From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 1 Planning and Pre-production

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Gathering non-production assets

Gathering non-production assets

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Gathering non-production assets

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- During pre-production, you'll often begin the search for documentary assets. In this case, I'm talking about assets that are not shot by the production crew, things like archival images, stock footage, personal photos, and so on. Certainly, the editor may be in charge of asset gathering in post-production, but well-organized producers often start this process early on. Let's first talk about some archival materials. Many films can benefit from materials that exist in the public domain, which, fortunately, is free. Public domain works are intellectual property in which there is no current valid copyright holder on the material because exclusive intellectual property rights have been expired, forfeited, or are inapplicable. Most of the time, this means that the material is older. There are quite a few places you can go to find public domain material, and here are a list of a few popular choices. Now, as you search these types of sites, you do need to be careful that what you find is…

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