Learn about Documentaries

Discover how to plan, shoot, and edit documentary films that inform, inspire, and entertain your audience.
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  1. 20+ Best Free Premiere Pro Documentary Templates for 2025

    20+ Best Free Premiere Pro Documentary Templates for 2025

    Tutorial • Beginner

    The title sequence is your chance to get viewers excited for the upcoming feature. If you'd like to impress with your documentary titles then try using a...

  2. 10 Top Documentary Title Templates for DaVinci Resolve (2 Free)

    10 Top Documentary Title Templates for DaVinci Resolve (2 Free)

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Your title sequence is your chance to hook your audience and get them excited for the upcoming feature. If you'd like to impress with your documentary titles...

  3. 5 Amazing Assets for Documentary Filmmakers

    5 Amazing Assets for Documentary Filmmakers

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Documentary making requires a mix of skills and talents. How best to put together the footage you gather is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. We’ve...

  4. How the Right Interview can Make Your Documentary Film

    How the Right Interview can Make Your Documentary Film

    Tutorial • Beginner

    As a documentary film maker, it’s your responsibility to accurately and responsibly represent someone on screen. That means giving careful thought to how you...

  5. How to Edit a Documentary Interview Video

    How to Edit a Documentary Interview Video

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Some people are easier to edit then others, some interviews present ethical challenges and some slide seamlessly into your film. The challenges of editing...

  6. How to Choose Video Cameras for Documentary Interviewing

    How to Choose Video Cameras for Documentary Interviewing

    Tutorial • Beginner

    You point your camera at your subject, but there’s a bit more to it than that. There are various ways to film an interview, and each produces a different...

  7. How to Interview on the Fly

    How to Interview on the Fly

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Sometimes you have to conduct interviews on the fly, in the street, or interview a group of people. You might have to try to interview someone who is less...

  8. Get Interviewing: Practical Exercises for Aspiring Documentary Filmmakers

    Get Interviewing: Practical Exercises for Aspiring Documentary Filmmakers

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Pressure can be high when interviewing your documentary subject, so in this lesson we go through and set some practical exercises to help build your skills,...

  9. How to Find People for a Documentary Interview

    How to Find People for a Documentary Interview

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this lesson, you'll learn how to research and select people to interview for your own documentary film.

  10. How to Use Cars to Add Motion to Your Video Documentary

    How to Use Cars to Add Motion to Your Video Documentary

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Before gimbals, drones, and sliders, documentary filmmakers used cars to capture dynamic motion. Today, cars are still a simple solution for adding motion to...

  11. How to Use a Gimbal in Your Documentary Video Production

    How to Use a Gimbal in Your Documentary Video Production

    Tutorial • Advanced

    Gimbals can take a lot of time to setup, balance and use, so can you use one on a fast paced documentary?

  12. How to Add Movement to a Video Interview

    How to Add Movement to a Video Interview

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    There are a few ways to add dynamic motion to your interview shot, but the challenge is not ruining a part of the interview with too much motion.

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