What is a Documentary Film?

Documentary Film a movie that attempts, in some way, to document reality that happening in life. For me , documentary movie should be truthful and objective, without adding or cutting the original substance in it, and in the end let the audience respond the movie in their perspective.
The process of documentary film making is not instant, there are lots of preproduction stage to finished up the movie, in order to produced good quality of movie which provide accurate and reliable information. There are several preproduction mode that we should do before jump to the production of the movie,
First, planned up the story outline or decided theme for the movie, specifically. And it called as film proposal. its really important because its focusing you on the right track of the storyline without confusing or biased the story. Planned all out the people that you want to interview , or decided when and how you going to gather your information. Pick some possibilities track for background music to support your film, and make sure it matching and similar with your story. After all planned up, then you can going out and gather the footage, and thats called as production stage. In order to make the movie interesting to watch and go with the flow, make sure you adding some shooting technique in your footage, because good footage is one of the important element in of the movie. That’s the walkthrough of the preproduction mode.
The criteria for good movie is relative. But in my point of view, as films audience and also beginner film making , a good movie should be approachable, easy to follow and remarkable after the audience watched it, because the goal of producing a movie is to be watch, In that case, without losing the film maker idealism in the making of the movie.
after all, a good movie should satisfy both sides, the film maker itself and definitely the audience.
After all the production stage accomplished, then there is post-production stage, and that are editing and finishing.
Typically, the post-production phase of creating a film takes longer than the actual shooting of the film, and can take longer time.Editing take a lot of work and concentration so we should really careful with every detail that we work on. Editing consist of footage arrangement, cutting scene and audio sounds, putting music background, recording back sounds (narrative) and also apply the visual or audio effects. one thing to make your movie seems smooth and flows is to adding transition effect on every scene transition . Finishing is the final step of production stage , you need to do sounds check , to make sure the volume level abstain, re-play the movie and re-editing to polish the movie, after that you save your movie, and convert it to the type of media that you like.
Its really important to have visual evidence in the movie, which it means the real or original footage , to support the whole movie.
the last thing to do to is making film statement to explain the movie and the whole process when you made it and also the purpose why you made it.