to get him in center of frame. I 28

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think the big thing about documentaries is 29

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that there's this tend to go towards just 30

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news-gathering and keeping the camera on 31

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your shoulder. Now you wanna with docs 32

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you are trying to express something, you 33

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are trying to present something in a 34

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certain manner, so you want to take that 35

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camera and take it off where we normally 36

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look right? We are normally looking around 37

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with their eyes like this 38

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the big thing to make things look 39

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different is to take your vision and 40

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move it somewhere else. So for 41

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documentary, maybe take your vision and 42

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put it down on the floor, put a high up, 43

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put a GoPro in a car where you wouldn't 44

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normally see a camera. The big thing is 45

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just put the camera where you wouldn't 46

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normally have your natural eyes. If I'm 47

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sitting here and I want to shot myself, 48

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the camera is directly in my eye level, 49

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because we are doing an interview and 50

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we are doing information. But if this was 51

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more intense, more emotional and I wanted 52

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to make myself look big, we might put the 53

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camera on the floor so I can be looking 54

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down on it. Or if you want to make me 55

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look small talking up, we might move the 56

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camera tie up, somewhere where your eyes 57

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are not typically, because that's going 58

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to create that aesthetic, that's going to 59

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create that magic. So for a doc, put the 60

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camera and compose shots when we wouldn't 61

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normally see things from. I think the 62

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other thing with docs is to really just 63

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understand that it's in the moment and 64

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you have to be rushing and quickly and 65

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quickly doing it, and typically you don't 66

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want to look like a news thing, so shoot 67

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on a longer lens, try to make it look 68

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like a narrative as much as possible 69

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even though you are running and gunning 70

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if you'll try to push yourself to make 71

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you doc look more like a cinema 72

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movie and use the tools that I was 73

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talking about narratives like rack 74

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focusing, like 24 frames per second 75

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like high-speed stuff. If you make your 76

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doc look more like a movie, people will 77

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be touched more and they will 78

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feel more because they'll be in that 79

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mode of.This is going to make me feel 80

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more as a person just watching the news.