Outlines each step in creating documentaries, from conception to final film, and offers advice on capturing human behavior and recreating past events, with advice on how to get started in the field, a section on researching and developing a project, and current resources.
"This new second edition ... 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; reality, truth, and honesty; researching and writing the proposal, treatment, and script; 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."--Back cover.
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