Sample project — The Salt Keepers (fictional)
- Overall diagnosis
- A patient, visually confident documentary whose central strength is intimacy with three families. The project is close to festival-ready; its main constraint is an ending that observes the decision without letting the audience feel its cost.
- What to preserve
- The four-season structure — it gives the film its sense of time and loss.The restraint of the camera: no interviews, no explanatory voice-over.The youngest harvester as the emotional point of entry.
- Prioritised next steps
- Restructure the final 12 minutes around the handover scene.
- Reframe the pitch deck and logline around inheritance.
- Prepare a festival strategy before any public screening.
Illustrative excerpt from a fictional project.
