I am interested in making documentaries and wanted to answer your questions, but found it hard to find a starting out point. It feels useful to first compare documentaries to all types of mediums, and also ask some probing questions. The range in what types of documentaries we are talking about is in some cases as large as the range between some documentaries and other mediums. I started to outline a belief sheet/ comparison chart because it helped me start to organize my thoughts on the subject. In no way complete but feel free to take a look/edit if useful.
Thank you for the doc! I really like trying to come up with a relevnt framework. I’ll check it out more later!
I agree that this is to some extent premature. I guess what made us jump the gun was that the person who would interested in funding something is explicitly aimed at high budget vidoe content. But from a more general EA standpoint it seems very important to compare different mediums.
To give some push-/feedback I also think it would be intersting to think about how different mediums might interact and what the best “media portfolio” would be. My intuition is that different forms of media can serve different purposes, as you are alluding to in your spreadsheet. And to some extent they might be strengthening/dependent on eachother.
Wow I appreciate this document! Especially the “Pressing problems” section. Thank you. I will look more closely at it later.
Agree that the range is very large, we tried to narrow it down to feature film documentaries, but probably ended up including a bit more in terms of format. For example the question of Youtube vs. Documentary movie on streaming platform is interesting to me. My initial thinking on it is that movie documentaries are better for reaching “top down”—it might be able to get you more mainstream media attention, etc. But Youtube is better for “bottom up”—reaching people directly. So the different formats are probably better for different topics.
I am interested in making documentaries and wanted to answer your questions, but found it hard to find a starting out point. It feels useful to first compare documentaries to all types of mediums, and also ask some probing questions. The range in what types of documentaries we are talking about is in some cases as large as the range between some documentaries and other mediums. I started to outline a belief sheet/ comparison chart because it helped me start to organize my thoughts on the subject. In no way complete but feel free to take a look/edit if useful.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/139WgoWZdOpP748eVUxX-G9sBzgTkcsGdSHjI4OPeRYs/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for the doc! I really like trying to come up with a relevnt framework. I’ll check it out more later!
I agree that this is to some extent premature. I guess what made us jump the gun was that the person who would interested in funding something is explicitly aimed at high budget vidoe content. But from a more general EA standpoint it seems very important to compare different mediums.
To give some push-/feedback I also think it would be intersting to think about how different mediums might interact and what the best “media portfolio” would be. My intuition is that different forms of media can serve different purposes, as you are alluding to in your spreadsheet. And to some extent they might be strengthening/dependent on eachother.
Wow I appreciate this document! Especially the “Pressing problems” section. Thank you. I will look more closely at it later.
Agree that the range is very large, we tried to narrow it down to feature film documentaries, but probably ended up including a bit more in terms of format. For example the question of Youtube vs. Documentary movie on streaming platform is interesting to me. My initial thinking on it is that movie documentaries are better for reaching “top down”—it might be able to get you more mainstream media attention, etc. But Youtube is better for “bottom up”—reaching people directly. So the different formats are probably better for different topics.