Polly Morland – The Writer As Outsider

In documentaries, the limits of your storytelling are largely set by where you point the camera. I learned to parcel up what I saw and heard into units of story. In documentaries, the limits of your storytelling are largely set by where you point the camera. I had a tough boss who told me, bluntly, ‘If you haven’t shot it, Polly, you haven’t got it.’ I learned how to parcel up what I saw and heard into units of story.

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