Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia

Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia
Author: James R. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Documentary films
ISBN: 9780982702321

How to use documentary visual storytelling concepts and production techniques to make documentaries of all types and formats. Producing, Writing, Directing, Camera, Editing and Distribution including Pre-production, Production and Post-production. Fully IllustratedThird Edition.

Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia

Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia
Author: James R. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011
Genre: Documentary films
ISBN: 9780982708736

How to make Documentary Films and Videos in all areas of production including, Filmmaker, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer, Audio and other crafts using digital technology or traditional film. An in-depth guide to documentary pre-production, production and post-production. Covers documentary filmmaking and visual nonfiction storytelling based on the authors actual documentary production experience and his teaching film production, documentary film and video production for forty years.

Actuality Interviewing and Listening

Actuality Interviewing and Listening
Author: James R. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780982702376

How to conduct successful interviews for nonfiction storytelling, actuality documentaries and other disciplines using listening techniques used in Actuality Documentary Production.

DSLR Cinema

DSLR Cinema
Author: Kurt Lancaster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2013
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0240823737

Companion website includes additional information on gear updates, video samples, and interviews.

Pre-Production Planning for Video, Film, and Multimedia

Pre-Production Planning for Video, Film, and Multimedia
Author: Steve Cartwright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136052496

The key to a project's ultimate success is good planning. This unique new book shows how to prepare for the myriad of steps required to execute production and post production of a video, film or multimedia project. Cartwright explains in detail how to save money and time in production and post-production, yet produce a quality program with high production values. The craft of production planning is explained through a comprehensive system. The production steps are all there, enhanced with graphs of the production process, production forms, photos and a comprehensive list of production resources along with a chapter devoted to the use of computers for the production and post-production process. The techniques of planning for success are easily applied to both traditional linear program development to interactive multimedia development for all types of programs, including communications, training, marketing, corporate news and teleconferencing. Pre-Production Planning for Video, Film and Multimedia also includes 30 planning, production and post-production forms that can be accessed on an accompanying complimentary disk (for both IBM compatibles or Mac). Steve R. Cartwright is president of Cartwright & Associates, a training and communications company, and co-owner of the Motion Graphics Company, a computer graphics and animation firm. A leading producer, consultant and instructor, Cartwright is author of Training with Video and Secrets of Successful Video Programs.

A Companion to Documentary Film History

A Companion to Documentary Film History
Author: Joshua Malitsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1119116309

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in the field In a contemporary media culture suffused with competing truth claims, documentary media have become one of the most significant means through which we think in depth about the past. The most rigorous collection of essays on nonfiction film and media history and historiography currently available, A Companion to Documentary Film History offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in documentary, and of documentary's engagement with historical and contemporary topics, debates, and themes. The Companion's twenty original essays by prominent nonfiction film and media historians challenge prevalent conceptions of what documentary is and was, and explore its growth, development, and function over time. The authors provide fresh insights on the mode's reception, geographies, authorship, multimedia contexts, and movements, and address documentary's many aesthetic, industrial, historiographical, and social dimensions. This authoritative volume: Offers both historical specificity and conceptual flexibility in approaching nonfiction and documentary media Explores documentary's multiple, complex geographic and geopolitical frameworks Covers a diversity of national and historical contexts, including Revolution-era Soviet Union, post-World War Two Canada and Europe, and contemporary China Establishes new connections and interpretive contexts for key individual films and film movements, using new primary sources Interrogates established assumptions about documentary authorship, audiences, and documentary's historical connection to other media practices. A Companion to Documentary Film History is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses covering documentary or nonfiction film and media, an excellent supplement for courses on national or regional media histories, and an important new resource for all film and media studies scholars, particularly those in nonfiction media.

Video Journalism for the Web

Video Journalism for the Web
Author: Kurt Lancaster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2013
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 041589266X

As more newspapers and broadcast news outlets transition online, reporters and photojournalists are being asked to provide more and more video for their stories. This book teaches students and professional journalists how to shoot better video and tell better stories on the web.

Stories Make the World

Stories Make the World
Author: Stephen Most
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1785335766

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Documentary Directing and Storytelling

Documentary Directing and Storytelling
Author: James Martin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781721679461

The purpose of this book is to offer a learning experience and an exploration into directing documentary story projects. Secondly, to provide fundamental and advanced ideas about actuality documentary filmmaking and nonfiction storytelling of all types using film, video, multimedia and other mediums. There are numerous critical reviews of documentary films and the stories they tell from a directing and filmmaking perspective. Understanding the storytelling structure of certain documentary directing styles helps in learning and building a personal directing approach. The best directors understand the traditions and aesthetics of the medium in which they are working. They also have an understanding of the crafts involved and may have worked at some of those jobs themselves. The focus of this book is on directing, but it also includes information that experienced directors should know about the process of constructing a documentary story. Finally, this book is a great read for anyone with a strong interest in documentary or nonfiction storytelling.

Stand-Out Shorts

Stand-Out Shorts
Author: Russell Evans
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136057749

Quickly learn the basics of DV filmmaking without the need for any training with the short cuts found in this book. Featuring blueprints to help you structure and complete certain types of films, key cards that help explain the essential knowledge in a way that is readily accessible during shooting, and 200 easy-to-read tables packed with information, Russell Evans breaks down the art of digital video creation in a concise and fun format that makes it easy to pick up and start shooting. You'll learn how to do everything from script writing to sound recording, and before you know it, you'll be creating your own short films, music videos, school projects, or web videos.