Description Long

To ensure the assignment is purposeful and can be carried out professionally, the following questions should be clarified at the beginning:

• Is the assignment or guiding question already given, or can you choose – or even invent – your own topic?
• What are you especially interested in?
• What might be particularly interesting to your audience?

Preparation

• Gather preliminary information about the project, the target audience, and possible topic areas.
• Get an overview of the overall subject, find sources of inspiration, and exchange ideas with others.
• Develop initial ideas.

Execution

1. If possible, choose a topic that is controversial, not widely known within the target audience, or one that the audience believes they already have a clear opinion about.
2. Select a question or issue that offers a new perspective or alternative point of view.
3. Proactively approach the project sponsors and don’t hesitate to ask questions – this is the right moment to do so.
4. Take the opportunity to ask all your questions in a thoughtful and thorough way. What helpful or potentially problematic aspects might already exist?

Hints from experience

• Don’t let the difficulty of the task or well-known Oscar winners intimidate you. A small, well-crafted, and intimately told documentary – created with the means available to you – can captivate your audience just as much. What matters most is telling a compelling story around a question or topic that truly interests you.

Tools list

• Worksheets, prepared

References

http://vision.wettintv.de/?page_id=112

https://de.wikihow.com/Ideen-für-einen-Kurzfilm-bekommen