ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides some advice, something that filmmakers often overlook if they want an audience, there have to think of filmmakers' audience. She analyses documentaries that we loved. We watched them over and over, in pre-production, during production and while in the edit. With Musicwood, it was hard to plot the storyline because the story really changed direction as time went on. The Musicwood documentary follows a Coalition of the world's foremost guitar-makers as they attempt to save the old-growth trees of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest contiguous coastal rain forest in the world. We decided in our initial pre-production discussions that we wanted to make a difference with this film; we actually hoped relationships were building. But we knew this would be fraught with conflict and is a delicate balance and could break apart at any time.
