EXAMPLES OF GRAPHICS

PLANNING GRAPHICS

Look at how Al Jazeera planned their filming to make sure they put in the right graphics at the right time — by filming interviews in a special way and by filming reporters on cameras with careful planning.

 EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL GRAPHICS - PHOTOS AND ARTWORK

USE STILL PHOTOS AS GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS

Watch these excerpts from my documentary Ghosts of Afghanistan.
The opening scenes where we used still photographs for impact
Then a scene to set up our journalist/narrator Graeme Smith and his career:

CREATIVE GRAPHICS - USING ARTWORK
If you have the money and time, you can use drawings and artwork to illustrate scenes:

• Watch how artwork was used in this CBC fifth estate documentary, The Truth Smugglers to illustrate torture in Syria

• Watch my crime documentary Kings of Coke to see how to illustrate crime scenes