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

By: Publication details: New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2007Edition: 2Description: 440ISBN:
  • 9780805081817
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 HAM
Summary: The classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today's filmmaker The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos 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.
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals Feb 2025 - Liberal Arts
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The classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today's filmmaker
The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos 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.

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