Learn everything you can about your documentary subject. Sometimes the story lines are obvious, sometimes not. Do a lot of digging and follow leads. This is where you put on your reporter hat. Gather facts and search for leads on interesting characters and story lines.
a bird's eye view. a bird's eye view. 1. A view looking down at an object or area from a high elevation. As much as I'd love to go to the observation deck of the Empire State Building and see New York City from a bird's eye view, I'm afraid that my acrophobia will prevent me from enjoying the experience.
1 Bird's-eye view, a view of an object from above, as though the observer were a bird. 2  Birdseye (film), a 2002 film starring Fred Ward. 3  From a Bird's Eye View, a 1971 United States sitcom about two airline stewardesses.  Birdseye, colloquialism for fermata, a symbol used in musical notation.