This document provides tips and advice from experts on making documentaries. It discusses: - Nailing down your narrative as much as possible and ensuring your film shows something new. - Conducting thorough pre-interviews and writing a script with both verbal and visual information. - Doing transcripts and paper edits of interviews to find the story before spending time in the editing room. - Ensuring your documentary has a beginning, middle, and end, like any good film. - Doing extensive field research before writing your script to ensure you can visualize your story through concrete images.