Documentary Research

--Sheila Curran Bernard, Author of Documentary Storytelling

Documentaries on music and certain bands are very popular within the documentary business as they give fans an insight to a band or artists life and their musical career.
There is a so-called 'checklist' when watching documentaries that many film makers tend to follow. 1. Interviews. 2. Storytelling techniques. This tends to mean the footage used, is it all original footage or  is there archival footage also incorporated. Also it is the narration and the editing techniques to get the footage into a logical order or an order that fits the documentary type. 3. Information sources. This focuses on whether the documentary is created to try and persuade the audience. Also whether the sources used were legitimate or not.