Overview

What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today’s world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging? Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: theory and practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas, methods, and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring ‘total filmmaker’ understand the contemporary contexts for production, equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you’ll need to excel. Bridging the gap between the theory and practice, it outlines the contemporary institutional, practical and financial contexts for production, always encouraging innovation and originality. Creative Documentary: theory and practice is an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making, as well as key reading for those more broadly in video, film and media theory and production.

Full Product Details

Author:   Wilma De Jong ,  Jerry Rothwell ,  Erik Knudsen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 24.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.844kg
ISBN:  

9781405874229

ISBN 10:   1405874228
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   23 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

About the authors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The creative documentary 1 What is creativity? Wilma de Jong 2 The creative documentary Wilma de Jong 3 The creative industries and documentary Wilma de Jong 4 Passionate business: entrepreneurship and the documentary filmmaker Wilma de Jong Part 2 Development strategies 5 Developing ideas Jerry Rothwell 6 From idea to pitch Jerry Rothwell 7 Budgets and schedules Jerry Rothwell Part 3 Narrative strategies 8 The nature of stories and narratives Erik Knudsen 9 Life does not tell stories: structuring devices in documentary filmmaking Wilma de Jong 10 The classic narrative Erik Knudsen 11 The transcendental narrative Erik Knudsen 12 Cinematic codes Erik Knudsen 13 New media, new documentary forms Mary Agnes Krell Part 4 Production strategies 14 A good waltz or a nasty tango: individual qualities of the 'total' filmmaker and teamwork Wilma de Jong 15 Producing Jerry Rothwell 16 Directing Erik Knudsen 17 Camera and cinematography Erik Knudsen 18 Interview strategies Jerry Rothwell 19 The uses and abuses of archive footage Toby Haggith 20 Zen and the art of documentary editing Wilma de Jong 21 Being there: the creative use of location and post-production sound in documentaries Jean Martin Part 5 Distribution strategies 22 Online, portable and convergence environments Erik Knudsen 23 Delivery and compliance Jerry Rothwell Bibliography Useful websites Appendix Documentary filmmaking: a historical overview Index

Reviews

A wide-ranging, illuminating and comprehensive book. Simultaneously both very practical and deeply thought-provoking , it is an indispensable guide for people wanting to make their own documentaries. - Dr Tony Dowmunt, Goldsmiths, University of London ... with an informed awareness of the implications of digital developments, this is an important pragmatic and conceptual guide for new documentary makers, especially those aspiring to a critical and reflexive engagement with the genre - Dr Cahal McLaughlin, University of Ulster A brilliantly useful and comprehensive book that takes you through the A to Z of documentary filming. Read it, digest it, take what is useful and go and make a brilliant film! - Nick Broomfield, documentary filmmaker

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Wilma de Jong, Erik Knudsen, Jerry, Rothwell

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