For the stakeholder analysis, an initial documentary analysis helped identify stakeholder groups.
The pilot studies confirmed that the complexities of identifying the exact funding streams behind any piece of research were best addressed by using a case study approach involving initial documentary review and following up issues in interviews.
"An initial consideration of documentary evidence points to weaknesses in the review and our preliminary view is that they seem to do little to drive forward the necessary organisational change," he said.
Mr. Schell said that "30 for 30" — which attracted an average of 1.2 million viewers for the initial showings of the documentaries — became a brand that was worth extending.
Because the care of most older people is done in the community, Wallis explains, initial meetings with the documentary teams encouraged the BBC to extend the series' remit to follow people as they were discharged, to look at how well they coped with the community support available.
After his initial plan for a documentary fell through, he wrote the screenplay for Westbaum the second semester of his junior year, and primary filming was done during a two-month period early in his senior year.
In her new film Paper Heart, the actress-writer turned her initial plans for a documentary on the "L" word into a narrative hybrid.
TVTV had received initial funding for the documentary through a small grant from the Stern Foundation, and an additional promise from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Just to add a little more mystery, when the initial website for the documentary was launched, it was immediately taken down and whoever did it removed all traces of the attack from the code.
Perhaps the initial appeal of the documentary film Make, for some, comes from the promise of a soundtrack that in part features music by Sufjan Stevens (his 2010 album The Age of Adz cites one of the film's featured artists, Royal Robertson, as inspiration).
That said, you can't make a Savile documentary without mentioning the BBC's initial shameful suppression of the story (are documentaries such as these acting as a Beeb mea culpa?) or the Yewtree investigations.
