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Concept and Storytelling

Sam Pollard, Producer/Editor

(4 Little Girls, Jim Brown All-American, Eyes on the Prize II, When the Levees Broke, etc.)

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As a producer, part of my job is to figure out what the material is, which is all in my head. So, now I have to translate all these ideas from my head to communicate to a cameraperson and a sound person to shoot that stuff … Really, the ideas, the concepts are all in my brain, as a producer, and I have to make them become real when someone goes out to shoot the material ...

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