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Zusatztext With graceful and accessible prose! deep expertise and vivid examples! Broderick Fox has leaped across the divide between film studies and film production courses. Makers of all kinds of audio-visual media will benefit from this clear! historically grounded! critically and ethically informed work. Step by step through the production process! Fox exposes the deeper questions that face anyone trying to say something meaningful about something that really happened.--Patricia Aufderheide! American University! USA "Since this book targets the educational market! this extensive listing also supplies the distribution source for each title! a crucial piece of information necessary for educators that many media textbook authors overlook?.Rather than following a chronological structure! the book provides historical context for contemporary theory and weaves real-life! up-to-the-minute happenings throughout each chapter. It all feels relevant." --Cynthia Close! Reality Ink! Documentary Magazine Spring 2018 Informationen zum Autor Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose work explores the democratizing potentials of digital media technologies and distribution platforms! to engage challenging perspectives and subject matters traditionally excised from mainstream media. His award-winning documentaries! including recent titles The Skin I'm In and Zen & the Art of Dying! are available globally on a number of platforms including the academic streaming service Kanopy. Fox is a professor in the Media Arts & Culture Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles! where he teaches courses in both theory and production. Zusammenfassung In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media is vital. Documentary Media opens up documentary media, its changing forms and broad social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1 - Reimagining DocumentaryChapter 2 - A Brief History of Documentary: Movements and ModesChapter 3 - Content! Rhetoric! StructureChapter 4 - Style: Audiovisualizing the DocumentaryChapter 5 - Documentary Ethics: Focusing Your Professional GazeChapter 6 - Capturing Reality: Production StrategiesChapter 7 - Shaping Reality: The Postproduction ProcessChapter 8 - From Media to Movement: Distribution! Outreach! and EngagementAppendicesAppendix A - Project 1: Camera-less Documentary Appendix B - Project 2: Exploring Modes of RepresentationAppendix C - Project 3: Gaining PerspectiveAppendix D - Project 4: Editing a Teaser and Trailer Appendix E - Project 5: Establishing a Web Presence Appendix F - Exercise: Camera Concepts Appendix G - Exercise: Sound Decisions Appendix H - Quick Reference: Documentary Modes Appendix I - Quick Reference: Sample Forms and Guidelines Appendix J - Quick Reference: Prospectus Checklist and Guidelines Appendix K - Quick Reference: Media Resource List ...
