ABSTRACT
Story telling in a factual film is very different to storytelling in the world of writing. A narrative unfolds on paper in two dimensions: content delivered by text with images or graphics as illustrations. In this chapter, the author explains along with some suggestions for the kind of visual mix of ingredients needed to make any kind of film plus an explanation of what’s called the linear narrative, kind of story telling that works in factual films. The step-by-step approach the filmmaker will take to unfold the story for their viewers. One step naturally leads to the next and filmmaker must be clear what each section is going to cover. In an observational film the steps of the filmmaker narrative will be the key events that they have decided to cover in the time that the filmmaker allocated to film schedule.
