ABSTRACT
Documentary is a loosely used term for factual film or video production. Generally these are productions that present facts and have a narration, either a disembodied voice or one made up from those appearing in the video. Documentaries are the type of shows a person might see on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic. Many documentary scripts are not written so much as found and there is much truth to that. The mass of material in a documentary is often best sorted out on paper before actual editing. In loosely scripted documentary material, after working through various shot orders, the frames themselves seem to impose continuity by being adjacent to each other. Certain shots will seem to want to go together. The real trick in organizing a person's material is to break it down into enough bins so that the material in their project has a logical structure, but not so many bins that it becomes difficult to find material.
