Documentary in Practice provides a unique approach to practical documentary-making. Through fascinating analysis of real-life production situations, Jane Chapman shows the challenges and issues faced during the filmmaking process by a range of both well-known and up-and-coming documentary-makers. She also brings her own personal experience as a seasoned documentary producer and teacher to advise on how students can gain invaluable insight from these projects. Throughout this compelling text, a variety of producers past ...
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Documentary in Practice provides a unique approach to practical documentary-making. Through fascinating analysis of real-life production situations, Jane Chapman shows the challenges and issues faced during the filmmaking process by a range of both well-known and up-and-coming documentary-makers. She also brings her own personal experience as a seasoned documentary producer and teacher to advise on how students can gain invaluable insight from these projects. Throughout this compelling text, a variety of producers past and present provide their inside project stories and production records, including scripts, fundraising proposals, budgets, diagrams, post-production records and reviews. Across continents, every project and its makers are different whether they are famous names from the canon', television freelances, art-house directors, documentary-maker activists or first-time filmmakers but they all face a range of challenges: * how to connect visual approach to content idea * morality of camera presence * complaints and ethical challenges * legal issues and censorship * budgetary factors influencing choices * conflict with commissioning editors All students of media studies as well as aspiring documentary-makers will find this book a refreshing introduction to the choices available for filmmaking and the issues that may emerge during the process.
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New. * A unique guidebook to the process of documentary making, from initial planning stages through to marketing and distribution. * Solid professional advice grounded in a broad range of real life experiences and examples-a range of producers have made their production records available for this book. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326. 2007. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
