Brainstorming Your Idea |
Use the Internet, personal contacts, trade organizations, books, magazines, and newspapers to begin researching your topic, then track down potential interview subjects. If you don’t spend a lot of time on the Web, you need to start. There simply is no single greater, cheaper, or more convenient source of starting point information for documentaries than the Internet.
Once you pick a topic, you can begin looking up information on that topic by using search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Dogpile. If you haven’t already determined your goal or the focus of your documentary, this process will help you brainstorm ...
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