Introduction to Video Testimonials
Get to know your characters and their surroundings
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the video: Get to know your characters and their surroundings
Overview
“Although it sounds trite: the first impression is never forgotten. Take advantage of the first moments of your encounter with your character, to give him confidence and know how his environment is reflected in him. ”
In this video lesson David R. Romay addresses the topic: Get to know your characters and their surroundings, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Testimonials. Discover how to find great characters in true stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Once we have a shortlist of characters which to interview or what we think are possible candidates to interview what you have to do is go visit them, No matter where they are, no matter where you have to go, The important thing is to get to know the surroundings. It’s not calling them and interviewing them in a place where you feel safe, but go to interview their own, to his own place of origin, to a place where they are in their own environment. This first meeting is essential because this is where you start to start Trust with them. In order to interview someone, the most important thing ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing
David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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