Making Documentary Films and Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries

Making Documentary Films and Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries

<p><b>The classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today's filmmaker</b></p><p>The second edition of <i>Making Documentary Films and Videos</i> fully updates the popular guidebook that has given readers around the world the knowledge and confidence to produce their first documentary film. It traces two main approaches―recording behavior and re-creating past events―and shows you how to be successful at each. Covering all the steps from concept to completion, with chapters on visual evidence; documentary ethics; writing for documentaries; budgeting; assembling a crew; film and sound recording; casting and directing actors and nonactors; and editing for the audience, this book can help you successfully bring to life the documentary you want to make.<br>The second edition includes<br>• a discussion of truth, "reality," and honesty in the current <br> filmmaking environment<br>• new advice on how to get started in documentary filmmaking<br>• an expanded section on researching and writing the proposal,<br> treatment, and script<br>• an exhaustive list of resources </p><p>"Practical planning advice, the importance of documentary ethics, budgeting and putting together a crew." - <i>The Guardian</i></p>